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[July, 2023] Congratulations to Shahrukh Khan Kasi, on winning the GCoE Dissertation Excellence Award, along with the $5000 cash prize! This is an incredible achievement and a testament to your hard work, dedication, and talent.

[June, 2023] Congratulations to Asad Zaidi for acceptance of his paper titled "AI-Assisted Joint Search Approach for Mmwave Cell Discovery Using Sparse MDT Data" in IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 2023.

[April, 2023] Congratulations to Marvin Manalastas for acceptance of his paper titled "Towards the Development of 6G System Level Simulators: Addressing the Computational Complexity Challenge" in IEEE Wireless Communications, 2023.

[April, 2023] Congratulations to Shahrukh Khan Kasi, on winning a position at OU Tulsa Research Forum, for his excellent research Towards Digital Twin Empowered Risk-aware Reinforcement learning in User-centric O-RAN Architecture.

[March, 2023] Congratulations to Dr. Haneya Naeem Qureshi for the acceptance of her collaborative work with Ericsson Research titled "Towards Addressing Training Data Scarcity Challenge in Emerging Radio Access Networks: A Survey and Framework" in IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, 2023.

[March, 2023] Congratulations to Marvin C. Manalastas, on winning the GCoE Dissertation Excellence Award, along with the $5000 cash prize! This is an incredible achievement and a testament to your hard work, dedication, and talent.

[January, 2023] Congratulations to Dr. Haneya Naeem Qureshi for acceptance of her paper titled "5G-Enabled Healthcare in Mobile Scenarios: Challenges and Implementation Considerations" in IEEE Network magazine, 2023.

[November, 2022] Congratulations to Asad Zaidi for acceptance of his paper titled "A Framework to Address Mobility Management Challenges in Emerging Networks" in IEEE Wireless Communications, 2022.

[October, 2022] Congratulations to Umar Bin Farooq for acceptance of his paper titled "MDT-based Intelligent Route Selection for 5G-Enabled Connected Ambulances" in IEEE International Conference on E-health Networking, Application & Services (Healthcom), 2022.

[October, 2022] Congratulations to Shahrukh Khan Kasi for acceptance of his paper titled "D-RAN: A DRL-based Demand-Driven Elastic User-Centric RAN Optimization for 6G & Beyond" in IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking, 2022.

[October, 2022] Congratulations to Asad Zaidi for acceptance of his paper titled "A Data Driven Framework for QoE-Aware Intelligent EN-DC Activation" in IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 2022.

[August, 2022] Congratulations to Maria Shaukat for winning the Generation Google Scholarship (North America) worth $10,000 for Fall 2022-2023.

[June, 2022] Congratulations to Muhammad Sajid Riaz for acceptance of his paper titled "A Hybrid Deep Learning-Based (HYDRA) Framework for Multifault Diagnosis Using Sparse MDT Reports" in IEEE Access, June 2022.

[June, 2022] Congratulations to Waseem Raza for securing an intern position for summer 2022 at AT&T

[May, 2022] Congratulations to Umar Bin Farooq for acceptance of his paper titled "Machine Learning Aided Holistic Handover Optimization for Emerging Networks" in IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 2022.

[April, 2022] Congratulations to Muhammad Umar Bin Farooq for securing a summer internship at InterDigital AI Lab.

[April, 2022] Congratulations to Muhammad Sajid Riaz for securing an intern position in the Genomic Science Division (GSD) group for summer 2022 at Thermo Fisher Scientific.

[April, 2022] Congratulations to Marvin C. Manalastas for securing an intern position for summer 2022 at Synopsys.

[April, 2022] Congratulations to Marvin C. Manalastas for acceptance of his paper titled "Design Considerations and Deployment Challenges for TurboRAN 5G and Beyond Testbed" in IEEE Access, 2022.

[April, 2022] Congratulations to Usama Masood for securing an intern position for summer 2022 at T-Mobile.

[April, 2022] Congratulations to Shahrukh Kasi for securing an intern position for summer 2022 at Qualcomm

[April, 2022] Congratulations to Tabish Saeed for securing an intern position for summer 2022 at Cable Labs

[April, 2022] Congratulations to Maria Shaukat for securing an intern position for summer 2022 at Intel AI Lab

[March, 2022] Congratulations to Marvin C. Manalastas for acceptance of his paper titled "A Data Driven Framework for Inter-Frequency Handover Failure Prediction and Mitigation" in IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 2022.

[February, 2022] Congratulations to Dr. Haneya Naeem Qureshi for acceptance of her paper titled "Communication Requirements in 5G-Enabled Healthcare Applications: Review and Considerations" in MDPI Healthcare, 2022.

[February, 2022] Congratulations to Umar Bin Farooq for acceptance of his paper titled "A Data-Driven Self-Optimization Solution for Inter-Frequency Mobility Parameters in Emerging Networks" in IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking, 2022.

[February, 2022] Congratulations to Waseem Raza for acceptance of his paper titled "Towards a Hybrid RF/Optical Lunar Communication System (LunarComm)" in IEEE Network, 2022.

[February, 2022] Congratulations to Dr. Nabeel for acceptance of his paper titled "Investigating Handover Behavior with 5G and Beyond TurboRAN Testbed" in Seventh International Conference On Mobile And Secure Services (MobiSecServ), 2022.

[February, 2022] Congratulations to Aneeqa Ijaz for acceptance of her paper titled "Towards using cough for respiratory disease diagnosis by leveraging Artificial Intelligence: A survey" in Informatics in Medicine Unlocked 2022.

[February, 2022] Congratulations to Marvin C. Manalastas for securing an intern position for Spring 2022 at Synopsys.

[January, 2022] Congratulations to Usama Masood for acceptance of his paper titled "Interpretable AI-based Large-scale 3D Pathloss Prediction Model for enabling Emerging Self-Driving Networks" in IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 2022.

[January, 2022] Congratulations to Usama Masood for securing an intern position for Spring 2022 at T-Mobile.

[December, 2021] Congratulations to Muhammad Sajid Riaz for winning runner up Position along with $250 Cash Prize in "3 Minute Thesis 2021" competition held at University of Oklahoma. Thanks for making us proud through your hard-work and dedication.

[December, 2021] Congratulations to Muhammad Umar Bin Farooq for winning 1st Position along with $500 Cash Prize in "3 Minute Thesis" competition held at University of Oklahoma. Thanks for making us proud through your hard-work and dedication.

[December, 2021] Congratulations to Joel Shodamola for acceptance of his paper titled "Towards Addressing the Spatial Sparsity of MDT Reports to Enable Zero Touch Network Automation" in IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM 2021).

[December, 2021] Congratulations to Shahrukh Khan Kasi for acceptance of his paper titled "Analysis of Area Spectral & Energy Efficiency in a CoMP-Enabled User-Centric Cloud RAN" in IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking, 2021.

[December, 2021] Congratulations to Dr. Haneya Naeem Qureshi for acceptance of her paper titled "Service Level Agreements for 5G-Enabled Healthcare Systems: Challenges and Considerations" in IEEE Network, 2021.

[January, 2021] Congratulations to Dr. Ahmad Asghar for acceptance of his paper titled "Entropy Field Decomposition Based Outage Detection for Ultra-Dense Networks" in IEEE Access, 2021.

[December, 2020] Congratulations to Haneya Naeem Qureshi for acceptance of her paper titled "Service Level Agreements for 5G and beyond: Overview, Challenges and Enablers of 5G-Healthcare Systems" in IEEE Access, 2020.

[December, 2020] Our AI based indicative pre-screening of COVID-19, "AI4COVID-19: Artificial Intelligence powered App for detecting COVID-19 from cough sound" is highlighted by Voice of America . Read more about our project on AI4COVID-19

[December, 2020] Dr. Imran was invited to elaborate our recent work "AI4COVID-19: Artificial Intelligence powered App for detecting COVID-19 from cough sound" on Voice of America . Read more about our project on AI4COVID-19

[November, 2020] Our recent work "AI4COVID-19: Artificial Intelligence powered App for detecting COVID-19 from cough sound" is highlighted by IEEE Spectrum . Read more about our project on AI4COVID-19

[October, 2020] Congratulations to Umar Bin Farooq for acceptance of his paper titled "Data Driven Optimization of Inter-Frequency Mobility Parameters for Emerging Multi-band Networks" in IEEE GLOBECOM, 2020.

[October, 2020] Congratulations to Syed Asad Zaidi for acceptance of his paper titled "Mobility Management in Emerging Ultra-Dense Cellular Networks: A Survey, Outlook, and Future Research Directions" in IEEE Access, 2020.

[October, 2020] Congratulations to Haneya Naeem Qureshi for acceptance of her paper titled "Enhanced MDT-based Performance Estimation for AI Driven Optimization in Future Cellular Networks" in IEEE Access, 2020.

[October, 2020] Congratulations to Syed Asad Zaidi for acceptance of his paper titled "AI-Assisted RLF Avoidance for Smart EN-DC Activation" in IEEE GLOBECOM, 2020.

[August, 2020] Congratulations to Umar Bin Farooq for acceptance of his paper titled "Utilizing Loss Tolerance and Bandwidth Expansion for Energy Efficient User Association in HetNets" in PIMRC, 2020.

[June, 2020] Congratulations to Dr. Ali Imran for acceptance of his paper titled "AI4COVID-19: AI Enabled Preliminary Diagnosis for COVID-19 from Cough Samples via an App" in Elsevier Informatics in Medicine Unlocked, June, 2020.

[May, 2020] Prof. Imran to give keynote on "Leveraging AI for Zero-Touch Automation in 6G: How to Address the Training Data Sparsity/Scarcity Challenge?" at IEEE 2nd International workshop on Data Driven Intelligence for Networks and Systems workshop at Infocom 2020, July 6-9, Toronto, Canada.

[May, 2020] Congratulations to Syed Asad Zaidi for acceptance of his paper titled "SyntheticNET: A 3GPP Compliant Simulator for AI Enabled 5G and Beyond" in IEEE Access, 2020.

[May, 2020] Congratulations to Shruti Bothe for acceptance of her paper titled "Neuromorphic AI Empowered Root Cause Analysis of Faults in Emerging Networks" in Blackseacom, 2020

[April, 2020] Congratulations to Joel Shodamola for acceptance of his paper titled "A Machine Learning based Framework for KPI Maximization in Emerging Networks using Mobility Parameters" in Blackseacom, 2020.

[April, 2020] Our recent project "AI4COVID-19: Artificial Intelligence powered App for detecting COVID-19 from cough sound" highlighted on FOX23 . Read more about our project on AI4COVID-19

[January, 2020] AI4Networks Research Center welcomes Dr. Muhammad Nabeel, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, to its family. Dr. Nabeel received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the Paderborn University (Paderborn, Germany) in 2019.

[January, 2020] Congratulations to Haneya Naeem Qureshi, she started the Year 2020 with a well deserved 1st Position along with $500 Cash Prize in "3 Minute Thesis" competition held at University of Oklahoma. Thanks for making us proud through your hard-work and dedication.

[January, 2020] Congratulations to Hasan Farooq for acceptance of his paper titled "Mobility Prediction based Proactive Dynamic Network Orchestration for Load Balancing with QoS Constraint (OPERA)" in IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 2020.

[December, 2019] Dr. Imran to deliver a keynote titled 'Towards Zero Touch Automation in Emerging Wireless Networks' at 13th IEEE International Conference On Open Source System and Technologies, Dec, 2019.

[December, 2019] Dr. Imran is invited for a panel talk on "Addressing the Hyper Parameterization Challenge in AI for Wireless Networks" at IEEE Globecom, Dec, 2019.

[November, 2019] Dr. Imran is invited to give a talk on "Designing and Training Wireless Network Native AI: Chartering the Terra-incognita Beyond Cookie-Cut Models" at Ericsson, Santa Clara, Nov 14, 2019.

[November, 2019] Dr. Imran is invited to give a talk on "AI enabled Zero Touch automation for 5G and beyond" at 5G EXPO NA, Silicon Valley, Nov 13-14, 2019.

[October, 2019] Congratulations to Marvin Manalastas for acceptance of the paper titled "Where to Go Next?: A Realistic Evaluation of AI-Assisted Mobility Predictors for HetNet" in IEEE 17th Annual Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC), Las Vegas, Jan, 2020.

[October, 2019] Dr. Imran to deliver a keynote titled 'How AI can transform the way mobile networks are deployed, operated, managed and maintained' at AI World, Boston, USA.

[October, 2019] Congratulations to Morgan Hartmann for acceptance of the paper titled "Distilled Deep Learning Based Abnormal Heart Beat Classification using ECG Data through a low cast edge device" in Fourth International Workshop on ICT Solutions for Health (ICTS4eHealth'19), Barcelona, Jun, 2019.

[October, 2019] Dr. Imran to give a panel talk titled 'AI for 5G and Beyond' at AI World, Boston, USA.

[September, 2019] AI4Networks Research Center has received a new NSF award of $750k for a collaborative project on next generation AI enabled lean, elastic and agile network design. The project is titled SpiderNET: Spectrally Efficient and Energy Efficient Data Aided Demand Driven Elastic Architecture for Future Networks.

[September, 2019] Dr. Imran to give a half day invited workshop on "AI-based Deep Automation in Emerging Networks" to executives and R&D team of Samsung America at Dallas Campus, Sept 5, 2019

[September, 2019] Congratulations to Asad Zaidi for joining Sprint Telecommunications for Fall 2019.

[September, 2019] Congratulations to Dr. Hasan Farooq for joining Ericsson, Santa Clara as AI Researcher.

[September, 2019] Congratulations to Shruti Bothe for joining Ericsson, Santa Clara as Data Scientist.

[September, 2019] Congratulations to Morghan Hartmann for acceptance of the paper titled "Edge computing in smart health care systems: Review, challenges, and research directions" in Transaction on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies, 2019.

[September, 2019] Congratulations to Ahmad Asghar for acceptance of the paper titled "Leveraging mobility and content caching for proactive load balancing in heterogeneous cellular networks" in Transactions on emerging telecommunications technologies, 2019.

[September, 2019] Congratulations to Umair Hashmi for acceptance of the paper titled "Towards Real-time User QoE assessment via Machine Learning on LTE network data" in IEEE 90th Vehicular Technology Conference: VTC2019-Fall, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, September 2019.

[August, 2019] AI4Networks Research Center welcomes Muhammad Sajid Riaz and Waseem Raza, Graduate Research Assistants and PhD candidates, to its family.

[August, 2019] AI4Networks Research Center welcomes Aneeqa Ijaz and Muhammad Umar Bin Farooq, Fulbright Scholars and PhD candidates, to its family.

[August, 2019] Dr. Imran is invited for a plenary talk on "Leveraging Interpretable AI for Reliable Wireless Network Automation" at 4thInternational Conference on UK -China Emerging Technologies (UCET), Aug-22-23, 2019, Glasgow, UK.

[August, 2019] Congratulations to Umair Hashmi for his appointment as Assistant Professor in School of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science (SEECS), NUST, Islamabad, Pakistan.

[August, 2019] Haneya Naeem successfully completed her experimental data gathering campaign at 5GIC Testbed, Surrey, UK. The data gathered in this campaign is going to enable a new level of cross validation of the theoretical and simulation based results produced in the AI4Networks Research Center.

[August, 2019] Congratulations to Usama Masood for acceptance of the paper titled "A Machine Learning based 3D Propagation Model for Intelligent Future Cellular Networks" in IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), Waikoloa, USA, Dec. 2019.

[June, 2019] Dr. Imran to give an invited talk titled 'AI Based Zero Touch Deep Automation: Some Novel Solutions and Promising Results' at Samsung Networks, Partners' Day, June 18th, 2019, Mt. View, California.

[June, 2019] Congratulations to Umair Hashmi for successfully defending his PhD dissertation.

[June, 2019] Umair Hashmi, a recent graduate from the AI4NETWORKS Research Center and OU Tulsa's first Fulbright graduate was featured in OU Inside.

[May, 2019] Congratulations to Hasan Farooq on acceptance of his research paper "AI empowered Smart User Association in LTE Relays HetNets" in IEEE ICC, 2019.

[May, 2019] Congratulations to Ahmad Asghar for acceptance of his conference paper titled "Outage Detection for Millimeter Wave Ultra-Dense HetNets in High Fading Environments" in IEEE ICC, 2019.

[May, 2019] Dr. Imran received 2019 Spring William H. Barkow Presidential Professorship award.

[May, 2019] Dr. Imran to deliver a keynote at 5G North America, Denver, Colorado on 8th May, 2019.

[May, 2019] Congratulations to Asad Zaidi for being offered an internship position in Shenandoah Telecommunications Company (Shentel).

[May, 2019] Congratulations to Marvin for being offered an internship position in Shenandoah Telecommunications Company (Shentel).

[May, 2019] Dr. Imran to give the keynote in Shanghai, China at IEEE ICC 2019 workshop on Data Driven Intelligence for Networks and Systems (DDINS).

[May, 2019] Congratulations to Hasan Farooq and Hana on acceptance of their research paper "What Machine Learning Predictor Performs Best for Mobility Prediction in Cellular Networks?" in IEEE ICC, 2019.

[May, 2019] Congratulations to Marvin and Haneya for securing 1st and 2nd position in 2019 OU-Tulsa ECE research meetings.

[April, 2019] Congratulations to Asad Zaidi for securing summer internship at MobileComm Professionals Inc.

[April, 2019] Congratulations to Marvin for securing summer internship at MobileComm Professionals Inc.

[April, 2019] Congratulations to Umair Hashmi for securing summer internship at Bell Labs HQ, New Jersey.

[April, 2019] Congratulations to Haneya Qureshi for securing second position in poster competition in OU-Tulsa Research Forum.

[April, 2019] Dr. Imran, to give a keynote address titled "AI for Channel Characterization and Propagation Modelling" in international workshop on "AI for MARIE: are there New Research Opportunities?", April 16th, 2019, Duisburg, Germany.

[March, 2019] Congratulations to Shruti for acceptance of the paper titled "Which statistical distribution best characterizes modern cellular traffic and what factors could predict its spatio-temporal variability?," in IEEE Communications Letters, March, 2019.

[February, 2019] Congratulations to Haneya for acceptance of the paper titled "Optimal bin width for autonomous coverage estimation using MDT reports in the presence of user positioning error" in IEEE Communications Letters, February 2019.

[December, 2018] Dr. Imran, to give an invited talk at RAN USA, Dec 3th .

[December, 2018] Congratulations to Ahmad Asghar for successfully defending his PhD thesis.

[December, 2018] Congratulations to Ahmad Asghar for getting job offer from Microsoft.

[December, 2018] AI4Networks to present 4 conference papers in IEEE Globecom, Dubai.

[December, 2018] Dr. Imran to give keynote at 12th international conference on open source system and technologies, Lahore, Pakistan.

[December, 2018] Congratulations to Haneya for receiving OU-Tulsa scholarship for spring 2019 semester.

[December, 2018] Congratulations to Shruti for receiving OU-Tulsa scholarship for spring 2019 semester.

[December, 2018] Congratulations to Haneya Qureshi for acceptance of the paper titled "On the Trade-offs between Coverage Radius, Altitude and Beamwidth for Practical UAV Deployments", in IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems.

[November, 2018] Congratulations to Hasan Farooq for successfully defending his PhD thesis.

[November, 2018] AI4Networks team had a fun day out at Main Event, Tulsa and then celebrated Hasan's graduation at a local restaurant. Photos

[October, 2018] Congrats Ahmad Asghar for being interviewed for Nokia Bell Labs podcast. Click to Listen

[September, 2018] Congratulations to Hasan Farooq for being awarded the Gallogly College Dissertation Excellence Award (DEA) and a reward of $5,000. Photos

[September, 2018] Congratulations to Umair Hashmi for joining Nokia Bell Labs as a Machine Learning Wireless Coop.

[September, 2018] Congratulations to Ben and Shruti for acceptance of their paper 'Generative Adversarial Learning for Machine Learning empowered Self Organizing 5G Networks' in IEEE International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC 2019), Hawaii, Feb. 2019.

[August, 2018] Dr. Imran to give an invited talk at Summer school on "Intelligent Communications Network" hosted by LUMS, Lahore, Pakistan, Aug 6-9, 2018.

[July, 2018] Congratulations to Umair Hashmi for acceptance of paper titled "Towards user QoE-Centric elastic cellular networks: A game theoretic framework for optimizing throughput and energy efficiency" in IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC), 2018.

[July, 2018] Congratulations to Umar for acceptance of paper titled "User transmit power minimization through uplink resource allocation and user association in HetNets" in IEEE Global Communications Conference: Green Communications Systems and Networks (Globecom 2018 GCSN), 2018.

[July, 2018] Congratulations to Haneya Qureshi for acceptance of paper titled "Towards Designing Systems with Large Number of Antennas for Range Extension in Ground-to-Air Communications" in IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC), 2018.

[July, 2018] Congratulations to Hasan Farooq for acceptance of paper titled "Mobility Prediction based Autonomous Proactive Energy Saving (AURORA) Framework for Emerging Ultra-Dense Networks" in IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking, 2018.

[July, 2018] Congratulations to Hassan Farooq for acceptance of paper titled "Mobility Prediction empowered Proactive Energy Saving Framework for 5G Ultra-Dense HetNets" in IEEE Global Communications Conference: Green Communications Systems and Networks (Globecom 2018 GCSN), 2018.

[July, 2018] Congratulations to Usama Masood for acceptance of paper titled "Deep learning based detection of sleeping cells in next generation cellular networks" in IEEE Global Communications Conference: Communication QoS, Reliability and Modeling (Globecom2018 CQRM), Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Dec. 2018.

[June, 2018] Dr. Imran to deliver a keynote at a national conference on AI for wireless hosted by A1 Telecom on 25th June, 2018.

[May, 2018] AI4Networks Research Center attended IEEE ICC 2018 conference in Kansas city. Photos

[May, 2018] Congratulations to Ahmad Asghar and Hasan Farooq for acceptance of their paper titled "Concurrent Optimization of Coverage, Capacity and Load Balance in HetNets through Soft and Hard Cell Association Parameters" in IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology.

[May, 2018] Dr. Imran to deliver a keynote at 5G North America, Austin, TX on 15th May, 2018.

[April, 2018] Congratulations to Azar Taufique for successfully defending his PhD thesis.

[April, 2018] Congratulations to Azar Taufique and Hassan Farooq for acceptance of their paper "Analytical Modelling for Mobility Signalling in Ultra-Dense HetNets" in IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology.

[April, 2018] Dr. Imran to give keynote at T-Mobile Headquarter, Seattle, WA on 16th April, 2018.

[April, 2018] Dr. Imran awarded The University of Oklahoma VPR award for outstanding international impact through research and creative work.

[April, 2018] Dr. Imran to deliver a keynote at ATT, Silicon Valley on 17th April, 2018.

[April, 2018] Congratulations to Haneya Qureshi for securing first and second price in poster competition in OU-Tulsa Research Forum and IEEE Tulsa Section Poster contest respectively.

[April, 2018] Congratulations to Azar and Asad for standing third in poster presentation in OU-Tulsa Research Forum.

[April, 2018] Congratulations to Azar Taufique for being selected as youngest IEEE Comsoc technical instructor.

[March, 2018] Congratulations to Umair Hashmi for acceptance of paper titled "On the Efficiency tradeoffs in User-Centric Cloud RAN" in IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 2018.

[March, 2018] Congratulations to Azar Taufique for getting job offers from Amazon, Sprint and Samsung.

[March, 2018] Congratulations to Ahmad Asghar and Hasan Farooq for acceptance of their paper "Self-Healing in Emerging Cellular Networks: Review, Challenges and Research Directions" in IEEE Communication Surveys and Tutorials.

[March, 2018] Congratulations to Azar Taufique for being hired by Amazon as Program Manager.

[March, 2018] A journal paper on User-Centric Cloud RAN: An Analytical framework for Optimizing Area Spectral and Energy Efficiency accepted in IEEE Access.

[March, 2018] Congratulations to Umair Hashmi for securing summer internship at Bell Labs HQ, New Jersey.

[December, 2017] Dr. Imran to give keynote at 11th international conference on open source system and technologies, Dec 18-20, Lahore, Pakistan.

[December, 2017] Dr. Imran to give invited lecture series at ITU 2017, Lahore. The series is sponsored by HEC and ITU, Pakistan.

[November, 2017] A journal paper on "Big data analytics based proactive energy efficiency solution" has been accepted in Transactions on Mobile computing.

[October, 2017] Dr. Imran, to give an invited talk at RAN USA, Dec 4th, Silicon Valley, USA .

[September, 2017] A journal paper on mmWave uplink capacity and energy efficiency analysis accepted in IEEE Transaction on Vehicular Technology.

[July, 2017] AI4Networks team member Hasan Farooq's work won first prize in global competition for best solution to enable Green ICT held by IEEE. The competition received proposals from 30+ countries. He received the award at IEEE Green ICT Summit held in Paris, France on 3rd October 2017.

[July, 2017] AI4Networks Research Center received $5,00,000 award from NSF on proactive mobility management in future multi-tier, multi-band ultra dense wireless networks.

[July, 2017] Congratulations to Sinasi and Umair for acceptance of their paper in IEEE PIMRC 2017.

[July, 2017] Congratulations to Ahmad and Hasan for acceptance of their paper in IEEE PIMRC 2017.

[July, 2017] AI4Networks Research Center received $10,00,000 award from NSF for developing TurboRAN.

[July, 2017] Dr. Imran to present a tutorial titled "LEAP for IoT" at IEEE PIMRC 2017 being held in Toronto.

[July, 2017] Arsalan Darbandi successfully defended his MS thesis titled "LARGE-SCALE DATA PROCESSING FOR DETECTING ACTIVITY ZONES IN MILAN".

[June, 2017] Congratulations to Hasan Farooq for securing internship at Phazr.

[June, 2017] Congratulations to Hasan Farooq for being selected to participate in IEEE ComSoc Summer School 2014 held at University of New Mexico.

[June, 2017] Join us at OU-Tulsa Campus for an inspiring 5G Technology Lecture Series brought to you by AI4Networks Research Center@OU.

[May, 2017] Congratulations to Umair Hashmi for securing second internship at AT&T Big Data Foundry, Dallas.

[May, 2017] Congratulations to Azar Taufique for the best presentation award at the TCOM Research Meeting.

[May, 2017] Congratulations to Hasan Farooq for the best presentation award and for scoring highest in the past decade at the TCOM Research Meeting.

[April, 2017] Prof. Imran to present a tutorial titled "LEAP for IoT - Lean, Elastic, Agile and Proactive (LEAP) Wireless Networks for Enabling the Future IoT", at the International Conference on Communications Technologies (ComTech-2017), Pakistan, 19-21 April, 2017.

[April, 2017] Prof. Imran to deliver a Keynote titled "Big Data Empowered Self Organizing Networks, the game changing paradigm for enabling 5G", at the International Conference on Communications Technologies (ComTech-2017), Pakistan, 19-21 April, 2017.

[April, 2017] AI4Networks Research Center's member Azar Taufique got 1st prize in two categories: Best Poster presentation and Video presentation.

[February, 2017] Prof. Imran to present a tutorial titled "LEAP for IoT - Lean, Elastic, Agile and Proactive (LEAP) Wireless Networks for Enabling the Future IoT", at 2017 IEEE ICC, Paris, 21-25 May, 2017.

[January, 2017] AI4Networks team members Umair and Arsalan presented a paper titled "Enabling Proactive Self-Healing by Data Mining Network Failure Logs" at ICNC 2017 Technical Program.

[December, 2016] Sachin Daware successfully defended his MS thesis titled "Big Data Analytics solution for Small Cell Deployment Using Machine Learning Techniques".

[October, 2016] Prof. Imran to present a half day tutorial titled "CDSA and BSON: The Two Key Enablers of Lean, Elastic and Proactive Wireless Networks Needed for Future IoT", at 2016 IEEE 3rd World Forum on Internet of Things, Washington DC, 12-14 Dec, 2016.

[July, 2016] New research support of $500K for project titled "Designing Agile and Scalable Self-Healing Functionalities for Ultra Dense Future Cellular Networks" by NSF (National Science Foundation).

[July, 2016] Four under grad and High School students joined the group as internees, as part of STEM outreach program at AI4Networks Research Center.

[June, 2016] MD Salik Pervaiz successfully defended his MS thesis titled "Dynamic User-centric Spectral Efficiency Maximization by Optimizing Antenna Parameters".

[June, 2016] Invited talk at big data foundry AT&T Labs, Dallas.

[June, 2016] New research support of $249K for project titled "Enabling ultra-dense future cellular networks" by NSF (National Science Foundation).

[June, 2016] Dr. Imran is invited to give a talk on "R &D Opportunities in AI Enabled Network Automation" at the Bell Labs campus, Jun 9, 2016 Bridgewater, New Jersey.

[May, 2016] Prasad Kuppurangan successfully defended his MS project titled "Small Cell Deployment for Next Generation Cellular Networks Using Control and Data Plane Separation Architecture".

[February, 2016] Invited talk at Booker T. Washington High School Tulsa, OK.

[February, 2016] New journal article "Control-Data Separation Architecture for Cellular Radio Access Networks: A Survey and Outlook" published.

[January, 2016] Invited talk at RAN USA Industrial Forum, San Francisco, USA, 26-27, Jan 2016.

[January, 2016] New journal article "How Reliable is MDT Based Autonomous Coverage Estimation in the Presence of User and BS Positioning Error" published.

[November, 2015] Dr. Imran is invited to give a talk on "Challenges and Opportunities in Small Cell Deployments" at Google Headquarter, Nov7, 2015, Mountain View, California.

[October, 2015] Dr. Imran is invited to give a talk on "Big Data Empowered SON from Conception to Realization: An Evolution Pathway for Enabling 5G" at 6th International SON conference. Berlin, Germany 20-21 October 2015.

[September, 2015] Dr. Imran to give a invited paper presentation on "Network Densification: Challenges and Opportunities in enabling 5G" at IEEE 20th International Workshop on Computer Aided Modelling and Design of Communication Links and Networks (CAMAD), 7-9 Sept. 2015, Surrey, UK.

[September, 2015] Dr. Imran is invited for a plenary talk on "5G as Enabler for IoT: Challenges and Opportunities" at IEEE CAMAD, 7-9 Sept, 7-9 Sept,2015, Surrey, UK.

[August, 2015] Dr. Imran is invited to give a talk on "Challenges and Opportunities in SON and 5G" at Google Headquarter, Aug 19th, 2015, Mountain View, California.

[May, 2015] Congratulations to Hassan Farooq for the best presentation award at the TCOM Research Meeting.

[April, 2015] Dr. Imran is invited for a plenary talk on "How to Empower SON with Data Driven Modeling" at the International Wireless Industry Consortium workshop on "Evolving SON beyond network efficiency", 13-15-April 2015, Washington DC, VA, USA.

[May, 2014] Dr. Imran is invited for a plenary talk on "Challenges in 5G: How to empower SON with Big Data" at 20th European Wireless Conference, May,14-16, 2014, Barcelona, Spain.

[May, 2014] Dr. Imran is invited to give a talk on "SON: A Luxury for Legacy Networks but a Necessity for 5G" at Texas A& M University, May-4-2014, 2014, Qatar.

[September, 2013] Dr. Imran is invited to give a talk on "A Biomimetic Framework for Self-Organizationin Cellular system" at Qatar Foundation Annual Research Forum, 26-Sept,2013, Doha, Qatar.

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