Biography

Ahmed Abdelhadi received his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) from the University of Texas at Austin (UT-Austin) in 2011. He is currently an Assistant Professor with the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (SEECS) and the Director of the Communications, Artificial Intelligence, Systems, and Security (CAISS) Laboratory, University of North Dakota (UND). Before joining UND, he was an Assistant Professor with the University of Houston. In 2012, he joined Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Hume Center for National Security and Technology at Virginia Tech. He was a faculty member of Wireless @ Virginia Tech. During his Ph.D., he was an active member of the Wireless Networking and Communications Group (WNCG) and the Laboratory of Informatics, Networks and Communications (LINC) group. His research interests are in the areas of wireless communications and networks, spectrum sharing, cyber physical systems, and security. Dr. Abdelhadi coauthored more than 120 journal and conference papers, and 7 books in these research topics. He is a senior member of IEEE. His book Cellular Communications Systems in Congested Environments is bookplated in his honor as Virginia Tech Provost's Honor Book, and his book Resource Allocation with Carrier Aggregation in Cellular Networks was featured at the 13th Annual Virginia Tech Authors Recognition Event. He received silver contribution award from IEEE International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC) conference in 2016, Best Paper Award from IEEE International Symposium on Systems Engineering (ISSE) conference in 2019, Outstanding Paper Award from IEEE International Conference of Advanced Communications Technology (ICACT) conference in 2020, First Place Award for Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Beyond 5G University Challenge 2022 and Second Place Award in 2025, and the Early Career Scholar Award from UND in 2024, 2025, and 2026.