I have received my PhD degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). I had the privilege to be part of the Cognitive Reconfigurable Embedded Systems (CORES) Lab under the supervision of Dr. Danijela Cabric. I'm currently working full-time at Apple.
I'm passionate about the research and development of wireless systems and networks that connect people and enable IoT applications across many vertical sectors. In my PhD research, I have leveraged tools such as optimization, signal processing, stochastic processes, and communication theory to solve challenges pertaining massive IoT networking, ultra-reliable connectivity for industrial IoT, spectrum sharing and coexistence of different wireless technologies, and dynamic spectrum access. I have also held summer research internships at Qualcomm Research (Wireless R&D division) in San Diego, CA, and Nokia Bell Labs in Arlington Heights, IL.
I have received my master's degree from Queen's University, ON, Canada, and my bachelor's from the American University of Sharjah (AUS), United Arab Emirates, in April 2014 and June 2012, respectively.
My work on ultra-narrowband access for massive IoT has been submitted for publications in IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications.
I was a technical program committee member for IEEE DySPAN 2019.
My work on wideband distributed sensing-based access for massive IoT is published in IEEE Trans. on Cognitive Communications and Networking.
My work during my Nokia Bell Labs internship on the coexistence of 5G-NR with incumbents beyond 70GHz is published in the IEEE Trans. on Wireless Communications and the IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine.