2025
[11/25/2025] Our work “Enhanced Position Estimation in Tactile Internet Enabled Remote Robotic Surgery Using MOESP Based Kalman Filter” has been accepted in IEEE Transactions on Medical Robotics and Bionics
[11/23/2025] “Q-RITA: Tactile-Aware Quantum Routing Protocol for RIS-Assisted Networks” has received a major revision from IEEE Transactions on Quantum Engineering.
[11/08/2025] Congratulations to Samuel Abhinav Meruga on the successful defense of his Master’s thesis in Computer Engineering (Cybersecurity)! His work focused on Federated Learning for Secure URLLC in Tactile Industrial Systems.
[11/02/2025] We are excited to welcome Dr. Siraj M. Al Qunaynah as an interdisciplinary visiting researcher, where he will advance AI-driven solutions at the intersection of civil engineering, tactile networks, and intelligent transportation systems.
[09/22/2025] Our work “Quantum Noise-Aware RIS-Aided Wireless Networks Using Variational Encoding and Signal Stabilization” has been accepted in 23rd IEEE CCNC (acceptance rate < 24%)
[09/22/2025] Our work “BBRv2-TI: A Utility-Guided Congestion Control Algorithm for Tactile Internet over QUIC” has been accepted in 23rd IEEE CCNC (acceptance rate < 24%)
[09/22/2025] Dr. Ahmed will serve as the Session Chair for the Poster Session at NSF AraFest’25, to be held September 27–28, 2025 (detail here)
[09/12/2025] Dr. Ahmed is invited to join us as a speaker at the “Global Congress on Quantum Computing and Applications” (Quantum Summit-2025), taking place from “November 13–15, 2025, in Valencia, Spain”
[09/07/2025] Our work “Enhanced Position Estimation in Tactile Internet-Enabled Remote Robotic Surgery Using MOESP-Based Kalman Filter” has been revised ( minor revisions) and re-submitted to IEEE Transactions on Medical Robotics and Bionics
[09/05/2025] Congratulations to Danush Venkateshperuma on successfully defending his thesis titled ‘LLM-Based Real-Time Speech Reconstruction and Emergency Call Prioritization System.’ We wish him the very best in his future endeavors!
[08/11/2025] Our work “Multilingual Low-latency Emergency VoIP System Using LLM for Speech Reconstruction and Blockchain for Secure Data Archiving” has been accepted in IEEE Access (Link)
[07/30/2025] Our recent work on “LLM-Augmented VoIP for Emergency Call Triage” has been accepted in Elsevier Measurement: Digitalization (Link)
[07/25/2025] Our work on “Lightweight Deep Learning-Based Channel Estimation for RIS-Aided Extremely Large-Scale MIMO Systems on Resource-Limited Edge Devices” has been submitted to IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (Link)
[06/13/2025] Our recent work on “OSI Stack Redesign for Quantum Networks: Requirements, Technologies, Challenges, and Future Directions” is available at arXiv (Link)
[05/30/2025] Dr. Ahmed received a SVPP Term Faculty Professional Development grant (amount $1000.00)
[05/26/2025] Our work “Quantum-driven Zero Trust Framework with Dynamic Anomaly Detection in 7G Technology: A Neural Network Approach” has been accepted in Elsevier Measurement: Digitalization (Link)
[05/09/2025] Our work “A Predictive Approach for Enhancing Accuracy in Remote Robotic Surgery Using Informer Model” has been accepted in MDPI Sensors. (Link)
[05/03/2025] Our paper on “Optimal Microcontroller Usage in Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface: Batteryless IoT Systems Case Study”, has been accepted in Elsevier Measurement: Digitalization (Link)
[04/04/2025] Our paper on “Evaluating the Practical Application of Generative Artificial Intelligence in Higher Education Classrooms”, has been accepted in Proceedings of Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference, Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE) (Link)
[03/13/2025] Dr. Ahmed will deliver talk as an invited speaker at the World Summit and Expo on Electronics and Electrical Engineering, where he will present on the topic: “AI, Digital Twin, Quantum Networking, and LLMs: Building Trustworthy and Intelligent Cognitive Cities.”
[03/05/2025] Dr. Ahmed has been selected for the Global Particle Physics Excellence Awards under the Engineering category of “Best Researcher Award“
[02/06/2025] We received a Publication Subvention Grant (amount $1100.00)
[02/05/2025] Our paper “EcoEdgeTwin: Driving 6G with AI-Enhanced Edge Integration and Sustainable Digital Twins” has been accepted to IET Digital Twins and Applications Journal
[02/03/2025] Dr. Ahmed is advising senior design project on “Design and Implementation of a Quantum Networking Testbed for Secure Communications”
[01/31/2025] Our project, “Optimizing Network Architectures Using LLM Tools and Digital Twin Technology,” has been awarded internal REU funding from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Iowa State University.
[01/28/2025] Dr. Ahmed has been invited as a speaker at the 2nd Edition of the Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning Conference (AIM-2025) in Seattle, WA
[01/01/2025] Our paper, “6G Wireless Communication Systems: Applications, Requirements, Technologies, Challenges, and Research Directions,” has been recognized as the most popular article of IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society for the fifth consecutive year since 2020!
2024
[12/20/2024] Dr. Ahmed’s advised senior design project on “Wargaming Senior Design” was awarded 2024 Best Senior Design Project. Congratulations 🎉🎉 team for your great work!
[12/11/2024] Congratulations, Danush! 🎉🎉 Danush has accepted a Summer Software Developer Intern position at Buildertrend for 2025, and we look forward to the impactful contributions and growth ahead!
[11/27/2024] Our work “Optimizing Small Cell Performance: A New MIMO Paradigm with Distributed ASTAR-RISs” has been accepted for publication in IEEE Open Journal of Vehicular Technology (Impact Factor 6.4)
[11/11/2024] Our work “Deep Convolutional Generative Adversarial Networks: Performance Analysis in Wireless Systems” has been accepted for publication in Discover Internet of Things-Springer Nature.
[11/08/2024] Our work “Deep Learning-Driven Cascaded Channel Estimation in RIS-Aided mm-Wave Massive MIMO Systems” has been submitted to 2025 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC)
[11/07/2024] Our work “Adaptive Context-Aware Multi-Path Transmission Control for VR/AR Content: A Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach” has been submitted to IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management
[10/16/204] Our work “Enhanced Position Estimation in Tactile Internet-Enabled Remote Robotic Surgery Using MOESP-Based Kalman Filter,” has been submitted to IEEE Transactions on Medical Robotics and Bionics
[09/04/2024] We are excited to start an initiative on Quantum Networking to drive innovation in secure and advanced communications for 6G and beyond.
[08/20/2024] Our work “Revolutionizing Undergraduate Learning: CourseGPT and Its Generative AI Advancements” has been accepted for publication in the 2024 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE)