Ahmed Arafa

Ahmed Arafa Associate Professor Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of North Carolina at Charlotte office: EPIC 2262 phone: (704) 687-7480 email: aarafa@uncc.edu web: https://webpages.uncc.edu/aarafa/

About me

I am an Associate Professor of ECE at UNC Charlotte. I have been with UNC as a tenure-track Assistant Professor since August 2019. Before that, I spent two wonderful years at Princeton's EE as a Postdoctoral Research Associate, hosted by Vince Poor. In 2017, I was fortunate to receive my PhD degree in EE under the supervision of Sennur Ulukus at the University of Maryland's ECE. I received the NSF CAREER Award in 2022.

My research interests are in communication and information theory, communication networks, wireless, signal processing and machine learning. Recently, I have been working on projects pertaining to

• federated and distributed learning

• semantic communications (see, e.g, age-of-information)

• information-theoretic security and privacy

News

• 7-25: Our journal paper, ‘‘Towards Characterizing the Download Cost of Cache-Aided Private Updating’’, is accepted for publication in Entropy, special issue on Information-Theoretic Security and Privacy.

• 7-25: I have been promoted to the rank of Associate Professor with conferral of permanent tenure in the ECE Department at UNC Charlotte.

• 4-25: CIPL student Md Nurul Absar Siddiky has successfully defended his Master's thesis. Congratulations Nurul Absar!

• 4-25: CIPL student Abdulmoneam Ali receives the Outstanding Graduate Research Assistant Award from the ECE Department at UNC Charlotte. Congratulations Abdulmoneam!

• 2-25: Our paper, ‘‘Status Updating with Time Stamp Errors’’, is accepted for publication in the Age and Semantics of Information (ASoI) Workshop (in conjunction with IEEE Infocom ’25). (arXiv)

• 1-25: Our paper, ‘‘RCC-PFL: Robust Client Clustering under Noisy Labels in Personalized Federated Learning’’, is accepted for publication in IEEE ICC ’25. (arXiv)

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