R&I Team

Arifur is Lead Researcher focusing on lead the research process develop research roadmap for the company. Currently, he is the Technical Project Manager of 2 research projects called MARSAL and 6G-BRICKS. He holds a PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Ulsan, South Korea in 2019. Before he joins in IS-Wireless, he works as a postdoctoral researcher at CentraleSupelec, Campus of Rennes, France and contribute in a ANR funded Enhanced Physical Layer for Cellular IoT (EPHYL) project and develop radio resource management algorithm for multi-cell NB-IoT network scenario. He was a co-supervisor of Master students in the area of cooperative relaying in NOMA techniques with 2 years of experience during his PhD degree. His current research interests include cell-free mMIMO, cloud computing in 5G networks, multi-access edge computing, virtual radio access networks, AI application in wireless communications, digital twins, and emerging technologies in wireless communications

Munjure works as an Expert R&I Engineer. Currently, he leads a project for StandICT.eu. He holds a Ph.D degree in Wireless Communication and is experienced on several International (EU/NSF) projects/proposals/grants. Dr Mowla has diverse experience of more than 15 years as an academician, researcher, and industry personal in wireless communication domain. He supervised several masters students and also now acts as co-supervisor of a PhD student. He is author (and co-author) of more than 50 disseminations in wireless communication areas. His current research interests include Beyond 5G and 6G Wireless Communications, Radio Resource Management, Software Defined radio RAN, Edge Computing, AI/ML algorithms, cell free massive MIMO, etc.

Maria is Senior R&I Engineer. She has experience in working as a Researcher with a focus on Edge and Fog computing as well as allocation and pricing of IoT services. Maria is responsible for the vast area of Edge computing. She manages European and NCBiR projects. Maria received her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan.

Robert works as an Innovation Manager dealing with Network Function Virtualization and Orchestration topics. Previously he worked as a researcher at Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) in Taiwan, focusing on architectural convergence of MEC, NFV and MANO systems. Robert obtained his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from National Chiao Tung University. His research interests include System Virtualization, NFV, MANO, O-RAN RIC, MEC and distributed networks.

Farinaz serves as the Innovation Manager. Her responsibility revolves around driving technological innovations for Open RANs. She also oversees the development of radio resource management features, energy efficiency, cell-less networks, RIC and xAPPs. She is experienced in delivering complex projects (LTE Rollout, Planning, NPO, Smartcare-CEM) for multiple MNOs. Farinaz holds Executive MBA and industrial Ph.D., with research focusing on cell-less Open RANs.

Sandra is a doctoral candidate. She received her master’s degree in Telecommunication Engineering from the University of L’Aquila, Italy. During her bachelor’s and master’s studies, Ms. Arnaout worked on projects related to Radio Resource Scheduling Algorithms and PON and FTTR networks. Her current research interests include Resource Scheduling for Optical and Radio Converged Networks Beyond 5G.