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
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
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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
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