research team

Graduate Students:
Damith Senaratne, Ph.D. Student
B.Sc. in Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka (2005)
Software Engineer, Millennium IT, Sri Lanka (2005-2006)
M.Sc. in Telecommunications, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka (2006-2007)

Research Interests: Wireless Communication, MIMO signal processing

Email: damith@ualberta.ca

 Damith Senaratne
Gayan Amarasuriya, Ph.D. Student
- cosupervised with Dr. Masoud Ardakani
B.Sc. in Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka (2006)
Engineer - Wireless Network Architecture and Planning, Dialog Broadband Networks (Pvt) Ltd, Sri Lanka (2007-2008)

Research interests: Communication theory, Cooperative Relay Networks

Email: amarasur@ualberta.ca

 Gayan Amarasuriya
Saman Atapattu, Ph.D. Student
- cosupervised with Dr. Hai Jiang
B.Sc. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka (1999-2003)
M. Eng. in Telecommunications, Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Thailand (2006-2007)

Research interests: Cooperative Communications, Space-Time Coding, Fading Processes, MIMO Systems

Email: atapattu@ualberta.ca

 Saman Atapattu
Zohreh Abdeyazdan, Ph.D. Student
- cosupervised with Dr. Masoud Ardakani
B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, Isfahan University of Technology, Iran (2006)
M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering Communication Networks, Isfahan University of Technology, Iran (2009)

Research interests: Computer networks, Wireless Communications (MAC Layer, Scheduling & Routing)

Email: abdeyazd@ualberta.ca

 Zohreh Abdeyazdan
Shuangshuang Han, Ph.D. Student
B.Eng in Communication Engineering, Shandong University, China (2002-2006)
M.Eng in Communication and Information Systems, Shandong University, China (2006-2009)

Research interests: Wireless Communications, Channel Coding, Equalization Techniques, Cooperative Communication

Email: shan7@ualberta.ca

 Shuangshuang Han
Kaveh Mahdaviani, M.Sc. Student
- cosupervised with Dr. Masoud Ardakani
B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, Isfahan University of Technology, Iran (2009)

Research interests: Wireless communication and Information theory (including Combined equalization and Coding techniques, Network Coding, coding in Euclidean space, and probabilistic methods, Game Theory, Graph Theory)

Email: kmahdavi@ualberta.ca

 Kaveh Mahdaviani
Sachitha Kusaladharma, M.Sc. Student
B.Sc. in Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka (2010)
Network Engineer, Millennium IT, Sri Lanka. 2010-2011

Research interests: Communication theory, MIMO systems, Wireless sensor networks

Email: kusaladh@ualberta.ca

 Sachitha Kusaladharma
Yamuna Dhungana, Ph.D. Student
B.Eng. in Electronics and Communication Engineering, Tribhuvan University, Institute of Engineering, Nepal (2009)
M.Eng. in Telecommunications, Asian Institute of Engineering, Thailand (2009-2011)

Research interests: MIMO Systems (Beamforming and Space Time Coding), Relay Assisted and Cooperative Communications, Energy Efficiency (Green Radio Communications)

Email: dhungana@ualberta.ca

 Yamuna Dhungana
Mahmoud Elsaadany, Ph.D. Student
- cosupervised with Dr. Hai Jiang
B.Sc. in Electronics and Communications Engineering, Cairo University, Egypt (2006)
M.Sc. in Communications Engineering, Cairo University, Egypt (2010)

Research interests: Cognitive radio networks, Physical-layer and cross layer optimization for wireless networks, Cooperative, energy efficient wireless communication

Email: elsaadan@ualberta.ca

 Mahmoud Elsaadany
Prasanna Herath, Ph.D. Student
B.Sc. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka (2007)
Engineer-Transmission Network Optimization, Dialog Broadband Networks (Pvt) Ltd, Sri Lanka (2007-2009)

Research Interests: Communication theory, Cooperative Communication

Email: prasanna@ualberta.ca

 Prasanna Herath
Vesh Banjade, Ph.D. Student
- cosupervised with Dr. Hai Jiang
B.Eng. in Electronics and Communication Engineering, Tribhuvan University, Institute of Engineering, Nepal (2009)
M.Eng. in Telecommunications, Asian Institute of Engineering, Thailand (2009-2011)

Research interests: Wireless communications: Fading models, Cooperative communications, Detection, Multiple antenna systems, Cognitive radio

Email: sharmaba@ualberta.ca

 Vesh Banjade
Mengheng Jin, M.Sc. Student
- cosupervised with Dr. Bruce Cockburn
B.Eng in Communication Engineering, Changzhou Institute of Technology, China (2006-2010)

Research interests: Wireless Communications, Digital Signal Processing, MIMO Systems, FPGA implementation

Email: mengheng@ualberta.ca

 Mengheng Jin
Maolin Wang, M.Sc. Student
B.Eng in Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Alberta (2011)

Research interests: Wireless Communications, MIMO Systems, FPGA implementation.

Email: maolin1@ualberta.ca

 Maolin Wang