Rawad Bitar

Background

About Rawad Bitar

Research group leader at the chair of communications engineering at TUM, led by Prof. Gerhard Krammer. Doing a habilitation (accreditation for thesis supervision) with Prof. Dr-Ing Antonia Wachter-Zeh, Prof. Deniz Gündüz, and Prof. Sidharth Jaggi as mentors. Worked with Prof. Dr-Ing Antonia Wachter-Zeh as a postdoctoral researcher for two years. I obtained my PhD from the ECE department of Rutgers University in January 2020. During my PhD, I held short-term visiting positions at Aalto University, the Technical University of Berlin, and the Chinese University of Hong Kong. In addition, I was a Ph.D. candidate at the ECE department of the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) for three years. I was a member of the CSI lab under the direction of Prof. Salim El Rouayheb from August 2014 till January 2020. In 2014, I received a master's degree in Information and Communication from the Lebanese University after doing my thesis at IIT. I graduated as a Computer and Communication Engineer from the Lebanese University in 2013. As an undergraduate, I interned at the Center of Nuclear Science and Science of Matter (CSNSM) in Paris, France in 2013 and at procsim-consulting company in EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland, in 2012.