CV

Education

🎓 PhD in Electrical Engineering (2014-2017) EURECOM / Communication Systems

🎓 MSc in Electrical Engineering (2013-2014) CentraleSupélec / SAR

🎓 BSc in Electrical and Computer Engineering (2009-2014) Lebanese University, Faculty of Engineering III

Work experience

• Research Scientist (Now) New York University (NYU) Abu Dhabi
• Research Associate (2022-2024) New York University (NYU) Abu Dhabi
• Algorithm and Signal Processing Team Leader (2021-2022) CEVA-DSP
• Signal Processing Engineer (2017-2021) CEVA-DSP
• Signal Processing Engineer intern (Summer 2014) RivieraWaves

Publications

You can also find my articles on my Google Scholar profile and Scopus.

Journals

• E. Illi, A. Bazzi, M. Qaraqe, and A. Ghrayeb. “On the Secrecy-Sensing Optimization of RIS-assisted Full-Duplex Integrated Sensing and Communication Network.” in IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, 2025 [arXiv]
• S. Naoumi, A. Bazzi*, R. Bomfin and M. Chafii “High-Resolution Sensing in Communication-Centric ISAC: Deep Learning and Parametric Methods,” in IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, doi: 10.1109/JSAC.2025.3639350. [paper][arXiv]
• A. Bazzi*, M. Ying, O. Kanhere, T. S. Rappaport and M. Chafii, “ISAC Imaging by Channel State Information using Ray Tracing for Next Generation 6G,” in IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Electromagnetics, Antennas and Propagation, doi: 10.1109/JSTEAP.2025.3605877. [arXiv][paper]
• A. Bazzi*, R. Bomfin, M. Mezzavilla, S. Rangan, T. S. Rappaport and M. Chafii, “Upper mid-band spectrum for 6G: Vision, opportunity and challenges,” in IEEE Communications Magazine, doi: 10.1109/MCOM.001.2500101. [paper][arXiv]
• A. Bazzi* and M. Chafii, “Mutual Information Based Pilot Design for ISAC,” in IEEE Transactions on Communications, doi: 10.1109/TCOMM.2025.3545658.2025.[paper][arXiv]
• A. Bazzi* and M. Chafii, “Low Dynamic Range for RIS-aided Bistatic Integrated Sensing and Communication,” in IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, doi: 10.1109/JSAC.2025.3531533. [paper][arXiv]
• A. Magbool, V. Kumar, A. Bazzi, M. F. Flanagan and M. Chafii, “Multi-Functional RIS for a Multi-Functional System: Integrating Sensing, Communication, and Wireless Power Transfer,” in IEEE Network, doi: 10.1109/MNET.2024.3482571.[paper][arXiv]
• S. Naoumi, A. Bazzi*, R. Bomfin and M. Chafii “Complex Neural Network based Joint AoA and AoD Estimation for Bistatic ISAC”, in IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, March. 2024.[paper][arXiv][code]
• A. Chowdary, A. Bazzi* and M. Chafii, “On Hybrid Radar Fusion for Integrated Sensing and Communication,” in IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, doi: 10.1109/TWC.2024.3357573. [paper][arXiv]
• A. Bazzi* and M. Chafii, “Secure Full Duplex Integrated Sensing and Communications,” in IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, vol. 19, pp. 2082-2097, 2024, doi: 10.1109/TIFS.2023.3346696. [paper][arXiv][nyuscholars]
• A. Bazzi* and M. Chafii, “On Integrated Sensing and Communication Waveforms With Tunable PAPR,” in IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 22, no. 11, pp. 7345-7360, Nov. 2023, doi: 10.1109/TWC.2023.3250263. [paper][arXiv][nyuscholars][acm]
• A. Bazzi* and M. Chafii, “On Outage-Based Beamforming Design for Dual-Functional Radar-Communication 6G Systems,” in IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 22, no. 8, pp. 5598-5612, Aug. 2023, doi: 10.1109/TWC.2023.3235617. [paper][arXiv][nyuscholars][acm]
• A. W. Azim, A. Bazzi, R. Bomfin, R. Shubair and M. Chafii, “Layered Chirp Spread Spectrum Modulations for LPWANs,” in IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 72, no. 3, pp. 1671-1687, March 2024, doi: 10.1109/TCOMM.2023.3331019. [paper][nyuscholars][mohap]
• A. W. Azim, A. Bazzi, M. Fatima, R. Shubair and M. Chafii, “Dual-Mode Time Domain Multiplexed Chirp Spread Spectrum,” in IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 72, no. 12, pp. 16086-16097, Dec. 2023, doi: 10.1109/TVT.2023.3295270. [paper][arXiv][nyuscholars][mohap]
• A. W. Azim, A. Bazzi, R. Shubair and M. Chafii, “Dual-Mode Chirp Spread Spectrum Modulation,” in IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, vol. 11, no. 9, pp. 1995-1999, Sept. 2022, doi: 10.1109/LWC.2022.3190564. [paper][arXiv][nyuscholars][mohap][RG]
• W. Njima, A. Bazzi and M. Chafii, “DNN-Based Indoor Localization Under Limited Dataset Using GANs and Semi-Supervised Learning,” in IEEE Access, vol. 10, pp. 69896-69909, 2022, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2022.3187837. [paper][nyuscholars][RG]
• V. A. Reddy, A. Bazzi*, G. L. Stüber, S. Al-Dharrab, W. Mesbah and A. H. Muqaibel, “Fundamental Performance Limits of mm-Wave Cooperative Localization in Linear Topologies,” in IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, vol. 9, no. 11, pp. 1899-1903, Nov. 2020, doi: 10.1109/LWC.2020.3007417. [paper][ksascholars][RG]

Conferences

• A. W. Azim, T. Rahman, A. Bazzi, M. Uysal and M. Chafii, “Timing Synchronization and Channel Estimation for DCO-OFDM in VLC Systems,” 2025 IEEE 36th International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC), Istanbul, Turkiye, 2025, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/PIMRC62392.2025.11274571.[paper]
• A. Bazzi and M. Chafii, “Towards ISAC RIS-Enabled Passive Radar Target Localization””, ICC 2025 - IEEE International Conference on Communications, Montreal, QC, Canada, 2025, pp. 2290-2295, doi: 10.1109/ICC52391.2025.11162110.[arXiv][paper]
• A. Bazzi and M. Chafii, “Designing Waveforms with Adjustable PAPR for Integrated Sensing and Communication”, ICC 2025 - IEEE International Conference on Communications, Montreal, QC, Canada, 2025, pp. 6633-6638, doi: 10.1109/ICC52391.2025.11161464.[arXiv][paper]
• D. Shakya, M. Ying, T. S. Rappaport, P. Ma, I. Al-Wazani, Y. Wu, Y. Wang, D. Calin, H. Poddar, A. Bazzi, M. Chafii, Y. Xing, and A. Ghosh, “Urban Outdoor Propagation Measurements and Channel Models at 6.75 GHz FR1(C) and 16.95 GHz FR3 Upper Mid-band Spectrum for 5G and 6G,” ICC 2025 - IEEE International Conference on Communications, Montreal, QC, Canada, 2025, pp. 3291-3296, doi: 10.1109/ICC52391.2025.11161884. [arXiv][paper]
• D. Wang, A. Bazzi and M. Chafii, “RIS-Enabled Integrated Sensing and Communication for 6G Systems,” 2024 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 2024, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/WCNC57260.2024.10571090. [arXiv] [paper]
• S. Naoumi, A. Bazzi, R. Bomfin and M. Chafii, “Deep Learning-Enabled Angle Estimation in Bistatic ISAC Systems,” 2023 IEEE Globecom Workshops (GC Wkshps), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2023, pp. 854-859, doi: 10.1109/GCWkshps58843.2023.10464930. (invited paper) [paper]
• A. Chowdary, A. Bazzi and M. Chafii, “Uplink and Downlink Communications Fusion for Enhanced Radar Sensing,” 2023 IEEE 24th International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC), Shanghai, China, 2023, pp. 446-450, doi: 10.1109/SPAWC53906.2023.10304540. (invited paper) [paper][nyuscholars][mohap]
• M. Delamou, A. Bazzi, M. Chafii and E. M. Amhoud, “Deep Learning-based Estimation for Multitarget Radar Detection,” 2023 IEEE 97th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2023-Spring), Florence, Italy, 2023, pp. 1-5, doi: 10.1109/VTC2023-Spring57618.2023.10200157.[paper][arXiv][nyuscholars]
• S. Ehsanfar, A. Bazzi, K. Mößner and M. Chafii, “Hypothesis Testing on FMCW and OFDM for Joint Communication and Radar in IEEE 802.11bd,” 2023 IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops (ICC Workshops), Rome, Italy, 2023, pp. 464-469, doi: 10.1109/ICCWorkshops57953.2023.10283734.[paper][nyuscholars][RG][mohap]
• A. Bazzi and M. Chafii, “Robust Integrated Sensing and Communication Beamforming for Dual-functional Radar and Communications: Method and Insights,” 2023 XXXVth General Assembly and Scientific Symposium of the International Union of Radio Science (URSI GASS), 2023 (invited paper) [arXiv][semantic]
• A. Bazzi and D. Slock, “Joint Angle And Delay Estimation (Jade) By Partial Relaxation,” 2019 IEEE Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing (GlobalSIP), Ottawa, ON, Canada, 2019, pp. 1-5, doi: 10.1109/GlobalSIP45357.2019.8969218.[paper]
• A. Bazzi and D. Slock, “Cramér-Rao Bound for Joint Angle and Delay Estimators by Partial Relaxation,” 2019 IEEE Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing (GlobalSIP), Ottawa, ON, Canada, 2019, pp. 1-5, doi: 10.1109/GlobalSIP45357.2019.8969286.[paper][RG]
• A. Bazzi, D. T. M. Slock and L. Meilhac, “On Maximum Likelihood Angle of Arrival Estimation Using Orthogonal Projections,” 2018 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Calgary, AB, Canada, 2018, pp. 3241-3245, doi: 10.1109/ICASSP.2018.8462437.[paper][RG][acm][eurecom]
• A. Bazzi, D. T. M. Slock and L. Meilhac, “A Newton-type Forward Backward Greedy method for multi-snapshot compressed sensing,” 2017 51st Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Pacific Grove, CA, USA, 2017, pp. 1178-1182, doi: 10.1109/ACSSC.2017.8335537.[paper][RG][eurecom]
• A. Bazzi, L. Cottatellucci and D. Slock, “Blind on board wideband antenna RF calibration for multi-antenna satellites,” 2017 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), New Orleans, LA, USA, 2017, pp. 6294-6298, doi: 10.1109/ICASSP.2017.7953367.[paper][infona][acm][eurecom]
• A. Bazzi, D. T. M. Slock and L. Meilhac, “Performance analysis of an AoA estimator in the presence of more mutual coupling parameters,” 2017 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), New Orleans, LA, USA, 2017, pp. 3356-3360, doi: 10.1109/ICASSP.2017.7952778.[paper][acm][eurecom]
• A. Bazzi, D. T. M. Slock and L. Meilhac, “On mutual coupling for ULAs: Estimating AoAs in the presence of more coupling parameters,” 2017 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), New Orleans, LA, USA, 2017, pp. 3361-3365, doi: 10.1109/ICASSP.2017.7952779.[paper][acm][academia][eurecom]
• A. Bazzi, D. T. M. Slock and L. Meilhac, “Sparse recovery using an iterative Variational Bayes algorithm and application to AoA estimation,” 2016 IEEE International Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology (ISSPIT), Limassol, Cyprus, 2016, pp. 197-202, doi: 10.1109/ISSPIT.2016.7886034.[paper][academia][eurecom]
• A. Bazzi, D. T. M. Slock and L. Meilhac, “JADED-RIP: Joint Angle and Delay Estimator and Detector via Rotational Invariance Properties,” 2016 IEEE International Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology (ISSPIT), Limassol, Cyprus, 2016, pp. 160-165, doi: 10.1109/ISSPIT.2016.7886027.[paper][academia][eurecom]
• A. Bazzi, D. T. M. Slock and L. Meilhac, “On a mutual coupling agnostic maximum likelihood angle of arrival estimator by alternating projection,” 2016 IEEE Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing (GlobalSIP), Washington, DC, USA, 2016, pp. 1393-1397, doi: 10.1109/GlobalSIP.2016.7906070.[paper][eurecom]
• A. Bazzi, D. T. M. Slock and L. Meilhac, “A mutual coupling resilient algorithm for joint angle and delay estimation,” 2016 IEEE Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing (GlobalSIP), Washington, DC, USA, 2016, pp. 1398-1402, doi: 10.1109/GlobalSIP.2016.7906071.[paper][academia][eurecom]
• A. Bazzi, D. T. M. Slock and L. Meilhac, “Single snapshot joint estimation of angles and times of arrival: A 2D Matrix Pencil approach,” 2016 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2016, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/ICC.2016.7511158.[paper][academia][eurecom]
• A. Bazzi, D. T. M. Slock and L. Meilhac, “Detection of the number of superimposed signals using modified MDL criterion: A random matrix approach,” 2016 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Shanghai, China, 2016, pp. 4593-4597, doi: 10.1109/ICASSP.2016.7472547.[paper][acm][eurecom]
• A. Bazzi, D. T. M. Slock and L. Meilhac, “On spatio-frequential smoothing for joint angles and times of arrival estimation of multipaths,” 2016 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Shanghai, China, 2016, pp. 3311-3315, doi: 10.1109/ICASSP.2016.7472290.[paper][acm][eurecom]
• A. Bazzi, D. T. M. Slock and L. Meilhac, “Online angle of arrival estimation in the presence of mutual coupling,” 2016 IEEE Statistical Signal Processing Workshop (SSP), Palma de Mallorca, Spain, 2016, pp. 1-4, doi: 10.1109/SSP.2016.7551749.[paper][eurecom]
• A. Bazzi, D. T. M. Slock, L. Meilhac and S. Panneerselvan, “A comparative study of sparse recovery and compressed sensing algorithms with application to AoA estimation,” 2016 IEEE 17th International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC), Edinburgh, UK, 2016, pp. 1-5, doi: 10.1109/SPAWC.2016.7536780.[paper][academia][eurecom]
• A. Bazzi, D. T. M. Slock and L. Meilhac, “On Joint Angle and Delay Estimation in the presence of local scattering,” 2016 IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops (ICC), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2016, pp. 12-16, doi: 10.1109/ICCW.2016.7503756.[paper][infona][academia][eurecom]
• A. Bazzi, D. T. M. Slock and L. Meilhac, “Efficient Maximum Likelihood Joint Estimation of Angles and Times of Arrival of Multiple Paths,” 2015 IEEE Globecom Workshops (GC Wkshps), San Diego, CA, USA, 2015, pp. 1-7, doi: 10.1109/GLOCOMW.2015.7414203.[paper][academia][eurecom]
• A. Bazzi, D. T. M. Slock and L. Meilhac, “On the effect of random snapshot timing jitter on the covariance matrix for JADE estimation,” 2015 23rd European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), Nice, France, 2015, pp. 2611-2615, doi: 10.1109/EUSIPCO.2015.7362857.[paper][eurasip][infona][RG][archive][academia][eurecom]

Patents

Here is a list of my patents:

Patents

• A. Bazzi and L. Meilhac. “Method for decoding an rf signal bearing a sequence of symbols modulated by cpm and associated decoder.” U.S. Patent No. 11,496,343. 8 Nov. 2022.[Google Patents][FPO][US11496343]
• L. Meilhac and A. Bazzi. “Digital pre-distortion method for OFDM-based communication systems.” U.S. Patent No. 11,303,310. 12 Apr. 2022.[Google Patents][FPO][US11303310]
• L. Meilhac and A. Bazzi. “Pre-coding steering matrix for MU-MIMO communication systems.” U.S. Patent No. 10,686,500. 16 Jun. 2020.[Google Patents][FPO][US10686500]

Talks

Can Pilots be used for Integrated Sensing and Communications?

December 10, 2025

Invited talk at Seventh International Conference on Soft Computing and its Engineering Applications - December 09-11, 2025 | Hanoi, Vietnam | Hybrid Conference, Virtual

Outage-Based Beamforming Design for Integrated Sensing and Communications 6G Systems

April 12, 2025

Invited talk at 2025年第十二届无线通信和传感器网络国际会议, 2025 12th International Conference on Wireless Communications and Sensor Networks, Virtual

6G Integrated Sensing and Communications: One for All and All for One

April 21, 2024

Invited talk at NVIDIA GTC 2024, Virtual

Speech AI Summit

November 02, 2022

Invited talk at NVIDIA GTC 2022, Virtual

Teaching

Honors & Awards