Invited Speakers
Dr. Ahmad Bazzi
Research Scientist
New York University Abu Ahabi, UAE
Dr. Ahmad Bazzi
Research Scientist
New York University Abu Ahabi, UAE
Speech Title: Outage-Based Beamforming Design for Integrated Sensing and Communications 6G Systems
Abstract: Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC) is emerging as a cornerstone technology for future 6G networks, enabling wireless environments that can support advanced communication and sensing. In this talk, we characterize SAC performance in by jointly optimizing the tradeoffs between sensing from a Bartlett perspective, and communication from outage SINR perspective. In particular, we formulate a framework that allows to achieve the aforementioned sensing and communication joint capabilities through beamforming. Our main results include the explicit dependencies of outage parameters on the SAC tradeoff. In particular, the correlation level between the steering vector towards the target and the channel between the dual functional radar-communication base station and the communication user directly impacts the ISAC trade-off.
Biography: Ahmad Bazzi was born in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. He received his PhD degree in electrical engineering from EURECOM, Sophia Antipolis, France, in 2017, and the MSc degree (summa cum laude) in wireless communication systems (SAR) from Centrale Supélec, in 2014. He is the Research Scientist at the Wireless Research Lab of New York University (NYU) Abu Dhabi, and NYU WIRELESS, NYU Tandon School of Engineering, contributing to integrated sensing and communications (ISAC). Prior to that, he was the Algorithm and Signal Processing Team Leader at CEVA-DSP, Sophia Antipolis, leading the work on Wi-Fi (802.11ax) and Bluetooth (5.xx BR/BLE/BTDM/LR) high-performant (HP) PHY modems, OFDMA MAC schedulers, and RF-related issues. He is an inventor with multiple patents involving intellectual property of Wi-Fi and Bluetooth products, all of which have been implemented and sold to key clients. Since 2018, he has been publishing lectures on the YouTube platform under his name “Ahmad Bazzi”, where his channel contains mathematical, algorithmic, and programming topics, with over 285,000 subscribers and more than 17 million views, as of January 2024. He was awarded a CIFRE Scholarship from Association Nationale Recherche Technologies (ANRT) France, in 2014, in collaboration with RivieraWaves (now CEVA-DSP). He was nominated for Best Student Paper Award at IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP) 2016. He received the Silver Plate Creator Award from YouTube, in 2022, for his 100,000 subscriber milestone. He was awarded an exemplary reviewer for the IEEE Transactions on Communications in 2022 and an exemplary reviewer for the IEEE Wireless Communications Letters in 2022. He served as technical program committee (TPC) member and a reviewer for many leading international conferences. He was selected amongst top 200 Top Arab creators for 2023. His research interests include signal processing, wireless communications, statistics, and optimization.