Nizar Messaoudi

PhD student, Emerging Radio Systems Group

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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

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. 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.