Asmaa Abdallah
Biography
Asmaa Abdallah received the B.S. degree (with High Distinction) and the M.S. degree in Computer and Communications Engineering from Rafik Hariri University (RHU), Lebanon, in 2013 and 2015, respectively. She earned her Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the American University of Beirut (AUB), Lebanon, in 2020.
From 2021 to 2024, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), where she is currently a Research Scientist in the Communications and Computing Systems Laboratory.
Between 2016 and 2020, Dr. Abdallah served on the executive committee of the IEEE Young Professionals Lebanon Section. She was the recipient of the Academic Excellence Award at RHU in 2013 for graduating top of her class. She also received a scholarship from the Lebanese National Council for Scientific Research (CNRS-L/AUB) in support of her doctoral studies.
In 2023, Dr. Abdallah was named one of the 15 leading Innovators Under 35 in the MENA region by MIT Technology Review. Her research interests include machine learning, communication theory, stochastic geometry, and array signal processing, with a focus on energy- and spectrally-efficient algorithms for next-generation wireless communication systems.
Research Interests
Ms. Abdallah's research interests include communication theory, stochastic geometry for wireless communications, machine learning for wireless communications, array signal processing, with emphasis on energy and spectral efficient algorithms for emerging wireless communication technologies.
Awards and Distinctions
- Academic Excellence Award for ranking first on the graduating class, Rafik Hariri University (RHU), 2013
- Scholarship for doctoral studies, Lebanese National Counsel for Scientific Research (CNRS-L/AUB), 2015
- Innovator Under 35 – MENA Region, MIT Technology Review Arabia, 2023
- Rising Star, Asian Deans’ Forum, 2023
Education
- Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)
- Electrical and Computer Engineering, American University of Beirut (AUB), Lebanon, 2020
- Master of Science (M.S.)
- Computer and Communications Engineering, Rafik Hariri University (RHU), Lebanon, 2015
- Bachelor of Science (B.S.)
- Computer and Communications Engineering, Rafik Hariri University (RHU), Lebanon, 2013
Selected Publications
Journal Articles
- Abdallah, A., Hussain, A., Celik, A., & Eltawil, A. M. (2025). Exploring frontiers of polar-domain codebooks for near-field channel estimation and beamfocusing. IEEE Signal Processing Magazine. (Accepted)
- Nazar, A. M., Celik, A., Selim, M. Y., Abdallah, A., Qiao, D., & Eltawil, A. M. (2025). ENWAR 2.0: An agentic multimodal wireless LLM framework with reasoning, situation-aware explainability and beam tracking. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. (Submitted)
- Hussain, A., Abdallah, A., Celik, A., & Eltawil, A. M. (2025). NF-ISAC: Exploring synergy of polar codebook and STAP. IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine. (Accepted)
- Abdallah, A., Celik, A., Mansour, M. M., & Eltawil, A. M. (2025). Multi-agent deep reinforcement learning for beam training in cell-free RIS-aided systems. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications.
- Sarieddeen, H., Abdallah, A., Mansour, M. M., Alouini, M.-S., & Al-Naffouri, T. Y. (2021). Terahertz-band MIMO-NOMA: Adaptive superposition coding and subspace detection. IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society, 2, 2628–2644. https://doi.org/10.1109/OJCOMS.2021.3120000
- Abdallah, A., Mansour, M. M., Jalloul, L. M. A., & Chehab, A. (2018). When quantized massive MIMO meets large MIMO with higher order modulation. IEEE Communications Letters, 22(12), 2599–2602. https://doi.org/10.1109/LCOMM.2018.2867001
Conference Papers
- Hussain, A., Abdallah, A., Celik, A., & Eltawil, A. M. (2025). Joint motion, angle, and range estimation in near-field under array calibration imperfections. ASLIMOR 2025. arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.13463
- Nazar, A. M., Celik, A., Selim, M. Y., Abdallah, A., Qiao, D., & Eltawil, A. M. (2025). Encoders, roll out! A multi-modal sensor transfusion for proactive I2V beam prediction. IEEE PIMRC, Turkey. (Accepted)
- Nasir, K., Abdallah, A., Celik, A., Eltawil, A. M., & Coleri, S. (2025). Explainable and robust millimeter wave beam alignment for AI-native 6G networks. IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Montreal, Canada.
- Hussain, A., Abdallah, A., Celik, A., & Eltawil, A. M. (2024). Near-field channel estimation for ultra-massive MIMO antenna array with hybrid architecture. IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC).
- Abdallah, A., Celik, A., Mansour, M. M., & Eltawil, A. M. (2018). Joint channel allocation and power control for D2D communications using stochastic geometry. IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), Barcelona, Spain, 1–6.
Book Chapter
- Abdallah, A., Celik, A., & Eltawil, A. M. (2025). Generative AI background and its potentials for future communications systems. In Generative AI for Communications Systems: Fundamentals, Applications, and Prospects. Wiley-IEEE Press.
Patents
- Abdallah, A., Celik, A., Mansour, M. M., & Eltawil, A. M. (2022). Beamforming technique for a radio network (U.S. Patent Application No. P10713US01).
- Abdallah, A., Celik, A., Alkhateeb, A., & Eltawil, A. M. (2024). End-to-end learning-based beam management system for multi-user millimeter-wave communication (U.S. Patent Application No. 63/640,929).
