Publications

Journal Papers and Pre-prints

  1. Wei-Ting Chang, Mohamed Seif, and Ravi Tandon, Differentially Private Federated Learning with Drift Control, pre-print

  2. Mohamed Seif, Dung Nguyen, Anil Vullikanti, and Ravi Tandon, Differentially Private Community Detection for Stochastic Block Models, pre-print

  3. Mohamed Seif, Wei-Ting Chang, and Ravi Tandon, Privacy Amplification for Federated Learning with User Sampling and Wireless Aggregation, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, 2021 (Code)

  4. Bo Jiang*, Mohamed Seif*, Ravi Tandon, and Ming Li, Context-Aware Local Information Privacy, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, 2021 (supplementary material) (*: co-first authors, alphabetical order)

  5. Mohamed Seif, Ravi Tandon and Ming Li, Secure Retrospective Interference Alignment, Special Issue: Wireless Networks: Information Theoretic Perspectives, Journal of Entropy, 2019 (full version)

  6. Ahmed Wagdy, Mohamed Seif, Tamer Khattab, Amr El-keyi, Mohammed Nafie, and Nizar Zorba, On the DoF of X-Networks with Synergistic Alternating CSIT: A Step Towards Integrated Communications and Sensing, IEEE Canadian Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2022

  7. Bo Jiang, Mohamed Seif, Ravi Tandon and Ming Li, Answering Count Query for Genomic Data under Perfect Privacy, pre-print

Conference Papers

  1. Mohamed Seif, Dung Nguyen, Anil Vullikanti, and Ravi Tandon, Differentially Private Community Detection for Stochastic Block Models, International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2022 (Spotlight, acceptance rate: 21.9%)

  2. Wei-Ting Chang, Mohamed Seif, and Ravi Tandon, Differentially Private Federated Learning with Drift Control, 56th Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS) 2022, Princeton, NJ (invited)

  3. Wei-Ting Chang, Mohamed Seif, and Ravi Tandon, On the Necessity of Aligning Gradients for Wireless Federated Learning, IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC) 2021, Tuscany, Italy (invited)

  4. Mohamed Seif, Wei-Ting Chang, and Ravi Tandon, Privacy Amplification for Federated Learning via User Sampling and Wireless Aggregation, IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT) 2021, Melbourne, Australia

  5. Mohamed Seif, Ravi Tandon, and Ming Li, Wireless Federated Learning with Local Differential Privacy, IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT) 2020, LA, California (Best Poster Award, Graduate Poster Symposium)

  6. Mohamed Seif, Ravi Tandon, and Ming Li, Context Aware Laplace Mechanism with Local Information Privacy, IEEE Information Theory Workshop 2019, Visby, Sweden

  7. Mohamed Seif, Ravi Tandon, and Ming Li, On the Secure Degrees of Freedom of the K-user Interference Channel with Delayed CSIT, IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT) 2018, Vail, Colorado

  8. Mohamed Seif, Ravi Tandon and Ming Li, On the Secure Degrees of Freedom of 2 x 2 x 2 Multi-Hop Network with Untrusted Relays, IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2018, Communication Theory Symposium), Kansas City, KS, May 21-23, 2018

  9. Mohamed Seif, Amr El-keyi, Karim G. Seddik, and Mohammed Nafie, Cooperative Device to Device Communications in Downlink Cellular Networks with Energy Harvesting Capability, IWCMC 2017 : The 13th International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference

  10. Mohamed Seif, Tamer Elbatt and Karim G. Seddik, Sparse Spectrum Sensing in Infrastructure-less Cognitive Radio Networks via Binary Consensus Algorithms, IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC), Valencia, Spain, Sept. 2016

  11. Mohamed Seif, Amr El-keyi, and Mohammed Nafie, Achievable Degrees of Freedom of the K-user MISO Broadcast Channel with Alternating CSIT via Interference Creation-Resurrection, IEEE 84th Vehicular Technology Conference: VTC 2016-Fall, Montreal, Canada, Sept. 2016

  12. Mohamed Seif, Mohamed Karmoose, and Moustafa Youssef, Censoring for Improved Sensing Performance in Infrastructure-less Cognitive Radio Networks, IEEE 82nd Vehicular Technology Conference: VTC 2015-Spring, Glascow, Scotland, May 2015

Dissertation & Theses

  1. Security and Privacy in Information Systems: Algorithms and Fundamental Limits
    Ph.D. Dissertation, the University of Arizona, May 2022

  2. Interference Management in Spectrally and Energy Efficient Wireless Networks
    M.Sc. Thesis, Nile University, July 2016

  3. Coexistence of Multi-Systems using SDR LTE Release.10 &Wi-Fi 802.11ac (Best Graduation Project Award)
    B.Sc. Thesis, Alexandria University, July 2014