Mohamed-Slim Alouini
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| Thesis | Adaptive and Diversity Techniques for Wireless Digital Communications Over Fading Channels (1998) |
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Mohamed-Slim Alouini is the Al-Khwarizmi Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the holder of the UNESCO Chair in Education to Connect the Unconnected at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Makkah Province, Saudi Arabia. His research interests include the modeling, design, and performance analysis of wireless, satellite, and optical communication systems.[1][2][3]
He was born in Tunis, Tunisia. In 1993, he obtained the Diplôme d'Ingénieur from École Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications (Télécom Paris) and the Diplôme d'Études Approfondies (DEA) in Electronics from Université Pierre et Marie Curie (now Sorbonne Université), both in Paris, France.[3] In 1995, he received the Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia.[3] In 1998, he completed his PhD in electrical engineering at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Pasadena, California, under the supervision of Andrea Goldsmith.[4] In 2003, he obtained the Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches (HDR) from the Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France.[5]
Career
Alouini began his academic career as a faculty member in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, where he served from 1998 to 2004.[3] He subsequently joined Texas A&M University at Qatar, Education City, Doha, where he was based from 2004 to 2009.[3] In 2009, he joined the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) as a founding faculty member, where he currently holds the Al-Khwarizmi Distinguished Professorship in Electrical and Computer Engineering and the UNESCO Chair on Education to Connect the Unconnected.[3]
His research focuses on the modeling, design, and performance analysis of wireless communication systems, with particular emphasis on addressing the uneven global distribution of and access to information and communication technologies, developing aerial and space-based networks to provide connectivity to rural, low-income, and hard-to-reach areas.[6]
He is the co-author, with Marvin K. Simon, of the textbook Digital Communication over Fading Channels, published by Wiley-IEEE Press (first edition 2000, second edition 2005).[7] He has served on the editorial boards of the IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, and IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, and has been the Founding Editor-in-Chief of npj Wireless Technology since 2025.[3]
Throughout his career he has served as an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Communication Society (2016–2017), the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society (2018–2022), the IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society (2023–2024), the IEEE Photonics Society (2025), and the IEEE Society on Social Implications of Technology (2026–present).[3]
