About
I am a Senior Research Fellow at the 5G/6G Innovation Centre (5GIC/6GIC), University of Surrey, where I also received my Ph.D. in Information and Wireless Communication Systems. My research builds AI-native radio access networks: agentic, intent-driven intelligence for the O-RAN RIC, digital twins for safe training of xApp controllers, and reinforcement-learning and generative methods for radio-resource management.
I lead the technical work on projects under the EPSRC CHEDDAR 6G Hub (ORAN-TWIN, ORAN-TWIN-X and Assurance O-RAN) and on industry-funded work on LLM pipelines, and I work closely with partners including Keysight, Samsung and Huawei. I also mentor Ph.D. students in our group.
Agentic AI-RANOpen RAN · RIC / xAppsDigital twinsMulti-agent RLDiffusion policiesExplainable AI & LLMsRIS-assisted MIMO
Research projects
EPSRC CHEDDAR 3.5 & 4.0 6G Hub (ORAN-TWIN, ORAN-TWIN-X & Assurance O-RAN)
2024 – present
Lead researcher and principal proposal author. Multi-agent RL for radio-resource allocation in O-RAN, trained safely and at scale in a digital twin; continual, rule-based surrogates that make the learned policies explainable and connect them to LLM reasoning at the Non-RT RIC. Technical coordinator of a consortium of Surrey, York, Leeds and BCU with industry partners.
LLM Engineering-Project-Delivery (EPD) pipeline — Huawei / Datacom Industry Association
Industry-funded
Drafted the bid and led technical scoping for an industrial LLM pipeline, owning deliverables and partner reporting.
ORCA — Safety-by-Design Autonomy: Conflict Arbitration for Multi-Vendor Open RAN
EPSRC
Co-authored the proposal; research on safe arbitration between conflicting xApps from multiple vendors.
Experience & education
Senior Research Fellow, University of Surrey
2026 – present
5G/6G Innovation Centre. Technical lead on EPSRC CHEDDAR Hub projects; agentic AI-RAN, explainable closed-loop control and O-RAN assurance.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Surrey
Jun 2024 – 2026
5G/6G Innovation Centre. O-RAN digital twins and RL-based xApp coordination; prototypes on FlexRIC and VIAVI RIC-tester.
Ph.D., Information and Wireless Communication Systems, University of Surrey
2024
Thesis: Machine Learning for Channel Estimation and Optimization in RIS-assisted Communication Systems.
M.Sc., University of Surrey
2019 – 2020
B.Eng., University of Bristol
2015 – 2019
