Dr. Hesham ElSawy was recognized by the IEEE Transactions on Communications (TCOM) as an Exemplary Reviewer. Less than 2% of all IEEE TCOM Reviewers in 2015 got this recognition. Dr. ElSawy's name was also featured on the IEEE TCOM's Exemplary Reviewers Journals website.
Dr. ElSawy joined the Computer, Electrical, and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering (CEMSE) Division, of the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), as a postdoctoral fellow in April 2014. Prior to that, he obtained his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB Canada, in 2014. During his Ph.D. studies, he worked with TRTech in Winnipeg, as Student Researcher.
For his academic excellence, he has received several academic awards, including the Canadian Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council Industrial Postgraduate Scholarship (NSERC-IPS). His research interests include statistical modeling of wireless networks, stochastic geometry, and queueing analysis for wireless communication networks.