Ahmed Maksud, Ph.D.

Wireless systems researcher · IEEE 802.11 MAC · OFDM/MIMO DSP · PHY-layer security · ML/RL for wireless

I am a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Texas State University, working on modern wireless systems across protocol (IEEE 802.11 MAC, channel access, QoS, power saving), signal (OFDM/MIMO DSP, channel modeling, physical-layer security), and intelligence (ML/RL-driven scheduling and control). My current work develops intelligent, energy-aware Wi-Fi using reinforcement-learning-based Target Wake Time (TWT) scheduling and RF energy harvesting for IEEE 802.11, which is designed to be protocol-compliant, built on standard MAC mechanisms, and released as open-source, reproducible ns-3 pipelines (C++/Python, Stable-Baselines3). I received my Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from UC Riverside (2024), where I worked on physical-layer security, focusing on continuous encryption functions, MIMO secret-key capacity, and OFDM secrecy optimization; bridging formal analysis (information theory, statistical signal processing) with validated implementation (MATLAB/Python testbeds, Monte-Carlo simulation).