Ahmad Hassan

Ph.D. Candidate in ECE @ USC

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EEB 228

3650 McClintock Ave

Los Angeles, CA 90089

I am a final year Ph.D. student in the ECE department at the University of Southern California. I am fortunate enough to be advised by Prof. Feng Qian. Topics that intrigue me include, but are not limited to, Mobile Systems, ML for Systems, 5G Mobile Networking, Multimedia Systems, and Networked VR/MR. My current research highlights challenges faced by today’s 4G/5G applications and argues for a cross-layer design to overcome these challenges.

In recent years, I have had the privilege of working closely with Prof. Zhi-Li Zhang and Prof. Z. Morley Mao. Earlier, I completed my undergraduate studies in Computer Science at LUMS, where I explored cellular networks and congestion control under the guidance of Prof. Zafar Ayyub Qazi.

I am expected to graduate in Spring 2026 and am open to full-time opportunities in industry.

news

Sep 15, 2025 Our Performance-driven Connectivity Management work has been accepted to CoNext’25.
Aug 22, 2025 Wrapped up my internship at Samsung Research America. Best intern poster runner-up!
Sep 18, 2024 Our work on 5G TDD Scheduling has been accepted to CoNext’24. Best paper runner-up!
May 15, 2024 Our 5G Carrier Aggregation study led by Wei got into Sigcomm 2024!
Jan 03, 2024 Our OASIS work led by Shuowei was accepted to MMSys’24. Best paper award!

selected publications

  1. CoNEXT
    Wixor: Dynamic TDD Policy Adaptation for 5G/xG Networks
    Ahmad Hassan, Shivang Aggarwal, Mohamed Ibrahim, and 2 more authors
    Proc. ACM Netw., Nov 2024
  2. SIGCOMM
    Dissecting Carrier Aggregation in 5G Networks: Measurement, QoE Implications and Prediction
    Wei Ye, Xinyue Hu, Steven Sleder, and 9 more authors
    In Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2024 Conference, Sydney, NSW, Australia, Nov 2024
  3. NSDI
    Habitus: Boosting Mobile Immersive Content Delivery through Full-body Pose Tracking and Multipath Networking
    Anlan Zhang, Chendong Wang, Yuming Hu, and 5 more authors
    In 21st USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI 24), Apr 2024
  4. SIGCOMM
    Vivisecting Mobility Management in 5G Cellular Networks
    Ahmad Hassan, Arvind Narayanan, Anlan Zhang, and 7 more authors
    In Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2022 Conference, Amsterdam, Netherlands, Apr 2022
  5. SIGCOMM
    A Variegated Look at 5G in the Wild: Performance, Power, and QoE Implications
    Arvind *Narayanan, Xumiao *Zhang, Ruiyang Zhu, and 9 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 2021 ACM SIGCOMM 2021 Conference, Virtual Event, USA, Apr 2021