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Electrical and Computer Engineering
Dr. Ali Ghrayeb

Dr. Ali Ghrayeb

Professor, IEEE Fellow

Office Number: 246L
Office Phone: +974.4423.0292

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Interest Areas

  • Wireless communication
  • Cellular networks
  • Internet of Things
  • Visible Light Communications
  • Physical Layer Security
  • Smart Grids

Education

  • Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ USA.
  • M.S., Electrical and Computer Engineering, New Mexico State Univ., Las Cruces, NM USA.
  • B.S., Electrical Engineering, University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan.

Experience

  • Prior to joining TAMUQ, he was a tenured professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada.
  • He has supervised to completion 10 Ph.D. students and 15 master's students (as of June 2021)
  • He served as the ECEN ABET Coordinator, 2014-2021.
  • He instructed/co-instructed technical tutorials at several major IEEE conferences.
  • He serves on the IEEE Communications Society GITC (GLOBECOM/ICC Technical Content) Committee.
  • He serves on the IEEE Communications Society Conferences Council.
  • He served as the Executive Chair of IEEE WCNC 2016.
  • He served on the editorial of several IEEE Transactions journals.

Awards

  • IEEE Fellow, January 2019

Publications

  • Moataz Samir, Mohamed Elhattab, Chadi Assi, Sanaa Sharafeddine, and Ali Ghrayeb, “Optimizing age of information through aerial reconfigurable intelligent surfaces: A deep reinforcement Learning approach,” IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 70, no. 4, pp. 3978-3983, April 2021.
  • Mohamed Amine Arfaoui, Mohammad Dehghani Soltani, Iman Tavakkolnia, Ali Ghrayeb, Chadi Assi, Majid Safari, and Harald Haas, “Invoking Deep Learning for Joint Estimation of Indoor LiFi User Position and Orientation,” IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, SI – Optical Networks, vol. 39, no. 9, pp. 2890-2905, September 2021.
  • Moataz Samir, Chadi Assi, Sanaa Sharafeddine, and Ali Ghrayeb, “Online altitude control and scheduling policy for minimizing AoI in UAV-assisted IoT wireless networks,” IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol 20, no. 9, pp. 2835-2847, Sept. 2021.
  • Mohamed Amine Arfaoui, Mohammad Dehghani Soltani, Iman Tavakkolnia, Ali Ghrayeb, Harald Haas, Majid Safari, Chadi Assi, “Measurements-based channel models for indoor LiFi systems,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 20, no. 2, pp. 827-842, Feb. 2021.
  • Moataz Samir, Dariush Ebrahimi, Chadi Assi, Sanaa Sharafeddine, and Ali Ghrayeb, “Age of information aware trajectory planning of UAVs in intelligent transportation systems: A deep learning approach,” IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 69, no. 11, pp. 12382-12395, Nov. 2020.
  • Mohamed Amine Arfaoui, Mohammad Dehghani Soltani, Iman Tavakkolnia, Ali Ghrayeb, Harald Haas, Majid Safari, Chadi Assi, “Physical layer security for visible light communication systems: A survey,” IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, vol. 22, no. 3, pp. 1887-1908, Third Quarter 2020.
  • Hossam ElHusseini, Chadi Assi, Bassam Moussa, Ribal Attallah, Ali Ghrayeb, “Blockchain, AI and smart grids: The three musketeers to a decentralized EV charging infrastructure,” IEEE Internet of Things Magazine, vol. 3, no. 2, pp. 24-29, June 2020.
  • Mohaned Chraiti, Ali Ghrayeb, Chadi Assi, Nizar Bouguilla, and Reinaldo Valenzuela, “A framework for unsupervised planning of cellular networks using statistical machine learning,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 68, no. 5, pp. 3213-3228, May 2020.
  • Mohamed-Amine Arfaoui, Ali Ghrayeb and Chadi Assi, “Secrecy performance of the MIMO VLC wiretap channel with randomly located eavesdropper,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 19, no. 1, pp. 265-278, Jan. 2020.
  • Moataz Samir, Sanaa Sharafeddine, Chadi Assi, Tri Nguyen and Ali Ghrayeb, “UAV trajectory planning for data collection from time-constrained IoT devices,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 19, no. 1, pp. 34-46, Jan. 2020.