E-mail: dominik.urbaniak@upc.edu 

NATIONALITY
German

HOST INSTITUTION
Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña  · Barcelona Tech, Spain

PH.D. ENROLLMENT

Universidad Politècnica de Cataluña  · Barcelona Tech, Spain

ESR SUPERVISORS

Raúl Suárez, Jan Rosell (UPC)

PROJECT TITLE
Autonomous and Collaborative Robotic Systems for 5G Smart Factories

Bio and project objectives

E-mail: regina.ochonu@upc.edu
NATIONALITY
Nigerian

HOST INSTITUTION

Universidad Politècnica de Cataluña  · Barcelona Tech, Spain

PH.D. ENROLLMENT

Signal Theory and Communications, Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña  · Barcelona Tech, Spain

ESR SUPERVISORS

Josep Vidal (UPC), Yoann Corre (SIRADEL), Klaus Pedersen (NOKIA)

PROJECT TITLE

Slicing for 5G dense radio networks in smart factories

Bio and project objectives

E-mail: suneel.kumar@i2cat.net
NATIONALITY
Pakistani
HOST INSTITUTION

Mobile Wireless Internet group, i2CAT, Barcelona, Spain

PH.D. ENROLLMENT

Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya · Barcelona Tech, Spain

ESR SUPERVISORS

Dr. Daniel Camps Mur (I2CAT), Dr. Eduard Garcia Villegas (UPC), Dr. Vincenzo Sciancalepore (NEC), Dr. Krister Landernas (ABB)

PROJECT TITLE
Time Sensitive Network (TSN) over wireless networks in industrial environments 

Bio and project objectives

Email: sanjha.khan@i2cat.net

NATIONALITY
Pakistani

HOST INSTITUTION
Mobile Wireless Internet group, i2CAT, Barcelona, Spain

PH.D. ENROLLMENT

Universidad Politècnica de Cataluña · Barcelona Tech, Spain

ESR SUPERVISORS

Dr. Josep Paradells Aspas and Dr. Marisa Catalan Cid (i2CAT), Dr. Andreas Muller (BOSCH, Germany), Dr. Micael S. Couceiro (Ingeniarius ltd)

PROJECT TITLE
Applications of Visible Light Communications (VLC) to the IIoT 

Bio and project objectives

Email: danieloa@es.aau.dk

NATIONALITY
Nigerian

HOST INSTITUTION
Aalborg University, Denmark

PH.D. ENROLLMENT

Aalborg University, Denmark

ESR SUPERVISORS

Dr. Gilberto Berardinelli, Dr. Ramoni Adeogun (AAU), Dr. Klaus Pedersen (Nokia), Dr. Aleksander Artemenko (BOSCH) 

PROJECT TITLE
Extreme ultra-reliable low latency communication for industrial radio cells towards 6G 

Bio and project objectives

Email: svvr@es.aau.dk 

NATIONALITY
Indian

HOST INSTITUTION
Aalborg University, Denmark

PH.D. ENROLLMENT

Aalborg University, Denmark

ESR SUPERVISORS

Dr. Carles Navarro (AAU), Dr. Gilberto Berardinelli (AAU)

PROJECT TITLE
Massive MIMO Communication for Industry 4.0 Use-Cases

Bio and project objectives

E-mail: juan-carlos.ruiz-sicilia@centralesupelec.fr
NATIONALITY
Spanish
HOST INSTITUTION

Laboratory of Signals and Systems (CNRS UMR 8506), CentraleSupelec, Paris-Saclay , France   

PH.D. ENROLLMENT

Université Paris-Saclay, France

ESR SUPERVISORS

Dr. Marco di Renzo (Universite Paris-Saclay), Dr. Vincenzo Sciancalepore and Dr. Xavier Costa-Perez (NEC)

PROJECT TITLE

Intelligent radio environments (IREs) for Industry 4.0 

Bio and project objectives

Email: keivan.khosroshahi@centralesupelec.fr
NATIONALITY
Iranian
HOST INSTITUTION

Laboratoire Des Signaux Et Systèmes- Cnrs

PH.D. ENROLLMENT

CentraleSupélec - Université Paris Saclay

ESR SUPERVISORS

Prof. Marco Di Renzo (Universite Paris-Saclay), Michael Suppa (Roboception),  Philippe Sehier (Nokia), Sami Mekki (Nokia)

PROJECT TITLE

Transfer Learning for Optimizing Intelligent Radio Environments

Bio and project objectives

E-mail: gsbhatia@siradel.com
NATIONALITY
Indian
HOST INSTITUTION

SIRADEL, Rennes, France

PH.D. ENROLLMENT

Laboratory of Signals and Systems (CNRS UMR 8506), CentraleSupelec, Paris-Saclay, France

ESR SUPERVISORS

Yoann Corre (Siradel) and Prof. Marco Di Renzo (Universite Paris-Saclay)

PROJECT TITLE
Channel Models and Network Planning for Private Industrial Networks Infrastructure

Bio and project objectives 

E-mail: fabio.maresca@neclab.eu
NATIONALITY
Italian
HOST INSTITUTION

NEC Laboratories Europe

PH.D. ENROLLMENT

Department of Network Engineering, at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya · Barcelona Tech, Spain

ESR SUPERVISORS

Dr. Xavier Costa-Pérez, Dr. Vincenzo Sciancalepore

PROJECT TITLE

Inter-communication of edge computing platform to support IIoT deployments

Bio and project objectives

E-mail: taofeek.yusuf@neclab.eu
NATIONALITY
Nigerian
HOST INSTITUTION

NEC Laboratories Europe

PH.D. ENROLLMENT

Université Paris-Saclay, France

ESR SUPERVISORS

Dr. Marco di Renzo, Dr. Vincenzo Sciancalepore

PROJECT TITLE

AI-Based network slicing orchestration supporting end-to-end service requirements

Bio and project objectives

E-mail: panagiotis@ingeniarius.pt
NATIONALITY
Greek
HOST INSTITUTION

Ingeniarius Ltd., Portugal

PH.D. ENROLLMENT

University of Coimbra, Portugal

ESR SUPERVISORS

Dr. Micael S. Couceiro (Ingeniarius ltd), Dr. David Portugal (University of Coimbra), Dr. Daniel Camps (i2cat)

PROJECT TITLE
Cooperative and multimodal localization in 5G-enabled multi-robot systems 

Bio and project objectives

E-mail: suhani.singh@roboception.de

NATIONALITY
Indian

HOST INSTITUTION
Roboception GmgH

PH.D. ENROLLMENT

Department on Automatic Control, Robotics and Computer vision at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya  · Barcelona Tech, Spain

ESR SUPERVISORS

Dr. Michael Suppa

PROJECT TITLE
3D Object Detection and Localization of a Mobile Robot Platform using 5G 

Bio and project objectives

E-mail: karthik.Muthineni@de.bosch.com
NATIONALITY
Indian
HOST INSTITUTION

Robert Bosch GmbH

PH.D. ENROLLMENT

Department of Signal Theory and Communications at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya  · Barcelona Tech, Spain

ESR SUPERVISORS

Dr. Alexander Artemenko, Professor Josep Vidal 

PROJECT TITLE

5G-based Indoor Positioning in Industrial Environments

Bio and project objectives