Biography
Dr Mihai-Alin Badiu is a Departmental Lecturer with the Department of Engineering Science at the University of Oxford. He is also a Stipendiary Lecturer in Engineering Science at Balliol College, where he teaches tutorials on various topics in mathematics and electrical engineering. Before moving to Oxford in 2019, he held positions as a Postdoctoral Researcher and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electronic Systems at Aalborg University, Denmark. From 2016 to 2018, Dr Badiu held an Individual Postdoctoral Fellowship awarded by the Danish Council for Independent Research.
His research has been published in leading peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings, and he is an inventor on two patents. Dr Badiu regularly serves as a reviewer for various IEEE journals and conferences in the fields of communications, signal processing, and information theory. He is an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (AFHEA).
Research Interests
Mihai's general research interests are in information and communication theory, random graphs, signal processing for communications, and probabilistic modelling & inference.
Topics of particular interests are:
- Wireless massive access
- Interactive communications
- Goal/task-oriented communications
- Complexity and compression of random graphs
- Bayesian inference on graphs
Current Projects
Probabilistic Tomography of Wireless Networks (Researcher Co-I): Developing optimal methods of actively discovering or passively inferring network topologies and structures in wireless systems.
