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For information on my research, papers, or other inquiries, please contact me at: saad.walid AT gmail.com
PhD defense/graduation scheduled 25.06.2010. Job hunt started :)
April 2010: Tutorial at IEEE WCNC on ``Coalitional Game Theory in Wireless Networks''.
February 2010: 5-Credit PhD-level course on ``Coalitional Game Theory in Wireless Networks'' given at Karlstad University, Department of Computer Science.
Best Paper Award: W. Saad, Z. Han, T. Başar, M. Debbah and A. Hjørungnes, "Physical Layer Security: Coalitional Games for Distributed Cooperation," in Proc. of the 7th International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc and Wireless Networks (WiOpt), Seoul, South Korea, June 2009
Tutorial on Coalitional Game Theory in Wireless and Communications Networks, Final version now Available here (IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, Special Issue on Game Theory, vol. 26, pp. 77-97, September 2009)

August 2008 - July 2009: Visiting scholar (2nd year PhD) at the Coordinated Science Laboratory at the University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign, Advisor: Professor Tamer Başar
Since August 2007: PhD, University of Oslo, Office at UNIK University Graduate Center, Norway, Advisor: Professor Are Hjørungnes
Since August 2007: Associate Researcher, Alcatel-Lucent Chair, SUPELEC, France, Advisor: Professor Merouane Debbah
2007: M.E. in Computer and Communications Engineering, American University of Beirut (AUB), Advisor: Professor Zaher Dawy
2004: B.E. in Computer and Communications Engineering, Lebanese University, Faculty of Engineering Section II