| 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. |