# jemdoc: showsource # jemdoc: menu{MENU.txt}{webpage.jemdoc.txt.html} = Aly El Gamal {{}} ~~~ {}{img_left}{mainpic.jpg}{Aly El Gamal} Assistant Professor \n [https://engineering.purdue.edu/ECE Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering] \n[http://www.purdue.edu Purdue University] \n\n\n [publications.html Publications] \n\n[reports.html Technical Reports] \n\n[cv.pdf Curriculum Vitae] \n\n[contact.html Contact Information] ~~~ == Research Group and Mentoring Aanis Ahmed (Ph.D.), Ahmed Prince (Ph.D.), Rohan Manna (Ph.D.), Shafin Jameel (Ph.D.), Shakti Wadekar (Ph.D.), Teng-Hui Huang (Ph.D.), Shreya Ghosh (M.S.), Kirthi Sivamani (Undergraduate, Summer '20 intern at Nvidia), Jinho Yi (Undergraduate).\n == Alumni - Information Theory: Tolunay Seyfi (Ph.D., Now with InterDigital), Manik Singhal (M.S., Now with Apple), Yasemin Karacora (Exchange with Ruhr-University Bochum).\n - Machine Learning and Data Science: Xiaoyu Liu (M.S., [Xiaoyu.pdf Thesis]), Rehana Mahfuz (M.S., Thesis, Now with Qualcomm), Sharan Ramjee (Undergraduate, Now at Stanford), Xingchen Wang (Undergraduate, Now at CMU), Xiwen Zhang (M.S.), Yu-Hsiang Tseng (M.S.), Dwarakanath Jampani (M.S.), Ana Maria Rodriguez (Exchange with Universidad Nacional de Colombia).\n == Teaching Machine Learning II, Fall 2019 (115 Students, Instructor Evaluation: 4.3/5 with 94\% Participation).\n - Signals and Systems, [http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~elgamala/EE301/index.html Fall 2015] (94 Students), [http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~elgamala/ECE301/index.html Fall 2016] (82 Students), [http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~elgamala/ECE301-F17/index.html Fall 2017] (88 Students), [http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~elgamala/ECE301-S18/index.html Spring 2018] (69 Students, Instructor Evaluation: 4.2\/5), [http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~elgamala/ECE301-F18/index.html Fall 2018] (81 Students, Instructor Evaluation: 4.4\/5), [http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~elgamala/ECE301-S19/index.html Spring 2019] (65 Students, Instructor Evaluation: 4.7/5) .\n - [http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~elgamala/ECE368/index.html Data Structures], Spring 2016. (108 Students)\n Introduction to Digital System Design, Spring 2017. (300 Students)\n == News - New Paper Submitted: [https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.13824 Deep Learning for Direction of Arrival Estimation via Emulation of Large Antenna Arrays]. Jul. 2020 \n - Co-organizing a [https://globecom2020.ieee-globecom.org/workshop/ws-16-workshop-edge-learning-over-5g-networks-and-beyond Workshop on Edge Learning over 5G networks and beyond] at [https://globecom2020.ieee-globecom.org/ IEEE Globecom 2020].\n - Serving as a Technical Program Committee Member for the Communication Theory Symposium at [https://www.comsoc.org/conferences-events/ieee-international-conference-communications-2021 IEEE ICC 2021]. \n - New Paper Accepted: [https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.11598 Vision Paper: Grand Challenges of Resilience: Autonomous System Resilience through Design and Runtime Measures]. IEEE Open Journal of the Computer Society. \n - New Paper Accepted: [https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.11986 Joint Uplink-Downlink Cooperative Interference Management with Flexible Cell Associations]. IEEE Transactions on Communications. \n - New Paper Submitted: [https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.04586 Ensemble Wrapper Subsampling for Deep Modulation Classification]. \[[https://github.com/dl4amc/dds Code]\]. May 2020. \n - New Paper Accepted: [https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.09772 Non-Intrusive Detection of Adversarial Deep Learning Attacks via Observer Networks]. \[[https://codeocean.com/capsule/3959338/tree/v1 Code]\]. IEEE Letters of the Computer Society. \n - New Paper Accepted: [https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.11896 Efficient Training of Deep Classifiers for Wireless Source Identification using Test SNR Estimates]. \[[https://codeocean.com/capsule/7188167/tree/v1 Modulation Classification Code]\]. \[[https://codeocean.com/capsule/5450033/tree/v1 Channel Identification Code]\]. IEEE Wireless Communications Letters. \n - New Paper Accepted: [https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.07528 On the Design and Analysis of Optimal Wireless Caching Schemes with Placement Cost and Unlimited Memory]. IEEE Wireless Communications Letters. \n - New Paper Submitted: [https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.01446 Deep Learning for Frame Error Prediction using a DARPA Spectrum Collaboration Challenge (SC2) Dataset], Mar. 2020. \n - Serving as Guest Editor for the [https://www.comsoc.org/publications/journals/ieee-tccn/cfp/machine-learning-and-artificial-intelligence-physical-layer Special Issue on Machine Learning and AI for the Physical Layer at the IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking]. \n - Serving as a Technical Program Committee Member at the [https://2020.ieee-isit.org/ 2020 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory]. \n - New Paper Accepted: Fundamental Limits of Dynamic Interference Management with Flexible Message Assignments and Separate Deep Fading Block Coding. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. \n - Serving as Associate Editor in the area of Machine Learning and AI for Wireless at the [https://www.comsoc.org/publications/journals/ieee-twc IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications]. \n - Rehana Mahfuz received the [https://ghc.anitab.org/ Grace Hopper Celebration (GHC) '19] Student Scholarship to present our accepted work. Title: Mitigating Adversarial Deep Learning Attacks in Architecture Mismatch Settings. \n - New Paper Accepted: [https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.08054 Deep Learning for Interference Identification: Band, Training SNR, and Sample Selection]. [http://www.spawc2019.org/ IEEE SPAWC 2019]. \n - Received the 2019 [https://engineering.purdue.edu/Engr Purdue Engineering] Faculty Summer Fellowship in Europe. Will be visiting [https://www.imperial.ac.uk/ Imperial College] (London, UK), [https://www.kcl.ac.uk/ King's College] (London, UK), [https://www.telecom-paristech.fr/ Telecom Paristech] (Paris, France), [https://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/en/welcome-ruhr-universitat-bochum RUB] (Bochum, Germany), [http://www.eurecom.fr/en Eurecom] (Biot, France) \n == Education - Ph.D. in [http://www.ece.illinois.edu Electrical and Computer Engineering], [http://www.illinois.edu University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign], 2014\n Advisor: Professor [http://www.ifp.illinois.edu/~vvv/ Venugopal V. Veeravalli]\n Dissertation: [dissertation.pdf Interference Channels with Coordinated Multi-Point Transmission] - M.S. in [http://www.math.uiuc.edu Mathematics], [http://www.illinois.edu University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign], 2013\n - M.S. in Electrical Engineering, [http://nileu.edu.eg Nile University], 2009\n Thesis Title: ``The Two-Way Wiretap Channel: Theory and Practice'' \nAdvisors: Professor [http://www.cs.umd.edu/~moustafa/ Moustafa A. Youssef] and Professor [http://www2.ece.ohio-state.edu/~helgamal/ Hesham El Gamal] - B. S. in [http://www.eng.cu.edu.eg/CUFE/Departments/ComputerEngineering/tabid/108/language/en-US/Default.aspx Computer Engineering], [http://cu.edu.eg/Home Cairo University], 2007 == Research I am currently interested in doing research in the areas of machine learning (algorithms, systems, and statistical convergence results), data science (with emphasis on sports applications), and information theoretic ideas for next generation wireless networks.\n\n == Journal Reviews - Several papers for American Mathematical Society Mathematical Reviews \n\n - Several papers for Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR) \n\n - 10-20 papers for IEEE Transactions on Information Theory \n\n - 20-30 papers for IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications \n\n - Several papers for IEEE Transactions on Communications \n\n == Other Professional Service - Associate Editor in the area of Machine Learning and AI in Wireless at the [https://www.comsoc.org/publications/journals/ieee-twc IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications]. - Guest Editor for the [https://www.comsoc.org/publications/journals/ieee-tccn/cfp/machine-learning-and-artificial-intelligence-physical-layer Special Issue on Machine Learning and AI for the Physical Layer at the IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking]. - Technical Program Committee Member at the [https://2020.ieee-isit.org/ 2020 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory] - Technical Program Committee Member for the Communication Theory Symposium at [https://www.comsoc.org/conferences-events/ieee-international-conference-communications-2021 IEEE ICC 2021]. - Technical Program Committee Member for [http://www.spawc2019.org/ IEEE SPAWC 2019] (Responsible for 10 papers). - Proposal Reviewer for the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Counsel of Canada (NSERC) and the Chilean National Science and Technology Commission (FONDECYT). - Reviewer for American Mathematical Society (AMS) Mathematical Reviews. - Technical Program Committee Member for [http://wcnc2017.ieee-wcnc.org/ IEEE WCNC 2017]. - Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications - Signal Processing (JSAC), and several conferences including Allerton, IEEE ISIT, IEEE ICC, IEEE Globecom, IEEE CAMSAP, and IWCIT. - On-Site registration for 2010 IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW) in Cairo. - Organizing Committee Member for 2012 University of Illinois Coordinated Science Lab (CSL) Student Conference. - Session Chair in IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT '16), Barcelona, July 2016.