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Karim A. Banawan

  • Position: Assistant Professor
  • Department: Department of Electronics and Communications Engineering
  • Email: [email protected]
Brief Biography

Karim A. Banawan received PhD from the University of Maryland College Park in 2018. Banawan is an assistant professor in the Electronics and Communications Engineering Department at The American University in Cairo AUC, Egypt. Before joining AUC, he was an assistant professor in the Electrical Engineering Department at Alexandria University, Egypt. Banawan received the BSc and MSc degrees, with highest honors, in electrical engineering from Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt, in 2008, and 2012, respectively, and the MSc and PhD degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Maryland at College Park, MD, USA, in 2017 and 2018, respectively, with his PhD thesis on private information retrieval and security in networks. His current main research interests include: information theory, wireless communications, physical layer security, private information retrieval, and machine learning applications in communication.

Banawan has been elevated to IEEE senior level grade in 2024. He is the recipient of the Distinguished Dissertation Fellowship from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2018, at the University of Maryland College Park, for his PhD thesis work. He received the Graduate School Fellowship from the University of Maryland in 2013, and the Future Faculty Program Fellowship from the University of Maryland in 2017. His research work appeared in Stanford’s top two percent most-cited scientists according to science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators in 2022 and 2023.  He also co-authored a conference paper that received the best conference paper award from IEEE International Conference on SmartNets in 2019.

Research Interest

  • Wireless Communication

  • Information Theory

  • Information-Theoretic Privacy and Security

  • Machine Learning Applications in Communications

  • Age of Information

Education

  • PhD, University of Maryland College Park, 2018

  • MSc, University of Maryland College Park, 2017

  • MSc, Alexandria University, 2012

  • BSc, Alexandria University, 2008

  • B. Salama Attia, A. Elgharably, M. Nabil Aboelwafa, G. Alsuhli, K. Banawan and K. G. Seddik, "Self-Optimized Agent for Load Balancing and Energy Efficiency: A Reinforcement Learning Framework With Hybrid Action Space," in IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society, vol. 5, pp. 4902-4919, 2024.

  • K. Banawan, A. Arafa and K. G. Seddik, "Timely Multi-Process Estimation Over Erasure Channels With and Without Feedback: Signal-Independent Policies," in IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Information Theory, vol. 4, pp. 607-623, 2023.

  • G. Alsuhli, K. Banawan, K. Attiah, A. Elezabi, K. G. Seddik, A. Gaber, M. Zaki, and Y. Gadallah, "Mobility Load Management in Cellular Networks: A Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach," in IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol. 22, no. 3, pp. 1581-1598, 1 March 2023.

  • Z. Wang, K. Banawan and S. Ulukus, "Private Set Intersection: A Multi-Message Symmetric Private Information Retrieval Perspective," in IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 68, no. 3, pp. 2001-2019, March 2022.

  • A. Arafa, K. Banawan, K. G. Seddik and H. V. Poor, "Sample, Quantize, and Encode: Timely Estimation Over Noisy Channels," in IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 69, no. 10, pp. 6485-6499, Oct. 2021.

  • Y. -P. Wei, K. Banawan and S. Ulukus, "Fundamental Limits of Cache-Aided Private Information Retrieval With Unknown and Uncoded Prefetching," in IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 65, no. 5, pp. 3215-3232, May 2019.

  • K. Banawan and S. Ulukus, "The Capacity of Private Information Retrieval from Byzantine and Colluding Databases," in IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 65, no. 2, pp. 1206-1219, Feb. 2019.

  • K. Banawan and S. Ulukus, "Secure Degrees of Freedom Region of Static and Time-Varying Gaussian MIMO Interference Channel," in IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 65, no. 1, pp. 444-461, Jan. 2019.

  • K. Banawan and S. Ulukus, "The Capacity of Private Information Retrieval From Coded Databases," in IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 64, no. 3, pp. 1945-1956, March 2018.

  • K. Banawan and S. Ulukus, "MIMO Wiretap Channel Under Receiver-Side Power Constraints With Applications to Wireless Power Transfer and Cognitive Radio," in IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 64, no. 9, pp. 3872-3885, Sept. 2016.