Fayçal Aït Aoudia ![](/sites/default/files/person/Faycal.jpg) 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](/research-area/algorithms) [Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning ](/research-area/machine-learning-artificial-intelligence) Main Field of Interest [Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning ](/research-area/machine-learning-artificial-intelligence) Google Scholar [https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=hWgQeD4AAAAJ&hl=fr&oi=ao](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=hWgQeD4AAAAJ&hl=fr&oi=ao) ### Publications ### 2025 [SALAD: Self-Adaptive Link Adaptation](/publication/2025-10_salad-self-adaptive-link-adaptation) Reinhard Wiesmayr, [Lorenzo Maggi](/person/lorenzo-maggi), [Sebastian Cammerer](/person/sebastian-cammerer), [Jakob Hoydis](/person/jakob-hoydis), [Fayçal Aït Aoudia ](/person/faycal-ait-aoudia), [Alex Keller](/person/alex-keller) [arXiv](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.05784) [Sionna Research Kit: A GPU-Accelerated Research Platform for AI-RAN](/publication/2025-05_sionna-research-kit-gpu-accelerated-research-platform-ai-ran) [Sebastian Cammerer](/person/sebastian-cammerer), [Guillermo Marcus](/person/guillermo-marcus), [Tobias Zirr](/person/tobias-zirr), [Fayçal Aït Aoudia ](/person/faycal-ait-aoudia), [Lorenzo Maggi](/person/lorenzo-maggi), [Jakob Hoydis](/person/jakob-hoydis), [Alex Keller](/person/alex-keller) [2025 IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning for Communication and Ne…](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2505.15848) [Design of a Standard-Compliant Real-Time Neural Receiver for 5G NR](/publication/2025-05_design-standard-compliant-real-time-neural-receiver-5g-nr) Reinhard Wiesmayr, [Sebastian Cammerer](/person/sebastian-cammerer), [Fayçal Aït Aoudia ](/person/faycal-ait-aoudia), [Jakob Hoydis](/person/jakob-hoydis), Jakub Zakrzewski, [Alex Keller](/person/alex-keller) [IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning for Communication and Network…](https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/11140048) [Sionna RT: Technical Report](/publication/2025-04_sionna-rt-technical-report) [Fayçal Aït Aoudia ](/person/faycal-ait-aoudia), [Jakob Hoydis](/person/jakob-hoydis), [Merlin Nimier-David](/person/merlin-nimier-david), [Sebastian Cammerer](/person/sebastian-cammerer), [Alex Keller](/person/alex-keller) ### 2024 [Learning Radio Environments by Differentiable Ray Tracing](/publication/2024-10_learning-radio-environments-differentiable-ray-tracing) [Jakob Hoydis](/person/jakob-hoydis), [Fayçal Aït Aoudia ](/person/faycal-ait-aoudia), [Sebastian Cammerer](/person/sebastian-cammerer), Florian Euchner, [Merlin Nimier-David](/person/merlin-nimier-david), Stephan ten Brink [IEEE Transactions on Machine Learning in Communications and Networking](https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/10705152) ### 2023 [Sionna RT: Differentiable Ray Tracing for Radio Propagation Modeling](/publication/2023-12_sionna-rt-differentiable-ray-tracing-radio-propagation-modeling) [Jakob Hoydis](/person/jakob-hoydis), [Fayçal Aït Aoudia ](/person/faycal-ait-aoudia), [Sebastian Cammerer](/person/sebastian-cammerer), [Merlin Nimier-David](/person/merlin-nimier-david), [Nikolaus Binder](/person/nikolaus-binder), [Guillermo Marcus](/person/guillermo-marcus), [Alex Keller](/person/alex-keller) [IEEE Globecom Workshops (GC Wkshps) 2023](https://globecom2023.ieee-globecom.org/) [A Neural Receiver for 5G NR Multi-user MIMO](/index.php/publication/2023-12_neural-receiver-5g-nr-multi-user-mimo) [Sebastian Cammerer](/index.php/person/sebastian-cammerer), [Fayçal Aït Aoudia ](/index.php/person/faycal-ait-aoudia), [Jakob Hoydis](/index.php/person/jakob-hoydis), Andreas Oeldemann, Andreas Roessler, Timo Mayer, [Alex Keller](/index.php/person/alex-keller) [IEEE Globecom Workshops (GC Wkshps) 2023](https://globecom2023.ieee-globecom.org/) ### 2022 [Deep Learning-Based Synchronization for Uplink NB-IoT](/index.php/publication/2022-12_deep-learning-based-synchronization-uplink-nb-iot) [Fayçal Aït Aoudia ](/index.php/person/faycal-ait-aoudia), [Jakob Hoydis](/index.php/person/jakob-hoydis), [Sebastian Cammerer](/index.php/person/sebastian-cammerer), [Matthijs Van keirsbilck](/index.php/person/matthijs-van-keirsbilck), [Alex Keller](/index.php/person/alex-keller) [IEEE Global Communications Conference 2022](https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/10001353) [Graph Neural Networks for Channel Decoding](/publication/2022-12_graph-neural-networks-channel-decoding) [Sebastian Cammerer](/person/sebastian-cammerer), [Jakob Hoydis](/person/jakob-hoydis), [Fayçal Aït Aoudia ](/person/faycal-ait-aoudia), [Alex Keller](/person/alex-keller) [IEEE Globecom Workshops (GC Wkshps) 2022](https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/10008601/) [Sionna: An Open-Source Library for Next-Generation Physical Layer Research](/publication/2022-03_sionna-open-source-library-next-generation-physical-layer-research) [Jakob Hoydis](/person/jakob-hoydis), [Sebastian Cammerer](/person/sebastian-cammerer), [Fayçal Aït Aoudia ](/person/faycal-ait-aoudia), Avinash Vem, [Nikolaus Binder](/person/nikolaus-binder), [Guillermo Marcus](/person/guillermo-marcus), [Alex Keller](/person/alex-keller) [arXiv](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2203.11854.pdf)