2026 CWC Annual Research Review
Atkinson Hall
Center for Wireless Communications at UC San Diego presents
2026 Annual 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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8:00 - 9:00 am |
Registration and Light Breakfast |
Atkinson Hall Qi Auditorium |
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9:00 - 9:20 am |
Welcoming Remarks: |
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9:20 - 9:40 am |
Design of Active Reflect Arrays for 6G Systems |
Gabriel M. Rebeiz, Jacob Drewniak |
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A 38.4MHz DCXO with 0.17ppb static frequency tuning step using bridge-capacitor cubing in 65nm CMOS |
Drew Hall |
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Digitally Enhanced Ultra-Low-Jitter Power-Efficient Frequency Synthesizer Progress |
Ian Galton |
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Coffee Break |
Atkinson Hall |
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Signal processing for data efficiency in AI-based sensing for communication |
Piya Pal |
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Differentiable Digital Twin for RF Field Reconstruction |
Xinyu Zhang |
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Adaptive Motion Modeling for Dynamic 3D Mesh Compression | Truong Nguyen / Pamela Cosman group - Huong Hoang |
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Student Lightning Talks |
1. Po-Han Chen: Next-Gen Vertical Power Delivery for High-Performance Computing (5 minutes) 2. Xingyu Chen: Differentiable Radio Frequency Digital Twin (5 minutes) 3. Wenxuan Guo: From Virtual Animals to Radar Signals (5 minutes) 4. Adel Heidari: Radiostream: A wideband multi-antenna SDR platform (90 seconds) 5. Vishnu Narayanan: A 38.4MHz DCXO with sub-ppb static frequency tuning step using bridge-capacitor cubing in 65nm CMOS (90 seconds) 6. Sreevatsank Kadaveru: When Multimodal Sensing Meets the RAN: Sensing-to-Action Autonomy at the Edge (90 seconds) 7. Nima Razavi: Wideband Hybrid Precoding for Cellular-LEO Satellite Communication Spectrum Coexistence (90 seconds) 8. Wenyu Huang: FUSE: Fuse-then-Detect Multi-UE Uplink ISAC for UAV Sensing and Recognition |
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Lunch and Poster Session |
Atkinson Hall Patio (lunch) and Theater (posters) |
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| Integrated Supply Modulator for Next-Generation Transmitter | Hanh-Phuc Le | |
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Energy-Bandwidth-Efficient Silicon-Photonics Techniques for AI Accelerators, RF-over-Fibers & In-Package Integrations |
Tzu-Chien Hsueh |
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Advances in power amplifiers for 6G FR3 | Peter Asbeck |
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Enabling Application Aware Edge-AI use-cases with NextG networks |
Hanh-Phuc Le |
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Break |
Atkinson Hall Patio |
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Interference Nulling with Single-RF-Chain Dynamic Metasurface Antennas: From Learned Beam Patterns to a Fabricated Array |
Robert Heath | |
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Cloud-Edge LLM Inference: A Multi-Objective RL Approach |
Sujit Dey |
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Distributed ISAC: What it brings and what it costs to sense together |
Nuria Gonzalez Prelcic | |
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Enabling Application Aware Edge-AI use-cases with NextG networks |
Dinesh Baradia, Ushasi Ghosh | |
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Closing Remarks |
Xinyu Zhang |
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| Poster Presentations | ||||||
| 12:00 - 1:15pm During lunch in the Atkinson Hall Theater | Poster Location | |||||
| First Name | Last Name | Poster Title | Lighting Talk | Co-Authors | Advisor | |
| Vishnu | Narayanan | A 38.4MHz DCXO with 0.17ppb static frequency tuning step using bridge-capacitor cubing in 65nm CMOS | Yes | Aiden Jennings, Suryaa ray, Prasad Gudem, Drew Hall | Prof. Drew Hall | 1 |
| Golnaz | Salehi | WaveCraft: Payload-Synthesized Radar Waveforms on Commodity 5G Devices | Sreevatsank Kadaveru, Ish Jain, Dinesh Bharadia | Prof. Dinesh Bharadia | 2 | |
| Po-Han | Chen | Next-Gen Vertical Power Delivery | Yes | Saket Jha | Prof. Hanh-Phuc Le | 3 |
| Saket | Jha | Monolithic-GaN Integrated Adjustable Multilevel Supply Modulator for 5G Base-Station Massive-MIMO Arrays | Hieu Pham, Don Kimball, Peter Asbeck, and Hanh-Phuc Le | Prof. Hanh-Phuc Le | 4 | |
| Adel | Heidari | Radiostream: A wideband multi-antenna SDR platform | Yes | Jeeva Keshav, Aaron Tartz, Radha Krishna Ganti, Dinesh Bharadia | Prof. Dinesh Bharadia | 5 |
| Xingyu | Chen | Physically Accurate Differentiable Inverse Rendering for Radio Frequency Digital Twin | Yes | Xinyu Zhang, Kai Zheng, Xinmin Fang, Tzu-Mao Li, Chris Xiaoxuan Lu, Zhengxiong Li | Prof. Xinyu Zhang | 6 |
| Sreevatsank | Kadaveru | mmsRAN: Multimodal Cellular Uplink for Physical AI | Yes | Ushasi Ghosh | Prof. Dinesh Bharadia | 7 |
| Parthasarathi | Samir Khirwadkar | Grassmannian-Coded Beamforming for mmWave Channel Sensing with Unknown Complex Path Gain | Robin Rajamaki, Piya Pal | Prof. Piya Pal | 8 | |
| Zhiheng | Luo | A Scalable 256-Channel 12-mA 0.06%-Current-Mismatch 22-V Neurostimulator with Real-Time Current Calibration and Compliance Monitoring | Po-Han Chen | Prof. Hanh-Phuc Le | 9 | |
| Mohamed | Hamdy | Subspace-Coding for Bistatic ISAC: Taming Interference via Array Geometry | Parthasarathi Khirwadkar, Robin Rajamaki, Piya Pal | Prof. Piya Pal | 10 | |
| Yinyan | Bu | Stochastic Neural Ray Tracing for Radio Frequency Channel Modeling | Jiajie Yu, Xingyu Chen, Bo Wen, Xinyu Zhang, Piya Pal | Prof. Piya Pal | 11 | |
| Sumilak | Chaudhury | Linearity-Enhanced Optical Transmitter for Radio-over-Fiber Communications | Karl Johnson, Bill Lin, Yeshaiahu Fainman, Tzu-Chien Hsueh | Prof. Tzu-Chien Hsueh | 12 | |
| Cheng | Tang | Hybrid Modeling of Capacitive Human Body Communication Systems to Capture Channel Variability | Cheng Tang, Dang Le, Yasuo Morimoto, Djordje Tujkovic, Benjamin Cook, Mingjie Ma, Jiang Zhu, Patrick Mercier | Prof. Patrick Mercier | 13 | |
| Nima | Razavi | Wideband Hybrid Precoding for Cellular-LEO Satellite Communication Spectrum Coexistence | Yes | Murat Bayraktar, Nuria Gonzalez Prelcic, Robert Heath | Prof. Robert Heath, Prof. Nuria Gonzalez Prelcic | 14 |
| Jaebum | Park | Fronthaul-constrained low-rank RX combiner design for uplink XL-MIMO | Robert W. Heath Jr. | Prof. Robert Heath | 15 | |
| Wenyu | Huang | FUSE: Fuse-then-Detect Multi-UE Uplink ISAC for UAV Sensing and Recognition | Yes | Nuria Gonzalez-Prelcic, Vishnu Ratnam, Murat Bayraktar, Charlie Jianzhong Zhang | Prof. Nuria Gonzalez-Prelcic | 16 |
| Wenyu | Huang | Geometry-Informed Neural Network for Pilot-Limited Channel Estimation via Sensing from Uplink Traffic | Alireza Javid, Nuria Gonzalez-Prelcic | Prof. Nuria Gonzalez-Prelcic | 17 | |
| Chi-Shiang | Gau | Physically Grounded 3D Reconstruction via Explicit Radar-Camera Geometric Association | Amirhosein Javadi, Konstantinos D. Polyzos, Tara Javidi | Prof. Tara Javidi | 18 | |
| Huong | Hoang | Adaptive Motion Modeling for Scanned 3D Human Dynamic Mesh Compression | Truong Nguyen, Pamela Cosman | Prof. Truong Nguyen, Prof. Pamela Cosman | 19 | |
| Chung | Luu | Data-Aided Asynchronous OFDM ISAC: A Mean-Field Variational Bayes Approach | Duy Nguyen | Prof. Nuria Gonzalez-Prelcic | 20 | |
| Ibrahim | Kilinc | AI-assisted propagation-aware beam tracking with boundary resets for dynamic links | Mohamed Akrout and Robert W. Heath Jr. | Prof. Robert Heath | 21 | |
| Kris | Ngo | A Sub-1dB Noise Figure LNA With Stacked Current-Reuse in 65nm CMOS | Prof. Drew Hall, Prof. Prasad Gudem | 22 | ||
| Wenxuan | Guo | RF Simulation for Animal Sensing | Yes | Xingyu Chen | Prof. Xinyu Zhang | 23 |