Ahmed Arafa
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Ahmed Arafa |
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
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
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)