Team

Do you want to join our team?

Open positions: I am always interested in supervising highly-motivated candidates with excellent resumes. Open Ph.D. student and postdoc positions can appear at any time of the year, when we receive new research grants. Openings are published under Vacancies and announced on LinkedIn. I cannot accept any applications by email.

Visiting students: I occassionally host visiting Ph.D. students for 3-6 months. The requirement is that they are self-funded, have published a journal paper, and there is a topic of joint interest. Chinese students can be hosted for 6-12 months through the KTH-CSC programme.

Post-doctoral fellowships: I can support excellent candidates to apply for a Marie Curie fellowship (Deadline: September) or a Digital Futures fellowship (Deadline: April and October) to fund their postdoc on a topic of joint interest.

Ph.D. students (as main supervisor)

  • Eren Berk Kama (co-supervisor: Isaac Skog)
  • Amna Irshad (co-supervisor: Luca Sanguinetti and Vitaly Petrov)
  • Yasaman Khorsandmanesh (co-supervisor: Joakim Jaldén)
  • Anders Enqvist (co-supervisors: Cicek Cavdar and Özlem Tuğfe Demir, TOBB University of Economics and Technology)
  • Mahmoud Zaher (co-supervisor: Marina Petrova)
  • Afsaneh Mahmoudi Benhangi (co-supervisor: Ming Xiao)

Ph.D. students (as co-supervisor)

  • Steven Rivetti (main supervisor: Mikael Skoglund)
  • Doga Gürgünoglu (main supervisor: Gabor Fodor)
  • Ozan Alp Topal (main supervisor: Cicek Cavdar)
  • Zhenyu Li (main supervisor: Cicek Cavdar)
  • Zakir Hussain Shaik (main supervisor: Erik G. Larsson, Linköping University)

Postdoctoral researchers

  • Ferdi Kara, Ph.D. 2019, Zonguldak Bulent Ecevit University, Türkiye
  • Murat Babek Salman, Ph.D. 2023, Middle East Technical University, Türkiye
  • Parisa Ramezani, Ph.D. 2022, University of Sydney, Australia
  • Alva Kosasih, Ph.D. 2023, University of Sydney, Australia
  • Nikolaos Kolomvakis, Ph.D. 2017, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden

Visiting researchers

  • Neetu Ramanunni Rani, Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology

Former team members

Ph.D. students

  1. Unnikrishnan Kunnath Ganesan (graduated 2024, main supervisor: Erik G. Larsson, Linköping University), now with Chalmers University of Technology
    Thesis: Beyond Boundaries: Evolving Connectivity with Massive MIMO
  2. Mehdi Haghshenas (graduated 2024, main supervisor Maurizio Magarini, Polytechnic University of Milan), now with Mid-Sweden University
    Thesis: Passive Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces: Efficient Channel Estimation and Codebook Design
  3. Morteza Esmaeili Tavana (graduated 2024, co-supervisor: Jens Zander), now with Ericsson.
    Thesis: RF Energy Harvesting for Zero-Energy Devices and Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces
  4. Ema Becirovic (graduated 2022, main supervisor: Erik G. Larsson), now with the Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI).
    Thesis: Signal Processing Aspects of Massive MIMO
  5. Özdogan Özgecan (graduated 2022, co-supervisor: Erik G. Larsson), now with Ericsson.
    Thesis: Signal Processing Aspects of Massive MIMO and IRS-Aided Communications
  6. Amin Ghazanfari (graduated 2021, co-supervisor: Erik G. Larsson), now with Huawei.
    Thesis: Multi-Cell Massive MIMO: Power Control and Channel Estimation
  7. Daniel Verenzuela (graduated 2020, co-supervisors: Michail Matthaiou, Luca Sanguinetti), now with Sony.
    Thesis: Exploring Alternative Massive MIMO Designs: Superimposed Pilots and Mixed-ADCs
  8. Trinh Van Chien (graduated 2020, co-supervisor: Erik G. Larsson), now faculty at Hanoi University of Science and Technology.
    Thesis: Spatial Resource Allocation in Massive MIMO Communications: From Cellular to Cell-Free
  9. Marcus Karlsson (graduated 2018, main supervisor: Erik G. Larsson), now with the Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI).
    Thesis: Blind Massive MIMO Base Stations: Downlink Transmission and Jamming
  10. Hei Victor Cheng (graduated 2018, main supervisor: Erik G. Larsson), now faculty at Aarhus University.
    Thesis: Optimizing Massive MIMO: Precoder Design and Power Allocation
  11. Antonios Pitarokoilis (graduated 2016, main supervisor: Erik G. Larsson), now with Ericsson.
    Thesis: Phase Noise and Wideband Transmission in Massive MIMO

Postdoctoral researchers

  1. Junbeom Kim (2023), now a faculty member at Gyeongsang National University, South Korea.
  2. Özlem Tuğfe Demir (2019-2022), now a faculty member at the TOBB University of Economics and Technology, Türkiye.
  3. Sucharita Chakraborty (2019–2020), now a faculty member at the National Institute of Technology Silchar, India.
  4. Kamil Senel (2017–2019), now with Ericsson.
  5. Zheng Chen (2017–2019), now a faculty member at Linköping University.
  6. Tan Tai Do (2016), now with Ericsson.
  7. Julia Vinogradova (2015–2016), now with Ericsson.
  8. Salil Kashyap (2014–2016), now a faculty member at the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India.

Visiting researchers

  • Yuhang Chen (2023-2024), Shanghai Jiaotong University
  • Murat Babek Salman (2022-2023), Middle East Technical University
  • Ignasi Pique Muntane (2022), Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
  • Shuaifei Chen (2021-2022), Beijing Jiaotong University
  • Charles Wiame (2022), Université Catholique de Louvain
  • Lorenzo Miretti (2020), Eurecom
  • Andrea de Jesus Torres (2019), University of Pisa
  • Hossein Akhlaghpasand (2019), Iran University of Science and Technology
  • Ali Bulut Üçüncü (2019), Middle East Technical University
  • Mohammed Zahid Aslam (2018), Siradel
  • Shijuan Wu (2018), Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
  • Noman Akbar (2017), Australian National University
  • Alessio Zappone (2015), TU Dresden
  • Xueru Li (2015), Tsinghua University
  • Nafiseh Shariati (2014), KTH
  • Serveh Shalmashi (2014), KTH
  • Maksym Girnyk (2014), KTH
  • Jingya Li (2013), Chalmers