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 areas of Wireless Communication Theory. 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 and the NSF CAREER award in 2015.
Fun movie/animation -- my research!
Gold Academic Medal
IEEE WIE Chair
IEEE ComSoc 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
I’m studying the optimization of training and feedbacks in two-way wireless channels at the physical and link layers.
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..