
Ahmed Elshafiy
Education
Ahmed ElShafiy received his MSc degree from electrical electronics and computer engineering department at Cairo University, Egypt in 2016. His master thesis investigated design and implementation of a low-complexity fast fourier transform architecture. He obtained his MSc degree with cumulative GPA of 4.0/4.0. He earned his BSc degree at Cairo University, Egypt in 2014 with cumulative GPA of 3.9/4.0.
Awards
- Ahmed Elshafiy awarded outstanding teaching assistant award from ECE department in 2018.
- Ahmed Elshafiy awarded outstanding teaching assistant award again from ECE department in 2019.
- Ahmed Elshafiy awarded outstanding teaching assistant award again from ECE department in 2020.
Contact Information
Email: a_elshafiy [at] ucsb [dot] edu
Bio
Ahmed ElShafiy is a PhD student in ECE department at UCSB. He works under supervision of professor Kenneth Rose. His research interests includes information theory, rate-distortion theory, non-convex optimization, signal compression, wireless communications, and machine learning.
Publications:
- A. Elshafiy M. Namazi, K. Rose "On Effective Stochastic Mechanisms for On-The-Fly Codebook Regeneration", IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), 2020. URL: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9174348
- A. Elshafiy, K. Rose, A. Sampath, "On Optimal Beam Steering Directions in Millimeter Wave Systems," IEEE Int. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2019. URL: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8683467.
- A. ElShafiy, A. Sampath, "Beam Broadening for 5G Millimeter Wave Systems," in IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), April 2019. URL: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8885825
- A. Elshafiy, A. Sampath, "System Performance of Indoor Office Millimeter Wave Communications," IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), April 2019. URL: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8885917
- A. Elshafiy et al., "On Optimization of Mixed-Radix FFT: A Signal Processing Approach," in IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), April 2019. URL: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/8885635
- A. Elshafiy, T. Nanjundaswamy, S. Zamani, K. Rose, "On Error Resilient Design of Predictive Scalable Coding Systems," IEEE Int. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2018. URL: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8462199
- A. Elshafiy, M. Farag, M. ElMotaz, O. Nasr and H. Fahmy, "Two-Stage Optimization of CORDIC-Friendly FFT," IEEE Int. Conf. on Electronics, Circuits, and Systems, Dec 2015. URL: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7440335
- M. ElMotaz, A. ElShafiy, M. Farag, O. Nasr and H. Fahmy, "Speeding-Up Fast Fourier Transform," in the Masters and PhD Forum Demonstration session at IEEE Int. Conf. on Electronics, Circuits, and Systems, Dec 2015. URL: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7440365
- A. ElShafiy, F. C. Broncano, A. Ahrens, "Bit and Power Allocation Strategies in SVD-equalized Broadband MIMO Systems," in XV Int. PhD Workshop, Oct 2013. URL: http://mechatronika.polsl.pl/owd/pdf2013/262.pdf