About me

I hold a Ph.D. in Electrical & Computer Engineering from, from Rutgers University, which I earned in May 2023. At Rutgers, I was a member of WINLAB  and the CyPhy Lab. My advisors were Professor Richard P. Martin and Professor Jorge Ortiz. Also, I closely worked with Dr. Richard E. Howard.  

Before coming to Rutgers University, I obtained my MSc in Communication Network Planning & Management at the University of Portsmouth, the UK in 2008 and my BSc in Computer Engineering at the University of Basrah, Iraq in 2004. While pursuing my Ph.D., I obtained my second MSc in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rutgers University in May 2018. In my research, I focus on Connected Health, Cyber-Physical-Human Sensing, Low-energy Sensing, and Machine Learning.

From 2004 to 2007, I worked as an NSS engineer with Zain Iraq. During the period of 2009-2010, I worked as a Senior Technical Support Engineer with MEC-Telematic Telecommunications Consultancy.  From 2010 to 2015, I was with the State Co. for Internet Services (part of the Ministry of Communications) in Iraq as Senior Communication Networks Engineer.  

News

• (Summer 2023) I successfully passed my Ph.D. Dissertation defense [Dissertation].

• (March 2023) Two posters were accepted to The 22nd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (colocated with CPS-IoT Week 2023) (IPSN'23).

• (May 2022) One paper was accepted to The Second International Workshop on Cyber-Physical-Human System Design and Implementation (CPHS22), a Full-day workshop at CPS-IOT Week [PDF ] . 

• (April 2022) Our book chapter “Monitoring Technologies for Quantifying Medication Adherence”, is published in Quantifying Quality of Life: Incorporating Daily Life into Medicine, by Springer International Publishing [PDF].

• (April 2022) I passed my PhD Dissertation proposal defense!

• (March 2022) I am serving as the Web Chair of BuildSys 2022..

• (March 2022) I am serving as the Zoom Chair for The Second International Workshop on Cyber-Physical-Human System Design and Implementation (CPHS22), a Full-day workshop at CPS-IOT Week. 

• (Spring 2022) I am the Head TA for PM1 (Programming Methodology I) course at Rutgers University this Spring.