Scholar
Sami Khairy
Google Scholar ID: kog9iL0AAAAJ
Senior Applied Scientist, Microsoft
Citations & Impact
Citations
678
H-index
12
i10-index
13
Publications
20
Co-authors
0
Publications
Resume
Academic Achievements
- Recipient of the Fulbright Predoctoral Scholarship from the U.S. Department of State in 2015 and the Starr/Fieldhouse Research Fellowship from Illinois Tech in 2019. Member of IEEE, IEEE ComSoc, IEEE HKN, SIAM, and AAAS.
Research Experience
- Postdoctoral researcher in the Mathematics and Computer Science Division at Argonne National Laboratory, advised by Dr. Prasanna Balaprakash. Currently, a Senior Applied Scientist with the IC3-AI team at Microsoft, focusing on advancing reinforcement learning technologies for bandwidth control in real-time communications.
Education
- Received M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Illinois Institute of Technology in 2016 and Ph.D. in 2021, both under the supervision of Dr. Lin Cai.
Background
- Research interests span reinforcement learning, offline RL, safe RL, multi-fidelity RL, statistical machine learning, and data-driven optimization of next generation networks. Was a postdoctoral researcher at Argonne National Laboratory and now a Senior Applied Scientist with the IC3-AI team at Microsoft.
Miscellany
- Skills include programming languages (Python, C/C++, Matlab, etc.), software development tools (Azure Machine Learning, Visual Studio Code, Git), and experience with embedded systems and network management.