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May 31, 2026  Joining the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and WiCI at Iowa State University as a Research Assistant Professor, effective June 1, 2026.
May 12, 2026  Successfully defended my PhD dissertation, Toward Democratizing 5G: Enabling Open, Reliable and Scalable Wireless Systems for Use and Innovation, at Iowa State University.
Nov 01, 2025  Presented multi-cell srsRAN tuning on ARA at the srsRAN Project Fall Workshop, Arlington, VA, and our URLLC work at the First OAI Foundation U.S. Hands-on Workshop, Austin, TX.
Oct 01, 2025  Our paper “Real-world integration and evaluation of open-source 5G core with commercial RAN” was presented at IEEE MILCOM 2025, Los Angeles, CA.
Jun 25, 2025  Best Paper Award at IEEE NetSoft 2025 (Budapest) for AraRACH: Enhancing NextG Random Access Reliability in Programmable Wireless Living Labs.
Jan 15, 2025  Our ARA Wireless Living Lab system paper appeared in Elsevier Computer Networks (Vol. 263). Read it.
Sep 15, 2024  Best Demo Award at MERIF 2024 (Kansas City) for the ARA PAWR wireless living-lab demo.
May 15, 2024  Wrapped up a research internship at Microsoft Research (Networking Research Group, Redmond), building a GEO-based 5G non-terrestrial network testbed on OpenAirInterface.
Oct 15, 2023  Best Paper Award at ACM WiNTECH 2023 (Madrid) for AraMIMO: Programmable TVWS mMIMO Living Lab for Rural Wireless.
May 17, 2021  Joined the Center for Wireless, Communities & Innovation (WiCI) at Iowa State University as a PhD student, beginning my research on open, programmable, and reliable next-generation wireless systems.