Current Research Interests
➡ Machine Learning Applications in Wireless Communications and Networking
➡ Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces (IRS)
➡ Age of Information
➡ Back-scattered Communications
➡ Massive MIMO
Old Research Interests
➡ Layered Channel Coding
✓ Coherent and non-coherent layered channel coding
✓ Relay-assisted layered channel coding
➡ Cognitive Radio Networks
✓ Throughput maximization
✓ Secondary users access schemes
✓ Cognitive relaying
➡ Sensor Networks
✓ Distributed detection in wireless sensor networks
✓ Censoring in wireless sensor networks
➡ Smart Grid Communications
✓ Joint detection-estimation
✓ Unequal error protection over PLCs
➡ Interference Channels
✓ DMT for the Z-interference channel
✓ DMT for ARQ over the Z-interference channel
➡ Source and Channel Diversity over Relay Channels
✓ Distortion exponent for source and channel diversities achieving schemes
✓ Optimal rate allocation between source and channel encoders
➡ Cooperative Communications
✓ Design of distributed space-time codes (DSTC)
✓ Design of distributed space-frequency codes (DSFC)
➡ Blind Channel Estimation in OFDM and MIMO-OFDM Systems
✓ Subspace decomposition based algorithms
✓ Finite alphabet based algorithms
Funded Projects
★ Basic Research in Communication Systems and Sensors
• Role: PI
• Funding Agency: Purdue University
• Duration: November 2022 - September 2025
• Fund Amount: 254,200 USD
★ An integrated analysis of green modes of mobility in new urban communities
• Role: Co-PI
• Funding Agency: The American University in Cairo - AUC Climate Change Initiative
• Duration: July 2022 - July 2023
• Fund Amount: 50,000 USD
★ German-Egyptian progress partnership, short-term measures: Intelligent Industrial
Internet-of-Things (I3oT)
• Role: Co-PI
• Funding Agency: German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
• Duration: Sept. 2021 - Dec. 2021
★ Surviving Cancer to Die of Heart Disease? Predicting when Stopping this Killer Disease will Stop Hearts
• Role: Co-PI
• Funding Agency: The American University in Cairo - The Bartlett Family Grant
• Collaborators: Magdy Yacoub Heart Foundation (MYF) and Future University in Egypt (FUE)
• Duration: x
• Fund Amount: 83,240 USD
★ German-Egyptian progress partnership, short-term measures: Improving the Transformation to Reliable Wireless Communication or the Internet of Things
• Role: Co-PI
• Funding Agency: German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
• Duration: Sept. 2019 - Dec. 2019
★ Machine Learning-Based LTE Network Optimization and Capacity Forecasting and Planning
• Role: PI
• Funding Agency: The American University in Cairo (internal research grant)
• Collaborators: Vodafone Egypt
• Duration: July 2018 - June 2020
• Fund Amount: 510,240 EGP
★ Collaboration between Sweden and Egypt to improve reliability and security for Internet of Things technology and its applications
• Role: Co-PI
• Funding Agency: The Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research and Higher Education (STINT)
• Duration: April 2018 - February 2019
• Fund Amount: 17,000 USD
★ CRC: Collaborative Research and Teaching Testbed for Wireless Communications and Networks-Phase II
• Role: Co-PI
• Funding Agency: National Telecommunications Regulatory Agency (NTRA)
• Duration: 21 months, Aug. 2017 - April 2019
• Fund Amount: 2,901,400 EGP
★ CRC: Enabling a Collaborative Environment for Wireless Communication and Networking Research
• Role: Consultant
• Funding Agency: National Telecommunications Regulatory Agency (NTRA)
• Duration: Two years, Sept. 2014 - Aug. 2016
★ A New Layered Transmission Approach for Next Generation Communication Networks
• Role: Co-PI
• Funding Agency: Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF)
• Duration: Three years, Jan. 2013 - Dec. 2015
• Fund Amount: 1,014,107 USD
★ Reliable low-power wireless communication architectures for smart grid and factory automation applications
• Role: Co-PI
• Funding Agency: Intel Labs University Research Office (URO)
• Duration: 21 months, Sep. 2012 - May 2014
• Fund Amount: 40,000 USD
