Nanocom Research Group
School of Computer Science and Engineering
July 2019
Muhammad Usman Riaz, Hamdan Awan and Chun Tung's Paper Titled " Maximum a posteriori-based molecular circuit demodulators for spatially partitioned molecular communication receivers " has been accepted for presentation at 6th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Nanoscale Computing and Communications to be held in dublin, Ireland in September 2019.
May 2019
Dr. Hamdan Awan has joined as a Visiting Research fellow from York University Canada for the period of 3 months starting in May 2019.
May 2019
Muhammad Usman Riaz has received travel and registartion scholarship of 3500 USD from the prestigious q-Bio summer research school which is annualy held in Rice University Houston USA.
April 2019
Chun Tung's Paper "Designing molecular circuits for approximate maximum a posteriori demodulation of concentration modulated signals" has been accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Communication.
Febuary 2019
Muhammad Usman Riaz has received travel and registartion scholarship of 500 AUD from AUSCTW 2019 held in University of Sydney Australia.
Febuary 2019
Muhammad Usman Riaz presented a poster titled “Maximum a posteriori-based molecular circuit demodulators for spatially partitioned molecular communication receivers” at AUSCTW 2019 held in University of Sydney Australia.
January 2019
Hamdan Awan and Chun Tung's Paper "Molecular Communications with Molecular Circuit-based Transmitters and Receivers" has been accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Nanobioscience.
PhD student Muhammad Usman Riaz won the Best Paper Award at 5th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Nanoscale Computing and Communications in Reykjavik, Iceland on September 5-7, 2018.
February 2019
Muhammad Usman has presented a poster titled Impact of partitioning in molecular communication networks on Bit error rate (BER) in Australian Communication Theory Workshop AusCTW at the University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, Feb. 6-8, 2019.
September 2018
Following papers of our group are accepted for Presentation at 5th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Nanoscale Computing and Communications in Reykjavik, Icelandon September 5-7, 2018.
1. Molecular circuit for approximate maximum a posteriori demodulation of concentration modulated signals by Chun Tung Chou.
2. Using Spatial Partitioning to Reduce Receiver Signal Variance in Diffusion-Based Molecular Communication by Muhammad Usman Riaz, Hamdan Awan and Chun Tung Chou.
November 2018
Professor Mahbub Hassan invited to serve as TPC chair for ACM Conference on Nanoscale Computing and Communications (NanoCom) 2019.
October 2018
Najm Hassan has been awarded the highly competitive "Postdoctoral Writing Fellowship". This fellowship is awarded by UNSW Australia only to selected high profile PhD students who have submitted their thesis to support for their post-PhD research.
Najm Hassan, Marios Mattheakis and Ming Ding's paper "Sensorless Node Architecture for Events Detection in Self-Powered Nanosensor Networks,'' has been accepted for publication in Nano Communication Networks (Elsevier) Journal, on Ultra-broadband Networking at Millimeter-wave and Terahertz Band Frequencies, 2018.
February 2018
Muhammad Usman has presented a poster titled “Comparison of mixed-receiver with partitioned receiver in molecular communication” at AUSCTW 2018 held in University of New Castle Australia.
December 2017
Hamdan Awan has ciompleted his PhD and writing fellowship at Nanocom research group. He will join as Post doctoral Fellow at York University, Canada with Professor Andrew Eckford. We wish him best for future.
October 2017
Hamdan Awan has been awarded the highly competitive "Postdoctoral Writing Fellowship". This fellowship is awarded by UNSW Australia only to selected high profile PhD students (approx top 5%)
who have submitted their thesis to support for their post-PhD research.
September 2017
Hamdan Awan and Chun Tung's Paper "Improving the capacity of molecular communication using enzymatic reaction cycles" has been accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on NanoBioscience.
July 2017
Following papers of our group are accepted for Presentation at ACM NANOCOM Conference 2017 to be held in Washington DC, USA.
1. Chemical reaction networks for maximum likelihood estimation of the concentration of signalling molecules by Chun Tung Chou.
2. Event and Node Identification from a Single-Pulse Transmission in Self-powered Nanosensor Networks by Najm Hassan, Chun Tung Chou and Mahbub Hassan.
June 2017
We are organising a seminar on Ultra-broadband Communications in the Terahertz Band (and Beyond) to be given by Prof. Josep Miquel Jornet University at Buffalo, The State University of New York.
May 2017
Hamdan Awan and Chun Tung's Paper Titled " Molecular Circuit-based Transmitters and Receivers for Molecular Communication Networks" has been accepted for presentation at the 2017 IEEE 18th International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC) to be held in Sapporo, Japan in July 2017.
January 2017
Hamdan Awan presented a Poster titled "Demodulation of Reaction Shift Keying Signals in Molecular Communication with Complex Receiver Circuits" at IEEE Australian Communications Theory Workshop AusCTW, Canberra, Australia, 18-20 January 2017. He has also been awarded Travel Funds of $400 AUD by AusCTW Organizers to attend the workshop.
Decemeber 2016
"Professor Mahbub Hassan has been invited by the Indian Government's Global Initiative of Academic Networks (GIAN) to deliver a short course on Nanoscale Wireless Networking. Prof. Hassan will deliver the course at the National Institute of Technology, Goa, India, 19-24 December 2016."
December 2016
Hamdan Awan and Chun Tung's Paper "Generalized Solution for the Demodulation of Reaction Shift Keying Signals in Molecular Communication Networks" has been accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Communications.
NOVEMBER 2016
A Workshop on the Interface of Biology and Computer Science is being co-organized by Chun Tung Chou on Thur 8 Dec 2016 9:50am-1:30pm in UNSW Ainsworth building 101.
The aim of this workshop is to bring together staff, researchers and research students from the School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences (BABS) and the School of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) at UNSW to discuss research problems of interest to both schools. The workshop will feature 4 short talks from each school. The link below will take you to the workshop program.
AUGUST 2016
5 JUNE 2016
Hamdan Awan's Paper Titled Reducing the Effect of Reaction Rate Constants on the Performance of Molecular Communication Networks has been accepted in ACM NanoCom 2016 to be held in NewYork.
June 2016
Associate Professor Chun Tung invited to serve as TPC chair for ACM Conference on Nanoscale Computing and Communications (NanoCom) 2016.
Professor Mahbub Hassan invited to guest edit the special issue "Electromagnetic Communication in Nano-scale" in Nano Communication Networks Journal.
Monday, 23 May 2016
Professor Mahbub Hassan presented Tutorial entitled "Nanoscale Wireless Networking: Opportunities, Challenges, and Recent Advances" at IEEE ICC 2016 Malaysia.
14th April 2016
Chun Tung Chou presented a seminar entitled "A Bayesian Approach to Molecular Communication" to the Centre of Telecommunications Research, King's College London.
13th April 2016
Chun Tung Chou presented a seminar entitled "A Bayesian Approach to Molecular Communication" to the Control Group, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, UK.
11th-12th April 2016
Chun Tung Chou participated in the First CIRCLE Workshop on Molecular Communications at University of Cambridge where he gave two presentations and took part in the panel discussion.
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8th Febraury, 2016
Seminar Presentation by Hamdan Awan "Engineering Molecular Communication" at Australian National University- College of Engineering And Computer Science .
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5th November 2015
Chun Tung Chou presented a seminar entitled Engineering Molecular Communication to the School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of New South Wales.
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9th July 2015
Chun Tung Chou presented a seminar entitled "A communication theoretic approach to molecular communication" to the School of Computing, National University of Singapore, Singapore.
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11th June, 2015
PhD student Hamdan Awan won the 2nd Prize for best pitch presentation at ANN ECR Workshop at Griffith university June 2015.
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November 5, 2014
ITof2014
PhD student Eisa Zarepour won the best IEEE ITOF 2014 Prize in the category of "Networking and Security" for his research on "Efficient Communication Protocols for Nano-scale Sensor Networks"
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October 29, 2014
Professor I. F. Akyildiz from Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, USA will be delivering a seminar titled "INTERNET OF NANOTHINGS & BIO-NANOTHINGS " at the School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of New South Wales 29th of October 2014
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October 20, 2014
UNSW Innovator of the Year - People's Choice Award
PhD student Eisa Zarepour along with his supervisors Mahbub Hassan and Chun Tung Chou and the external collaborator Adesoji Adesina won the 2014 UNSW Innovator of the Year - People's Choice Award
Video Link
NASSOM STUDENT INNOVATION AWARDS 2014
PhD student Eisa Zarepour won the 2014 STUDENT INNOVATION AWARD (IT-Enabled Business Innovation) of the Year
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July 4, 2014
Professor Mahbub Hassan will be delivering a talk titled "Nano-scale Communication Networks" at the Australian National University on the 14th of August 2014
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June 20, 2014
PhD student Eisa Zarepour won the best PHD forum paper award at the WoWMoM 2014 for his research on "Adaptive Protocols for Nano-scale Sensor Networks"
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June 5, 2014
Professor Mahbub Hassan will be delivering a tutorial on "Nano-scale Wireless Sensor Networks: Opportunities, Challenges, and Recent Advances" at the 17th International Symposium on Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications 7-10 September 2014, Sydney, Australia
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