Graduate Supervision

List of student whom I supervised in their thesis/dissertation.

Student Name, Major, Degree, Effective Date, Thesis Advisor, Co-Advisor, Thesis Title


  1. Saleh Ahmed Al-Awsh, EE, PHD, 23-Apr-18, Ali H Muqaibel, , SPARSE DIRECTION-OF-ARRIVAL ESTIMATION WITH CONSTRAINED ANTENNA ARRAYS
  2. Mohammad Tamim Alkhodary, EE, PHD, 15-May-17, Ali H Muqaibel, T Y Al-Naffouri, Structure-Based Bayesian Compressive Sensing for Through-the-Wall Radar Imaging
  3. Abdi Talib Abdalla, EE, PHD, 27-Apr-16, Ali H Muqaibel, , Aspect Dependent Efficient Multipath Ghost Suppression in TWRI using Compressive Sensing .
  4. Ali Attyatullah Albeladi, EE, MS, 14-May-15, Ali H Muqaibel, , Multipath exploitation in through the wall radar imaging using sparisty-driven change detection
  5. Mohammed Buhari Dahiru, TELE, MS, 16-Mar-14, Ali H Muqaibel, , Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Processing Using UWB OFDM Signals
  6. Ayham Nizar Fuad Jadallah, EE, MS, 23-Dec-13, Ali H Muqaibel, , SINR Evaluation for Practical Coordinated Multi-Point Networks
  7. Saleh Ahmed Al-Awsh, TELE, MS, 23-Apr-13, Ali H Muqaibel, , Evaluation of Compressed Sensing in UWB Systems with NBI.
  8. Mohammad Tamim Alkhodary, TELE, MS, 21-Dec-11, Ali H Muqaibel, , On the Practical Implementation of Compressive Sensing to Ultra Wideband Channels
  9. Khaled Mesfer Alqahtani, TELE, MS, 19-Dec-11, Ali H Muqaibel, Abdullah Said Al-Ahmari, NLOS Mitigation for UWB Localization
  10. Mohammed Naseeruddin Mahmood, TELE, MS, 29-May-11, Ali H Muqaibel, M Landolsi, Time of Arrival Estimation and Channel Identification in UWB Systems
  11. Nuruddeen Mohammed Iya, TELE, MS, 7-Dec-10, Ali H Muqaibel, , Wall Compensation for High Resolution Ultra-wideband.
  12. Syed Faraz Ahmed, EE, MS, 4-Jun-11, T Y Al-Naffouri, Ali H Muqaibel, A Compressed Sensing Approach to Channel Estimation in Impulse- Radio Ultra-Wideband (IR-UWB) Communication
  13. Kabiru Nasiru Aliyu, EE, MS, 15-Nov-18, Ali H Muqaibel, ,

Here is a list of student whom I am/was a member in their thesis/dissertation.

Student Name, Major, Degree, Effective Date, Thesis Advisor, Co-Advisor, Thesis Title


  1. Abdullah Bassam Othman, TELE, MS, 3-May-18, Mesbah Wessam, , Sum-rate Maximization and Data Delivery for Wireless Seismic Data Acquisition Systems
  2. Mostafa Mohamed Emara, EE, PHD, 3-May-18, S Al-Ghadban, , Modeling, Analysis, and Optimization of Cache-Assisted Wireless Networks- A Stochastic Geometry Approach
  3. Arbab Latif, EE, PHD, 28-Dec-17, Mousa Wail, Saleh Al-Dossari, 3D Radon Transform for Seismic Data Processing
  4. Hussain Ali, EE, PHD, 26-Dec-17, M Sharawi, T Y Al-Naffouri, Target Parameter Estimation for MIMO Radars
  5. Said Omar Alshrafi, TELE, MS, 22-May-17, S. Al-Ahmadi, , multiple-input and multiple-output Two-Way Relaying With Adaptive Overhearing
  6. Monjed Adnan Al-Tarifi, EE, MS, 21-May-17, M Sharawi, , The Design of a Massive MIMO Antenna System for 5G Base Stations
  7. Qadri Ahmad Mayyala, EE, PHD, 15-May-17, Azzedine Zerguine, Karim Abed-Meraim, CONTRIBUTIONS TO BLIND SYSTEM IDENTIFICATION/DECONVOLUTION: Methods, Algorithms and Performance Evaluation
  8. Majid Hamoud Khoshafa, TELE, MS, 21-Dec-16, S. Al-Ahmadi, , On the Capacity of Underlay Cognitive Radio Networks over Generalized-K Composite Fading Channels
  9. Ghazal Ali Ba Khadher, TELE, MS, 10-Nov-16, A M Zidouri, , UWB OFDM synthetic aperture radar based on fractional Fourier transform with application to foliage penetration
  10. Abdulmajid Lawal, EE, MS, 4-May-16, M Deriche, S Al-Dharrab, Seismic Fault Detection Using Saliency Maps
  11. Ahmed Hassan Ahmed, EE, PHD, 17-Dec-15, S.A. Zummo, , Design and Analysis of New Cooperative Relaying Networks for Enhancing Physical Layer Security
  12. Alam Zaib, EE, PHD, 2-Dec-15, T Y Al-Naffouri, , Low Complexity Channel Estimation for SISO, MIMO and Massive MIMO OFDM Wireless Systems
  13. Muhammad Khan, EE, PHD, 24-Dec-14, M Sharawi, , Metamaterial Inspired Antenna Miniaturization for MIMO System Applications
  14. Rifaqat Hussain, EE, PHD, 24-Dec-14, M Sharawi, , Reconfigurable MIMO antenna system with direction finding capability for cognitive radio platforms
  15. Khaqan Majeed, EE, MS, 12-May-14, Sameh Sorur, T Y Al-Naffouri, Indoor Localization and Radio Map Estimation using Geometrically Perturbed Unsupervised Manifold Alignment
  16. Khurram Masood, EE, PHD, 8-May-13, A. Sheikh, , Analysis of contention based MAC protocols under multipath fading and resource management.
  17. Anas (M.A.) Ata Salhab, EE, PHD, 27-Feb-13, S.A. Zummo, , Performance of Dual-Hop Relay Networks with Co-Channel Interference and Multipath Fading
  18. Muhammad Imran Akram, EE, PHD, 30-Sep-12, A. Sheikh, , Design and Implementation of Real Time Channel Simulator.
  19. Suhaib Muhammad Albasit, TELE, MS, 16-May-12, S.A. Zummo, S Al-Ghadban, Performance Evaluation of Cooperative Uplink Transmission in Wireless MIMO Systems
  20. Salem Ali Alotaibi, EE, MS, 1-Jan-12, Mohammad Abdulaziz Al-Sunaidi, Ahmed Yamani, Development of Advanced GPR Simulation System
  21. Ebrahim Basel Alsafadi, EE, MS, 3-May-10, T Y Al-Naffouri, , Receiver Based PADR Reduction in OFDM Techniques by Compressed Estimation of Sparse Signals.
  22. Yousuf Dawood Al Moallem, EE, MS, 15-Mar-10, A. Sheikh, S Al-Ghadban, Design Consideration for Wireless Sensor Network for Industrial Automation
  23. Waleed Mohammed Abdo Hamanah, EE, PHD, 17-Dec-18, M A Abido, , Advanced Heliostat Electrical Drive System for Solar Power Tower Technology
  24. Mohammed Abdul-Karim Amer, TELE, MS, 7-May-18, S Al-Dharrab, , Energy Efficient Wireless Geophone Networks for Oil and Gas Seismic Surveys
  25. Yousef Naief Shnaiwer, EE, PHD, 17-Jan-17, S Al-Ghadban, , Macrocell Offloading in Femtocaching-Assisted Cellular Networks
  26. Matasm Mustafa Hassan Hamid, SE, PHD, 13-May-14, Magdi S. Mahmoud, , Game Theoretic Approaches for Multiple Access Communication Systems