Advising

Current students

• Post-doc Sahar Masmoudi - Characterization of sensor networks data
  • Co-advised with Christelle Garnier, Vincent Itier, Stéphane Sauvage (IMT Nord Europe) and Pascal Kaluzny (TERA)
  • Oct. 2022 - Oct. 20223
  
  
• PhD Miled Alam - Secrecy energy efficient power allocation for multi-users NOMA downlink transmissions
  • Co-advised with Laurent Clavier and Giulia Cervia
  • April 2022 - March 2025
• PhD Yacine Benatia - Cooperation, optimization and AI for future communications: interplay between model-based and data-driven approaches
  • Co-advised with Veronica Belmega and Romain Negrel
  • Oct. 2020 - Sept. 2023

Former students

• Post-doc Samet Gelincik - Channel coding for finite block-length
  • Co-advised with Philippe Mary and Jean-Yves Baudais
  • March 2020 - March 2022


• PhD Hajar El Hassani - Energy-efficient IoT networks
  • Co-advised with Veronica Belmega
  • Oct. 2019 - Sept. 2022 + 6 months (COVID)
  • Defense: 02/12/2022
  • Current position: Post-doctoral researcher, L2S, France
• PhD Yasser Mestrah - Robust communication systems with unknown noise distribution
  • co-advised with Laurent Clavier, Alban Goupil and Guillaume Gellé
  • Oct. 2016 - Sept. 2019
  • Defense: 16/12/2019
  • Current position: R&D engineer, Mitsubishi Electric, Rennes, France


• M.Sc.: Birhanu Samuel, Nov. 2018-Feb. 2019 - Spiking neuron - LIF
• M.Sc.: Ashenafi Fekede Haile, Nov. 2018-Feb. 2019 - Spiking neuron - LIF
• M.Sc.: Stephen Somsack, Summer 2020 - Machine learning for communications
• M.Sc.: Mengxuan Li, Summer 2017, Spiking neuron - Performance of an IF detector
• M.Sc.: Haoyang Zheng, Summer 2017, Spiking neuron - Sequence recognition

Research projects

Ongoing

• PI of POTIONS - Cooperation, optimization and artificial intelligence for future communications: interplay between model-based and data-driven approaches
  • 2020 - 2023
  • Funding: PhD Yacine Benatia (1/2 IMT Lille Douai, 1/2 ED EM2PSI)
  • Consortium: IMT Nord Europe, ETIS


• Member of PEPR 5G
  • 2022 - 2027
  • Funding: 2 PhD to be hired
  • Consortium: CNRS, CEA, IMT
• Member of ANR ASTRID DEPOSIA
  • Dec. 2021 - Dec. 2024
  • Funding: 1 Post-doc to be hired
  • Consortium: UGE, IMT Nord Europe, INRIA, INODESIGN Group, MC2 Technologies
• Member of France Relance
  • Oct. 2022 - Dec. 2023
  • Funding: Post-doc Sahar Masmoudi
  • Consortium: IMT Nord Europe, TERA Environment
• Member of France Relance Beyond 5G
  • 2021 - 2024
  • Funding: PhD Miled Alam (1/2 Beyond 5G, 1/2 IMT Nord Europe)
  • Consortium: Thalès, Ericsson, Eurecom, Institut Mines Télécom (IMT)
• Member of ANR U-Wake - Ultra-Low Power Wake-up Radio
  • 2020 - 2024
  • PI: Laurent Clavier
  • Consortium: IEMN, INSA Lyon, IRISA

Past

• Mobility grant CY for PhD student Yacine Benatia
  • Summer 2022
  • Collaborators: Mehdi Bennis (Univ. of Oulu, Finland), E. Veronica Belmega (ETIS, France), Romain Negrel (ESIEE, France)
• Mobility grant GdR ISIS for PhD student Yacine Benatia
  • Summer 2022
  • Collaborators: Mehdi Bennis (Univ. of Oulu, Finland), E. Veronica Belmega (ETIS, France), Romain Negrel (ESIEE, France)


• Member of ANR Arburst - Achievable regions of bursty multi-user wireless communications
  • 2016 - 2020
  • PI: Jean-Marie Gorce
  • Funding: Post-doc Samet Gelincik
  • Consortium: INSA Lyon, INSA Rennes, IMT Nord Europe


• IRCICA internal Calls
  • 2017 - 2018: Funding: Birhanu Samuel and Ashenafi Fekede Haile (M.Sc.)
  • 2016 - 2017: Funding: Mengxuan Li and Haoyang Zheng (M.Sc.)
• IMT Lille Douai internal Calls
  • 2019-2020: Funding: Stephen Somsack (M.Sc.)

Service activities

Research project expert

French ANR: 2022, 2023 (Phase 2)

Scientific responsibilities

• Session chair of the Session Machine Learning & Data analytics at EAI ValueTools 2019
• Oct. 13rd, 2020 - Examiner of the VAE jury of Xavier Foin, IMT Lille Douai, France
• In charge of telecommunication-oriented internship validation for IMT Nord Europe (2019-current)

Women in Science

Invited speaker to the Table ronde 'Quelques conseils pour jeunes chercheuses en TSI et leurs encadrants' (Some advice for young female researchers in signal processing), GRETSI 2022, Nancy

Conference organization

• Workshop RAWNET, IEEE WIOPT, 2023, jointly with S. Lasaulce, S. Perlaza, V. Tan and C. Zhao
• GdR ISIS meeting: Méthodes et outils mathématiques pour la modélisation des réseaux IoT jointly organized with Philippe Mary and Claire Goursaud
• GRETSI 2019, Lille, France: within the volunteer local members (welcoming participants, technical support, ...)

Editorial work

• From January 2020 to February 2023, I served as Executive Editor for the Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies.
• Since February 2023, I serve as Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Machine Learning in Communications and Networking in Area 2: Network Optimization and Resource Management.

Seminar organization at IRCICA

• 06/06/2019: Dr. Romain Tajan, IMS Bordeaux France, "Faster Than Nyquist communications, from theory to practical implementations"
• 11/04/2019: David Kibloff, INRIA France, "Embedding Covert Information on a Given Broadcast Code"
• 06/12/2018: Alexandre Marcastel, ETIS France, "Online Power Optimization in Feedback-Limited, Dynamic and Unpredictable IoT Networks"
• 15/11/2018: Dr. Maël Le Treust, ETIS France, "Strategic Communication and Persuasion"
• 04/11/2018: Dr. Samir Perlaza, INRIA France, "Simultaneous Information and Energy Transmission"

Technical Program Committee

• IEEE EuCNC 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019
• IEEE WCNC 2019 Workshop MoTION
• IEEE SPAWC 2022, 2019

Reviewing

• NCC 2021; IEEE SSP 2021; IEEE EuCNC 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019; IEEE SPAWC 2022, 2019; IEEE ISTC 2018; IEEE PIMRC 2018; IEEE WCNC 2018; IEEE Globecom 2016; IEEE ICC 2016; IEEE VTC-Fall 2015
• IEEE Internet of Things Magazine; IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security; IEEE Communications letters; IEEE Signal Processing Letters; IEEE Transactions on Communications; Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies; EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications & Networking; International Journal of Communication Systems; Computers & Security

Local responsibilities

• 2022-2027 : Membre élue du CSAS (ancien CST) de l'IMT Nord Europe
• 2021- : Représentante élue des enseignants-chercheurs au COPIL du CERI SN
• 2021-2025 : Membre élue de la Commission de Qualification pour Promotion et Changement d’Appellation de l'IMT Nord Europe
• 2017-2021 : Membre élue de la Commission de Qualification pour Promotion et Changement d’Appellation de l'IMT Lille Douai