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

See my publications here (open archives).

 Teaching

Head of the teaching-oriented software defined radio platform RALF, University of Toulouse. This project aims at sharing resources (e.g., transceivers, datasets, software, teaching resources) between several local engineer schools and universities (e.g., ENAC, ENSEEIHT, ISAE-SUPAERO, INSA Toulouse, UPS...) and other partners (e.g., GIPSA-lab, IMT-Atlantique...).

Currently in charge of several teaching units :

• Introduction to wireless communication, SUPAERO 2nd year ;
• Digital communications, SUPAERO 3rd year ;
• Software defined radio : concepts and applications, EUROSAE ;
• Aeronautical communications, EUROSAE ;
• Time-frequency selective channels : models and simulation techniques, M2 TAST ;
• Transmission over frequency selective channels, M2 TAST.

Plus much more lectures, practice labs, projects in the field of signal processing and telecoms...

 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 list of supervised students, since 2014...

ongoing

• B. Traullé, Ph.D. candidate, Cognitive waveforms for radar and communication, 2018-2019, from ENS Rennes. Co-supervised with S. Bidon.
• L. Mounsif, Ph.D. candidate, Synchronization and security techniques for Faster-than-Nyquist signals funded by DGA/MRIS and ISAE, from ENSEIRB-MATMECA, 2018-2021.

alumni

• S. Mercier, Ph.D. candidate, Radar sensing and information transmission with a single waveform (RADCOM), funded by DGA/MRIS and Thalès Systèmes Aéroportés, from PHELMA, 2017-2020. Co-supervised with S. Bidon.
• N. Bekkali, Dipl.Ing. candidate, On the design of shared waveforms for communication and radar functions, from INPT/ENSEEIHT, 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, from ISAE-SUPAERO and Univ. Mons, 2020.
• A. Abelló, Ph.D. candidate, Adaptive faster-than-Nyquist techniques for satellite communications, funded by Eutelsat and DGA/MRIS, hosted at ISAE Supaero (Toulouse) and Eutelsat (Paris), co-supervised with J. Lacan (ISAE), J.M. Freixe (Eutelsat) and N. Pham (Eutelsat), from ISAE-SUPAERO and UPC/ETSETB, 2015-2018.
• N. Jimenez Diaz, M.Sc. candidate, Blind synchronization using neural networks, from UPC/ETSETB, 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, from UPM/ETSIT and Lund University, 2018.
• A. Marquet, Ph.D. canditate, Faster-than-Nyquist transmission over mobile radio channels, funded by the French Ministry of Education, hosted at GIPSA-lab and ISAE-SUPAERO, from TELECOM Bretagne, 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, from PHELMA, 2016.
• N. Doronzo, Dipl.Ing. and M.Sc. candidate, Building an ACARS receiver with software defined radio, from ENSIMAG and Politecnico di Torino, 2014.
• J. Charbonneau, Dipl.Ing. candidate, Building a GNSS receiver based on software defined radio, from ENSEEIHT, 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.