Ridha Hamila received the Master of Science, Licentiate of Technology with distinction, and Doctor of Technology degrees from Tampere University of Technology (TUT), Department of Information Technology, Tampere, Finland, in 1996, 1999, and 2002, respectively. Dr. Ridha Hamila is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering, Qatar University, Qatar. Also, he is adjunct Professor at the Department of Communications Engineering of TUT. From 1994 to 2002 he held various research and teaching positions at TUT within the Department of Information Technology, Finland. From 2002 to 2003 he was a System Specialist at Nokia research Center and Nokia Networks, Helsinki. From 2004 to 2009 he was with Etisalat University College, Emirates Telecommunications Corporation, UAE. His current research interests include mobile and broadband wireless communication systems, synchronization and DSP algorithms for flexible radio transceivers, cellular and satellites-based positioning technologies. In these areas, he has published over 50 journal and conference papers most of them in the peered reviewed IEEE publications, filed one patent, and wrote numerous confidential industrial research reports. Dr. Hamila has been involved in several past and current industrial projects, Qtel, QNRF, Finnish Academy projects, EU research and education programs. He supervised a large number of under/graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. He organized many international workshops and conferences, just to mention he was the Technical Program Chair of ISSPA’2010 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He is a Senior Member of IEEE. He is a Senior Member of IEEE.
