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Dr Alam Zaib

Tenured Associate Professor
Area of Interest: Signal Processing & Communications
Email: alamzaib@cuiatd.edu.pk
Phone: +923215118058

Academics/ Degrees

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

Journal Publications

1.	A. Zaib,I.Ullah,S.Khattak AESA Antennas using Machine Learning with Reduced Dataset, Radioengineering , 2024
2.	A. Khan,A. Zaib,Hazrat Ali,S.Khattak Link-level Performance Abstraction for MIMO Receivers using Artificial Neural Network, Telecommunication Systems, 2022
3.	XIAOMIN Q,I.Khan,A. Zaib,SHAHID KHATTAK Energy Efficient Resource Allocation for 5G Heterogeneous Networks using Genetic Algorithm, IEEE Access, 2021
4.	Muhammad Idrees,Xiaomin Qi,A. Zaib,Adnan Tariq,I.Ullah,Z. Mahmood 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
5.	A. Zaib,Tarig Ballal,S.Khattak,Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri A Doubly Regularized Linear Discriminant Analysis Classifier With Automatic Parameter Selection, IEEE Access, 2021
6.	A. Khan,A. Zaib,I.Ullah,S.Khattak MIMO iterative receiver SNR estimation strategies for link to system interfacing, International Journal of Communication Systems, 2020
7.	Weiyu Xu,Haider Ali Jasim Alshamary,Tareq Al-Naffouri,A. Zaib Optimal Joint Channel Estimation and Data Detection for Massive SIMO Wireless Systems: A Polynomial Complexity Solution, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 2020
8.	A. Khan,A. Zaib,S.Khattak Low Complexity Link Level Performance Prediction for SIMO Systems, Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences, 2017
9.	A. Zaib,S.Khattak Structure-based Low-Complexity MMSE Channel Estimator for OFDM Wireless Systems, Wireless Personal Communications, 2017
10.	F. Masood,A. Zaib,S.Khattak Sphere decoding algorithm for multiuser detection in a distributed antenna system, Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2017
11.	A. Zaib,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
12.	A. Zaib,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,S.Khattak,J.kazim,I.Ullah,A. Zaib,Muhammad Ayaz,Rashid Ahmed Bhatti Interpolation Based Radiation Pattern Correction in Conformal Beamforming Arrays, , 2019
2.	Inaamullah Khan,A. Zaib,S.Khattak,Dr. Shoaib Azmat Data Aided Channel Estimation for OFDM Wireless Systems using Reliable Carriers, , 2019
3.	A. Zaib,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. Zaib,W. Xu Optimal non-coherent data detection for massive SIMO wireless systems: A polynomial complexity solution, , 2015
5.	Sandmair,A. Zaib,F. P. Le´on Adaptive underdetermined ICA for handling an unknown number of sources, , 2010

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)

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