Mohamed-Slim Alouini
- Al-Khawarzmi Distinguished Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Principal Investigator, Communication Theory Lab
Professor Alouini, a co-founder of KAUST's ECE program, inspires future engineers through his pioneering work in wireless communications. His integrated space-air-ground networks and optical communication systems research shape connectivity's future and embody KAUST's scientific excellence and global impact.
Biography
Professor Slim-Alouini is the Al-Khawarizmi Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) and the holder of the UNESCO Chair on "Education to Connect the Unconnected." He is also an Affiliate Professor of Applied Mathematics and Computational Science (AMCS), an Affiliate Professor of Statistics (STAT) and the principal investigator of the Communication Theory Lab (CTL) at KAUST.
He received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering in 1998 from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), U.S.
Throughout his more than 25-year academic career, Professor Slim Alouini, an IEEE and OSA Fellow, has developed analytical and simulation tools for evaluating the performance of radio-frequency and optical wireless communication systems. He has also designed and optimized innovative technologies for emerging wireless networks.
Alouini has published numerous conference and journal papers and co-authored the textbook Digital Communication over Fading Channels, published by Wiley Interscience. A former editor of IEEE Transactions on Communications, he also served as an editor for IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing and the Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing journal. He was a series editor for the IEEE Communication Magazine's Optical Communications and Networks Special Series.
Alouini is the founding field chief editor for the Frontiers in Communications and Networks journal (since 2020) and an editor for the IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronics Systems (since 2022).
Research Interests
In addition to diversity combining techniques and MIMO techniques, Professor Alouini is interested in multi-hop and cooperative communications, optical wireless communication systems, cognitive radio systems, green communication systems, and integrated ground-airborne-space networks for research.
He is actively working on addressing the uneven global distribution, access to, and use of information and communication technologies (ICT) by studying and developing new generations of aerial and space networks as a solution to provide connectivity to far-flung, less-populated, and/or hard-to-reach areas.
His KAUST Communication Theory Lab (CTL) investigates viable solutions to minimize ICT costs by (i) capitalizing on emerging and new solutions that operate within the unlicensed radio frequency spectrum and by (ii) deploying a variety of aerial and space-based networks.
Awards and Distinctions
- Fellow of the International Science Council (ISC), Dec 31 2023
- UNESCO Chair on “Education for Connecting the Unconnected”, Dec 31 2023
- Fellow of the World Wireless Research Forum (WWRF), Dec 31 2022
- Fellow of the UNESCO The World Academy of Science (TWAS), Dec 31 2022
- UNESCO The World Academy of Science (TWAS) Award in Engineering Sciences, Dec 31 2022
- TAKREEM Foundation Award in the “Scientific & Technological Achievement” Category, Dec 31 2021
- IEEE Communication Society Education Award, Dec 31 2021
- NSP Obada Prize (Supported by the African Academy of Sciences), Dec 31 2021
- Fellow of OPTICA (formerly known as the Optical Society of America (OSA)), Dec 31 2021
- Member of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Standing Committee on Scientific and Technological Cooperation (COMSTECH) Distinguished Scholars Program, Dec 31 2021
- Fellow of Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA), Dec 31 2021
- Kuwait Prize in Applied Sciences, Dec 31 2020
- IEEE Vehicular Technology Society James Evans Avant Garde Award, Dec 31 2020
- Technical Achievement Award of the IEEE Communication Society Communication Theory Technical Committee, Dec 31 2019
- Member of the Academia Europaea (AE), Dec 31 2019
- Member of the European Academy of Science and Arts (EASA), Dec 31 2019
- Fellow of the African Academy and Science (AAS), Dec 31 2018
- Inaugural Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Science & Technology Achievement Award in Engineering Sciences, Dec 31 2017
- Abdul Hameed Shoman Award for Arab Researchers in Engineering Sciences, Dec 31 2016
- Recognition Award of the IEEE Communication Society Wireless Technical Committee, Dec 31 2016
- Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Dec 31 2009
- US National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award, Dec 31 1999
- Charles Wilts Prize for outstanding independent research leading to a PhD degree in Electrical Engineering at Caltech, Dec 31 1999
- IEEE Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Communication Society, the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society, and the IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society, Jun 2 2024
- Highly Cited Researchers, Cross-Field Category, Web of Science, Dec 31 2023
- IEEE Communications Society Best Tutorial Paper Award, IEEE Journal of Selected Areas in Communications, Feb 15 2024
- Outstanding Article Award, Frontiers in Signal Processing, Dec 31 2023
- IEEE Communication Society Heinrich Hertz Award, IEEE Wireless Communication Letters, Dec 31 2023
- IEEE Communications Society Award for Advances in Communication, IEEE Trans. on Communications, Dec 31 2021
- IEEE Communications Society Best Tutorial Paper Award, IEEE Communication Surveys & Tutorials, Dec 31 2020
- IEEE Communications Society Fred W. Ellersick Prize, IEEE Communication Magazine, Dec 31 2021
- Best Paper Award, EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, Dec 31 2021
- ICC, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Dec 31 2010
- GLOBECOM, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Dec 31 2007
- VTC, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Dec 31 1999
- PIMRC, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Dec 31 2009
- ISWCS, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Dec 31 2017
- UCET, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Dec 31 2020
- DySPAN, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Dec 31 2012
- SusTech, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Dec 31 2021
- SusTech, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Dec 31 2023
- MSWIM, ACM, Dec 31 2004
- CROWNCOM, EAI, Dec 31 2010
- Radar Challenge, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Dec 31 2021
- Connect2Recover Research Competition, United Nations (UN) International Telecom Union (ITU), Dec 31 2021
- Internet for All Competition, the European-Middle East-Africa (EMEA) region, IEEE Communication Society, Dec 31 2022
- Awarded 1st place presentation, 6G and NTN: Challenges and Solutions, IEEE Future Networks, Dec 31 2023
- Prize in the Future Technologies Category, Saudi Ministry of Communication and Information Technology, Dec 31 2023
Education
- Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)
- Electrical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, United States, 1998
- Master of Science (M.S.)
- Electrical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, United States, 1995
- Diplome d'Etudes Approfondies (DEA)
- Electronics, Pierre and Marie Curie University, France, 1993
Quote
In the CTL group at KAUST, we enjoy modeling, designing, optimizing, and evaluating the performance of emerging and future wireless communication systems and networks.
Patents
Publication number: 20180213543
Publication number: 20180198203
Publication number: 20170366304
Adaptive Modulation Scheme With Simultaneous Voice And Data Transmission
Patent number: 6304593
Robust Node Estimation And Topology Discovery For Large-scale Networks
Publication number: 20180227188
Publication number: 20180052219
Generation Of Correlated Finite Alphabet Waveforms Using Gaussian Random Variables
Publication number: 20160013819
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