Electrical Engineering Boot Camp 2022

Usman Tariq loves making machines intelligent! He received a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, in 2013. He is a faculty member in the Department of Electrical Engineering, AUS. He has also worked as a Research Scientist with Computer Vision Group, Xerox Research Center Europe, France. His research interests are in computer vision, machine learning and affective computing.

Shayok Mukhopadhyay received the following degrees in electrical engineering: BE degree from the College of Engineering Pune, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune, India, in 2006; an MSc degree from Utah State University, Logan, UT, USA, in 2009; and a PhD degree from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA, in 2014. He has been with the Department of Electrical Engineering at AUS since 2014, where he is an Associate Professor. His research interests include control systems, energy storage systems, and robotic path planning. He received the award for the best presentation in the Nonlinear Systems III Session from the American Control Conference 2014. He was a part of a five-person team that received the UAE national category of the AI and Robotics for Good Award for developing an in-pipe inspection robot in 2017. He is currently serving as the chair of the IEEE UAE section joint chapter on CSS/RAS/EMBS.

Wasil El-Tahir received his BSc and MSc in Mechatronics from IIUM, Malaysia. He specializes in control systems, measurements and automation. His software/hardware expertise includes dSPACE RCP, NI and LabVIEW; DAQ, MyRIO, PXI controllers; PLC Automation: SIEMENS S7-1500, 1200, 400, & 300; and MATLAB/SIMULINK.

Habibur Rehman received his Bachelor of Science  in Electrical Engineering from the University of Engineering and Technology Lahore, Pakistan, in 1990. He received MS and PhD degrees, both in electrical engineering, from The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, in 1995 and 2001, respectively. He has wide experience in the area of power electronics and motor drives in industry and academia. From July 1998 to December 1999, he worked as a design engineer in the Ecostar Electric Drives and Ford Research Laboratory, where he was a member of the Electric, Hybrid, and Fuel Cell vehicles development programs. From 2001 to 2006 he worked in the department of electrical engineering at the United Arab Emirates (UAE) University, Al-Ain, as an Assistant Professor. In 2006, he joined the Department of Electrical Engineering at AUS where he is currently working as an Associate Professor. Dr. Rehman is the recipient of the Best Teacher Award from the College of Engineering, UAE University for the academic year 2002-2003. His primary research interests are in the areas of power electronics and their application to power systems, adjustable-speed drives and alternative energy vehicles.

Dr. Kashif earned a PhD in Smart Grids from Glasgow Caledonian University, UK in 2017. He joined AUS as a lab Instructor in the Power Systems Lab in 2008. From 1997 to 2007 he served as Executive Engineer in Military Engineering Services, Pakistan; Power System Analyst/Control Engineer in the National Load Dispatch Centre, Islamabad, Pakistan; Electrical Consultant Engineer at 1450 MW Ghazi Barotha Hydro Electrical Power House, Pakistan; and Operation/Maintenance Engineer at Frontier Ceramic industry, Pakistan. His areas of research and interests are power system operation and control, smart grid and FACTS devices.

Lutfi Albasha, is an electronics enthusiast with a great passion for innovations. He even lectures it! He received BEng and PhD degrees in electronic and electrical engineering from the University of Leeds, UK. He then joined Sony Corporation and worked in commercial chip products for mobile handsets. In 2000 he joined Filtronic Semiconductors as a Senior Principal Engineer, where he created an IC Design Team. The team supported the company foundry design enablement for mass production of RFIC products and taped out its first commercial chips. This became a successful business in Europe’s then largest GaAs MMIC foundry. He returned to Sony as a Lead Principal Engineer, where he was involved in highly integrated RFCMOS and BiCMOS transceivers for cellular and TV applications. He joined AUS and progressed to the rank of full professor. His current areas of research are in energy harvesting and wireless power transfer, low-power wearable and implantable devices, high-efficiency power amplifier design and linearization for multimode applications, and integrated radar transceivers. He received several recognition awards from Sony Corporation, the IET, IEEE and the University of Leeds. He is an Associate Editor of the IET Microwaves, Antenna and Propagation Journal and served for three terms as the Chair of the UAE Chapter of the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society.

Mohamed Hassan received his Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania, USA, in 2000, and a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Arizona, USA, in 2005. He is currently a full professor of electrical engineering at AUS. He has been involved in multiple projects related to free space optical communications, electromagnetic shielding, demand response and smart grids, anti-static flooring and fiber optic sensors for infrastructure health monitoring applications. His research interests include multimedia communications and networking, wireless communications, cognitive radios, resource allocation and performance evaluation of wired networks, and next-generation wireless systems in addition to dynamic wireless charging systems for electric vehicles.

Ming Foey Teng joined AUS in August 2018. Before this, he had worked in Australia, Singapore and Kuwait, with more than 15 years of teaching, tutoring and supervising experience. He has much knowledge and experience in course development, including online delivery for distant and remote learning. His research interests lie in using carbon nanotubes in micro-sensor design. He is also actively promoting, researching and implementing remote laboratory and low-cost portable learning devices for electronics engineering students. In his spare time, he enjoys music and building robots!      

Narayanan Raghavan has been teaching in the field of electronics for the last 38 years. He has worked in several reputed engineering institutions in India and the Middle East. Since 2002 he has been working with the AUS Department of Electrical Engineering. His research interests are in the areas of microelectronics, embedded systems and electronic packaging.

Ibrahim Abu Seif is working as a senior Laboratory Instructor at the department of Electrical Engineering at AUS. He holds a master of science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Jordan in 2003. Prior to joining AUS, he worked for five years as a Laboratory Instructor at the Applied Sciences University in Jordan. He is supervising several Labs in the area of Communications, RF & Microwave Engineering, His research interests include computational electromagnetic, Microwave systems and radio wave propagation.