ECE Seminar: Duschia Bodet

ECE Seminar: Duschia Bodet

Title: Channel Characterization, Physical Layer Design, and Implementation of (Sub-)Terahertz Communications

Abstract: The advent of wireless communications technology, human connection and collaborations now span countries, continents, and even planets. Despite these advances, however, today’s wireless technology still experiences limitations leading to lack of adequate internet access in rural areas of the U.S. and the globe. Frequencies in millimeter-wave (mmWave) and the terahertz (THz) band have broad available bandwidths that can support wired backhauls to supply global wireless connectivity. In the past two decades, terahertz (THz) communications have been researched in depth, and although there was once a substantial gap in knowledge as well as transmission and reception capabilities at THz frequencies, this gap has been steadily closing. Many challenges still remain, and this talk will discuss some recent progress in Terahertz communications research channel characterization and physical layer design. In particular, the seminar will focus on multiple-input multiple-output channel sounding, physical layer design, and future areas of research.

Bio: Duschia Bodet is a post-doctoral researcher in the Engineering, Probability, Information & Communications (EPIC) Lab within the Institute for the Wireless Internet of Things (WIoT) at Northeastern University. Her work focuses on physical-layer solutions in modulation and coding as well as signal processing and channel modelling for terahertz (THz) communications and specifically THz multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) implementations. She is a recipient of the 2024 Marconi Society Paul Baran Young Scholar Award, a 2023 GLOBECOM Best Paper award among others. Aside from peer-reviewed scientific papers and dataset publications, Dr. Bodet also contributed to the IEEE 802.15.3d-2023 standard revision for THz communications, before earning her Ph.D. at Northeastern University in May 2025.