Dr. Wahab Almuhtadi
Professor, School of Information Technology, Algonquin College/Carleton University
Research interests
Photonics and Laser Technology, Fiber Optic Networks, Optical Sensors
Application areas
- Wireless Sensor Networks
- Remote Monitoring of Bio-Signals
Home page: http://www3.algonquincollege.com/sat/?p=3745
Dr. Wahab Almuhtadi, P.Eng. is a professor and coordinator of the Algonquin College – Carleton University Joint Degree Program “Bachelor of Information Technology - Photonics and Laser Technology - BIT-PLT” in the School of Advanced Technology, at Algonquin College. Dr. Almuhtadi is also the R&D Coordinator at the Algonquin College Faculty of Technology and Trades. He is also a Member of the 2017-2022 Strategic Plan Advisory Team.
Dr. Almuhtadi is the founder of the applied research pillar at Algonquin College that led to the creation of the Applied Research and Innovations Office to handle many industry requests for research. As the R&D Coordinator, he provided academic leadership in applied research and managed 36 active and now 54 proposed projects with a totaling $10.5M funded by various agencies such as: NSERC, OCE, IC, CIDA, NCIT, ORDCF, PRECARN. As a senior researcher at the College, his research projects include, for example: Remote Objective Monitoring of Bio-Signals (ROMOBS) ($0.4 M); QoS Optimization using Adaptive Intelligence Techniques in Satellite Systems ($2.8 M); Remote/Rural WiFi Networks ($100k); Traffic Engineering in WiMAX Mobile and Fixed Networks ($611k); and among others. Dr. Almuhtadi is an author of several technical papers and co-author of books. Dr. Almuhtadi is the founder and designer of a complete Leading-Edge Optophotonics Lab, with SONET/SDH (Nortel/Algonquin College $2.5M project) and recently with Optical Transport Network-OTN 10-100 Gb/s (Ciena 6500 Optical Packet Platform $1M project).
Dr. Almuhtadi is one of the founders of the new “Centre of Excellence in Next Generation Networks-CENGN,” with $65M funding from Networks of Centres of Excellence Canada, Alcatel-Lucent, TELUS, Cisco, Juniper, EXFO, JDSU, Rogers, and Allstream. He has connected his lab to CENGN for supporting education in the development of Internet-of-Things (IoT): vast variety of devices and networks enabling emerging consumer electronics technologies such as smart devices, 4k/8k TV, autonomous transportation, real-time remote health care and smart cities solutions.
Wahab Almuhtadi earned his M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic in 1986 and 1990 respectively. He is a Certified Professional Electrical Engineer of Ontario. Dr. Almuhtadi has more than 21 years of university and college teaching experience at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. He also has more than 27 year experience in telecommunication and electrical engineering industries including R&D. Prior to Algonquin College, Dr. Almuhtadi worked with Nortel in Optical Networks Verification - R&D. Dr. Almuhtadi was also: an Adjunct Professor in the Electronics Department at Carleton University, Canada.
Dr. Almuhtadi is a Senior Member of IEEE. He is actively involved in IEEE and continues to hold many executive posts. Presently, he is currently Chair of the IEEE Canada Conference Advisory Committee; Distinguished Lecture Chair and Member of the Board of Governors of IEEE Consumer Electronics Society (CESoc); Chair of Ottawa IEEE Communications Society & Broadcasting Technology Society Joint Chapter; Chair of Ottawa IEEE Power Engineering Society Chapter; Chair of the Ottawa Section Award Committee; Executive Advisor and Mentor of the IEEE Algonquin College Student Branch. Dr. Almuhtadi has organized and chaired many national and international engineering conferences, symposia, and workshops (e.g. IEEE ICC 2012 Conference). He received several recognition awards from IEEE, academia and industry (e.g. The EIC Canadian Pacific Railway Engineering Medal 2015, IEEE Leadership Award 2010, Algonquin College Laurent Isabelle Award 2009 for Teaching Excellence, and NISOD 2006 Award). Recently, Dr. Almuhtadi has been recognized by the Engineering Institute of Canada (EIC) as the recipients of the 2015 Canadian Pacific Railway Medal. This medal was established in 1987 to honour the achievements in engineering and in the development of Canada. The CPR Medal is awarded in recognition of many years of leadership and service at the regional, branch and section levels by members of the Societies within the Institute. This medal is one of the highest engineering awards in Canada.
Research areas in sensor networks:
- Remote Objective Monitoring of Bio-Signals - ROMBOS Research Project (Algonquin College-University of Ottawa-Biosign Technologies), funded by OCE and Biosign Technologies with $0.4M (2008 – 2010)
- QoS Optimization using Adaptive Intelligence Techniques in Satellite Systems Research Project (Algonquin College, Carleton University, University of Waterloo, EION Inc., and TELESAT), funded by OCE/CITO, PRECARN, TELESAT and EION with $2.8M. (2006 - 2008)
- Cyber-Awareness Improvement Using Artificial Intelligence Techniques, Soorena Merat, and Wahab Almuhtadi, International Journal on Smart Sensing and Intelligent Systems, Vol. 8, No. 1, March 2015.
- Artificial Finger Detection by Spectrum Analysis, Chang Shoude, Jeff Secker, Qinghan Xiao, Alexander Bergeron, Brittany Reid, Wahab Almuhtadi, JBM-19435, International Journal of Biometrics, Inderscience Publishers, Geneva, Switzerland, February 2011.
- Wireless Connectivity for Remote Objective Monitoring of Bio-Signals, Aswin Aristama, Wahab Almuhtadi, 1st International Conference on Data Compression, Communication and Processing (CCP 2011), June 21-24, 2011, Palinuro (Cilento Coast), Italy.
- Advanced Nondestructive Evaluation technique to monitor after power Nuclear Fuel Bundles, Using Wireless Sensor Network Incorporated with Interrogating Background Radiation, Soorena Merat, Wahab Almuhtadi, submitted to IEEE CCECE 2011, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, May 2011.
- Performing Non Destructive Evaluation On Nuclear Fuel Bundle Elements Using Wireless Sensor Network Incorporated With Interrogating Background Radiation”, by Soorena Merat (AREVA NP Canada, Algonquin Graduate), Wahab Almuhtadi (Algonquin College), IEEE GLOBCOM 2010, Miami, Florida, USA Dec. 6 -10, 2010.
- Birefringence measurement of silica-on-silicon channel waveguides, Wahab Almuhtadi, Asad Khan and Patrick Dumais, Photonics North 2009, Quebec City, June, 2009.
- State of the art in Biometrics “Fingerprint Spoof Detection By NIR Optical Analysis”, Chapter 3, by Shoude Chang, Kirill Larin, Youxin Mao, Wahab Almuhtadi and Costel Flueraru, ISBN 978-953-307-489-4, InTech, Vienna, Austria, December 2011.
- Test Specification: QoS Optimization using Adaptive Intelligence Techniques in Satellite Systems, Jason Tang, Wahab Almuhtadi, Ottawa, 2006.