Mehdi Rahmati
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Associate Professor |
Short Biography
Dr. Mehdi Rahmati is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cleveland State University. He received his Ph.D., M.S., and B.S. degrees 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 communication systems, information theory, signal processing, autonomy, and intelligent systems as Director of the Intelligent Communication and Autonomous Systems (ICAS) Lab. His work addresses critical challenges in the field by developing intelligent sensing and communication solutions, ranging from enhanced underwater environmental monitoring and autonomous oceanic exploration to resilient, high-performance communication systems, for next-generation of terrestrial and non-terrestrial networks.
Dr. Rahmati's research has been supported by federal and state agencies as well as industry, including the U.S. National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Transportation, the Ohio Department of Transportation, and the Ford Motor Company, and his findings have been widely published in top journals and conferences.
Beyond his research, he is an active contributor to the global engineering community. He currently serves as Chair of the IEEE Oceanic Engineering Society (OES) Technical Committee on Underwater Acoustics and regularly contributes as a Technical Program Committee (TPC) member or an organizing committee member for leading international conferences.
Research Interests
Intelligent Wireless Communications and Networking
Next-Generation Wireless/6G Communication Systems and Networks
Learning-Enabled Communications in Dynamic Environments
Semantic Communications, Resource Allocation, and Optimization
Extreme-Environment Wireless Communications
Underwater Acoustic and Optical Wireless Communications
Hybrid Communications in Challenging Propagation Environments
Real-time Sensing, Networking, and Autonomous Monitoring for Aquatic Environments
Communication-Centric Autonomous Systems
Communication-Constrained Coordination of Autonomous Systems
V2X Communications and Networking for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles
UAV-Enabled Networking and Multi-Agent Coordination
Quantum Computing and Communications
Quantum Error Correction and Reliable Quantum Information Processing
Quantum Communications and Quantum-Secure Networking
Quantum Machine Learning for Communication and Networked Systems
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
May 2026: the ICAS Lab Senior Design team received the First Place Award among all teams at Cleveland State University's Washkewicz College of Engineering.
November 2025: The ICAS Lab successfully completed a field demonstration of its UAV-assisted air quality sensing platform for highway construction sites in collaboration with ODOT.
September 2025: Dr. Rahmati and his students, D. Nuti and D. Stack, received Best Poster and Best McNair Poster awards at the Undergraduate Summer Research Award Poster Session for their work on underwater drone swarms.
January 2025: Dr. Rahmati has been appointed Chair of the IEEE Oceanic Engineering Society (OES) Technology Committee on Underwater Acoustics for the 2025-2026 term.
July 2024: Dr. Rahmati presented a distinguished technical lecture series for NASA, invited by the Glenn Research Center, Communications and Intelligent Systems Division.
March 2024: On March 4th, Dr. Rahmati presented a talk at Cleveland Clinic detailing Cleveland State University's ongoing research and education in quantum computing.
Selected Publications
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Teaching
EEC 492/592 and CIS 492 Quantum Information Science: Fall 2024
EEC 457/557 Modern Applications of Digital Communications: Spring 2022-Spring 2025
EEC 450 Communications: Fall 2020-Fall 2026
EEC 512 Probability and Stochastic Processes: Fall 2026
EEC 655 Satellite Communications: Fall 2023-Fall 2024
CIS 492/593 Special Topics in Parallel and Quantum Computing: Fall 2022-Fall 2023
EEC 456/556 Software Defined Radio: Spring 2021
Member of Associations
IEEE Senior Member