Beirut · 2015 to 2019
Where it starts
I studied Electrical and Computer Engineering at the American University of Beirut. There I learnt my problem-solving skills, and I felt passionate about the social good I could do through my knowledge and skills.
- BEng, High Distinction
- American University of Beirut
Montreal · 2019 to 2021
Home away from home
I came to McGill to pursue a master's in Prof. Warren Gross's Integrated Systems for Information Processing Lab.
- Master's Degree
- GRAND
McGill · 2020 to now
Passing it on
Since 2020 I have run labs and tutorials for Computer Organization, Digital Systems and Digital Logic, where students write ARM assembly and build circuits on FPGA boards. Across 370 course evaluations, students rate my help with the material at 4.2 out of 5.
Teaching evaluationsPhD · 2021 to 2022
Doctor of Philosophy
I then decided to pursue a PhD. I felt like my master's work was unfinished. I felt like I could make more advancements in knowledge in the field.
- PhD
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Decoder playground
Every published decoder ASIC I track, by throughput and energy per bit. The full comparator adds error-rate curves, node scaling, filters and the data table.
Diamonds have an error-rate curve. Hover a point for its numbers; click it to open that design in the full comparator.
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Selected papers
Lately
News
| Nov 04, 2025 | US patent granted: “Polar decoder and associated method” (US 12,463,747 B2), an optimization-based polar decoder developed with Huayi Zhou, Ryan Seah, and Warren J. Gross. |
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| Jun 01, 2025 | Paper accepted at ICC 2025: “Hardware-friendly IR-HARQ for Polar SCL Decoders” |
| Sep 15, 2024 | Published in IEEE TCOMM: “Reduced-Complexity Projection-Aggregation List Decoder for Reed-Muller Codes” |
| Jul 01, 2024 | Published in IEEE JSAC: “Decoding of Polar Codes Using Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimization” |