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Elias Yaacoub received the B.E. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Lebanese University in 2002, the M.E. degree in Computer and Communications Engineering from the American University of Beirut (AUB) in 2005, and the PhD degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from AUB in 2010. He worked as a Research Assistant in the American University of Beirut from 2004 to 2005, and in the Munich University of Technology in Spring 2005. From 2005 to 2007, he worked as a Telecommunications Engineer with Dar Al-Handasah, Shair and Partners. From November 2010 till December 2014, he worked as a Research Scientist / R&D Expert at the Qatar Mobility Innovations Center (QMIC), where he led the Broadband Wireless Access Technology Team. Afterwards, he joined Strategic Decisions Group (SDG) where he worked as a Consultant till February 2016. Then he joined the Arab Open University (AOU) as an Associate Professor and Coordinator of the MSc Program in Information Security and Forensics. Between February 2018 and August 2019, he worked as an independent researcher/consultant, and he was also affiliated with AUB as a part-time faculty member. He joined Qatar University as an Associate Professor at the Computer Science and Engineering Department since August 2019. His research interests include Wireless Communications, Resource Allocation in Wireless Networks, Antenna Theory, Sensor Networks, Internet of Things (IoT), and Physical Layer Security.