Mody Sy, Ph.D.

EURECOM, Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, France.

Jan. 2025 – June. 2026.

PostDoctoral Research Fellow.

Achievements & Key Responsibilities

• Leading research on 6G Integrated Sensing and Communications (ISAC) standardization activities within 3GPP and ETSI (Release 19+).

• Developing PHY-layer prototypes and simulation frameworks for ISAC, covering waveform design for enhanced joint sensing and communication performance.

• Contributing to low-power ISAC system design for ambient IoT devices in backscatter-aware scenarios.

• Acting as a team member in EURECOM’s research efforts on standardization-oriented innovations for 3GPP ISAC (Release 19+).

• Participating in weekly standardization group meetings at EURECOM as an active team member.

• Contributing simultaneously to the broader goal of reliable and efficient short-block-length transmission for 5G/6G signaling.

EURECOM, Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, France.

feb. 2021 – oct. 2024.

Research assistant | PhD Candidate.

Achievements & Key Responsibilities

• Designed and implemented novel short-packet detection and decoding algorithms for ultra-reliable low-latency 5G uplink/downlink channels (PxSCH, PxCCH, 2-Step RACH, etc.).

• Proposed enhanced bit-interleaved coded-modulation (BICM) receiver metrics for both MIMO and non-MIMO transmissions, improving reliability in 5G/6G signaling.

• Contributed as a research engineer to EURECOM’s and 3GPP’s standardization-oriented research efforts from Release 16 to Release 19.

EURECOM, Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, France.

feb. 2020 – jul. 2020, 6 Months.

Research internship.

Achievements & Key Responsibilities

• Investigated optimization strategies for low-latency 5G NR-LDPC decoding on general-purpose processors (GPPs).

• Utilized the OpenAirInterface (OAI) 5G platform to validate decoding algorithms under realistic PHY-layer conditions.

• Achieved a significant reduction in decoding latency compared to baseline implementations, demonstrating the potential for real-time 5G PHY deployments.

Publications

I actively contribute to advancing research in 5G/6G wireless communications, channel coding, and physical layer design.

[10]  Mody Sy, "LLR-based attention-weighted projection decoding for sparse vector coded short-packet transmissions", IEEE International Conference on Communications (IEEE ICC 2026), Wireless Communications Symposiumn, Glasgow, Scotland, UK 24–28 May 2026.
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[9]  Mody Sy, "LLR-based attention-weighted projection decoding for sparse vector coded short-packet transmissions", submitted to IEEE Transactions on Communications, preprint can be found on ArXiv, October 19, 2025.
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[8]  Mody Sy, "Demystifying 5G Polar and LDPC Codes: A Comprehensive Review and Foundations", preprint can be found on ArXiv, February 15, 2025.
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[7]  Mody Sy and Raymond Knopp, "Enhanced BICM Receivers for Ultra-Reliable Low-Latency Short Packet Communications", submitted to IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, preprint can be found on ArXiv, October 07, 2025.
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[6]  Mody Sy and Raymond Knopp, "Receiver Metric Design for Short-Block Channels : A Perspective for Reliable 6G Signalling Scenarios", 2024 European Conference on Networks and Communications & 6G Summit (EuCNC & 6G Summit), Antwerp, Belgium, June 3–6, 2024.
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[5]  Mody Sy(PhD Thesis. 2024) , "Enhanced receiver design for ultra-reliable low-latency short data communications", PhD Dissertation from Sorbonne University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Ph.D. in Engineering Sciences (Computer Science, Telecommunications, and Electronics),October 24th, 2024, EURECOM, EDITE ED130, Sorbonne university, Paris, France.
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[4]  Mody Sy and Raymond Knopp, "Novel Joint Estimation and Decoding Metrics for Short-Blocklength Transmission Systems", 2023 IEEE Conference on Standards for Communications and Networking (CSCN), Munich, Germany, Nov 6–8, 2023.
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[3]  Mody Sy and Raymond Knopp, "Enhanced Low-Complexity Receiver Design for Short Block Transmission Systems", In the Proceedings of the 34th IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications(PIMRC 2023 ), Toronto, ON, Canada, Sept 5–8, 2023.
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[2]  Mody Sy and Raymond Knopp, "Low-complexity Block-Based Decoding Algorithms for Short Block Channels ", IEEE AFRICON 2023, Nairobi, Kenya, Sept 20–22, 2023.
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[1]  Mody Sy, "Optimization Strategies for Low Latency 5G NR LDPC Decoding on General Purpose Processor", 5-th IEEE International Conference on Control, Communication and Computing (ICCC 2023),Thiruvananthapuram, India, May 19-20, 2023, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/ICCC57789.2023.10165378..
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Academic Commitments

I have been invited to serve as a peer reviewer for several prestigious/flagship international journals and conferences in wireless communications .

[1]  IEEE TWC, "IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications", (Scientific Journal), published by IEEE ComSoc, Jan 14, 2025 and May 12, 2025.

[2]  IEEE TCOM, "IEEE Transactions on Communications", (Scientific Journal), published by IEEE ComSoc, Nov 4, 2025.

[3]  Electronics Letters, "Wiley Electronics Letters", (Scientific Journal), published by Wiley, Apr 20, 2025.

[4]  Elsevier COMNET, "Elsevier Computer Networks", (Scientific Journal), published by Elsevier, 2024, 2025.

[5]  IEEE ICC, "Technical Program Committee (TPC) member for IEEE International Conference on Communications (IEEE ICC) 2026 – Wireless Communications Symposium", (Scientific Conference), published by Elsevier, 2026, Glasgow, Scotland, UK.