Join us!
Openings
We are always on the lookout for excellent Ph.D. students, Postdocs, and visitors who want to join the Wireless and Secure Communications Research Group at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF). Located in the heart of Barcelona, UPF is ranked among the best young universities in the world.
Do you have a cool personality and a strong background in AI/ML and/or wireless communications? Please email me with your CV and academic transcripts (for Ph.D.) or brief research proposal (for Postdoc). If you have a competitive profile, you may also consider applying for an externally funded scholarship/fellowship. More info here.
Current Researchers
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Masoud Sadeghian (2026-present), Postdoctoral Researcher at UPF (Spain)
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Firdous Bin Ismail (2026-present), Research Assistant at UPF (Spain)
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Mina Khadem (2024-present), Ph.D. candidate at UPF (Spain)
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Ibrahim Aboushehada (2023–present), Ph.D. candidate at UPF (Spain)
"Autoencoder-Based CSI Compression for Beyond Wi-Fi 8 Coordinated Beamforming" [IEEE ICMLCN 2026] -
Sina Beyraghi (2023–present), Ph.D. candidate at UPF (Spain), Researcher at Telefónica
“Data-Driven Deployment of Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces in Cellular Networks“ [IEEE JSAC 2025]
Former Researchers
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Mohamed Benzaghta (2021–2025), graduated Ph.D. from UPF (Spain), currently Sr. ML Engineer at Keysight Technologies
“UAV Communications in Integrated Terrestrial and Non-terrestrial Networks” [IEEE Globecom 2022, Best Paper Award]
“TSpec-LLM: An Open-source Dataset for LLM Understanding of 3GPP Specifications“ [IEEE Globecom 2024] -
Marc Carrascosa Zamacois (2020–2024), graduated Ph.D. from UPF (Spain), currently a Researcher at CTTC (Spain)
"Wi-Fi Multi-link Operation: An Experimental Study of Latency and Throughput", [IEEE/ACM TNET 2023] -
Sahar Ammar (2024), visiting researcher from KAUST (Saudi Arabia)
“Data-driven Cellular Mobility Management via Bayesian Optimization and Reinforcement Learning“ [IEEE TMLCN 2025] -
Javad Shabanpour (2024), visiting researcher from Aalto University (Finland), currently a Researcher at Nokia
“Physically Consistent RIS: From Reradiation Mode Optimization to Practical Realization“ [IEEE Globecom 2024] -
Amedeo Giuliani (2023), intern, currently a Researcher at CTTC (Spain)
“Spatially Consistent Air-to-Ground Channel Modeling via Generative Neural Networks” [IEEE Wireless Commun. Letters 2024] -
Matteo Bernabè (2022), visiting researcher from Huawei, currently a PostDoc Fellow at UPV (Spain)
“Massive MIMO for Aerial Highways: Enhancing Cell Selection via SSB Beams Optimization” [IEEE OJCOMS 2024] -
Eloise de Carvalho Rodrigues (2019–2022), visiting researcher from Nokia, currently a Cloud Customer Engineer at Google
“Toward Mobility Management with Multi-objective Bayesian Optimization” [IEEE WCNC 2023] -
M. Mahdi Azari (2018–2019), visiting researcher from KU Leuven (Belgium), currently a Senior Research Specialist at Nokia
“Cellular UAV-to-UAV Communications” [IEEE PIMRC 2019, Best Paper Award] -
Howard H. Yang (2014–2017), co-supervised Ph.D. at SUTD (Singapore), currently Faculty at Zhejiang University (China)
"Cell-edge-aware precoding for downlink massive MIMO cellular networks" [IEEE TSP 2017]
Main ongoing Collaborations
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Dr. Adrian Garcia-Rodriguez, Ericsson R&D, France
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Dr. Alvaro Valcarce, Nokia Bell Labs, France
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Prof. Angel Lozano, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain
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Prof. Boris Bellalta, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain
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Dr. David Lopez-Perez, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain
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Prof. Edward Knightly, Rice University, USA
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Prof. Hamid Jafarkhani, University of California at Irvine, USA
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Dr. Lorenzo Galati Giordano, Nokia Bell Labs, Germany
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Dr. Marco Mezzavilla, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
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Dr. Nicola Piovesan, Huawei, France
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Dr. Rasoul Nikbakht, Keysight Technologies, Spain
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Prof. Sundeep Rangan, New York University, USA