• Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering at Qatar
  • Occidental Petroleum Professorship in STEM Leadership
Joseph Boutros

Educational Background

  • Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications (ENST), Paris – 1996
  • M.S., Electrical Engineering, Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications (ENST), Paris – 1992

Research Interests


    • Codes on graphs
    • Lattice sphere packings
    • Iterative decoding
    • Joint source-channel coding
    • Compressive sensing
    • Space-time coding
    • Physical-layer security
    • Physical-layer network coding.

Selected Publications

  • LDA lattices without dithering achieve capacity on the Gaussian channel, by N. di Pietro, G. Zémor, and J.J. Boutros. Submitted to the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, March 2016.
  • Edge coloring and stopping sets analysis in product codes with MDS components, by F. Jardel, and J.J. Boutros. Submitted to the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Dec. 2015.
  • Lattices over Eisenstein Integers for Compute-and-Forward, by N.E. Tunali, Y.-C. Huang, J.J. Boutros, and K.R. Narayanan. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 61, no. 10, pp. 5306-5321, Oct. 2015.
  • Spectral thinning in GLD lattices, by J.J. Boutros, N. di Pietro, and Y.-C. Huang. Information Theory and Applications Workshop (ITA'2015), organized by UCSD, La Jolla, California, pp. 1-9, Feb. 2015.
  • Generalized low-density (GLD) lattices, by J.J. Boutros, N. di Pietro, and N. Basha. IEEE Information Theory Workshop, ITW'2014, Hobart, Australia, pp. 15-19, Nov. 2014.