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Mukhtiar Ahmad

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Mukhtiar Ahmad is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia. His research interests encompass Non-Terrestrial Networks (NTN), terrestrial cellular networks, distributed systems, and edge computing, with a primary focus on enabling Ultra-Reliable Low-Latency Communication (URLLC) applications. Education and Early Career Mukhtiar Ahmad received the M.Sc. and M.Phil. degrees in Electronics from Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Lahore University of Management

Wiem Abderrahim

Postdoctoral Research Fellow (former), Networking Research Lab
Wiem Abderrahim was a postdoctoral fellow under the supervision of Prof. Mohamed-Slim Alouini and Prof. Basem Shihada at the Communication Theory Lab, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). She completed her engineering studies in telecommunications with honors at the Higher School of Communications of Tunis, Carthage University, in 2013. In 2017, she received her doctoral degree in Information and Communications Technologies from the same institution. Before joining KAUST, she worked as an adjunct professor at the Higher School of Communications of Tunis in 2017. She
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Wireless Network Intelligence @ the Edge

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In just a few years, breakthroughs in machine learning (ML) and particularly deep learning have transformed every aspects of our lives from face recognition, medical diagnosis, and natural language processing. This progress has been fueled mainly by the availability of more data and more computing power. However, the current premise in classical ML is based on a single node in a centralized and remote data center with full access to a global dataset and a massive amount of storage and computing, sifting through this data for inference.

Rachad Atat

Rachad Atat was a CTL lab member and graduated from KAUST. Then, he joined the KTH Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) as a PhD student. Selected Publications Book Chapters: M. Z. Shakir, R. Atat, and M. -S. Alouini, "Interference suppression capabilities of smart cognitive-femto networks (SCFN),” Chapter in Self-Organization and Green Applications in Cognitive Radio Networks, Al-Dulaimi, A., Cosmas, J., and Mohammed, A. (Eds), IGI Global, 2012. M.S. Thesis: R. Atat, "Cooperative Content Distribution over Wireless Networks for Delay and Energy Efficiency," King Abdullah University of Science
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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)

Anas Chaaban

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Communication Theory Lab
Anas Chaaban was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in CTL(Communication Theory Lab), KAUST. He now is an assistant professor in University of British Columbia (UBC), British Columbia , Canada Selected Publications Ph.D. Thesis A. Chaaban, “Relaying for Interference Management,” Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, Ruhr-University of Bochum, Bochum, Germany, July 2013. M.S. Thesis A. Chaaban, “Some Aspects of Adaptive Decoding of Concatenated Codes,” Institute of Telecommunications and Applied Information Theory, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany, June 2009. Journal
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Mohanad Obeed

Selected Publications M.S. Thesis M. Obeed, “Physical layer security in one-way and two-way relay systems,” King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Al Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, Jan. 2016. Journal Publications M. Obeed, A. M. Salhab, S. A. Zummo, M. -S. Alouini, " Joint Optimization of Power Allocation and Load Balancing for Hybrid VLC/RF Networks,'' OSA/IEEE Journal of Optical Communication Networks, vol. 10, no. 5, pp. 553-562, May 2018. M. Obeed, W. Mesbah. "Efficient algorithms for physical layer security in two-way relay systems." Elsevier; Physical Communication, vol. 28, no. 1874

Imran Shafique Ansari

Imran Ansari graduated from KAUST in March 2015 with a Ph.D. in electrical engineering and joined Texas A & M at Qatar, Doha, Qatar, as a PDRA Postdoc Research Fellow after graduation, then British University in Oman, Muscat, Oman, as Assistant Professor, and then in August 2018 the University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK. He describes himself as an optical wireless communications enthusiast who works towards enhancing current wireless connectivity to provide more secure means of wireless information transfer. "For wireless information transfer—in which I have been involved recently—to have a
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Wafa Hedhly

Wafa Hedhly is an MS/Ph.D. student in the Communication Theory Lab (CTL) under the supervision of Professor Mohamed-Slim Alouini at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). Education and Early Career Wafa obtained her Engineering Degree in Telecommunication from the Higher School of Communication of Tunis (Sup’Com) in 2017. In spring 2017, she was a visiting student in KAUST for 4 months working on her graduation project. Research Interest Wafa is focusing on resource allocation in future Terahertz networks. Education Profile Ph.D. in Kind Abdullah University of Science and

Shuaishuai Guo

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Shuaishuai Guo is a Postdoctoral Fellow with Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Science and Engineering (CEMSE), King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), working with Professor Mohamed-Slim Alumni in the Communication Theory Laboratory. Education and Early Career Shuaishuai Guo received the B.E and Ph.D. degrees in communication and information systems from the School of Information Science and Engineering, Shandong University, Jinan, China, in 2011 and 2017, respectively. During 2016-2017, he visited the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (UTC) as a visiting scholar
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Shuping Dang

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Shuping Dang is a Postdoctoral Fellow working with Prof. Mohamed-Slim Alouini and Prof. Basem Shihada, Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences & Engineering, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology. Education and Early Career Shuping Dang received B.Eng (Hons) in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Manchester (with first class honors) and B.Eng in Electrical Engineering and Automation from Beijing Jiaotong University in 2014 via a joint `2+2' dual-degree program. He also received D.Phil in Engineering Science from University of Oxford in 2018

Jiusi Zhou

Jiusi Zhou is a Ph.D. student under the supervision of Prof. Mohamed-Slim Alouini at the Communication Theory Lab (CTL) in King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). Education and Early Career Jiusi Zhou obtained his Bachelor of Engineering from Communication and Information Engineering Department, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), Chengdu, Sichuan, P. R. China in 2018. Before formally joining KAUST, he worked as a internship student at CTL in KAUST during Aug 2017 to Jan 2018. Research Interest Jiusi is familiar with Ultraviolet Communication
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Dmitrii Briantcev

Dmitrii is an MS/Ph.D. student in the Communication Theory Lab (CTL) under the supervision of Professor Mohamed-Slim Alouini at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). Education and Early Career Dmitrii obtained his bachelor degree in Radiophysics from Saint Petersburg State University (SPbSU) in 2018. He participated in KAUSTs “Photonics summer camp” program before becoming a KAUST student in 2018. Research Interest Dmitrii is focusing in the area of optical communication, free space communication, and numerical modeling. He is currently working on the development of OAM

Abderrahmen Trichili

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Education and Early Career Abderrahmen Trichili received his diplôme National d'Ingénieur in wireless networks and communications, and PhD degree in Information and Communication Technology from the Engineering School of Communication of Tunis (Tunisia) in 2013 and 2017, respectively. During his doctoral study, he received a mobility fellowship from the University of Padova (Italy), where he spent one year at the Information Engineering Department (DEI). In February 2018, he joined KAUST University as a Postdoctoral Fellow at CEMSE. Research Interest Trichili's current areas of interest
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Anas Chaaban

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Communication Theory Lab
Anas Chaaban was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in CTL(Communication Theory Lab), KAUST. He now is an assistant professor in University of British Columbia (UBC), British Columbia , Canada Selected Publications Ph.D. Thesis A. Chaaban, “Relaying for Interference Management,” Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, Ruhr-University of Bochum, Bochum, Germany, July 2013. M.S. Thesis A. Chaaban, “Some Aspects of Adaptive Decoding of Concatenated Codes,” Institute of Telecommunications and Applied Information Theory, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany, June 2009. Journal

Ali Chelli

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Communication Theory Lab
Ali Chelli is currently a Post doctoral Research Fellow at Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim , Norway. Selected Publications Book Chapters: A. Chelli and M. Pätzold, “A non-stationary MIMO vehicle-to-vehicle channel model derived from the geometrical T-junction model,” Chapter in Vehicular Technologies: Increasing Connectivity, Edited by: Miguel Almeida, INTECH, Apr. 2011. A. Chelli and M. Pätzold, “The impact of fixed and moving scatterers on the statistics of MIMO vehicle-to-vehicle channels,” Chapter in Radio Communications, A. Bazzi (ed.), INTECH, Apr. 2010. Ph.D
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KAUST CTL team wins second place at the 3rd Saudi Aramco Digital Hackathon

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A team of PhD students from the Communication Theory Lab (CTL) at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) has won second place at The 3rd Saudi Aramco Digital Hackathon, held in January 2026 as part of the KAUST Winter Enrichment Program (WEP’2026). The team, consisting of Salah Abdeljabar, Hasan Albinsaid, Jose Maria Sosa Gomez, Mohamed Afouene Melki, and Karim Saifullin, competed under the Advanced Sensing, IoT, and Robotics challenge theme. The hackathon brought together graduate students, researchers, and engineers to tackle real industrial challenges proposed by Saudi

Doha Raik Hamza Mohamed

Introduction ​Doha Raik Hamza Mohamed remained at KAUST as Associate Research Scientist under the supervision of Prof. Je Shamma after graduation of Ph.D. from the CTL group at KAUST in 2014. Education and early career Doha Raik obtained her B.S. in Communications and Electronics Engineering, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt in 2001. Then in 2008, she went to Nile University, Cairo, Egypt to get M.S. in Wireless Communications. After graduation in 2010, she earned a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal. Research
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Shuaishuai Guo

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Shuaishuai Guo is a Postdoctoral Fellow with Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Science and Engineering (CEMSE), King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), working with Professor Mohamed-Slim Alumni in the Communication Theory Laboratory. Education and Early Career Shuaishuai Guo received the B.E and Ph.D. degrees in communication and information systems from the School of Information Science and Engineering, Shandong University, Jinan, China, in 2011 and 2017, respectively. During 2016-2017, he visited the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (UTC) as a visiting scholar

Hui Zhao

Hui Zhao is an MS/Ph.D. student in the Communication Theory Lab (CTL) under the supervision of Professor Mohamed-Slim Alouini at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). Education and Early Career Hui Zhao obtained his bachelor degree in Telecommunications Engineering from Southwest University (SWU) in 2016. Research Interest Hui Zhao is focusing in the area of performance analysis of wireless communication, optimization about power allocation, stochastic geometry, spatial modulation. Education Profile MS in Electrical Engineering, Kind Abdullah University of Science and
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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 Amine Lahmeri

Mohamed-Amine Lahmeri is an MS/Ph.D. student in the Communication Theory Lab (CTL) under the supervision of Professor Mohamed-Slim Alouini at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). Education and Early Career Mohamed-Amine Lahmeri joined the best engineering school in Tunisia, "Ecole Polytechnique de Tunisie (EPT)", in 2019 after being ranked among the top 2% at the Tunisian national contest for entrance to engineering schools. During his graduation project, he joined KAUST as a visiting student and got enrolled in the Visiting Student Research Program (VSRP) that is
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Analysis and Optimization of Massive MIMO Systems via Random Matrix Theory Approaches

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Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) is a key enabling technology to achieve the required spectral and energy efficiency of the next generation of wireless networks. By endowing the base station (BS) with hundreds of antennas and relying on spatial multiplexing, massive MIMO allows impressive advantages in many fronts. To reduce this promising technology to reality, thorough performance analysis has to be conducted. Along this line, this work is focused on the convenient high-dimensionality of massive MIMO’s corresponding model. Indeed, the large number of antennas allows us to harness asymptotic results from Random Matrix Theory to provide accurate approximations of the main performance metrics. The derivations yield simple closed-form expressions that can be easily interpreted and manipulated in contrast to their alternative random equivalents. Accordingly, in this dissertation, we investigate massive MIMO in different contexts.

Ikram Boukhedimi

Ikram Boukhedimi was born in Blida, Algeria. She received an Electrical Engineering degree from the Ecole Polytechnique d'Alger, Algeria, in 2013 and an M.S. in Mathematics, Control and Electrical Engineering from Universite de Poitiers, France in 2014. and she earned a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in June 2019, Saudi Arabia in Professor Mohamed Slim Alouini’s Communication Theory Lab in Electrical Engineering research group. Her research interests include random matrix theory approaches applied to wireless communication systems
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Deploying UAVs to support rural networks

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Although ubiquitous connectivity is one of the main goals for 5G and beyond networks, the low expected profit prevents telecommunication providers from investing in sparsely populated areas. Hence, cost efficient alternatives such as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV)-mounted base stations are required for extending the cellular infrastructure to these regions. In this work, a new stochastic geometry-based model has been implemented to show the coverage spatial variation among urban, suburban, and exurban settlements. Based on this, the numerical results have quantified the improvements that even

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
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