PRADHAN Annapurna
Member of team :
ICI
Lieu :
ENSEA
Biography
Annapurna Pradhan is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher at the ETIS Laboratory (UMR 8051), affiliated with CNRS, ENSEA, and CY Cergy Paris Université, France. She received her Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the National Institute of Technology (NIT) Rourkela, India in March 2025. She also holds MTech. and BTech. degrees in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering. She was recognized among the 100 Brilliant and Inspiring Women in 6G (2025) and has received several academic and research distinctions, including the Women Leadership Award, and Award of Excellence (2023) from World Women Congress.
Her research interests encompass next-generation wireless communications (5G/6G), physical-layer security, semantic communications, machine learning, and intelligent wireless systems. Her current research focuses on secure and trustworthy 6G networks, Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted physical-layer authentication, AI-driven and goal-oriented semantic communications, and privacy-aware distributed intelligence. Her broader research expertise includes ultra-reliable low-latency communications (URLLC), integrated sensing and communication (ISAC), and Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT).
Research activities
6G Wireless Communications: Advanced wireless systems, ultra-reliable low-latency communications (URLLC), and intelligent radio networks.
Physical-Layer Security, RIS-assisted secure communications, physical-layer authentication, channel estimation, and statistical signal processing.
Semantic Communications, agentic AI, and AI-native wireless networks, Machine Learning and Distributed Intelligence, privacy-preserving distributed intelligence,
Integrated Sensing and Communication, Industrial IoT, quantum communications, and trustworthy intelligent networks.