Scholar
Baha Eddine Youcef BELMEKKI
Google Scholar ID: kKV2x0sAAAAJ
Assistant Professor, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh
Citations & Impact
Citations
518
H-index
14
i10-index
18
Publications
20
Co-authors
18
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Publications
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Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Honored with the Arab Scientific Community Organization award in 2024; received the Arab-American Frontiers Fellowship from the US National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine; served as an invited scholar at the University of California, Santa Cruz at the Genomics Institute, focusing on enabling remote biology labs for underserved communities; won the best paper award at the Global Advanced Air Mobility Academic Paper competition organized by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO); co-author of the second runner-up winning paper at the IEEE Future Networks, 6G, and Non-Terrestrial Networks: Challenges and Solutions Contest in 2023.
Research Experience
- Worked as a Radio Access Network Engineer in Algiers, Algeria, from 2013 to 2014; served as a lecturer at USTHB between 2014 and 2016; was a teaching and research assistant at INPT from 2019 to 2021; was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Communication Theory Laboratory at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in Thuwal, Saudi Arabia, from 2021 to 2024; currently holds a position as an Assistant Professor at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
Education
- Received B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Science and Technology Houari Boumediene (USTHB) in Algiers, Algeria, in 2011; M.Sc. in Wireless Communications and Networking from USTHB in 2013; Ph.D. in Wireless Communications from the National Polytechnic Institute of Toulouse (INPT), Toulouse, France, in 2020.
Background
- Research interests include vehicular networks, advanced air mobility, and non-terrestrial networks. Throughout his career, he has received various awards and accolades.
