Team | MPACT

Advisor

Ismail Guvenc

Dr. Ismail Guvenc (Fellow, IEEE) is a Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at NC State University. His recent research interests include 5G/6G wireless networks, UAV communications, millimeter/terahertz communications, and heterogeneous networks. He has published more than 300 conference/journal papers and book chapters, several standardization contributions, four books, and over 30 U.S. patents. Dr. Guvenc is the PI and the director for the NSF AERPAW project and a site director for the NSF BWAC I/UCRC center. He is a senior member of the National Academy of Inventors, and recipient of several awards, including NC State University Faculty Scholar Award (2021), R. Ray Bennett Faculty Fellow Award (2019), FIU College of Engineering Faculty Research Award (2016), NSF CAREER Award (2015), Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Award (2014), and USF Outstanding Dissertation Award (2006).

Postdoctoral Researchers and Visiting Scholars

Özgür Özdemir

Dr. Özgür Özdemir received the BS degree in electrical and electronics engineering from Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey, in 1999 and the MS and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX, USA, in 2002 and 2007, respectively. Before joining to Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at NCSU as a visiting research scholar, he has been an assistant professor at the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Fatih University, Turkey and a postdoctoral scholar at Qatar University, Doha, Qatar.

Research areas: Opportunistic approaches in wireless systems, experimental multiple-antenna systems, digital compensation of radio-frequency impairments, wireless multi-carrier communications, software-defined radios.

Sung Joon Maeng

Dr. Sung Joon Maeng received his BS and MS degrees both in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Chung-Ang University, South Korea, in 2015 and 2017. He received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering at North Carolina State University.

Research areas: MmWave communication, Drone-based wireless communication

Ph.D. Students

Amir Hossein Fahim Raouf

Amir Hossein Fahim Raouf received his B.Sc. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan, Iran, and his M.Sc. degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Ozyegin University, Istanbul, Turkey. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering at North Carolina State University.

Research areas: Wireless communications, Visible light communications, Quantum key distribution

Donggu Lee

Donggu Lee received the B.Sc. and M. Sc. degrees from the Department of Electronic Convergence Engineering, Kwangwoon University, Seoul, South Korea, in 2019 and 2021, respectively. He was a researcher at Communications and Artificial Intelligence Lab., Kwangwoon University, Seoul, South Korea, in 2021. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. degree at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, North Carolina State University, NC, USA.

Research areas: Wireless communications, Machine learning, Deep reinforcement learning.

Saad Masrur

Saad Masrur completed his Bachelor’s in Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at COMSATS University, Islamabad in 2021. He then earned his Master’s degree from Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey in 2023. Currently, he is a Ph.D. candidate at the ECE Department of North Carolina State University.

Research areas: Wireless Communication, mmWave Networks, Visible Light Communication & Positioning, Deep Learning, and Reinforcement Learning.

Gautham Reddy

Gautham Reddy received his BE degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from R.V.College of Engineering, India in 2019 and his MS degree in Electrical Engineering from University of California, San Diego in 2021. He then worked at Marvell Semiconductors as part of the Wireless Communication Algorithms team for two years. He is currently pursuing his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering at North Carolina State University.

Research areas: Network architecture, 5G and ORAN.

Ashwini Pondeycherry Ganesh

Ashwini P. Ganesh earned her Bachelor’s degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Anna University, India, in 2016. Following her undergraduate studies, she gained valuable experience as an RF Engineer at General Datum in Hyderabad, India, where she contributed for a period of four years. Ashwini further pursued her academic journey by completing a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from NC State University in 2022. Currently, Ashwini is actively engaged in the pursuit of a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering at NC State University, where she continues to explore her research interests in mmWave arrays and interference mitigation. Her dedication and outstanding contributions have been acknowledged, as she was honored with the prestigious COE Doctoral Scholar Year Award – 2023 in the category of citizenship and service.

Research areas: Millimeter wave design and communications, High frequency band radio communications, Sub-THz.