Director
Dr. Ayman Abdallah
Director, IRC-ASE; Area of Specialization: Flight Dynamics and Control, Aerodynamics and Astrodynamics
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
Senior Research scientist ; Areas of expertise: Geodesy, UAS, Remote Sensing, Geomatics, Underground Surveying, Hydrographic Surveying, Remote Sensing, Photogrammetry, Geospatial measurements, UAS
Dr. Ashraf Farahat
Affiliate Researcher ; Research Areas: Dynamics of Martian upper atmosphere and ionosphere; Earth observation; Space weather; CubeSat microgravity experimental design, Remote Sensing; Dust storms on Mars and on Earth, Solar Cell Optimization
Dr. Wael G. Abdelrahman
Affiliate Researcher; Area of Specialization: Satellite composite structures, Micromechanical modeling of composites, Wave propagation in composites, Stochastic analysis of Functionally graded materials
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; Area of Specialization: Spacecraft system engineering, Satellite engineering, Spacecraft structures and materials, Hypervelocity impact, and its dynamics, Computational impact dynamics Composites.
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
Post Docs
Dr. Md Masudur Rahman
Postdoctoral Researcher; Area of Expertise: Measurement and instrumentation of earth surface and atmospheric components • Satellite-based estimation validation of earth surface and atmospheric components • Cartography and Geographic information system (GIS) • Radiative transfer in atmosphere
Dr. Ghulam E Mustafa Abro
Postdoctoral Researcher; Area of Expertise: Unmanned Autonomous Vehicles and Systems, Computer Vision and Control, Embedded System Design and Communication, Swarm Robotics and Multi-agent Systems, Autonomous Navigation and Mapping, Flight Tolerant Control Systems, Trajectory Tracking and Correction and Underactuated Systems.
Dr. Mohamed Takeyledein
Postdoctoral Researcher; Area of expertise: Wind turbines Aerodynamics, Propeller Aerodynamics, CFD simulations of blunt bodies.
Dr. Tabassum Yasmeen
Postdoctoral Researcher; Area of Expertise: Materials Characterization (Engineering Alloys e.g. Titanium, Aluminum), Constitutive Modelling of Materials Deformation, Mechanical Behavior of Materials, Materials Processing, Computational Methods (FEM), Optimization Techniques
Dr. Muhammad Usman
Postdoctoral Researcher; Area of Expertise: Remote Sensing; Geographic Information System (GIS); Vegetation Dynamics and Climate Change; Water Resource Management; Crop Water Requirement; Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence
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
Lab Engineers and Technicians
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