A-K. Hamid was born in Tulkarm, WestBank, on Sept. 9, 1963. He received the B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from West Virginia Institute of Technology and university, West Virginia, U.S.A. in 1985. He received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the university of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada in 1988 and 1991, respectively, both in Electrical Engineering. From 1991-1993, he was with Quantic Laboratories Inc., Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, developing two and three dimensional electromagnetic field solvers using boundary integral method. From 1994-2000 he was with the faculty of electrical engineering at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. Since Sept. 2000 he is with the electrical and computer engineering at the University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. His research interest includes EM wave scattering from two and three dimensional bodies, propagation along waveguides with discontinuities, FDTD simulation of cellular phones, and inverse scattering using neural networks.
