Laksh Bhatia - Wireless Systems Researcher, Innovator and Engineer

About

Laksh Bhatia is a researcher, innovator and engineer specializing in wireless systems with a focus on Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC) in 6G and beyond cellular networks. I am presently working as an ETSI ISG ISC Delegate, and contributing to 3GPP SA2 and SA6 WGs. My experience spans distributed systems for 6G, ISAC, IoT systems, indoor localization, asset tracking, and cyber-physical systems. I am an embedded systems engineer with expertise in developing end-to-end solutions.

Education

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Computing

Imperial College London | 2018-2022

Thesis title: "Distributed scheduling algorithms for LoRa-based wide area cyber-physical systems"

M.Sc.(Tech) in Embedded Systems

Aalto University, Helsinki | 2016-2017

Minor in Innovation and Entrepreneurship

M.Sc.(Tech) in Embedded Systems

Technische Universität Berlin | 2015-2016

Minor in Innovation and Entrepreneurship

B.E.(Hons.) Electrical & Electronics Engineering

Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani | 2011-2015

Professional Experience

Research & Innovation Staff Engineer

InterDigital, Inc | Oct 2024-Present

IP and technology generation for Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC) in 6G and beyond cellular networks
Delegate in the ETSI ISAC ISG, contributing to pre-standards activities
Participating in 3GPP RAN3, SA2, and SA6 activities relating to ISAC
Active participant and collaborator in EU SNS JU projects, including MultiX and Predict-6G
Awarded the London Employee of the Quarter Q2'25
Develop ISAC PoCs for human and robot sensing. Showcased at MWC'26

Senior Firmware Engineer

Zelp Ltd | Mar 2024-Oct 2024

Product design and Proof of Concept development for solutions to monitor and reduce emissions from cattle in the dairy and beef industry
End-to-end IoT solution using NRF53, Zephyr, Quantum Leaps (QP), InfluxDB, Grafana using BLE and Wi-Fi, and custom gas monitoring sensors

Senior Systems Engineer

Qualcomm Technologies Ltd, Advanced Algorithms and Innovation Cambridge | Nov 2021-Dec 2023

Developed innovative IoT solutions for asset tracking and indoor localization using BLE and WiFi, showcasing them to major retailers
Developed technical solutions for BLE device, BLE gateway and server solutions that managed 10000+ QCC710 BLE based devices, presently deployed by several retail vendors like Walmart
Conducted evaluations of BLE tags and UWB technology for precise indoor localization
Led the development and deployment of 1000+ IoT systems with AWS and QCC710 devices
Designed PoCs for indoor SLAM and navigation using TurtleBot, LIDAR, and ROS2
Filed 4 patents to enhance the usability of electronic shelf labels

Research Assistant

Imperial College London, Adaptive Emergent Systems Engineering Group | Oct 2017-Nov 2021

Architected reliable wireless systems for IIoT, Robotics, Mobile, and Cyber-Physical applications
Developed robust communication systems with LPWANs, LoRa, NB-IoT, 802.15.4/Zigbee, and BLE using Contiki-NG and FreeRTOS
Engineered dependable distributed UAV swarm systems, utilizing Crazyflies, UWB technology
Published 12 articles in renowned international conferences and journals

Selected Publications

Architecture Considerations for ISAC in 6G

(Short-paper to appear in IEEE CSCN 2025) arXiv:2508.13736

Authors: Sebastian Robitzsch and Laksh Bhatia and Konstantinos G. Filis and Neda Petreska and Michael Bahr and Pablo Picazo Martinez and Xi Li

Data Unit Groups Implementation and Validation for Multi-Domain and Multi-Technology Deterministic 6G Systems

2025 Joint European Conference on Networks and Communications & 6G Summit (EuCNC/6G Summit) 2025 10.1109/EuCNC/6GSummit63408.2025.11037059

Authors: Robitzsch, Sebastian and Babu, Abinaya and Jadoon, Muhammad Awais and Conceicao, Filipe and Bhatia, Laksh

Distributed scheduling algorithms for LoRa-based wide area cyber-physical systems

Imperial College London PhD Thesis 2022 Imperial College London Repository

Authors: Bhatia, Laksh

IRONWAN: Increasing Reliability of Overlapping Networks in LoRaWAN

IEEE Internet of Things Journal 2021 10.1109/JIOT.2021.3125842

Authors: Bhatia, Laksh and Chen, Po-Yu and Breza, Michael and Zhao, Cong and McCann, Julie A

RFTacho: Non-intrusive RF monitoring of rotating machines

2022 21st ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN) 2022 10.1109/IPSN54338.2022.00039

Authors: Heggo, Mohammad and Bhatia, Laksh and McCann, Julie A

Demo Abstract: Cognisense: A contactless rotation speed measurement system

Proceedings of the 19th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems 2021 10.1145/3485730.3492879

Authors: Heggo, Mohammad and Bhatia, Laksh and McCann, Julie A

LoED: The LoRaWAN at the Edge Dataset: Dataset

Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Data: Acquisition To Analysis 2020 10.1145/3419016.3431491

Authors: Bhatia, Laksh and Breza, Michael and Marfievici, Ramona and McCann, Julie A.

Control Communication Co-Design for Wide Area Cyber-Physical Systems

ACM Transactions on Cyber-Physical Systems 2020 https://doi.org/10.1145/3418528

Authors: Bhatia, Laksh and Tomic, Ivana and Fu, Anqi and Breza, Michael and McCann, Julie A

Contact-Aware Opportunistic Data Forwarding in Disconnected LoRaWAN Mobile Networks

Proceedings of the 40th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems 2020 10.1109/ICDCS47774.2020.00110

Authors: Chen,Po-Yu and Bhatia, Laksh and Kolcun, Roman and Boyle, David and McCann, Julie A

Energy-neutral and QoS-aware Protocol in Wireless Sensor Networks for Health Monitoring of Hoisting Systems

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics 2020 10.1109/TII.2020.2969218

Authors: H. Wang and G. Zhou and L. Bhatia and Z. Zhu and W. Li and J. A. McCann

The Separator, a Two-Phase Oil and Water Gravity CPS Separator Testbed

Pre-print 2020 arXiv:2002.00945

Authors: Michael Breza and Laksh Bhatia and Ivana Tomic and Anqi Fu and Waqas Ikram and Valentinos Kongezos and Julie A. McCann

Distributed Cyber-Physical Systems with Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Masters Thesis 2017 http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:aalto-201709046870

Authors: Bhatia, Laksh

Poster Abstract: LPWA-MAC: a Low Power Wide Area network MAC protocol for cyber-physical systems

Proceedings of the 16th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems 2018 10.1145/3274783.3275183

Authors: Bhatia, Laksh and Tomić, Ivana and McCann, Julie A

Poster Abstract: Aerial Interactions with Wireless Sensors

Proceedings of the 16th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems 2018 10.1145/3274783.3275189

Authors: Bhatia, Laksh and Boyle, David and McCann, Julie A

Design and Evaluation of Jamming Resilient Cyber-Physical Systems

2018 IEEE International Conference on Cyber, Physical and Social Computing (CPSCom) 2018 10.1109/Cybermatics_2018.2018.00138

Authors: I. Tomić and M. J. Breza and G. Jackson and L. Bhatia and J. A. McCann

The Limits of LoRaWAN in Event-Triggered Wireless Networked Control Systems

2018 UKACC 12th International Conference on Control (CONTROL) 2018 10.1109/CONTROL.2018.8516774

Authors: I. Tomić and L. Bhatia and M. J. Breza and J. A. McCann

Total Publications: 15 peer-reviewed papers in renowned international conferences and journals

Technical Strengths

Programming & Tools

• C, C++, Python
• Omnet++, GNU Radio, ROS2
• Zephyr, Arduino, FreeRTOS, Contiki-NG
• Unix, Linux, QP
• KiCad, Eagle CAD

Technologies

• B5G/6G, WiFi, LoRaWAN
• 802.15.4/Zigbee, UWB, BLE
• ARM Cortex-M (NRF52/NRF53, STM32, QCC710, MSP430)
• Raspberry Pi, QRB5165
• Crazyflies, DJI Matrice 100, Turtlebot

Achievements & Activities

Q2 London Employee of the Quarter - InterDigital Europe Ltd

Dean's incentive-based scholarship - Aalto University

EIT Digital Merit Scholarship - Aalto University

Best Entrepreneurial Team - Summer School, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

Best Idea, Venture Campus - TU Berlin

Graduate Teaching Assistant - Part of team nominated for Best Teaching team Imperial College London

Finalist for Faculty4Makers Challenge - TU Berlin

Co-Founder and mentor - Quark Summer Technical Projects

Qualified for TI Innovation Challenge 2015

Selected for MIT Media Labs Workshop India

Coordinator for Workshops - Quark 2014, BITS Pilani