3rd year PhD candidate, Centre for Intelligent Antenna and Radio Systems (CIARS), Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at University of Waterloo
Ala Eldin Omer received his primary and secondary education in Khartoum, Sudan. He was ranked as the third top student over whole Sudan ranking in the Sudanese High School Certificate (SHSC) with an average of (96.4%). He received the BSc degree (Magna Cum Laude), from University of Khartoum, Sudan, in 2013, in Electrical and Electronics Engineering with specialization in Communication Engineering. From 2013 to 2014, he worked as a Research and Development Communication Engineer with the Telecommunication Research Center (TRC) part of GIAD industrial group company in Khartoum, Sudan. He achieved his MSc degree (Summa Cum Laude) in 2016 in Electrical Engineering from the American University of Sharjah (AUS) where he was awarded a two-year Graduate Assistantship from the Department of Electrical Engineering. In addition, since 2014, he has been with the Department of Electrical Engineering in AUS as a Teaching and Research Assistant. He is currently working towards the PhD degree with the Centre for Intelligent Antenna and Radio Systems (CIARS), Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at University of Waterloo, Canada. His research interests include communication systems, wireless networks, video streaming, cognitive radio networks, signal processing, pattern classification, bio-sensors, bio-electromagnetics, millimeter wave circuits, antenna and radar systems, complex propagation and scattering phenomena, machine learning and artificial intelligence. During his PhD Ala has also been working as a Visiting Research Assistant at Sorbonne University with the Electronics and Electromagnetism Laboratory (L2E). He has been awarded many prestigious awards, Singapore International Pre-Graduate Award (SIPGA), IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society Doctoral Research Grant, NSERC CREATE fellowship, Erasmus+ mobility grant, University of Waterloo Faculty of Engineering (FOE) awards. He has co-authored number of journal and conference papers presented in international conferences.
