Signal Processing Electrical

Omar Mehanna

Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota

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Phone: 651-***-**** Email: ********@***.*** www.ece.umn.edu/users/meha0006/

Education

University of Minnesota Minneapolis, MN

Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering (GPA: 3.85/4) Expected Dec. 2013

Advisors: Prof. Nikos Sidiropoulos and Prof. Georgios B. Giannakis

Research Topics: Modeling and analysis of heterogeneous wireless networks Multicast

beamforming Power spectrum estimation for cognitive radio networks

Nile University Cairo, Egypt

M.Sc., Electrical Engineering (GPA: 3.86/4) Aug. 2009

Advisors: Prof. Hesham El Gamal and Prof. Ahmed Sultan

Thesis: On the Design of Cognitive MAC Protocols

Alexandria University Alexandria, Egypt

B.Sc., Electrical Engineering (Grade: 85.75/100, Top 3%) June 2006

Senior Design Project: Software De ned Radio for Mobile Systems

Research

University of Minnesota Minneapolis, MN

Experience

Research Assistant, Electrical and Computer Engineering Sept. 2009 - Present

Wideband power spectrum sensing from few bits received from scattered low-end sensors.

Developing an algorithm for joint multicast beamforming and antenna selection.

Using stochastic geometry to model and analyze femtocell networks, and to compare between

sharing and splitting the spectrum for co-existing macro- and femtocell networks.

Optimizing schemes that increase the achievable rates of the Gaussian interference channel.

Nile University Cairo, Egypt

Research Assistant, Wireless Intelligent Networks Center (WINC) Sept. 2007 - Aug. 2009

Research in cognitive medium access protocols for dynamic spectrum access.

Proposed several cognitive MAC protocols addressing di erent scenarios and constraints.

Used the wireless open access research platform (WARP) for testing and verifying the pro-

posed cognitive MAC algorithms.

Work

SySDSoft, Inc. (Acquired by Intel Mobile Communications) Cairo, Egypt

Experience

System Design and Development Engineer, Embedded Wireless Jan. 2007 - Dec. 2008

System level design and modeling for IEEE 802.16e (Mobile WiMAX) MAC layer for the

Base Station and Mobile Station.

Interpreting the system requirements into implementable C code.

Software and hardware test scenarios design and error debugging.

Inter-operability testing of the developed WiMAX MAC with di erent vendors.

WiMAX forum technical working group contributions to guarantee inter-operability between

di erent vendors.

Publications

Journal Papers

O. Mehanna and N. D. Sidiropoulos Frugal sensing: wideband power spectrum sensing

from few bits, submitted to IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, August 2012.

O. Mehanna, N. D. Sidiropoulos, and G. B. Giannakis, Joint multicast beamforming and

antenna selection, submitted to IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, March 2012.

Conference Papers

O. Mehanna, N. D. Sidiropoulos, and G. B. Giannakis, Multicast beamforming with an-

tenna selection, Proc. of 13th Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Com-

munications, Cesme, Turkey, June 17-20, 2012. (Recipient of the Best Paper Award.)

O. Mehanna, J. Marcos, and N. Jindal, On achievable rates of the two-user symmetric

Gaussian interference channel, Proc. of Allerton Conf. on Communication, Control, and

Computing, Monticello, IL, Sept. 2010.

O. Mehanna and A. Sultan, Inter-sensing time optimization in unslotted cognitive radio

networks, Proc. of Intl. Conf. on Telecommunications, Ayia Napa, Cyprus, May 8-11,

2011.

O. Mehanna, A. Sultan, and H. El Gamal, Blind cognitive MAC protocols, Proc. of IEEE

International Conf. on Communications, Dresden, Germany, June 14-18, 2009.

Technical Reports

O. Mehanna and N. Jindal, Femtocell networks modeling and analysis for peaceful coexis-

tence, Technical report, 2011.

Awards and

Best Paper Award

Honors

13th Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC)

Cesme, Turkey (June 2012)

University of Minnesota Graduate Assistantship

Minneapolis, MN (Fall 2009 - Spring 2013)

Nile University Graduate Assistantship

Cairo, Egypt (Fall 2007 - Spring 2009)

Alcatel-Lucent award for Best Senior Design Project in Communications

Egyptian Engineering Day (EED), Cairo, Egypt (2006)

Intel award for Best Senior Design Project

Projects Day, Alexandria, Egypt (2006)

Technical

Programming languages: C, C++, VHDL, Java, Tcl, Python, UNIX shell script, LaTeX.

Skills

Algorithm development: MATLAB, Mathematica, Simulink.

Optimization tools: SeDuMi, CVX, YALMIP, MOSEK.

Integrated development environments (IDEs): Eclipse, Visual Studio, Netbeans.

Hardware: Spartan-3 FPGA board, Virtex-II Pro FPGA (WARP), USRP, ARM processor.

Xilinx design tools: Embedded Development Kit (EDK), XPS, ISE, System Generator.

Modeling and simulation: ModelSim, PSpice (OrCAD), Network Simulator (NS-2), Rational

Rose UML.

Selected

Information Theory Non-linear Optimization Real Analysis

Coursework

Digital Communication Convex Optimization Probability and Stoch. Processes

Wireless Communication Detection and Estimation Error-correcting Codes

Wireless Networks Fundamentals of Networking Advanced Algorithms

Digital Signal Processing Advanced Networking Graph Theory

Professional

Reviewer for:

Activities

- IEEE Transactions on Communications

- EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking

- IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory

IEEE student member and communication society member

WiMAX forum, Technical Working Group (TWG) member

Volunteered organizer for the Wireless Intelligent Networks Conference and the Wireless

Open Access Research Platform (WARP) workshop, Cairo, Egypt, April 2008

Miscellaneous

Extracurricular activities: Won many medals in national and international swimming com-

petitions.

Languages: English, French and Arabic: uently spoken and written.

Visa status: F-1 Student Visa (citizen of Egypt).

Available upon request.

References

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