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Latest News || 7 October 2026: Quiz and Pizza Night — Titanic Crew placed fourth. || 3 October 2026: Serving as a Student Ambassador at Queen's University Belfast, welcoming prospective students and visitors and supporting EEECS tours and event activities. || 9 September 2026: Published at AP-S/URSI 2026: “Near Field-Aware UE Localization in RIS-Aided Wireless Networks Through ML-Regressor.” || 25 August 2026: Poster presentation at UCMMT 2026 in Birmingham — “Experimental Validation of Localisation in RIS-Assisted mmWave Networks.” || 18 August 2026: Published at EuCAP 2026: “Impact of RIS Size on Machine Learning-Enabled Beam Sweeping for User Localization.”

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Publication milestones, conference presentations, university engagement, and other updates from my academic journey.

International students sharing pizza during the EEECS Quiz and Pizza Night
University engagement

Quiz and Pizza Night with the EEECS International Student Society

An evening of four quiz rounds, individual and team games, and free pizza at the Allstate Software Studio in the Computer Science Building.

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Md Tarek Hassan serving as a Student Ambassador at Queen's University Belfast
University engagement

Serving as a Student Ambassador at Queen's University Belfast

Supporting an EEECS visitor event by welcoming prospective students, leading building tours, and helping coordinate visitor activities.

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Near field-aware UE localization paper published at AP-S/URSI 2026 news cover
Publication

Near field-aware UE localization paper published at AP-S/URSI 2026

The paper presents a machine-learning regression approach for user-equipment localization in RIS-aided near-field wireless networks.

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UCMMT 2026 poster on experimental validation of RIS-assisted mmWave localization
Talk

Poster presentation at UCMMT 2026 in Birmingham

Presented experimental results on machine-learning localization using measurements from a 28 GHz RIS-assisted mmWave system.

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EuCAP 2026 presentation on RIS size and machine-learning-enabled beam sweeping
Publication

RIS size and ML-enabled beam sweeping paper published at EuCAP 2026

The study evaluates how RIS aperture size affects machine-learning-enabled beam sweeping and user localization performance.

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RIS near-field localization paper accepted at IEEE GLOBECOM 2026 news cover
Publication

RIS near-field localization paper accepted at IEEE GLOBECOM 2026

Accepted for the RIS and Smart Environments symposium at IEEE GLOBECOM 2026 in Macau.

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IEEE ICT 2026 publication update
Publication

Learning-based angular localization paper published at IEEE ICT 2026

Published work on efficient learning-based angular localization for RIS-assisted millimetre-wave wireless networks.

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UCMMT 2026 paper acceptance announcement
Publication

Experimental RIS localization paper accepted at UCMMT 2026

Accepted work on experimental validation of learning-based localization in a RIS-assisted 28 GHz wireless system.

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EuCAP 2026 presentation update
Talk

RIS size and user localization work presented at EuCAP 2026

Presented research on the relationship between RIS size, beam-sweeping measurements, and machine-learning user localization.

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