People

Director

Dr. Ayman Abdallah

Director, IRC-ASE; ​​​Area of Specialization: Flight Dynamics and ​Control, Aerodynamics and A​str​odynamics​​​

IRC-ASE's Expert Advisor

Dr. Charles Elachi

Former JPL/NASA; Advisor and subject matter expert; subject expert on satellite and space exploration

Researchers and Affiliated

Dr. Roman Shults

Research scientist; Geodesy, UAS, Remote Sensing, Geomatics, Underground Surveying, Hydrographic Surveying, Photogrammetry.

Dr. Ashraf Farahat

Affiliate Researcher; Martian atmosphere, Earth observation, space weather, CubeSat experiments, remote sensing, dust storms, solar cells.

Dr. Wael G. Abdelrahman

Affiliate Researcher; Satellite composite structures, micromechanical modeling, wave propagation in composites, stochastic analysis.

Dr. Naef A. A. Qasem

Affiliate Researcher; Area of Specialization: Thermal-Fluid Science, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Energy and Desalination

Dr.Salman Al-fifi

Affiliate Researcher; Area of Specialization: Aerodynamics, Aeroelasticity, AstroDynamics, Propulsion and Fluid Mechanics

Dr. Abrar Baluch

Affiliate Researcher; Spacecraft system engineering, satellite engineering, spacecraft materials, hypervelocity impact dynamics, computational impact dynamics.

Dr. Mohamed Ismail

Affiliate Researcher; Area of Specialization: Aerospace Mechatronics, UAVs Design and Control, Laser Doppler Vibrometry, Diagnosis and Prognosis of Aerospace Systems

Dr. Abdallah M. Al-Zahrani

Affiliate Researcher ; Research Areas: Gravitational physics, Black hole physics,Computational physics, Astrophysics and cosmology.

Dr. Syed Saad Azhar Ali

​Guest Affiliate; ​​​Area of Specialization: Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Signal and Image Processing

Dr. Ali Nasir

Guest Affiliate; ​​​Area of Specialization: Approximate Dynamic Programming, Fault Tolerant Control, Nonlinear Control & Estimation

Dr. Sultan Ghazzawi

Affiliate Researcher: Modeling and characterization of advanced aerospace structures and materials, including functionally graded materials and multifunctional smart, self-sensing composites

Dr. Tabassum Yasmeen

Postdoctoral; Materials characterization (titanium, aluminum), deformation modeling, mechanical behavior, materials processing, computational methods (FEM), optimization.

Post Docs

Dr Ghulam Abro

Postdoctoral: Unmanned Autonomous Vehicles and Systems, Computer Vision and Control, Embedded System Design and Communication.

Dr. Md Masudur Rahman

Postdoctoral Researcher; Area of Expertise: Measurement and instrumentation of earth surface and atmospheric components.

Dr. Tabassum Yasmeen

Postdoctoral; Materials characterization (titanium, aluminum), deformation modeling, mechanical behavior, materials processing, computational methods (FEM), optimization.

Dr. Asia Kajo

Postdoctoral; Small Satellite Attitude control (ADCS), Orbital Mechanics, Space Environment, Attitude Disturbance Torques, Satellite Design, Electronic, Communication and Embedded Systems, Kalman Filtering, Nonlinear Estimation (Extended Kalman Filtering, Unscented Kalman Filtering).

Dr. Muhammad Usman

Postdoctoral; Remote sensing, GIS, vegetation dynamics, climate change, water resource management, crop water requirements, and machine learning/AI.

Dr. Mohamed Takeyledein

Postdoctoral Researcher; Area of expertise: Wind turbines Aerodynamics, Propeller Aerodynamics, CFD simulations of blunt bodies.

Dr. Ghazanfar Mehdi

Postdoctoral Researcher; Area of Expertise: Combustion, Plasma assisted combustion, hydrogen combustion, Thermodynamics, Turbines and engines, Emission Control Technologies

Dr. Hatem Magdy

Postdoctoral Researcher; Area of Expertise: Computer Science. Database, Operating system, Programming, Networking, Expert Systems, Image Processing, Deep Learning, Machine Learning, Networking, System Analysis and Design, Expert Systems

Dr. Fadi Al Youseff

Postdoctoral: Area of experience: Controller design methods, Estimation methods, Heuristic optimization algorithms, Voting algorithm, Systems.

Dr. Bazilah Baharom

Post Doctoral Fellow : Electromagnetics, Antenna Arrays, Microwave and Millimeter Wave Communication, Metamaterial and Metasurfaces, Dielectric Lenses, Bio-Medical Antenna, Terahertz Antenna, Space Communication, 5G/6G, Beamforming/Beam Steering Antennas

Lab Engineers and Technicians

Eng. Muqeeth Mohammed Abdul

Assistant to Director

Ms. Sarah F. Al-kharraa

Lab Technician; Artificial Intelligence and Robotics

Eng. Ibrahim Al Jalal

Lab Engineer: Robotics, Computer Vision, AI in Engineering Applications, Hardware-Software Integration, Unmanned Systems