16/06/2025: Included in IEEE Networking letter Monthly Top 50 Most Frequently Accessed Documents (June. 2025-Present): "MIRA: A Method of Federated Muti-Task Learning for Large Language Models".
04/06/2025: Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR) paper accepted: "Tackling Feature and Sample Heterogeneity in Decentralized Multi-Task Learning: A Sheaf-Theoretic Approach".
04/06/2025: IEEE PIMRC conference paper accepted: "A Sheaf-Theoretic Approach to Decentralized Multimodal Federated Learning for Next-Generation Communication Systems".
09/04/2025: IEEE Networking letter accepted: "A Decentralized Matching Theory Framework to Match Data and Algorithms Providers".
31/01/2025: IEEE Networking letter accepted: "MIRA: A Method of Federated Muti-Task Learning for Large Language Models".
21/01/2025: White paper on Large Telecom Models published: "LARGE-SCALE AI IN TELECOM Charting the Roadmap for Innovation, Scalability, and Enhanced Digital Experiences".
16/12/2024: IEEE Wireless Communications Letter paper accepted: "Scalable and Resource-Efficient Second-Order Federated Learning via Over-the-Air Aggregation".
16/09/2024: IEEE Internet of Things paper accepted: "Quantized FedPD (QFedPD): Beyond Conventional Wisdom — The Energy Benefits of Frequent Communication".
08/05/2024: IEEE Transactions on Machine Learning in Communications and Networking paper accepted: "DIN: A Decentralized Inexact Newton Algorithm for Consensus Optimization".
13/02/2024: Journal of Environmental Management paper accepted: "Coupling Machine Learning and Physical Modelling for Predicting runoff at Catchment Scale".
17/01/2024: IEEE ICC conference paper accepted: "Fed-Sophia: A Communication-Efficient Second-Order Federated Learning Algorithm".
17/12/2023: IEEE ICMLCN conference paper accepted: "Balancing Energy Efficiency and Distributional Robustness in Over-The-Air Federated Learning".
22/09/2023: IEEE Globecom workshop paper accepted: "ADROIT6G DAI-driven Open and Programmable Architecture for 6G Networks".
18/01/2023: IEEE ICC conference paper accepted: "DIN: A Decentralized Inexact Newton Algorithm for Consensus Optimization".
09/12/2022: IEEE WCNC conference paper accepted: "Communication-Efficient Second-Order Newton-Type Approach for Decentralized Learning".
19/08/2022: Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR) paper accepted: "DR-DSGD: A Distributionally Robust Decentralized Learning Algorithm over Graphs".
15/05/2022: International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) paper accepted: "FedNew: A communication-efficient and privacy-preserving Newton-type method for federated learning".
28/04/2022: IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking paper accepted: "Communication-efficient federated learning: A second order Newton-type method with analog over-the-air aggregation".
21/12/2021: IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking paper accepted: "Learning, computing, and trustworthiness in intelligent IOT environments: Performance-energy tradeoffs".
15/12/2021: IEEE WCNC conference paper accepted: "Local Stochastic ADMM for Communication-Efficient Distributed Learning".
17/11/2021: IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking paper accepted: "Communication-Efficient and Federated Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning".
31/10/2021: IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications paper accepted: "Communication efficient decentralized learning over bipartite graphs".
16/08/2021: IEEE Globecom conference paper accepted: "Federated distributionally robust optimization for phase configuration of RISs".
16/08/2021: IEEE Globecom conference paper accepted: "Communication-efficient split learning based on analog communication and over-the-air aggregation".
16/08/2021: IEEE Globecom conference paper accepted: "Energy-efficient and federated meta-learning via projected stochastic gradient ascent".
29/04/2021: IEEE PIMRC conference paper accepted: "Energy-efficient model compression and splitting for collaborative inference over time-varying channels".
29/04/2021: IEEE Transactions on Communications paper accepted: "Harnessing wireless channels for scalable and privacy-preserving federated learning".
07/04/2021: Invited talk: "Communication-Efficient Distributed Learning with Censored, Quantized, and Generalized Group ADMM", at the Federated Learning One World (FLOW) Seminar.
12/11/2020: IEEE Access paper accepted: "User clustering for MIMO NOMA via classifier chains and gradient-boosting decision trees".
04/11/2020: IEEE Wireless Communications Letters paper accepted: "Efficient Importance Sampling for the Left Tail of Positive Gaussian Quadratic Forms".
13/09/2020: IEEE Transactions on Communications paper accepted: "Q-GADMM: Quantized Group ADMM for Communication Efficient Decentralized Machine Learning".
12/04/2020: IEEE Internet of Things Journal paper accepted: "A CNN Based Structured Light Communication Scheme for Internet of Underwater Things Applications".
02/2020: Joined the Intelligent Connectivity and Networks/Systems Group (ICON) group at the University of Oulu as a Postdoctoral Fellow to work on communication-efficient distributed learning.
13/12/2019: Graduated as a PhD student in Statistics from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST).
10/11/2019: Defended my PhD thesis entitled "Efficient Monte Carlo Simulations for the Estimation of Rare Events Probabilities in Wireless Communication Systems".
07/2019: Visiting Researcher at the Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC) in Barcelona.
23/06/2019-27/06/2019: Served as a teaching assistant for the probability course, part of the data science training program conducted at the Saudi Telecom Company (STC) Academy in Riyadh.
14/05/2019: IEEE Transactions on Communications paper accepted: "Level Crossing Rate and Average Outage Duration of Free Space Optical Links".
14/05/2019: OSA Advanced Photonics Congress (AP) paper accepted: "Detecting Underwater Laguerre Gaussian Modes using a Convolutional Neural Network".
13/12/2017: IEEE WCNC conference paper accepted: "Efficient Outage Probability Evaluation of Diversity Receivers Over α-μ Fading Channels".
16/11/2017: IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications paper accepted: "On the Fast and Precise Evaluation of the Outage Probability of Diversity Receivers Over α−μ, κ−μ, and η−μ Fading Channels".
18/10/2017: IEEE Photonics Journal paper accepted: "Efficient Simulation of the Outage Probability of Multihop Systems".
16/07/2017: IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications paper accepted: "A Generic Simulation Approach for the Fast and Accurate Estimation of the Outage Probability of Single Hop and Multihop FSO Links Subject to Generalized Pointing Error".
22/01/2017: IEEE Transactions on Communications paper accepted: "On the Efficient Simulation of the Distribution of the Sum of Gamma-Gamma Variates with Application to the Outage Probability Evaluation Over Fading Channels".
21/07/2016: IEEE GlobalSIP conference paper accepted: "On the sum of Gamma-Gamma variates with application to the fast outage probability evaluation over fading channels".
02/07/2016: IEEE Globecom conference paper accepted: "Fast Outage Probability Simulation for FSO Links with a Generalized Pointing Error Model".