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Ahmad Bin Rabiah

I'm a 1st year PhD student in Computer Science at UC San Diego, where I am fortunate to be advised by Professor Julian McAuley. My research interests lie in the intersection of machine learning and personalization. More specifically, I've been exploring problems related to recommender systems and conversational agents.

I completed my Master's in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University, where I worked with Professor Qi Guo on a computer vision problem [arXiv '22].

My early experience traces back to my time at PSDSARC—an applied research center, where I contributed to developing signal processing systems. I did my undergraduate at KSU, where I was working with Professors Saleh Alshebeili and Omar Aldayel on signal processing and convex optimization [RadarConf '20].

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News

Jan 2024: Excited to be awarded the MS Grad Excellence Award by Huraymila Foundation for Sciences, Saudi Arabia!
Sep 2023: Started CS PhD journey at UCSD!
May 2023: Purdue proud! MS in ECE, officially in the books.
Nov 2022: Our work StereoISP is available on arXiv!
Aug 2021: Began MS in ECE at Purdue!
Jan 2021: Our work Haiku was accepted to ICDCN '21 in New York, NY!
Sep 2020: Our work on waveform design was accepted to RadarConf '20 in Florence, Italy!

Publications

StereoISP: Rethinking Image Signal Processing for Dual Camera Systems
Ahmad Bin Rabiah, Qi Guo
arXiv, 2022
arXiv /
                    @article{rabiah2022stereoisp,
                      title={StereoISP: Rethinking Image Signal Processing for Dual Camera Systems},
                      author={Rabiah, Ahmad Bin and Guo, Qi},
                      journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.07390},
                      year={2022}
                    }
                  

StereoISP is an innovative framework for improving image quality in dual camera systems by focusing on enhancing RGB image reconstruction from raw stereo data.

Haiku: Efficient Authenticated Key Agreement with Strong Security Guarantees for IoT
Abdulrahman Bin Rabiah, K. K. Ramakrishnan, Silas Richelson, Ahmad Bin Rabiah, Elizabeth Liri, Koushik Kar
ICDCN, 2021
ACM / Public PDF /
                    @inproceedings{bin2021haiku,
                      title={Haiku: Efficient Authenticated Key Agreement with Strong Security Guarantees for IoT},
                      author={Bin Rabiah, Abdulrahman and Ramakrishnan, KK and Richelson, Silas and Bin Rabiah, Ahmad and Liri, Elizabeth and Kar, Koushik},
                      booktitle={Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking},
                      pages={196--205},
                      year={2021}
                    }
                  

Haiku is a lightweight key agreement protocol by combining symmetric and public-key cryptography for optimized security in IoT constrained environments.

SDR-Based Hardware Implementation and Performance Measurement of Transmit Beampattern Design Algorithms
Ahmad Bin Rabiah, Mohammed Alsakabi, Omar Aldayel, Saleh Alshebeili
RadarConf, 2020
IEEE / Public PDF /
                      @inproceedings{rabiah2020sdr,
                        title={SDR-Based Hardware Implementation and Performance Measurement of Transmit Beampattern Design Algorithms},
                        author={Rabiah, Ahmad Bin and Alsakabi, Mohammed and Aldayel, Omar and Alshebeili, Saleh},
                        booktitle={2020 IEEE Radar Conference (RadarConf20)},
                        pages={1--6},
                        year={2020},
                        organization={IEEE}
                      }
                  

We evaluated the implementation and performance of state-of-the-art transmit beampattern design algorithms using an SDR-based transmitter with a focus on practical challenges and efficacy in real-world scenarios.

Experience

University of California, San Diego
Graduate Student Researcher with Professor Julian McAuley
La Jolla, CA   ·   Sep 2023 - Present

Conducted research at McAuley Lab on machine learning with a focus on recommender systems and conversational agents to enhance recommendation quality and improve context-aware dialogue.

PSDSARC Applied Reseach Center
Signal Processing Engineer
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia   ·   Mar 2019 - Sep 2023

Developed real-time signal processing on software-defined radio for communication and passive sensing systems [RadarConf '20].

Purdue University
Graduate Student Researcher with Professor Qi Guo
West Lafayette, IN   ·   May 2022 - May 2023

Investigated computer vision problems for dual-camera systems in stereo environments and developed a novel framework to enhance stereo image reconstruction [arXiv '22].

Education

University of California, San Diego
PhD in Computer Science
La Jolla, CA   ·   2023 - Present
Advisor: Julian McAuley
Purdue University
MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering
West Lafayette, IN   ·   2021 - 2023
King Saud University
BS in Electrical Engineering
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia   ·   2013 - 2018
Minor in communication systems with a focus on signal processing

Selected Awards

Jan 2024: Outstanding Master's Graduate, Excellence Award. Huraymila Foundation for Sciences, Saudi Arabia
2023 - 2024: CSE Departmental Fellowship Receipient. University of California, San Diego, CA
2021 - 2023: MS Fellowship Receipient. Saudi Arabian Cultural Mission, Fairfax, VA
Dec 2018: Class Honors. Departmeent of Electrical Engineering, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Jul 2014: Outstanding Student Award. King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Professional Services

Reviewer: ICLR 2024; ICCV 2023



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