Contact Dr Manish Nair
Areas of expertise
- Communications Systems
Background
BE in Electronics & Communications Engineering, Visveswaraya Technological University "VTU", Bangalore, India, 2007
MS in Electrical Engineering (Major in RF & Microwave Engineering), The University of Texas at Dallas "UTD", USA, 2010
Graduate Research Assistant, TxACE (Texas Analog Centre for Excellence), UTD, Richardson, Texas, USA, 2010
R&D Engineering Intern RF Power Amplifier, Nokia Siemens Networks, Irving, Texas, USA, 2009 & 2010
RF Design Engineer 2, Skyworks Solutions Inc., Cedar Rapids, Iowa, USA, 2011 & 2012
RF Systems Design Engineer, Samsung Research America - Dallas (SRA-D), Plano, Texas, USA, 2013
Senior Engineer 3 RF Power Amplifier & RF Hardware Applications, Qualcomm, San Diego, California, USA, 2014
Ph.D. Research Assistant, RAPID 5G EU-H2020 Japan 5GPP (Brussels/Tokyo), 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 & 2019
Ph.D. Electronic Engineering, The University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent, England, 2019
Research Associate, 5G DRIVE EU-H2020 China IMT 2020 (Brussels/Beijing), 2019 & 2020
Senior Research Associate & RF Transceiver Architect SWAN EPSRC-UKRI Prosperity Partnership Project, The University of Bristol, England, 2020, 2021 & 2022
Research Fellow Positioning, Navigation & Timing, Cranfield University, England, 2023
Research opportunities
My current research is in Positioning, Navigation, Timing & Machine Learning [PNT] Technologies in the School of Aerospace, Transportation & Manufacturing [SATM]. My research also spans the intersection of RF Power Amplifier [PA]/RF Circuit Design, Wireless Communication Systems & Applied Machine Learning for RF Communications, Waveform/Intrusion Detection, PA & Inverse PA Design, Cyber-PHY Systems & Inverse Design of Wireless Systems.
Current activities
Top Skills:
Power Amplifier Design * LNA Design * RFIC Design * PDKs [RFCMOS/GaAs HBT/LDMOS] & Non Linear Models [GaN on SiC] * Microwave Passive Components & Substrate Integrated Waveguide [SIW] Design * RF Filter Design * RF-Digital Signal Processing [RF-DSP] * Electromagnetic Propagation & Computational Electromagnetics * Physical & Integrated Optics
5G [Resource Allocation & Signal Processing] * Massive MIMO * Cell Free Massive MIMO * Hybrid Beamforming * Channel Modelling * Channel Estimation * NOMA [Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access] * C-V2X * mm-wave V2I * Resource Allocation Algorithms * Optimization Algorithms for Stochastic Processes * Non-Convex Optimization * ADC/DAC Informed Quantization Algorithms * Genetic & Evolutionary Algorithms * Radar Signal Processing * [ML] for Positioning/Localization, Navigation & Timing/Synchronization [PNT] & Sensor Fusion [RF/Radar/LiDAR/Inertial Navigation/Visual Odometry] * Joint Communications & Sensing * SLAM [Simultaneous Localization & Mapping]
Machine Learning & Deep Neural Networks [DNNs] in RF-Communications [RFML] & Waveform Analysis * CART [Classification, Regression & Trees] * Support Vector Machines [SVMs] * Generative Adversarial Nets [GANs] * Reinforcement Learning * Recurrent Neural Networks [RNNs] & Long Short Term Memory [LSTM] Models * Dynamic Time Series Prediction/Forecasting * Autoencoders for E2E Modelling of Communication Systems * LSTMs * Bayesian Neural Networks [BNNs] * ML Reinforced Adaptive & Extended [A/EKF] Kalman Filters for PNT/Tracking * Computer Vision
Publications
Articles In Journals
- Ma J, Jindal G, Nair M, Cappello TA, Watkins GT, .... (2023). Highly Efficient 3-Bit Digital Power Amplifier for OFDM Waveform Amplification. IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, 71(1)
- Nair M, Cappello TA, Dang S & Beach MA. (2023). Rigorous Analysis of Data Orthogonalization for Self-Organizing Maps in Machine Learning Cyber Intrusion Detection for LoRa Sensors. IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, 71(1)
- Nair M, Dang S & Beach MA. (2023). IoT Device Authentication Using Self-Organizing Feature Map Data Sets. IEEE Communications Magazine, 61(9)
- Wang J, Deng W, Li X, Zhu H, Nair M, .... (2020). 3D Beamforming Technologies and Field Trials in 5G Massive MIMO Systems. IEEE Open Journal of Vehicular Technology, 1
- Nair M, Wang J, Leiba Y, Zhu H, Gomes NJ, .... (2019). Exploiting Low Complexity Beam Allocation in Multi-User Switched Beam Millimeter Wave Systems. IEEE Access, 7
Conference Papers
- Khalid W, Nair M, Van Chien T & Yu H. (2023). Impact of RIS on Outage Probability and Ergodic Rate in Wireless Powered Communication
- Al Mallak KA, Nair M, Hilton G, Loh TH & Beach M. (2022). Characterisation of Horizontally Induced Vibrations on Antenna's Channel Response at Millimetre-Wave
- Ma J, Nair M, Watkins G, Morris K & Beach M. (2022). Linearity Optimisation for Multi-Bit Digital Power Amplifier
- Kalokidou V, Nair M & Beach MA. (2022). LoRaWAN Performance Evaluation and Resilience under Jamming Attacks
- Ozan S, Nair M, Beach MA & Cappello T. (2022). Modular Design and Characterization of a Reconfigurable Sequential Power Amplifier
- Nair M, Cappello T, Dang S, Kalokidou V & Beach MA. (2022). RF Fingerprinting of LoRa Transmitters Using Machine Learning with Self-Organizing Maps for Cyber Intrusion Detection
- Ozan S, Pitt A, Nair M, Beach MA & Cappello T. (2022). A 47 % Fractional Bandwidth Sequential Power Amplifier with High Back-off Efficiency
- Al Mallak KA, Nair M, Hilton G, Loh TH & Beach MA. (2021). Characterisation of Human Body Shadowing in Millimetre Wave Systems
- Mallak KAA, Nair M, Hilton G, Loh TH & Beach MA. (2021). Characterising the Impact of Antenna Beamwidth on the Performance of Vehicle-to-Infrastructure (V2I) Millimetre Wave Communication
- Al Mallak KA, Nair M, Hilton G, Loh TH & Beach M. (2021). Characterising Vehicle Suspension Variations in Millimetre Wave V2I System
- Ozan S, Nair M, Cappello T & Beach MA. (2020). Low-Noise Amplifier with Wideband Feedforward Linearisation for Mid-Band 5G Receivers
- Akinsanya A, Nair M, Pan Y & Wang J. (2020). A Dynamic Resource Allocation Scheme in Vehicular Communications
- Akinsanya A, Nair M, Zhu H & Wang J. (2020). Adaptive Power Control with Vehicular Trellis Architecture for Vehicular Communication Systems
- Akinsanya A, Nair M, Zhu H & Wang J. (2020). Joint Vehicle-Beam Allocation for Reliability and Coverage in Vehicular Communication Systems
- Gupta P, Atluri V, Kaushik A, Yndart A, Khalili K, .... (2019). Efficacy studies of Magneto-electric nanoparticle bound Cas9/gRNA/Naltrexone to treat opioid addiction and neuroAIDS
- Alluhaibi O, Nair M, Hazzaa A, Mihbarey A & Wang J. (2018). 3D Beamforming for 5G Millimeter Wave Systems Using Singular Value Decomposition and Particle Swarm Optimization Approaches
- Habib U, Aighobahi AE, Nair M, Huiling Zhu , Quinlan T, .... (2017). Performance improvement for OFDM-RoF transported 60 GHz system using spatial diversity and multiplexing
- Nair M, Ahmed QZ, Wang J & Zhu H. (2017). Low-Complexity Hybrid Digital-to-Analog Beamforming for Millimeter-Wave Systems with High User Density
- Nair M, Ahmed QZ & Zhu H. (2016). Hybrid Digital-to-Analog Beamforming for Millimeter-Wave Systems with High User Density