Salam Akoum Ph.D. student Advisor: Prof. Robert W. Heath Jr. Wireless Networking and Communications Group Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering the University of Texas at Austin 1 University Station, Mail code: C0803 Austin, Texas 78712 Email: sakoum@ece.utexas.edu

Education:

• The University of Texas at Austin
  Ph.D. student, Electrical and Computer Engineering (September 2008~).

• The University of Utah
  M.Sc., Electrical and Computer Engineering (July 2008).

• American University of Beirut
  B.E., Computer and Communication Engineering (June 2006).
  

Research Interests:

• Limited feedback techniques for single user MIMO in the presence of other cell interference.
• Detection in MIMO/CDMA systems.
• Cognitive radios: spectrum sensing for dynamic spectrum access.

Courses - Fall 2008:

• Advanced Wireless: Modulation and Multiple Access.
• Probability and Stochastic Processes.

Publications:

• S. Akoum, R. Peng, R. Chen, B. Farhang-Boroujeny, "Markov chain Monte Carlo methods for high SNR regimes", accepted to the proceedings of IEEE International conference on Communication, ICC 2009.

• P. Amini, E. Azarnasab, P. Amini, S. Akoum, B. Farhang-Bouroujeny, "An Experimental Cognitive Radio for First Responders", 2008 IEEE Dynamic Spectrum Access Conference, October  14-17, 2008. Chicago, Illinois.

• S. Akoum, R. Peng, R. Chen, B. Farhang-Bouroujeny, "Soft detection using constrained Markov chain Monte Carlo Methods ". In preparation. To be submitted to IEEE transactions on signal processing.

• P. Amini, E. Azarnasab, S. Akoum, X. Mao, H. Rao, B. Farhang-Bouroujeny, "Implementation of a cognitive radio modem", 2007 Software Defined Radio Technical Conference, November 5-9, 2007. Denver, Colorado. [pdf] [presentation], [Poster Overview], [Poster Hardware] .

• S. Akoum, B. Farhang-Bouroujeny, “A phase locked loop with arbitrarily wide lock range for software defined radios, 2007 Software Defined Radio Technical Conference, November 5-9, 2007. Denver, Colorado [pdf].
  
  

Patents:

• B. Farhang-Boroujeny, S. Akoum, " Estimation of Log-likelihood values using constrained Markov Chain Monte Carlo simulations;. United States Provisional Patent Application, June 2008.
  

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