Curriculum Vitae
Education | Academic Experience | Industry Experience | Distinctions | Extra-curricular
Nov. 2008-Present:
- Associate Professor, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, College of Engineering, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
- Photonics Thrust leader, and co-founder of KACST Technology Innovation Center on Wireless, Microwaves and Photenics, KSU.
Feb. 2003–2012: Adjunct Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Laval University, Québec, Canada.
June 2006–Aug. 2008: Senior Research Scientist, Center of Optical Photonics and Laser, Québec, Canada.
Sep. 2001: Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Université Laval, Canada
Title: ‘‘Optical Fast Frequency Hopping CDMA: Principle, Simulation and Experiment’’. PDF. Field: System Communications, Optical Networks.
Dec. 1997: Master’s in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Université Laval, Canada.
Title: ‘‘Narrowband Interference Suppression in Spread Spectrum CDMA Communications via Blind Equalization’’. PDF. Field: Wireless Communications.
09/2003-06/2006: Chief Technology Officer and Member of the board of directors, of Access Photonic Networks Inc., Quebec, Canada.
01/2001-09/2003: President and Chief technology Officer of Access Photonic Networks Inc., Quebec, Canada. High-Tech R&D Company.
01/2000-01/2001: Co-Founder and R&D director, Benyata Inc. High-Tech R&D Company.
- My journal paper [Fathallah, H. et al. "Passive Optical Fast Frequency-Hop CDMA Communications System," IEEE Journal of Lightwave Technology, vol. 17, pp. 397-405, Mar. ‘99] is now cited 218 times per ISI 350 times per Google Scholar. Top 5 most cited publications in Optical CDMA area.
- Award from Saudi Airforce (2012).
- Award for best paper in IEEE International Conference on Communication and Information Technologies, June 2012, Hammamat, Tunisia.
- Award for best poster competition of SYTAcom (June 2007).
- Award from Canadian Space Agency (CSA) (1999).
- Award for best publication by IEEE Communications Society, London, UK (1997).
- PhD Scholarship from Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC).
- PhD Scholarship, Le Fonds québécois de la recherche sur la nature et les technologies (FQRNT).
- PhD Scholarship, Fondation de l’Université Laval. (1997).
- Master’s Scholarship, Agence Canadienne de Développement International (ACDI). (1995).
- Member of the Board of Directors of Quebec City Economic Development Center.
- Participated in initiating Quebec’s Techno pole on defence and security technologies.
- Member of Quebec STUDIO of Self Defense TAI-JITSU.
- Member of IEEE Communications Society, Optical Society of America (OSA).
- Reviewer: IEEE Transactions on Communications, Optics Letters, Journal of Lightwave Technology, Photonics Technology Letters, Journal of Optical Networking, etc.
- President and co-founder of Pont Intercultural de Quebec.
Other skills and Contributions :
- Project Management, Human Resource Management.
- French, English (spoken and written).