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Education

  • PhD, Electrical and Computer Engineering
    2021 - Now
    Arizona State University, USA

    Advisor: Prof. Ahmed Alkhateeb

  • Erasmus+ Exchange Program
    2019-2020
    Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
  • BSc + MSc, Electrical and Computer Engineering
    2015-2020
    IST, University of Lisbon, Portugal

    Advisors: Profs. Remco Litjens and António Rodrigues

    Thesis: Social VR Conference Applications in 5G Radio Networks (19 / 20)

Experience

  • Software Intern, 6G RAN AI with Digital Twins
    2024
    NVIDIA, USA

    Design framework for integrating ML into NVIDIA's Digital Twin. Implement and integrate a ML Channel Estimator for DMRS in PUSCH and SRS. Analyze the algorithm performance within Aerial Omniverse Digital Twin. Write 1.1 and 1.2 Release docs.

  • Systems & Algorithms Engineering Intern
    2022-2023
    (Startup in stealth mode), USA

    Deploy O-RAN & 3GPP compliant private 5G with OAI. Prototype AI/ML algorithms for millimeter-wave communication in near real-time RICs.

  • R&D Intern in 5G Virtual Reality Lab
    2020-2021
    TNO, The Netherlands

    Beam management procedures in 3GPP. Sub-6Ghz and mmWave channel modeling. 5G system-level simulators. Head mobility models.

  • Summer TA for Platooning Algorithms Course
    2019
    Delft University of Technology, Netherlands

    Build 20 car fleet with Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and Ultrassonic sensors.

  • R&D Intern in Radio Communications Unit
    2018
    JANZ, Portugal

    Radio propagation simulations. Embedded development. 3D printing.

Supervised Students

  • Cloud-managed RIS for Transparent Integration in 5G Networks via O-RAN xApps
    Abhradeep Roy
    MSC Thesis
    ASU
    Spring 2024
  • Application-level performance of cross-layer scheduling for social VR in 5G
    Zheng Du
    MSC Thesis
    TU Delft
    Fall 2022
  • Analysis of radio downlink in Social XR scenarios involving 5G channel state information acquisition techniques
    Sandra Kizhakkekundil
    MSC Thesis
    TU Delft
    Fall 2022

Awards & grants

  • 2022
    IEEE Transactions on Communications
  • IEEE Eta-Kappa-Nu Honor Society
    2022
    Arizona State University
  • 5x Excellence Award
    2015-2020
    IST, University of Lisbon
    Awarded to top-1% EECE students each year.

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Publications

DeepSense-V2V: A Vehicle-to-Vehicle Multi-Modal Sensing, Localization, and Communications Dataset

Joao Morais, Gouranga Charan, Nikhil Srinivas, and Ahmed Alkhateeb
IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (TVT), 2024
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Localization in Digital Twin MIMO Networks: A Case for Massive Fingerprinting

João Morais, Ahmed Alkhateeb
IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 2024
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DeepSense 6G: A large-scale real-world multi-modal sensing and communication dataset

Ahmed Alkhateeb, Gouranga Charan, Tawfik Osman, João Morais, Umut Demirhan, Nikhil Srinivas
IEEE Communications Magazine, 2023.
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Position-aided Beam Prediction in the Real World: How Useful GPS Locations Actually Are?

João Morais, Arash Bchboodi, Hamed Pezeshki, Ahmed Alkhateeb
IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 2023
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Multi-Modal Beam Prediction Challenge 2022: Towards Generalization

Gouranga Charan , Umut Demirhan , Joao Morais , Arash Behboodi , Hamed Pezeshki , Ahmed Alkhateeb
ArXiV, 2022
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Location-and orientation-aware millimeter wave beam selection for multi-panel antenna devices

Sajad Rezaie, João Morais, Elisabeth De Carvalho, Ahmed Alkhateeb, Carles Navarro Manchón
IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), 2022
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Performance Modelling and Assessment for Social VR Conference Applications in 5G Radio Networks

João Morais, Sjors Braam, Remco Litjens, Sandra Kizhakkekundil, Hans van Den Berg
Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob), 2021
PDF Project page Bibtex

Four Knife-Edge Diffraction With Antenna Gain Model for Generic Blockage Modelling

Sandra Kizhakkekundil, João Morais, Sjors Braam, Remco Litjens
IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, 2021
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DeepSense

DeepSense is a dataset generation framework for wireless communication, offering realistic channel data for machine learning applications like localization and beamforming.

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DeepMIMO

DeepMIMO is a dataset generation framework for deep learning in wireless communication, offering raytracing channels for tasks like beamforming and localization.

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ParkourSpotId

Parkour Spot ID is deep learning framework for identifying parkour spots via satellite and street view images from Google Maps. It received global attention in the Parkour community.

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SXRSIMv2

SXRSIMv2 is a simulation tool for assessing and optimizing the impact of radio layer parameters in social XR meetings. Coded in Python and Matlab, it has been used in 3 MSc thesis so far.

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SpotifyPlaylistMerger

SpotifyPlaylistMerger is a tool that combines multiple Spotify playlists into one, removing duplicates and organizing tracks.

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650 E Tyler Mall

Tempe, Arizona, 85281

United States of America

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2024

23
JUL

Our paper Dataset Similarity was accepted in Asilomar 2024.

25
JUNE

Our paper DeepSenseV2V has be published on ArXiV and submitted to TVT.

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May

Joined NVIDIA for a 7-month internship working on integrating ML in digital twins.

2021

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MAY

I've been busy and didn't update my news...

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I have joined the Wireless Intelligence Lab as a full-time PhD student.