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Ahmed K. Sultan Salem

Instructional Professor, Environmental Science and Engineering

Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Science and Engineering Division
Email icon ahmed.salem@kaust.edu.sa

Investing in the human element of the research process is my focus. I firmly believe in meeting the students where they are and taking them to where they never thought they could be. Along the way, some students are disgruntled with the rigorous mathematical and scientific tools I insist on in my coursework. However for some others, these tools unleash a whole new world for their work that may not even become obvious except a year or two after they have taken my class.

Program Affiliations

Biography

Dr. Salem holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, U.S. Prior to joining KAUST in 2010, he was an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at Alexandria University, Egypt. He has also jointly held an assistant professorship at the Wireless Intelligent Networks Center (WINC) at Nile University, Egypt, since 2008.

Salem has extensive experience teaching at graduate and undergraduate levels. He has taught courses in digital communications, wireless communications and systems, digital signal processing, signal and systems, detection and estimation, probability and stochastic processes, engineering mathematics, signal processing for radar systems, remote sensing, and automatic control.

In 2017, he received the inaugural KAUST Distinguished Teaching Award. His research has yielded over eighty scientific publications in various peer-reviewed journals and conferences.

Research Interests

Dr. Salem’s research interests include energy harvesting, dynamic spectrum access, cognitive radio networks, cooperative communications, orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing for optical communications, distributed and sequential detection, cooperative relay-based multi-hop communications, physical layer-based secrecy, remote sensing and synthetic aperture radar.
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energy harvesting Cognitive radio network Cooperative communications

Education Profile

  • Ph.D., Stanford University, 2007

  • M.Sc., Alexandria University, 2000

  • B.Sc., Alexandria University, 1997

Awards and Recognitions

  • KAUST’s inaugural distinguished teaching award, KAUST, 2017

Publications

  • Ahmed El Shafie, Ahmed K. Sultan Salem, Ioannis Krikidis, Naofal Al-Dhahir and Ridha Hamila,"Achievable Rates of Buffer-Aided Full-Duplex Gaussian Relay Channels," IEEE Access, vol. 5, pp. 23776-23791, 2017.

  • Hesham ElSawy, Ahmed K. Sultan Salem, Mohamed-Slim Alouini and Moe Z. Win, "Modeling and Analysis of Cellular Networks using Stochastic Geometry: A Tutorial," IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, vol. 19, no. 1, pp. 167-203, First Quarter 2017.

  • Fatma Benkhelifa, Ahmed K. Sultan Salem, and Mohamed-Slim Alouini, "Sum-Rate Enhancement in Multiuser MIMO Decode-and-Forward Relay Broadcasting Channel with Energy Harvesting Relays," IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol. 34, no. 12, pp. 3675-3684, Dec. 2016.

  • Rawan Naous, Mohammad Zidan, Ahmed K. Sultan Salem, and Khaled Salama,"Pilot assisted readout for passive memristor crossbars," Microelectronics Journal, vol. 54, pp. 48—58, 2016.

  • Ahmed K. Sultan Salem, "Sensing and Transmit Energy Optimization for an Energy Harvesting Cognitive Radio," IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, vol. 5, no. 5, pp. 500—503, October 2012.

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