Marwa Chafii
Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, NYU Abu Dhabi; Global Network Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, NYU Tandon
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Education: PhD CentraleSupélec
Research Areas: Wireless Communications; Integrated Sensing and Communication; Waveform Design; Localization
Marwa Chafii received her PhD degree in electrical engineering from CentraleSupélec, France. Between 2014 and 2016, she has been a visiting researcher at Poznan University of Technology (Poland), University of York (UK), Yokohama National University (Japan), and University of Oxford (UK). She joined the Technical University of Dresden, Germany, in 2018 as a research group leader, and ENSEA, France, in 2019 as an associate professor, where she held a Chair of Excellence on Artificial Intelligence from CY Initiative. Since September 2021, she has been an associate professor at New York University (NYU) Abu Dhabi, NYU WIRELESS, NYU Tandon School of Engineering. Her research interests include integrated sensing and communications, waveform design, and 6G technologies.
Chafii received the IEEE ComSoc Best Young Researcher Award for the Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) region, the IEEE ComSoc Best Young Professional Practitioner Award, the IEEE Glavieux award, and the prize for the best PhD in France in the fields of Signal, Image, and Vision. She was selected among the top 10 Rising Stars in Computer Networking and Communications by N2Women in 2020. She served as Associate Editor at IEEE Communications Letters 2019-2021, where she received the Best Editor Award in 2020. She is currently Associate Editor at IEEE Transactions on Communications, serving as vice-chair of the IEEE ComSoc ETI on Machine Learning for Communications and leading the Education working group of the IEEE ComSoc ETI on Integrated Sensing and Communications.