Muddassar Hussain

Ph.D Electrical and Computer Engineering

About Me:

I am senior engineer at Qualcomm INC.I did my PhD in Electrical and Computer Enineering from Purdue University in 2021. My current research interests lie in 5G wireless networks, millimeter-wave communications, cooperative communications, and stochastic optimal control.

News

10/2021: Our Journal paper "Learning and Adaptation for Millimeter-Wave Beam Tracking and Training: a Dual Timescale Variational Framework", M. Hussain, N. Michelusi, to appear in IEEE JSAC 2021
09/20201: Our conference paper "Adaptive Beam Alignment in Mm-Wave Networks: A Deep Variational Autoencoder Architecture", M. Hussain, N. Michelusi, to appear in IEEE Globecom 2021
05/2021: Joined Qualcomm INC as senior engineer.
05/2021: Graduated from Purdue!
08/2020: Our Journal paper "Mobility and Blockage aware Communications in Millimeter-Wave Vehicular Networks", M. Hussain, M. Scalabri, M. Rossi and N. Michelusi, to appear in IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 2019.
06/2020: Started internship at Nokia Bell Labs
01/2020: Our conference paper "Adaptive Millimeter-Wave Communications Exploiting Mobility and Blockage Dynamics", M. Hussain, M. Scalabrin, M. Rossi, N. Michelusi to appear in IEEE ICC 2020
12/2019: Awarded Bilsland fellowship 2020-2021
12/2019: Presented our paper "Second-best Beam-Alignment via Bayesian Multi-Armed Bandits" at IEEE Globecom, HI
07/2019: Poster presentation at NASIT 2019
07/2019: Our conference paper "Second-best Beam-Alignment via Bayesian Multi-Armed Bandits", M. Hussain, N. Michelusi, to appear in IEEE Globecom
12/2018: Our Journal paper "Energy-Efficient Interactive Beam-Alignment for Millimeter-Wave Networks", M. Hussain, N. Michelusi, to appear on IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications.

Publications

Journals

M. Hussain and N. Michelusi, "Learning and Adaptation for Millimeter-Wave Beam Tracking and Training: a Dual Timescale Variational Framework" to appear in IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, 2021.
M. Hussain, Maria Scalabrin, Michele Rossi, and Nicolo Michelusi, "Mobility and Blockage aware Communications in Millimeter-Wave Vehicular Networks", to appear in IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 2019.
M. Hussain and N. Michelusi, "Energy-Efficient Interactive Beam Alignment for Millimeter-Wave Networks," in IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 18, no. 2, pp. 838-851, Feb. 2019.
M. Hussain and S. A. Hassan, "Impact of Intra-Flow Interference on the Performance of 2-D Multi-Hop Cooperative Network," in IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 21, no. 4, pp. 869-872, April 2017.
M. Hussain and S. A. Hassan, "The Effects of Multiple Carrier Frequency Offsets on the Performance of Virtual MISO FSK Systems," in IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 22, no. 7, pp. 905-909, July 2015.
M. Hussain and S. A. Hassan, "Performance of Multi-Hop Cooperative Networks Subject to Timing Synchronization Errors," in IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 63, no. 3, pp. 655-666, March 2015.

Conferences

M. Hussain, and Nicolo Michelusi, "Adaptive Beam Alignment in Mm-Wave Networks: A Deep Variational Autoencoder Architecture", to appear in IEEE Globecom 2021 [Presentation]
M. Hussain, Maria Scalabrin, Michele Rossi, and Nicolo Michelusi, "Adaptive Millimeter-Wave Communications Exploiting Mobility and Blockage Dynamics", in IEEE ICC 2020 [Presentation]
M. Hussain and N. Michelusi, "Second-best Beam-Alignment via Bayesian Multi-Armed Bandiths" in IEEE Globecom 2019.
M. Hussain and N. Michelusi, "Coded Energy-Efficient Beam-Alignment for Millimeter-Wave Networks," 2018 56th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing (Allerton), Monticello, IL, USA, 2018, pp. 407-412.
M. Hussain and N. Michelusi, "Optimal Interactive Energy Efficient Beam-Alignment for Millimeter-Wave Networks," 2018 52nd Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Pacific Grove, CA, USA, 2018, pp. 577-581.
N. Michelusi and M. Hussain, "Optimal Beam-Sweeping and Communication in Mobile Millimeter-Wave Networks," 2018 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Kansas City, MO, 2018, pp. 1-6.
M. Hussain and N. Michelusi, "Energy efficient beam-alignment in millimeter wave networks," 2017 51st Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Pacific Grove, CA, 2017, pp. 1219-1223.
M. Hussain and N. Michelusi, "Neyman-Pearson Codebook Design for Beam Alignment in Millimeter-Wave Networks," 1st ACM Workshop on Millimeter-Wave Networks and Sensing Systems 2017 (mmNets '17). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 17-22
M. Hussain and N. Michelusi, "Throughput optimal beam alignment in millimeter wave networks," 2017 Information Theory and Applications Workshop (ITA), San Diego, CA, 2017, pp. 1-6.