Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering, New York University (NYU) Abu Dhabi, UAE
Biography
Dr. Qurrat-Ul-Ain Nadeem is an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at New York University (NYU) Abu Dhabi, UAE and an Associated Faculty at NYU Tandon School of Engineering, USA. From 2019 to 2023, she was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Electrical Engineering Department at the University of British Columbia (UBC), Canada. She also held the Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow position at UBC in 2020 and 2022. She received her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia in 2015 and 2018 respectively. Her research interests lie in the areas of communication theory, signal processing, and electromagnetics and antenna theory. Dr. Nadeem received the prestigious Paul Baron Young Scholar Award by The Marconi Society in 2018 for her work on full-dimension massive MIMO systems. She also received the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)'s Postdoctoral Fellowship Award in 2021, with her application ranked first among those submitted by female candidates. She serves as an Editor of IEEE Communications Letters, and as the lead Guest Editor of the special issue on Multi-Function Reconfigurable Intelligent and Holographic Surfaces for 6G Networks in IEEE Network. She also serves as the co-chair of several tracks and workshops at flagship conferences of IEEE Communications Society including IEEE PIMRC 2023, IEEE ICC 2024, IEEE VTC 2024-Spring and IEEE WCNC 2024.