Dr.Mohamed Nafea

Assistant Professor

 

Mohamed Nafea is an Assistant Professor in the Electrical & Computer Engineering (ECE) department at Missouri University of Science & Technology. Before joining Missouri S&T, he was an Assistant Professor in the ECE department at University of Detroit. Prior to that, he spent a year as a postdoctoral researcher at Georgia Tech, ECE. He received his Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Penn State University Park in December 2018, under supervision of Prof. Aylin Yener. He also received a masters degree in mathematics from Penn State in 2017. His research lies at the intersection of statistical learning, information and data sciences, and causal reasoning, and aims to solve problems in responsible artificial intelligence including issues of fairness, privacy, security, and explainability of learning systems. He is a recipient of the 2023 NSF CISE Research Initiation Initiative (CRII) award in support of his research in fair machine learning.

Selected Publications

  • Y. Yang, A. Ghassami, M. Nafea, N. Kiyavash, K. Zhang, I. Shpitser. Causal discovery in linear latent variable models subject to measurement error. In the 36th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), Dec. 2022.
  • M. Nafea, E. Shin, and A. Yener. Proportional fair clustered federated learning. In IEEE International Symposium in Information Theory (ISIT), Jun. 2022
  • Y. Yang, M. Nafea, A. Ghassami, and N. Kiyavash. Causal discovery in linear structural causal models with deterministic relations. In First Conference on Causal Learning and Rea- soning (CLeaR), Apr. 2022.
  • M. Nafea and A. Yener, Coded caching in presence of a wire and cache tapping adversary of type II, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Information Theory (JSAIT), 2(1), pp. 65-81, Mar. 2021.
  • M. Nafea and A. Yener, A new wiretap channel model and its strong secrecy capacity, IEEE Transaction on Information Theory, 64(3), pp. 2077-2092, Mar. 2018.

Selected Honors and Awards

  • IEEE Senior Member
  • NSF 22-598 Computer and information science and engineering (CISE) research initiation initiative (CRII) award 2023 
  •  University of Detroit mercy faculty research awards 2022,2024.

 

 

 

Research Interests:

Fair & interpretable machine learning; causal learning and reasoning; federated learning and distributed optimization; information security and privacy

Personal Website:

https://sites.mst.edu/nafea/

Education:
  • PhD in Electrical Engineering, Penn State University, University Park, 2018
  • Master’s in Mathematics, Penn State University, University Park, 2017 - Master’s in Wireless & Information Technology, Nile University, Egypt, 2012
  • Bachelor's in electrical engineering (Electronics & Communications Section), Alexandria University, Egypt 2010.