Professional Activities

Invited Talks

• A. Maatouk, "Semantics-Empowered Communications: A New Paradigm for Networked Systems", George Washington University, Washington DC, USA, November 2022.

  Invited by: Prof. Suresh Subramaniam [IEEE Fellow]

• A. Maatouk, "Toward a Semantics-Empowered Communication Paradigm", Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, April 2021.

  Invited by: Prof. Elif Uysal [IEEE Fellow]

• A. Maatouk, "Semantics of Data: Age of Information and Beyond", École Nationale Supérieure de l'Électronique et de ses Applications, Cergy, France, March 2021.

  Invited by: Prof. Inbar Fijalkow [IEEE Senior Member]

• A. Maatouk, "The Age of Incorrect Information: A New Perspective On Status Updates Systems", Auburn University, Alabama, USA, March 2020.

  Invited by: Prof. Yin Sun [IEEE Senior Member]

Tutorials

• A. Maatouk, M. Assaad, A. Ephremides, "Age of Information: A Paradigm Shift Towards Semantic Properties in Data Science", IEEE Global Communications Conference (Globecom), Madrid, Spain, December 2021
• A. Maatouk, M. Assaad, A. Ephremides, "Semantics in Communications: The Example of Information Freshness", IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Montreal, Canada, June 2021

Honors and Awards

• Huawei Future Star award (2021)
• Huawei New Employee award (2021)
• Huawei Galloping Horse award (2021)
• Plateau de Saclay PhD Award for one of the best scientific contributions (2020)
• André Blanc-Lapierre award - National Prize for best Master's student in France in the domain of electricity, information technology, and communication (2017)
• André Blanc-Lapierre award - Trophée Ile-de-France for best Master's project in Paris region (2017)
• Digicosme scholarship for academic excellence (2016)
• Ranked first in the Baccalaureat official exams in the capital city Beirut (2012)

Projects Contributions

• Contributions through deliverables to the European project ONE5G
• Contributions to a project proposal for the NSF Computer and Information Science and Engineering directorate
• Contributions to a project proposal for the European FET Horizon 2020

Courses Taught

• Cellular networks at CentraleSupélec, Gif-sur-Yvette, France (graduate)
• Introduction to wireless communications at Institut supérieur d’électronique de Paris, France (undergraduate)

Co-advised Students

• Yutao Chen, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA (Graduate Student)
• Zahra Zare, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA (Graduate Student)

Professional Service

Reviewer

Journals

• IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking
• IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
• IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
• IEEE Transactions on Communications
• IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
• IEEE Internet of Things Journal
• IEEE Wireless Communications Letters
• IEEE Communications Letters
• IEEE Access
• IEEE Journal of Communications and Networks

Conferences

• IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (Infocom)
• IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT)
• IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW)
• IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC)
• IEEE Global Communications Conference (Globecom)
• IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC)
• IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC)

Chair

• IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Session on the Age of Information, Helsinki, Finland, June 2022