The Department of Electrical Engineering at Qatar University carries out leading research in a number of areas within the electrical engineering discipline. The 11 faculty members in the department are organized into 3 major research focus groups. Several research activities are carried in a cross-disciplinary fashion spanning more than one research group within the department or in collaboration with other departments/ colleges within the university.
The department has ongoing/ potential research projects in collaboration with local industrial and academic institutions such as Qtel, Qatar Gas, RasGas, Qatar Steel, Aljazeera Network, Texas A&M University Qatar, Carnegie Mellon University Qatar, Weil Cornell Medical College Qatar, Hamad Medical Corporation, ICT Qatar, QSTP, and Qatar Military. In addition the department has several QNRF funded projects under the Undergraduate Research Experience Program (UREP) as well as the National Priorities Research Program (NPRP) in collaboration with major universities around the world.
Below you can find a short description of research activities in each group.Power Systems
Power Systems group in EE department covers and conducts research in the fields of power systems modeling, analysis, dynamics, control and operation. Power systems quality (harmonics, unbalance, grounding, etc) and applications of FACTS (SVC, UPFC, STATCOM, etc) are also included in the research activities. These technologies are commonly used in Qatar power utilities and industrials. The group has a state-of-the-art lab equipped with research and teaching facilities. The faculty members in this group are:
- Khaled Ellithy
- Rashid Al Ammari
- Nasser Al Emadi
Communications and Signal Processing
The Communications and signal processing group within EE department focuses on research in the general area of telecommunications with particular focus on wireless communications. The research areas of the group span analysis and design of new communication algorithms both at the physical and MAC layers. The current projects of the group include channel modeling, performance analysis of wireless communications over fading channels, cooperative wireless communications, error correcting coding techniques, information theoretic aspects of communication systems, MIMO communication systems, optical communications, design of new algorithms for broadband wireless communication systems, software defined radio architectures, distributed channel estimation, and wireless sensor networks. The group has a dedicated communications lab equipped with the state-of-the-art technologies and equipment for research as well as teaching. The faculty members in this group are:
- Adnan Abu-Dayya
- Mazen Hasna
- Ali Ghrayeb
- Tamer Khattab
Industrial Electronics and Control
The Industrial Electronics and Control group in the EE department covers and conducts research in the fields of industrial applications of control, electronics, and instrumentation. Areas include, but not limited to, power electronics and drive control techniques, control systems and applications, motion control and control theory, instrumentation and measurement, modeling and simulation, sensors and actuators, implementation of neural networks, fuzzy logic, and artificial intelligence in industrial systems. These areas are of particular interest to steel and oil and gas industries, which are the backbone industries in Qatar. The faculty members in this group are:
- Mohieddine Benammar
- Mohamed Al-Naiemi
- Mohamed Al-Hitmi
- Lazhar Ben-Brahim
Research Clusters Interests & Highlight of Recent Research Activities:
Renewable Energy & Power System Research Group
Research Interests
- SMART GRID
- Photovoltaic
- transmission line protection.
- Voltage stability
- Energy Efficiency
- Power Electronics
- Water treatment
Communications and Signal Processing Research Group
Research Interests
- Wireless Communications
- Smart Grids: Demand-Response optimization
- Cloud Management
- Remote health monitoring
- Wireless body sensors
- Biomedical Signal Processing
- Machine Learning
- Pattern Recognition
- Information Processing
Electronics, Embedded and control system Research Group
Research Interests
- Embedded systems and HPC
- Fuzzy Control
- Digital Image and Signal processing
- Custom Computing using Field Programmable Gate Array
- Hardware/Software Co-design
- Industrial electronics
- Sensors and measurements
- Visual Computing Group
Biomedical Research Group
Research Interests