PhD student
Contact
- Email: nmessaoudi@uwaterloo.ca
About
Nizar Messaoudi is a PhD student with the Emerging Radio Systems Group in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo.
Publications
Journal articles
- Z. J. Su, A. Ben Ayed, N. Messaoudi, P. Mitran, S. Boumaiza, “Frequency-Stitching-Based Ultrawideband Signal Generation for 6G Component/System Testing: Achieving 12-GHz Instantaneous Bandwidth and 96-Gbps Data Rate at D Band,” IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, vol. 73, no. 5, pp. 2940–2949, May 2025.
- J. Teyssier, J. Dunsmore, S. Singh, N. Messaoudi, S. Kusano, J. Ericsson, “From S-Parameters to Wideband Modulation Stimulus-Response for Sub-THz Component Testing,” IEEE Microwave Magazine, vol. 26, no. 4, pp. 45–58, Apr. 2025.
- S. Bonen, U. Alakusu, Y. Duan, M. J. Gong, M. S. Dadash, L. Lucci, D. R. Daughton, G. C. Adam, S. Iordănescu, M. Pǎşteanu, I. Giangu, H. Jia, L. E. Gutierrez, W. T. Chen, N. Messaoudi, D. Harame, A. Müller, R. R. Mansour, P. Asbeck, S. P. Voinigescu, “Cryogenic Characterization of 22-nm FDSOI CMOS Technology for Quantum Computing ICs,” IEEE Electron Device Letters, vol. 40, no. 1, pp. 127–130, Jan. 2019.
Conference papers
- N. Messaoudi, S. Gao, M. W. Mansha, Y. Baeyens, S. Boumaiza, B. Hosein, S. Shahramian, “An Early Comparison of D-Band and G-Band On-Wafer Noise Figure Measurements,” 2025 105th ARFTG Microwave Measurement Conference (ARFTG), pp. 1–4, June 2025.
- N. Messaoudi, A. B. Ayed, S. Boumaiza, “A Piecewise Interpolation Based Digital Predistortion of Power Amplifiers Across Wide Power Ranges,” 2025 104th ARFTG Microwave Measurement Conference (ARFTG), pp. 1–4, Jan. 2025.
- N. Messaoudi, S. Gao, M. W. Mansha, Y. Baeyens, M. Sayginer, S. Boumaiza, B. Hosein, S. Shahramian, “Enhanced Accuracy in On-Wafer Noise Figure Measurements at Sub-Terahertz Frequencies,” 2024 IEEE/MTT-S International Microwave Symposium - IMS 2024, pp. 1024–1027, June 2024.
- Z. J. Su, N. Messaoudi, A. B. Ayed, J. -P. Teyssier, S. Boumaiza, “Comparison of Signal Generation Approaches for Component Testing at D-Band,” 2024 103rd ARFTG Microwave Measurement Conference (ARFTG), pp. 1–4, June 2024.
- J. P. Teyssier, N. Messaoudi, J. Dunsmore, J. Verspecht, “Deterministic detection and vector band stitching for the measurement of 6G wideband test signals,” 2023 53rd European Microwave Conference (EuMC), pp. 766–769, Sept. 2023.
- J. -P. Teyssier, J. Dunsmore, J. Ericsson, S. Kusano, N. Messaoudi, “Pulsed Sub-THz Wideband Vector Component Analysis,” 2023 101st ARFTG Microwave Measurement Conference (ARFTG), pp. 1–4, June 2023.
- N. Messaoudi, A. B. Ayed, Z. He, B. Tung, P. Mitran, S. Boumaiza, “New Digital Predistortion Training Method with Cross-Polarization Channel De-Embedding for Linearizing Dual-Polarized Arrays using Far-Field Observation Receiver,” 2023 IEEE/MTT-S International Microwave Symposium - IMS 2023, pp. 271–274, June 2023.
- N. Messaoudi, A. B. Ayed, J. Dunsmore, S. Boumaiza, “VNA-Based Testbed for Accurate Linearizability Testing of RF Beamforming Arrays Under Modulated Signals,” 2023 100th ARFTG Microwave Measurement Conference (ARFTG), pp. 1–4, Jan. 2023.
- N. Messaoudi, A. B. Ayed, J. -P. Teyssier, S. Boumaiza, “VNA-Based Testbed for Accurate Linearizability Testing of Power Amplifiers Under Modulated Signals,” 2022 99th ARFTG Microwave Measurement Conference (ARFTG), pp. 1–4, June 2022.
- N. Messaoudi, C. Crocker, M. Almendros, “A Hardware-Accelerated Qubit Control System for Quantum Information Processing,” 2020 XXXV Conference on Design of Circuits and Integrated Systems (DCIS), pp. 1–5, Nov. 2020.
- N. Messaoudi, C. W. S. Chang, A. M. Vadiraj, C. M. Wilson, J. Bourassa, B. Balaji, “Practical Advantage in Microwave Quantum Illumination,” 2020 IEEE Radar Conference (RadarConf20), pp. 1–5, Sept. 2020.
- M. J. Gong, U. Alakusu, S. Bonen, M. S. Dadash, L. Lucci, H. Jia, L. E. Gutierrez, W. T. Chen, D. R. Daughton, G. C. Adam, S. Iordănescu, M. Păşteanu, N. Messaoudi, D. Harame, A. Müller, R. R. Mansour, S. P. Voinigescu, “Design Considerations for Spin Readout Amplifiers in Monolithically Integrated Semiconductor Quantum Processors,” 2019 IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium (RFIC), pp. 111–114, June 2019.
- N. Messaoudi, M. -C. Fares, S. Boumaiza, J. Wood, “Complexity reduced odd-order memory polynomial pre-distorter for 400-watt multi-carrier Doherty amplifier linearization,” 2008 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium Digest, pp. 419–422, June 2008.
- M. -C. Fares, N. Messaoudi, S. Boumaiza, J. Wood, “400-Watt Doherty amplifier linearization using optimized memory polynomials predistorter,” 2007 70th ARFTG Microwave Measurement Conference (ARFTG), pp. 1–4, Nov. 2007.
- N. Messaoudi, O. Hammi, J. Sirois, S. Boumaiza, F. M. Ghannouchi, “A Comparative Study of Power Amplifiers' Sensitivity to Load Mismatch: Single Branch vs. Doherty Architectures,” 2007 Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, pp. 1543–1546, Apr. 2007.