HOD - Associate Professor
HOD - Associate Professor
Abolfazl Mehbodniya received his Ph.D. from University of Quebec, Canada, in 2010. From 2010 to 2017 he worked in Japan in different roles, i.e., JSPS research fellow, assistant professor at Tohoku University and research scientist at ATR. From 2017 to 2018 he was a Marie-Curie senior research Fellow at UCD, Ireland. Since 2018, he is an associate professor at KCST. Dr. Mehbodniya has 15+ years of experience in academia and industry with over 100 publications. He is the recipient of JSPS young faculty grant, KDDI foundation grant, European commission Marie Sk?odowska-Curie Fellowship and NSERC Visiting Fellowships in Canadian Government Laboratories.
Professor
Professor
John Avaritsiotis was born in Greece in 1948. He received his B.Sc. (Hon.) in physics from the University of Athens in 1972. His M.Sc. and Ph.D. were obtained from Loughborough University of Technology, in 1974 and 1976. From 1976 to 1979 he was employed as a research fellow in the Electrical Engineering Department. From 1980 to 1986 he was appointed Lecturer at the Electronics Laboratory of Athens University, and in 1986 he was elected Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering of the National Technical University of Athens. In 1990 he was elected Professor of Microelectronics in the same Department. Professor Avaritsiotis is the Co-Editor of the Journal Active and Passive Electronic Components, Guest Editor of IEEE Transactions on Components, Packaging and manufacturing Technology and Senior Member of IEEE.
Associate Professor
Associate Professor
Dr. Trabelsi received the Ph.D. degree in Energy Systems from INSA Lyon, France in 2009. From October 2009 to August 2018, he has been holding different Research positions at Qatar University and Texas A&M University at Qatar. Since September 2018, he has been with Kuwait College of Science and Technology as an Associate Professor. His research interests include Systems Control with applications arising in the contexts of Power Electronics, Renewable Energies Integration, and Smart Grids. Dr. Trabelsi has been participating as Principal Investigator in research projects resulting in about $6 Million of funding. Dr. Trabelsi is an IEEE senior member.
Associate Professor
Associate Professor
M MURUGAPPAN is currently working as an Associate Professor in the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Kuwait College of Science and Technology, Kuwait, since Feb 2016. He has published 65 articles in SCI/SCOPUS journals, 58 peer-reviewed conference proceedings, three book chapters, and edited two books. He successfully guided 8 Ph.D. and 5 M.Sc scholars and secured a sum of $600k as research grants from Malaysia, and Kuwait for his research works. He is serving as Associate Editor in two SCI journals and Chair of Educational Activities in the IEEE Kuwait Section. His Google Scholar citations reach 3441 with an H-Index of 31 and an i-10 index of 61. His research interests are affective computing, cognitive neuroscience, bio-signal/image processing applications, Machine Learning, and Artificial Intelligence. His research interests are in Bio- Signal Processing (EEG, ECG, HRV, ECG), Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) & Human-Machine Interaction (HMI), Neuromarketing and Neuro-behavioral analysis, affective computing (Emotion, Stress, Emotional Stress),Pattern Recognition and Machine intelligence and Digital Image Processing/ Vision System
Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor
Ahmed Arafa received the B.Sc. degree with first class honors from Kuwait University, Kuwait, in 2006, and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Calgary, in 2010 and the University of British Columbia, in 2015, respectively. From 2015 to 2018, Ahmed held joint Post-Doctoral Fellow positions at the mechatronic systems engineering department at Simon Fraser University, Intel Corporation, and the University of British Columbia. Ahmed has secured several research grants from Mitacs and Canada's Department of National Defence. His research interests are in visible light positioning, GNSS, MEMS inertial navigation, robotics and wearable technology applications.
Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor
Nour El I Boukortt received the B.Sc. degree in 2011 and subsequently the M.Sc. degree (with honors) in 2013 in Electrical Engineering from the University of Mostaganem, Algeria, and the Ph.D. degree in Physics from the University of Messina, Italy in 2017. From 2016 to 2018, He was a Senior Research Assistant at the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Kuwait, Kuwait. He joined the ECE Department at the KCST as a Lecturer in 2018 teaching/coordinating tutorials and laboratories. He conducts research on:
Lecturer
Lecturer
Ahmed Alwakeel received the B.S. degree in Electronics and Communications Engineering (ECE) from Cairo University, Egypt, in 2006, the M.S. degree in 2014, and the Ph.D. degree in 2018. From 2009 to 2016, he has joined the Communication and Coding Theory Laboratory, Sinai University. From 2016 to 2018, he has joined the Communication and Electronics Department, GUST University. From 2018, he has joined the Communication and Electronics Department, KCST University, where he did research and work as a lecture.His current research interests include large-scale (massive) MIMO systems, digital pre-distortion, optical wireless communications, and intelligent reflecting surface.
Lecturer
Lecturer
Ms. Deepa Vijayaraghavan studied at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur where she obtained her master’s degree in Telecommunication Networks in 2002. She completed her bachelor’s degree in Electronics and Communication engineering from College of Engineering, Trivandrum Kerala in 1992. From 1993 to 2006, she has worked as senior lecturer in IHRD College of Engineering, Kerala and as Assistant Professor at the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering at IHRD College of Engineering, Attingal, Kerala. From 2006 t0
2015, she had been the academic coordinator of the Scientific excellence academy in Kuwait. She joined KCST in 2015, as a lecturer in the ECE department. Her major areas of interest are Communication Networks and Signal processing.
Teaching Assistant
Teaching Assistant
Alamera Nouran Alquennah, M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering – Control theory (2019) and B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering (2011) from Kuwait University. Currently, I am a teaching assistant at Kuwait College of Science and Technology – Electronics and Communication Engineering department. I worked for a year as senior research assistant in Kuwait University – Semiconductor Laboratory. Before that, I worked in research support team in Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research – Renewable energy program for 5 years. I am interested in research topics related to PV grid-connected systems, controlling power inverters and controllers designed for viral infection models.
Teaching Assistant
Teaching Assistant
Nivin Galal El Gamal, M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering – Video
Processing (2014) and B.Sc. with honor in electronics and communication (2006)
from Mansoura University. Currently, I am a teaching assistant at Kuwait
College of Science and Technology – Electronics and Communication Engineering
department. I worked for 9 years as an instructor and a teaching assistance in
the Delta higher institute (private university). My search of interest is in
image processing, and communication engineering I published two papers.
“A new combination method for background subtraction in
video sequences” , the 8th international conference on informatics and systems
(INFOS 2012) , MM_4 ,pp. 23-28, 2012
“A new technique for adding scribbles in video matting”,
international journal of computer since issues (IJCSI), Vol. 11 No.1 ,2014
Teaching Assistant
Teaching Assistant
Halah Shehada received
her MS.c in Power Electronics and Energy Research from Kansas State University
in USA in 2021 and BS.c distinction with class honors in Electrical Engineering
from Kuwait University in 2019. She managed to complete her BS.c and MS.c in
five years only. Currently she is working at KCST as a Teaching Assistant in
Electronics and Communications department. She published three papers, two in
her BS.c and one in her Ms.c. Her research interests are in machine learning
and the DC side of power grid with connected PV.
Baidas, Mohammed &
Bahbahani, Zainab & El-Sharkawi, Nancy & Shehada, Halah & Alsusa,
Emad. (2019). Joint Relay Selection and Max-Min Energy-Efficient Power
Allocation in Downlink Multicell NOMA Networks: A Matching-Theoretic Approach.
Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies. e3564.
10.1002/ett.3564.
H. Shehada and L. Shamir, "Photovoltaic Power Analysis and Prediction Using Machine Learning Methods," 2021 3rd International Conference on Smart Power & Internet Energy Systems (SPIES), 2021.
M. W. Baidas, Z.
Bahbahani, N. El-Sharkawi, H. Shehada and E. Alsusa, "Joint Relay
Selection and Energy-Efficient Power Allocation in Downlink Multi-Cell NOMA
Networks," 2019 IEEE Wireless
Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), 2019.
Teaching Assistant
Teaching Assistant
Ms. Madia Safdar holds two Master’s degrees, one in Electrical Power and Energy Engineering from Aalto University Finland in year 2018 and second in Electronics and Communications Engineering from National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST) Pakistan in year 2015.
She has worked as a Research Assistant at Aalto university Finland from the year 2018 until 2019. She has also worked as a Lab Instructor at various institutions. She is currently serving as a Teaching Assistant in the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering (ECE), Kuwait College of Science and Technology (KCST) and holds responsibilities that are mainly related to academic teaching and research. Ms. Madia’s research interest are Electric Machines, Renewable Energy Systems, Smart grid and Demand Response (DR). She has published a few articles in journals and conference proceedings.
Hussain, Ghulam A., Ashraf A. Zaher, Detlef Hummes, Madia Safdar, and Matti Lehtonen. 2020. "Hybrid Sensing of Internal and Surface Partial Discharges in Air-Insulated Medium Voltage Switchgear" Energies 13, no. 7: 1738.
Madia Safdar, Amjad Hussain, Matti Lehtonen, “Cost of Demand Response from Residential Customers’ Perspective”, Energies. 2019; 12(9):1617.
G. Amjad Hussain, Detlef Hummes, Ashraf Zaher, Madia Safdar, Matti Lehtonen, “Hybrid sensing of partial discharge faults in air insulated switch gear”, IEEE Intl. Comf. On Environment and Electrical Engg. (EEEIC), Genova, Italy, 12-14 June 2019.
• G. Amjad Hussain, Detlef Hummes, Muhammad Shafiq, Madia Safdar, “Detection of Multiple Partial Discharge Faults in Switchgear and Power Cables”, IEEE Power and Energy Conference, Texas (TPEC), College Station, USA, 07-08 Feb 2019.
Madia Safdar, Amjad Hussain, Mashhood Ahmad, “Optimized Scheduling of Domestic Load based on User Defined Constraints in a Real-time Tariff Scenario”, IEEE Intl. Conference on Electrical Power Engineering (EPE 2016), Prague, CZ, May 2016.
Lab Assistant
Lab Assistant
Ahmed Abdulaziz Almuhanna, is a Lab Assistant in the
Electronics and Communication Engineering department at Kuwait College of
Science and Technology. He received his BSc in Electrical engineering from
Washington state university in 2019. He held the position of Teaching Assistant
for Electrical Circuits Laboratory 1 during the 2019 Spring Semester at the
School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Washington state
university. He worked with Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories for the senior
design project. His research interest is in power systems, transformers and
protection
Lab Assistant
Lab Assistant
Yasin Yasin is a Lab Assistant in the Electronics and Communication Engineering department at Kuwait College of Science and Technology. He received his BSc in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the University of Sharjah in August 2019. He is a CISCO Certified Network Associate. He worked as a tutor at Perfect Institute where he assisted engineering students in their assignments and projects.
His research interest is in networking, artificial intelligence (AI) and the Internet of things (IoT).
