PhD degree candidate of the Electrical Engineering, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology.

Research Interests

  • Random matrix theory,
  • High dimensional statistics.
  • Machine learning.
  • Data science.
  • Selected Applications.
  • Statistical Signal Processing.
  • Supervised Learning Algorithms.
  • Feedback Reduction in Multiuser and Relay Networks.

Awards and Distinctions

  • 1st Place - National entrance examination , Ecole Normale Superieure de Tunis, 2009
  • Finalist for the best student paper award , IEEE MLSP conference , 2017

Qualifications

Education

Master of Engineering (MEng)
Electrical Engineering, KAUST (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology), Saudi Arabia, 2015
Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.)
Telecommunications, SUP’COM, Tunisia, 2012

Licenses and Certifications

  • Fundamentals of Reinforcement Learning, Coursera , Wed, Jan 1 2020
  • Improving Deep Neural Networks: Hyperparameter tuning, Regularization and Optimization, Coursera , Mon, Jan 1 2018
  • Neural Networks and Deep Learning, Coursera, Mon, Jan 1 2018

Quote

I think that embracing uncertainty is the key to understand the meaning of our existence and that truth in its absolute sense is nothing but an illusion. With a great passion for statistics, I try to make tiny improvements on the way we quantify uncertainty.

Selected Publications

  • Elkhalil, K. ., Kammoun, A. ., Couillet, R. ., Al-Naffouri, T. Y., & Alouini, M.-S. . (2020). A Large Dimensional Study of Regularized Discriminant Analysis.
  • Elkhalil, K. ., Kammoun, A. ., Couillet, R. ., Al-Naffouri, T. Y., & Alouini, M.-S. . (2017). Asymptotic performance of regularized quadratic discriminant analysis based classifiers. 2017 IEEE 27th International Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing (MLSP). Presented at the. Tokyo, Japan: IEEE.
  • Elkhalil, K. ., Eltayeb, M. E., Kammoun, A. ., Al-Naffouri, T. Y., & Bahrami, H. R. (2016). On the Feedback Reduction of Multiuser Relay Networks Using Compressive Sensing.
  • Elkhalil, K. ., Eltayeb, M. E., Shibli, H. ., Bahrami, H. R., & Al-Naffouri, T. Y. (2015). Opportunistic relay selection in multicast relay networks using compressive sensing. IEEE Global Communications Conference. Presented at the. Austin, TX, USA: IEEE.