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Fayçal Aït Aoudia

Fayçal Aït Aoudia is a Senior Research Scientist at NVIDIA working on the convergence of wireless communications and machine learning. Before joining NVIDIA, he was a research scientist at Nokia Bell Labs, France. He is one of the maintainers and core developers of the Sionna open-source link-level simulator. He obtained the diploma degree in computer science from the Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon, France, in 2014, and the PhD in signal processing from the University of Rennes 1, France, in 2017.

Research Area(s)
Algorithms and Numerical Methods
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
Main Field of Interest
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
Google Scholar
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=hWgQeD4AAAAJ&hl=fr&oi=ao

Publications

2025

SALAD: Self-Adaptive Link Adaptation
Reinhard Wiesmayr, Lorenzo Maggi, Sebastian Cammerer, Jakob Hoydis, Fayçal Aït Aoudia , Alex Keller
arXiv
Sionna Research Kit: A GPU-Accelerated Research Platform for AI-RAN
Sebastian Cammerer, Guillermo Marcus, Tobias Zirr, Fayçal Aït Aoudia , Lorenzo Maggi, Jakob Hoydis, Alex Keller
2025 IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning for Communication and Ne…
Design of a Standard-Compliant Real-Time Neural Receiver for 5G NR
Reinhard Wiesmayr, Sebastian Cammerer, Fayçal Aït Aoudia , Jakob Hoydis, Jakub Zakrzewski, Alex Keller
IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning for Communication and Network…
Sionna RT: Technical Report
Fayçal Aït Aoudia , Jakob Hoydis, Merlin Nimier-David, Sebastian Cammerer, Alex Keller
https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.21719

2024

Learning Radio Environments by Differentiable Ray Tracing
Jakob Hoydis, Fayçal Aït Aoudia , Sebastian Cammerer, Florian Euchner, Merlin Nimier-David, Stephan ten Brink
IEEE Transactions on Machine Learning in Communications and Networking

2023

Sionna RT: Differentiable Ray Tracing for Radio Propagation Modeling
Jakob Hoydis, Fayçal Aït Aoudia , Sebastian Cammerer, Merlin Nimier-David, Nikolaus Binder, Guillermo Marcus, Alex Keller
IEEE Globecom Workshops (GC Wkshps) 2023
A Neural Receiver for 5G NR Multi-user MIMO
Sebastian Cammerer, Fayçal Aït Aoudia , Jakob Hoydis, Andreas Oeldemann, Andreas Roessler, Timo Mayer, Alex Keller
IEEE Globecom Workshops (GC Wkshps) 2023

2022

Deep Learning-Based Synchronization for Uplink NB-IoT
Fayçal Aït Aoudia , Jakob Hoydis, Sebastian Cammerer, Matthijs Van keirsbilck, Alex Keller
IEEE Global Communications Conference 2022
Graph Neural Networks for Channel Decoding
Sebastian Cammerer, Jakob Hoydis, Fayçal Aït Aoudia , Alex Keller
IEEE Globecom Workshops (GC Wkshps) 2022
Sionna: An Open-Source Library for Next-Generation Physical Layer Research
Jakob Hoydis, Sebastian Cammerer, Fayçal Aït Aoudia , Avinash Vem, Nikolaus Binder, Guillermo Marcus, Alex Keller
arXiv