Education | Academic Experience | Industry Experience | Distinctions | Extra-curricular 

Academic Experience:

Nov. 2008-Present: 

• Associate Professor, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, College of Engineering, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
• Photonics Thrust leader, and co-founder of KACST Technology Innovation Center on Wireless, Microwaves and Photenics, KSU.

Feb. 2003–2012: Adjunct Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Laval University, Québec, Canada.

June 2006–Aug. 2008:  Senior Research Scientist, Center of Optical Photonics and Laser, Québec, Canada.

Sep. 2001: Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Université Laval, Canada

Title: ‘‘Optical Fast Frequency Hopping CDMA: Principle, Simulation and Experiment’’. PDF. Field: System Communications, Optical Networks.

Dec. 1997: Master’s in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Université Laval, Canada.

Title: ‘‘Narrowband Interference Suppression in Spread Spectrum CDMA Communications via Blind Equalization’’. PDF. Field:  Wireless Communications.

Industry Experience:

09/2003-06/2006: Chief Technology Officer and Member of the board of directors, of Access Photonic Networks Inc., Quebec, Canada.

01/2001-09/2003: President and Chief technology Officer of Access Photonic Networks Inc., Quebec, Canada. High-Tech R&D Company.

01/2000-01/2001: Co-Founder and R&D director, Benyata Inc. High-Tech R&D Company.

Distinctions:

• My journal paper [Fathallah, H. et al. "Passive Optical Fast Frequency-Hop CDMA Communications System," IEEE Journal of Lightwave Technology, vol. 17, pp. 397-405, Mar. ‘99] is now cited 218 times per ISI 350 times per Google Scholar. Top 5 most cited publications in Optical CDMA area.
• Award from Saudi Airforce (2012).
• Award for best paper in IEEE International Conference on Communication and Information Technologies, June 2012, Hammamat, Tunisia.
• Award for best poster competition of SYTAcom (June 2007).
• Award from Canadian Space Agency (CSA) (1999).
• Award for best publication by IEEE Communications Society, London, UK (1997).
• PhD Scholarship from Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC).
• PhD Scholarship, Le Fonds québécois de la recherche sur la nature et les technologies (FQRNT).
• PhD Scholarship, Fondation de l’Université Laval. (1997).
• Master’s Scholarship, Agence Canadienne de Développement International (ACDI). (1995).

Extra-curricular:

• Member of the Board of Directors of Quebec City Economic Development Center.
• Participated in initiating Quebec’s Techno pole on defence and security technologies.
• Member of Quebec STUDIO of Self Defense TAI-JITSU.
• Member of IEEE Communications Society, Optical Society of America (OSA).
• Reviewer: IEEE Transactions on Communications, Optics Letters, Journal of Lightwave Technology, Photonics Technology Letters, Journal of Optical Networking, etc.
• President and co-founder of Pont Intercultural de Quebec.

Other skills and Contributions :

• Project Management, Human Resource Management.
• French, English (spoken and written).
  

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