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The academic faculties in the Department possess high qualifications spanning the most modern areas in Electrical and Computer Engineering. They are basically divided into four tracks of specialization:
  • Communications and Signal Processing
  • Computer Systems and Networks
  • Power Systems and Energy
  • Electronic Instrumentation and Control
     

The academic faculties currently teach courses and conduct research within the following broad areas:

Communication Systems
Power System Planning
Artificial Intelligence
Power System Protection
Computer Engineering
Power Electronics & Electric Drives
Electronics
Electrical Machines
Digital Systems and Signals
Power System Dynamic & Control
Database Systems
Power System Analysis
Data Transmission
Control, Robotics & Automation
Network Security
High Voltage
Image and Video Processing
Power Electronics
Networking and Security
Renewable Energies

 

Research and Academic Activities         

 In addition to the teaching load, the faculty members of the department are undertaking active scientific research. As a result of this effort, a number of research papers have been published in international journals and conferences. Members also are continuing to investigate issues faced by the Information Engineering industry in the country in both the public and private sectors. Such applied research materialized as a result of regular Contact Information between the department and the industry. The following gives a brief profile of both the academic and technical staff in the department along with their contact information.


Head of Department
 
 
Prof. Mohamed Ould-Khaoua
Professor

Education:
BSc, University of Algiers (USTHB), Algeria, 1986.
M.App.Sci., University of Glasgow, UK, 1991.
PhD, University of Glasgow, UK, 1994.
 
Research Interests:
Computer Networking, Wireless Mobile Networks, Parallel Architectures, Performance Modeling and Evaluation.
 
Contact Information:
E-mail : mok@squ.edu.om
Tel. : (968) 24142537
Fax: (968) 24413454

Assistant Head of Department
 
 
Dr. Afaq Ahmad
Associate Professor

Education:
BSc, Aligarh Muslim University (A. M. U.), India 1974.
MSc, Aligarh Muslim University (A. M. U.), India 1978.
DLLR, Aligarh Muslim University (A. M. U.), India 1980.
PhD, Indian Institute of Technology (I. I. T.), India, 1990.
 
Research Interests:
Digital Systems and Fault-Tolerant Computing.
 
Contact Information:
E-mail : afaq@squ.edu.om
Tel. : (968) 24141327
Fax: (968) 24413454

 
 
Professors

 
Prof. Ibrahim A. Metwally 
Professor

Education:
BSc, Mansoura University, Egypt, 1986.
MSc, Mansoura University, Egypt, 1990.
PhD, Mansoura University, Egypt, 1994
(in collaboration with University of Wales, Cardiff, UK).
 
Research Interests:
High-Voltage Engineering, Applied Computational Electromagnetics, Transients in Power Systems, Overvoltage Protection, Gas-Insulated Switchgear and Lines, Power Quality, Stray-Current Corrosion, Mitigation of Lightning Strike Hazards for Buildings, Overhead Power Lines and Aircrafts.
For more information, please click here or browse the following links. 
http://www.mans.edu.eg/pcvs/6472/
http://forschung.unibw-muenchen.de/info.php?&id=1019

http://www.hst.tu-darmstadt.de/index.php?id=168&L=0
http://www.humboldt-foundation.de

Contact Information:
E-mail : metwally@squ.edu.om
Tel. : (968) 24142532
Fax: (968) 24413454

 
Prof. Saleh M. Al-Alawi 
Professor
 
Education:
BSc, University of Portland, Orlando, USA, 1981.
MSc,  Florida Institute of Technology, Florida, USA, 1987.
MBA, Florida Institute of Technology, Florida, USA, 1988.
PhD, The University of Missouri, USA, 1993.
 
Research Interests:
Forecasting, Prediction, Optimization & Application of Artificial Intelligence Techniques to solve Engineering problems
 
Contact Information:
E-mail : saleh@squ.edu.om
Tel. : (968) 24141314
Fax: (968) 24413454

 
Associate Professors

 
 
 
Dr. Abdullah H. Al-Badi
Associate Professor
 
Education:
 
Research Interests:
Electrical Machines and Drives, Power Quality, Interference, High Voltage, and Renewable Energy.
Contact Information:
E-mail : albadi@squ.edu.om
Tel. : (968) 24141324
Fax: (968) 24413454

 
 
Dr. Abdulnasir Yahya Hossen
Associate Professor
 
Education:
BSc, Mosul University, Iraq, 1980.
MSc, Mosul University, Iraq, 1984.
Dr. Eng., Ruhr-University, Bochum, Germany, 1994.
 
Research Interests:
Digital Signal Processing, Fast Algorithms, Wavelets, Speech Processing (Coding and Speaker Recognition), Biomedical Signal Processing (Classification, Screening, compression), Radar Signal Processing, Pattern Recognition, Digital   Communication, Artificial Intelligence and Neural Networks.
 
Contact Information:
E-mail : abhossen@squ.edu.om
Tel. : (968) 24141303
Fax: (968) 24413454

 
Dr. Adel R. Gastli
Associate Professor

Education:
BSc, National Engineering School of Tunis (ENIT), Tunisia, 1985.
MSc, Nagoya Institute of Technology (NIT), Japan, 1990.
PhD, Nagoya Institute of Technology (NIT), Japan, 1993.
 
Research Interests:
Power Electronics, Electric Drives, Renewable Energy, and Power System Analysis.
 
Contact Information:
E-mail : gastli@squ.edu.om  
URL: http://gastli.net/
Tel. : (968) 24141373
Fax: (968) 24413454

 
 
 
Dr. Arif S. Malik
Associate Professor
 
Education:
BSc, University of Eng. & Tech., Lahore, Pakistan, 1983.
MSc, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, 1988.
PhD, Imperial College London, UK, 1991.
 
Research Interests:
Energy Policy and Planning.
 
Contact Information:
E-mail : asmalik@squ.edu.om
Tel. : (968) 24142566
Fax: (968) 24413454

 
 
 
Dr. Ayman I. Elnaggar
Associate Professor
 
Education:
BSc, Cairo University, Egypt, 1984.
PhD, University of British Columbia (UBC), Canada, 1997.
 
Research Interests:
Computer Networking, Multimedia Network Systems, ICT4D (Information and Communication Technology For Development), Gender Empowerment Through ICT
 
Contact Information:
E-mail : ayman@squ.edu.om
Tel. : (968) 24141346
Fax: (968) 24413454

 
 
 
Dr. Eyad Feilat
Associate Professor
 
Education:
B.Sc.: University of Jordan, Jordan, 1987.
MSc.:  Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan, 1989.
PhD.:  Mississippi State University, USA, 2000
 
Research Interests:
High Voltage Engineeing, Power Quality, Application of Signal Processing to Power Systems

Contact Information:
E-mail : eafeilat@squ.edu.om
Tel. : (968) 24142519
Fax: (968) 24413454

 
 
 
Dr. Farid Touati
Associate Professor
 
Education:
BSc, The National College of Engineering , Tunisia, 1988.
MSc, Nagoya Institute of Technology,  Japan, 1992.
PhD, Nagoya Institute of Technology,  Japan, 1995.
 
Research Interests:
Design and Simulation of Digital & Analogue Circuits.
 
Contact Information:
Fax: (968) 24413454
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Dr. Faisal Mnif
Associate Professor
  
Education:
BSc, National School of Engineers of Sfax, Tunisia, 1988.
MSc, University of Quebec, Canada, 1991.
PhD, Polytechnic Institute of Montreal,  Canada, 1996.
 
Research Interests:
Control Systems and Robotics.
 
Contact Information:
E-mail :mnif@squ.edu.om Tel. : (968) 24142534
Fax: (968) 24413454

 
 
 
Dr. Hadj Bourdoucen
Associate Professor 

Education:
BSc, INELEC, Boumerdes, ALGERIA, 1983.
MSc, Ecole Centrale de Lyon & University of St Etienne, France, 1984.
PhD, Ecole Centrale de Lyon, France, 1987.
 
Research Interests:
Fiber Optic Communication & Optical networking, Integrated Electronics, Computerized instrumentation and measurement.
 
Contact Information:
E-mail : hadj@squ.edu.om
Tel. : (968) 24141325
Fax: (968) 24413454

 
 
 
Dr. Hasan A. Yousef
Associate Professor 

Education:
B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, Alexandria University, Egypt, 1979
M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, Alexandria University, Egypt, 1983
Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Pittsburg, PA, USA, 1989 
 
Research Interests:
Intelligent and adaptive control, Fuzzy control applications to electric machine drives and power systems, Large-scale systems, Nonlinear control and Biologically-inspired algorithms in control.
 
Contact Information:
E-mail : hyousef@squ.edu.om
Tel. : (968) 24142554
Fax: (968) 24413454

 
 
 
Dr. Joseph A. Jervase
Associate Professor
 
Education: 
BSc, University of Khartoum, Sudan, 1978.
PhD, University of Khartoum, Sudan, 1985.
 
Research Interests:
Microwave Antennas & Propagation.
 
Contact Information: 
E-mail : jervase@squ.edu.om
Tel. : (968) 24141323
Fax: (968) 24413454

 
 
 
Dr. Lazhar Khriji 
Associate Professor

Education:
B. Sc. University of Tunis II, Tunisia, 1990.
M.Sc., University of Tunis II, Tunisia, 1992.
 
Research Interests:
Biomedical Engineering, Health care monitoring, Digital signal and image processing and analysis, Artificial Intelligence, Design and implementation of intelligent signal processing systems, Hardware/Software Codesign, Hardware implementation of DSP algorithms.
 
Contact Information:
Tel. : ( 968) 24141329
Fax: (968) 24413454

 
 
 
 
Dr. Mounir Bouzguenda 
Associate Professor

Education:
BS, Pennslvania State University, Pennsylvania, USA, 1985.
MS, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, Virginia, USA, 1988.
PhD, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, Virginia, USA, 1992.
 
Research Interests:
Renewable energy, power systems.
 
Contact Information:
E-mail : buzganda@squ.edu.om
Tel. : (968) 24142539
Fax: (968) 24413454

 
 
Assistant Professors

 
 
 
Dr. Ali M. Al-Lawati 
Assistant Professor
Director of the Communication Research Centre
 
Education:
 
Research Interests:
Fiber Optic Sensors & Communication, Image Processing, Wavelet Transforms & Applications 
 
Contact Information:
Tel. : (968) 24141328
Fax: (968) 24413454

 
 
 
Dr. Ali Al-Maqrashi
Assistant Professor
Assistant Dean for Industrial Training & Alumni
 
Education:
BEng, University of Manchester, UK, 1994.
MBA, Heriot-Watt University, UK, 1998.
MSc, UMIST, UK, 2000.
PhD, University of Manchester, UK, 2001.
 
Research Interests:
Power System Protection, High Voltage and Power Systems Economics.
 
Contact Information:
Fax: (968) 24413454

 
 
 
Dr. Amer Al-Hinai
Assistant Professor
 
Education:
BEng, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman, 1997.
MSc, West Virginia University, USA, 2000.
PhD, West Virginia University, USA, 2005.
 
Research Interests:
Power Systems: Control and Operation, Multi-Agent Systems: Application to Control of Power Systems, Optimization Techniques and Applications to Power Systems.

Contact Information:
Tel. : (968) 24142571
Fax: (968) 24413454

 
 
 
Dr. Amer Al-Habsi
Assistant Professor
 
Education:
BS, Biomedical Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, USA.
MS, Northeastern University, USA.
PhD, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, USA
 
Research Interests:
Computer Arch., Statistical Signal Processing, Adaptive Signal processing.
 
Contact Information:
Tel: (968) 24142542
Fax: (968) 24413454

 
 
 
Dr. Asaad Elmoudi
Assistant Professor
 
Education:
BSc Gar Younis University Libya, 1990. http://www.garyounis.edu/index.htm
MSc University of Dundee UK, 1995. http://www.dundee.ac.uk/
Lic.Sc (Tech) Helsinki University of Technology Finland, 2004.
D.Sc (Tech) Helsinki University of Technology Finland, 2006. http://www.tkk.fi/English/
 
Research Interests:
Power Systems, Power Quality.

Contact Information:
Tel. : (968) 24142571
Fax: (968) 24413454

 
 
 
Dr. Dawood Al-Abri
Assistant Professor
 
Education:
BEng, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman, 1999.
MS, University of Florida, USA, 2002.
PhD, University of Florida, USA, 2008.
 
Research Interests:
Communication and Computer networks.
 
Contact Information:
Tel.: (968)24142538
Fax: (968) 24413454

 
 
 
Dr. Fahad Bait-Shiginah
Assistant Professor
 
Education:
BEng, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman, 1998.
MS, University of Florida, USA, 2000.
PhD, University of Arizona, USA, 2007.
 
Research Interests:
Modeling and Simulation, Discrete Event System Specification (DEVS), Cellular space modeling, Artificial Intelligence, Software Engineering
 
Contact Information:
Tel: (968) 24142533
Fax: (968) 24413454

 
 
 
Dr. Tariq Jamil
Assistant Professor
 
Education:
 
Research Interests:
Computer Architecture and Information Technology.
 
Contact Information:
E-mail : tjamil@squ.edu.om
Tel. : (968) 24142515
Fax: (968) 24413454

 
 
 
Dr. Naser Tarhuni 
Assistant Professor
 
Education:  
BSc Garyounis University Libya, 1991.
MSc Garyounis University Libya, 1996. http://www.garyounis.edu/index.htm
Lic.Sc (Tech) Helsinki University of Technology Finland, 2004.
D.Sc (Tech) Helsinki University of Technology Finland, 2007. http://www.tkk.fi/English/
 
Research Interests:
Wireless Communication, Mobile Communication, Digital Signal Processing, Optical CDMA.
   
Contact Information:
Tel. : (968) 24142590
Fax: (968) 24413454

 
 
 
Dr. Zia Nadir 
Assistant Professor
 
Education:  
 
Research Interests:
Electromagnetic, M.S.R.C., Anechoic Chamber, EMC, RF and microwave communication circuits and systems.
   
Contact Information:
Tel. : (968) 24142536
Fax: (968) 24413454

 
Lecturers

 
 
 
Mr. Ahmed Al-Maashari
Lecturer (On Study Leave)
 
Education:
BEng, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman, 2002.
MSc, The University of New South Wales, Australia, 2004.
 
Research Interests:
Computer Networking, Microprocessors and Software Developments
 
Contact Information:
Tel: (968) 24142572
Fax: (968) 24413454

 
 
 
Mr. Ali Al-Shidhani
Lecturer (On Study Leave)
 
Education:
BEng, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman, 2001.
 
Research Interests:
Computer Engineering, Computer Networks & Security.
 
Contact Information:

 
 
 
Mr. Amir M. AbdulGhani
Lecturer (On Study Leave)
 
Education:
BEng, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman, 2002.
 
 
Research Interests:
Wireless, Optical, Mobile and Satellite Communication, Computer Networks, Signal Processing and Information Technology
 
Contact Information:
Tel: (968) 24142578
Fax: (968) 24413454
 

 
 
 
Mr. Hassan Al-Lawati
Lecturer
 
Education:
BEng, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman, 2003.
ME, The University of Queensland, Australia, 2006.
 
Research Interests:
Antennas and Propagation, Wireless Communication
 
Contact Information:
Tel: (968) 24142578
Fax: (968) 24413454

 
 
 
Mr. Mohammed Bait-Suwailem
Lecturer (On Study Leave)
 
Education:
BEng, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman, 2001.
M.A.Sc, Dalhousie University, Canada, 2004.
 
Research Interests:
Communication systems, and Antennas.
 
Contact Information:
Tel: (968) 24142191
Fax: (968) 24413454

 
 
 
Mr. Mohammed Hamdan Al-Badi
Lecturer (On Study Leave)
 
Education:
BEng, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman, 2000.
MSc, Aachen University of Technology, Germany, 2003.
 
Research Interests:
Power Quality and Power Systems
 
Contact Information:

 
Mr. Muhammad Al-Nadabi
Lecturer (On Study Leave)
 
Education:
Research Interests:
Digital Signal Processing (DSP).
 
Contact Information:

 
 
 
Mr. Rashid Al-Abri
Lecturer (On Study Leave)
 
Education:
BEng, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman, 2002.
MSc, Curtin University, Australia, 2004.
 
Research Interests:
Power Electronics
 
Contact Information:
Tel: (968) 24142572
Fax: (968) 24413454

 
 
 
Mr. Samir Al-Busaidi
Lecturer (On Study Leave)
 
Education:
BEng, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman,
MSc, Imperial College, UK, 1999.
 
Research Interests:
Telecommunications.
 
Contact Information:

 
 
 
 
Demonstrators

 
 
 
Mr. Said Al-Abri
Demonstrator
 
Education:
BEng, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman, 2009.
 
Research Interests:
Communication & Signal Processing, Electronic Instrumentation and Control
 
Contact Information:
Tel: (968) 24142578
Fax: (968) 24413454

 
 
 
Mr. Salem Al-Hinai
Demonstrator
 
Education:
BEng, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman, 2001.
 
Research Interests:
Control
 
Contact Information:
Tel: (968) 24142578
Fax: (968) 24413454


 

 
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