Ahmed Arafa
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Ahmed Arafa |
About me
I have been an Assistant Professor of ECE at UNC Charlotte 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 information theory, wireless communications, communication networks, and signal processing. Recently, I have been working on projects pertaining to
federated learning
timely information processing and transfer (age-of-information)
information-theoretic security and privacy
energy harvesting communications
Join Us: I am always looking for talented and self-motivated PhD students to join our research group. If you are interested, check out this ad.
If you are already a student at UNC Charlotte, you are welcome to stop by my office to discuss research opportunities for undergrad, Master's and PhD levels.
News
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)
12-24: Our journal paper, ‘‘Delay Sensitive Hierarchical Federated Learning with Stochastic Local Updates’’, is accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking.
11-24: Our journal paper, ‘‘Towards Understanding Federated Learning over Unreliable Networks’’, is accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Machine Learning in Communications and Networking.
8-24: New PhD students join CIPL: Ahmed Elshazly and Irtiza Hasan. Welcome!
7-24: Our paper, ‘‘Data Similarity-Based One-Shot Clustering for Multi-Task Hierarchical Federated Learning’’, is accepted for publication in Asilomar ’24.
7-24: Our paper, ‘‘Age of Information in Mobile Networks: Fundamental Limits and Tradeoffs’’, is accepted for publication in MobiHoc ’24.