Major Research Areas:

1. Wireless Technologies

2. Cybernet Security

3. Cognitive Radio

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Current Position:

Lecturer at the University of Northampton - School of Sciences and Technologies - Computer Engineering Department.

Between (2006 and 2011):

• Researcher, The University of Buckingham (UK), Mobile and Wireless Communication Research Group, Applied Computing Department.
  • Member of the European Commission Project "COST ICO803”, RF/Microwave Communication Subsystems for Emerging Wireless Technologies (End date: June 2012)
  • Manage researches for several externally sponsored and EU projects development programs.
  • Assisted and instructed undergraduate and postgraduate students in classroom and laboratory settings.
  • I have written all materials for lectures and for semester and final exams
  • Helped revise curriculum and graduation requirements for students in mobile and wireless communications engineering to better prepare them for the job market.
• Visiting Lecturer in the - University of Northampton (UK),
  • School of Engineer and Technology.
  • Business School
• Visiting Lecturer in the - University of Hertfordshire (UK), School of Engineering and Computer Science. Supervised the undergraduate students in distance learning program
• Visiting Lecturer in Universiy of Wales - London College of Business: Teching IT Audit and DM for the MBA course. Also Suprvising postgradute students.

Conferences, Seminars and Events:

• Sunderland-UK on Nov 2011, Ali Al-Sherbaz , Amir Minai, James Xue, Rashmi Dravid , The University of Northampton presented the following teaching computer forensic model. "An Embedded Pedagogic Model for Computer Forensics within an Undergraduate Programme”.It is published at 7th Annual Teaching Computer Forensics Workshop University of Sunderland-UK on the 10th Nov 2011, more.
• Lausanne, Switzerland, Nov-2010, the fifth meeting of Cost Project committee, RF/Microwave Communication Subsystems for Emerging Wireless Technologies (RFCSET).
• Aveiro, Portugal, 24-26 Feb 2010, the fourth meeting of COST Project committee,
• Athens, Greece, 7-9 Oct 2009, the third meeting of COST Project committee,
• Oxfordshire Multi-Service Networks Workshop (July 2009):Spectrum Sharing Across Applications,more.... Originally derived from annual workshops associated with several large collaborative multiservice network projects of the 1980s, this workshop has been a regular event since 1988. For 10 years it was organized by the Advanced Communications Unit (ACU) at RAL. It is held each summer at The Cosener's House, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, England.

• Cranfield University (UK),25 June 2009,Applied Mathematics and Computing Department,"Convergence in wireless transmission technology promises best of both worlds"

• Brno University (Czech), 26-28 April 2009, the second meeting of COST Project committee, RF/Microwave Communication Subsystems for Emerging Wireless Technologies (RFCSET).
• SPIE Conference (USA) , Mobile Multimedia/Image Processing, Security, and Applications ,Tuesday 14 April 2009 ,"WiMAX-WiFi Convergence with OFDM Bridge”.
• The COST Meeting - October 13th 2008, Brussels, the kick off meeting of COST Project committee, RF/Microwave Communication Subsystems for Emerging Wireless Technologies (RFCSET).
• The University of Buckingham (UK), the work in-progress, July 2008, "Communication Journey"
• SPIE Conference (USA) , Mobile Multimedia/Image Processing, Security, and Applications ,17 March 2008 ,"Private Synchronization Technique for Heterogeneous Wireless Network (WiFi and WiMAX)”.

Courses Given:

1. Mobile and Wireless Communication, Postgraduate,

2. Computational Mathematics, Undergraduate,

3. Computer Network, Undergraduate

4. Information Security, Postgraduate

5. DSP- Digital Signal Processing, Postgraduate

6. Practical assistant courses using MATLAB, Simulink, FPGA

Projects:

1.Oct – 2008, at the University of Buckingham, I have involved gaining a four years European Grant project (COST IC0803) in addition to 12 European academics and industries partners. The Project title is RF/Microwave Communication Subsystems for Emerging Wireless Technologies (RFCSET).

2.June-2003, I was one of University of Oklahoma’s team who had applied to the Al-SHARAKA project that was the US government fund to support the higher education in Iraq. At that time, it was a very highly competitive among the US Universities to win the project. Eventually, it was awarded a substantial grant with 5M$ to support five Iraqi university. I have got the IT-manager post for the project.

Previous Position (1995 - 2006):

1. Lecturer at the Computer Department, University of Sulaimanya – Kurdistan –Iraq, teaching Computer Networks and Wireless technologies. Supervisions for the final year undergraduate projects.
2. Consultant (Contract) at KTRC-Kurdistan Technology and Research Centers, designing the infrastructure for a wireless network for the Foundation of Technical Institutes, Sulaimanya- Iraq
3. IT-specialist (Contract) with Oklahoma University (USA) – Baghdad Office, Installation and configuration Wireless Networks in five university Campuses in IRAQ
4. Lecturer at the University of Technology – Baghdad – Iraq, Computer Department for the teaching of Computer Networks, Security and Mathematics
5. Electronic designer Consultant (per project) at the Engineering Consultancy Bureau- University of Technology – Baghdad – Iraq
6. IT specialist and Instructor at the Engineering Consultancy Bureau, Al-Mustansiriyah University, Iraq. We had a lot of contracts and joint ventures like electronic design, software implementation, DSP algorithms, and simulation using MATLAB/C/C++.