CURRICULUM VITAE

 

 

 

PERSONAL INFORMATION:

 

·      NAME: MOHAMMED SALEM ELMUSRATI

·      DATE OF BIRTH: MAY 10, 1969

·      MARITAL STATUS: MARRIED with 2 daughters

·      TELEPHONES (GSM): +358 50 400 3763 & (Office) +358 6 324 8690

·      FAX: +358 6 324 8467

·      Email: moel@uwasa.fi

·      Email2: msalem@cc.hut.fi

·      Website: http://lipas.uwasa.fi/~moel

 

 

EDUCATION:

 

·      Doctor of Science in Technology (D.Sc.): from Control Engineering Laboratory, Helsinki University of Technology on Aug. 2004. The thesis title is “Radio Resource Management and Smart Antennas in Wireless CDMA Communication Systems,”.

·      Licentiate of Technology from Control Engineering Laboratory, Helsinki University of Technology on 2002. The thesis is under the title “Power control and MIMO beamforming in CDMA mobile communication systems” and has been accepted with distinction and the average grade of the courses is 5.0/5.0.

·      M.Sc. in Electrical & Electronic Eng. From Garyounis University on fall 1995 with an average grade of courses 3.89/4.00* and final thesis under the title ” Artificial Neural Networks & Applications” with grade as Excellent.

·      B.Sc. . in Electrical & Electronic  Eng. From Garyounis University on spring 1991 with an average 3.27/4.00* and final thesis under the title “Low Noise Amplifiers in Satellite communication” which has been accepted with grade of 4.0/4.0.

 

WORK EXPERIENCE:

 

·        Full and permanent Professor and Head of Telecommunication Engineering Group – Faculty of Technology – University of Vaasa, starting from 01.06.2009.

·        Acting Professor and Head of Telecommunication Engineering Group – Faculty of Technology, University of Vaasa starting from 01.08.2007.

·        Adjunct Professor at Control Engineering Laboratory, Faculty of Electronics, Communications and Automation, Helsinki University of Technology – Finland.

·        Full Time Senior Lecturer and Researcher at Department of Computer Science, University of Vaasa – Finland from 1-8-2004 to 31.7.2007.

·        Senior Researcher: at Control Engineering Lab. - Automation Department- Helsinki University of Technology- Finland. Main task: leading research activities in wireless automation (wireless sensor and actuator networks).  Working in many industrial and academic research projects.

·        Supervisor for many B.Sc. projects, Master (>15) and PhD (>3) theses.

·        Researcher Scientist: at Helsinki University of Technology, Control Engineering Laboratory from 1-9-1999 until 31-07-2004.

·        Full Time Lecturer at Faculty of Engineering- Garyounis University from fall 1995 to spring 1999.

·        Part Time Lecturer at the High Institute of Electronics –Benghazi from fall 1993 to spring 1999.

·        Teaching Assistant at the faculty of Engineering- Garyounis University from fall 1992 to spring 1994

·        Head of Electronic Department at El-Fateh Centre for Gifted Students Benghazi- Libya 1993-1997. El-Fateh centre is a high school level for the most gifted students.

 

 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE:

 

Elmusrati has more than 15 years of teaching experience. He has lectured in four different institutes: High Institute of Electronics (HIE)– Benghazi- Libya, Garyounis University (GAR)-Benghazi-Libya, Helsinki University of Technology (TKK)- Finland, and University of Vaasa (UWASA) –Finland. He has prepared the material and lectured many different courses such as:

1)   Numerical Analysis (GAR)

2)   Digital Communication (GAR)

3)   Control Theory (GAR)

4)   Microwave Laboratory (GAR)

5)   Principles of Telecommunications (HIE)

6)   Pulse and Digital Electronics (HIE)

7)   Telephone Switching (HIE)

8)   Postgraduate Course (TKK): Ad hoc Networks

9)   Postgraduate Course (TKK): Wireless Automation

10)                   Mobile Communication services and systems (UWASA)

11)                   Advanced Course on Signals and Systems (UWASA)

12)                   Radio Resource Management (UWASA)

13)                   Telecommunication Electronics (UWASA)

14)                   Digital Communication (UWASA)

15)                   Game Theory with Applications on Telecommunication (UWASA)

16)                   Introduction to Radio Technology (UWASA)

 

RSEARCH INTERESTS:

 

·      Radio Resource Management in 3ed Generation Mobile Communications and Beyond.

·      Smart Antennas.

·      Digital Communications.  

·      Ultra Wide Band (UWB) Communication and Ad hoc Networks.

·      Optical Networks

·      Distributed Actuators and Sensor Networks.

·      Applications of Wireless Communications in Power Systems

·      Neural Networks.

·      Data Fusion.

 

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

 

·      Member of the technical program committee (TPC) of different international conferences such as IEEE VTC Fall – 2003, IEEE VTC- Spring – 2004, IEEE VTC- Fall – 2005, IEEE VTC- Spring – 2006, JIEEE 2005, IEEE  CIRA 2005, IEEE VTC 2007, Innovations ITT 2007, AASNET08, AASNET09, IEEE WCNC 2008, and IEEE VTC 2008.

·      Reviewer for many international journals such as IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, IEEE Communication Letters, IEE Electronic Letters, and IEEE wireless Transaction.

·      Reviewer in many international conferences such as IEEE VTC-Fall 2003, IEEE ICC 2004, IEEE GlobeCom 2004, SCI (The 8th World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics) 2004, CCCT (International Conference on Computing, Communications and Control Technologies) 2004,  IEEE VTC-Spring-2004, IEEE WCNC 2005, IEEE WCNC 2008, IEEE VTC 2008, and others.

·      Visiting Researcher to communication lab in Royal Institute of Technology – Sweden in the period May 25- June 10, 2003.

·      Visiting Researcher to Radio Lab at Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)- Sweden for one month during 2008.

 

PUBLICATION ACTIVITIES

 

·      Author and co-author for more than 50 (published and submitted) papers and reports during the period 2000-2008.

·      Co-author of a new text book “System Engineering on Telecommunication”, publisher: J. Wiley. The book should be ready by the end of 2009.

 

GRANTS

 

·      Scholarship for postgraduate studies from Garyounis University (Libya) for the period 1999-2003

·      Grant from Nokia Foundation (Finland) for my research activities 2001

·      Grant from Nokia Foundation (Finland) for my research activities 2002

·      Grant from ELLA JA GEORG EHRNROOTIN Foundation (Finland) for my research activities 2003.

·      Grant from Nokia Foundation (Finland) to cover my visiting research to Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) – Sweden during 2007-2008.