Our Team
Team Lead
Dr. Omar Alhussein, Assistant Professor
I am currently an assistant professor with the computer science department at Khalifa University, United Arab Emirates. Prior to joining Khalifa University, I have worked as a senior research engineer with the advanced networking team at Huawei Technologies Canada, Ottawa, Canada, from 2020 to 2023.
I have received my Ph.D. degree with the BBCR lab at the University of Waterloo under the supervision of Prof. Weihua Zhuang. My thesis focuses on the orchestration and provisioning of network function virtualization-enabled multicast services.
I have received my MASc degree from Simon Fraser University under the supervision of Prof. Jie Liang and Prof. Sami Muhaidat. My thesis is on the performance analysis of generalized and composite wireless fading channels through the use of mixture distributions.
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Postdoctoral Researchers
Dr. Yuzhi Yang, PhD Zhejiang University, China.
PhD Students
Mohammad Rasyidi, MSc from Universitas Internasional Semen Indonesia.
Working on Quantum Machine Learning for Next-Generation Networks
Nouf Alabbasi, BSc from NYU, UAE.
Working on LLM for network operations and management
Omar Erak , BSc from University of Calgary.
Working on task-oriented networks and protocol learning
MSc Students
Saoud Almansoori, MSc student, BSc from NYU-AD, UAE.
Research Assistants
Henok Daniel, Research Assistant, BSc from Khalifa University, UAE.
Past Members
2024-2025, Ismail Lotfi, Postdoctoral fellow with NETAI Team.
Summer 2024, Hatim Lucman, Intern @6GRC, BSc student at Khalifa University, UAE.