IEEE ICC 4MT Competition Winner
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I received second place at the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) Four Minute Thesis (4MT) Competition for my presentation titled “Super-LoRa: Enhancing LoRa Throughput via Payload Superposition.” The competition, organized by the IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc), challenges PhD candidates to explain their research to a non-specialist audience in just four minutes.
Competition highlights
The 4MT competition at IEEE ICC 2025 in Montreal, Canada (June 9, 2025) emphasized clarity, engagement, and accessibility. This year, 40 PhD candidates entered a multi-stage process. After an anonymous review of pre-recorded talks, only 15 finalists advanced to present live at ICC. Winners were announced the following day at the IEEE ComSoc Board of Governors meeting and recognized by IEEE ComSoc President Prof. Robert Schober.
What Super-LoRa enables
Super-LoRa explores how payload superposition can boost LoRa throughput by transmitting multiple data streams more efficiently over constrained links. The work aims to make long-range, low-power IoT networks more capable for data-rich applications while preserving the practical constraints of existing systems.
Watch the 4MT talk
Presentation slides
Read the announcement
KAUST Communication Theory Lab (CTL) announced the ICC 4MT winners here: Link