Mohamed S. Hassan received an M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA, in 2000, and a Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA, in 2005. He is currently a Professor of electrical engineering with the American University of Sharjah, Sharjah, UAE. In addition to electric vehicles, he has recently actively taken part in multiple projects including free space optical communications, demand response and smart grids. His main research interests include multimedia communications and networking, wireless communications, cognitive radios, resource allocation, and performance evaluation of wired and wireless networks, and particularly next-generation wireless systems