Research Students and Fellows

Members of my research group - PhD students (Feb 2018)     Group member photo (November 2021)

Current Research Students, As Prinicipal Supervisor

PhD Students

  1. Hussein Alrakah
  2. Tilahun Zerihun Gutema
    • Email: tilahun.gutema@ed.ac.uk
    • Project Fund: ENLIGHT’EM, European Training Network in Low-Energy Visible Light IoT Systems (https://enlightem.eu/)
    • With the Group Since: February 2020
    • Research Interest:
      • Visible light communication
      • LiFi
      • Digital modulation techniques for VLC
    • Publications:
      • T. Z. Gutema and W. O. Popoola, “Single LED Gbps Visible Light Communication with Probabilistic Shaping,” in IEEE Global Communications Conference (IEEE GLOBECOM 2021), Madrid, Spain, 6 – 10 Dec. 2021.
      • T. Z. Gutema, H. Haas and W. O. Popoola, "Bias Point Optimisation in LiFi for Capacity Enhancement," in Journal of Lightwave Technology, vol. 39, no. 15, pp. 5021-5027, Aug.1, 2021, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/JLT.2021.3083510.
      • T. Z. Gutema, H. Haas and W. O. Popoola, “OFDM based visible light communication with probabilistic shaping,”, in Proceedings of the Workshop on Light Up the IoT (LIOT '20). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1–5, 2020, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3412449.3412548.
  3. Burak Ahmet Özyurt
    • Email: a.b.ozyurt@ed.ac.uk
    • Project Fund: ENLIGHT’EM, European Training Network in Low-Energy Visible Light IoT Systems (https://enlightem.eu/)
    • With the Group Since: August 2020
    • Research Interest:
      • Visible light communications
      • LiFi
      • Green communications
      • Network architecture
    • Publications:
      • A. B. Ozyurt, I. Tinnirello and W. O. Popoola, “Modelling of Multi-Tier Handover in LiFi Networks,” in IEEE Global Communications Conference (IEEE GLOBECOM 2021), Madrid, Spain, 6 – 10 Dec. 2021.
      • A. B. Ozyurt and W. O. Popoola, "Mobility management in multi-tier LiFi networks," in Journal of Optical Communications and Networking, vol. 13, no. 9, pp. 204-213, September 2021, DOI: 10.1364/JOCN.423925.
  4. Egecan Guler
    • Email: s1553558@sms.ed.ac.uk
    • Project Fund: School of Engineering Studentship - Supported by DASA/DSTL
    • With the Group Since: October 2020
    • Research Interest:
      • Optical wireless communication (FSO/Underwater)
      • Modulation techniques for OWC
      • Signal processing techniques for OWC
    • Publications
      • C. Geldard, E. Guler, A. Hamilton and W. O. Popoola, "An Empirical Comparison of Modulation Schemes in Turbulent Underwater Optical Wireless Communications," in Journal of Lightwave Technology, DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2021.3134090.
      • W. Popoola, C. Geldard, E. Guler and A. Hamilton, "Underwater optical wireless communication with subcarrier intensity modulation: an experimental demonstration", Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics, 2021. Available: 10.1121/2.0001458.
      • W. Popoola, E. Guler, J. Wang, and C. Geldard. 2021. Gbps underwater optical wireless communication in turbulence and random sea surface. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Internet of Lights (IoL '21). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 21–26. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3469264.3469804
      • E. Guler, C. Geldard, A. Hamilton and W. Popoola, "Subcarrier Intensity Modulation for Turbulent Underwater Optical Wireless Communications," 2021 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2021, pp. 1-2.
  5. Jianhui Chen
    • Email: J.Chen-188@sms.ed.ac.uk
    • Project Fund: Self-funded
    • With the Group Since: February 2021
    • Research Interest:
      • Interference mitigation in LiFi and underwater optical channels
      • Application of polarizer in visual light communication
  6. Ryo Harada
    • Email: Ryo.Harada@ed.ac.uk
    • Project Fund: Externally funded from the Government of Japan
    • With the Group Since: October 2021
    • Research Interest:
      • Visible light communication
      • IoT / Sensor Network

Master of Philosophy (MPhil)

  1. Minqing Yu
    • Email: minqing.yu@ed.ac.uk
    • With the Group Since: January 2021
    • Project Fund: Self-funded
    • Research Interst:
      • Visible light communication
      • Modulation techniques for communication systems
      • Equalization techniques for visible light communication

Masters by Research (MScR)

  1. Jian Shao
    • Email: J.Shao-7@sms.ed.ac.uk
    • With the Group Since: September 2021
    • Research Interst:
      • Rydberg Atomic Radio

Graduated PhD Students

  • Callum Geldard: Underwater Optical Wireless Communications in Turbulent Conditions: from Simulation to Experimentation, Rosalind Fortune Studentship, Sep. 2017  - Aug. 2021 (as principal supervisor).
  • Sepehr Daghbandan: PhD title, Funded by Industry funded project, Oct 2017 - (as principal supervisor).
  • Isaac Osahon: Non-linear equalisation techniques for high-speed step-index plastic optical fibre communication, Funded by Nigerian Government, Oct. 2015 – May 2020  (as principal supervisor).
  • Hammed Gbolahan Olanrewaju: Study of MIMO techniques for optical wireless communications, Funded by Nigerian Government, Oct. 2015 - (as principal supervisor).
  • Kabiru Oluwaseun Akande: Enhanced carrierless amplitude and phase modulation for optical communication systems, Funded by the University of Edinburgh, Nov. 2015 - (as principal supervisor).
  • Olaoluwa Popoola: Low complexity indoor position with VLC, Glasgow Caledonian University, Started Oct. 2015 (as principal supervisor).
  • Funmilayo Ogunkoya: Multiple access optimised power control for multiple transmitter visible light communication, Glasgow Caledonian University, Oct. 2013 - 2016 (as principal supervisor).
  • Osama Saied: Hybrid asymmetrical clipped optical orthogonal frequency division multiplexing for indoor visible light communications, Northumbria University, UK, July 2013 - 2016) (as principal supervisor).
  • Xuan Tang: Polarisation shift keying modulated free-space optical communication systems, Northumbria University, 2009-2012 (as co-supervisor).
  • Morteza Zanjireh: Energy efficient clustering algorithm for wireless sensor networks, Glasgow Caledonian University, Oct. 2011 - 2015 (as co-supervisor).

Research Associates/Fellows

  • Dr Callum Geldard, Oct 2021 – March 2022, (DSTL/Qinetiq project)
  • Dr Athina Frantzana, Sept 2021 - May 2022 (PTAS project)
  • Dr Evangelis Pikasis, Mar 2016 - Feb 2017 (EPSRC funded project EP/N013468/1, now with  Intracom Telecom, Greece)