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Mohamed Y. Selim, Associate Teaching Professor, Iowa State University
Mohamed Selim

Building intelligent, secure, and resilient 5G/6G wireless systems through AI, reconfigurable surfaces, UAVs, and hands-on educational innovation.

Mohamed Y. Selim is an Associate Teaching Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Iowa State University. His work spans wireless networks, 5G/6G systems, large-scale wireless testbeds, reconfigurable intelligent surfaces, UAV-enabled communications, cybersecurity education, and AI-enhanced learning. An award-winning educator and IEEE Senior Member, he integrates research-driven innovation with hands-on, student-centered engineering education.

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News & Updates

  • Apr 2026: Submitted “Fusing Digital Twin and Real Fingerprints for Cell-Free mmWave Localization” (with Advani, Nasser, Eltawil) to IEEE PIMRC.
  • Mar 2026: “ENWAR 2.0: An Agentic Multimodal Wireless LLM Framework with Reasoning, Situation-Aware Explainability & Beam Tracking” accepted in IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing.
  • Mar 2026: “Encoders, Roll Out!” accepted at IEEE ICC Workshop (digital-twin-enabled multi-modal sensor transfusion for proactive I2V beam prediction).
  • Feb 2026: “Providers of Relief in Distress: RAG-based LLMs as Situation and Intent-Aware Assistants” accepted in Frontiers in AI.
  • Feb 2026: Submitted “ReActCity” (agentic LLM orchestration with UAV-aaS for 6G smart cities) to IEEE Network Magazine.
  • Jan 2026: “ENWAR: A RAG-Empowered Multi-modal LLM Framework for Wireless Environment Perception” published in IEEE Communications Magazine.
  • Sep 2025: “Situational Perception in Distracted Driving: An Agentic Multi-Modal LLM Framework” accepted in Frontiers in AI.
  • Oct 2025: Additional accepted papers at IEEE MILCOM (Open-Source 5G Core with Commercial RAN) and Asilomar (mmWave blockage prediction).
  • Jan 2025: ArMORED project starts ($2M, NTIA): Architecture for Massive-MIMO Open RAN Energy-efficient Devices.
  • Oct 2024: Received the College of Engineering Excellence in Foundational Course Teaching Award and the Boast-Nilsson Educational Impact Award.
  • Oct 2024: NSF NeTS award starts: Software-defined STAR-RIS for Robust and Intelligent IoT.

More updates as papers move through review.

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