Prof. Besma Smida
I am an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Illinois at Chicago. Before that I held academic positions at Purdue University Northwest and Harvard University. My research focuses on the area of Wireless Communication. I am a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Communication Society 2021-2022. I was awarded the INSIGHT Into Diversity Magazine's 2015 "Inspiring Women in STEM". I am the recipient of the Academic Gold Medal of the Governor General of Canada in 2007, the NSF CAREER award in 2015 and the Best Paper award for IEEE GLOBECOM 2021.
Fun movie/animation -- my research!
Gold Academic Medal
IEEE ComSoc Chicago Chair
IEEE WIE Chicago Chair
Some of my Team
Md. Atiqul Islam
I am working on enabling MIMO full-duplex wireless communication systems that have the potential to greatly increase spectral efficiency.
Seiran Khaledian Ph.D.
I defended my thesis on "Enabling In-band Full-duplex Communication" in March 2019.
Xinghao (Brian) Gu Ph.D.
I defended my thesis on the optimization of training and feedbacks in two-way wireless channels in March 2021.
Hamza Soury Ph.D.
My current research focuses on implementing a unified wireless control structural framework to improve building reliability in natural hazards, specifically earthquakes. In addition, I am investigating the impact of finite packet length and finite training pilots on channel estimation error in order to optimize the channel capacity.
Research Blog
ReflectFX
This work offers a new concept for two-way wireless communication....
by Besma Smida
(Delay, Reliability, Rate) Tradeoffs
Incorporating delay requires re-thinking strategies commonly used in the multi-user setting....
by Besma Smida
Inherent Self-Interference Cancellation
Instead of estimating the self-interference (SI) signal and subtracting it from the Rx signal, we use the inherent secondary SI signal at the circulator..