Brijesh Soni

Postdoctoral Fellow

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Brijesh Soni is currently working as a postdoctoral researcher in the areas of Machine learning for wireless communications at Boston College, under the supervision of Professor Siddhartan Govindasamy. Prior to that, he was affiliated as an adjunct faculty at School of Engineering and Applied Science, and School of Arts & Sciences, Ahmedabad University.

He obtained his PhD in the area of "Applied Machine Learning for Smart Sensing in Cognitive Radio Networks" under the supervision of Dr. Dhaval Patel in July 2021 from Ahmedabad University. He received Bachelor of Engineering (B.E) in Electronics Engineering from Birla Vishavakarma Mahavidyalaya (BVM), Anand, and Master of Electronics (M.E) in Communication Systems Engineering from L.D college of Engineering, Ahmedabad, both with Distinction, in 2014 and 2017 respectively. He was the recipient of graduate aptitude test in engineering (GATE) Scholarship for pursuing post-graduation (2015-2017) by AICTE, Govt. of India. Furthermore, he has also qualified the University Grants Commission - National Eligibility Test (UGC-NET) for Assistant Professor under Electronic Science category in the first attempt. From 2017-2020, he worked as a Junior Research Fellow (JRF) at School of Engineering and Applied Science, Ahmedabad University in collaboration with University of Liverpool, U.K for DST - UK India Education and Research Initiative (UKIERI) research project jointly funded by DST (India) and British Council (UK).

Invited Talks

  • Delivered a talk on "Analysis of Spectrum Occupancy using Machine Learning Algorithms" during a National Level Faculty Development Program entitled `Machine Learning for xG wireless Networks: Performance Analysis and Monte Carlo Simulations' held at School of Engineering and Applied Science, Ahmedabad University during June 2019
  • Invited from Government Engineering College, Surat (GEC-Surat) to deliver a webinar on "Overview and Applications of Machine Learning in xG Wireless Networks" on May 02, 2020