Physical layer security

Dr. Zouheir Rezki promoted to Senior Member of IEEE

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Dr. Zouheir Rezki (Research Scientist in Communication Theory Lab) has been elevated to the rank of Senior Member of IEEE.

Zouheir Rezki

Senior Research Scientist, Communication Theory Lab
Zouheir Rezki is now an Assistant Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at University of Idaho. During November 2009 to July 2012 , he was a Senior Research Scientist in the Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering Division at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). Selected Publications Ph.D. Thesis Z. Rezki , “Performance Limits of Multi-Antenna Communication Systems: Diversity Multiplexing Tradeoff and Noncoherent Capacity,” University of Montreal, Ecole Polytechnique, Montreal, QC, Canada, Aug. 2008. M.S. Thesis Z. Rezki

Xinyu Zhou

Xinyu Zhou was a Visiting B.S. Student in the CTL. Then, he joined University of Maryland, USA as a PhD Student. Selected Publications Xinyu Zhou, Zouheir Rezki, Basel Alomairy and Mohamed-Slim Alouini, “Achievable Rates of Secure Transmission in Gaussian MISO Channel with Imperfect Main Channel Estimation” with full paper version submitted to IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications and conference version submitted to IEEE CNS. Education R esearch internship in Electrical Engineering department, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Saudi Arabia (September

Redha M. Radaydeh

Research Scientist, Communication Theory Lab
From Sept. 2009 to Sept. 2012, Redha M. Radaydeh was a research fellow at KAUST and then an associate research scientist at TAMU Qatar. From Sept. 2012 to Aug. 2016, he worked at Alfaisal University as an associate professor of EE. Research Interests • Overlaid multi-tier HetNets. • Performance analysis of UA communications. • Resource sharing, distribution, and allocation techniques. • Interference management and mitigation schemes. • D2D and small-cell communications in 5G cellular networks. • Mixed RF and FSO communications. • Physical layer security. • Cooperative relaying systems. •

Mustafa Kishk

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Mustafa Kishk is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow under the supervision of Prof. Slim Alouini at the Communication Theory Lab in King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). Education and Early Career Mustafa Kishk received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the Bradley department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech under the supervision of Prof. Harpreet Dhillon in 2018. He received his B.Sc. and M.S. degree in Electronics and Electrical Communications Engineering from Cairo University, Egypt, in 2013 and 2015 respectively. Research Interest Mustafa’s

Mohamed A. Gaafar

Mohamed A. Gaafar was a CTL lab member and graduated from KAUST. Then, he joined the Technical University of Berlin as a PhD student. Selected Publications Selected Conferences 1. M. Gaafar, O. Amin, W. Abediseid, and M.-S. Alouini, “Sharing the licensed spectrum of full-duplex systems using improper Gaussian signaling,” in Proc. IEEE Global Commun. Conf. (GLOBCOM), San Diego, USA, Dec. 2015, pp. 1–6. 
 2. M. Gaafar, M. G. Khafagy, O. Amin, and M.-S. Alouini, “Improper Gaussian signaling in full-duplex relay channels with residual self-interference,” in Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Commun. (ICC)

Marwen Zorgui

Marwen Zorgui was a CTL lab member and graduated from KAUST. Then, he joined the University of California Irvine at a PhD student. Selected Publications M. Zorgui, Z. Rezki and M.-S. Alouini, “On achievable Rates of Interference and Cognitive Channels with a Relay”, accepted in International Symposium on Personal, Indoor, and Mobile Radio Communications 2015 (PIMRC’2015). M . Zorgui, Z. Rezki, B. Alomair, E.A. Jorswieck and M.-S. Alouini, “Secret-Key Agreement over Spatially Correlated Multiple-Antenna Channels in the Low-SNR Regime”, accepted in IEEE Conference in Communications and Network

Kihong Park

Senior Research Scientist, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Kihong Park is a Senior Research Scientist at Electrical Engineering Program, Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Science and Engineering (CEMSE) Division, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), working with Professor Mohamed-Slim Alouini in the Communication Theory Laboratory (CTL). Education and Early Career He received Joint M.Sc. and Ph.D. degree in the School of Electrical Engineering, Korea University, Korea in 2011. He was a visiting student in Texas A&M University at Qatar for one year in 2008-2009. He joined KAUST as a Postdoctoral Fellow in April, 2011. Since

Jingping Qiao

Visiting Scholar, Communication Theory Lab
Jingping Qiao is a visiting scholar at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), working with Prof. Mohamed-Slim Alouini in the Communication Theory Lab (CTL). Education and Early Career Jingping Qiao obtained her BS degree in Communication Engineering from Inner Mongolia University of Science and Technology (IMUST) in 2012. After that, she obtained her Ph.D. degree in Communication and Information Systems from Shandong University in 2018. Before joining KAUST, she worked as a lecturer at Shandong Normal University (SDNU). Research Interest Jingping Qiao is focusing in the

Hongjiang Lei

Visiting Scholar, Communication Theory Lab
Hongjiang Lei now is an Associate Professor in School of Communication and Information Engineering Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications Chongqing, China. Selected Publications ​ Ph.D. Thesis H. Lei, “Modeling and Analysis of the Physical Layer Security over Wireless Fading Channels”, College of Opto-Electronic Engineering, Chongqing University, Chongqing, China, Dec. 2015. Journal Publications 1. H. Lei, H. Zhang, I. S. Ansari, C. Gao, Y. Guo, G. Pan, and K. A. Qaraqe, “Secrecy outage performance for SIMO underlay cognitive radio systems with generalized selection combining