Yazan A Alqudah

Western Carolina University

Yazan A. Alqudah, Ph.D.

Yazan.A.Alqudah@ieee.org

http://yazan.alqudah.com

 

Professional Experience

  • Associate Professor, Western Carolina University, Fall 2016-Present
  • Associate Professor, Princess Sumaya University for Technology, Amman, Jordan, Fall 2012-Present
  • Assistant Professor, Princess Sumaya University for Technology, Amman, Jordan, Fall 2008-Fall 2012: Teaching senior and junior level classes in electrical engineering and supervising senior students projects. Courses include: WiMAX Technology, Cellular Communications, Optical Fiber Communications, Analog Communications, Digital Signal Processing, Signals and Systems, and Circuit Analysis.
  • Visiting Scholar, Indiana University Purdue University, Fort Wayne, Indiana, Summer 2011: conducting collaborative research with Center for Wireless Technology on vertical handover and hands on open technology lab.
  • Assistant Dean for Graduate Studies and Scientific Research, Princess Sumaya University for Technology, Amman, Jordan, January 2010-January 2011: Assisting in the establishment of new graduate programs, obtaining research funding for faculty, and promoting academic research at the university.
  • Senior Staff Architect, Mobile Wireless Group and Logic Technology Development, Intel, Hillsboro, July 2003-January 2010: Managing projects and leading engineering teams to advance Intel leadership in Wireless Communications and Process Technology Development. Accomplishments include:

·         Developing system integration strategy and validation plans for WiMAX residential gateways and handheld products.

·         Designing experiments to validate link budget and characterize system performance under various channel conditions.

·         Generating architecture and topology of WiMAX Lab to enable integration of new product features.

·         Ensuring features and capabilities conformance to 802.16e and other standards.

·         Developing real time automated low yield analysis system for fault detection and failures root causes. The system is key in 45nm CMOS process technology development and manufacturing.

·         Research Assistant, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, August 2001 - May 2003: Conducting research at Center for Information and Communications Technology Research on Indoor Wireless Communications. Teaching Assistant for Digital Communications, and Wireless and Mobile Communications courses for undergraduate and graduate levels.

·         Teaching Assistant, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, August 2000 - May 2001: Assisted in teaching Digital Communications and Wireless and Mobile Communications courses, taught Circuit and Devices Laboratory.

·         Project Manager, Mobile Communications, Schlumberger, Owings Mills, August 1997 - August 2000: Working with North American telecom carriers on customization and personalization of SIM module and OTAC services. Responsibilities include:

·         Technical management of SIM accounts for North American GSM carriers.

·         Specification, personalization, and testing procedures for the subscriber identity modules.

·         Installation of Over The Air Customization (OTAC) services for GSM North American networks.

  • Teaching Assistant, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, August 1995 - May 1997: Taught Analog and Digital Control Laboratories.

Educational Background

  • Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, GPA = 3.98 / 4.0, August 2003. Dissertation Title: Space Diversity Techniques in Indoor Broadband Optical Wireless Communications.
  • M.S., Electrical Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, GPA = 3.97 / 4.0, August 1997. Thesis Title: Motion Artifacts Reduction in Magnetic Resonance Imaging Using Feedback Control.
  • B.S., Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Jordan, Jordan, Spring 1993.

 

Synergistic Activities

  • Editorial Board:  Journal of Communications Engineering and Networks
  • TPC: IEEE Student Conference on Research and Development 2012, IEEE Asia-Pacific Conference on Applied Electromagnetics 2012, IEEE Symposium on Computer Applications and Industrial Electronics, 2012, IEEE Conference on Open Systems, 2012, IEEE Symposium on Wireless Technology & Applications, 2012,IEEE Conference on Computer Applications and Industrial Electronics,  2011,IEEE Conference on Open Systems, 2011,IEEE Jordan Conference on Applied Electrical Engineering and Computing Technologies (AEECT), 2011,IEEE Symposium on Computers & Informatics, 2011,International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference, 2012-Energy-Aware workshop, Innovation 2009,IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), 2007, International Conference on Communications, 2006,

 

  • Reviewer: the IEEE Transactions on Communications, the IEEE Communications Letters, the IEEE Transaction on Vehicular Technology, Optics Letters, IEEE communications magazine, ETRI Journal, China Communications, DTTC 2007, IEEE WCNC 2007, ICOS 2011, ICCAIE 2011, ISCI 2011, EduCon 2012
  • Co-Chair: "High Performance Computing and Energy-Aware Solutions with Data Mining and Wireless/Mobile Applications" Workshop, IWCMC 2011.
  • Scientific committee for El-Hassan Science Week 2010. Coordinator of Poverty workshop.

 

Awards and General Activities

  •  Intel Technology Development award at Intel for enabling 45 nm technology node development through engineering analysis solution Q4, 2005
  •  Intel Technology Development award at Intel for novel circuit failure analysis classification algorithm Q1, 2007
  • Intel Division Award at Intel for novel failures to manufacturing defects correlation tool Q1, 2007
  •  IEEE Senior Member
  • IEEE Senior Communication Society Member
  • Elected into the National Engineering Tau Beta Pi honor society
  • Marquis Who’s Who 2012
  • PSUT Best Researcher Award 2014

Skills and Professional Training

    • Research proposal workshop, PSUT
    • Constructive Confrontation, Intel
    • Effective Meetings, Intel
    • Managing Through People, Intel
    • Structured Problem Solving, Intel
    • Managing Projects to Success, Intel
    • WiMAX RF Network Engineering certificate,
    • Situational Leadership, Intel
    • C#, C/C++, JMP®, Matlab®, Optiwave®

 

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