RESEARCH

• Wireless Communications Systems & Networks
• Underwater Acoustic Networks
• Cooperative Communications & MIMO Schemes
• CDMA and OFDM Techniques
• Signal Processing and its Applications
• Coding and Information Theory

• NSF Travel Grant Award, IEEE MASS 2017, Orlando, FL, USA, Oct. 2017
• Best Student Paper Runner-up Award, ACM-WUWNet, Washington DC, USA, Oct. 2015
• NSF Travel Grant Award, ACM-WUWNet, Washington DC, USA, Oct. 2015
• TA/GA Professional Development Fund Award, Rutgers University, Fall 2015, Summer 2016, and Summer 2017 
• Outstanding Reviewer Award, Elsevier Ad-Hoc Network Journal, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Jan. 2016
• Best Instructor of the Year Award, Azad University of East Tehran Branch, 2009 

Journals:

• M. Rahmati and D. Pompili, “Probabilistic Spatially-Divided Multiple Access in Underwater Acoustic Networks,” Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, July 2017.

• M. Rahmati and D. Pompili, “UNISeC: Inspection, Separation and Classification of Unknown Underwater Acoustic Point Sources,” to appear in IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering, 2017.

• V. Vakil and M. Rahmati, “Throughput Improvement of Cooperative System Using Adaptive Relaying and Adaptive Modulation," International Journal of Information & Communication Technology (IJICT), vol. 3, no.4, pp 37-44, Sep. 2011.
  

Conferences/Workshops:

• M. Rahmati and D. Pompili, “Probabilistic Spatially-Divided Multiple Access in Underwater Acoustic Sparse Networks,” accepted in the IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS), Orlando, FL, USA, Oct. 2017.
  
  
• M. Rahmati and D. Pompili, “uwMIMO-HARQ: Reliable Hybrid ARQ Scheme in Underwater Acoustic MIMO Channels,” proc. of the ACM International Conference on Underwater Networks and Systems (WUWNeT), Washington DC, USA, Oct. 2015. Runner-up best student paper award.

• M. Rahmati and D. Pompili, “Interference Cancellation in Multiuser Acoustic Underwater Networks Using Probabilistic SDMA,” proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS), Dallas, TX, USA, Oct. 2015. 

• M. Rahmati, P. Pandey, and D. Pompili, “Separation and Classification of Underwater Acoustic Sources,” proc. of the IEEE Underwater Communications Networking conference (UCOMMS), Sestri Levante, Italy, Sep. 2014.

• M. Rahmati and V. Vakil, “Optimizing Energy Consumption in DMF Cooperative System with Mobile Relay Using Adaptive Modulation,” proc. of the first International Conference on Communications, Signal Processing, and their Applications (ICCSPA), Sharjah, UAE, Feb. 2013.  

• V. Vakil, and M. Rahmati, “Adaptive Modulated Cooperative System with Selection Combining," proc. of the 19th Iranian Conference on Electrical Engineering (ICEE), Tehran, Iran, May 2011.

• M. Rahmati and V. T. Vakili, “A Transmitter Model for Performance Improvement and Interference Mitigation of Multi-User STBC-CDMA System in Correlated MISO Channels,” proc. of the European Symposium on Computer Modeling and Simulation (EMS), Athens, Greece, Nov. 2009.

• M. Rahmati and V. T. Vakili, “Performance Improvement of STBC CDMA System in Correlated MIMO Channels,”  proc. of  International Conferences on Advanced Technologies for Communications (ATC), Hai Phong, Vietnam, Oct. 2009.

• M. Rahmati and V. T. Vakili, “STBC CDMA System Simulation in MIMO Channels with Correlative Model,” proc. of international conference on Computational Intelligence, Modeling and Simulation (CSSim), Brno, Czech Republic, Sep. 2009.

• M. Rahmati and V. T. Vakili, “Diversity-Rate Considerations and Precoder Designing for Spatially Correlated Perfect Space-Time Block Code,” proc. of International Conference on Telecom Technology and Applications (ICTTA), Manila, Philippine, Jun. 2009.

• M. Rahmati and  V. T. Vakili, “Performance Improvement of a Multi-User MIMO System Using Perfect Space-Time Block Code,” proc. of Mosharaka International Conference on Communications, Networking and Information Technology (MIC-CNIT), Amman, Jordan, Dec. 2007.

• M. Rahmati and V.T.Vakili, “Time-Frequency Analysis of Generalized Wiener Process in the Presence of Non-Gaussian and Colored Noise,” proc. of Mosharaka International Conference on Communications, Networking and Information Technology (MIC-CNIT), Amman, Jordan, Dec. 2007.

• Journal and Conference Reviewer
• IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, IEEE Communications Letters, IEEE Communications Magazine, IEEE Sensors Journal, IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering, ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks, Wireless Networks Journal (Springer), Ad-Hoc Networks Journal (Elsevier), Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (Elsevier), IEEE-INFOCOM, ACM-WUWNET.
• Technical committee member
  
•  IEEE ICACCI-2017, IEEE ICACCI-2016, IEEE RAASP-2015, IEEE RAASP-2014, CNIT-2011.
  

   

TEACHING   [top] 

• Rutgers University (2013-Present): Principle of Electrical Engineering II Lab,  Computer Architecture Lab, Discrete Mathematics TA, Communication Theory TA.

• Bahar Institute of Higher Education, Mashhad, Iran (2010-2013): Electrical circuits I and II, Digital and analog communication systems, Wireless communications, Computer networks, Programming with C, Computer architecture.

• Salman Institute of Higher Education, Mashhad, Iran (2010-2013): Communication technology and systems, Data communications, Computer organization and architecture, Computer networks.  

• Azad University, Mashhad, Iran (2010-2012): Computer organization and architecture, Computer Architecture.

• Azad University, Tehran, Iran (2009-2010): Communication systems and circuits, Computer organization and architecture, Industrial instrumentation.

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