Current Students
PhD Students
Naeem uz. Zaman (PhD Student @ KFUPM 2025 -- )
Topic: Integrated Sensing and Communications
Muneef Mohammed (PhD Student @ KFUPM 2025 -- ) Co-supervision with Dr. Salam Zummo
Topic: Symbiotic Communications
Sidqy Ibrahim (PhD Student @ KFUPM 2023 -- ) Co-supervision with Dr. Salam Zummo
Topic: Symbiotic Communications
Ali Salim (PhD Student @ KFUPM 2023 -- ) Co-supervision with Dr. Samir Alghadhban
Topic: Holographic Beamforming
MS Students
Sarowar Hossain (MS Student @ KFUPM 2024 -- )
Topic: RIS-assisted Wideband Communication
Musherah Al-Zalaei (MS Student @ KFUPM 2024 -- )
Topic:
Khalid Shumayri (MS Student @ KFUPM 2024 -- ) Co-supervision with Dr. Mudassir Masood
Topic: Near-field Predictive Beamforming
Former Students
PhD Students
Abbas Koohian (PhD Student @ ANU 2015 -- 2018) Co-supervised with Dr. Salman Durrani and Dr. Hani Mehrpouyan
Topic: Channel Estimation in Full-Duplex and Massive MIMO systems
Omar Salim (PhD Student @ USQ 2012 -- 2015) Co-supervised with Dr. Wei Xiang and Dr. Hani Mehrpouyan
Topic: Signal processing algorithms for cooperative and MIMO-OFDM systems
MS Students
Muneef Mohammed (MS Student @ KFUPM 2023 -- 2025) Co-supervision with Dr. Salam Zummo
Topic: Symbiotic Communications
Mohammed Yasir Elrashidy (MS Student @ KFUPM 2022 -- 2024) Co-supervised with Dr. Mudassir Masood
Topic: Data-driven techniques for joint finromation-power-transfer and joint communication-sensing systems
Hao Hu (MS Student @ Shanghai university 2023-2024) Co-supervised with Dr. Zhichao Sheng
Topic: UAV-enabled MEC networks empowered by RIS
Mohammad Hashem (MS Student @ KFUPM 2022 -- 2024) Co-supervised with Dr. Mudassir Masood and Dr. Saeed Anwar
Topic: Deep Learning for Underwater Image Reconstruction
Zhaoyi Feng (MS Student @ Shanghai university 2023-2024) Co-supervised with Dr. Zhichao Sheng
Topic: Multi-agent deep reinforcement learning for UAV-aided communications
Jie Sun (MS Student @ Shanghai University 2022 -- 2023) Co-supervised with Dr. Zhichao Sheng
Topic: Energy efficiency maximization for UAV-assisted communications
Mahmoud Yassin (MS Student @ KFUPM 2022 -- 2023) Co-supervised with Dr. Mostafa Taha
Topic: Chaotic image cryptosystem for cybersecurity applications
Lei Cui (MS Student @ Shanghai University 2022 -- 2023) Co-supervised with Dr. Zhichao Sheng
Topic: Secure URLLC
Huabo Fu (MS Student @ Shanghai University 2022 -- 2023) Co-supervised with Dr. Zhichao Sheng
Topic: Secure UAV-assisted communications
Abdul Rehman Qureshi (MS Student @ KFUPM 2019 -- 2021)
Topic: Resource Allocation for a Multi-Device URLLC Network
Sana Habib (MS Student @ NUST 2015 -- 2016) Co-supervised with Dr. Syed Ali Hassan
Topic: Cell search algorithms for millimeter wave communication systems
Ghulam Dastagir (MS Student @ ANU 2014)
Topic: Smart grid communications
Ghulam Mujadded (MS Student @ ANU 2013)
Topic: Wireless sensor networks