Dr. Rami Rashid, a 2024 graduate advised by Prof. Ali Abdi, is now a Sensor Engineer at The MITRE Corporation and had an impressive record of achievements at the center. During his doctoral research, he developed new methods for data communication and signal detection in complex and challenging channels, involving both theoretical studies and field tests.
His work has been recognized with numerous awards, including:
The Newark College of Engineering (NCE) Outstanding Graduate Student Award (2024)
A travel award from the National Council of Acoustical Consultants (2024)
A prize in the ECE Department PhD Stories Contest (2023)
Dr. Arnob Ghosh received a Best Paper award at the ACM MobiHoc 2025 conference (among 165 papers) and a NeurIPS 2025 spotlight award (top 3.2% of accepted papers), recognizing his work in reinforcement learning.