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as an electrical engineer in Khobar. He then worked at
Schneider Electric in the energy division handling Saudi
Electricity Company contractors' portfolio in the main office in Riyadh.
Ping Jack Soh, PhD, C. Eng (S '10, M '14,
SM '15) was born in Sabah, Malaysia. He
received the B. Eng and M. Eng degrees
in Electrical Engineering (Telecommunication) from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) in 2002 and 2006, respectively, and the PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from
KU Leuven, Belgium in 2013.
He is currently an Associate Professor at the Faculty
of Electronic Engineering Technology, UniMAP, and a
Research Affiliate at KU Leuven, Belgium. Prior to that,
he was a Test Engineer in Venture Corp. from 2002 to
2004 and was an R&D Engineer in Motorola Solutions
Malaysia in 2005. From 2006, he joined SCCE-UniMAP
as a Lecturer, and also served as the Deputy Director
of the Centre for Industrial Collaboration (CIC) between
2007 and 2009. He went on leave from UniMAP in 2009 to
pursue his Ph.D. and research attachment in KU Leuven,
Belgium. He was first a Research Assistant (2009-2013),
then a Postdoctoral Research Fellow (2013-2014) and is
currently a Research Affiliate in the ESAT-TELEMIC Research Division. Upon his return to UniMAP in 2014, he
resumed his role as a Senior Lecturer, and concurrently
served as the Deputy Dean of the university's Research
Management and Innovation Center (RMIC) between
2014 and 2017. He was also the Head of the Advanced
Communication Engineering (ACE) Research Centre,
UniMAP in 2020. He researches actively in his areas of
interest: wearable and flexible antennas/metasurfaces;
on-body communication; electromagnetic safety and absorption; and wireless and radar techniques for healthcare applications. He is also an Associate Editor of the
International Journal of Numerical Modelling: Electronic
Networks, Devices and Fields (Wiley). His involvement
in several industrial research projects have resulted in a
granted patent and five other filed patents.
Dr. Soh was the recipient of the IEEE Antennas and
Propagation Society (AP-S) Doctoral Research Award in
2012, the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (MTT-S) Graduate Fellowship for Medical Applications in 2013 and the International Union of Radio Science
(URSI) Young Scientist Award in 2015. He was also the
Second Place Winner of the IEEE Presidents' Change the
World Competition in 2013. Two of his (co)authored journals were awarded the IEEE AP/MTT/EMC Malaysia Joint
Chapter's Best Paper Award in 2018 and 2019, and another two journals were also awarded the CST University
Publication Award in 2012 and 2011. As project advisor,
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his supervised students have also won prizes such as
the IEEE MTT-S Undergraduate Scholarship in 2019 and
2016, First Place in the Innovate Malaysia Design Competition (Motorola Track) in 2016 and the First Place
in the IEEE Malaysia Section Final Year Project Competition (Telecommunication Track) in 2015. He is a
Chartered Engineer registered with the UK Engineering Council; a Professional Technologist registered
with the Malaysia Board of Technologist (MBOT); a
Senior Member of the IEEE, a Member of the IET and
the URSI. He also serves in the IEEE MTT-S Education
Committee, and the IEEE MTT-S Meetings and Symposia (M&S) Committee.
Dr. Omar Aldayel is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical
Engineering at King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He received B.S. degree from King Saud University, Riyadh,
Saudi Arabia, M.S. degree from KTH-
the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
and Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from The
Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA
in 2007, 2011 and 2017, respectively. He worked at King
Saud University as a lecturer, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, from
2011 to 2013. Dr. Aldayel's research interests include radar signal processing, detection and estimation, and
convex optimization.
Dr. Muataz Hameed Salih received the
B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees from the Dept.
of Computer Engineering from University of Technology, Iraq, in 1998 and 2002,
respectively. In Sept 2013, he earned a
PhD degree in Computer Engineering,
with specialization in FPGA Embedded Multiprocessor
SoC. From Sept. 1998 to March 2003, he was a research
engineer in Military Industrialization Corporation of Iraq.
From Oct. 2003 to June 2008, he was a lecturer and manager of engineering faculty's LABS in the faculty of Engineering of Al-Kalamoon private university, Syria. From
July 2008 to July April 2011, he was a Researcher at Underwater Robotic Research Group at USM. Nov. 2013 to Oct
2018, he is a Senior lecturer at UniMAP, Malaysia. Since
Oct. 2018, he is an FPGA Senior Staff Engineer Manager at
Flex company. He is IR4.0 and Intelligent Automation lead
of Flex Penang Cluster. He is SMIEEE, CEng, MIET and IACSIT Senior Member. His research interests and working
area on designing digital systems using FPGA technology,
FPGA-SoC design, embedded systems, computer system
architecture, microprocessor architecture, active jamming system for laser missiles, IR4.0 transformation,
Cybersecurity and Intelligent Automation.
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