People

Team

An international team spanning FR3 propagation, reconfigurable surfaces, reflector arrays, generalizable AI, and integrated sensing, across five universities in the United States and Finland.

People

Investigators

Muhammad Ismail

Tennessee Tech University US

Associate Professor of Computer Science; Director, Cybersecurity Education, Research and Outreach Center (CEROC)

AI-enabled resource management and generalizable AI under concept drift.

Coordinates the project. Leads surface channel prediction, shadowed-surface exclusion, continual learning, and end-to-end evaluation.

Sabit Ekin

Texas A&M University US

Associate Professor and Charlotte and Walter Buchanan Faculty Fellow, Electronic Systems Engineering Technology (ESET); Director, Generative AI Literacy Initiative, Texas A&M Institute of Data Science

Fresnel metallic reflector array (MRA) design, deployment, parameter configuration, channel measurement, and modeling.

Leads Texas A&M's part of the project, including the FR3 measurement campaign, the dynamic simulation platform, and channel-model validation.

Leads T1.1T1.2T4.1

Ted Rappaport

New York University US

David Lee/Ernst Weber Professor of Electrical Engineering, NYU Tandon School of Engineering; Founding Director, NYU WIRELESS

FR3 and high-frequency propagation measurements and channel modeling.

Advises the FR3 measurement campaign, channel modeling, and validation of the measured and synthetic data.

Leads T1.1T4.1

Ertugrul Basar

Tampere University FI

Professor of Wireless Systems; Head, Wireless Systems Group, Tampere Wireless Research Center

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) design, deployment, configuration, channel measurement, and modeling.

Leads interference-aware user assignment and surface configuration, and their evaluation. Hosts the FR3 RIS testbed at Tampere.

Leads T2.3T4.2

Risto Wichman

Aalto University FI

Professor, Department of Information and Communications Engineering, School of Electrical Engineering

AI-enabled beamforming and integrated sensing and communication (ISAC).

Leads the ISAC-driven context-awareness framework and the evaluation of AI adaptation strategies.

Leads T3.1T4.3

Researchers

Postdocs and students

The project trains Ph.D. students, postdoctoral researchers, and undergraduates across all five institutions, with co-advising and student exchanges between the U.S. and Finland.

Postdocs and students will be listed here as they join the project.

Interested in joining? Reach out to the investigator at your institution of interest.