(Senior Member, IEEE) was born in MI, USA. He received his M.Sc. degree in communication engineering from Birmingham University, U.K., in 2004, and his D.Sc. degree in technology from Aalto University, Finland, in 2013. He is currently working as an Associate Professor and holds the position of Dean of the Faculty of Electronic Engineering Technology, Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP), where he has been with the School of Computer and Communication Engineering since 2002. His current research interests include design and performance evaluation of multielement antennas, mobile terminal antennas and their user interactions, and wireless propagation. Dr. Al-Hadi is active in volunteering work with the IEEE Malaysia Section, acting as the Vice Chair of the IEEE Antenna Propagation/ Microwave Theory Techniques/Electromagnetic Compatibility (AP/MTT/EMC) Malaysia Chapter, and the Counselor of the IEEE UniMAP Student Branch. He is a Chartered Engineer of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), U.K., a Professional Technologist of the Malaysia Board of Technologist (MBOT), and a member of the Board of Engineers Malaysia (BEM), Malaysia. He was a recipient of the Best Student Paper Award presented at the Fifth Loughborough Antennas and Propagation Conference (LAPC 2009) and of the CST University Publication Award in 2011.