2026 Ali Abdi: Engineering and Technology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Engineering and Technology	34	9116	8779	2546	2356	167	9230

Research.com Recognitions

2019 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to wireless channel modeling and underwater communications

Overview

Ali Abdi is affiliated with the New Jersey Institute of Technology in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Engineering and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, focusing on several subfields including Molecular Biology, Ocean Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Computational Theory and Mathematics, and Oceanography.

The main topics of their work include:

Underwater Vehicles and Communication Systems
Computational Drug Discovery Methods
Gene Regulatory Network Analysis
Underwater Acoustics Research
Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks
Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling
Indoor and Outdoor Localization Technologies

Ali Abdi has contributed to numerous publications, with notable recent papers such as:

"Stochastic Fading Channel Models With Multiple Dominant Specular Components" (2022), published in IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
"Modeling and measurement of signaling outcomes affecting decision making in noisy intracellular networks using machine learning methods" (2020), published in Integrative Biology
"A hybrid model to study how late long-term potentiation is affected by faulty molecules in an intraneuronal signaling network regulating transcription factor CREB" (2022), published in Integrative Biology
"Particle Velocity Underwater Data Communication: Physics, Channels, System and Experiments" (2023), published in IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering
"Underwater Acoustic Signal Acquisition and Sensing Using a Ring Vector Sensor Communication Receiver: Theory and Experiments" (2023), published in Sensors

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Ali Abdi include:

Erjian Zhang
Rami Rashid
Mustafa Ozen
Effat S. Emamian
Ali Emadi

Their research outputs have appeared predominantly in the following venues:

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (6 publications)
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (3 publications)
IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (2 publications)
Integrative Biology (2 publications)
IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering (2 publications)

Ali Abdi was recognized as an IEEE Fellow in 2019 for contributions to wireless channel modeling and underwater communications.

Best Publications

Survey of automatic modulation classification techniques: classical approaches and new trends

Octavia A. Dobre;Ali Abdi;Yeheskel Bar-Ness;Wei Su

1633
Citations
A new simple model for land mobile satellite channels: first- and second-order statistics

A. Abdi;W.C. Lau;M.-S. Alouini;M. Kaveh

1068
Citations
A space-time correlation model for multielement antenna systems in mobile fading channels

A. Abdi;M. Kaveh

668
Citations
A parametric model for the distribution of the angle of arrival and the associated correlation function and power spectrum at the mobile station

A. Abdi;J.A. Barger;M. Kaveh

587
Citations
On the estimation of the K parameter for the Rice fading distribution

A. Abdi;C. Tepedelenlioglu;M. Kaveh;G. Giannakis

441
Citations
Sum of gamma variates and performance of wireless communication systems over Nakagami-fading channels

M.-S. Alouini;A. Abdi;M. Kaveh

424
Citations
K distribution: an appropriate substitute for Rayleigh-lognormal distribution in fading-shadowing wireless channels

A. Abdi;M. Kaveh

392
Citations
The Ricean K factor: estimation and performance analysis

C. Tepedelenlioglu;A. Abdi;G.B. Giannakis

358
Citations
On the utility of gamma PDF in modeling shadow fading (slow fading)

A. Abdi;M. Kaveh

244
Citations
Estimation of Doppler spread and signal strength in mobile communications with applications to handoff and adaptive transmission

Cihan Tepedelenlioğlu;Ali Abdi;Georgios B. Giannakis;Mostafa Kaveh

228
Citations
Blind modulation classification: a concept whose time has come

O.A. Dobre;A. Abdi;Y. Bar-Ness;Wei Su

169
Citations
On the PDF of the sum of random vectors

A. Abdi;H. Hashemi;S. Nader-Esfahani

151
Citations
Comparison of the level crossing rate and average fade duration of Rayleigh, Rice and Nakagami fading models with mobile channel data

A. Abdi;K. Wills;H.A. Barger;M.-S. Alouini

150
Citations
Modulation classification in fading channels using antenna arrays

A. Abdi;O.A. Dobre;R. Choudhry;Y. Bar-Ness

142
Citations
Performance comparison of three different estimators for the Nakagami m parameter using Monte Carlo simulation

A. Abdi;M. Kaveh

141
Citations
Cyclostationarity-Based Modulation Classification of Linear Digital Modulations in Flat Fading Channels

Octavia A. Dobre;Ali Abdi;Yeheskel Bar-Ness;Wei Su

111
Citations
Comparison of DPSK and MSK bit error rates for K and Rayleigh-lognormal fading distributions

A. Abdi;M. Kaveh

107
Citations
Experimental Demonstration of Underwater Acoustic Communication by Vector Sensors

Aijun Song;A. Abdi;M. Badiey;P. Hursky

101
Citations
Signal Correlation Modeling in Acoustic Vector Sensor Arrays

A. Abdi;Huaihai Guo

89
Citations
A new compact multichannel receiver for underwater wireless communication networks

A. Abdi;Huaihai Guo

82
Citations