Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM), Saudi Arabia

• Postdoctoral fellow

Contact Information

Email: omaraqa[at]mun.ca

Areas of Expertise

Design and optimization of emerging wireless communications systems

Research Interests

Non-terrestrial integrated networks (NTN), underwater acoustic reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS), quantum optimization, and visible light communication (VLC) systems

Personal Profile

Omar Maraqa received the B.Eng. degree in electrical engineering from Palestine Polytechnic University, Hebron, Palestine, in 2011, and the M.Sc. degree in computer engineering and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM), Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, in 2017 and 2022, respectively. He was a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada, from 2023 to 2025. He is currently a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Memorial University, St. John’s, NL, Canada.

He serves as a technical program committee (TPC) member for several conferences including IEEE ICC, IEEE VTC, IEEE CCECE, Springer EAI INISCOM, Springer PA-AISS, and Springer PA-AISS 2024 and a reviewer for several IEEE Transactions and journals.

Teaching Areas/Courses

Served as a TA for the following courses:

• Modeling and Simulation (Graduate Level) (COE 588)
• Computer Networks (Undergraduate Level) (COE 344)
• Computer and Network Security (Undergraduate Level) (COE 451)
• Network Security (Graduate Level) (SEC 521)

Awards, Distinctions or Recogniztion

Recognized as an exemplary reviewer for IEEE Communications Letters, 2023

Profile Links

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=puE3jPsAAAAJ&hl=en

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4520-2223

ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Omar_Maraqa

Lab or research group website: https://www.mun.ca/engineering/research/centres-and-facilities/research-laboratories/electrical-and-computer-engineering/mun-adv-research-lab-for-optical--wireless-com/

Web of Science: https://www.webofscience.com/wos/author/record/AAA-3660-2020

IEEE Xplore: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/author/37086544106

Scopus: https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=57204646185

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mohamed-elsayed-selim-ph-d-4337ba18a/