Aly El Gamal

Aly El Gamal was born in Cairo, Egypt in 1985. Currently, he is an assistant professor at Purdue University, where he teaches Signals and Systems, Data Structures and Digital System Design. He is also leading the Purdue and Texas A&M team (BAM! Wireless) in the second DARPA Spectrum Collaboration Challenge (SC2). BAM! Wireless was among the top 10 teams in the first preliminary event held in Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in December 2017. His current research interests are information theory for large networks, machine learning for wireless communications, and data science for sports applications. He received the B.S. degree in Computer Engineering from Cairo University in 2007, the M.S. degree in Wireless Technology from Nile University in 2009, the M.S. degree in Mathematics and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2013 and 2014, respectively. He worked as an intern at the Office of the Chief Scientist of Qualcomm Inc. in 2012, and a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Southern California in 2014. He was also a Simons postdoctoral fellow at the University of Texas, Austin in 2015.