Dr. Mohammad S. Sharawi is an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. He was a Research Scientist with the Applied Electromagnetics and Wireless Laboratory in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Oakland University, Michigan, USA, during 2008-2009. Dr. Sharawi was a faculty member in the Computer Engineering Department at Philadelphia University, Amman, Jordan, during 2007-2008. He was the acting head of the Computer Engineering Department at the German-Jordanian University in Amman, Jordan During 2006-2007. He served as the Organization Committe Chair of the IEEE Conference on Systems, Signals and Devices that was held in Jordan in July 2008.
Dr. Sharawi obtained his B.Sc. degree in Electronics Engineering with highest honors from Princess Sumaya University for Technology in Amman - Jordan in 2000. He got his M.Sc. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering and Ph.D. in Systems Engineering from Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan - USA in 2002 and 2006, respectively. He was an exchange student during the academic year of 1997/1998 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He was an Intern with Silicon Graphics Inc. (SGI), Mountain View, California - USA, during the summers of 1998, 2001 and 2002, were he worked on various circuit design and interconnect modeling projects. He became a Member of Technical Staff - Design Engineer with SGI during 2002-2003, were he was responsible of modeling, design and verification of high speed PCBs and circuits for various high performance computing systems.
Dr. Sharawi's research interests include RF electronics and Antenna Arrays, Applied Electromagnetics, Wireless Communications and Hardware/Embedded Systems design.
