Biography

       Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, December 1995, University of Maryland at College Park, USA. Dissertation Title: Design and Performance of Trellis Codes for Wireless Channels. Major: Communications, Minor: Computers

    M.S. in Electrical Engineering, July 1992, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals (KFUPM), Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. Thesis Title: Performance of TCM with Concatenated Codes over Fading Channels. Major: Communications

       B.S. in Electrical Engineering (Highest Honors), January 1991, KFUPM, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.

        Director, Information Technology Center, since September 2001.

        Deputy Director, Information Technology Center, January 2001-September 2001.

   Director, Center for Communications and Computer Research, The Research Institute, KFUPM, September 1998 to present.

  Acting Director, Development and Manufacturing Center, Research Institute, KFUPM, (September 1997- September 1998).

  Visiting Research Fellow, Department of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, England. (June 1997 - Sept. 1997).

       Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering Department, KFUPM, since February 1996.

       Research Assistant, Communications and Signal Processing Laboratory, University of Maryland at College Park (September 1994 - December 1995).

        Lecturer,  Electrical Engineering Department, KFUPM (July 1992 - July 1993).

      Graduate Assistant,  Electrical Engineering Department, KFUPM (January 1991 - July 1992).

       Member of IEEE  (www.ieee.org)

       Member of IEEE Communications Society (www.comsoc.org)

       Member of IEEE Information Theory Society   (golay.uvic.ca)