CSEE Seminar Series - Reinforcement Learning and its Applications in Self-reconfigurable Access Designs

Bio: Dr. Mahsa Derakhshani is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Digital Communications with the Wolfson School of Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering, Loughborough University, UK. Prior to joining Lboro, she was an Honorary NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow with Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College London (2015 to 2016), a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada and a Research Assistant with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, McGill University (2013 to 2015). She received her Ph.D. in electrical engineering degree from McGill University, Montréal, Canada, in 2013. Her research interests include radio resource management for wireless networks, software-defined wireless networking, applications of convex optimization and game theory for communication systems, and spectrum sensing techniques in cognitive radio networks. Dr. Derakhshani has received several awards and fellowships including the John Bonsall Porter Prize, the McGill Engineering Doctoral Award, the Fonds de Recherche du Québec–Nature et Technologies (FRQNT) and Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Postdoctoral Fellowships. Currently, she serves as an Associate Editor of the IET Signal Processing Journal.