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Dony Darmawan Putra, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Fellow | Wireless Communications · MIMO · RIS · V2X · Channel Estimation with Green Learning
✉️ donydp@mail.nsysu.edu.tw
📍 Kaohsiung, Taiwan
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Ahmad Sirojuddin

Education

PhD — Institute of Communication Engineering, National Sun Yat-sen University (NSYSU)
📅 Sep 2020 – Aug 2025   📍 Taiwan
GPA 4.3/4.3
MS — IMPTE, National Sun Yat-sen University (NSYSU)
📅 Sep 2018 – Sep 2020   📍 Taiwan
GPA 4.2/4.3
BEng — Electrical & Electronics Engineering, Universitas Brawijaya
📅 Sep 2014 – Jan 2018   📍 Indonesia
GPA 3.8/4.0

Selected Achievements

2026
HDR Scientific-MOOD FAIR Challenge (Year 2) — Global Results
Overall Challenge: 🥈 2nd Place — Official winners announcement
Link: https://www.nsfhdr.org/html/mlchallenge-y2/winners.html
iHARP: Predicting Coastal Flooding Events: 🥇 1st Place
Invited to present the solution at the FAIR in ML, AI Readiness, & Reproducibility (FARR) Workshop, Washington, DC, USA (Apr 8–9, 2026). Workshop page
Link: https://www.farr-rcn.org/workshop26
2026
NSF HDR (Scientific-MOOD) Hackathon in Taiwan — Taiwan Local Winners
iHarp Competition (Coastal Flooding): 🥇 1st Place
Imageomics Competition (Ecology): 🥈 2nd Place
A3D3 Competition (Neural Forecasting): 🥉 3rd Place
Taiwan Local Winners Announcement · Award Ceremony: Jan 14, 2026
Link: https://indico.cern.ch/event/1610056/page/41091-taiwan-local-winners-announcement
2023
Student IEEE Travel Grant — full accommodation support to attend IEEE conference (Glasgow, Scotland).
2021
1st Place — NSYSU Research Competition (College of Engineering).
2021
2nd Place — Poster Design Competition (Kaohsiung Medical University).

Publications

Journal
  1. Fast Algorithm for Optimal Resource Allocation in a Low-Latency Downlink NOMA-Enabled Vehicle Platoon-Based V2X System
    Dony Darmawan Putra, Wan-Jen Huang, Ka-Cheong Leung
    IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society, April 2026.
  2. Flexible Hierarchical Multi-Beam Search Algorithm for Millimeter-Wave 3D MIMO Systems With Uniform Planar Arrays
    Dony Darmawan Putra, Wan-Jen Huang
    IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society, May 2025.
  3. Low-Complexity Sum-Capacity Maximization for Intelligent Reflecting Surface-Aided MIMO Systems
    Ahmad Sirojuddin, Dony Darmawan Putra, Wan-Jen Huang
    IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, Apr 2022.
Proceedings
  1. Graph-MLP Based Optimization for RIS-Assisted Multi-User MISO Systems With Implicit CSI
    Dony Darmawan Putra, Tri Cahyani, Wan-Jen Huang, Sok-Ian Sou
    IEEE ICMLCN, Barcelona, Spain, May 2025.
  2. Flexible Hierarchical Multi-Beam Search for mmWave massive MIMO Systems
    Dony Darmawan Putra, Wan-Jen Huang, Ahmad Sirojuddin
    IEEE WCNC, Glasgow, United Kingdom, Mar 2023.

Teaching Experiences

Lecturer (one semester) — Universitas Islam Negeri Maulana Malik Ibrahim Malang
📅 Sep 2024 – Jan 2025   📍 Indonesia
Teaching Physics and Calculus.
Teaching Assistant — National Sun Yat-sen University
📅 Feb 2019 – Jul 2025   📍 Taiwan
Statistical Communication, Random Processes, Probability Theory, Linear Algebra, Discrete Mathematics, Performance Evaluation of Communication Systems, and Basic Telecommunication.

Working Experiences (Non-Teaching)

Postdoctoral Research Fellow — National Sun Yat-sen University (NSYSU)
Sep 1, 2025 – Aug 31, 2026
Postdoctoral research in wideband wireless communications, MIMO, RIS, V2X, and channel estimation with green learning.

Project Experiences

5th Qualcomm Taiwan University Research Workshop 2024
📅 2024
DL-Based Precoding Design in STAR-RIS-aided Massive MIMO Systems with Implicit CSI.
1st Qualcomm Taiwan University Research Workshop 2019
📅 2019
Beam-space Channel Estimation for Millimeter-Wave Massive MIMO System with Planar Array.

Reviewer Experiences

  • IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications.
  • IEEE Systems Journal.
  • IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems.
  • ICOIN 2025 The 39th International Conference on Information Networking.
  • 2025 IEEE 22nd Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC).
  • Wireless Networks.
  • 5th International Workshop on Communication and Networking for Swarms Robotics (ROBOCOM'25).
  • IEEE Transactions on Signal and Information Processing over Networks.
  • 2024 IEEE International Conference on Communications, Control, and Computing Technologies for Smart Grids (SmartGridComm).
  • 2025 IEEE Globecom Workshop
  • 2026 IEEE 23rd Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC)

REFEREE

👤 Wan-Jen Huang
My current advisor
✉️ wjhuang@faculty.nsysu.edu.tw
📍 EC8008, NSYSU

Skills

Human Languages
Bahasa Indonesia, English, Chinese Traditional, Javanese, Malay.
Programming Languages and Scripting
General-Purpose: Python, MATLAB, PHP, Java, Vue.js, Django
System-Level: C++, C, Assembly, Go
Database & Query Languages: SQL
DS & ML Tools (Python)
NumPy, Pandas, Matplotlib, Seaborn, Scikit-learn, Keras, Tensorflow, PyTorch.
Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence
Green Learning, Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) and Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs).
Reinforcement Learning Algorithms and Policy Optimization.
Data Preprocessing, Feature Engineering, and Model Deployment.