Current Position
Assistant Professor / COMSATS institute of information technology, Abbottabad
Education
• PhD student at KFUPM, Sep 2011 – Dec 2015
• M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering & information technology, Universität Karlsruhe (TH), Karlsruhe, Germany; and e Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain, 2007-2009,
• B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, University of Engineering, and Technology, 1998-2002, Peshawar, Pakistan.
Research Interests
• Semi-blind Channel Estimation & Equalization in Massive MIMO.
• Signal Processing
• Communications
Selected Publications
[1] W. Xu, H. A. J. Alshamary, T. Y. Al-Naffouri, and A. Zaib, "Optimal non-coherent data detection for massive SIMO wireless systems: A polynomial complexity solution", Submitted to IEEE. Transactions Information Theory.
[2] A. Zaib, M. Masood, A. Ali, W. Xu, and T. Y. Al-Naffouri, "Distributed Channel Estimation and Pilot Contamination Analysis for Massive MIMO-OFDM Systems", in IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol.64, pp.4607-4621, Nov. 2016.
[3] Zaib, Alam, and T. Y. Al-Naffouri, "Blind and semi-blind ML detection for space-time block-coded OFDM wireless systems", in EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, vol.2014, pp.131, Aug. 2014.
[1] H. A. J. Alshamary, T. Y. Al-Naffouri, A. Zaib, and W. Xu, "Optimal non-coherent data detection for massive SIMO wireless systems: A polynomial complexity solution", 2015 IEEE Signal Processing and Signal Processing Education Workshop (SP/SPE), pp.172-177, Aug. 2015.
[2] A. Zaib, M. Masood, M. Ghogho, and T. Y. Al-Naffouri, "Distributive estimation of frequency selective channels for massive MIMO systems", 2015 23rd European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), pp.889-893, Aug. 2015.