Samer M. Taha
CICTR
Department of Electrical Engineering
The Pennsylvania State
University
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Dr. Samer Taha
General Manager,
Waseela for Integrated Telecommunications Company
Samer Taha received his
Ph.D. degree from the Pennsylvania State University in Electrical Engineering in 2001 with
distinguished performance. Between 1999 and 2001 he was a member of the Center
for Information and Communication Technology Research, Pennsylvania, USA (www.cictr.ee.psu.edu)
where his research work focused on QoS issues in next
generation wireless networks. At the same time, between 2000 and 2001 he worked
as a consultant for Ameritech (Southwestern Bell now) to evaluate next generation networking
technologies, such as DiffServ, MPLS, and MPOA. In
2001 he joined Intel Corporation R&D department (www.intel.com) in Oregon, USA and he stayed with Intel till beginning
of 2006. While at Intel he was involved in architecting solutions for advanced
telecommunications R&D initiatives including wireless mesh, high-throughput
WiFi, cross-layer optimization over wireless systems,
and QoS enhancements for Mobile WiMAX.
He also managed a team of R&D engineers working on the WiMAX
Industry Enabling Program that included driving the WiMAX
certification specifications at the WiMAX Forum,
joint research collaboration with other WiMAX
vendors, and supporting WiMAX trials with leading
operators. At the beginning of 2006 he joined the startup team of du (Emirates Integrated Telecommunications Company, www.du.ae) in UAE to establish the Broadband
Wireless department and lead du’s broadband
wireless strategy and roadmap. While heading the broadband wireless department
at du he designed and managed the implementation of du’s Public WiFi Network
(most feature-rich in the region), du’s Pre-WiMAX Network, and three WiMAX
Trial Networks. In addition, he designed du’s
Nationwide WiMAX Network and architected its
broadband wireless strategy. In October 2007, he was elected by the board
members of Waseela for Integrated Telecommunications
Company as the General Manager; Waseela is a regional
system integrator specialized in advanced wireless technologies based in Amman – Jordan (www.waseela-net.com).
Education:
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Graduated
from The Pennsylvania-State University with a
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, May 2002.
·
Bachelors
of Science in Electrical
Engineering, Jordan University Of
Science and Technology (J.U.S.T) , May
1998.