A team of researchers from Texas A&M University and Texas A&M University at Qatar were awarded the best conference paper award from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Communications Society Technical Committee on Green Communications and Computing.
The award was given to postdoctoral fellow, Dr. Han-Bae Kong; assistant research scientist, Dr. Muhammad Ismail; and professor, Dr. Khalid Qaraqe from Texas A&M at Qatar; and Dr. Erchin Serpedin from Texas A&M, for the outstanding scientific contributions reported in their paper titled "Energy Efficient Optimization of Base Station Density for VLC Networks."
This paper was presented at the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) that was hosted by the city of Shanghai, China, May 20-24. ICC is one of the flagship conferences of the IEEE Communications Society and is dedicated to promoting innovation in all aspects of communications.
Serpedin is a professor in the electrical and computer engineering department at Texas A&M University in College Station. His research interests lie in the fields of signal processing, machine learning and big data analytics and their applications in bioinformatics, wireless communications, cybersecurity and smart grids. Qaraqe is a professor in the electrical and computer engineering program at Texas A&M University at Qatar. His research interests lie in the fields of wireless communications and remote health technologies.