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I am a Research Assistant Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECpE), Iowa State University (ISU), USA and affiliated with the Center for Wireless, Communities, and Innovation (WiCI). My primary focus is on the project ARA: Wireless Living Lab for Smart and Connected Rural Communities [Part of the NSF Platforms for Advanced Wireless Research (PAWR) program] under the mentorship of Prof. Hongwei Zhang.
Prior to joining ISU, I completed my Ph.D. at the Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology (IIST), India, in 2021 under the guidance of Prof. B. S. Manoj. I obtained my master's and bachelor's degrees from the National Institute of Technology, Calicut (NITC) and Mahatma Gandhi University (MGU), India, respectively.
Broadly, my research interests lie in the design and development of next generation wireless infrastructures.
Poster titled "Demonstration of a 4.2km MISO free-space optical communication link using COTS SFP+ transceivers," accepted in SPIE Photonics West, San Francisco, CA, 17–22 Jan. 2026.
Paper titled "AraOptical system and testbed for long-range, high-capacity FSOC in rural wireless x-haul networks," accepted in 21th International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (ACM CoNEXT 2025), HKUST, Hong Kong, 1–4 December, 2025.
Paper and demo titled "Real-world integration and evaluation of open-source 5G core with commercial RAN," accepted in IEEE Military Communications Conference (IEEE MILCOM 2025), Los Angeles, CA, USA, 6–10 October, 2025.
Poster titled "Long-range, high-capacity FSOC system for rural wireless x-haul using COTS transceivers," accepted in 51th European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC), Copenhagen, Denmark, 28 September–2 October, 2025.
[ Best Paper Award ] Paper titled
"AraRACH: Enhancing NextG random access reliability in
programmable wireless living
labs,"
accepted in IEEE International Conference on Network
Softwarization (IEEE NetSoft
2025), Budapest, Hungary,
23–27 June, 2025. ( 
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