Current Research Interests

➡ Machine Learning Applications in Wireless Communications and Networking

➡ Massive MIMO/Cell-Free Massive MIMO

➡ Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces (IRS)

➡ Age of Information

➡ Back-scattered Communications

Previous 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 2028

     • Fund Amount: 386,200 USD

★ Research on Key Technologies of High Reliability Enhancement for 6G Wireless Networks

     • Role: Co-PI

     • Funding Agency: Egypt-China Cooperation Program

     • Duration: July 2025 - June 2027

     • Fund Amount: 2,000,000 RMB (China) + 2,492,470 EGP (Egypt)

★ 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: Feb. 2020 - Jan. 2023

     • 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