About Me

I’m Ali Rasteh, a Ph.D. candidate in Electrical and Computer Engineering at NYU Wireless, advised by Prof. Sundeep Rangan. My research covers wireless spectrum sensing and signal detection, massive MU-MIMO beamforming, 6G FR3 channel modeling and integrated sensing and communication (ISAC), and the efficient hardware that makes these practical, from spatial and systolic array architectures to software-defined radios built on Xilinx RFSoC FPGAs. I have published 14 technical papers in three years, received the Outstanding Paper Award at the 2025 Asilomar Conference, and won the Best Demo Prize at the Nokia/NYU Brooklyn 6G Summit 2024.

Alongside my Ph.D., I have spent recent summers in industry: at Apple as a Wireless Technologies Software Engineering Intern working on Bluetooth performance, and at Sharp Laboratories of America, where I developed and validated channel models that contributed to the 3GPP TR 38.901 Release 19 specification. Earlier, I spent over six years at Sina Communication Systems Co. as a technical lead, delivering GPON OLT/FTTX, POTN-DWDM, and router platforms with teams of up to 14 engineers, and I researched spiking neural networks for encrypted traffic classification with CNRS and the University of Toulouse. I hold B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Sharif University of Technology.

This site collects my publications, projects, talks and demos, and blog posts. Thanks for visiting, and feel free to reach out.