News and Media
News (2023 onwards)
Feb. 2025: Appeared on the 2025 list of “100 Brilliant and Inspiring Women in 6G” by Women in 6G.
Dec. 2024: Paper "RIS-Assisted Aerial Non-Terrestrial Networks: An Intelligent Synergy with Deep Reinforcement Learning" is accepted for publication in IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine.
Nov. 2024: Recognized among the top 10 Rising Stars in Computer Networking and Communications for the year 2024 by N2Women (discipline-specific community of researchers in the fields of networking and communications supported by IEEE ComSoc, Google, Microsoft, NSF).
Nov. 2024: Paper "Optimal Quantized Multi-Cell MMSE Precoding with Low Resolution Data Converters" is accepted for publication in IEEE Communications Letters.
Nov. 2024: Paper "Unit Cell Phase-Frequency Profile Optimization in RIS-Assisted Wide-Band OFDM Systems" is accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications.
Nov. 2024: Organized and moderated a panel discussion on "Multi-Functional 6G Networks: Key Technological Trends and Challenges" at the 6G Summit in Abu Dhabi, UAE. Had a very interesting discussion with the panelists: Prof. Marco Di Renzo, Prof. Nawaf Almoosa, Prof. Henk Wymeersch, and Ms. Najla Alkaabi.
Oct. 2024: Paper "Holographic MIMO: How Many Antennas Do We Need for Energy Efficient Communication?" is accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications.
Oct. 2024: Appointed as the Secretary of IEEE Communications Society's Emerging Technology Initiative (ETI) on Electromagnetic Signal and Information Theory .
Oct. 2024: Serving as the General Co-Chair of "Workshop on Reconfigurable Intelligent and Holographic Surfaces for 6G" at IEEE WCNC 2025, Milan, Italy.
Sep. 2024: Serving as the TPC Co-Chair of "4th Workshop on Integrated, Intelligent and Ubiquitous 6G Connectivity" at IEEE ICC 2025, Montreal, Canada.
Aug. 2024: Paper "Enhancing Spectral Efficiency in IoT Networks using Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient and Opportunistic NOMA" is accepted for publication in IEEE VTC 2024-Fall, Washington, DC, USA.
Apr. 2024: Organized and moderated a panel discussion on "Optical Wireless Communication in 6G and Beyond" at IEEE ComSoc Training School in Dubai, UAE. Had a very interesting discussion with the panelists: Prof. Harald Haas, Prof. Halim Yanikomeroglu, Prof. Mohammed-Slim Alouini, and Dr. Steevy Cordette.
Apr. 2024: Served as a panelist in the panel discussion on "Standardization and Industrialization for Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS): The Story for the Second Half" at IEEE WCNC 2024 in Dubai, UAE. Shared my thoughts on the key use-cases of RIS that are of value for the network operators.
Apr. 2024: Moderated a panel discussion on "Integrating multiple networks, technologies and functionalities in 6G" at IEEE WCNC 2024 in Dubai, UAE as a part of the 2nd International Workshop on Integrated, Intelligent and Ubiquitous Connectivity for 6G Networks. Had an insightful discussion on the key technological trends for 6G with panelists: Prof. Marco Di Renzo, Prof. Boya Di and Dr. Xueli An.
Apr. 2024: Serving as the Lead Guest Editor for the Special Issue on "Multi-Function Reconfigurable Intelligent and Holographic Surfaces for 6G Networks" in IEEE Network Magazine.
Feb. 2024: Listed among the “100 Brilliant and Inspiring Women in 6G” by Women in 6G.
Feb. 2024: Serving as TPC Co-Chair of the "3rd Workshop on Integrated, Intelligent and Ubiquitous Connectivity for 6G," at IEEE PIMRC 2024, Valencia, Spain.
Jan. 2024: Appointed as an Editor of IEEE Communications Letters.
Jan 2024: Paper "Hybrid Digital-Wave Domain Channel Estimator for Stacked Intelligent Metasurface Enabled Multi-User MISO Systems" is accepted for publication at IEEE WCNC 2024, Dubai, UAE.
Dec. 2023: Serving as the track co-chair of "Radio Access Technology and Heterogeneous Networks" track at IEEE VTC-Spring 2024, Singapore.
Dec. 2023: Paper "Analysis of One-Bit Quantized Linear Precoding Schemes in Multi-Cell Massive MIMO Downlink" is accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Communications.
Nov. 2023: Serving as General Chair for the "2nd Workshop on Integrated, Intelligent and Ubiquitous Connectivity for 6G Networks," at the IEEE WCNC 2024, Dubai, UAE.
Sept. 2023: Serving as General Chair for the "Workshop on Integrated, Intelligent and Ubiquitous Connectivity for 6G and Beyond," at the IEEE ICC 2024, Denver, CO, USA.
Aug. 2023: Paper "Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces Assisted Communication Under Different CSI Assumptions" is accepted for publication at the IEEE MeditCom 2023, Dubrovnik, Croatia.
May. 2023: Paper "Performance Analysis of Zero-Forcing Precoding in Multi-Cell One-Bit Massive MIMO Downlink," is accepted for publication at the IEEE BlackSeaCom 2023, Istanbul, Turkey.
Mar. 2023: Serving as General Chair for the "Workshop on 6G-Envisioned Reconfigurable Intelligent and Holographic Surfaces," at the IEEE PIMRC 2023, Toronto, Canada.
Interviews
Qurrat-Ul-Ain Nadeem from the KAUST Communications Theory Lab joins us in our in-house studio to explore topics relating to her award-winning work that is paving the way towards 5G wireless communication networks.
Qurrat received a 2018 Marconi Society Paul Baran Young Scholar Award for her work this year. Her work in transmission technology could more than double the average throughput performance of existing wireless communication systems. In this interview, Qurrat will give us an insight into her research and her journey so far.