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Printed Multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) Antenna Systems
Miniaturized Printed Antennas and Antenna Arrays
Reconfigurable MIMO Antennas
Millimeter-Wave Antennas and Antenna Arrays for MIMO Applications
Design of novel RF based sensor arrays for oil-gas industries
Antennas and RF sensors for biomedical telemetry and applications
Antennas, Arrays and Direction finding systems for Vehicular platforms
Applied Electromagnetics
Microwave Circuits, Electronics and Hardware System Integration
Interconnect Design and Modeling for High Speed Digital Systems

KFUPM Funded Projects:

[17]	Fast Track Project through KFUPM, Title: "Design of Field Decorrelating Frequency Selective Surface (FSS) Radomes for MIMO Antenna Systems in Wireless Terminals", Mohammad S. Sharawi (PI). Duration: Apr. 2018 - Oct. 2019
[16]	Internal Research Project through KFUPM, Title: "Sparse Direction Of Arrival Estimation in Antenna Arrays with Practical Limitations", Mohammad S. Sharawi (Co-PI). Duration: Apr. 2017 - Oct. 2018 [COMPLETED]
[15]	Internal Research Project through KFUPM, Title: "Wideband Circularly Polarized DRA Array Fed By Printed Ridge-Gap Waveguide Technology for Millimeter-Wave Applications", Mohammad S. Sharawi (Co-PI). Duration: Apr. 2017 - Oct. 2018
[14]	Fast Track Project through KFUPM, Title: "Millimeter-Wave Substrate Integrated Waveguide (SIW) MIMO Antenna System for 5G Wireless Handsets", Mohammad S. Sharawi (PI). Duration: Apr. 2017 - Oct. 2018 [COMPLETED]
[13]	Fast Track Project through KFUPM, Title: "Integrated MIMO Antennas Using Connected Arrays", Mohammad S. Sharawi (PI). Duration: Apr. 2017 - Oct. 2018 [COMPLETED]
[12]	Internal Research Project through KFUPM (joint with KAUST), Title: "Novel Base Station Antenna Systems for Net Generation 5G Networks and Beyond", Mohammad S. Sharawi (PI). Duration: Oct. 2016 - Oct. 2018 [COMPLETED]
[11]	Internal Research Group Project through KFUPM, Title: "An Integrated 4G/5G Microwave MIMO with Millimeter-Wave Antenna System with Enhanced Isolation", Mohammad S. Sharawi (PI). Duration: Sep. 2015 - Sep. 2017 [COMPLETED]
[10]	Internal Research Group Project through KFUPM, Title: "A Dielectric Resonator Based MIMO Antenna System at mm-Waves ", Mohammad S. Sharawi (PI). Duration: Sep. 2015 - Sep. 2017 [COMPLETED]
[9]	Internal Research Group Project through KFUPM, Title: "A Millimeter-wave Switched Broadband Antenna Array for Mobile Terminals", Mohammad S. Sharawi (PI). Duration: Sep. 2014 - Mar. 2016 [COMPLETED]
[8]	Major Research Equipment Grant (MREG) to acquire Antenna Measurement Equipment for the AMSD laboratory. Grant was from DSR-KFUPM with 1.6 Million Saudi Riyals.
[7]	Internal Research Group Project through KFUPM, Title: "Compact Size Meta-Material Based Antennas For Broadband Wireless Handheld Devices", Mohammad S. Sharawi (PI). Duration: Sep. 2012 - Sep. 2014 [COMPLETED]
[6]	Internal Research Group Project through KFUPM, Title: "Behavioral Modeling and Impairments Compensation of Broadband Transmitters for LTE-Advanced Applications", Mohammad S. Sharawi (Co-I). Duration: Sep. 2012 - Sep. 2014 [COMPLETED]
[5]	Fast Track through KFUPM Project, Title: "A Programmable Digitally Controlled Radio Frequency Feed Network", Mohammad S. Sharawi (PI). Duration: Feb. 2012 - Aug. 2013 [COMPLETED]
[4]	Fast Track through KFUPM Project, Title: "Low Complexity Blind Equalization for SISO Systems with General Constellations", Mohammad S. Sharawi (Co-I). Duration: Dec. 2011 - Dec. 2012 [COMPLETED]
[3]	SABIC through KFUPM Project, Title: "A Printed Circular Antenna Array for Vehicular Direction Finding Systems," Mohammad S. Sharawi (PI) Duration: Mar. 2011 - Sep. 2012 [COMPLETED]
[2]	SABIC through KFUPM Project, Title: "Design of Antenna Arrays for Long Term Evolution (LTE) handsets", Mohammad S. Sharawi (PI). Duration: Mar. 2010 - Sep. 2011. [COMPLETED]
[1]	Fast Track through KFUPM Project, Title: "Design and Implementation of an Aperture Stacked Microstrip Power Splitter for Microwave Communications", Mohammad S. Sharawi (Co-I). Duration: Mar. 2010 - Sep. 2011. [COMPLETED]

KACST Funded Projects:


[5]	NSTIP through KACST Project, Title:" Development of a Wearable Epidermal Textile Based Sensor Array and Processing Algorithm for Health Monitoring ", Mohammad S. Sharawi (PI). Duration: Mar. 2016 - Mar. 2018. [COMPLETED]
[4]	NSTIP through KACST Project, Title:" Modeling and compensation of polar transmitter’s nonlinear distortions for 4G LTE green communication systems ", Mohammad S. Sharawi (Co-I). Duration: Mar. 2014 - Mar. 2016 [COMPLETED]
[3]	NSTIP through KACST Project, Title:" Reconfigurable MIMO antenna system with Direction finding Capability for Cognitive Radios", Mohammad S. Sharawi (PI). Duration: Sep. 2013 - Sep. 2015. [COMPLETED]
[2]	NSTIP through KACST Project, Title:" Novel Beam-Steering Algorithm And Embedded Antenna Arrays within UAV Structures for Enhanced Wireless Communication Links in Surveillance Systems", Mohammad S. Sharawi (PI). Duration: Sep. 2012 - Sep. 2014. [COMPLETED]
[1]	NSTIP through KACST Project, Title:" Distributed Localization of Impulsive Acoustical Sources Algorithms and Prototype Implementation", Mohammad S. Sharawi (PI). Duration: Jun. 2010 - Jun. 2012. [COMPLETED]

USA:

2009-2010: Michigan Space Grant Consortium (MSGC) with aid from NASA, Michigan, USA, Title: "Structural Components as Smart Antenna Elements in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles", Mohammad S. Sharawi (PI).
2008: Mercedes-Benz Research and Development North America (MBRDNA), Michigan, USA, Title: "System Level Model Development for Car Finder at 2.4 GHz", Mohammad S. Sharawi (Co-PI).

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Patents

Granted:

15. [Granted] Wide-band Frequency Agile MIMO Antenna,

Rifaqat Hussain (KFUPM, KSA) and Mohammad S. Sharawi (KFUPM, KSA), US 9,972,911, Date: 15 May 2018.

14. [Granted] "Multi-Band Active Integrated MIMO Antennas,"

Mohammad S. Sharawi (KFUPM, KSA) and Sagar Dhar (KFUPM, KSA), US 9,837,726 , Date 5 December 2017.

13. [Granted] "Cognitive Radio Antenna Assembly,"

Mohammad S. Sharawi (KFUPM, KSA) and Rifaqat Hussain (KFUPM, KSA), US 9,837,702 , Date 5 December 2017.

12. [Granted] "Reconfigurabe MIMO And Sensing Antenna System,"

Mohammad S. Sharawi (KFUPM, KSA) and Rifaqat Hussain (KFUPM, KSA), US 9,698,495 Date: 4 July 2017.

11. [Granted] "Millimeter (mm) wave Switched Beam Antenna System,"

Mohammad S. Sharawi (KFUPM, KSA), US 9,692,126 , Date 27 June 2017.

10. [Granted] "Four Element Reconfigurable MIMO Antenna System,"

Mohammad S. Sharawi (KFUPM, KSA) and Rifaqat Hussain (KFUPM, KSA), US9,666,946 , Date 30 May 2017.

9. [Granted] "Microwaves Direction Finding System,"

Mohammad S. Sharawi and Rifaqat Hussain (KFUPM, KSA), Patent Number: US9,482,735, Date 1 November, 2016.

8. [Granted] "Circular Antenna Arrays for Vehicular Direction Finding Applications,"

Mohammad S. Sharawi, Farooq Sultan (KFUPM, KSA), and Daniel N. Aloi (OU, USA), Patent Number: US9,082,307 , Date: 14 July, 2015.

7. [Granted] "CSRR Loaded MIMO Antenna Systems,"

Mohammad S. Sharawi, Muhammad U. Khan, and Ahmad B. Numan (KFUPM-KSA), Patent Number: US9,019,160, Date: 28 April, 2015.

6. [Granted] "A Single Antenna Direction Finding System for Multi-Rotor Platforms,"

Mohammad S. Sharawi (KFUPM, KSA), Belal Sababha, Hamza Al-Zubi (PSUT, Jordan) and Osamah Rawashdeh (OU, USA),

Patent Number US 8,907,846, Date: 9 Dec. 2014.

5. [Granted] "Programmable Radio Frequency Feed Network,"

Mohammad S. Sharawi (KFUPM, KSA), Patent number US8,730,104 , Date: 20 May 2014.

4. [Granted] “Dual-Band MIMO Antenna System,”

Mohammad S. Sharawi (KFUPM, KSA) and Mohammad A. Jan (KFUPM, KSA), Patent number US8,803,742, Date: 12 August 2014.

3. [Granted] “Multi-Cycle Programmable Processor with FSM controller selectively altering Functional units Datapaths Based on Instruction Type,”

Mohammad S. Sharawi (KFUPM, KSA) and Mohammed Omer (KFUPM, KSA), Patent number US 8,612,726, Date: 17 Dec. 2013.

2. [Granted] “High Isolation Multi-Band MIMO Antenna System,”

Mohammad S. Sharawi (KFUPM, KSA), Patent number US8,786,497 , Date:22 July 2014.

1. [Granted] “System and Method for Weighing Food and Calculating Calorie Content Thereof,”

Mohammad S. Sharawi (KFUPM, KSA) and Osamah A. Rawashdeh (OU, USA), Patent Number US 8,330,057, Date: 11 Dec. 2012.

Pending:

1. WLAN PIFA Integrated with GND Plane Frequency Agile DGS Structure,

Rifaqat Hussain and Mohammad S. Sharawi, Filing Date: October 2017.

2. 4-Element Slot Integrated Reconfigurable MIMO Antenna Along with UWB Sensing Capability,

Rifaqat Hussain and Mohammad S. Sharawi, Filing Date: October 2017.

3. 4-Elements Concentric Pentagonal Slot-based Very Wide Tuning-Band MIMO Antenna System,

Rifaqat Hussain and Mohammad S. Sharawi, Filing date: October 2017.

4. A miniaturized UWB Bi-Planar Yagi Based MIMO Antenna System,

Mohammad S. Sharawi and Syed Jehangir, Filing Date: June 2017.

5. Radio Frequency sensor Array for Pulmonary Edema And Emphysema Detection,

Mohammad S. Sharawi, Muhammad Tayyab and Atif Shamim, Filed April. 2017, Patent Pending.

6. Radio Frequency Sensor for Multi-phase Flow Determination,

Mohammad S. Sharawi, Muhammad Tayyab and Abdel-Salam Sarkhi, Filed March. 2017, Patent Pending.

7. A Massive-MIMO Base Station Antenna System with Multi-Band coverage,

Mohammad S. Sharawi and Atif. Shamim, Filed on Oct. 2016 to USPO, Patent Pending.

8. An Integrated Multi-Standard Antenna System with Dual-Function Connected Array,

Mohammad S. Sharawi, Muhammad Ikram and Rifaqat Hussain, Filed July 2016, Patent Pending.

9. A Multi-port Multi-Antenna Single Connected MIMO Antenna,

Mohammad S. Sharawi and Muhammad Ikram, Filed on June 2016 to USPO, Patent Pending.

10. A Compact Yagi-Like MIMO Antenna System,

Mohammad S. Sharawi and Syed S. Jehangir, Filed on June 2016 to USPO, Patent Pending.

11. A Dielectric Resonator Antenna Array System,

Mohammad S. Sharawi, Mohamed Tammam and Ali Al-reshaid, Filig Date: Nov. 2015, Patent Pending.

12. Compact Wearable Device for Smart Phone Ring Alerts,

Mohammad S. Sharawi, Filing Date: Oct. 2015.

13. An Electronic Cart (E-Cart) Shopping System,

Mohammad S. Sharawi and Rana I. Sharawi, Filed on March 2015 to USPO, Patent Pending.

14. An integrated Microwave-Millimeter Wave Antenna System with Isolation Enhancement Mechanism,

Mohammad S. Sharawi, Filed on February 2015 to USPO, Patent Pending.

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Awards

- Best Research Project Award, KFUPM, Saudi Arabia, April 2017.

- Best Published Book Award, KFUPM, Saudi Arabia, April 2016.

- Distinguished Researcher Award, KFUPM, Saudi Arabia, April 2016.

- Excellence in Research Award, KFUPM, Saudi Arabia, April 2015.

       - Distinguished Post Doctoral Research Scholar award from Oakland University, Michigan, USA, Apr. 2009.
       - Distinguished Ph.D. student research award from Oakland University, Michigan, USA, Apr. 2006.
       - Ph.D. degree full scholarship award from Oakland University, Michigan, USA, Aug. 2004.
       - Best Paper Award, CATAEE conference 2004, Amman, Jordan.
       - M.S. degree full scholarship award from Oakland University, Michigan, USA, Aug. 2000.
       - Princess Sumaya Honors senior student award, Princess Sumaya University for Technology, Amman-Jordan, Feb. 2000.
       - Student excellence award, Princess Sumaya University for Technology, Amman, Jordan, 1996/1997/1999.

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Announcements/Funding Opportunities

- If you are looking for → cutting EDGE research projects

and you are → highly motivated and HARD WORKING PERSON,

Please contact me for potential project/research involvement. You have to have some good Microwaves, Antennas and Electronics Background.

FUNDING IS AVAILABLE FROM SEVERAL PROJECTS Based on Student Performance.

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