EDUCATION

The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA                                                                                          January 2011 – May 2017

Ph.D. candidate in Electrical and Computer Engineering

The University of Technology, Baghdad, Iraq                                                                 August 2004 – January 2007

Masters in Electronics Engineering

Diyala University, Diyala, Iraq                                                                                              August 2000 – May 2004

Bachelors in Electronics Engineering

HONORS AND AWAWRDS

HCED Scholarship                                                                                                                          January 2011 – May 2016

Awarded to top Iraqi students

Guest Lecturer at the University of Iowa                                                                             Spring 2015 & Spring 2016

Communication Systems / Theory    

Diyala University, College of engineering                                                                                                          June 2004

Achieved highest GPA in graduating class

Haider Ali Jasim Alshamary, and Weiyu Xu, Efficient Optimal Joint Channel Estimation and Data Detection for Massive MIMO Systems.  International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), 2016.

Haider Ali Jasim Alshamary, Tareq Al-Naffouri, Alam Zaib and Weiyu Xu, Optimal non-coherent data detection for massive SIMO wireless systems: A polynomial complexity solution. Proceedings of IEEE Signal Processing and Signal Processing Education Workshop, pp. 172-177, 2015.

Haider Ali Jasim Alshamary, and Weiyu Xu, Maximum-likelihood joint channel estimation and data detection for space time block coded MIMO systems. Proceedings of Asilomar conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, pp. 962-965, 2014.

Babak Hassibi, Morten Hansen, Alexandros Georgios Dimakis, Haider Ali Jasim Alshamary and Weiyu Xu, Optimized Markov Chain Monte Carlo for Signal Detection in MIMO Systems: An Analysis of the Stationary Distribution and Mixing Time. IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing. vol. 62, no. 17, pp. 4436-4450, 2014.