Amanat Kafizov is a Ph.D. student in Electrical and Computer Engineering at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), specializing in visible light Terahertz (THz) communications and machine learning.
Biography
Amanat Kafizov received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan, in 2019 and from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia, in 2021, respectively. Currently, he is a Ph.D. student at KAUST. His academic journey has been enriched by diverse experiences, including a summer research internship at the University at Buffalo, New York, USA, in 2018, where he developed the OFDM system for Terahertz communication. Later, from 2023 to 2024, he worked as a research engineer at CERN, Geneva, Switzerland.
Research Interests
Amanat's research interests include optical wireless communication, reconfigurable intelligent surfaces, system prototyping, signal processing on FPGA, and machine learning.
During his summer research internship 2018 at University at Buffalo, New York, USA, he was working on Terahertz (THz) communication networks under a supervision of professor Josep Jornet. To be more specific, Amanat developed OFDM transmitter and receiver blocks in Matlab tailored to THz channel properties and adapted to THz hardware specifications. Amanat was the first who demonstrated OFDM communication at THz frequencies ever.
Education
- Master of Science (M.S.)
- Electrical and Computer Engineering, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia, 2021
- Bachelor of Science (B.S.)
- Electrical and Computer Engineering, Nazarbayev University (NU), Kazakhstan, 2019
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Academic Advisors
Mohamed-Slim Alouini
- Al-Khawarzmi Distinguished Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering