Sarmad Nozad Mahmood was born in Iraq in 1985. He received his B.S. degree in electronic and control engineering from Northern Technical University, Iraq, in 2008, his M.Sc. degree in electronic and communication engineering from Çankaya University, Turkey, in 2014, and his Ph.D. degree in electronic engineering from Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM), Malaysia, in 2022. His main research interests include UWB antennas, wearable antennas, antenna applications, control system design, IoT and AI technologies, and digital communications.