Education

  • PhD, University College Dublin, January 2009 – January 2013, Dublin, Ireland
  • B.Sc. in Electrical & Electronic Engineering, University of Khartoum, Sept 2000 – July 2005, Khartoum, Sudan

Research Interests

  • Digital Signal Processing & algorithms.
  • Ultra-wideband (UWB) sensing and communications.
  • Acoustic sensing and communications.
  • Movement detection and tracking using RF and acoustic waves.
  • Indoor positioning and navigation
  • Wearables and IoT

Selected Publications

M. H. AlSharif, M. Saad, M. Siala, T. Ballal, H. Boujemaa, and T. Y. Al-Naffouri, “Zadoff-Chu coded ultrasonic signal for accurate range estimation,” 2017 25th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), Aug. 2017.
M. H. AlSharif, M. Saad, M. Siala, H. Boujemaa, T. Ballal, and T. Y. Al-Naffouri, “High Accuracy Acoustic Estimation of Multiple Targets,” 2018 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Apr. 2018.
H. Chen, T. Ballal, M. Saad, and T. Y. Al-Naffouri, “Angle-of-arrival-based gesture recognition using ultrasonic multi-frequency signals,” 2017 25th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), Aug. 2017.