Welcome to my personal website!

I am currently a Senior Engineer at Qualcomm Technologies, Inc working with Enoch Lu and Jianming Zhu. I received my Ph.D. from the Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech under the supervision of Harpreet S. Dhillon. During the summers of 2020 and 2021, I was a system engineering intern at Qualcomm working with Christos Komninakis and Robert Wilson, respectively. I received my B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Electrical Engineering from University of Tehran, Iran, in 2012 and 2014, respectively.

Research Interests

1. Physical Layer of 5G NR
2. Wireless Channel Modeling
3. UAV Communications and NTNs
4. Random Processes and Stochastic Geometry

News

• [2024 June] Journal paper “Fundamentals of Wobbling and Hardware Impairments-Aware Air-to-Ground Channel Model” accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology.
• [2022 December] Presented conference paper “Wobbling and Impairments-Aware Channel Model and its Implications on High-Frequency UAV Links” virtually in IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM) at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
• [2022 August] Journal paper “3D Two-Hop Cellular Networks with Wireless Backhauled UAVs: Modeling and Fundamentals” is published in IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications.
• [2022 May] Joined Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. as a Senior Engineer.
• [2022 May] Defended Ph.D. Dissertation with title “Drone Cellular Networks: Fundamentals, Modeling, and Analysis” from Virginia Tech.
• [2021 December] Presented conference paper “Fundamentals of 3D Two-Hop Cellular Networks Analysis with Wireless Backhauled UAVs” virtually in IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM) at Madrid, Spain.
• [2021 May] Joined Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. as a System Engineering Intern.
• [2021 May] Passed Ph.D. Preliminary Exam.
• [2020 December] Book chapter “Stochastic Geometry-Based Performance Analysis of Drone Cellular Networks” is published in Wiley for the book UAV Communications for 5G and Beyond.
• [2020 September] Journal paper “Impact of UAV Wobbling on the Air-to-Ground Wireless Channel” is published in IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology.
• [2020 July] Journal paper “Performance Characterization of Canonical Mobility Models in Drone Cellular Networks” is published in IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications.
• [2020 July] Journal paper “Handover Probability in Drone Cellular Networks” is published in IEEE Wireless Communications Letters.
• [2020 May] Joined Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. as a System Engineering Intern.
• [2019 December] Presented conference papers “Fundamentals of Drone Cellular Network Analysis under Random Waypoint Mobility Model” and “3GPP-Inspired Stochastic Geometry-Based Mobility Model for a Drone Cellular Network” in IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM) at Waikoloa, Hawaii, USA.
• [2019 June] Passed Ph.D. Qualification Exam.
• [2018 January] Joined Wireless@VirginiaTech as a Ph.D. Student.
• [2016 May] Conference paper “Bounds on the Coverage Probability of Heterogeneous Cellular Networks” is published in IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) Workshops.
• [2016 April] Journal paper “Power Distribution of Device-to-Device Communications in Underlaid Cellular Networks” is published in IEEE Wireless Communications Letters.
• [2014 September] Defended M.Sc. Thesis with title “A Stochastic Geometric Approach for the Analysis and Design of Cognitive Device-to-Device Networks” from University of Tehran (In Persian).
• [2012 September] Joined University of Tehran as an M.Sc. Student.
• [2012 September] Defended B.Sc. Project with title “Carrier and Symbol Synchronization Techniques” from University of Tehran (In Persian).
• [2008 September] Joined University of Tehran as a B.Sc. Student.