Naga Irukulapati joined the FORCE team as a Ph.D. student in July 2011. He received his degree from Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology (DA-IICT) in Gujarat, west part of India in 2009. Irukulapati then joined the “Communication Engineering” program at Chalmers Institute of Technology as a Master’s student. He finished his Master’s Thesis on “Sensor fusion for vehicular networks” in 2011.

Immediately following the graduation, he joined FORCE as a Ph.D. student in the Communication Systems group at the Signals and Systems (S2) department at Chalmers. Irukulapati will be working on “Receiver design for coherent optical communications” under the supervision of Henk Wymeersch and Erik Agrell. He will work closely with the Ph.D. student Daniel Zakrisson from MC2 to enable experimental evaluation of the found results.