Research
Word cloud of journal paper titles (“networks” omitted due to its frequency). Click to enlarge.
News
| 05/2025 | Q Cell Analysis (QCA) is a simple analytical method to bound the coverage manifold for arbitrary sets of transmitter and general fading and path loss models. [ Paper ] |
| 04/2022 | Invited talk in LINCS-NEMO Workshop on Vehicular Networks (Paris) “Transdimensional Modeling and Reliability Analysis of Vehicular Networks on General Street Systems” [ Video | Slides ] |
| 02/2022 | Invited talk at ISI/ETHZ “Wireless Networks and the Utopia of Peak Performance” [ Video | Slides ] |
| 2021–2022 | Guest Professor at the Department of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering at ETHZ (Sabbatical Leave from Notre Dame). |
| 03/2021 | Two-part expository paper on meta distributions to appear in IEEE Comm. Letters: Part 1: Definition and Examples and Part 2: Properties and Interpretations. |
| 09/2020 | New blog on stochastic geometry and related topics: stogblog.net |
| 07/2020 | NSF Award “Deep Stochastic Geometry: A New Paradigm for Wireless Networks Analysis and Design” (PI, 2020–2023) |
| 07/2020 | Signal fractions have several key advantages over signal-to-interference ratios – also see this blog post. The paper is the first-ever invited article published in the IEEE Communications Letters. |
| 11/2018 | Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researcher |
| 12/2017 | Keynote Speaker at the 2017 IEEE International Workshop on Emerging Technologies on 5G Networks Using Unlicensed Spectrum, GLOBECOM 2017, Singapore. |
| 11/2017 | Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researcher |
| 05/2017 | Keynote Speaker at the 2017 International Workshop on Spatial Stochastic Models for Wireless Networks (SpaSWiN'17), Paris, France, May 19, 2017. [ Slides ] |
| 04/2017 | IEEE Communications Society Stephen O. Rice Prize for “Coordinated Multipoint Joint Transmission in Heterogeneous Networks”, IEEE Trans. Comm., Nov. 2014 (with G. Nigam and P. Minero) |
| 04/2017 | IEEE Communications Society Best Survey Paper Award for “Stochastic Geometry for Modeling, Analysis, and Design of Multi-tier and Cognitive Cellular Wireless Networks: A Survey”, IEEE Comm. Surveys & Tutorials, July 2013 (with H. ElSawy and E. Hossain) |
| 2017–2018 | Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications |
| 12/2016 | Keynote Speaker at the 2016 IEEE International Workshop on Emerging Technologies for 5G Wireless Cellular Networks (ET5G), Washington, DC. [ Slides ] |
| 01/2016 | Appointed Frank M. Freimann Chair in Electrical Engineering III |
| 07/2015 | NSF Award “Toward a Stochastic Geometry for Cellular Systems” (PI, 2015–2019) |
| 05/2015 | Mini-Course at the Simons Conference on Networks and Stochastic Geometry in Austin, TX: Slides for Part 1 and Part 2. A video of the second part on the SIR asymptotics is available here. |
| 12/2014 | Keynote Speaker at the 2014 IEEE International Workshop on Heterogeneous and Small Cell Networks (HetSNets'14), Austin, TX. Slides and paper on the ASAPPP method for the SIR analysis in HetNets. |
| 11/2014 | Presentation at EPFL on the modeling and analysis of next-generation cellular networks [ Video ] |
| 11/2014 | Keynote Speaker at the 2014 International Conference on Wireless Communications and Signal Processing (WCSP'14), Hefei, China. |
| 2014–2015 | Invited Professor at the School of Computer and Communication Science at EPFL (Sabbatical Leave from Notre Dame) |
| 01/2014 | Appointed Chair of the Executive Editorial Committee of the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications |
| 01/2014 | Elevated to IEEE Fellow “for contributions to the spatial modeling and analysis of wireless networks” |
| 05/2013 | Keynote Lecturer at the 2013 International Workshop on Spatial Stochastic Models for Wireless Networks (SpaSWiN'13), Tsukuba Science City, Japan, May 13, 2013. [ Slides ] |
| 09/2012 | NSF Award on “Virtual Full-Duplex Wireless Networking” (PI, 2012–2015; collaborative research with D. Guo, Northwestern) |
| 08/2012 | NSF Award on “Interference Engineering in Wireless Systems” (PI, 2012–2016) |
| 07/2012 | Paper on the first implementation of superposition coding appears in the IEEE Trans. Wireless Comm. Slides explaining the problem and solution. |
| 04/2010 | Paper “Stochastic Geometry and Random Graphs for the Analysis and Design of Wireless Networks” (IEEE JSAC, Sept. 2009, with J. Andrews, F. Baccelli, O. Dousse, and M. Franceschetti) receives the 2010 IEEE Communications Society Best Tutorial Paper award. |
Teaching
Current Course: EE 60550 – Linear Systems
Former Courses:
- EE 471 Digital Signal Processing (Spring 2001)
- EE 598H Applied Networking Theory (Fall 2001)
- EE 471 Digital Signal Processing (Spring 2002)
- EE 598A Topics in Wireless Networking (Fall 2002)
- EE 471 Digital Signal Processing (Spring 2003)
- EE 344 Signals and Systems I (Fall 2003)
- EE 598Q Topics in Wireless Networking (Spring 2004)
- EE 344 Signals and Systems I (Fall 2004)
- EE 554 Communication Networks (Spring 2005)
- EE 30344 Signals and Systems I (Fall 2005)
- EE 67011 Topics in Wireless Networking (Spring 2006)
- EE 30344 Signals and Systems I (Fall 2006)
- EE 60554 Communication Networks (Spring 2007)
- EE 87021 Advanced Topics in Random Wireless Networks (Fall 2008)
- EE 40471 Digital Signal Processing (Spring 2009)
- EE 60554 Communication Networks (Fall 2009)
- EE 40471 Digital Signal Processing (Spring 2010)
- EE 87021 Advanced Topics in Random Wireless Networks (Fall 2010)
- EE 40471 Digital Signal Processing (Spring 2011)
- EE 60554 Communication Networks (Fall 2011)
- EE 40471 Digital Signal Processing (Spring 2012)
- EE/ACMS 80676 Stochastic Geometry for Wireless Networks (Fall 2012)
- EE 40471 Digital Signal Processing (Spring 2013)
- EE 60554 Communication Networks (Fall 2013)
- EE 87028 Advanced Topics in Stochastic Geometry and Percolation (Spring 2014)
- EE 60671 Advanced Digital Signal Processing (Fall 2015)
- EE 80676 Stochastic Geometry for Wireless Networks (Spring 2016)
- EE 60671 Advanced Digital Signal Processing (Fall 2016)
- EE 60671 Advanced Digital Signal Processing (Fall 2017)
- EE 80676 Stochastic Geometry for Wireless Networks (Spring 2018)
- EE 60671 Advanced Digital Signal Processing (Fall 2018)
- EE 40471 Digital Signal Processing (Spring 2019)
- EE 60671 Advanced Digital Signal Processing (Fall 2019)
- EE 60554 Communication Networks (Spring 2020)
- EE 60671 Advanced Digital Signal Processing (Fall 2020)
- EE 40471 Digital Signal Processing (Spring 2021)
- EE 60671 Advanced Digital Signal Processing (Fall 2022)
- EE 40471 Digital Signal Processing (Spring 2023)
- EE 60671 Advanced Digital Signal Processing (Fall 2023)
- EE 37024 – EE in the Era of ChatGPT (Spring 2024)
- EE 60671 Advanced Digital Signal Processing (Fall 2024)
- EE 37024 – EE in the Era of ChatGPT (Spring 2025)