Dr. Nezir Aydin is an Associate Professor at Hamad Bin Khalifa University’s College of Science and Engineering. He has a BSc and MSc in Industrial Engineering from Yildiz Technical University, Istanbul, Turkiye, and a PhD in Industrial and Systems Engineering from Wayne State University, Detroit, USA.

For over twenty years of academic and research activities, he has been conducting research in decision-making under uncertainty, mathematical modeling, and stochastic optimization in logistics, operations, and supply chain management. He has published over 60 papers in international journals.

Dr Mohammad Shaqfeh is a Lecturer in the College of Science and Engineering at Hamad Bin Khalifa University. He completed his Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from United Arab Emirates University, an MSc degree in Communications Technology from Ulm University, Germany, and a PhD in Digital Communication from The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom. In addition to a PhD degree in engineering, Dr Shaqfeh also holds a MicroMasters degree in Artificial Intelligence from Columbia University via edX in 2017, and an MA degree in Islamic Studies from Hamad Bin Khalifa University.

He has more than fifteen years of academic (research and teaching) experience at Texas A&M University at Qatar. His teaching experience spans many courses including Computer Programming and Algorithms, Digital Systems Design, Computer Architecture and Design, Embedded Systems, Electronics, Signals and Systems, and Electricity & Magnetism.

Dr Shaqfeh has long research experience in the fields of wireless communication systems and machine learning. He published scholarly papers in high-impact international journals and conferences and has been the Principal Investigator of eight projects funded by Qatar National Research Funds (QNRF).

Dr. Khalid A. Qaraqe is a Professor in the College of Science and Engineering at Hamad Bin Khalifa University. Dr. Qaraqe completed his Bachelors in Electrical Engineering from the University of Technology, Iraq and Masters in Electrical Engineering from the University of Jordan. He earned his PhD in Electrical Engineering from Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States.

From 1989 to 2004, Dr. Qaraqe held various positions in several prominent telecommunication companies and has over 12 years of experience in the telecommunication industry. Dr. Qaraqe has worked on numerous projects and has experience in product development, design, deployments, testing, and integration.

Dr. Qaraqe's research interests include communication theory and its application to wireless communication systems design and performance analysis. His main research interests are mobile networks, broadband wireless access, cooperative networks, cognitive radio, diversity techniques, Index Modulation, Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs), mmWave, THz, Visible Light Communication (VLC), FSO, and telehealth applications.

Dr. Qaraqe has also been awarded over 14 million USD in competitive research grants for his research initiatives. He has published 5 books, 20 book chapters, 5 US patents, and more than 200 journals and 313 conference papers.

Hussein Alnuweiri is a Professor at the College of Science and Engineering at Hamad Bin Khalifa University. He received his PhD in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. Before joining HBKU, he was a professor at Texas A&M University at Qatar and the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, BC, Canada.

From 2000 to 2006, he served as a Canadian Delegate to the ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29 Standards Committee (MPEG-4 Multimedia Delivery), where he worked within the MPEG-4 standardization JTC1- SC29WG11 group and contributed one of the first client-server video streaming reference software. He has an established record of industrial collaborations with several major companies worldwide. He is also an inventor and holds four US patents.

Hussein Alnuweiri has authored or co-authored over 250 refereed journal and conference papers in various areas of computing and communications research. His current research interests are in Digital Transformation technologies including intelligent Internet computing, responsive digital twin platforms, applied AI, Internet-of-Things, and mobile and cloud computing.

Dr. Mohammad Azizur Rahman is an Associate Professor in the College of Science and Engineering at Hamad Bin Khalifa University. Before joining HBKU, he held positions as an Associate Professor at Texas A&M University at Qatar and Memorial University of Newfoundland. He also worked as a Lecturer at the University of Alberta, where he earned his PhD in 2010. He is also a Professional Engineer in Alberta and a member of professional organizations including ASME and SPE.

Dr. Rahman has collaborated on various research projects with companies such as TotalEnergies, QatarEnergy LNG, Schlumberger, North Oil Company, Syncrude Canada, GRi Simulations, and others. Throughout his career, he has secured approximately $3.5 million in research funding from organizations like the Qatar Foundation, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, and the Newfoundland Research & Development Corporation.