Mehdi Zafari: News

Presenting our paper Feasible but Not Safe, on constraint violations and report-channel attacks in learned cell-free ISAC association, at the ACM S3 workshop of MobiCom 2026 in Austin, Texas, on October 30.

2026-10-30T00:00:00-07:00

Presenting our paper Feasible but Not Safe, on constraint violations and report-channel attacks in learned cell-free ISAC association, at the ACM S3 workshop of MobiCom 2026 in Austin, Texas, on October 30.

Presenting our new paper CORDIS-Track, on tracking-aware coordinated resource allocation for distributed cell-free ISAC, in a lecture at the 60th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers on October 27.

2026-10-27T00:00:00-07:00

Presenting our new paper CORDIS-Track, on tracking-aware coordinated resource allocation for distributed cell-free ISAC, in a lecture at the 60th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers on October 27.

Presented TiamiTwin, our digital twin for bistatic ISAC drone sensing and a collaboration with Tiami Networks, at the ISAC4CIP workshop of IEEE MILCOM 2026 near Washington, DC.

2026-10-15T00:00:00-07:00

Presented TiamiTwin, our digital twin for bistatic ISAC drone sensing and a collaboration with Tiami Networks, at the ISAC4CIP workshop of IEEE MILCOM 2026 near Washington, DC.

Released 3gpp-tr-library, hand-verified 3GPP channel-model parameters from TR 38.901 and TR 36.777 as queryable tables, with the Python package tr3gpp on PyPI.

2026-08-04T00:00:00-07:00

Released 3gpp-tr-library, hand-verified 3GPP channel-model parameters from TR 38.901 and TR 36.777 as queryable tables, with the Python package tr3gpp on PyPI.

Our paper TiamiTwin, a digital twin for bistatic ISAC drone sensing validated against measurements, was accepted to the ISAC4CIP workshop at IEEE MILCOM 2026.

2026-07-01T00:00:00-07:00

Our paper TiamiTwin, a digital twin for bistatic ISAC drone sensing validated against measurements, was accepted to the ISAC4CIP workshop at IEEE MILCOM 2026.

Submitted CORDIS, a scalable coordinated resource allocation framework for distributed cell-free ISAC, to IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications.

2026-07-01T00:00:00-07:00

Submitted CORDIS, a scalable coordinated resource allocation framework for distributed cell-free ISAC, to IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications.

Joined Tiami Networks in Sacramento, CA, as a Wireless AI Engineering Intern.

2026-06-01T00:00:00-07:00

Joined Tiami Networks in Sacramento, CA, as a Wireless AI Engineering Intern.

Received the Wireless History Foundation Scholarship Award.

2026-06-01T00:00:00-07:00

Received the Wireless History Foundation Scholarship Award.

Won 1st place at the UCI EECS Annual Technology Showcase.

2026-06-01T00:00:00-07:00

Won 1st place at the UCI EECS Annual Technology Showcase.

Received the Pia Gratton Endowed Graduate Student Award at UC Irvine.

2026-03-01T00:00:00-08:00

Received the Pia Gratton Endowed Graduate Student Award at UC Irvine.

Won 3rd place in the UCI Grad Slam finals with the pitch “When Wireless Signals Become Our Eyes.”

2026-03-01T00:00:00-08:00

Won 3rd place in the UCI Grad Slam finals with the pitch “When Wireless Signals Become Our Eyes.”

Submitted our paper on robust wildfire forecasting under partial observability to IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing; the preprint is on arXiv.

2026-03-01T00:00:00-08:00

Submitted our paper on robust wildfire forecasting under partial observability to IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing; the preprint is on arXiv.

Our experimental study of distributed uplink beamforming with carrier frequency offsets was published in IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology.

2026-01-01T00:00:00-08:00

Our experimental study of distributed uplink beamforming with carrier frequency offsets was published in IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology.

Our paper ASSENT was accepted to IEEE ICC 2026.

2026-01-01T00:00:00-08:00

Our paper ASSENT was accepted to IEEE ICC 2026.

Our magazine article on multi-domain optimization for ISAC was published in IEEE Wireless Communications.

2026-01-01T00:00:00-08:00

Our magazine article on multi-domain optimization for ISAC was published in IEEE Wireless Communications.

Released the Deep-Gen-Project repository on spatiotemporal generative models for wildfire spread prediction.

2025-12-01T00:00:00-08:00

Released the Deep-Gen-Project repository on spatiotemporal generative models for wildfire spread prediction.

Posted the ASSENT preprint on arXiv, with its code and datasets on GitHub.

2025-11-01T00:00:00-07:00

Posted the ASSENT preprint on arXiv, with its code and datasets on GitHub.

Gave a lecture and presented a poster in the Student Paper Contest at the 59th Asilomar Conference.

2025-10-01T00:00:00-07:00

Gave a lecture and presented a poster in the Student Paper Contest at the 59th Asilomar Conference.

Attended IEEE MILCOM 2025 in Los Angeles.

2025-10-01T00:00:00-07:00

Attended IEEE MILCOM 2025 in Los Angeles.

Our Asilomar 2025 paper was shortlisted for the Best Paper Award.

2025-08-01T00:00:00-07:00

Our Asilomar 2025 paper was shortlisted for the Best Paper Award.

Released a simulation framework for distributed cell-free ISAC systems on GitHub.

2025-04-01T00:00:00-07:00

Released a simulation framework for distributed cell-free ISAC systems on GitHub.

Posted two short tutorial videos on YouTube, on antenna parameters and the linear array model.

2024-11-01T00:00:00-07:00

Posted two short tutorial videos on YouTube, on antenna parameters and the linear array model.

Gave a lecture at the 58th Asilomar Conference.

2024-10-01T00:00:00-07:00

Gave a lecture at the 58th Asilomar Conference.

Published the Distributed Multi-User MIMO Datasets on IEEE DataPort.

2024-09-01T00:00:00-07:00

Published the Distributed Multi-User MIMO Datasets on IEEE DataPort.

Received the Graduate Dean’s Recruitment Fellowship Award from UC Irvine.

2024-09-01T00:00:00-07:00

Received the Graduate Dean’s Recruitment Fellowship Award from UC Irvine.

Started my Ph.D. at UC Irvine with Prof. A. Lee Swindlehurst.

2024-06-01T00:00:00-07:00

Started my Ph.D. at UC Irvine with Prof. A. Lee Swindlehurst.

Posted a full tutorial on beamforming on YouTube.

2024-06-01T00:00:00-07:00

Posted a full tutorial on beamforming on YouTube.

Completed my M.S. at Rice University.

2024-05-01T00:00:00-07:00

Completed my M.S. at Rice University.

Presented a poster at the 57th Asilomar Conference.

2023-10-01T00:00:00-07:00

Presented a poster at the 57th Asilomar Conference.

Presented a poster at the Texas Colloquium on Distributed Learning.

2023-09-01T00:00:00-07:00

Presented a poster at the Texas Colloquium on Distributed Learning.

Won 1st prize for our project at the POWDER-RENEW Mobile and Wireless Week.

2023-01-01T00:00:00-08:00

Won 1st prize for our project at the POWDER-RENEW Mobile and Wireless Week.

Ran a multi-user MIMO measurement campaign on the RENEW platform at Rice University.

2022-11-01T00:00:00-07:00

Ran a multi-user MIMO measurement campaign on the RENEW platform at Rice University.