Prof. Dr. Taha A. Elwi

Taha A. Elwi received his B.Sc. in the Electrical Engineering Department (2003) (Highest Graduation Award) and Postgraduate M.Sc. in the Laser and Optoelectronics Engineering Department (2005) (Highest Graduation Award) from Nahrain University, Baghdad, Iraq. From April 2005 to August 2007, he worked with Huawei Technologies Company, Baghdad, Iraq. On January, 2008, he joined the University of Arkansas at Little Rock and obtained his Ph.D. in December 2011 from the System Engineering And Science Faculty. His research areas include wearable and implantable antennas for biomedical wireless systems, smart antennas, WiFi deployment, electromagnetic wave scattering by complex objects, design, modeling and testing of metamaterial structures for microwave applications, design and analysis of microstrip antennas for mobile radio systems, precipitation effects on terrestrial and satellite frequency re-use communication systems, and effects of complex media on electromagnetic propagation and GPS. The nano-scale structures in the entire electromagnetic spectrum are a part of his research interest.