Dr. Salama Ikki, P.Eng.
Title
Associate ProfessorCampus
Thunder BayOffice
AT 5025Phone
(807) 343-8010 ext. 8183Biography
Salama Ikki (Senior Member, IEEE) is an Associate Professor and the Research Chair of Wireless Communications with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, ON, Canada.
His research group has made substantial contributions to 4G and 5G wireless technologies. He is the author of more than 100 journals and conference papers and has more than 5500 citations and an H-index of 35. His group’s current focuses on massive MIMO, cell-free massive MIMO, visible light communications, and wireless sensor networks. He received several awards for his research, teaching, and services.
Academic Qualifications
Memorial University
Ph.D., Electrical Engineering
The Arab Academy for Science and Technology and Maritime Transport, Egypt
MSc, Electrical Engineering
Al-Isra Jordanian University, Jordan
BSc, Electrical Engineering
Research Interests
- Rate Splitting Multiple Access (RSMA).
- Millimeter-Wave Communications.
- Positioning and localization.
- Resource Allocation in 5G networks.
- Visible Light Communications
- Estimation and detection.
- Full-duplex communications.
Awards
2022
Nokia Visiting Professorship offered by the Nokia Foundation
2013--2015, 2015--2017, 2017--2019, and 2019--2021
Merit Award for exceptional performance in research, Lakehead University
2013-2016
Exemplary Reviewer Certificates: (a) IEEE Communications Letters, 2013. (b) IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, 2013. (c) IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 2015. (d) IEEE Transactions on Communications, 2016.
2008
EURASIP Best Paper Award: Salama Ikki and Mohamed H. Ahmed, “Performance of Multiple-Relay Cooperative Diversity Systems with Best-Relay Selection over Rayleigh Fading Channels," EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, vol. 2008.
2012
IEEE ComSoc Technology News: IEEE ComSoc Technology News is a web-based publication bringing the top 0.5% of the most interesting, timely, and newsworthy articles to ComSoc members and the entire global community. Salama Ikki and R. Mesleh, “A General Framework for Performance Analysis of Space Shift Keying (SSK) Modulation in the Presence of Gaussian Imperfect Estimations," IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 16, no. 2, 2012.
2014