About the PI

Biography

Annie is an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at New York University (NYU) Abu Dhabi, and an Associated Faculty at NYU Tandon School of Engineering. From 2019 to 2023, she worked as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Electrical  Engineering Department at the University of British Columbia (UBC), Canada. She received her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia in 2015 and 2018 respectively. Her research interests lie in the areas of communication theory, signal processing, and electromagnetics and antenna theory. 

She received the prestigious Paul Baron Young Scholar Award by The Marconi Society in 2018 for her work on full-dimension massive MIMO systems. She also received the NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship Award in 2021, with her application ranked first among those submitted by female candidates and third overall. She has been recognized among the top 10 Rising Stars in Computer Networking and Communications by N2Women in 2024. She serves as an Editor of IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications and IEEE Communications Letters. She has served as the Guest Editor of the special issue on "Multi-Function Reconfigurable Intelligent and Holographic Surfaces for 6G Networks" in IEEE Network Magazine, and of the special collection on "New Trends in MIMO Systems" in npj Wireless Technology within the Nature Portfolio. She also serves as a co-chair of several tracks and workshops at flagship conferences of IEEE Communications Society including IEEE PIMRC 2023, IEEE ICC 2024, IEEE VTC-Spring 2024, IEEE WCNC 2024, IEEE ICC 2025, IEEE VTC-Fall 2025 and IEEE WCNC 2026.

Professional and Board Memberships

• IEEE Member

• IEEE ComSoc Member

• IEEE VTS Member

Editorial Activities

• Editor, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (April 2025 - Present)

• Editor, IEEE Communications Letters (January 2024 - Present)

• Guest Editor, Special Collection on New Trends in MIMO Systems, npj Wireless Technology - Nature Portfolio  (May 2025 - Present)

• Lead Guest Editor, Special Issue on Multi-Function Reconfigurable Intelligent and Holographic Surfaces for 6G Networks, IEEE Network Magazine (March 2024 - November 2024)

• Editor, Springer Wireless Personal Communications (October 2023 - December 2024)

Conference Chairing

• Program Co-Chair,  "9th International Workshop on Reconfigurable Intelligent and Holographic Surfaces for 6G", IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC) 2026, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

• Program Co-Chair, "Workshop on Reconfigurable Multi-Functional Intelligent and Holographic Surfaces for 6G", IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference Fall (VTC-Fall) 2025, Chengdu, China. 

• Track Co-Chair, "Radio Access Technology and Heterogeneous Networks", IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference Spring (VTC-Spring) 2024, Singapore.

• TPC Co-Chair, "4th Workshop on Integrated, Intelligent and Ubiquitous 6G Connectivity", IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2025, Montreal, Canada

• General Co-Chair, "Workshop on Reconfigurable Intelligent and Holographic Surfaces for 6G," IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC) 2025, Milan, Italy.

• Poster Chair, IEEE Future Networks World Forum (FNWF) 2024, Dubai, UAE. 

• TPC Co-Chair, "3rd Workshop on Integrated, Intelligent and Ubiquitous Connectivity for 6G," IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC) 2024, Valencia, Spain.

• General Co-Chair, "Workshop on Integrated, Intelligent and Ubiquitous Connectivity for 6G and Beyond," IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2024, Denver, CO, USA.

• General Co-Chair, "2nd Workshop on Integrated, Intelligent and Ubiquitous Connectivity for 6G Networks," IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC) 2024, Dubai, UAE.

• General Co-Chair, "Workshop on 6G-Envisioned Reconfigurable Intelligent and Holographic Surfaces," at the IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC) 2023, Toronto, Canada.