Ali Al-Shaikhi

Ali Al-Shaikhi, is an Associate Professor and currently the Dean of Engineering College at KFUPM. He received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees from the King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM), Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, in 1997 and 2001, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada, in 2008, all in electrical engineering. He has been the Chairman of the Electrical Engineering Department, KFUPM, since 2011 and the Director of the Center for Energy and Geo-Processing (CEGP) since 2013. He serves as a member of the following committees: Academic Leadership Center (ALC) at Ministry of Education (MOE), Electricity Dispute Resolution Committee at ECRA, Lighting Team at SASO, and External Advisory Board of Electrical Engineering Department at Umm Al-Qura University. He received the following scholarships: the faculty of graduate study at Dalhousie University Scholarship and Bruce and Dorothy Rosetti Engineering Research Scholarship. He also received a Travel Grant Award of the 5th Annual Conference on Communication Networks and Services Research, in 2007. He was awarded KFUPM Scholarship to pursue his Ph.D. degree overseas. He has several publications in ISI journal, flagship conferences, and has some patents, as well. His research interests lie in the areas of wireless communication, communication theory, digital communications, signal processing, and computer networks