Dola Saha
Associate Professor
College of Nanotechnology, Science, and Engineering
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
Education
PhD, Computer Science, University of Colorado Boulder, 2013
MS, Computer Science, University of Colorado Boulder, 2008
BTech, Information Technology, Kalyani University, 2002
About
Dr. Dola Saha is an associate professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and a co-director of the Mobile Emerging Systems and Applications (MESA) Lab at the University at Albany.
She comes to us from her positions at the Wireless Information Network Laboratory (WINLAB) and Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at Rutgers University.
In addition to an active research agenda, Dr. Saha participates in publicly engaged activities that encourage young women to pursue studies and careers in STEM.
Research
Research Interests
Dr. Saha's research lies in the crossroads of Wireless Communication, Wireless Signal Processing, Machine Learning in Wireless Communication, Wireless Networks and Architecture of Software Defined Radios with focus on systems design and practical evaluation.
Grants/Funding
Dr. Saha's funded projects, in chronological order, include:
- Mixed-Precision Deep Learning Models for Integrated Sensing and Communication, funded by UAlbany-IBM Center for Emerging Artificial Intelligence Systems (CEAIS)
- Detecting UNclassified Electromagnetic Signals (DUNES) for Secure Wireless Communication Using Open Set Recognition, funded by Idaho National Laboratory (INL), Department of Energy (DoE)
- Domain Knowledge Aided Adversarial Learning For Terahertz Channel Model, funded by Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL)
- SCISRS: Signal Cancellation using Intelligent Surfaces for Radio Astronomy Services, funded by National Science Foundation (NSF)
- Collaborative Interference Cancellation for Radio Astronomy, funded by National Science Foundation (NSF)
- CHRONOS: A Cloud based Hybrid RF-Optical Network Over Synchronous Links, funded by National Science Foundation (NSF) - completed
- Exploring ReRAM-Accelerated Neuromorphic Computing for Low-SWaP IoT/Edge Spectrum Sensing, Learning, and Prediction, funded by Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL Mid-Atlantic Hub) - completed
- Highly Integrated and Distributed Recognition Architecture for Anti-Ballistic Missile (HYDRA-ABM) System, funded by Missile Defense Agency (MDA) - completed
- AI Guided Terahertz Communication, funded by Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) - completed
- CROWN: Channel Responsive Operational Waveform for Airborne Networks, funded by Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) - completed
- Wave guided Neural Network for Terahertz Communication, funded by Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) - completed
For more information on Dr. Saha's current projects and research areas, please visit the MESA Lab website.
Publications
- Sirajum Munira, Shuvam Chakraborty, Dola Saha, Aveek Dutta and Gregory Hellbourg, WAFER: WAveform-based Feature Extraction for RFI Cancellation from Multiple Sources, in IEEE International Symposium on Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks (DySPAN) 2025.
- Xue Wei, Anna Quach, Daniel Wells and Dola Saha, Contrasting Time-Frequency Representations for Unknown Waveform Detection, in IEEE Workshop on Machine Learning and Deep Learning for Wireless Security (MLDLWiSec), with ICC 2025.
- Shuvam Chakraborty, Steven Arbogast, Claire Parisi, Dola Saha and Ngwe Thawdar, WIT - Waveform Independent Tunable Channel Model for sub-Terahertz Communication, in IEEE INFOCOM 2025.
- Shuvam Chakraborty, Claire Parisi, Dola Saha and Ngwe Thawdar, TWIRLD: Transformer Generated Terahertz Waveform for Improved Radio Link Distance, in IEEE Transactions on Machine Learning in Communications and Networking (TMLCN), 2024.
- Hesham Mohammed and Dola Saha, Encrypted-OFDM: A secured wireless waveform, in Elsevier Journal of Computer Networks, October 2024.
- Xue Wei, Dola Saha and Anna Quach, Exploiting Multi-Domain Features for Detection of Unclassified Electromagnetic Signals, in IEEE Military Communications Conference (MILCOM) 2024.
- Nathaniel Rowe and Dola Saha, DetecSHUN: Detection of Signals Hidden Under the Noise, in ACM Workshop on Wireless Security and Machine Learning (WiseML 2024).
- Nathaniel Rowe and Dola Saha, Detection of Unknown Signals at Low SNRs, in IEEE ICC 2024 Workshop on Machine Learning and Deep Learning for Wireless Security (MLDLWiSec 2024).
- Tayyebeh Asgari Gashteroodkhani, Iresha Amarasekara, Aveek Dutta and Dola Saha, Architecture and Benchmark of an Experimental CRAN Platform over CPRI, in IEEE INFOCOM Workshops: Next-generation Open and Programmable Radio Access Networks (NG-OPERA 2024).
- Shuvam Chakraborty, Dola Saha, Aveek Dutta and Gregory Hellbourg, Low Overhead Multi-Source RFI Cancellation, in IEEE International Symposium on Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks (DySPAN 2024).
- Xue Wei, Anushka Gupta, Aveek Dutta, Dola Saha and Gregory Hellbourg, RIS for Signal Cancellation in 3D, in IEEE International Symposium on Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks (DySPAN 2024).
- Sirajum Munira, Dola Saha, Gregory Hellbourg and Aveek Dutta, Dynamic Protection Zone for Radio Astronomy, in IEEE International Symposium on Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks (DySPAN 2024).
- Xue Wei and Dola Saha, WISE: Waveform Independent Signal Embedding for Covert Communication, in IEEE Transactions on Machine Learning in Communications and Networking (TMLCN 2024).
- Shuvam Chakraborty, Gregory Hellbourg, Maqsood Careem, Dola Saha and Aveek Dutta, Collaboration with Cellular Networks for RFI Cancellation at Radio Telescope, in IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking (TCCN 2023).
- Shuvam Chakraborty, Dola Saha, Aveek Dutta and Gregory Hellbourg, LOCI: Learning Low Overhead Collaborative Interference Cancellation for Radio Astronomy, in IEEE ICC 2023.
- Xue Wei, Dola Saha, Gregory Hellbourg and Aveek Dutta, Multistage 2D DOA Estimation in Low SNR, in IEEE ICC 2023.
- Aritra Dey and Dola Saha, Analysis of Electromagnetic Scattering by Propellers of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, in IEEE Aerospace Conference 2023.
- Zhibin Zou, Xue Wei, Dola Saha, Aveek Dutta and Gregory Hellbourg, SCISRS: Signal Cancellation using Intelligent Surfaces for Radio Astronomy Services, in IEEE Globecom 2022.
- Xue Wei and Dola Saha, KNEW: Key Generation using NEural Networks from Wireless Channels, in ACM Wireless Security and Machine Learning (WiseML) 2022.
- Hesham Mohammed and Dola Saha, Learning secure modulation using complex neural networks, in SPIE Defense + Commercial Sensing 2022.
- Shuvam Chakraborty, Dola Saha and Ngwe Thawdar, Communication Knowledge Aided Neural Network for OFDM Receiver in Terahertz Band, in IEEE ICC 2022.
- Maqsood Careem, Shuvam Chakaraborty, Aveek Dutta, Dola Saha, Gregory Hellbourg, Spectrum Sharing via Collaborative RFI Cancellation for Radio Astronomy, in DySPAN 2021 [BEST PAPER].
- Hesham Mohammed, Xue Wei and Dola Saha, Adversarial Learning for Hiding Wireless Signals, in IEEE Globecom 2021.
- Shuvam Chakraborty and Dola Saha, Domain Knowledge aided Neural Network for Wireless Channel Estimation, in IEEE Globecom 2021.
- Ahmed F Hussein, Dola Saha and Hany Elgala, Mixed-Carrier Communication for Technology Division Multiplexing, in Electronics 2021.
- Shuvam Chakraborty, Claire Parisi, Dola Saha and Ngwe Thawdar, A Case for OFDM in Ultra-broadband Terahertz Communication: An Experimental Approach, in ACM Workshop on Millimeter-Wave and Terahertz Networks and Sensing Systems (mmNets) 2021.
- Hesham Mohammed and Dola Saha, Adversarial Learning for Cross Layer Security, in ACM Wireless Security and Machine Learning (WiseML) 2021.
- Maqsood Careem, Jorge Gomez, Dola Saha and Aveek Dutta, RFEye in the Sky, in IEEE Transactions of Mobile Computing, Nov 2020
- Hesham Mohammed and Dola Saha, Learning Secured Modulation With Deep Adversarial Neural Networks, in IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC) Fall 2020.
- Shuvam Chakraborty, Hesham Mohammed and Dola Saha, Learning from Peers at the Wireless Edge, in IEEE International Conference on COMmunication Systems and NETworkS (COMSNETS) 2020.
- Hesham Mohammed and Dola Saha, Rand-OFDM: A Secured Wireless Signal, in IEEE International Conference on COMmunication Systems and NETworkS (COMSNETS) 2020.
- Tejashri Kuber, Dola Saha, Ivan Seskar, Blind Classification of MIMO Wireless Signals, in IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC) Fall 2019.
- Maqsood Ahamed, Abdul Careem, Jorge Gomez, Dola Saha, Aveek Dutta, HiPER-V: A High Precision Radio Frequency Vehicle for Aerial Measurements, in IEEE 1st International Workshop on Internet of Autonomous Unmanned Vehicles 2019 with IEEE SECON.
- Priti G Pachpande, Monette H Khadr, Hesham Hussien, Hany Elgala, Dola Saha, Autoencoder Model for OFDM-based Optical Wireless Communication, in OSA Advanced Photonics Congress (AP) 2019.
- Maqsood Careem, Monette Khadr, Ahmed F. Hussien, Dola Saha, Hany Elgala, Aveek Dutta, CHRONOS: A Cloud based Hybrid RF-Optical Network Over Synchronous Links, in IEEE 5G World Forum (5GWF), 2018
- Tejashri Kuber, Dola Saha, Ivan Seskar, Predicting Channel Transition for MU-MIMO Beamforming, in IEEE 5G World Forum (5GWF), 2018
- Shweta Sagari, Siddarth Mathur, Dola Saha, Syed Obaid Amin, Ravishankar Ravindran, Ivan Seskar, Dipankar Raychaudhuri, Guoqiang Wang, Realization of CDMA-based IoT Services with Shared Band Operation of LTE in 5G, MECOMM Workshop ACM SIGCOMM 2017
- Tejashri Kuber, Gokul Sridharan, Dola Saha, Ivan Seskar, Practical MU-MIMO Experiments using SDRs, CNERT Workshop with IEEE INFOCOM 2017
- Siddarth Mathur, Shweta Sagari, Syed Obaid Amin, Ravishankar Ravindran, Dola Saha, Ivan Seskar, Dipankar Raychaudhuri, Guoqiang Wang, CDMA-based IoT Services with Shared Band Operation of LTE in 5G, Demo IEEE INFOCOM 2017
- Siddarth Mathur, Dola Saha, Dipankar Raychaudhuri, Cross-Layer MAC/PHY Protocol to Support IoT Traffic in 5G, Poster in ACM MOBICOM 2016
- Purna Doddapaneni, Quincy Wofford, Nicole Maneth, Dola Saha, Multi-Sensor Health Platform with Cloud Analysis, in International Telemetering Conference, 2016
- Wenjie Zhou, Dola Saha and Sampath Rangarajan, A System Architecture to Aggregate Video Surveillance Data in Smart Cities, in IEEE GLOBECOM 2015
- Shweta Sagari, Samuel Baysting, Dola Saha, Ivan Seskar, Wade Trappe, Dipankar Raychaudhuri, Coordinated Dynamic Spectrum Management of LTE-U and Wi-Fi Networks, in IEEE DySPAN 2015, Stockholm, Sweden, October 2015 [BEST TECHNICAL PAPER]
- Dola Saha, Aveek Dutta, Dirk Grunwald, Douglas Sicker, GRaTIS: Free Bits in The Network, in IEEE Transactions of Mobile Computing, Volume PP, Issue 29 (February 2013).
- Aveek Dutta, Dola Saha, Dirk Grunwald, and Douglas Sicker, CODIPHY - Composing On-Demand Intelligent Physical Layers, ACM workshop on Software radio implementation forum (SRIF) 2013, Hong Kong, China, August 2013
- Khanh Le, Prasanthi Maddala, Craig Gutterman, Kyle Soska, Aveek Dutta, Dola Saha, Peter Wolniansky, Dirk Grunwald and Ivan Seskar, Cognitive Radio Kit Framework : Experimental Platform for Dynamic Spectrum Research, ACM workshop on Wireless Network Testbeds, Experimental evaluation & Characterization (WiNTECH) 2012, Istanbul, Turkey, August 2012
- Dola Saha, Aveek Dutta, Dirk Grunwald, Douglas Sicker, GRaTIS: Sensing and Intelligence for Performance in The Presence of Legacy Networks, Crowncom 2012, Stockholm, Sweden, June 2012
- Aveek Dutta, Dola Saha, Dirk Grunwald, Douglas Sicker, Secret Agent Radio: Covert Communication through Dirty Constellations, Information Hiding 2012, Berkeley, USA, May 2012
- Dola Saha, Aveek Dutta, Dirk Grunwald, Douglas Sicker, Blind Synchronization for NC-OFDMs - When "Channels" Are Conventions, Not Mandates, DySPAN 2011, Aachen, Germany, May 2011
- Aveek Dutta, Dola Saha, Dirk Grunwald, Douglas Sicker, An Architecture for Software Defined Cognitive Radio, ANCS 2010, La Jolla, USA, October 2010
- Dola Saha, Aveek Dutta, Dirk Grunwald, Douglas Sicker, Active Radar - A Cooperative Approach using Multicarrier Communication, IEEE LCN ON-MOVE, Denver, USA, September 2010
- Aveek Dutta, Dola Saha, Dirk Grunwald, Douglas Sicker, Practical Implementation of Blind Synchronization in NC-OFDM based Cognitive Radio Networks, ACM CORONET 2010, Chicago, USA, September 2010
- Dola Saha, Aveek Dutta, Dirk Grunwald, Douglas Sicker, Channel Assignment in Virtual Cut-Through Switching based Wireless Mesh Networks, ICDCN 2010, Kolkata, India, January 2010
- Dola Saha, Dirk Grunwald, Douglas Sicker, Wireless innovation through software radios, SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review: Editorial Zone, Volume 39, Issue 1 (January 2009)
- Aveek Dutta, Dola Saha, Dirk Grunwald, Douglas Sicker, SMACK - A SMart ACKnowledgment Scheme for Broadcast Messages in Wireless Networks, ACM SIGCOMM 2009, Barcelona, Spain, August 2009
- Dola Saha, Aveek Dutta, Dirk Grunwald, Douglas Sicker, PHY Aided MAC: A New Paradigm, IEEE INFOCOM miniconference 2009, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, April 2009
- Michael Buettner, Eric Anderson, Gary Yee, Dola Saha, Anmol Sheth, Douglas Sicker, Dirk Grunwald, A Phased Array Antenna Testbed for Evaluating Directionality in Wireless Networks, ACM MobiEval 2007, San Juan, Puerto Rico, June 2007
- Tetsuro Ueda, Shinsuke Tanaka, Siuli Roy, Dola Saha and Somprakash Bandyopadhyay, A Priority-Based QoS Routing for Multimedia Traffic in Ad Hoc Wireless Networks with Directional Antenna using a Zone-Reservation Protocol, IEICE Transaction on Communications: Special Section on Mobile Multimedia Communications, Vol.E87-B No.5 pp.1085-1094
- Tetsuro Ueda, Shinsuke Tanaka, Siuli Roy, Dola Saha and Somprakash Bandyopadhyay, Location-Aware Power-Efficient Directional MAC Protocol in Ad Hoc Networks Using Directional Antenna, IEICE Transaction: Special Issue on Networking Technologies for Mobile Internet Systems
- Tetsuro Ueda, Shinsuke Tanaka, Siuli Roy, Dola Saha and Somprakash Bandyopadhyay, An Adaptive Communication-Aware Routing through Maximally Zone-Disjoint Shortest Paths in Ad Hoc Wireless Networks with Directional Antenna, Special issue on Ad Hoc Wireless Networks for Journal of Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, 2004
- Dola Saha, Siuli Roy, Somprakash Bandyopadhyay, Tetsuro Ueda, Shinsuke Tanaka, A Fair Medium Access Protocol using Adaptive Flow-rate Control through Cooperative Negotiation among Contending Flows in Ad Hoc Wireless Networks using Directional Antenna, IEEE IWDC 2004, Kolkata, India, December 2004
- Tetsuro Ueda, Shinsuke Tanaka, Siuli Roy, Dola Saha, Somprakash Bandyopadhyay, A Priority-based QoS Routing Protocol with Zone Reservation and Adaptive Call Blocking for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks with Directional Antenna, IEEE GLOBECOM 2004, Dallas, December 2004
- Dola Saha, Siuli Roy, Somprakash Bandyopadhyay, Tetsuro Ueda, Shinsuke Tanaka, A Distributed Feedback Control Mechanism for Priority-based Flow-Rate Control to Support QoS Provisioning in Ad hoc Wireless Networks with Directional Antenna, IEEE ICC 2004, Paris, France, June 2004
- Siuli Roy, Dola Saha, Somprakash Bandyopadhyay, Tetsuro Ueda, Shinsuke Tanaka, Service differentiation in Multi-hop Inter-Vehicular Communication using Directional Antenna, IEEE VTC spring 2004, Milan, Italy, May 2004
- Dola Saha, Siuli Roy, Somprakash Bandyopadhyay, Tetsuro Ueda, Shinsuke Tanaka, A Power-Efficient MAC Protocol with Two-Level Transmit Power Control in Ad Hoc Network Using Directional Antenna, IEEE IWDC 2003, Kolkata, India, December 2003
- Siuli Roy, Dola Saha, Somprakash Bandyopadhyay, Tetsuro Ueda, Shinsuke Tanaka, Improving End-to-End Delay through Load Balancing with Multipath Routing in Ad Hoc Wireless Networks using directional Antenna, IEEE IWDC 2003, Kolkata, India, December 2003
Dola Saha, Siuli Roy, Somprakash Bandyopadhyay, Tetsuro Ueda, Shinsuke Tanaka, An Adaptive Framework for Multipath Routing via Maximally Zone-Disjoint Shortest Paths in Ad hoc Wireless Networks with Directional Antenna, IEEE GLOBECOM 2003, San Francisco, December 2003 - Dola Saha, Siuli Roy, Somprakash Bandyopadhyay, Tetsuro Ueda, Shinsuke Tanaka, An Adaptive Packet Injection Rate Control Protocol to Support Priority-based QoS Provisioning in Ad hoc Network with Directional Antenna, WPMC 2003, Yokosuka, Japan, October 2003
- Tetsuro Ueda, Shinsuke Tanaka, Dola Saha, Siuli Roy, Somprakash Bandyopadhyay, An Efficient MAC Protocol with Direction Finding Scheme in Wireless Ad Hoc Network Using Directional Antenna, RAWCON 2003, Boston, August 2003
- Tetsuro Ueda, Shinsuke Tanaka, Dola Saha, Siuli Roy, Somprakash Bandyopadhyay, A Rotational Sector-based, Receiver-Oriented mechanism for Location Tracking and medium Access Control in Ad Hoc Networks using Directional Antenna, IEEE PWC 2003, Venice, Italy, September 2003
- Siuli Roy, Dola Saha, Somprakash Bandyopadhyay, Tetsuro Ueda, Shinsuke Tanaka, A Network-Aware MAC and Routing Protocol for Effective Load Balancing in Ad Hoc Wireless Networks with Directional Antenna, ACM MOBIHOC 2003, Maryland, June 2003
- Somprakash Bandyopadhyay, M.N. Pal, Dola Saha, Tetsuro Ueda, Kazuo Hasuike, Improving System Performance of Ad Hoc Wireless Network with Directional Antenna, IEEE ICC 2003, Anchorage, May 2003
Instruction & Advising
Courses
- Modern Wireless Networks
- Cyber-Physical Systems
- Computer Communications Networks
- Programming for Engineers
- MS Projects Course
- Deep Learning for Wireless Communications
Additional Information
Awards & Honors
- UAlbany College of Nanotechnology, Science, and Engineering (CNSE) Excellence in Research Award, 2025
- IEEE ComSoc Exemplary Editor for IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking, 2024
- UAlbany Researcher Award, 2023
- UAlbany Inventor Award, 2022
- Best Paper DySPAN2021, DySPAN 2015
- Google Anita Borg Scholar 2011-12
- Outstanding Research Award 2012, Department of Computer Science, University of Colorado
- University of Colorado Dean’s Outstanding Merit Fellowship, 2006
Service
- Faculty Fellow, JPL/NASA, 2022
- Visiting Faculty, AFRL, 2021, 2020