Ali Alqaraghuli

Biography

Ali was born in Baghdad, Iraq, in 1996. He immigrated to the United States in 2010, and went on to complete his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the State University of New York at Buffalo in Spring of 2018, with Magna Cum Laude distinction. Towards his B.S., Ali spent the majority of his undergraduate research career at the University at Buffalo Nanosatellite Laboratory working under Dr. John L. Crassidis. He served as the communications subsystem lead engineer for the laboratory’s first satellite GLADOS, in addition to supporting LINKSAT (antenna design) and FALCON (optical communication system design). His industry experience includes interning at Northrop Grumman Space Systems where he developed a tool to solve crosslink satellite communication problems. He then interned at NASA Kennedy Space Center where he was a part of the avionics team designing analog circuit boards for lunar missions. Ali also served as an intern at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, working on developing control systems for terahertz electronics.

During his last undergraduate semester, he started his M.S. coursework and research at UB under the guidance of Dr. Josep Jornet. He spent a semester abroad at Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV), taking courses in areas of nano-photonics and space communications. His current research interests include terahertz space antennas, electronics, and system design for communications and sensing.

Ali has written a short book to serve as a step-by-step guide for undergraduate electrical engineering students.

CLICK HERE to download a digital copy of “What Every EE Student Must Know”

Selected Honors and Awards

• IEEE Space Terahertz Technology Travel Grant – July 2022
• Best Student Paper Award, IEEE WoWMOM 6G-NTN – June 2022
• IEEE APS CJ Reddy Graduate Student Travel Grant – May 2022
• Best Student Paper Award, IEEE WoWMOM 6G-NTN – June 2021
• CSTEP Student of the Year Award, University at Buffalo – May 2018
• NASA Award for “Outstanding Contributions in characterizing and determining survivability of candidate circuits and components under radiation” – November 2017
• Northrop Grumman Best Intern Poster Award – July 2017
• HSBC Scholar Program Award – May 2017
• WNY Prosperity Fellowship Award – April 2016

Research

• Testbed Development for 5G and Next Generation WLAN using Millimeter Waves. Check X60.
• Channel Equalization and Characterization at true THz frequencies. Check TeraNova.

UN Lab Publications

Other Publications

• C. White, H Raad, W. Walters, K. Abed, A.J. Alqaraghuli “Design, Fabrication, and Characterization of Slot-Fed Flexible Vinyl-Printed Yagi-Uda Antenna for CubeSat Applications”, IEEE Workshop on Antenna Technology (iWAT), Dublin, Ireland, 2022.
• F Abderrazak, E Antonino-Daviu, M Ferrando-Bataller, L Talbi, A Alqaraghuli “A Comparative Study Between Different Loop Antennas Topologies for Wireless Power Transmission Based on Modal Analysis,” European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), Dusseldorf, Germany, 2021.
• A Alqaraghuli “Implementation of Real-Time Hardware in the Loop Simulation for WAVE Instrument Avionics,” NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS), 2017.

Other Teaching

• Communication Systems — University at Buffalo, 2019, 2020.
• Simulations using ANSYS — Xavier University, 2021.

Keynotes, Seminars and Tutorials

• What Every Electrical Engineering Student Must Know — Xavier University, 2021.
• Career Development in STEM — Xavier University, 2022.

Service

Chair 

• IEEE Antennas and Propagation Session on Aerospace Antennas

Reviewer 

• IEEE Communications Magazine
• IEEE Aerospace & Electronic Systems Magazine
• IEEE Transactions on Communications
• IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
• IEEE Transactions on Aerospace & Electronic Systems
• IEEE International Conference on Communications 2021
• IEEE Wireless Communication and Networking Conference 2021
• IEEE Access
• Wiley Engineering Reports

Advocacy

• Community Health Educator for Upstate New York Transplantation Services – Buffalo, NY.
• New York State Advocate for Educational Opportunity Programs – Albany, NY.
• Council of Graduate Schools Hills Advocacy Day – Washington D.C.

Standardization

• IEEE P802.15 Working Group for Wireless Specialty Networks (WSNs), 2019.