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Mohammed Saif

Assistant Professor

Mohammed Saif joined the Department of Electrical, Computer, and Biomedical Engineering at Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU) in 2025 as an Assistant Professor. He received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from the School of Engineering, The University of British Columbia (UBC) in 2020. He received the B.Eng. degree in Computer and Communication engineering from Taiz University, Yemen, in 2010, and the M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM), Saudi Arabia, in 2017. From 2020 to 2022, he worked as a postdoctoral research fellow in the Electrical Engineering Department at UBC, Canada, and from 2023 to 2025, he was NSERC postdoctoral research and teaching fellow in the Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto, Canada.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

  • Signal processing and wireless communications
  • Reconfigurable intelligent surface for wireless networks, moving antenna, digital twin, federated learning
  • MIMO radar signal processing

 

AWARDS AND RECOGNITION

  • Selection committee member for Electrical Engineering, NSERC, 2024-present
  • Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Postdoctoral Fellowship in 2023
  • Postdoctoral Fellow Representative, EGSS, UBCO, 2021

 

SELECTED PAPERS

  • Adnan Hamida, M. Saif, Jun Li, and Shahrokh Valaee, "Target localization performance of binary optimized antenna placement using mutual coherence minimization", IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, accepted, 2025.
  • M. Saif and Shahrokh Valaee,"RIS alignment via virtual partitioning for resilient multi-RIS-assisted UAV communications", IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 73, no. 8, pp. 6764-6779, Aug. 2025.
  • Hesameddin Mokhtarzadeh, M. Saif, M. J. Hossain, and Julian Cheng, "Smart helpers-aided F-RANs: Improving delay and reducing fronthaul load", IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 73, no. 8, pp. 6095-6108, Aug. 2025.
  • M. Saif, Mohammad Javad-Kalbasi, and Shahrokh Valaee, "Effectiveness of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces to enhance connectivity in UAV networks", IEEE Transactions Wireless Communications, vol. 23, no. 12, pp. 18757-18773, Dec. 2024.
  • M. Saif, M. Z. Hassan, and M. J. Hossain, "Decentralized aggregation for energy-efficient federated learning in mmWave aerial-terrestrial integrated networks", IEEE Transactions on Machine Learning in Communications and Networking, vol. 2, pp. 1283-1304, 2024.
  • M. Saif, Mohanad Obeed, M. J. Hossain, and Anas Chaaban, "Decentralized aggregation for energy-efficient federated learning via D2D communications," in IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 71, no. 6, pp. 3333-3351, Jun. 2023.
  • M. Saif, M. Z. Hassan, and M. J. Hossain, "Energy efficient resource allocation for federated learning in NOMA enabled and relay-assisted internet of things networks", IEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol. 9, no. 24, pp. 24736-24753, 15 Dec.15, 2022.
  • M. Saif and M. J. Hossain, "Completion time minimization in Fog-RANs using D2D communications and rate-aware network coding", IEEE Transactions Wireless Communications, vol. 20, no. 6, pp. 3831-3846, Jun. 2021.