Biography

Annie is an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at New York University (NYU) Abu Dhabi, and an Associated Faculty at NYU Tandon School of Engineering. From 2019 to 2023, she worked as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Electrical  Engineering Department at the University of British Columbia (UBC), Canada. She received her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia in 2015 and 2018 respectively. Her research interests lie in the areas of communication theory, signal processing, and electromagnetics and antenna theory. 

She received the prestigious Paul Baron Young Scholar Award by The Marconi Society in 2018 for her work on full-dimension massive MIMO systems. She also received the NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship Award in 2021, with her application ranked first among those submitted by female candidates and third overall. She has been recognized among the top 10 Rising Stars in Computer Networking and Communications by N2Women in 2024. She serves as an Editor of IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications and IEEE Communications Letters. She has served as the Guest Editor of the special issue on "Multi-Function Reconfigurable Intelligent and Holographic Surfaces for 6G Networks" in IEEE Network Magazine, and of the special collection on "New Trends MIMO Systems" in npj Wireless Technology within the Nature Portfolio. She also serves as a co-chair of several tracks and workshops at flagship conferences of IEEE Communications Society including IEEE PIMRC 2023, IEEE ICC 2024, IEEE VTC-Spring 2024, IEEE WCNC 2024, IEEE ICC 2025, IEEE VTC-Fall 2025 and IEEE WCNC 2026.

Research Interests

• Next-generation MIMO communication systems

• Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)

• Non-Terrestrial Networks

• Signal Processing for Wireless Communications

• Machine Learning and AI Empowered Wireless Communications

Prospective Postdoctoral and PhD candidates

Excellent postdoctoral and PhD candidates can contact me directly with a cover letter and CV to enquire about joining my research group. The open postdoc positions will be advertised on NYUAD Careers page. The PhD application deadlines and procedure can be found at NYUAD website. PhD students complete their graduate course work in New York, conduct their research in Abu Dhabi, and have post-PhD career options in both the UAE and the US.