| Sep 29, 2026 | Best Demo Award at MERIF 2026 (Washington, DC) for At-Scale, Real-World Physical AI for Precision Agriculture on the ARA Wireless Living Lab — a live OCUDU 5G + drone + edge-AI weed-detection demo with KaiAir. Our second MERIF Best Demo after 2024! |
| Sep 28, 2026 | Attended the NSF PAWR PI Meeting at The George Washington University, Washington, DC. |
| Sep 11, 2026 | New NSF award! Our multi-institution project AgSlicing: Predictable RAN and Spectrum Slicing for Precision Agriculture has been funded by the NSF VINES Track 2 program (Award #2554530), in collaboration with the University of Virginia, Skylark Wireless, Salin 247, and Federated Wireless. |
| Aug 31, 2026 | Organized the NSF AgRuralG Workshop as part of AgWireless’26 (Ames, Iowa), collocated with the U.S. Farm Progress Show. I also served as Demo and Poster Chair — see the AgWireless’26 Posters & Demos and award winners. |
| Aug 06, 2026 | Awarded a travel grant to attend MERIF 2026 (Midscale Experimental Research Infrastructure Forum) at The George Washington University, Washington, DC. |
| May 31, 2026 | Joining the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and WiCI at Iowa State University as a Research Assistant Professor, effective July 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. |