Ahmed Arafa
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Ahmed Arafa |
About me
I have been an Assistant Professor of ECE at UNC Charlotte since August 2019. Before that, I spent two wonderful years at Princeton's EE as a Postdoctoral Research Associate, hosted by Vince Poor. In 2017, I was fortunate to receive my PhD degree in EE under the supervision of Sennur Ulukus at the University of Maryland's ECE. I received the NSF CAREER Award in 2022.
My research interests are in information theory, wireless communications, communication networks, and signal processing. Recently, I have been working on projects pertaining to
federated learning
timely information processing and transfer (age-of-information)
information-theoretic security and privacy
energy harvesting communications
Join Us: I am always looking for talented and self-motivated PhD students to join our research group. If you are interested, check out this ad.
If you are already a student at UNC Charlotte, you are welcome to stop by my office to discuss research opportunities for undergrad, Master's and PhD levels.
News
1-24: Our paper, ‘‘Age and Value of Information Optimization for Systems with Multi-Class Updates’’, is accepted for publication in IEEE ICC ’24.
12-23: I am invited to serve as an Associate Editor for the Springer journal on Wireless Personal Communications.
10-23: Our journal paper, ‘‘Timely Multi-Process Estimation Over Erasure Channels With and Without Feedback: Signal-Independent Policies’’, is accepted for publication in the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Information Theory.
9-23: We organizing a workshop on Edge Learning over 5G Mobile Networks and Beyond (in conjunction with IEEE ICC ’24). Check out the call for papers.
8-23: I will be offering a new graduate-level course in Fall 2023: Optimization for Machine Learning. Check out the course flyer.