Mahdi Bakhshi

PhD student

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mahdi.bakhshi at uab.cat
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Dpt. Telecommunications and Systems Engineering
Engineering School
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Bellaterra 08193 - Barcelona (Spain)

Bio

Mahdi Bakhshi received the B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic), Iran, in 2021, with a thesis on "Design and Implementation of an Absolute Magnetic Encoder". He received the M.Sc. degree in Digital Electronic Systems from Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran—the top-ranked engineering university in Iran—in 2024, with a thesis on "Near-field Localization with a Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface".

He is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree at the SPCOMNAV group under a PhD grant (reference PREP2023-001519) funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities.

Research interests

His research focuses on signal processing for communications and navigation, particularly in the field of GNSS and LEO-PNT, as well as localization with reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS), optimization methods, and advanced navigation techniques.