Hesham El Gamal, Ohio State University

Location :

SUPELEC
3 rue Joliot-Curie
91192 GIF SUR YVETTE CEDEX
France

Abstract :

Abstract:
Recently, there has been a renowned interest in information theoretic security research motivated 
by wireless networking applications. This paradigm allows for constructing low complexity and 
provably secure protocols matched to the characteristics of the wireless channels. My talk 
will summarize the recent results obtained by my research group on the theory and practice of 
wireless physical layer security. On the theoretical results, our results shed light on the fundamental 
limits and optimal security protocols for fading, cooperative, feedback, and interference channels. 
Finally, I will review our recent efforts focusing on the design of security protocols for Wi-Fi and 
sensor networks inspired by information theoretic principles.


Biography:
Hesham El Gamal received the B.S. and  M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Cairo 
University, Cairo, Egypt, in 1993 and 1996, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical 
and Computer Engineering from the University of Maryland at College Park, MD, in 1999. From 1993 
to 1996, he served as a Project Manager in the Middle East Regional Office of Alcatel Telecom. 
From 1996 to 1999, he was a Research Assistant in the Department of Electrical and Computer 
Engineering, the University of Maryland at College Park, MD. From February 1999 to December 2000, 
he was with the Advanced Development Group, Hughes Network Systems (HNS), Germantown, 
MD, as a Senior Member of the Technical Staff. Since January 2001, he has been with the 
Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the Ohio State University where he is now a 
Professor. He held visiting appointments at UCLA, Institut Eurecom and served as a Founding 
Director for the Wireless Intelligent Networks Center (WINC) at Nile University (2007-2009).
He is a recipient of the HNS Annual Achievement 
Award (2000), the OSU College of Engineering Lumley Research Award (2003,2008), the OSU 
Electrical Engineering Department FARMER Young Faculty Development Fund (2003-2008), The OSU 
Stanley E. Harrison Award (2008), and the National Science Foundation CAREER Award (2004). He 
holds $10$ patents and has $9$ more pending applications. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE 
and served as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Communications (2001-2005), an 
Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (2003-2007), a Guest Editor for 
the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory special issue on cooperative communications 
(2007), a member of the SP4COM technical committee (2002-2005), and a co-chair of the 
Globecom'08 communication theory symposium. He currently serves as an Associate Editor for the 
IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security and a co-chair of the 2010 IEEE 
Information Theory Workshop. 

Host :

Mérouane Debbah