Curriculum Vitae
1. Education
Ph.D. (Electrical Engineering) 2003, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA
M.Sc. (Electrical Engineering) 1997, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA
B.Sc. (Electrical Engineering) 1993, The University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan
2. Employment
Administrative Positions
Associate Chair, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of West Florida, 2021-present
Chairman of Communications Engineering Department, Faculty, Princess Sumaya University for Technology, Amman, Jordan – 2014-2016
Assistant Dean, Scientific Research and Graduate Education, Princess Sumaya University for Technology, Amman, Jordan – 2009-2010
Academic Positions
Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of West Florida, FL, August 2022-present.
Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of West Florida, FL, August 2018-August 2022.
Associate Professor, Communication Engineering Department, Princess Sumaya University for Technology, Amman, Jordan, December 2012 – 2018.
Assistant Professor, Communication Engineering Department, Princess Sumaya University for Technology, Amman, Jordan
September 2008 – December 2012.
Industrial Positions
Senior Staff Scientist, Intel Corporation, Hillsboro, Oregon, July 2003-August 2008
Applications Engineer, Schlumberger, Owings Mill, Baltimore, Maryland, 1997-2000
3. Research Interests
Information and Communications Technology, Signal Processing, Autonomous Vehicles.
4. Membership in Scientific Societies and Associations
Senior member of IEEE and IEEE Communications Society
5. Honors and Awards
Faculty Excellence in Teaching or Advising Award, UWF, 2023
Best Researcher Award, PSUT, 2014
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
Intel Technology Development award at Intel for enabling 45 nm technology node development through engineering analysis solution Q4, 2005
6. Fellowships and Scholarships
Senior Level Fellow, Naval Research Lab, Summer 2020
Visiting Scholar, Indiana University Purdue University, Fort Wayne, In, Summer 2011
Research and Teaching Assistantship, Penn State, 2000-2003
7. Grants and Proposals
A secure Visible Light Communication MIMO Link, Summer Fellowship at US Naval Research Laboratory, Summer Fellowship, 2021
Dynamic System Modeling Development Studio to Promote Creativity, Critical Thinking, Communication, and Collaboration for Next Generation Scholarsو High Impact Funding at UWF PI: Dr. Hakki Erhan Sevil (ISR), Co-PIs: Dr. Michael Reynolds (ME), Dr. Carolyn Mattick (ME), Dr. Yazan Alqudah (ECE), Dr. Tarek Youssef (ECE)
Incorporating Audition Ability into Sensory Data to Enhance Reliability of Autonomous Vehicles, Sony Research Award, $145,895, submitted 2019.
Affordable Early Threat Detection for Underwater and Offshore Port Security, In Collaboration with IHMC on proposal submitted to DHS, Fall 2019.
“Frequency Turning and Prediction of Vibrating Micromechanical Resonators”, submitted to Intel Corporation for funding, 2018
ITEP “Design and Implementation of an Energy Cyber-Physical System Laboratory Testbed” Granted by UWF, $101,256, 2019
8. Publications
Patents
1. Alqudah, Yazan; Sababha, B; Traffic Notification System and Method, issued 2020.
2. Alqudah, Yazan; Hajj, Hazem; Abdelmoneum, M, “Defect Analysis", US Patent issued Nov 25, 2011
3. Alqudah, Yazan A; Hajj, Hazem; Abdelmoneum, Mohamed; Neirynck, Jan M; Automated yield analysis system, 2009, US Patent App. 11/824,436
Recent Journals
4. Cohen, A., Alqudah, Y.A. On the application of generalized linear mixed models for predicting path loss in LTE networks. EURASIP J. Adv. Signal Process. 2023, 6 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13634-022-00957-1.
5. Alqudah, Yazan A.; Sababha, Belal; Qaralleh, Essam; Youssef, Tarek; Machine Learning to Classify Driving Events Using Mobile Phone Sensors Data, International Journal of Interactive Mobile Technologies; 2021, Vol. 15 Issue 2, p124-136.
6. Roy, Pranoy Kumar Singha; Karayaka, H Bora; Yan, Yanjun; Alqudah, Yazan, Investigations into best cost battery-supercapacitor hybrid energy storage system for a utility scale PV array, Journal of Energy Storage, 2019.
7. Sababha, B; Alqudah, Yazan, A Reconfiguration-Based Fault-Tolerant Anti-Lock Brake-by-Wire System, ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems, Volume 17, Issue 5, 2018
8. Esam A. AlQaralleh, Yazan A. Alqudah, Belal H. Sababha, Reconfigurable Hardware-Friendly Early Termination Mechanism in Motion Estimation for HEVC, Procedia Computer Science, Volume 141,2018,
9. Sababha, B.., Alqudah, Y., Abualbasal, A., AlQaralleh, E. “Project-Based Learning to Enhance Teaching Embedded Systems,” Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science & Technology Education, Vol. 12, No. 9, 2016, pp. 2575