Ahmed Abdelhadi
- Assistant Professor, SEECS
Contact Info
- Email: ahmed.abdelhadi@UND.edu
- Office: 701.777.4013
Office Address
Upson II Room 366N
243 Centennial Drive Stop 7165
Grand Forks, ND 58202-7165
Biography
Ahmed Abdelhadi is an Assistant Professor in the School of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science at the University of North Dakota. Before joining UND, he was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering Technology at the University of Houston and a Research Assistant Professor at Virginia Tech. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin in 2011. He was a member in Wireless Networking and Communications Group (WNCG) and Laboratory of Informatics, Networks and Communications (LINC) group during his Ph.D. In 2012, he joined Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Hume Center for National Security and Technology at Virginia Tech. He was a faculty member of Wireless @ Virginia Tech.
His research interests are in the areas of wireless communications and networks, artificial intelligence, quantum technology, cyber physical systems, and security. Dr. Abdelhadi coauthored more than 100 journal and conference papers, and 7 books in these research topics. He is a senior member of IEEE. His book Cellular Communications Systems in Congested Environments is bookplated as Virginia Tech Provost's Honor Book and his book Resource Allocation with Carrier Aggregation in Cellular Networks is featured in the 13th Annual Virginia Tech Authors Recognition Event. He received Silver Contribution Award from IEEE International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC), Best Paper Award from IEEE International Symposium on Systems Engineering (ISSE), and Outstanding Paper Award from IEEE International Conference of Advanced Communications Technology (ICACT).
- Communication Protocols
- Advanced Wireless Communications Engineering
- Computer Networks Communications
- Analytical Foundations of Cyber Security
- Wireless Communications and Networks
- Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence
- Quantum Technology
- Cyber Physical Systems Performance, Security, and Privacy (including Smart Grid, M2M, Health Sciences, Cyberbiosecurity, Big Data, and Wireless Systems)
- Radar Systems, Spectral Coexistence, Spectrum Sharing, and Cognitive Systems
- Early Carrer Scholar Award, Vice President for Research & Economic Development, University of North Dakota 2025
- Early Carrer Scholar Award, Vice President for Research & Economic Development, University of North Dakota 2024
- First Place Award for Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Beyond 5G University Challenge 2022
- Wright Brothers Institute (WBI) Travel Grant Award to my research team report Implementation of Deep Learning Radio Signal Classifiers with Over-the-Air Adversarial Attacks Resiliency of AFRL Beyond 5G University Challenge 2022
- Outstanding Paper Award from IEEE ICACT conference, 2020
- Best Paper Award from IEEE ISSE conference, 2019
- Honored on Book Design and Implementation of Practical Schedulers for M2M Uplink Networks at University of Housto Inventor Patent Awards and Celebration of Researchers Luncheon, 2019
- Book Cellular Communications Systems in Congested Environments is bookplated as Virginia Tech (VT) Provost’s Honor Book, 2017
- Book Resource Allocation with Carrier Aggregation in Cellular Networks is featured in the 13th Annual Virginia Tech Authors Recognition Event, 2017
- Three books are featured in the Special Collections of Newman Library at VT
- Awarded Senior Member of IEEE
- Silver Contribution Award from IEEE ICNC conference, 2016
Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering - University of Texas at Austin