Research

Some Funded Projects/Programs

• Autonomous Maintenance for Satellite-Terrestrial Integrated Networks, supported by NSERC Discovery Grant 

• Arctic Community Connectivity for Equity, Sustainability, and Service, supported by the University of Manitoba

• AI-enabled Security and Resilience for IoT in 5G Integrated Satellite Networks, supported by NRC and University of Waterloo

• An AI-enabled Testbed for Satellite Mega-Constellations: From Simulator to Networks Innovation Accelerator, supported by the NRC's High-Throughput and Secure Networks Challenge (HTSN) program

• AI-enabled Satellite Communication Networks, supported by the NRC's HTSN program

• AI-assisted Solutions to Network Operations Automation for Remote Communities, supported by the NRC's HTSN program

I sincerely acknowledge all team members and extraordinary university/industry collaborators in a non-exhaustive list below:

Current Team Members:

• Muhammad Adeel Zahid, Master's student, University of Manitoba

• Undergraduate research groups with 15 students, University of Manitoba

• Ken Cao, RA Student, Computer Science, University of Waterloo

• Xin M. Li, Master's student, University of Waterloo

• Justin Wang, Master's student, University of Waterloo

• Christian Ventura, University RA, Computer Engineering, University of Manitoba

• Xiang Shi, RA Student, Computer Science, University of Manitoba

• Mana Zandvakili, Master's student in ECE, University of Manitoba

• Yifan Yang, Master's student, Computer Science, University of Waterloo

• Vincent Zhang, Master's student, University of Waterloo

Recent Team Members*:

• Albert Ding, NRC Co-op Graduate Student, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, Summer 2023 (Supervisor)

• Bohan Zhang, Master's student (MMath) in CS, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, Fall 2022 - Present (Project Mentor) (Currently RA, graduated from the MMath in CS program) 

• Pablo Madoery, Postdoc fellow, Carleton University, Apr. 2022–Present (Project Mentor)

• Atefeh Hajijamali Arani. Post-doc fellow, University of Waterloo, June 2020 - Present (Co-supervised with Dr. Yeying Zhu)

• Mohammad Amin Maleki Sadr. Post-doc fellow, University of Waterloo, August 2021 - April 2023  (Co-supervised with Dr. Yeing Zhu) (Currently Senior Research Scientist at Huawei Technology, Toronto)

• Zelin Han. NRC Co-op Graudate Student, School of Engineering Practice and Technology, McMaster University, Summer 2022 (Supervisor) (Currently graduated from the MEng program)

• Mohammed Abdelsadek, Postdoc fellow, Carleton University, Apr 2021–Aug. 2022 (Project Mentor) (Currently a Senior 5G Systems Developer at Dell)

• Huiqing Huang, Undergraduate Research Assistant, University of Waterloo, May 2020 - Apr. 2021. (Co-Supervised with Prof. Yeing Zhu) (Currently a Data Scientist at Questrade in Toronto)

• Joel Kim, NRC Co-op Student, University of Waterloo, Summer 2020 (Supervisor) (Currently a Software Developer)

* Non-exhaustive list.

Current University Collaborators:

University of Waterloo

• Raouf Boutaba, Director & Professor, the Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo.

• Yeying Zhu, Associate Professor, Dept. of Statistics & Actuarial Science, University of Waterloo.

• Noura Limam, Research Professor, the Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo.

• Mohammad Salahuddin, Research Professor, the Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo.

Carleton University

• Halim Yanikomeroglu, Professor, Department of Systems and Computer Engineering, Carleton University.

Polytechnique Montréal

• Gunes Karabulut Kurt, Associate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, Polytechnique Montréal.

I also would like to acknowledge the support from industry collaborators and organizations, where some of them are listed below:

• MDA Ltd.

• Google Cloud

• Ookla

• The Optical SatCom Consortium (OSC)

• Digital Research Alliance of Canada (formerly Compute Canada)