Biography

Prof. Mohab A. Mangoud received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. from Alexandria University in 1993 and 1996, respectively, and his Ph.D. from the University of Bradford, UK, in 2001. He began his career as a Senior RF Engineer for Airbus-Astrium Space Ltd., Hertfordshire, UK, in the field of space and commercial communications satellites. Later, he served as an Assistant Professor at the Electronics and Communications Engineering Department at the Arab Academy for Science and Technology and Maritime Transport (AASTMT) in Alexandria, Egypt. Prof. Mangoud also held the position of Adjunct Professor at the Bradley Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech), USA. He is currently a Professor of Wireless Communications at the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at the University of Bahrain, where he is the coordinator of communications courses, head of the telecommunications research labs, and College of Engineering senior projects coordinator. Additionally, he serves as a telecommunications consultant for Bahrain Polytechnic. His research interests include wireless, mobile, and personal communications, cooperative and cognitive networks, and MIMO technology. He is an active member of the Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society (ACES) and serves as an advisor for Egypt Scholars Incorporation, where he contributes to raising awareness and mentoring young engineers in the fields of AI, IoT, telecommunications, and electromagnetics.

Prof. Mangoud has published over 90 scientific papers in national and international journals and conferences and has collaborated on numerous research projects funded by international governmental bodies and private telecommunications companies across the US, UK, EU, and Bahrain. In 2015, he was awarded a European Union scholarship to conduct joint research with the EU. A Senior Member of IEEE since 2010, Prof. Mangoud is actively involved in the IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc), IEEE Antenna and Propagation Society (APS), Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (MTT-S), and IEEE Broadcast Technology Society (BTS). He regularly serves as a reviewer for several reputed journals and conferences. Prof. Mangoud has also held leadership roles as the Past Vice Chair of the IEEE Bahrain Section, Region 8 (Jan 2015 – Feb 2018), counselor of the IEEE UOB student branch, and IEEE Bahrain Section Student Activities Chair (Jan 2015 – Feb 2018). He is the founder and past chair of the IEEE ComSoc Bahrain Chapter, established in 2017.

In 2022, Prof. Mangoud became a member then Chair of the IEEE R8 MDC and has served as the IEEE ComSoc SCP program manager for 2023-2024. He has been a member of the Technical Program Committee (TPC) and chaired numerous committees for IEEE conferences in the GCC and MENA regions. Additionally, he served as the General Executive Chair of IEEE MENACOMM 2019. Prof. Mangoud has also been an NCAAA Evaluator for Saudi Arabia since 2019.