Faculty, Staff, and Students

  Bartel van der Veek is a Ph.D. candidate of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Florida Institute of Technology. He received his Master degree in Electrical Engineering from the Technical University in Eindhoven, the Netherlands in 2009. His specialization is in the field of control systems, but has done research in a variety of fields including modeling and control of flexible structures, wireless communication systems, and electromagnetic wave propagation. Along with his PhD studies Bartel teaches Signals and Systems and Computer Design for FIT's department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Bartel van der Veek
Ph.D. Candidate
Email: bvanderveek@my.fit.edu

Mohammed Almeer is a Ph.D. student in the Electrical and Computer Engineering at Florida Institute of Technology. His research interest area is in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) and Network Protocols. Mohammed works as a graduate assistant in the Computer Engineering Department at University of Bahrain in Computer. Currently, he is in a leave from University of Bahrain to peruse his Ph.D. Mohammed Almeer
Ph.D. Student
Email: mmalmeer2008@my.fit.edu

Fahad Alomary is a Ph.D. student in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the Florida Institute of Technology. He joined Florida Tech as a Master’s student in 2007. He posses his Master’s Degree in two fields of study, a Master’s of Computer Engineering, and a Master’s of Engineering Management. His research interests are in the areas of Personal Communication Systems, Wireless Networks, and The Quality of Service in Cellular Networks. Fahad has over five years of industry experience in the Wireless Data Network, and Communications Systems. Fahad Alomary
Ph.D. Student
Email: falomary@my.fit.edu

Ali Bendallah is a PhD student of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Florida Institute of Technology. His research interests are in the areas of mobile wireless communications and Indoor propagation environment.
His Ph.D. work concentrates on Indoor propagation prediction and modeling using different techniques such as for example statistical modeling and finding the best modeling scheme suits for such environment.		 Ali Bendallah
Ph.D. Student
Email: abendallah2009@my.fit.edu

Abdulaziz AlSayyari is a Computer Engineering PhD student at Florida Institute of Technology. His Research interests are concentrating on Wireless Sensor Networks various topics. He is currently serving as a Graduate Student Assistant of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Florida Tech. He teaches ECE1551 Digital Logic and ECE3553 Multifarious Systems 1. Abdulaziz AlSayyari
Ph.D. Student
Email: aalsayya@my.fit.edu

Hani Alyazidi is a PHD student in the Electrical and Computer Engineering department at the Florida Institute of Technology. His research interests are in the areas of Dynamic Resource Allocation in Wireless Multiuser Systems. Hani  Alyazidi
Ph.D. Student
Email: halyazid2006@my.fit.edu

Yaser Barayan is a Ph.D. student in the Electrical and Computer Engineering department at the Florida Institute of Technology. His research interests are in the areas of System Level Performance for 3GPP Long Term Evolution (LTE) Technologies and Radio Resource Management including Frequency Reuse and Channel-dependent Scheduling disciplines. Yaser has two years of industry experience in power plant projects as an electrical engineer prior to join Florida Tech. in 2006 as a graduate student. Yaser  Barayan
Ph.D. Student
Email: ybarayan@my.fit.edu

Za Hniang Za is a PhD student in the Electrical and Computer Engineering department. She joined Florida Institute of Technology in 2006 as a graduate student. Her research interests are in the area of network performance optimization, analyzing Quality of Service, Quality of Experience and Key Performance Indicator in cellular networks. She is currently interning at Gladiator Innovations, LLC as a quality assurance engineer. Za Hniang Za
Ph.D. Student
Email: zza2006@my.fit.edu

Luna Weissberger is a Ph.D. student in the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Florida Institute of Technology. Her research interests are geared towards Channel Fading and Estimation in LTE networks. She has over eight years of industry experience in Motherboard Design and System Integration. Luna Weissberger
Ph.D. Student
Email: lot@my.fit.edu

Hamad Almohamedh is a Ph.D. student in the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He joined Florida institute of Technology in 2006. Hamad got his bachelor and master in Software Engineering From Florida institute of Technology. He is working at King abdulaziz city for science and technolgoy (KACST) as an academic researcher. His research intersets are The Quality of Service (QoS) in Cellular Networks and  Wireless Sensor Networks Hamad Almohamedh
Ph.D. Student
Email:  halmoham@my.fit.edu

Fahad Alqurashi is a PhD student. He joined Florida Tech as a graduate student in 2009. His research interests are in the database analysis of networking systems. Fahad has also more than 18 years experience in Database Management Systems. Fahad Alqurashi
Ph.D. Student
Email: falqurashi2008@my.fit.edu

 

  Gil Perez is a Ph.D student in the Electrical and Computer Engineering department at the Florida Institute of Technology. Gil’s research interests are in the areas of RF propagation, wireless communication, mobile adhoc networks combined with modeling and simulation. Gil is an electrical engineer at Harris Government Communications Systems Division. Gil has some 25 years of industry experience encompassing test, modem dsp software development, modeling & simulation and systems engineering. Gil has worked network modeling and simulation architectures for tactical networks utilizing various custom protocols, researching network and optimizing radio connectivity. Gil enjoys teaching Mathematics at the junior college. Gil Perez
Ph.D. Student
Email: gilperez4@gmail.com

   

Masoud is a Ph.D student in the Electrical and Computer Engineering department at the Florida Institute of Technology. He joined FIT in 2010 as a graduate student. His research interests are in the areas of RF propagation, wireless communication and relay technology in new upcoming cellular networks such as LTE-advanced. In addition to his PhD studies, Masoud is a graduate student assistant (GSA) in the Electrical and Computer Engineering department at FIT. Masoud Hamid
Ph.D. Student
Email: mhamid2010@my.fit.edu

   

Hisham Elgannas is a Ph.D. student in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the Florida Institute of Technology. His research interests are in the areas of RF propagation, Personal Communication Systems. Currently, he is working on the modeling and the prediction of the outdoor to indoor propagation. Hisham Elgannas
Ph.D. Student
Email: helgannas2010@my.fit.edu

Jeff White is a PhD student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Florida Institute of Technology. He has over 30 years of industry experience at Harris GCSD and DRS-Soneticom. His research interests include RF propagation, communications waveforms and precision geolocation. Jeff White
Ph.D. Student
Email:  jeffbob@cfl.rr.com