#7 Portrait – Omar El Marzougui
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Science in Focus
The Poster Winners
for the FITNESS Project
#7
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EL MARZOUGUI
Omar
Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse (IRIT)
Toulouse
Advisors: Charly POULLIAT, Nathalie THOMAS
During the annual PEPR Future Networks Days at Enseirb-MATMECA in Bordeaux, PhD students and postdoctoral researchers from the projects presented their research work to the community. A best poster competition was held, awarding one winner per targeted project. This series, « Science in Focus – The Poster Winners », aims to highlight the work of the winning doctoral students.
Discover the portrait n°7 of our « Science in Focus – The Poster Winners » series: Omar El Marzougui from FITNESS project
Academic and personal journey
After obtaining my baccalaureate diploma with highest honors and completing two years of preparatory classes in Morocco, I joined ENSEEIHT in 2021 in the Digital Sciences program, where I specialized in telecommunication systems (terrestrial and satellite). In my final year of engineering school, I pursued a research master’s degree entitled Advanced Communication Systems (ACS), designed for students aiming for a research-oriented path after earning their engineering degree. I also completed several internships that helped reinforce the skills acquired during my studies, notably my internship at Thales Alenia Space, which focused on free-space optical satellite communications. In all these stations of my professional project, research was present especially my internships where I practiced the process of research and successfully published a scientific paper. By the end of my engineering training, I felt motivated and ready to pursue a thesis.
Thesis and research project
The goal of my thesis is to design IoT physical layer systems suitable to non-terrestrial systems scenarios, constraints and requirements. While many IoT systems are well designed and deployed for terrestrial contexts, the non-terrestrial notably satellite context is still lacking mature systems that make doing IoT feasible. In my thesis, we are more focused on communications between IoT devices and LEO satellites. With many constraints like the satellite movement at high speed, doppler effects, complex propagation channel… the ambition is to propose robust systems to make IoT communications by satellite a reality.
PEPR and you!
What the PEPR environment and the exchanges with the communities during the 2025 days have brought you?
The PEPR of June in Bordeaux was my first meeting with such huge number of experts on the field I work in as well as many fields that are related to mine. It felt like the PEPR has opened my eye to another world where I can exchange and discover many promising works and possible collaborations. I started my thesis six months ago, so I am still new. Meeting with all these experts on a regular basis has a tremendous boost to my research project as I became open to many perspectives and ideas that I didn’t think of while working alone… I’m looking forward to attending many PEPR to come and learning from the attendees.
Vision and future
What are your expectations for after your postdoc?
I haven’t thought deeply about my professional project after the thesis, but, most likely, I aim to pursue a career in research and academia. I come from a family of teachers, so I feel that I have the talent for it. I also want to keep doing research, collaborate with researchers and with the industrial world to make our research not just some theory but the seed for tomorrow’s technology.
Finally, what would you say to future doctoral candidates?
I want to say that research is not worth it. The feeling of publishing a paper or when you present a brand-new idea to an audience that think it is interesting and promising… It is not as hard as many people think. Research is a process with clear steps that when followed correctly, many contributions can come of it. My advice to them is to choose the subject of their research carefully, and their research supervisors more carefully because when correctly chosen, the research journey becomes a lot easier and more fun.
Omar El Marzougui’s poster for FITNESS project
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