Mehdi Rahmati

Assistant Professor Director of Intelligent Communications and Autonomous Systems Laboratory Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Cleveland State University 2121 Euclid Ave., Fenn Hall 336 Cleveland, Ohio 44115-2214 Phone: +1 216-687-2538 Fax: +1 216-687-5405 Email: m.rahmati [@] csuohio [DOT] edu

Short Biography

Dr. Mehdi Rahmati is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cleveland State University since 2020. He received his Ph.D., M.S., and B.S. degrees all in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Rutgers University in New Jersey-USA, Iran University of Science and Technology-Iran, and Ferdowsi University of Mashhad-Iran, respectively. He leads research at the intersection of wireless communications, signal processing, and autonomy. His work addresses critical challenges in connectivity by developing innovative sensing, communications, and networking solutions, ranging from enhancing underwater environmental monitoring and autonomous exploration to designing resilient, high-performance communication systems for the next generation of terrestrial and non-terrestrial networks. Dr. Rahmati's research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Transportation, Ohio Department of Transportation, and the Ford Motor Company, and his findings have been widely published in top journals and conferences. Beyond research, he is active in shaping the global engineering community. Currently he serves as the Chair of the IEEE Oceanic Engineering Society's Technology Committee on Underwater Acoustics.

Research Interests

• Wireless Communications and Networks

• Underwater Communications and Signal Processing

• Connected Vehicles and Coordinated Autonomous Systems

• Internet of Things (IoT) and Internet of Drones (IoD)

• Quantum Communications and Computing

• Satellite Communications

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Affiliated Faculty

• Quantum Information Technology Advancement and Research (QUITAR) at Cleveland State University

• The Entrepreneurial Manufacturer Digitization Support (EMDiS) Center of Excellence at Cleveland State University

• T.E.C.H. Hub at Cleveland State University

News

Selected Publications

1. A. Hazarika and M. Rahmati, “AdaptNet: Rethinking Sensing and Communication for a Seamless Internet of Drones Experience,” IEEE Internet of Things Magazine, vol. 7, no. 4, pp. 22-28, July 2024, doi: 10.1109/IOTM.001.2300216.

2. M. Rahmati and A. Mohammadi, “Dynamic Non-Contiguous Location-Aware Spectrum Aggregation for UAV-to-UAV Communications,” IEEE Sensors Letters, vol. 6, no. 11, pp. 1-4, Nov. 2022.

3. A. Mohammadi, M. Rahmati, and H. Malik, “Location-aware Beamforming for mmWave MIMO-enabled UAV Communications: An Unknown Input Observer Approach,” IEEE Sensors Journal, vol. 22, no. 8, pp. 8206-8215, Apr. 2022.

4. M. Rahmati, Z. Qi, and D. Pompili, “Underwater Video Transmission via Adaptive MIMO-Based Software-Defined Acoustic Modems,” IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, early access, Oct. 2021.

5. P. Pandey, M. Rahmati, W. Bajwa, and D. Pompili, “Real-time In-network Image Compression via Distributed Dictionary Learning,” IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, early access, Apr. 2021.

6. M. Rahmati and D. Pompili, “Probabilistic Spatially-divided Multiple Access in Underwater Acoustic Sparse Networks,” IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol. 19, no. 2, pp. 405–418, Feb. 2020.

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Teaching

1. EEC 492/592 and CIS 492 Quantum Information Science: Fall 2024

2. EEC 457/557 Modern Applications of Digital Communications: Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024, and Spring 2025

3. EEC 450 Communications: Fall 2020, Fall 2021, Fall 2022, Fall 2023, and Fall 2024

4. EEC 655 Satellite Communications: Fall 2023 and Fall 2024

5. CIS 492/593 Special Topics in Parallel and Quantum Computing: Fall 2022, Fall 2023

6. EEC 456/556 Software Defined Radio: Spring 2021

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Member of Associations

• IEEE Senior Member