Milad Tatar Mamaghani

Milad Tatar Mamaghani

Research Scientist

Content Templates

Use the shared timeline template for dated profile items such as awards, recognitions, selected service, supervision highlights, or similar lists.

Awards And Recognitions

Edit _data/awards.yml. Add new items under honours or recognitions:

- icon: "🏅"
  year: "2026"
  title: "Recognition Title"
  detail: "One concise sentence explaining why it matters"
  source: "Institution, Location"

The awards page renders these entries through:

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    <div class="timeline-card__icon">📚</div>
    <span class="timeline-card__year">2025</span>
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    <strong><a href="https://www.comsoc.org/publications/best-readings/covert-communication-and-networking">IEEE ComSoc Best Readings in Covert Communication and Networking</a></strong>
    
      <p class="timeline-card__detail">Recognizes impactful and landmark technical contributions in the field</p>
    
    
      <p class="timeline-card__source">IEEE Communications Society</p>
    
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    <span class="timeline-card__year">2024</span>
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    <strong><a href='https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RagcAujNacqVvJUZQzD-3FsWMmMWI4Ly/view?usp=drive_link'>IEEE ICC Best Paper Award</a></strong>
    
      <p class="timeline-card__detail">Communication Theory Symposium — top 0.6% of 2,364 submissions</p>
    
    
      <p class="timeline-card__source">IEEE International Conference on Communications</p>
    
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    <span class="timeline-card__year">2024</span>
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    <strong><a href='https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GK5IQ30KwY_FcZUAjdoiEUUjCnx7-r6B/view?usp=drive_link'>IEEE SPCC-TC Best Paper Award</a></strong>
    
      <p class="timeline-card__detail">Only one paper is selected annually across all IEEE ComSoc publications</p>
    
    
      <p class="timeline-card__source">The Signal Processing and Computing for Communications Technical Committee</p>
    
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    <span class="timeline-card__year">2024</span>
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    <strong>Australian Global Talent</strong>
    
      <p class="timeline-card__detail">Recognition under the national innovation program for exceptional achievement in technology</p>
    
    
      <p class="timeline-card__source">Australian Government, Department of Home Affairs</p>
    
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    <div class="timeline-card__icon">✈️</div>
    <span class="timeline-card__year">2023</span>
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    <strong>ECR International Travel Grant</strong>
    
      <p class="timeline-card__detail">Competitive early-career researcher grant for presenting research at international conferences</p>
    
    
      <p class="timeline-card__source">The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia</p>
    
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    <span class="timeline-card__year">2022</span>
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    <strong>Exceptional PhD Thesis</strong>
    
      <p class="timeline-card__detail">Recognized among the top 5% in the field by independent examiners</p>
    
    
      <p class="timeline-card__source">Monash University, Melbourne, Australia</p>
    
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    <span class="timeline-card__year">2022</span>
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    <strong>Graduate Research Completion Award</strong>
    
      <p class="timeline-card__detail">Awarded for successful and timely completion of doctoral research</p>
    
    
      <p class="timeline-card__source">Monash University, Melbourne, Australia</p>
    
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    <span class="timeline-card__year">2022</span>
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    <strong>Postgraduate Publications Award</strong>
    
      <p class="timeline-card__detail">Recognition for outstanding research publications during doctoral candidature — AUD $5,000</p>
    
    
      <p class="timeline-card__source">Monash University, Melbourne, Australia</p>
    
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    <div class="timeline-card__icon">📜</div>
    <span class="timeline-card__year">2019</span>
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  <div class="timeline-card__body">
    <strong>Vice-Chancellor's Congratulatory Letter</strong>
    
      <p class="timeline-card__detail">Teaching and learning excellence based on student unit evaluation results</p>
    
    
      <p class="timeline-card__source">Monash University, Melbourne, Australia</p>
    
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    <span class="timeline-card__year">2019</span>
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    <strong>Monash Graduate Scholarship</strong>
    
      <p class="timeline-card__detail">Full doctoral scholarship for living stipend (AUD ~$120,000)</p>
    
    
      <p class="timeline-card__source">Monash University, Melbourne, Australia</p>
    
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    <div class="timeline-card__icon">🎓</div>
    <span class="timeline-card__year">2019</span>
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    <strong>Monash International Tuition Scholarship</strong>
    
      <p class="timeline-card__detail">Full tuition waiver over the PhD program (~AUD $200,000)</p>
    
    
      <p class="timeline-card__source">Monash University, Melbourne, Australia</p>
    
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    <div class="timeline-card__icon">⭐</div>
    <span class="timeline-card__year">2014</span>
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    <strong>Exceptional Talent Award</strong>
    
      <p class="timeline-card__detail">Recognized for exceptional academic excellence</p>
    
    
      <p class="timeline-card__source">Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic), Tehran, Iran</p>
    
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    <div class="timeline-card__icon">🏅</div>
    <span class="timeline-card__year">2012</span>
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    <strong>Top 0.2% — National University Entrance Exam (Konkour)</strong>
    
      <p class="timeline-card__detail">Ranked in the top 0.2% among nearly 300,000 applicants nationwide</p>
    
    
      <p class="timeline-card__source">Iran's Nationwide University Entrance Examination</p>
    
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    <span class="timeline-card__year">2011</span>
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    <strong>Semifinalist — Math &amp; Chemistry Olympiads</strong>
    
      <p class="timeline-card__detail">Selected among top performers in both national mathematics and chemistry competitions</p>
    
    
      <p class="timeline-card__source">National Science Olympiad Program, Iran</p>
    
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    <div class="timeline-card">
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    <div class="timeline-card__icon">🏫</div>
    <span class="timeline-card__year">2026</span>
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    <strong>Shortlisted Faculty Candidate</strong>
    
      <p class="timeline-card__detail">Selected and interviewed for tenure-track faculty recruitment; NTU EEE is ranked 4th globally in QS World University Rankings by Subject</p>
    
    
      <p class="timeline-card__source">Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore</p>
    
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    <div class="timeline-card__icon">🔬</div>
    <span class="timeline-card__year">2025</span>
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    <strong>Research Fellowship Offer</strong>
    
      <p class="timeline-card__detail">Selected from 60+ international applicants; declined due to personal and career-alignment considerations</p>
    
    
      <p class="timeline-card__source">KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden</p>
    
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    <span class="timeline-card__year">2019</span>
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    <strong>Full Scholarship Offers</strong>
    
      <p class="timeline-card__detail">Offered Melbourne Research Scholarship, Macquarie Research Excellence Scholarship, and Polimi's Silver Scholarship; declined for the Monash doctoral opportunity</p>
    
    
      <p class="timeline-card__source">University of Melbourne; Macquarie University; Politecnico di Milano</p>
    
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Reusing The Timeline Template

For another page, create a data file with the same fields, then render it with:

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The shared styling lives in _sass/layout/_page.scss under timeline-card.

Professional Experience

Edit _data/experience.yml. Add future roles under professional:

- title: "Role Title"
  type: "Full-time"
  organization: "Institution or Company"
  location: "City, Country"
  date: "Jan 2026 &ndash; Present"
  highlights:
    - "Impact-focused bullet."

The experience page renders these entries through:

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      <strong>Technical Subject Matter Expert — AI Consultant</strong>
      
        <span class="experience-type">(Contract)</span>
      
      <br>
      <span class="experience-organization">Mercor &nbsp;&middot;&nbsp; Remote</span>
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    <span class="experience-date">Jan 2025 &ndash; Present</span>
    <span class="toggle-icon" aria-hidden="true">⌄</span>
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    <ul>
      
        <li>Drive research-based projects through technical evaluation and domain-specific model reasoning for top-tier AI labs.</li>
      
        <li>Benchmark AI models for complex algorithmic reasoning and mathematical accuracy in STEM contexts.</li>
      
        <li>Curate high-fidelity training datasets to improve AI alignment, factual precision, and reasoning.</li>
      
        <li>Formulate advanced prompting strategies and evaluation guidelines for next-generation AI models.</li>
      
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      <strong>ARC Postdoctoral Research Fellow</strong>
      
        <span class="experience-type">(Full-time)</span>
      
      <br>
      <span class="experience-organization">The Australian National University &nbsp;&middot;&nbsp; Canberra, Australia</span>
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    <span class="experience-date">Jan 2023 &ndash; Jan 2025</span>
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    <ul>
      
        <li>Conducted research on physical-layer security, short-packet communications, and integrated sensing and communications.</li>
      
        <li>Published 3 first-author papers in Q1 IEEE transactions: 1 IEEE JSAC paper (IF 17.2) and 2 IEEE TWC papers (IF 10.4).</li>
      
        <li>Presented 2 papers at flagship conferences: IEEE ICC 2024 and IEEE GLOBECOM 2023.</li>
      
        <li>Received 2 best-paper awards: IEEE SPCC-TC Best Paper Award 2024 and IEEE ICC Best Paper Award 2024 (top 0.6% of 2,364 submissions).</li>
      
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      <strong>Data Quality &amp; Automation Analyst</strong>
      
        <span class="experience-type">(Contract)</span>
      
      <br>
      <span class="experience-organization">Monash University, Office of the Deputy Vice-Chancellor &nbsp;&middot;&nbsp; Melbourne, Australia</span>
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    <span class="experience-date">Oct 2022 &ndash; Jan 2023</span>
    <span class="toggle-icon" aria-hidden="true">⌄</span>
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    <ul>
      
        <li>Audited and validated institutional research data to ensure accuracy, consistency, and compliance with university reporting standards.</li>
      
        <li>Developed data quality workflows and produced analytical reports to support strategic decision-making at the executive level.</li>
      
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    <div class="summary-title">
      <strong>Doctoral Researcher — Wireless Communications</strong>
      
        <span class="experience-type">(Full-time)</span>
      
      <br>
      <span class="experience-organization">Monash University &nbsp;&middot;&nbsp; Melbourne, Australia</span>
    </div>
    <span class="experience-date">Jan 2019 &ndash; Dec 2022</span>
    <span class="toggle-icon" aria-hidden="true">⌄</span>
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    <ul>
      
        <li>Conducted research on wireless communications security, resource allocation, signal processing, and IoT network design.</li>
      
        <li>Designed reinforcement learning and mathematical optimization frameworks for energy-efficient airborne communications.</li>
      
        <li>Developed aerial MIMO beamforming and energy-efficient trajectory planning architectures to secure UAV networks.</li>
      
        <li>Published 7 peer-reviewed articles in leading journals and received 5+ awards, grants, and accolades for research excellence.</li>
      
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      <strong>Teaching Associate</strong>
      
        <span class="experience-type">(Part-time)</span>
      
      <br>
      <span class="experience-organization">Monash University, Faculty of Engineering &nbsp;&middot;&nbsp; Melbourne, Australia</span>
    </div>
    <span class="experience-date">Feb 2019 &ndash; Dec 2022</span>
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    <ul>
      
        <li>Facilitated hands-on learning through effective tutoring, practical sessions, and lab demonstrations.</li>
      
        <li>Provided mentorship that enhanced student performance in coursework and engineering design projects.</li>
      
        <li>Contributed to curriculum delivery by designing assessments and offering constructive feedback to students.</li>
      
        <li>Coordinated engineering design projects for undergraduate and postgraduate students.</li>
      
        <li>Mentored students, assisted in designing assessments, marking, and evaluating presentations.</li>
      
        <li>Achieved an overall student satisfaction score of 4.73/5.0, ranking in the top 7.3% of all University units in the semester.</li>
      
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      <strong>eAssessment Supervisor</strong>
      
        <span class="experience-type">(Part-time)</span>
      
      <br>
      <span class="experience-organization">Monash University, eAssessment &amp; Integrity Services &nbsp;&middot;&nbsp; Melbourne, Australia</span>
    </div>
    <span class="experience-date">Feb 2019 &ndash; Dec 2022</span>
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    <ul>
      
        <li>Supported exam integrity, compliance, and student-facing assessment operations.</li>
      
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  <summary>
    <div class="summary-title">
      <strong>Research Assistant</strong>
      
        <span class="experience-type">(Part-time)</span>
      
      <br>
      <span class="experience-organization">Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic) &nbsp;&middot;&nbsp; Tehran, Iran</span>
    </div>
    <span class="experience-date">Jan 2016 &ndash; Nov 2018</span>
    <span class="toggle-icon" aria-hidden="true">⌄</span>
  </summary>
  
    <ul>
      
        <li>Researched physical-layer security, untrusted relay networks, wireless energy harvesting, and cooperative jamming.</li>
      
        <li>Produced 1 conference paper and 2 journal articles during early research and development.</li>
      
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    <div class="summary-title">
      <strong>Research Intern</strong>
      
        <span class="experience-type">(Internship)</span>
      
      <br>
      <span class="experience-organization">Iran Telecommunication Research Center (ITRC) &nbsp;&middot;&nbsp; Tehran, Iran</span>
    </div>
    <span class="experience-date">Jun 2016 &ndash; Sep 2016</span>
    <span class="toggle-icon" aria-hidden="true">⌄</span>
  </summary>
  
    <ul>
      
        <li>Worked on IoT systems and gained hands-on experience with applied telecommunications systems and network infrastructure.</li>
      
    </ul>
  
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