About

I am a Senior Research Scientist at the Royal Military Academy (Brussels, Belgium), specializing in Protected Waveforms for Satellite Communications (SATCOM) systems. My expertise centers on Statistical Signal Processing and its applications in Telecommunication Systems. I hold a Ph.D. and MSc in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of Liège (Liège, Belgium). The novelty of the techniques I developed during my Ph.D. project led to two issued patents (in Japan and the USA) and three pending (in Australia, Europe, and China). I have over six years of teaching experience as a Teaching Assistant at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science of the University of Liège (ULiège).

Following my Ph.D., I was honored to receive the prestigious Belgian American Educational Foundation (BAEF) fellowship, which offered me a unique opportunity to continue my research as a Post-Doctoral Researcher at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). After completing the one-year BAEF Post-Doctoral Fellowship, I expanded my expertise by joining NXP Semiconductors (Gratkorn, Austria), where I worked as a Senior Signal Processing Concept Engineer in the division of Secure Contactless Systems. Within less than a year, my contributions led to the submission of two additional international patents.

Since June 2020, I have held the position of Senior Research Scientist in the Department of Communications, Information, Systems, and Sensors (CISS) at the Royal Military Academy (RMA), where I actively contribute to EU strategic projects, including the European Protected Waveform (EPW), and collaborate with NATO research task groups (RTGs), such as IST-SET-204, which focuses on RF-based detection and classification of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS).

My research interests include, but are not limited to, Satellite Communications (SATCOM) Systems, Protected Waveforms, 5G Non-Terrestrial Networks (NTN), Telecommunication Systems, Software-Defined Radio (SDR), and Statistical and Digital Signal Processing.

 

Project(s)

EPW

European Protected Waveform (EPW): With the increasing security threats to Satellite Communications (SATCOM) systems, a notable capability gap to effectively address these threats has been identified in various reports from the European Defence Agency (EDA) and the European Union (EU), including the Key Strategic Activities (KSA) and the Coordinated Annual Review on Defence (CARD). Against these backdrops and motivated by the objective of enhancing EU autonomy, 19 key stakeholders within the EU’s military satellite ecosystem have united to form a consortium. Our collective objective is to develop the first European Protected Waveform (EPW). The project will develop a multi-layered security and resiliency solution centered on the principles of efficiency, security, affordability, and interoperability. It aims to address the current and future challenges, such as increased throughput demands, dispersed operations, mobility, and emerging security threats related to SATCOM.

NATO RTG

NATO Research Task Group (RTG): IST-SET-204 RF-based detection and classification of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS).