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Jad Nasreddine
Work Experience
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Rafik Hariri University, Lebanon Associate Professor Sept. 2015 - Onward

Teaching graduate and undergraduate courses
Graduate and undergraduate project supervision
RHU CISCO academy, founder and main contact
Organizing Workshops on Matlab, Weka, and Python
Member of the academic and curriculum committee at RHU

Mobinets, Lebanon RAN/Core Product manager Oct. 2012 – Aug. 2015

Product line manager for "RAN & core manager" modules in Mobinets NEP

  • RAN and core inventory, dimensioning, planning, optimization, traffic forecasting, PM and FM

Contribution to RFI and RFP preparation, and requirement collection from customers

RWTH Aachen University, Germany Senior Researcher Nov. 2010 – Sep. 2012
  Postdoctoral Researcher Mar. 2009 – Oct. 2010

Involved in several European and industrial projects:

  • Managing national and European projects
  • Preparing industrial and European project proposals
  • Contributing to NGMN Alliance, ETSI RRS, FP7 Concertation meetings, and IEEE Dyspan-SC
  • Designing new architecture and algorithms for operational cognitive networks
  • Designing and studying new algorithms for cognitive radios and opportunistic access
  • Designing practical approach for radio environmental maps
Universitat Politècnica de catalunya (UPC), Spain Postdoctoral Researcher Feb. 2006 - Feb. 2009

Involved in E3 (End-to-End Efficiency) 7th framework IP project, E2R II (End-to-End Reconfiguarbility-Phase 2) 6th framework IP project, Spanish projects COSMOS - TEC2004-00518 and COGNOS - TEC2007-60985, and IEEE DYSPAN-SC working group:

  • Designing new architectures, procedures and methodologies for the coexistence of primary and secondary wireless networks
  • Designing dynamic spectrum management and joint radio resource management methods for cognitive/heterogeneous networks
  • Defining new metrics to evaluate the efficiency of spectrum management methods
ENST Bretagne, visiting UPC, Spain Postdoctoral Researcher Apr. 2005 - Jan. 2006

Involved in NEWCOM (Network of Excellence in Wireless COMmunications) project:

  • Designing and developing frequency management algorithms for WCDMA systems (collaboration with UPC)
  • Specifying simulation platform suited to TDMA/CDMA TDD interference pattern (collaboration with the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia: UPV)
  • Specifying simulation platform suited to TDMA/CDMA TDD interference pattern
Community services Since 2004

Associated Editor for IEEE Access
Guest Editor for SI on Advances in 5G Cellular Networks and associated Technologies, Phycom, Elsevier
Conference chair

  • Workshop Green networking 2010, in conjunction with Broadnets 2010 conference
  • Transmission Technologies track in IEEE VTC Spring 2009 conference

Technical programme committee for international conferences and workshops

  • BalkanCom'19, IJCDS’19, CICN’18, ICSigSys’18-19, SigTelCom’18, Menacom’18, ICACCI’17-18, Coral'16-17, IWSS'16-17, MCV'15, ICC’11-15&18-19, Globecom’11-13&15&17-18, PIMRC’08-09&11-12&16-17, WCNC’12&14-16,19, CoCoNet'15,18, FutureHetNets’14, VTC’09&11-16,19, MACNET’13, ICNC'12,19, PIMRC-WS-CRN'11, WiMob 08-09

Reviewer for international journals and conferences (IEEE, IET, ACM, Springer, Elsevier)

ENST Bretagne, France Research Assistant 2001 - 2004

Involved in NEWCOM project

  • Designing slot allocation heuristic and meta-heuristic algorithms
  • Improving the standardized closed loop power control algorithm

Teaching assistant at the University of Rennes1 and ENST Bretagne:

  • Telecommunications basics
  • Next generation network (NGN)

Supervising exercise sessions and laboratory activities for engineering students:

  • GSM radio interface
  • Network dimensioning and planning
  • Networking Basics, HDLC, ATM, RNIS, ADSL
  • Cisco configuration

Involved in PETRUS (Plate-forme d'Evaluation des Technologies Radio pour l'UMTS-TDD et ses Services) project:

  • Designing Mathematical model for optimal power control procedure
  • Designing and evaluating feasible interference avoidance schemes
  • Designing and implementing API between DSP and FPGA cards, and Windows NT operating system
ENST Bretagne, France 5 months Work Placement Apr. - Sept. 2001

Power control and slot allocation in the TDD mode of UMTS", Mathematical models and MATLAB simulations

ENST Bretagne, France 3 months Work Placement July - September 2000
     

Design and simulation of a telephonic call PSTN/GSM using SDL (a platform for Intelligent Network)

Education
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ENST Bretagne, France Ph.D. in Computer Science 2001 - 2005
University : University of Rennes 1, France
Laboratory : Networks and Multimedia Services Department , ENST Bretagne, France
Dissertation title : Radio resource management in TD-CDMA/TDD systems
Supervisor : Pr. Xavier Lagrange
Defended : March 2005 
Lebanese University, Lebanon Engineering Diploma 1996 - 2001
Graduate degree with high distinction in Electrical and Electronics Engineering
Majoring in Telecommunications and Networking
Skills
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Keywords:    

RRM, ASM, DSA, DCA, WCDMA, OFDMA, opportunistic access, localization mechanisms, REM SIP, IMS, SS7, IN, ADSL

Network:    

UMTS, GSM/GPRS, WiFi, Cognitive and Reconfigurable Networks NGN, Intelligent Networks, ADSL, RNIS, LAN

Digital Communication:    

Multiple Access technique (CDMA, TDMA, FDMA, OFDMA) Modulation and Coding, Digital filters

Programming Languages and Softwares:    

MATLAB, C, C++, SDL, html, php

Operating Systems:    

Microsoft Windows, Unix (Sun Solaris), Linux (Ubuntu)

Languages
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Arabic
English
French
Spanish
Catalan
: mother tongue
: spoken and written fluently
: spoken and written fluently
: advanced spoken and written
: basic spoken and written
Links
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: Jad Nasreddine - LinkedIn
: Jad Nasreddine - Researchgate