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

Head of Satellite Application and NewSpace (SANS) major, MSc. in aerospace engineering (MAE). In charge of the "telecom and computer networks" pathway for military engineers (IETA TEC).

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.