People
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About us
Director
Dr. Ayman Abdallah
Director, IRC-ASE; Area of Specialization: Flight Dynamics and Control, Aerodynamics and Astrodynamics
IRC-ASE's Expert Advisor
Dr. Charles Elachi
Former JPL/NASA; Advisor and subject matter expert; subject expert on satellite and space exploration
Researchers and Affiliated
Dr. Roman Shults
Research scientist; Geodesy, UAS, Remote Sensing, Geomatics, Underground Surveying, Hydrographic Surveying, Photogrammetry.
Dr. Ashraf Farahat
Affiliate Researcher; Martian atmosphere, Earth observation, space weather, CubeSat experiments, remote sensing, dust storms, solar cells.
Dr. Naef A. A. Qasem
Affiliate Researcher; Thermal-Fluid Science, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Energy and Desalination
Dr.Salman Al-fifi
Affiliate Researcher; Aerodynamics, Aeroelasticity, AstroDynamics, Propulsion and Fluid Mechanics
Dr. Abrar Baluch
Affiliate Researcher; Spacecraft system engineering, satellite engineering, spacecraft materials, hypervelocity impact dynamics, computational impact dynamics.
Dr. Mohamed Ismail
Affiliate Researcher; Aerospace Mechatronics, UAVs Design and Control, Laser Doppler Vibrometry, Diagnosis and Prognosis of Aerospace Systems
Dr. Abdallah M. Al-Zahrani
Affiliate Researcher; Gravitational physics, Black hole physics,Computational physics, Astrophysics and cosmology.
Dr. Sultan Ghazzawi
Affiliate Researcher; Modeling and characterization of advanced aerospace structures and materials, including functionally graded materials and multifunctional smart, self-sensing composites
Dr. Tabassum Yasmeen
Postdoctoral; Materials characterization (titanium, aluminum), deformation modeling, mechanical behavior, materials processing, computational methods (FEM), optimization.
Dr. Irfan Alam
Affiliate Researcher; Future Aircraft Design MDO Electric Propulsion Solar Energy ,Aircraft Design MDOLighter-Than-Air Systems Data-Driven Design Electric Propulsion
Dr.Hassan Abid
Affiliate Researcher; Mechanical and Aerospace System Design, Applications related to ThermoFluid's, Heat Transfer, Numerical Modelling and Simulation
Dr. muhammad Bilal
Affiliate Researcher; Satellite Remote Sensing, Aerosol Remote Sensing, Air Pollution Effects on Human Health, Dust Storm Climatology, Remote Sensing of Land and Atmospheric Parameters
Dr. Jihad Alqasimi
Affiliate Researcher: Acoustics, vibrations, nonlinear dynamics, and MEMS/NEMS
Dr. Md Ismail Hossain
Affiliate Researcher; Unmanned autonomous vehicles; Control; Rapid Control Prototyping and Automation; Electric aviation; Satellite energy management systems; Power electronics; Embedded systems; Renewable energy; intelligent control, Machine learning, Optimization technique, and Artificial Intelligence etc
Dr. Tarig Ballal
Affiliate Researcher; Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS); Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT); Low Earth Orbit (LEO) PNT and communications; PNT security; and signal processing for aerospace systems
Guest Affiliate
Dr. Syed Saad Azhar Ali
Guest Affiliate; Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Signal and Image Processing
Dr. Ali Nasir
Guest Affiliate; Approximate Dynamic Programming, Fault Tolerant Control, Nonlinear Control & Estimation
Dr. Daniel Benevides da Costa
Guest Affiliate
Post Docs
Dr. Md Masudur Rahman
Post Doctoral Fellow: Measurement and instrumentation of earth surface and atmospheric components.
Dr. Asia Kajo
Post Doctoral Fellow: Small Satellite Attitude control (ADCS), Orbital Mechanics, Space Environment, Attitude Disturbance Torques, Satellite Design, Electronic, Communication and Embedded Systems, Kalman Filtering, Nonlinear Estimation
Dr. Muhammad Usman
Post Doctoral Fellow: Remote sensing, GIS, vegetation dynamics, climate change, water resource management, crop water requirements, and machine learning/AI.
Dr. Mohamed Takeyledein
Post Doctoral Fellow: Wind turbines Aerodynamics, Propeller Aerodynamics, CFD simulations of blunt bodies.
Dr. Hatem Magdy
Post Doctoral Fellow: Computer Science. Database, Operating system, Programming, Networking, Expert Systems, Image Processing, Deep Learning, Machine Learning, Networking, System Analysis and Design, Expert Systems
Dr. Fadi Alyoussef
Post Doctoral Fellow: Advanced, intelligent, and traditional control design methods, Fault-tolerant control, Industrial process control, Linear time-delay systems, Nonlinear systems, Heuristic optimization algorithms, Observers and estimation methods.
Dr. Bazilah Baharom
Post Doctoral Fellow : Electromagnetics, Antenna Arrays, Microwave and Millimeter Wave Communication, Metamaterial and Metasurfaces, Dielectric Lenses, Bio-Medical Antenna, Terahertz Antenna, Space Communication, 5G/6G, Beamforming/Beam Steering Antennas
Dr. Atif Mahmood Khaki
Post Doctoral Fellow: Satellite Attitude Determination, Satellite Control Design for commercial satellites (PAUSAT-1) and Spacecraft GNC), Space Mission Designing and Planning, Orbit Design
Dr. Mohammed Basheer
Post Doctoral Fellow: Reinforcement Learning, Control Theory, UAVs
DR. Tanzeelur Rehman
Post Doctoral Fellow: Solid Mechanics, Structural Optimization, Compliant Mechanisms, Finite Element Analysis, Composite Structures
Dr. Zubair Sajid
Post Doctoral Fellow: Computational Mechanics of Composite Materials, Hybridization, Joints in composites, Fracture Mechanics
Dr. Yunes ALQudsi
Post Doctoral Fellow: Swarm Aerial Robotics; Guidance-Navigation-Control; Aerospace and Aeronautical Engineering; Machine Learning; Artificial Intelligence; Optimization; UAVs; Autonomous Systems; Path Planning; Trajectory Generation
Dr. Mostafa Elsalamony
Postdoctoral Fellow: Aerodynamics, drones, aircraft design and performance, CFD
Dr. Asem Alemam
Postdoctoral Fellow: Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
Dr. Muhammad Amin
Post Doctoral Fellow: Air pollution and atmospheric science, health-relevant aerosols and particulate matter (including ultrafine particles), air quality monitoring, satellite remote sensing, health risk assessment, and AI-based air quality analysis.
Dr. Abdelrahman Farghly
Post Doctoral Fellow: Power Electronics, Embedded system, BMS, Drive system, Power Train, Microgrid, Electric vehicles
DR. Arhum Hassan
Post Doctoral Fellow: Computational Materials Science, Aerospace Materials, Metals, Alloys, Composites, and Advanced Characterization Techniques
Dr. Shaily Khan
Post Doctoral Fellow: Polymer; composites; and nanocomposites; anticorrosive, antimicrobial, chemically inert, mechanically robust, and thermally stable flame retardant films/coatings
Lab Engineers and Technicians
Eng. Muqeeth Mohammed Abdul
Assistant to Director
Ms. Sarah F. Al-kharraa
Lab Technician; Artificial Intelligence and Robotics
Eng. Ibrahim Al Jalal
Lab Engineer: Robotics, Computer Vision, AI in Engineering Applications, Hardware-Software Integration, Unmanned Systems
Ms.Madhawi alnuaimi
Academic assistant ; physics and renewable energy
Eng. Hind Mohammed
Lab Engineer: aerospace engineering and satellite system
Eng. Mohammed Iqbal
Lab Engineer: Metal-air fuel cell and flow battery Systems, Electrochemistry & Corrosion studies, Fabrication & optimization of Li-ion battery electrodes