User:Hamada.Alshaer

Dr. Hamada Alshaer (M’04-SM’12) is currently a Research Associate in the school of Engineering, Li-Fi Research and Development Centre, at the University of Edinburgh, UK, working with other researchers and academics in leading UK industries, and Bristol and Lancaster Universities on one of the EPSRC multi-partner research projects. He was an adjunct faculty in the ECE department and a senior researcher in the Etisalat British Telecom Innovation Center (EBTIC), Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, UAE. He received a BEng degree in electrical engineering and computer science from Birzeit University, in 2001, an MS (DEA) degree in information technology and systems (ITS) from Compiegne University of Technology, France, in 2002, and a PhD degree in computer engineering and telecommunications from Pierre et Marie Curie University, France, in 2005. He then joined the Electronic and Electrical Engineering Department at Brunel University, in west London, as a postdoctoral research fellow. He later worked as a research scientist at INRIA, France. Between November 2007 and September 2009, he worked as a research fellow in the School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering at the University of Leeds, UK. His research interests include QoS, SDN, embedded systems ,optical communications and networking, wireless sensor networks and intelligent transportation. He has served on the technical program committee of various IEEE conferences, including the Intelligent Vehicles Symposium, Vehicular Technology Conference, Globecom, ICC and WCNC, and chaired some of their sessions. He is the recipient of the 2009 Royal Academy of Engineering travel award, as well as scholarships from UNRWA, the French government and Pierre et Marie Curie University for academic distinctions.