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

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

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