Ahmed Elshazly

About me

I am currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA, under the supervision of Prof. Ahmed Arafa in the Communications and Information Processing Lab (CIPL). Before starting my Ph.D., I worked as an Assistant Lecturer at the Electrical Engineering Department, Alexandria University, Egypt. I am currently on study leave to complete my doctoral studies. I hold both a B.Sc. and an M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Alexandria University.

Research Interests

• Federated Learning
• Wireless Communication Systems
• Mathematical Optimization
• Antenna Arrays
• Signal Processing

Work Experience

• Research and Teaching Assistant
  University of North Carolina at Charlotte
  May 2025 – Present


• Assistant Lecturer
  Alexandria University, Egypt
  Mar 2024 – Aug 2024


• Teaching Assistant
  Alexandria University, Egypt
  Jul 2018 – Mar 2024

Education

• Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering
  University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA (2024 – Present)
• M.Sc. in Electrical and Communication Engineering
  Alexandria University, Egypt (2017 – 2023)
• B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering
  Alexandria University, Egypt

Publications

• Optimal Scheduling of Thermostatically Controlled and Energy Constrained Electric Loads Under Real Time Pricing
  IEEE Kansas Power and Energy Conference (KPEC), 2025


• A Compressive Sensing Based Computationally Efficient High-Resolution DOA Estimation of Wideband Signals Using Generalized Coprime Arrays
  Wireless Personal Communications, Springer, 2024


• High-Resolution DOA Estimation Using Compressive Sensing with Deterministic Sensing Matrices and Compact Generalized Coprime Arrays
  15th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), 2021


• A New Computationally Efficient Approach for High-Resolution DOA Estimation of Wideband Signals Using Compressive Sensing
  40th National Radio Science Conference (NRSC), 2023

Honors & Awards

• Wayland H. Cato Jr. First-Year Graduate Fellowship – UNC Charlotte, 2024
• Teaching Assistantship – Alexandria University, 2016
• Distinction with Honor for the B.Sc. degree, ranked 6th out of 265 – Alexandria University, 2016

Service

Technical Reviewer

Journals:

• IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking
• IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking

Conferences:

• IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC)
• IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM)