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.

Journals

• 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

• D. Wang, A. Bazzi and M. Chafii, “RIS-Enabled Integrated Sensing and Communication for 6G Systems,” IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), 2024. [arXiv]
• 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]
• 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

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

April 21, 2024

Conference talk at NVIDIA GTC 2024, Virtual

Speech AI Summit

November 02, 2022

Conference talk at NVIDIA GTC 2022, Virtual

Teaching

Honors & Awards

Service

Reviewer for Journals

• IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
• IEEE Transactions on Communications
• IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing
• IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
• IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems
• IEEE Wireless Communication Letters
• IEEE Signal Processing Letters
• IEEE Communication Letters
• China Communications

TPC (Technical Program Committee)

• IEEE PIMRC’24 Track 1 PHY & Fundamentals, 2024
• IEEE WCNC 2024 - WS-07: Integrated, Intelligent and Ubiquitous Connectivity for 6G Networks, 2024
• IEEE Conference on Vehicular Technology (VTC) - Radio Access Technology and Heterogeneous Networks, 2024.
• IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) - SAC-13 ISAC Track, 2024
• IEEE/CIC International Conference on Communications in China (ICCC), 2023
• Conference on Internet of Things and Embedded Intelligence (CITEI), 2020
• IEEE, Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC), 2020
• IEEE/CIC International Conference on Communications in China (ICCC), 2019
• International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems (ISWCS), 2019
• International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC), 2017
• International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC), 2016

Reviewer for Conferences

• IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC)
• IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC)
• Conference on Internet of Things and Embedded Intelligence (CITEI)
• IEEE, Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC)
• International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems (ISWCS)
• International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Communication (CICN)
• International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC)