Milad Tatar Mamaghani

Milad Tatar Mamaghani

Applied 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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  <div class="timeline-card__body">
    <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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    <div class="timeline-card__icon">🏆</div>
    <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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    <div class="timeline-card__icon">🌏</div>
    <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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    <div class="timeline-card__icon">🎓</div>
    <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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    <div class="timeline-card__icon">🎓</div>
    <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">
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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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    <div class="timeline-card__icon">🏛️</div>
    <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__marker">
    <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">
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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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    <div class="timeline-card__icon">🧠</div>
    <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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    <div class="timeline-card__icon">🎓</div>
    <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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    gap: 1em;
    margin-bottom: 2em;
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  .timeline-card {
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    border-radius: 4px;
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  .timeline-card__marker {
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    justify-content: center;
    gap: 0.35em;
    min-width: 3.2em;
    padding: 0.45em;
    border: 1px solid var(--global-border-color);
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  .timeline-card__year {
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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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    border-radius: 14px;
    background: var(--surface);
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    padding-left: 1.2em;
    font-size: 0.9em;
    opacity: 0.85;
    line-height: 1.65;
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  <summary>
    <div class="summary-title">
      <strong>Technical Subject Matter Expert</strong>
      <br>
      <span class="experience-organization">Mercor AI (Remote) &nbsp;&middot;&nbsp; Sydney, Australia</span>
    </div>
    <span class="experience-date">Jan 2025 &ndash; Present</span>
    <span class="toggle-icon" aria-hidden="true">⌄</span>
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    <ul>
      
        <li>Designed domain-specific LLM training and evaluation datasets across mathematics, coding, and engineering for frontier AI labs.</li>
      
        <li>Developed structured review and evaluation workflows to improve model reasoning capability; achieved quality scores above 95%.</li>
      
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  <summary>
    <div class="summary-title">
      <strong>ARC Postdoctoral Research Fellow</strong>
      <br>
      <span class="experience-organization">The Australian National University &nbsp;&middot;&nbsp; Canberra, Australia</span>
    </div>
    <span class="experience-date">Jan 2023 &ndash; Jan 2025</span>
    <span class="toggle-icon" aria-hidden="true">⌄</span>
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    <ul>
      
        <li>Researched on machine-type communications, physical-layer security, and integrated radar sensing and communications.</li>
      
        <li>Proposed novel information‑theoretic performance metrics for information leakage in finite‑blocklength wiretap fading channels.</li>
      
        <li>Designed joint resource allocation and 3D UAV‑trajectory algorithms for secure short‑packet aerial relaying systems under propulsion limits.</li>
      
        <li>Formulated a game model for ISAC under mobile eavesdropping and developed DRL agents for adaptive trajectory and beamforming control.</li>
      
        <li>Published 3 first‑author Q1 IEEE journal articles (1x JSAC, 2x TWC) and 2 conference papers (IEEE ICC 2024, IEEE GLOBECOM 2023).</li>
      
        <li>Received 2 IEEE best‑paper awards (IEEE SPCC‑TC BPA 2024; IEEE ICC BPA 2024 — top 0.6% of 2,364 submissions).</li>
      
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    <div class="summary-title">
      <strong>Doctoral Researcher</strong>
      <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>Designed reinforcement learning and mathematical optimisation frameworks for energy‑efficient, secure airborne communications.</li>
      
        <li>Formulated and solved problems on aerial beamforming, spatial jamming, and trajectory planning to secure UAV network architectures.</li>
      
        <li>Proposed learning‑based system designs for secure MIMO‑UAV relaying, achieving significant performance improvements over baselines.</li>
      
        <li>Developed reproducible MATLAB/Python simulations to validate analytical secrecy and reliability models under practical constraints.</li>
      
        <li>Published 7 peer-reviewed articles in leading IEEE journals; received 5+ awards, grants, and accolades for research excellence.</li>
      
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    <div class="summary-title">
      <strong>Data Quality &amp; Automation Analyst</strong>
      <br>
      <span class="experience-organization">Monash University, Office of the Deputy Vice-Chancellor &nbsp;&middot;&nbsp; Melbourne, Australia</span>
    </div>
    <span class="experience-date">Oct 2022 &ndash; Dec 2022</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 reporting standards.</li>
      
        <li>Built Python ETL pipelines integrating a large number of research records from heterogeneous data sources into a unified schema.</li>
      
        <li>Developed reusable data‑quality and reporting tools for automated validation and reconciliation checks to support strategic decision making.</li>
      
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    <details class="experience-details">
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    <div class="summary-title">
      <strong>Teaching Associate</strong>
      <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>
    <span class="toggle-icon" aria-hidden="true">⌄</span>
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    <ul>
      
        <li>Delivered tutorials and labs across 14 university courses, supporting cohorts of 500+ students each semester.</li>
      
        <li>Contributed to curriculum, designed course materials and assessments, coordinated examinations, and mentored students.</li>
      
        <li>Supervised engineering design capstone projects for undergraduate and postgraduate students and evaluated presentations.</li>
      
        <li>Recognised for teaching excellence; achieved a student satisfaction score of 4.73/5.0, ranking within the top 7.3% of Monash units.</li>
      
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    <div class="summary-title">
      <strong>eAssessment Supervisor</strong>
      <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>
    <span class="toggle-icon" aria-hidden="true">⌄</span>
  </summary>
  
    <ul>
      
        <li>Supported exam integrity, compliance, and student-facing assessment operations.</li>
      
    </ul>
  
</details>

  
    <details class="experience-details">
  <summary>
    <div class="summary-title">
      <strong>Research Assistant</strong>
      <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>Derived secrecy outage probability and ergodic rate for wireless‑powered amplify‑and‑forward untrusted relay networks.</li>
      
        <li>Designed cooperative‑jamming and wireless‑energy‑harvesting schemes for secure multi‑hop relaying scenarios with sensitivity analysis.</li>
      
        <li>Produced two journal articles and one conference paper on secure IoT networks with simultaneous wireless information and power transfer.</li>
      
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    <details class="experience-details">
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    <div class="summary-title">
      <strong>Summer Research Intern</strong>
      <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 healthcare IoT networks; gained hands‑on experience in applied telecommunications and network infrastructure.</li>
      
    </ul>
  
</details>

  
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