Awards and Merits:
Riitta and Jorma J. Takanen scholarship, 2020.
Nokia foundation award, 2019.
Nokia foundation award, 2018.
Riitta and Jorma J. Takanen scholarship, 2018.
Best student paper award in ISWCS 2017 for the paper "On the effective energy efficiency of ultra-reliable networks in the finite blocklength regime"
Nominated for the best student paper award in EUCNC 2017.
Egyptian National Telecommunications Regulatory Authority – NTRA award, 2011 for B. Sc graduation project funding.
Projects:
Communication in extreme environments (KAUST funding)
6G Flagship, University of Oulu
Hexa-x II
Hexa-x
5G to 10G
Energy efficiency in IoT (EE-IoT)
Tutorials and selected talks:
WF-IoT 2023: "Trajectory Learning for UAV‐Assisted Minimization of Age and Power in Massive MTC"
ISWCS 2022: "Machine learning approaches for machine type communication scenarios towards 6G".
Lecture on “Communication in extreme environments” at King’s College London and Imperial College London (2025)
Lecture on “Energy efficiency for IoT” at Technical University of Dresden (2019)
Research visits:
Imperial College London (Prof. Deniz Gunduz): April 2025 - June 2025
Virginia Tech., US (Prof. Walid Saad): 20.09.2023 - 15.11.2023 (on hold)
American University in Cairo (Prof. Karim Seddik) 01.12.2022 - 31.12.2022
Aalborg University (Prof. Petar Popovski) 29.09.2019 - 01.12.2019
Technical University of Dresden (Prof. Eduard Jorswieck) 06.01.2019 - 26.01.2019