Damien Roque

 Short bio

My research interests are in the field of digital communications and related signal processing techniques (e.g., estimation/detection, time-frequency analysis)

Since late 2020, I’m a full professor at the Institut Supérieur de l’Aéronautique et de l’Espace (ISAE-SUPAERO), University of Toulouse. From 2013 to 2020, I was an associate professor (same affiliation). From 2012 to 2013, I was a temporary assistant professor (ATER) at the École Nationale Supérieure d’Informatique et de Mathématiques Appliquées de Grenoble (ENSIMAG). From 2009 to 2012, I was working towards the PhD at Grenoble Images Paroles Signal Automatique laboratory (GIPSA-lab), under the supervision of C. Siclet and J.M. Brossier.

I received the Dipl.-Ing. degree in communications from the École Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications de Bretagne (today known as IMT-Atlantique) in 2009 and the Ph.D. degree in signal processing from the University of Grenoble in 2012. I obtained the Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches (HDR) degree from the Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse (INP Toulouse) in 2020.

 Research

Ongoing research topics :

• “faster-than-Nyquist” (FTN) transmission techniques (interference mitigation, synchronization...) ;
• spectrum and waveform sharing (radar/communication) ;
• multicarrier modulations over mobile radio channels (pulse shapes optimization, equalization...).

See my publications here (open archives).

 Teaching

Currently in charge of the following courses :

• Wireless transmission techniques, Dipl.-Ing. ISAE-SUPAERO, 3rd year ;
• Software-defined radio, Dipl.-Ing. ISAE-SUPAERO, 3rd year ;
• Introduction to wireless communications, Dipl.-Ing. ISAE-SUPAERO, 2nd year ;
• Advanced waveforms design, research-oriented master ACS.

 Membership and expertise

International activities :

• IEEE (M’15 - SM’19) affiliations : AESS, ComSoc, SPS.
• Associate Editor for IEEE Access since 2019.
• Journals reviewer, including IEEE CL, IEEE Access, IEEE TWC, EURASIP Sig. Proc., EURASIP JWCN.
• Conference committee member, including GLOBECOM workshops.
• Conference reviewer, including ICC, GLOBECOM, RADAR, RADARCONF, VTC.

 Supervision

Here is a list of supervised students since 2014...

ongoing

• N. Bekkali, Ph.D. candidate, New waveforms to jointly detect and transmit information, funded DGA/AID, 2023-2026. Co-supervised with S. Bidon and M. Benammar.
• B. Traullé, Ph.D. candidate, Cognitive waveforms for radar and communication, funded by ENS Rennes, 2019-2023. Co-supervised with S. Bidon.

alumni

• L. Mounsif, Ph.D. candidate, Synchronization and security techniques for Faster-than-Nyquist signals funded by DGA/MRIS and ISAE-SUPAERO, 2018-2022.
• S. Mercier, Ph.D. candidate, Radar sensing and information transmission with a single waveform (RADCOM), funded by DGA/MRIS and Thalès Systèmes Aéroportés, 2017-2020. Co-supervised with S. Bidon.
• N. Bekkali, Dipl.-Ing. and M.Sc. candidate, On the design of shared waveforms for communication and radar functions, 2020. Co-supervised with S. Bidon and M. Benammar.
• C. Dehombreux, Dipl.-Ing. and M.Sc. candidate, On the relevance of symplectic Fourier transform precoding for multicarrier communications, 2020.
• B. Traullé, M.Sc. candidate, Optimization of a single radar/communications waveform, 2019. Co-supervised with S. Bidon.
• A. Abelló, Ph.D. candidate, Adaptive faster-than-Nyquist techniques for satellite communications, funded by Eutelsat and DGA/MRIS, 2015-2018. Co-supervised with J. Lacan (ISAE), J.M. Freixe (Eutelsat) and N. Pham (Eutelsat).
• N. Jimenez Diaz, M.Sc. candidate, Blind synchronization using neural networks, 2018. Co-supervised with M. Benammar.
• M.J. Lopez Morales, M.Sc. candidate, Synchronization techniques for faster-than-Nyquist signals based on higher-order statistics, 2018.
• A. Marquet, Ph.D. candidate, Faster-than-Nyquist transmission over mobile radio channels, funded by MESR, co-supervised by L. Ros (GIPSA-lab) and C. Siclet (GIPSA-lab), 2014-2017.
• A. Pirovano, Dipl.-Ing. candidate, Design of a VHF datalink mode 2 receiver based on software-defined radio, 2016.
• N. Doronzo, Dipl.-Ing. and M.Sc. candidate, Building an ACARS receiver with software defined radio, 2014.
• J. Charbonneau, Dipl.-Ing. candidate, Building a GNSS receiver based on software-defined radio, 2014.

 Contact

You can reach me on the SUPAERO campus, building 7, office 1107 (coordinates 43.565233, 1.475407), contact me by e-mail, or by phone : +33 (0)5 61 33 83 56.