Abdelhamid Alhassi

Abdelhamid Alhassi, (also known as Abdelhamid Younis), is currently the dean of Engineering at the University of Benghazi, Libya, where he joined the department in 2015. He received the B.Sc. (with honors) in 2007 from the University of Benghazi, and the M.Sc. (with distinction) and Ph.D. in 2009 and 2013, respectively, from The University of Edinburgh, U.K. He was a research associate at the Institute of Digital Communications at the University of Edinburgh from 2013 to 2014. Dr. Younis received the Overseas Research Student Award in 2010, best student paper award at the 78th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference~(VTC) in Las Vegas, Sep. 2013, the Graphical System Design Achievement Awards Category: Radio Frequency (RF) and Communications from National Instruments (NI), and holds the Almadar Aljadid R&D grant titled “Millimeter–Wave Large-Scale MIMO: ABER and Capacity Analysis”. His main research interests are in the area of wireless communication and digital signal processing with a particular focus on spatial modulation, MIMO wireless communications, and optical wireless communications. He is the co--author of a book entitle Space Modulation Techniques published by Wiley in 2018.