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Dr Alam Zaib

Dr Alam Zaib

Tenured Associate Professor

Area of Interest: Signal Processing & Communications

Email: [email protected]

Academics / Degrees

  • PhD Electrical Engineering – KFUPM, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.
  • MSc Electrical Engineering & Info. Tech – KIT, Karlsruhe, Germany.
  • BSc Electrical Engineering – UET, Peshawar Pakistan

Profile / Bio

  • May 2023 – till now: Tenured Associate Professor at Department of ECE, CUI-Abbottabad
  • Apr 2016 – May 2023: Assistant Professor (TTS) at Department of ECE, CUI-Abbottabad
  • Mar 2010 – Sep 2011: Assistant Professor at Department of ECE, CUI-Abbottabad
  • 2006 – 2007:    NSS Deployment Engineer-WLL at PTCL, Islamabad, Pakistan
  • 2004 – 2006:    Assistant Divisional Engineer – Tech, at PTCL, Islamabad, Pakistan

Associations

  • Member Pakistan Engineering Council (PEC), since 2003
  • Member Erasmus Mundus Students and Alumni Association (EMA), since 2009

Research Interests

  • Statistical signal processing with applications to wireless communications
  • Channel estimation and/or data detection for massive MIMO systems
  • Application of machine learning techniques in wireless communications
  • Analysis and design of basic classification algorithms in high data regimes
  • Random matrix theory applications to wireless communications and machine learning

Awards

  • Scholarship for PhD studies at KFUPM, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia
  • Erasmus Mundus scholarship for MERIT master program at KIT, Karlsruhe, Germany and UPC, Barcelona, Spain.
  • NWFP merit scholarship in BSc EE at UET, Peshawar, Pakistan
  • Exceptional Teaching Award at EE Department, KFUPM, Saudi Arabia
  • Research Productivity Award from COMSATS University Islamabad, Pakistan.

Research Projects

Funded project titled, “Channel estimation for massive MIMO communication systems” at EE Department, KFPUM Saudi Arabia.

Students Supervised

Student Name

Thesis Title

MS/PhD

Supervisor/Co-Supervisor

Completed/

Registered

Mr. Muhammad Idrees

(Reg. #: CIIT/SP15-R09-001/ATD)

Resource Allocation for Throughput
Maximization in Clustered Cellular OFDMA
Networks

MS

Co-Supervisor

Completed

(Fall, 2017)

Mr. Inaamullah Khan

(Reg. #: CIIT/FA16-R09-007/ATD)

 

Data Aided Channel Estimation for OFDM Wireless Systems

MS

Supervisor

Completed

(Fall, 2018)

Mr. Nafid Nawaz

(Reg. #: CIIT/FA16-R09-039/ATD)

 

Performance Analysis of TCP and QUIC protocols

MS

Co-Supervisor

Completed

(Fall, 2018)

Ms. Sana Khurshid

(Reg. #: CIIT/SP18-REE-009/ATD)

 

Robust Regularization for Linear Ill-Posed Problems with Applications

MS

Supervisor

Completed

(Spring, 2020)

Ms. Asifa Khan Swati

(Reg. #: CIIT/FA19-REE-001/ATD)

Regularized Linear Regression with Automatic Parameter Selection for Image Restoration

MS

Supervisor

Completed

(Spring, 2021)

Mr. Xiaomin Qi

(Reg. #:

SP19-PEE-001)

Throughput and Energy Efficiency Maximization by Resource Allocation in High Density 5G Networks

PhD

Committee member

Registered

(Spring, 2019)

Journal Publications

1. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=469" title="Dr Irfan Ullah">I.Ullah</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=75" title="Dr. Shahid Khattak">S.Khattak</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=684" title="Dr. Alam Zaib">A. Zaib</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=627" title="Dr. Shoaib Azmat">Dr. Shoaib Azmat</a> Antenna Array Pattern with Sidelobe Level Control using Deep Learning, Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society , 2025
2. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=684" title="Dr. Alam Zaib">A. Zaib</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=469" title="Dr Irfan Ullah">I.Ullah</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=75" title="Dr. Shahid Khattak">S.Khattak</a> AESA Antennas using Machine Learning with Reduced Dataset, Radioengineering , 2024
3. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=698" title="Asif Khan">A. Khan</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=684" title="Dr. Alam Zaib">A. Zaib</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=623" title="Dr. Hazrat Ali">Hazrat Ali</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=75" title="Dr. Shahid Khattak">S.Khattak</a> Link-level Performance Abstraction for MIMO Receivers using Artificial Neural Network, Telecommunication Systems, 2022
4. XIAOMIN Q,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=217" title="Dr. Imdad Khan">I.Khan</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=684" title="Dr. Alam Zaib">A. Zaib</a>,SHAHID KHATTAK Energy Efficient Resource Allocation for 5G Heterogeneous Networks using Genetic Algorithm, IEEE Access, 2021
5. Muhammad Idrees,Xiaomin Qi,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=684" title="Dr. Alam Zaib">A. Zaib</a>,Adnan Tariq,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=469" title="Dr Irfan Ullah">I.Ullah</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=639" title="Dr. Zahid Mahmood Jehangiri">Z. Mahmood</a> Throughput Maximization in Clustered Cellular Networks by using Joint Resource Scheduling and Fractional Frequency Reuse aided Coordinated Multipoint, Arabian Journal of Science and Engineering, 2021., 2021
6. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=684" title="Dr. Alam Zaib">A. Zaib</a>,Tarig Ballal,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=75" title="Dr. Shahid Khattak">S.Khattak</a>,Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri A Doubly Regularized Linear Discriminant Analysis Classifier With Automatic Parameter Selection, IEEE Access, 2021
7. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=698" title="Asif Khan">A. Khan</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=684" title="Dr. Alam Zaib">A. Zaib</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=469" title="Dr Irfan Ullah">I.Ullah</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=75" title="Dr. Shahid Khattak">S.Khattak</a> MIMO iterative receiver SNR estimation strategies for link to system interfacing, International Journal of Communication Systems, 2020
8. Weiyu Xu,Haider Ali Jasim Alshamary,Tareq Al-Naffouri,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=684" title="Dr. Alam Zaib">A. Zaib</a> Optimal Joint Channel Estimation and Data Detection for Massive SIMO Wireless Systems: A Polynomial Complexity Solution, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 2020
9. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=698" title="Asif Khan">A. Khan</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=684" title="Dr. Alam Zaib">A. Zaib</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=75" title="Dr. Shahid Khattak">S.Khattak</a> Low Complexity Link Level Performance Prediction for SIMO Systems, Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences, 2017
10. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=684" title="Dr. Alam Zaib">A. Zaib</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=75" title="Dr. Shahid Khattak">S.Khattak</a> Structure-based Low-Complexity MMSE Channel Estimator for OFDM Wireless Systems, Wireless Personal Communications, 2017
11. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=702" title="Fahad Masood">F. Masood</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=684" title="Dr. Alam Zaib">A. Zaib</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=75" title="Dr. Shahid Khattak">S.Khattak</a> Sphere decoding algorithm for multiuser detection in a distributed antenna system, Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2017
12. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=684" title="Dr. Alam Zaib">A. Zaib</a>,M. Masood,A. Ali,W. Xu,Tariq Y. Al-Naffouri Distributed Channel Estimation and Pilot Contamination Analysis for Massive MIMO-OFDM Systems, IEEE Transactions on Communications, 2016
13. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=684" title="Dr. Alam Zaib">A. Zaib</a>,Tariq Y. Al-Naffouri Blind and semi-blind ML detection for space-time block-coded OFDM wireless systems, EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, 2014

Conference Publications

1. Adnan Tariq,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=75" title="Dr. Shahid Khattak">S.Khattak</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=230" title="Jalil ur Rehman Kazim">J.kazim</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=469" title="Dr Irfan Ullah">I.Ullah</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=684" title="Dr. Alam Zaib">A. Zaib</a>,Muhammad Ayaz,Rashid Ahmed Bhatti Interpolation Based Radiation Pattern Correction in Conformal Beamforming Arrays, , 2019
2. Inaamullah Khan,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=684" title="Dr. Alam Zaib">A. Zaib</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=75" title="Dr. Shahid Khattak">S.Khattak</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=627" title="Dr. Shoaib Azmat">Dr. Shoaib Azmat</a> Data Aided Channel Estimation for OFDM Wireless Systems using Reliable Carriers, , 2019
3. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=684" title="Dr. Alam Zaib">A. Zaib</a>,M. Masood,M. Ghogho,Tariq Y. Al-Naffouri Distributive estimation of frequency selective channels for massive MIMO systems, , 2015
4. H. A. J. Alshamary,Tariq Y. Al-Naffouri,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=684" title="Dr. Alam Zaib">A. Zaib</a>,W. Xu Optimal non-coherent data detection for massive SIMO wireless systems: A polynomial complexity solution, , 2015
5. Sandmair,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=684" title="Dr. Alam Zaib">A. Zaib</a>,F. P. Le´on Adaptive underdetermined ICA for handling an unknown number of sources, , 2010
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