Research activities
Main Topics
- Estimation for communications (performance at low SNR, estimators design, bounds derivations, system identification for cognitive radio, synchronization, distributed estimation, signal processing tools for coherent optical communications)
- Resource allocation for wireless communications (relaying scheme optimization, multicell environment, power and subcarrier allocation in multicarrier systems, HARQ analysis and optimization)
- Distributed processing (distributed computing, distributed estimation, signal processing over graphs)
PhD student and postdoc Supervision
- Current PhD students:
T25. Alexandre MENECEUR (co-supervised with Anais Vergne and Sophie Martin (INRAE), oct 2025- expected end: sep 2028): Smart Crop irrigation systems.
T24. Nils REYNAUD (co-supervised with Florence Carton (TotalEnergies), may 2025- expected end: april 2028): Deep reinforcement learning for wind farm optimization.
T23. Sylvain NERONDAT (co-supervised with Christophe Le Martret (Thales), april 2022- expected end: december 2025): Deep reinforcement learning for joint scheduling and resource allocation in mobile ad hoc networks.
T22. Abdelghani GHANEM (co-supervised with Mounir Ghogho (UIR, Morocco), april 2022- expected end: october 2025): Supervised learning methods for offline reinforcement learning.
- Current postdocs:
P7. Israa KHALED (february 2025-december 2025): Energy consumption modelling for xG basestation.
- Former PhD students:
T21. Yue BI (co-supervised with Yue Wu (SJTU, China), october 2020-march 2025): Fundamental limits and practical algorithms for distributed computing and estimation.
He is working as postdoc at Telecom Paris, Palaiseau, France.T20. Ibrahim DJEMAI (co-supervised with Mireille Sarkiss (TSP), november 2020-march 2024): Joint offloading-scheduling policies for future generation wireles networks.
He is working as research engineer at ..., Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France.T19. Alix MAY (co-supervised with Elie Awwad, november 2019-april 2023): Receiver-based techniques for the monitoring of physical parameters in optical fiber networks.
She is working as research engineer at Nokia Bell Labs, Massy, France.T18. Hakim HAFIDI (co-supervised with Mounir Ghogho (UIR, Morocco), december 2019-february 2023): Robust Machine Learning for Graphs/Networks.
He is working as an Assistant Professor at Université Internationale de Rabat, Morocco.T17. Arthur LOUCHART (co-supervised with Charly Poulliat (Enseeiht), november 2018-december 2021): Resource allocation adapted to nonlinear impairments for cognitive satellite networks. ICE Second Best PhD award 2021
He is working as an Assistant Professor at IMT Nord-Europe, Lille, France.T16. Vincent CORLAY (co-supervised with Loic Brunel (Mitsubishi) and Joseph Boutros (TAMUQ), october 2017-december 2020): Decoding Algorithms for Lattices. IP Paris Second Best PhD award 2020
He is working as research engineer at Mitsubishi Electric, Rennes, France.T15. Apostolos AVRANAS (co-supervised with Marios Kountouris (Huawei), january 2017-june 2020): Resource allocation for latency sensitive wireless systems.
He is working as research engineer at Amadeus, Nice, France.T14. Ibrahim FAWAZ (co-supervised with Mireille Sarkiss (CEA), september 2016-december 2019): Offloading strategies for energy-harvesting based systems.
He is working as research engineer at Huawei, Boulogne, France.T13. Xavier LETURC (co-supervised with Christophe Le Martret (Thales), october 2015-december 2018): Resource allocation for HARQ based mobile ad hoc networks.
He is working as Research Engineer at Thales Communications and Security, Gennevilliers, France.T12. Alaa KHREIS (co-supervised with Pierre Duhamel (CNRS/L2S), october 2015- november 2018): Cooperative resource allocation for wireless networks.
He is working as Engineer at Huawei, Boulogne, France.T11. Raphaël MASSIN (co-supervised with Christophe Le Martret (Thales), february 2012- november 2016): On distributed node clustering in mobile ad hoc networks. Thales group Best PhD award 2017
He is working as Expert Engineer at Thales Communications and Security, Gennevilliers, France.T10. Abdelkerim AMARI (co-supervised with Yves Jaouen, may 2013- june 2016): Volterra series based nonlinear processing for coherent optical communications.
He is working as senior application researcher at VPIphotonics, Germany.T9. Franck IUTZELER (co-supervised with Walid Hachem, october 2010-december 2013): Distributed estimation and optimization in asynchronous networks.
He is working as Associate Professor at University of Grenoble, France.T8. Sébastien MARCILLE (co-supervised with Christophe Le Martret (Thales), january 2010-february 2013): Resource allocation for HARQ based mobile ad hoc network.
He is working as Research Engineer at DGA, Bagneux, France.T7. Pierre DELESQUES (co-supervised with Cedric Ware, december 2009-december 2012): Analyses of transmission and switching capacities in optical networks.
He is working as Project Manager at Silicom SAS, Paris Area, France.T6. Mehrez SELMI (co-supervised with Yves Jaouen, october 2008-october 2011): Advanced signal processing tools for QAM-based optical fiber communications.
He is working as Technical expert in telecommunications at Conseil Supérieur de l'Audiovisuel, Paris, France.T5. Aude LE DUC (co-supervised with Christophe Le Martret (Thales), january 2007-february 2010): Performance closed-form derivations and analysis of Hybrid ARQ retransmission schemes in a cross-layer context.
She is working as Director of Industry Relations service at engineering school ESME/SUDRIA, Paris, France.T4. Eric BOUTON (co-supervised with Jean-Claude Belfiore, september 2006-january 2010): Resource allocation algorithm for interference based systems (written in French).
He is working as Patent examiner at European Patent Office, The Netherlands.T3. Abdelaziz BOUZEGZI (co-supervised with Pierre Jallon (CEA), october 2006-september 2009): System Identification algorithms for the cognitive radio (written in French).
He is working as 5G Product Owner at Nokia, Paris Area, France.T2. Anne-Laure DELEUZE (co-supervised with Christophe Le Martret (Thales), december 2002-january 2006): Contributions to Impulse Radio UWB based systems (written in French).
She is working as Patent consultant at Cabinet Regimbeau, Paris, France.T1. Sophie GAULT (co-supervised with Walid Hachem (Supelec), september 2002-october 2005): Design and Optimization for multicarrier based systems (written in French).
She is working as System engineer at Silicon Labs, Rennes, France. - Former postdocs:
P6. Nhan NGUYEN-THANH (july 2013-june 2017): Safe Cooperative spectrum sensing.
He is working as Postdoc at LRI, University of Paris-Sud, Orsay, France.P5. Thomas COURTAT (april 2013-march 2015): Signal identification for noncooperative communications.
He is working as Researcher Engineer at Amesys, Aix-en-Provence, France.P4. Nassar KSAIRI (february 2013-november 2014): Resource allocation for HARQ based MANETs.
He is working as Researcher at Huawei Wireless Labs, Paris, France.P3. François-Xavier SOCHELEAU (november 2007-october 2008): Semi-blind OFDM based system discrimination.
He is working as Associate Professor at Telecom Bretagne, Brest, France.P2. Fatma KHARRAT (september 2007-september 2008): Analysis and optimization of multi-user interference in Impulse Radio UWB based systems.
She is working as Research Engineer at Nokia Bell Labs, Villarceaux, France.P1. Antonio CIPRIANO (january-october 2005): Dynamic resource allocation for multicarrier and multi-user systems.
He is working as Research Engineer at Thalès Communications and Security, Gennevilliers, France.
International sabbatical stays
- Invited professor at Technische Universität Berlin (TUB) (Spring 2024). Contact: Prof. Guiseppe Caire.
- Invited professor at Universidad Nacional de Colombia (UNAL) (Winter 2023). Contact: Prof. Eduardo Romero.
- Invited professor at Rutgers University (Spring 2019). Contact: Prof. Roy Yates.
- Invited professor at Université Catholique de Louvain (Spring 2015, Fall 2016). Contact: Prof. Luc Vandendorpe.
- Invited professor at International University of Rabat (Spring 2011, Spring 2018). Contact: Prof. Mounir Ghogho.
- Invited professor at University of Leeds, Department of Electrical Engineering (Summer 2004, Spring-Summer 2007). Contact: Prof. Mounir Ghogho.
- Invited professor at Texas A&M University, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (Summer 2003). Contact: Prof. Erchin Serpedin.
Fundings
- Current projects:
- CIFRE with Totalenergies (2025-2028): Deep reinforcement learning for wind farm optimization
- PEPR "Agroecology and Digitalization"/Twinfarms (2025-2028): Decision-making algorithms for sprinkling systems
- ANR "SUCCEN" (2025-2027): Sustainable constraints for future cellular networks
- PEPR "Network of Future"/JEN (2023-2026): Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) for next cellular networks
- Former projects:
- CIFRE with Thales Communications (2022-2025): Deep reinforcement learning for joint scheduling and resource allocation in mobile ad hoc networks
- CIFRE with Nokia Bell Labs (2019-2022): New coherent receivers for monitoring and controling transmission parameters in optical fibers
- ANR international with Luxembourg "SIERRA" (2018-2021): Spectral efficient Receivers and Resource Allocation for Cognitive Satellite Communications
- CIFRE with Mitsubishi Electric MERCE (2017-2020): New coding and precoding schemes.
- CIFRE with Huawei Maths Lab (2016-2019): User-centric Service Oriented network architecture for 5G wireless systems.
- European Marie-Curie fellowship "SCAVENGE" (2016-2019): Offloading techniques with energy-harvesting.
- Labex Digicosme-Digiteo grant (2015-2018): Cooperative resource allocation in wireless network.
- CIFRE with Thales Communications (2015-2018): Channel modeling and associated resource allocation in ad hoc network.
- European Celtic program "SASER/SIEGFRIED" (2013-2015) - Celtic-Plus Innovation Award 2017 -
- European FP7 IP program "LEXNET" (2013-2015)
- Direct Partnership with Bull/Amesys (2013-2014): Signal processing for noncooperative communications.
- Interministerial Unique Funding (FUI) "100GFLEX" (2011-2013): OFDM for high data rate optical communications.
- DGA PhD scholarship (2010-2013): Design and Analysis of decentralized estimation algorithms.
- CIFRE with Thales Communications (2010-2013): OFDMA based resource allocation in ad hoc network.
- CIFRE with Mitsubishi Rennes (2009-2012) : Capacity analysis for optical channel.
- European Network of Excellence "NEWCOM++" (2008-2011)
- Fondation TELECOM PhD scholarship (2008-2011): Advanced signal processing for optical coherent transmissions.
- Competitive cluster SYSTEMATIC "URC" (2007-2009): Advanced tools for cooperative communications.
- ANR "RISC" (2007-2009): UWB based ad hoc network for rescue services.
- ANR "DEMAIN" (2007-2009): System identification for cognitive radio.
- CIFRE with Thales Communications (2006-2009): Cross-layer HARQ techniques optimization for MANET.
- European Network of Excellence "NEWCOM" (2004-2007)
- ANR "IDILE" (2003-2005): MC-CDMA for powerline communications.
- CIFRE with Thales Communications (2002-2005): Multiple access technique for UWB.
Editorial activities
- Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Signal and Information Processing over Networks from February 2018 to January 2022.
- Member of IEEE Technical Committee "Signal Processing for Communications and Networking" from January 2014 to December 2019.
- Senior Area Editor for IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing from April 2011 to September 2012.
- Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing from October 2008 to September 2012.
- Associate Editor for IEEE Communications Letters from January 2004 to December 2007.
- Technical program committee (TPC) member:
- 2024: EUSIPCO, SPAWC
- 2023: EUSIPCO, GRETSI, ICASSP, SPAWC, WSA
- 2022: EUSIPCO, GLOBECOM, GRETSI, ICASSP, SPAWC
- 2021: EUSIPCO, GLOBECOM, SPAWC
- 2020: EUSIPCO, GLOBECOM, ICASSP, ISWCS, SPAWC, VTC Spring
- 2019: GLOBECOM, GRETSI, ICASSP, SPAWC
- 2018: GLOBECOM, ICASSP, PIMRC, SPAWC, VTC-Spring
- 2017: GLOBECOM, GRETSI, ICASSP, SPAWC
- 2016: GLOBECOM, ICASSP, ICC, SPAWC
- 2015: EUSIPCO, GLOBECOM, GRETSI, ICASSP, MedICT, SPAWC
- 2014: EUSIPCO, GLOBECOM, ICASSP, SPAWC, WCNC
- 2013: EUSIPCO (special session co-organizer), GLOBECOM, GRETSI, ICASSP, PIMRC
- 2012: EUSIPCO, ICASSP, WCNC
- 2011: EUSIPCO (Area Chair "Signal Processing for Communications"), GRETSI, ICASSP, SPAWC
- 2010: EUSIPCO, GLOBECOM, ICASSP, SPAWC
- 2009: EUSIPCO, GLOBECOM, GRETSI, ICASSP
- 2008: EUSIPCO, GLOBECOM, ICASSP, IWCMC, PIMRC
- 2007: Chinacom, EUSIPCO, ICASSP, ICSPC, IWCMC
- 2003: ISSPA
- Reviewer for:
- IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, IEEE Journal of Selected Areas in Communications, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, IEEE Communications Letters, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, EURASIP Signal Processing, EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, Research Letters in Communications, Journal on Communications and Network, Annals of Telecommunications
- Research Grants Council (RGC) of Hong Kong, Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR)
- School or Conference organization:
- Co-general chair for Peyresq's Summer school (in Graph Theory), June 2023, Peyresq, France.
- Sponsor chair for IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC), July 2019, Cannes, France.
- Co-general chair for Summer School "Space-Time Coding" in the framework of the Network of Excellence NEWCOM (October 2006).
- General chair for Autumn School "Estimation Theory for wireless communications" in the framework of the Network of Excellence NEWCOM (October 2005).
- Web designer for IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW), April 2003, Paris, France.