Biography

As of March 2025, I am an Assistant Professor in the Electronics and Communications Engineering (ECE) Department at the University of Kufa. My specialization is in information and communications engineering, with a focus on channel coding for communication systems and data storage units. 

From January 2024 to February 2025, I was a Senior Lecturer and Researcher in the ECE Department at the University of Kufa. I was also the director of engineering laboratories in the department until October 2024.

From October 2018 to December 2023, I was a research assistant and doctoral candidate at the Coding and Cryptography (COD) group, the Institute of Communications Engineering, Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany, which is led by Prof. Antonia Wachter-Zeh. In October 2023, I successfully defended my PhD dissertation whose title is "Coding and Bounds for Unreliable Data Storage Memories".

From July until September 2023, I had a research visit at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), Communication System Laboratory (CSL), Los Angeles, California, USA, under Professor Richard Wesel's guidance.

For a part of my dissertation results, I have been nominated as a candidate for the "Memorable Award Paper" Prize in the 14th Non-Volatile Memories Workshop (NVMW'23) held by the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), USA, for the extended abstract “Trading Partially Stuck Cells with Errors”.

I obtained a Master of Engineering (ME) in Telecommunication Networks Engineering from the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS), Australia, 2013-2015, which was graded with HD (High Distinction) of a GPA of 3.7 out of 4. The B.Sc. in Information and Communication Engineering (5 years with Honor) from Al Khwarizmi Engineering College at the University of Baghdad, Iraq. Ranked the 2nd among a class of 27 students. The first 2 years were in the Electrical Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, University of Kufa.