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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
🔗 dony.cekqi.com
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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
    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
    IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society, May 2025.
  3. Low-Complexity Sum-Capacity Maximization for Intelligent Reflecting Surface-Aided MIMO Systems
    IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, Apr 2022.
  4. Design Six Stage Cockcroft Walton Voltage Multiplier 12 kV
    TELKOMNIKA (Telecommunication Computing Electronics and Control), Aug 2019.
Proceedings
  1. Graph-MLP Based Optimization for RIS-Assisted Multi-User MISO Systems With Implicit CSI
    IEEE ICMLCN, Barcelona, Spain, May 2025.
  2. Flexible Hierarchical Multi-Beam Search for mmWave massive MIMO Systems
    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 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.

Research Collaborations