Alumni and Continuing Collaborators

Ph.D. graduates (advisor: Erik G. Larsson)

• Zakir Hussain Shaik (Lic. Eng., LiU 2022; Ph.D. LiU 2024)
  Dissertation title: Distributed Signal Processing for Cell-Free Massive MIMO
  

• Unnikrishnan Kunnath Ganesan (Lic. Eng., LiU 2022; Ph.D. LiU 2024)
  Dissertation title: Beyond Boundaries: Evolving Connectivity with Massive MIMO
  Now with Chalmers, Gothenburg, Sweden.

• Ziya Gulgun (Lic. Eng. LiU 2021; Ph.D. LiU 2023)
  Dissertation title: GNSS and Massive MIMO: Spoofing, Jamming and Robust Receiver Design for Impulsive Noise
  Now with Ericsson, Kista, Sweden.

• Ema Becirovic (Lic. Eng. LiU 2020; Ph.D. LiU 2022)
  Dissertation title: Signal Processing Aspects of Massive MIMO
  Now with FOI, Sweden.

• Giovanni Interdonato (Lic. Eng. LiU 2018; Ph.D. LiU 2020)
  Dissertation title: Cell-Free Massive MIMO: Scalability, Signal Processing and Power Control
  Now with the University of Cassino, Italy.

• Marcus Karlsson (Lic. Eng. LiU 2016, Ph.D. LiU 2018)
  Dissertation title: Blind Massive MIMO Base Stations: Downlink Transmission and Jamming
  Now with FOI, Linköping, Sweden.

• Hei Victor Cheng (Lic. Eng. LiU 2016; Ph.D. LiU 2018)
  Dissertation title: Optimizing Massive MIMO: Precoder design and power allocation
  Now Assistant Professor at Aarhus University, Denmark.

• Christopher Mollen (Lic. Eng. LiU 2016; Ph.D. LiU 2018)
  Dissertation title: High-End Performance with Low-End Hardware
  Now with Ericsson Research, Kista, Sweden.

• Antonios Pitarokoilis (Lic. Eng., 2013; Ph.D. LiU 2016)
  Dissertation title: Phase noise and wideband transmission in massive MIMO
  Now postdoc at KTH (Royal Institute of Technology), Sweden.

• Hien Q. Ngo (Lic. Eng., 2012; Ph.D. LiU 2015)
  Dissertation title: Massive MIMO: Fundamentals and System Design
  Now with Queens University, Belfast, N. Ireland.
  

• Mirsad Čirkić (Lic. Eng., LiU 2011; Ph.D. LiU 2014)
  Dissertation title: Efficient MIMO Detection Methods
  Now with Sematic AB, Linköping.

• Johannes Lindblom (Lic. Eng., LiU 2010; Ph.D. LiU 2014)
  Dissertation title: The MISO Channel as a Model for Non-Orthogonal Spectrum Sharing
  Now with FOI, Linköping.

• Reza Moosavi (Lic. Eng., LiU 2011; Ph.D., LiU 2014).
  Dissertation title: Improving the Efficiency of Control Signaling in Wireless Multiple Access Systems
  Now with Ericsson Global AI Accelerator, Kista, Sweden.

• T.V.K. Chaitanya (Lic. Eng., LiU 2011; Ph.D., LiU 2013).
  Dissertation title: HARQ Systems: Resource Allocation, Feedback Error Protection, and Bits-to-Symbol Mappings
  Now with Sony, Lund, Sweden.

• Erik Axell (Lic. Eng., LiU 2009; Ph.D., LiU 2012).
  Dissertation title: Spectrum Sensing Algorithms Based on Second-Order Statistics
  Now with FOI, Linköping, Sweden.

Ph.D. graduates (advisor: Håkan Johansson)

• Anu Kalidas M. Pillai (Ph.D., LiU 2015).
  Dissertation title: Signal Reconstruction Algorithms for Time-Interleaved ADCs
  Now with Scania, Södertälje, Sweden.

Ph.D. graduates (advisor: Emil Björnson)

• Özgecan Özdogan (Ph.D., LiU 2022).
  Dissertation title: Signal Processing Aspects of Massive MIMO and IRS-Aided Communications
  Now with Ericsson Research, Linköping, Sweden.

• Daniel Verenzuela (Ph.D., LiU 2020).
  Dissertation title: Exploring Alternative Massive MIMO Designs: Superimposed Pilots and Mixed-ADCs

• Trinh Van Chien (Ph.D., LiU 2020).
  Dissertation title: Spatial Resource Allocation in Massive MIMO Communications: From Cellular to Cell-Free

• Amin Ghazanfari (Ph.D., LiU 2021).
  Dissertation title: Multi-Cell Massive MIMO: Power Control and Channel Estimation Now with Huawei, Kista, Sweden.

Postdocs

• Saif K. Mohammed, 2010-2013.
  Now Professor at IIT Dehli, India.

• Ebrahim A. Gharavol, 2011-2012.
  Now Assistant Professor at Imam Reza Intl. University, Iran.

• Eleftherios Karipidis, 2008-2013.
  Now with Ericsson Research, Stockholm, Sweden.

• Lei Yu, 2011-2012.
  Now Associate Professor at Harbin Institute of Technology, China.

• Yi Wu, 2010-2012.

• Shuying Shi, 2009-2010.

• Anton Blad, 2012-2013.
  Now with Qualcomm, Farnborough, United Kingdom.

• Daniel Persson, 2009-2015.
  Now with Qamcom Research and Technology, Gothenburg.

• Vladimir Savic, 2012-2016.
  Now with Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden.

• Salil Kashyap, 2014-2016.
  Now with Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, India.

• Tan Tai Do, 2016.
  Now with Ericsson Research, Lund, Sweden.

• Julia Vinogradova, 2015-2016.
  Now with Ericsson Research, Stockholm, Sweden.

• Prabhu Chandhar, 2016-2017.

• Ashkan Kalantari, 2017-2018.
  Now with Ericsson Research, Lund, Sweden.

• Kamil Senel, 2017-2019.
  Now with Ericsson AB, Linköping, Sweden.

• Meysam Sadeghi, 2018-2019.
  Now with Qualcomm AB, Linköping, Sweden.

• Deepak Mishra, 2017-2019.
  Now Senior Research Associate at the UNSW Sydney, Australia

• Manoj B.R., 2019-2021.
  Now with Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, India.

• Sarvendranath Rimalapudi, 2022.
  Now with Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, India.

• Thanh Tung Vu, 2022-2023.
  Now with Macquarie University, Australia.

• Nishant Gupta, 2023-2024.
  Now with Lakshmi Niwas Mittal Institute of Information Technology (LNMIIT), India.

• Anders Buvarp, 2024.
  Now with NTNU, Trondheim, Norway.

Licentiate (Tekn. Lic.) graduates

• Tobias Ahlström Lic. Eng., 2008 (advisor: Danyo Danev).

• Daniel Widell (formerly Puaca), Lic. Eng., 2008 (advisor: Danyo Danev).

• Olle Abrahamsson, Lic. Eng., 2014 (advisor: Erik G. Larsson).
  Thesis: On Aggregation and Dynamics of Opinions in Complex Networks