2025 CWC Research Review
Location:
Sanford Consortium
Center for Wireless Communications at UC San Diego presents
Spring 2025 Research Review
We invite you to join the Center For Wireless Communications for our annual Research Review, featuring faculty presentations that highlight research and progress on our latest projects as well as student lightning talks and poster sessions.
This is an exclusive, invitation-only event for CWC member companies, UC San Diego faculty, staff, and students. If you are not a current CWC member company or have a UCSD association, and would like to participate, please email the Center Coordinator.
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8:30am - 9:10am |
Registration and Light Breakfast |
Sanford |
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9:10 am-9:40 am |
Welcoming Remarks: Sujit Dey, Director, CWC/Professor and Dean Albert P. Pisano, JSOE CWC Overview, Celebration of Past 10 Years and Future |
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| Poster Presentations | |||||
| 11:45am-1pm During lunch at Sanford Consortium | |||||
| First Name | Last Name | Poster Title | Lighting Talk | Co-Authors | Advisor |
| Nitish | Deshpande | Frequency-selective beamforming and single-shot beam training with dynamic metasurface antennas | Yes | Joseph Carlson, Miguel Rodrigo Castellanos, Robert W. Heath Jr. | Prof. Robert W. Heath Jr. |
| Mahmoud | Hmada | Merging Hybrid and Multi-Phase Topologies: A 6-PhaseTriple-Step-Down DC-DC Converter Achieving up to a 60:1 Voltage Conversion Ratio and 868A/cm3 Current Density | Yes | Gaël Pillonnet and Patrick P. Mercier | Prof. Patrick Mercier |
| Zixiao | Lin | An Autonomous and Lightweight Microactuator Driving System Using Flying Solid-State Batteries | Yes | Jim Wouda | Patrick Mercier |
| Ahmed | Gadelkarim | A 3.5mW mm-Wave Low-Noise Active Bandpass Filter Employing an All-Passive Interferer-Cancellation Feedforward Path | Yes | N/A | Patrick Mercier |
| Parthasarathi | Khirwadkar | Model-based Online Millimeter Wave Channel Sensing with Learned Empirical Priors | Yes | Bhaskar Rao, Piya Pal | Bhaskar Rao, Piya Pal |
| Seyed Alireza | Javid | Learning-Based Cross-Frequency Channel Prediction in the Upper Mid-band | Yes | Yun Chen,Nuria González-Prelcic | Nuria González-Prelcic |
| Dae Cheol | Kwon | ORCA: Open RAN Conflict Agents – Detecting and Mitigating xApp Conflicts with Generative Agents | Yes | n/a | Xinyu Zhang |
| Joey | Carlson | Nullsteering with dynamic metasurface antennas | Yes | Nitish Deshpande, Robert W. Heath, Jr | Robert W. Heath, Jr |
| Nima | Razavi | Hybrid Precoding for Minimizing LEO Satellite Interference in the Upper Mid-band | Yes | Murat Bayraktar, Nuria Gonzalez Prelcic, Robert Heath | Nuria Gonzalez Prelcic and Robert Heath |
| Soroush | Mesforush Mashhad | Integrated Multistatic Sensing and Communication in Vehicular Systems Operating in the Upper Mid-band | Yes | Murat Bayraktar, Nuria Gonzalez Prelcic | Nuria Gonzalez Prelcic |
| Dirk | Xie | Optimizing Edge-Cloud LLM Inference via Model-Based Reinforcement Learning | Yes | Basar Kutukcu | Sujit Dey |
| Xingyu | Chen | Radio Frequency Ray Tracing with Neural Object Representation | Yes | Zihao Feng, Kun Qian, Xinyu Zhang | Xinyu Zhang |
| Wuqiong | Zhao | Sub-Terahertz SDR for 6G Joint Communication and Sensing | Yes | Kai Zheng, Qinpei Luo | Xinyu Zhang |
| Nitish | Deshpande | Frequency-reconfigurable adhoc networks with dynamic metasurface antennas | Yes | Ibrahim Kilinc, Joey Carlson, Robert W. Heath Jr. | Robert W. Heath Jr. |
| Rohith Reddy | Vennam | Scalable and Efficient LoRa for Non-Terrestrial Networks | Yes | Maiyun Zhang, Raghav Subbaraman, Deepak Vasisht, Dinesh Bharadia | Dinesh Bharadia |
| Apeksha | Gaonkar | AI agent-based network slicing for connected vehicles using Digital Twin | No | Samuel Thornton | Sujit Dey |
| Jaebum | Park | Architectural Perspectives on Accelerating vRAN / O-RAN Deployment in Extreme MIMO Networks | No | n/a | Robert Heath |
| Yinyan | Bu | NEAR: Neural Electromagnetic Array Response | No | Jiajie Yu, Kai Zheng, Xinyu Zhang, Piya Pal | Piya Pal |
| Yingtao | Zou | 6.5–20 GHz Reconfigurable Phased-Array RX Beamformer for 6G Applications | No | N/A | Gabriel M. Rebeiz |
| Jurui | Qi | A 12-14 GHz Dual-Polarized Sparse RIS for Low-cost 5G FR3 Operation | No | N/A | Prof. Gabriel M. Rebeiz |
| Haisu | Ju | A 6.3-18.4 GHz I/Q Receiver with RF and LO Path Reconfigurability for 6G FR3 Applications in 22-nm FD-SOI | No | Yingtao Zou | Gabriel M. Rebeiz |
| Jacob | Drewniak | Dual-Beam Dual-Band Nested Thinned Arrays | No | n/a | Gabriel Rebeiz |
| Ibrahim | Kilinc | Position-Aided Beam Management for Multi-Panel Dynamic Metasurface Antennas | No | Nitish Deshpande, Robert W. Heath Jr. | Robert W. Heath Jr. |
| Murat | Bayraktar | Iterative Hybrid Precoding and Combining for Truly Full-Duplex Integrated Sensing and Communication | No | Roberto Lopez-Valcarce, Hao Chen, Jianzhong Zhang | Nuria Gonzalez-Prelcic |
| Adel | Heidari | PhaseMO: A Universal Massive MIMO Architecture for Sustainable NextG | No | Agrim Gupta, Ish Kumar Jain, Dinesh Bharadia | Dinesh Bharadia |
| Shayaun | Bashar | PaciForce : Quantifying Infant Latch Dynamics through Force Sensors | No | Nagarjun Bhat | Dinesh Bharadia |
| Pushkal | Mishra | A Realistic Radar Simulation Framework in CARLA | No | Satyam Srivastava, Jerry Li, Kshitiz Bansal and Dinesh Bharadia | Dinesh Bharadia |
| Tyler | Hack | A Temperature-Robust Wake-up Receiver with Reconfigurable Sensitivity-Power Tradeoffs Achieving -103dBm Sensitivity at 14uW | No | Josh Rosenberg | Drew Hall |