Lab Director

Keshav Singh is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Communications Engineering and the International Master’s Program in Telecommunication Engineering (IMPTE), National Sun Yat-sen University (NSYSU), Kaohsiung, Taiwan, where he leads the Intelligent Wireless Communication (i-WiC) Laboratory. He received the Ph.D. degree in communication engineering from National Central University, Taiwan, in 2015, and the M.Sc. degree in information and telecommunications technologies from Athens Information Technology, Greece, in 2009.

Before joining NSYSU as an Assistant Professor in February 2020, he was a Research Associate at the Institute for Digital Communications, University of Edinburgh, U.K. (2016–2019), and a Research Scientist at University College Dublin, Ireland (2019–2020). His research interests include beyond-5G and 6G communications, next-generation multiple access, reconfigurable intelligent surfaces, UAV-assisted communications, green communications and energy harvesting, and artificial intelligence and machine learning for wireless communications.

• Ph.D. in Communication Engineering, National Central University, Taoyuan City, Taiwan (2010–2015)
• M.Sc. in Information and Telecommunications Technologies, Athens Information Technology, Athens, Greece (2008–2009)

Associate Professor (Feb. 2024 – present)

• Institute of Communications Engineering, National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan 804, R.O.C.
• International Master’s Program in Telecommunication Engineering (IMPTE), National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan 804, R.O.C.

Assistant Professor (Feb. 2020 – Jan. 2024)

• Institute of Communications Engineering, National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan 804, R.O.C.
• International Master’s Program in Telecommunication Engineering (IMPTE), National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan 804, R.O.C.

Teaching Assistant, NCU, Taiwan (Sept. 2010 – Oct. 2015)

• Optimization Theory for Communications
• Engineering Mathematics – Differential Equation

Research interests

• Wireless communications, edge computing, caching
• Green communication, energy harvesting
• Multiuser MIMO
• Cooperative communication
• Next generation multiple access
• Beyond 5G and 6G communications
• Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) assisted wireless communication
• Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) assisted V2V and V2I communication
• Artificial intelligence and machine learning for wireless communications
• Dynamic spectrum access and full-duplex radios

Research experience

Research Scientist (Apr. 2019 – Jan. 2020)

School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, University College Dublin (UCD), Dublin, Ireland. Worked on ultra-reliable low-latency communication and transcoding design for 5G and beyond.

Research Associate (Mar. 2016 – Mar. 2019)

Institute for Digital Communications, School of Engineering, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. Worked on 5G technologies, i.e., full-duplex, non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA), green wireless communications, wireless caching, etc.

Research Assistant (Sept. 2010 – Oct. 2015)

Broadband Mobile Communication Laboratory, Department of Communication Engineering, National Central University, Taiwan.

Research Assistant (Jan. 2009 – Oct. 2009)

Broadband Wireless and Sensor Networks (B-WiSE) Research Group, Athens Information Technology, Athens, Greece.

• K. Singh, “Signal Processing for 5G and Beyond Communications,” Indian Institute of Technology, Patna, India, Jul. 2021.
• K. Singh, “Signal Processing for 5G and Beyond Communications,” Thakur College of Engineering and Technology, Mumbai, India, Jun. 2021.
• K. Singh, “Laser Powered UAV-Assisted Communication System with NOMA and Non-Linear Energy Harvesting,” Indian Institute of Information Technology, Guwahati, India, Feb. 2021.
• K. Singh, “Joint Mobile Node Positioning, UAV Placement and Resource Allocation in UAV Aided 5G and beyond Communication Networks,” Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology (VNIT), Nagpur, India, Feb. 2021.
• K. Singh, “Signal Processing for 5G and Beyond Communications,” Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology (VNIT), Nagpur, India, Jan. 2021.

• 2021 Qualcomm Taiwan University Research Collaboration Project: “Advance Transceiver Design, Access Technique, and AI Research for the Next-generation Wireless Communication Systems” — Next generation multiple access for IRS-assisted UAV based wireless communication networks.
• 110 Special research project (general research project), “UAV wireless communication assisted by smart reflective surfaces in the limited-energy Internet of Things: Analysis of infinite and finite block length,” Project number: MOST 110-2221-E-110-020-
• 110 Special research project (general research project), “Development of key technologies for communication of next-generation terminals and small base stations based on intermediate frequency and high frequency MIMO multi-antenna systems (Four-year plan, co-host),” Project number: MOST 110-2224-E-110-001-
• 2020 Qualcomm Taiwan University Research Collaboration Project: “Advance mmWave Transceiver Design, Access Technique, and AI Research” — Dual Function mmWave Radar-Communication System: Design and Analysis.
• 109 Special Research Project (Research Project for Newcomers), “Joint design of precoding and decoding error rate for 5G ultra-reliable low-latency wireless communication system,” Project number: MOST-109-222-E-110-003-

• Prof. Z. Ding, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
• Prof. Bruno Clerckx, Imperial College London, UK
• Prof. Mark Flanagan, University College Dublin (UCD), Ireland
• Prof. M.-S. Alouini, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
• Dr. Sudip Biswas, Indian Institute of Information Technology, Guwahati, India
• Dr. Prabhat Kumar Sharma, Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur, Maharashtra, India
• Dr. Faheem Khan, University of Huddersfield, UK
• Dr. Shahid Mumtaz, Instituto de Telecomunicações, Santiago University Campus, Portugal
• Dr. Ankur Bansal, Indian Institute of Technology Jammu, India

See also the Collaborators page.