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KAUST CTL Graduate Receives Third Place in the 2026 IEEE IoT Technical Community PhD Thesis Competition

2 min read · Sun, Nov 8 2026

Internet of Things Integrated Access and Backhaul Deep Reinforcement Learning Non-Terrestrial Networks machine learning

Dr. Yongqiang Zhang, a PhD graduate of the Communication Theory Lab (CTL) at KAUST, has received third place in the 2026 IEEE Internet of Things Technical Community (IoT TC) PhD Thesis Competition. The award was presented at the 12th IEEE World Forum on Internet of Things (WF-IoT 2026), held in Abu Dhabi, UAE, from 26 to 29 October 2026, for his PhD dissertation, “ Deep Reinforcement Learning-Based Optimizations for Integrated Access and Backhaul Networks,” completed under the co-supervision of Prof. Mohamed-Slim Alouini at KAUST and Prof. Mustafa A. Kishk of Maynooth University (formerly Post

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