Join us

Doing a PhD or Master's with us

We take a small number of research students each year. Strong candidates have a background in communication, electrical or computer engineering, are comfortable with Python or MATLAB, and want to build and test things, not only simulate them.

Open topics

Visible light & LiFi
  • Low-complexity learned receivers for optical OFDM that can run in real time
  • LED nonlinearity and memory compensation tested on real hardware
  • Handover and link selection in hybrid LiFi-WiFi networks
Indoor positioning
  • UWB and LiFi fusion for positioning of moving robots and workers
  • Positioning that keeps working when anchors fail or move
SDN, fog & vehicles
  • Context-aware multipath offloading for industrial IoT
  • Controller placement and switch migration at the network edge
IoT systems
  • Energy-self-sufficient sensing for agriculture and aquaculture
  • Edge AI on low-cost boards (ESP32, Raspberry Pi)

You may also propose your own topic if it fits one of these themes.

How to contact me

  1. Read two or three of our papers in the theme you like.
  2. Email mariff@utm.my with the subject "Prospective PhD – <theme>". Attach your CV and transcripts, and write one page on a problem you would like to solve and how you would start.
  3. If we agree on a topic, you apply through the UTM School of Graduate Studies, and I confirm supervision.

How supervision works

Each student gets a private workspace on this site, with an unlisted link that only the student and the supervisors have. It holds thesis reviews where the student answers each comment directly, so every revision is tracked in one place.