News

• May 23, 2022,: The EE-dept senior student (Mr. Saleh Alkhalifah) has won the 2022 IEEE Antenna and Propagation Society Undergraduate Summer Research Scholarship (3,000 USD). This award is due to his work under the supervision of Dr. Hussein Attia on the research project "Nondestructive Microwave-Based Sensing and Characterization of Materials and Fluids" through the U-Explore program sponsored by the IRC Communication Systems and Sensing. Few students around the globe may win this award and the student is invited to submit a paper to the flagship 2023 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation & USNC-URSI Radio Science Meeting (IEEE AP-S/URSI).

• Wednesday Nov. 24, 2021: Meeting with STC Academy. The meeting was attended by Dr. Hesham Elsawy, Dr. Suhail Al-Dharrab.

• Tuesday, Nov. 23, 2021: The “6G Networks Opportunities and Challenges” forum was successfully conducted with about 80 participants. The forum was joint with EE-KFUPM and KAUST .

• Nov.21 – Nov. 25, 2021 :Two IRC-CSS Affiliates; Dr. Ali Muqaibel and Dr. Alhassoun presented in a short course “Wireless Communications and Network Design” in Riyadh, the short course was arranged through the College of Engineering and Physics.

• Nov. 10, 2021: The center arranged its first webinar with Dr. Hesham class. The arrangement was through Dr. Ali Muqaibel and Dr. Abdullah Al-Johani from CITC. There were two presenters. The seminar is very important because it serves the national need and foster the relation with other important entities in the field. Physical attendance for the students was in 59-1015. Title: Spectrum Management in Saudi Arabia, Speakers:Moath Al-Manea, Director, Spectrum Planning and National Cooperation, CITC and Ayman Maghrab, Director, Radio Allocation and Licensing, CITC

• Nov. 3, 2021: The IRC-CSS has an informal meeting to chat and get to know each other. The open house meeting was held in the IRC-CSS location (was CeGP) Building 59 room 2031-2036 ( and progress presentation was held in 59-2025) .

• Oct. 24 - Oct. 27, 2021 : Dr. Ali Muqaibel presented the center capabilities to the Communications & Information Technology Commission (CITC), Riyadh 24^th of Oct. 2021 Second multi-speaker seminar was jointly presented with EE department .

• Oct. 3 - Oct. 7, 2021 : Meeting with the VPRI , Wednesday 3:00-4:30PM to discuss the progress and need of the center.

Introducing new annual performance evaluation system to Research Directors.

• Sep. 26 - Sep. 30, 2021 : Meeting with the president in the RI

Meeting with the center steering committee to discuss the center structure. Follow up meeting with arranged through Dr. Sami and Dr. Mohammad Felemban to continue working with Saudi Aramco (There was technical connection difficulty)

• Sep. 12 - Sep. 16, 2021 : We attracted one more affiliate from ICS to assure interdisciplinary nature.

DSP research lab is welling to join under the umbrella of the IRC-CSS .

• Sep. 5 - Sep. 9, 2021 : We envisioned 2 to 5 programs. A coordinator will be assigned to each program. Other frequent tasks will be identified through consulting preexisting centers. I have already contacted Dr. Zain Yamani to help identifying the needed tasks/committees since they are well established.