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News and Information.
- My Google Author Profile
- Tutorial on Game Theoretic Methods for the Smart Grid, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, Special Issue on Signal Processing for the Smart Grid, to appear, 2012.
- Lead Guest Editor IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Special Issue on Signal Processing Techniques for Wireless Physical Layer Security.
- I have one opening for a PhD student (fully funded) at the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Miami, interested candidates should send me their CV to saad.walid AT gmail.com.
- Co-Chair at the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Workshop on Small Cell Networks, Ottawa, Canada 2012.
- Co-Chair at the IEEE INFOCOM, Workshop on Communications and Control for Sustainable Energy Systems: Green Networking and Smart Grids, Orlando, FL, 2012.
- Since November 2010, I am serving as a board member and editor in in newly established IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc), Technical Committee on Multimedia Communications (MMTC) review board and R-letter .
- Best Paper Award: W. Saad, T. Alpcan, T. Başar and A. Hjørungnes, "Coalitional Game Theory for Security Risk Management," in Proc. of the 5th International Conference on Internet Monitoring and Protection (ICIMP), Barcelona, Spain, May 2010.
- 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)
- For information on my research, papers, or other inquiries, please contact me at: saad.walid AT gmail.com or walid AT miami.edu
Past Positions.
- Jan. 2011 - Aug. 2011: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Electrical Engineering Department, Princeton University.
Education.
- 2010: Ph.D, University of Oslo, Office at UNIK University Graduate Center, Norway.
- 2007: M.E. in Computer and Communications Engineering, American University of Beirut (AUB).
- 2004: B.E. in Computer and Communications Engineering, Lebanese University, Faculty of Engineering, Roumieh.
- Aug. 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: Associate Researcher, Alcatel-Lucent Chair, SUPELEC, France, Advisor: Professor Merouane Debbah
My main areas of research are:
- Game theory and its applications in networks.
- Femtocell networks.
- Security of wireless and communication networks.
- The smart grid.
- Wireless systems (UMTS, HSPA, WiMAX, LTE...).
- Cognitive radio networks.
- Coalitional Game theory, network formation games, graph theory.
- Cooperative communications.
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