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Dr. Khalid Qaraqe
Professor
Educational Qualifications
PhD in Electrical Engineering
MSc in Electrical Engineering
Entity
College of Science and Engineering
Biography
Dr. Khalid A. Qaraqe is a Professor in the College of Science and Engineering at Hamad Bin Khalifa University. Dr. Qaraqe completed his Bachelors in Electrical Engineering from the University of Technology, Iraq and Masters in Electrical Engineering from the University of Jordan. He earned his PhD in Electrical Engineering from Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States.
From 1989 to 2004, Dr. Qaraqe held various positions in several prominent telecommunication companies and has over 12 years of experience in the telecommunication industry. Dr. Qaraqe has worked on numerous projects and has experience in product development, design, deployments, testing, and integration.
Dr. Qaraqe's research interests include communication theory and its application to wireless communication systems design and performance analysis. His main research interests are mobile networks, broadband wireless access, cooperative networks, cognitive radio, diversity techniques, Index Modulation, Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs), mmWave, THz, Visible Light Communication (VLC), FSO, and telehealth applications.
Dr. Qaraqe has also been awarded over 14 million USD in competitive research grants for his research initiatives. He has published 5 books, 20 book chapters, 5 US patents, and more than 200 journals and 313 conference papers.
PhD in Electrical Engineering
Texas A&M University, College Station, USA
1997
MSc in Electrical Engineering
The University of Jordan, Jordan
1989
BSc in Electrical Engineering
University of Technology, Iraq
1986
- Broadband wireless access
- Lightweight security for wireless networks
- AI and Machine learning for wireless communication
- 6G & beyond systems
Professor
College of Science and Engineering, Hamad Bin Khalifa University
2024 - Present
Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Texas A&M University at Qatar
2009 - 2024
Associate Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Texas A&M University at Qatar
2004 - 2009
Lead Performance Engineer
Qualcomm, San Diego, United States
2002 - 2004
Consultant
Enad Design Systems, United States
2001 - 2002
Principal and Architect Engineer
Cadence Design Systems, United States
1997 - 2001
PhD Student
Texas A&M University College Station, United States
1994 - 1997
Technical Engineer
Ericsson Telecommunication, Saudi Arabia
1989 - 1994
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Althunibat, S., Dabiri, M. T., Hasna, M. O., & Qaraqe, K. (2023). Secrecy analysis of directional mmWave UAV-based links under hovering fluctuations. IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society, 4, 3030–3039.
Doğan-Tusha, S., Tusha, A., Althunibat, S., & Qaraqe, K. (2023). Orthogonal time frequency space multiple access using index modulation. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 72(12), 15858–15866.
Alaca, O., Althunibat, S., Yarkan, S., Miller, S. L., & Qaraqe, K. A. (2023). Secrecy analysis of uplink IM-OFDMA systems in the presence of IQ imbalance. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 72(11), 14411–14425.
El Bouanani, F., Lahmar, I., Alaoui Ismaili, Z. E. A., & Qaraqe, K. A. (2023). On the secrecy analysis of dual-hop SWIPT-based multi-source underlay cognitive radio networks. IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking, 9(1), 114–129.
Labghough, S., Ayoub, F., El Bouanani, F., Belkasmi, M., & Qaraqe, K. A. (2023). Mixed RF/FSO SWIPT-based OSLMD coded AF cooperative communication system: Performance analysis. IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking, 7(1), 84–100.
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- Best paper award, IEEE Globecom 2014.
- Best Researcher Award, QNRF, May 2013.
- Itochu Professorship Award, 2013-2015.
- TAMUQ Research Excellence Award in April of 2010.
- IEEE Signal Processing Magazine Best Column Award for year 2018 for paper titled: ``Gaussian Assumption: The Least Favorable but the Most Useful”, published in the March, 2013 issue of the prestigious IEEE Signal Processing Magazine (IF=7.451).