Scholar
Hatem Abou-Zeid
Google Scholar ID: Zf_JnaoAAAAJ
Schulich Industry Chair in AI for 6G, University of Calgary
Citations & Impact
Citations
1,196
H-index
19
i10-index
31
Publications
20
Co-authors
0
Contact
Publications
Resume
Academic Achievements
- Recipient of the 2023 Research Excellence Award from the Department of Electrical and Software Engineering, University of Calgary
- Paper 'Benchmarking Motor Imagery Algorithms for Pediatric Users of Brain-Computer Interfaces' won Best Student Paper Award at EMBC 2024
- Multiple papers accepted at top IEEE venues including IEEE JSAC, IEEE OJCOMS, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, IEEE GLOBECOM, IEEE ICC, and IEEE SMC
- Notable works include: 6G WAVESFM foundation model, Tiny Federated Wireless Foundation Models, ProtoBeam for unseen antenna generalization, Self-Supervised Radio Pre-training, and Safe and Accelerated DRL-based O-RAN Slicing
- Organized tutorials at IEEE ICC 2025, IEEE GLOBECOM 2024, and IEEE ICMLCN 2025 on topics such as foundation models for 6G, trustworthy deep reinforcement learning, and RL for next-generation networks
- Holds 20 patent filings
Background
- Associate Professor at the Department of Electrical and Software Engineering, University of Calgary
- Schulich Industry Chair in AI for 6G
- Director of the WAVES LAB
- Research focuses on AI for 6G, wireless sensing, localization, communication, and Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCIs)
- Pioneered generalizable foundation models, especially the first foundation model using raw IQ signals