Mohammed Abdel Hafez (S’95, M’00, SM’19, IEEE) received the B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical and electronic engineering from Eastern Mediterranean University (EMU), Northern Cyprus, Turkey, in June 1992, August 1994, and November 1997, respectively. From 1992 to 1997, he was a Research Engineer with the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, EMU. In 1995, he was an instructor at the Department of Electrical Engineering at Jerusalem University. From 1997 to 1999, he was a senior manager with on Manager with Palestine Telecommunication Company. In August 1999, he joined the Centre for Wireless Communications, University of Oulu, as a Senior Research Scientist and a Project Manager. He is an Associate Professor of electrical and communication engineering at United Arab Emirates University, United Arab Emirates. He is also a frequent visiting scientist with the Centre for Wireless Communications, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland. His research interests include modeling, design, and performance analysis of wireless communication systems, radio access, sensor networks and IoT, cooperative and relay networks, NOMA, cognitive radio networks, advanced receivers’ algorithms, and ultra-wideband (UWB) communication.