Members @ SWiMS Lab

Director

Hesham ElSawy

is an associate professor at the School of Computing, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada. He received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Manitoba, Canada, in 2014. Before joining Queen's, he worked for King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM), Saudi Arabia, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia, TRTech, Winnipeg, MB, Canada, and National Telecommunication Institute, Egypt. He is an Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE Transactions on Network Sciences and Engineering, the IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, and the IEEE Communications Letters. He conducts research in the broad area of wireless communications and networking with a special focus on 5G/6G networks, Internet of Things, edge computing, and non-terrestrial networks. (more info) (scholar profile)

Team Members

Yasser Nabil (PhD Student)

is a PhD student at the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada. He received received the B.Sc. degree in electronics and communications engineering from Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt, in 2016, the Diploma degree in wireless communications from the Information Technology Institute, Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, Giza, Egypt, in 2020, and the M.Sc. degree in electronics and communications engineering from Cairo University, Giza, in 2023. From 2020 to 2023, he was a Research Assistant with the One Laboratory, Egypt. His research interests include wireless communication systems and their statistical modeling, aerial communication, optical communication, and the integration of communication and sensing.

Mohamed Elrashidy ( PhD Student)

is a PhD student at the School of Computing, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada. He got his M.Sc. and B.Sc degrees from King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM) in Electrical Engineering in 2024 and 2021, respectively. His research interests include graph signal processing, wireless communication, and deep learning. His current research area is semantic communication.

Hammam Salem (PhD Student)

Hammam is a Ph.D. candidate in the School of Computing at Queen's University and a research assistant at CALIAN. He holds a master's degree in electrical engineering (EE) with first class honors from King Fahad University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM) and a bachelor's degree in EE with first class honors from Qassim University. His research focuses on positioning and tracking in indoor and outdoor environments. He is also interested in communication systems, 6G technologies, signal processing, AI, ML, and Riemannian optimization

Mohamed Ads (PhD Student)

received his B.Sc. (Honours) in Computer Engineering, with a concentration in the Internet of Things (IoT), from King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM), Saudi Arabia, in 2022. In 2024, he completed his MASc degree in Computing at Queen's University, Canada. Currently, he works towards his PhD within SIMS and the Telecommunications Research Lab (TRL) at Queen’s University. His research interests include Wireless Communication Systems, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Machine Learning (ML), and Cyber Security, where he explores the integration of these technologies to advance modern communication networks.

Alumni

Krishnendu Tharakan (Postdoctoral)

was a postdoctoral fellow at the School of Computing, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada. She then moved to KTH, Sweden, for another postdoctoral fellow opportunity. She received her B.Tech. in Electronics & Communication Engineering from National Institute of Technology, Calicut, India in 2016, and her PhD from Indian Institute of Technology Indore, India in 2022. From 2016-2017 she was an Engineer with Tata Elxsi, Thiruvananthapuram, India. She was a recipient of Visvesvaraya PhD Fellowship from MeitY, Government of India, during her PhD program.

Anas Mohamed (M.Sc.)

Anas S. Mohammed received his B.Sc. with Honours in Electrical Engineering and with a concentration in Energy Efficiency from King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM), Saudi Arabia, in 2023. In 2025, he completed his MASc degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at Queen's University, Canada. His research interests lie in the broad areas of Wireless Communication Systems, including Mobile Networks, Cloud and Open Radio Access Networks, Cell Free Massive MIMO, Machine Learning (ML) and Deep Learning (DL), Electrical and Electronic Systems Design, Energy Efficiency and Optimization.

Mohamed Ads (M.Sc.)

received his B.Sc. (Honours) in Computer Engineering, with a concentration in the Internet of Things (IoT), from King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM), Saudi Arabia, in 2022. In 2024, he completed his MASc degree in Computing at Queen's University, Canada. Currently, he serves as a Graduate Research Fellow with the Telecommunications Research Lab (TRL) at Queen’s University. His research interests include Wireless Communication Systems, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Machine Learning (ML), and Cyber Security, where he explores the integration of these technologies to advance modern communication networks.

Mahmoud Abdelhadi (M.Sc.)

holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from the Applied Science University in Amman, Jordan, and a Master of Science (Distinguished MS Thesis Award) in Computer Science from Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. His academic background encompasses software systems, algorithms, and 5G networks. Currently, he works as a Software Engineer at Amazon, where he focuses on designing and implementing scalable software solutions. His professional interests include cloud computing, systems architecture, and the development of high-performance, fault-tolerant applications.

Ameek S. Bains (USSRF)

Ameek is an undergraduate student at Queen’s University, pursuing a Bachelor of Computing (Honours) with a specialization in Software Design. He is currently a USSRF Summer Research Fellow under the supervision of Dr. Hesham ElSawy, where his work focuses on device localization, automation, and beam forming. Ameek is also a Software Design team member on the Queen’s VEX U Robotics Team, contributing to robust pathfinding and object detection systems. His research interests include deep learning, machine learning, and large language models.

Leila Salem (USRA)

is an undergraduate student at Queen’s University specializing in cybersecurity within the Bachelor of Computing (Honours) program. She is a Schulich Leader and Horatio Alger Scholar. Leila is currently conducting research in extreme edge computing through a USRA (Undergraduate Student Research Award) in SWiMS Lab under the supervision of Dr. Hesham ElSawy and Dr. Hossam Hassanein. Her academic interests include cybersecurity and applications of AI in healthcare.

Zain Parihar (Undergrad research)

Zain is an undergraduate student at Queen’s University, pursuing a Bachelor of Computing (Honours) with a specialization in AI and a minor in Math. He is currently the Director of HCI Research at QMIND and is working as an ML Hardware Analyst at Ericsson. Previously, he was a recipient of the Queen’s USSRF (Undergrad Summer Student Research Fellowship , 2024) and QHIC (Queen’s High-school internship in Computing, 2021) awards. He spent these terms under the supervision of Dr. Hesham ElSawy (SWiMS lab) and Dr. Yuan Tian (RISE Research Lab), respectively. His research interests are Human-Computer Interaction, Artificial Intelligence, and Robotics.

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