Dr Deepak Mishra
Senior Lecturer
Postdoc inElectrical Engineering from in Sweden during August 2017 to July 2019
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from in India during July 2012 to August 2017
B.Tech. in Electronics and Communication Engineering from , , Delhi in India during July 2008 to June 2012
Engineering
Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications
Deepak Mishra received the B.Tech. Degree in electronics and communication engineering from the Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, New Delhi, India, in 2012, and a PhD degree in electrical engineering from the Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT) Delhi, New Delhi, in 2017. He is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Electrical Engineeringand Telecommunications, University of New South Wales (UNSW) Sydney, Australia, where he joined as a Senior Research Associate in August 2019. Before that, he was a Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Department of Electrical Engineering (ISY), Linköping University (LiU), Linköping, Sweden, from August 2017 to July 2019.He has also been a Visiting Researcher at the Northeastern University,Boston, MA, USA, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA, Huawei Technologies, Paris, France, and Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, China.
His currentresearch interests include energy harvesting cooperative communicationnetworks, massive MIMO, backscattering, physical layer security, as wellas signal processing and energy optimization schemes for the uninterruptedoperation of wireless networks. He is an Associate Editor ofIEEE TRANSACTIONS ON GREEN COMMUNICATIONS AND NETWORKING, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INTELLIGENT VEHICLES, IEEE WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS LETTERS, IEEE ACCESS, and Communication Theory Track of Frontiers in Communications and Networks journal. He is a Guest Editor for the Special Issue of Energies andFrontiers in Communications and Networks journals. He was also a Technical Program Committee (TPC) member for the top international conferences like IEEEInternational Conference on Communications (ICC) from 2018 to 2024, IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM)from 2021 to 2024, IEEE International Conference on Computer Communication (INFOCOM) in 2023, IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference in 2023 to 2025, IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC Spring and VTC Fall) from 2021 to 2024, and IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC) in 2024. He was a recipient ofthe IBM PhD. Fellowship Award in 2016, the Raman Charpak Fellowship Award in 2017, the Endeavour Research Fellowship Award in 2018, and the Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) in 2022. He was named a Best Editor for IEEE WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONSLETTERS in 2023 and was selected as an Exemplary Reviewer of IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS in 2017 and 2018, of IEEE WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONSLETTERS in 2019, and of IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON COMMUNICATIONS in 2019 and 2020.
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Phone
+61-2-938-53860
E-mail
Location
Room 417, Level 4, EE Building G17, School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications, Kensington Campus, UNSW Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia
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- Source:,Scheme: Capacity: Team,Year: 2024, Duration: 2 years, Title:Quantum Backscatter-empowered Wireless Sensing for Next-generation Tracking Systems, Amount: $72,205
- Source:,Scheme:,Capacity: Team,Year: 2024, Duration: 3 months, Title:CIN Broadcast Resilience Program, Amount: $15,000
- Source: Faculty of Engineering at UNSW Sydney,Scheme: EFFECT (Education Focused Career Support) program,Capacity: Team,Year: 2024, Duration: 1 year, Title:Nurturing Tomorrow's Engineers through Advanced Antenna Technologies for 6G Communication, Amount: $20,000
- Source: Faculty of Engineering at UNSW Sydney,Scheme: Faculty Matching Funds for DECRA,Capacity: Individual,Year: 2023, Duration: 3 years, Title:Intelligent Physical Layer Security Protocols for Backscattering in IoT, Amount: $99,000
- Source: , Scheme: Cargo Fire & Loss Innovation Initiative,Capacity: Team,Year: 2023,Duration: 2 months, Title:Early-Stage Fire Detection in Cargo Holds, Amount: $19,000
- Source: , Scheme: and :,Capacity: ,Year: 2023,Duration: 3 years, Title:Terahertz Backscattering Device for High-Resolution and Single-shot Localisation, Amount: $540,000
- Source: UNSW Global Division, Scheme: Global Landing Pad Mobility Grants,Capacity: Team,Year: 2023,Duration: 1 month, Title:Artificial Intelligence for Supply Chain Optimization and Fintech Transformation in Indian Context, Amount: $6,000
- Source: Faculty of Engineering at UNSW Sydney,Scheme: ,Capacity: Team,Year: 2023, Title:Autonomous data collection andsensing, Amount: $181,000
- Source: K,Scheme: Keysight Education Program (KEP),Capacity: Team,Year: 2023, Duration: 7 months, Title:Narrow-band Terahertz imaging approaches for identifying Grass Seed Infestation, Amount: $47,095
- Source: , Scheme: ,Capacity: ,Year: 2022,Duration: 3 years, Title:, Amount: $426,118
- Source: School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications atUNSW Sydney, Scheme: ,Capacity: Team,Year: 2022, Title:Additional equipment for the terahertz communication system- Precision optics for alignment and high-gain THz horn antenna for increasing communication range, Amount: $60,400
- Source: School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications atUNSW Sydney, Scheme: University Research Infrastructure Scheme,Capacity: Team,Year: 2022, Title:Underwater Acoustic Communication System Testbed, Amount: $31,502
- Source: atDivision of & , Scheme: UNSW Commercialisation Seed Fund (CSF),Capacity: Team,Year: 2022,Duration: 1 year, Title: En-Vi: Next Generation Wireless Sensing for Environment Vision, Amount: $100,000
- Source: Faculty of Engineering at UNSW Sydney, Scheme: ,Capacity: Team,Year: 2022,Duration: 6 months, Title:Green and Secure UAV-Assisted Backscatter Communications for Passive IoT Devices, Amount: $35,000
- Source: for iMOVE, Scheme: ,Capacity: Team,Year: 2022,Duration: 1 year, Title:, Amount: $48,125
- Source: Faculty of Engineering at UNSW Sydney, Scheme: UNSW Engineering International Seed Grant,Capacity: Team,Year: 2022,Duration: 1 week, Title:Terahertz Sensing for Next Generation Wireless Vision, Amount: $10,000
- Source: ,Capacity: Team,Year: 2021,Duration: 6 months, Title:Pre-production Pilot of Next Generation Fire Sensing Technology for Tunnels (Phase 1), Amount: $100,000
- Source: UNSW Sydney, Scheme: ,Capacity: Team,Year: 2021, Title:Establishing a terahertz communication (6G & beyond) facility, Amount: $157,733
- Source: Faculty of Engineering at UNSW Sydney,Scheme: and Seed Grant,Capacity: Individual,Year: 2021,Duration: 3 months, Title:Experimental Demonstration of Sustainable Wireless Powered Communication Networks, Amount: $1,000
- Source: , Scheme: ,Capacity: Team,Year: 2021, Duration: 3 years,Title:Adversarial Methors for the Protection of IoT Users from Wireless Signal-based Attacks, Amount: $180,000
- Source:funded Grant,Capacity: Team,Year: 2021,Duration: 2 years, Title:Next Generation Telecommunications Networks: Privacy and Security Challenges, Regulatory Interventions and Policy Framework, Amount: $383,698
- Source: UNSW Sydney, Scheme: University Research Infrastructure Scheme,Capacity: Team,Year: 2020, Title: Backscatter Communications, Amount: $27,600
- Source: Faculty of Engineering at UNSW Sydney, Scheme: Faculty Eminent Scholars Visiting Scheme, Capacity: Individual, Year: 2019,Duration: 2 weeks, Amount: $5,000
- Source:Faculty of Engineering at UNSW Sydney, Scheme: Faculty Funded Postdoctoral Fellowship Seed Grant, Capacity: Individual, Year: 2019,Duration: 3 years, Amount: $30,000
- Exemplary or for IEEE Wireless Communications Letters in 2023
- Australian Research Council (ARC) (DECRA)in 2022
- Elevation to the grade of in
- Received the in 2022 based on the remarks from the thesis examiners on my PhD dissertation for the year 2017 from the
- for EEE Transactions on Communications in 2020
- Exemplary Reviewer Award for in 2019
- Exemplary Reviewer Award for in 2019
- for IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications in 2018
- Outstanding Reviewer award for Journal in April 2018
- Received the Australian on November 7, 2017, to carry out a part of the postdoctoral research at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, in Australia for four months in the 2018-2019 academic session
- for IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications for 2017
- Received the from theIndo-French Centre for the Promotion of Advanced Research () to carry out a part of PhD research in France at Huawei Technologies France for 3 months in 2016-2017 academic session
- for nine months in the 2016-2017 academic sessionfrom the International Business Machines () Corporation
- , Department of Science and Technology (DST), India, for participating in IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC), 2016
- for presenting dissertation research titled “Strategies for Uninterrupted Wireless Sensor Network with Energy Harvesting Nodes,” at Int. Conf. on Commun. Syst. and Netw. (COMSNETS) Bangalore, India, Jan. 2015
- awardedby International Conference on COMmunication Systems & NETworkS (COMSNETS) to participate in the COMSNETS 2015
- Senior Lecturer atUniversity of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, Australia (July 2023 – Current)
- ARC DECRA Fellow atUNSW Sydney(January 2023 – Current): DevelopingIntelligent Physical Layer Security Protocols for Backscattering in IoT.
- Senior Research Associate at UNSW Sydney, Australia (August 2019 – June 2023): Joined UNSW as a Senior Research Associate (Level B) under the faculty-funded postdoctoral fellowship program in the School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications on August 19, 2019.
- Postdoctoral Researcher at Sweden (August 2017 – July 2019): Carrying out research in Communication Systems - 5G wireless technology, especially massive MIMO and its implementation. Two key topics investigated are (1) smart MIMO applications for long-range sustainable backscatter communications and (2) optimizing massive antenna array energy beamforming under practical hardware impairments. Also, providing teaching assistantship in conducting and developing advanced master-level courses.
- Visiting Researcher at , Chengdu, China (May 2019 – July 2019): Conducting hardware experiments for validating the quality of the proposed novel channel estimation and optimal transceiver designs for the multiantenna full-duplex reader in monostatic multi-tag backscattering settings.
- Research Associate at, India (July 2017 – August 2017): Investigated green optimized transmission protocols for cognitive Machine-to-Machine communications for sustainable broadband wireless access. The timely research outcomes were published in peer-reviewed international journals and conference proceedings.
- Visiting Researcher at Mathematical and Algorithmic Sciences Lab, France Research Center, France SASU, 92100 Boulogne-Billancourt, France (January 2017 – April 2017): Investigating practical aspects of optimized RF energy transfer in MIMO, multi-user MISO, and millimetre wave communications for enabling sustainable Internet-of-Things (IoT).
- Visiting Researcher at Khandi, Telangana, India (May 2015): Conducting field experiments for sensed data collection and wireless recharging of the sensor nodes in a pollution monitoring wireless sensor network.
- Visiting Researcher at the , Rochester, New York, United States (December 2014): Studying the working of the WISP-based and REACH mote-based (designed by UR) wake-up circuit. Integration of wake-up radio and the NU-developed harvester board with Libelium motes for sustainable pollution monitoring sensor network operation.
- Visiting Researcher at the , Boston, Massachusetts, United States (October 2014 – November 2014): Working with the NU-developed harvester board for increased RF energy harvesting efficiency. Investigating the MAC and routing protocol-based aspects for simultaneous energy and data transfer.
- PhD Research Scholar at IIT Delhi (July 2012 – July 2017): Proposed various green resource allocation strategies for energy harvesting cooperative communications and optimal energy optimization schemes for uninterrupted operation of mobile ad hoc networks. The title of the PhD dissertation research is: “Strategies for Uninterrupted Wireless Communication Network with Cooperative RF Energy Harvesting Nodes”. Also, I mentored multiple doctorate and master-level research students.
- Teaching/Research Assistant at IIT Delhi, India (July 2012 – July 2017): Rendered responsibilities (8 hours per week) outside normal academic work as a Teaching/Research Assistant. Conducted lab sessions for the undergraduate course on Communication systems.
- Member of from March 2023 to December 2024
- Engineering Equity, Diversity & Inclusion Committeemember at UNSW from May 2023 to December 2024
- UNSW Faculty International Committee member from March 2023 to June 2024
- Faculty of Engineering Gender Equity and Diversity Committee memberat UNSW from January 2023 to December 2025
- Engineering Academic Programs Committee member representing the Faculty of Engineering at UNSW Sydney from July 2022 to June 2023.
- Committee member at UNSW Sydney from May 2022 to June 2023.
- Faculty Research Committee member representing the Faculty of Engineering at UNSW Sydney from May 2021 – May 2022.
- Member of three School Committees: Academic Executive, Assessment Review, and HDR Scholarship Ranking
- Member of : Teaching for Equity and Diversity, and Teamwork groups
- Associate Editor ofIEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles
- Associate Editor of
- Associate Editor of
- Associate Editor of
- Associate Editor of (Communications Theory)
- Lead Guest Editor of Energies Journal's Special Issue "".
- Guest Editor for the Special Issue of Frontiers in Communications and Networks on “” in 2023.
- forACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication (SIGCOMM) 2024
- Publicity Officer in the (SAGW) of since December 2023.
- Technical program committee (TPC) member for the Conferences
- IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC) 2025: Wireless Communications: Fundamentals and PHY
- IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM) 2024: Signal Processing for Communications Symposium
-IEEE 32nd International Symposium on the Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems – () 2024
- I: Track 4: Future Compute Continuum and Seamless Ecosystems
-IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2024: (i)Wireless Communications Symposium; (ii)Selected Areas in Communications (SAC) - Aerial Communications;(iii)SAC - Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces and Smart Environments (RISSE); (iv)Workshop on Synergies of Communication, Localization, and Sensing towards 6G
- IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC) 2024 -Spring:
- IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC) 2024: Resource Allocation and Machine Learning
- International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications () 2024
- International Conference on Image Processing and Vision Engineering () 2024
- IEEE CCNC 2024: Wireless Communications: Fundamentals and PHY
-IEEE GLOBECOM2023: Wireless Communications Symposium; (ii)Selected Areas in Communications (SAC) - Integrated Sensing and Communication; (ii)SAC - Aerial Communications; (ii)Workshop on Emerging Topics in 6G Communications; (ii)Workshopon Integrated Sensing and Communications for Internet of Things; (ii)Workshop on Cellular UAV and Satellite Communications
- IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC) 2023-Fall: ; (ii)Wireless Networks: Protocols, Security and Services; (ii)Emerging Technologies, 5G and Beyond
- IEEE International Conference on Advanced Networks and Telecommunications Systems (ANTS) 2023
-International Wireless Communications & Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC) 2023 workshop on Emerging Technologies for 5G-ADV & 6G (ET5GA)
-IEE2023
-IEEE VTC 2023 - Spring: (i);(ii)
- IEEE ICC 2023: (i)Wireless Communications Symposium; (ii)Green Communication Systems and Networks Symposium;(iii)Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces and Smart Environments; (iv)SAC - Integrated Sensing and Communication (invited); (v)Workshop on Integrating UAVs into 5G and Beyond
- IEEE International Conference on Computer Communication (INFOCOM) 2023 Workshop - The 8th IEEE Workshop on NextG (5G and beyond) Wireless Security (Wireless-Sec)
- IEEE CCNC2023: Wireless Communications: Fundamentals and PHY
- IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2022-Fall): (i);(ii)
- IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2022-Spring):(i);(ii)
- IEEEGLOBECOM 2022: Selected Areas in Communications (SAC) - Full-Duplex Communications; Workshop on Cellular UAV and Satellite Communications (CelUAVSatCom)
-AsianInternet Engineering Conference () 2022
-IEEE InternationalConference on Advanced Networks and Telecommunications Systems (ANTS)
- IEEEICC 2022: (i)SAC - Full-Duplex Communications; (ii)SAC- Aerial Communications; (iii)Wireless Communications; (iv)Green Communication Systems and Networks Symposium; (v)Workshop on Integrating UAVs into 5G and Beyond; (vi)Workshop on Synergies of Communication, localization, and Sensing towards 6G
- IEEE GLOBECOM2021: (i)SAC - Aerial Communications (invited); (ii)Workshop on Cellular UAV and Satellite Communications
- International Workshop on Wirelessly Powered Systems and Networks ()2021
- IEEE ICC 2021: (i)Wireless Communications ; (ii)SAC - Full-Duplex Communications; (iii)Workshop on Integrating UAVs into 5G and Beyond
- IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2021-Spring):(i); (ii)Recent Results and Workshops:
- IEEE ICC 2020: (i) SAC Access Networks/Systems and Power Line Communications; (ii)Workshop on Full-Duplex Communications for Future Wireless Networks (FDCFWN)
- 1st International Workshop on2019, co-located with the DCOSS conference
- IEEE ICC 2019: (i) SAC - Symposium Access Networks and Systems; (ii) Workshop: FDCFWN
- IEEE ICC 2018: Symposium Access Systems and Networks
My Research Supervision
- as Primary Supervisor: T1' 2021 - Current
- as Joint Supervisor:T2' 2021 - Current
- as Secondary Supervisor:T2' 2021 - Current
- asSecondary Supervisor: T2' 2022 - Current
- as Primary Supervisor: T1' 2023 - Current
- Chenyang Zhangas Secondary Supervisor: T2' 2023 - Current
- as Secondary Supervisor: T2' 2023 - Current
- Shehab Khan Nooras Secondary Supervisor: T3' 2023 - Current
- as Primary Supervisor: T3' 2023 - Current
- as Primary Supervisor: T3' 2023 - Current
- Jiawang Zengas Primary Supervisor: T1' 2024 - Current
B) Master of Philosophy(MPhil)
- as Primary Supervisor: T1' 2022 - Current
- Yijia Zhangas Primary Supervisor: T1' 2023 - Current
- Haoming Wangas Primary Supervisor: T2' 2023 - Current
- as Primary Supervisor: T2' 2023 - Current
- Xinyan Ren as Primary Supervisor: T3' 2023 - Current
- as Primary Supervisor: T1' 2024 - Current
- Hanwen Zhangas Primary Supervisor: T2' 2024 - Current
- Yuhaobo Kangas Primary Supervisor: T2' 2024 - Current
- Runzhe Yang: T1' 2024 - T3' 2024
- Fraser Bytheway: T1' 2024 - T3' 2024
- Luke Massa: T2' 2024 - T1' 2025
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Junjie Wu: T2' 2024 - T1' 2025
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My Teaching
TELE3113: Analogue and Digital Communications in Term 1 of 2020, Term 1 of 2021, Term 1 of 2022, and Term 1 of 2023
: Electrical Systems Design in Term 3 of 2021and Term 3 of 2022
ELEC9123: Design Proficiency in Term 2 of 2020, Term 2 of 2021, Term 2 of 2022, and Term 2 of 2024
: Strategic Leadership and Ethics (Seminar Mentor): Term 1 of 2022,Term 1 of 2023, and Term 1 of 2024
ELEC1111: Electrical and Telecommunications Engineering (Tutor): Term 3 of 2019 and Term 3 of 2020