I am working for the OpenAirInterface Software
Alliance as a senior software developer since
November 2021. I am an individual contributor, most notably working on the
L2-L3 stack (MAC, RRC, and the F1 split). Further, I am the maintainer of the
openairinterface5g
repository, and oversee the
CI testing behind the RAN project group of OpenAirInterface.
Before that, from November 2017 to October 2021, I was doing my PhD in the Communication Systems department at EURECOM in Sophia-Antipolis, France, under the supervision of Navid Nikaein. My main research focus was on radio access network (RAN) slicing with a particular focus on the MAC layer for sliced radio resource allocation, and programmilibity of the RAN through software-defined (SD) RAN controllers. I contribute to the OpenAirInterface and Mosaic5G projects. Within the latter, I was the maintainer of the now-defunct FlexRAN SD-RAN controller. I started the FlexRIC SD-RAN controller, which is a “RAN Intelligent Controller”, similar to the O-RAN RIC. In general, my research interests centered around 4G and 5G wireless cellular networks, heterogeneous software-defined (radio access) networks, network slicing and MAC layer scheduling.
Before joining Eurecom, I worked as a research engineer at TU Dresden for six months. During this time, I implemented the multi-operator core network (MOCN) pattern in OpenAirInterface. In a MOCN setting, a base station serves multiple operators and is connected to their respective core networks at the same time.
Before doing my PhD, I studied Information Systems Engineering at Dresden University of Technology, Germany, and obtained a diploma with distinction in 2017. I furthermore have a Diploma in Engineering from Ecole Centrale Paris/CentraleSupélec, where I studied in a double degree programme (TIME) for two years, from 2012 to 2014. The subject of my Diploma thesis was “Spectrum Sharing in Future Cellular Wireless Networks: System-Level Simulations using ns-3” under the supervision of Eduard Jorswieck (at the time Chair of Communications Theory of TU Dresden).