His research interests span various areas including wireless networks, physical layer security, game theory, heterogeneous networks, optimization, and smart grids. In the past, he held several research appointments at institutions such as the University of Illinois and Princeton University. He was the Wireless Networks symposium co-chair of VTCÕ11-Fall and the main organizer of various workshops. Prof. Saad is an NSF CAREER award recipient in 2013. He received several Best Paper Awards in recent years including the Best Paper Award at WiOpt 2009 for his work on cooperative game theory for physical layer security. He was the lead Guest Editor for the 2013 special issue on Signal Processing Techniques for Wireless Physical Layer Security in IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications.