Current PhD /MbR Students

Mr Mohammed (Amr) Abdelrahman 

Is currently working towards his PhD degree with the School of Engineering, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. Mr Amr comes from a very strong industry background and is working on MIMO and Cell Free applications for UAVs

Supervisory Team

• Dr Akram Al-Hourani (Primary)

• Dr Ke (Desmond) Wang

Mr Kosta Dakic

Is currently working towards his PhD degree with the School of Engineering, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. He completed his Bachelor in Electrical/Electronics Engineering in 2019. 

Supervisory Team

• Dr Akram Al-Hourani (Primary)

• Prof Margret Lech 

Mrs Nermine Hendy

Is currently a PhD student in the discipline of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, School of Engineering, RMIT university. Mrs Hendy had completed her master-by-research degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering in 2013. Her current PhD research focuses on the applications of Artificial Intelligence and advanced signal processing techniques for Air handwriting recognition using miniature radars.

Supervisory Team

• Dr Akram Al-Hourani (Primary)

• Dr Haytham Fayek

Mr Ahmed Al-Amri

Is currently working on his PhD on satellite MIMO

Supervisory Team

• Dr Akram Al-Hourani (Primary)

• Dr Kandeepan Sithamparanathan

• Dr Bassel Al Homssi

Mr Ferdi Ganda Kurnia

Is currently working on his PhD on passive spaceborne synthetic aperture radars, in the School of Engineering, RMIT University. Mr. Kurnia completed his Bachelor of Engineering sub majoring in Telecommunication Engineering from Bandung Institute of Technology in 2008. After graduating, he joined Telkom Indonesia then in 2017 he pursued the Master of Engineering degree at RMIT University. 

Supervisory Team

• A/Prof Akram Al-Hourani (Primary)

• A/Prof Ke Wang

Mr James Brady

Is currently working on his Master-by-Research on optical sensing materials for spaceborne hyper-spectral imaging. He completed his BEng (Hons) Electrical & Computer Systems in 2022 at RMIT University, with a Capstone Project titled machine learning via artificial neural networks for smart classification systems.

Supervisory Team

• A/Prof Akram Al-Hourani (Primary)

• Prof Sumeet Walia

Mr Junwen Deng

He completed his Bachelor degree in Mechatronic Engineering with first class honours at Australian National University in 2022. His honour year project is about using remote low-cost vision sensors for bushfire detection in Australia. He is currently working on his Master-by-Research on Sensor Fusion for Improved Localisation of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) aiming to improve the autonomy in surveying the health of the great barrier reef. The research is in collaboration with CSIRO.

Supervisory Team

• A/Prof Akram Al-Hourani (Primary)

• Dr Du Young Kim

• Dr Hui Sheng Lim

• Mr Andrew Filisetti

Mr Zonghan Li

Is currently working on his PhD on Mega Satellite Constellations. He completed his Master degree in Network and Telecommunication Engineering at RMIT University in 2023.

Supervisory Team

• A/Prof Akram Al-Hourani (Primary)

• Dr Jing Fu

Dr Da (Karex) Huang 

He received his PhD degree from RMIT University in 2023, and his BS in Microelectronics Engineering in 2015 / MS in Electrical Engineering and Telecommunication Engineering from the University of Melbourne in 2017 and 2018 respectively.  

Supervisory Team

• Dr Akram Al-Hourani (Primary)

• A/Prof Wayne Rowe

• Prof Kandeepan Sithamparanathan 

Dr Iza Shafinaz Mohamad Hashim

Has completed her PhD degree in Electronic and Telecommunications Engineering in 2023 under the supervision of Dr Akram Al-Hourani and Associate Professor Wayne Rowe. After completing her Bachelor's degree with honours in the top 2% of RMIT higher education students, Ms Hashim has decided to join the research community at RMIT in generating ideas, providing practical solutions and pushing the boundaries for the benefit of the global nations. 

During her internship,  Dr Hashim has developed a deep interest in the field of telecommunications, electromagnetics and signal processing. Since then, she has been actively working on the development of a smart antenna for nanosatellite. 

In the future, Dr Hashim aspires to become a prominent female engineer, researcher, and leader in the telecommunications field who will contribute to a better-connected world.

Research Topics

• The use of machine learning for IoT localization using novel beamforming and MIMO techniques

• Multibeam antenna design for nano-satellites

Supervisory Team

• Dr Akram Al-Hourani (Primary)

• A/Prof Wayne Rowe

Dr Chiu Chun Chan 

Is currently a Research Fellow in the Australian National University (ANU). Dr Chan Completed his PhD degree at the School of Engineering, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia in 2022. He also completed his Masters in Telecommunication and Networking Engineering in 2017 from RMIT University.  

• Research Topics

• Uplink Interference modelling  in IoT-over-Satellite communications

• power consumption optimization for IoT-over-Satellite communications

• Aerial Platform for IoTs and UAV networks

Supervisory Team

• Dr Akram Al-Hourani (Primary)

• Dr Bassel Al Homssi

• Dr Karina Gomez

LinkedIn Profile

Dr Bisma Manzoor

Completed her PhD in the field of Internet-of-things wireless access networks from RMIT in 2021, and her Masters in Telecommunication and Network Engineering from RMIT in 2017. Link to google scholar

Research Topics

• Cellular Internet of Things use in free spectrum band

• Interference modelling and mitigation for IoT

• Internet-of-things over satellite

• Performance modelling and optimization for Cellular Internet of Things

Supervisory Team

• Dr Akram Al-Hourani (Primary)

• Prof Kandeepan Sithamparanathan 

• Dr Karina Gomez

Dr Sruthy Skaria

Completed her Ph.D. degree in 2021 with the School of Engineering, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. She also completed her Masters in Electronics Engineering in 2015. Her research interests included consumer radars and its applications in the fields of automotive, gesture recognition, material identification, UAVs, interference issue in consumer radars, and applications of neural network in radar technology. Her publication `Hand-Gesture Recognition Using Two-Antenna Doppler Radar With Deep Convolutional Neural Networks' has received the best paper award runner-up from IEEE Sensors Journal in 2020.

Research Topics

• Interference modelling and mitigation in consumer radars

• Applications of neural network in radar Hand-Gesture recognition

Supervisory Team

• Dr Akram Al-Hourani (Primary)

• Prof Kandeepan Sithamparanathan 

• Prof Rob Evans (UniMelb)

[Google Scholar, ResearchGate]

Dr Hiu Fai (Louie) Chan (PhD)

Has completed his PhD in 2020 at the School of Engineering, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. He is a lecturer in the Department of Engineering at Vocational Training Council in Hong Kong, and supervises student design projects for RMIT bachelor degree in Hong Kong.

Research Topics

• Energy efficiency in wireless sensor networks and IoT

• Hierarchical routing in wireless sensor networks and IoT

• Wireless sensor networks technology and the Internet of Things

Supervisory Team

• Dr Akram Al-Hourani (Primary)

• Dr Karina Gomez 

• Prof Kandeepan Sithamparanathan

• Dr Heiko Rudolph 

Mr Shah Khalid Khan (Master by Research)

Has completed his Master-by-Research in 2019 at RMIT University on the topic of mmWave communications for UAV networks. He is an experienced ICT professional, having worked with Multinational Telecom Vendors & Operators in multiple domains.  Mr Shah is currently pursuing his PhD degree at RMIT University in collaboration with the Automotive industry 

Research Topics

• Millimeter-wave channel modelling

• UAV networks and channel modellings

Master-by-Research Supervisory Team

• Dr Akram Al-Hourani (Primary)

• Dr Karina Gomez