Profile

Dr. Khalid A. Qaraqe (S'00) was born in Bethlehem. Dr. Qaraqe received a B.S. degree in EE from the University of Technology, Bagdad, Iraq in 1986, with honors. He received his M.S. degree in EE from the University of Jordan, Jordan, Amman, Jordan, in 1989, and he earned his Ph.D. degree in EE from Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, in 1997. From 1989 to 2004 Dr. Qaraqe has held a variety of positions in many companies and he has over 12 years of experience in the telecommunication industry. Dr. Qaraqe has worked on numerous projects and has experience in product development, design, deployments, testing, and integration. Dr. Qaraqe joined Texas A&M University in Qatar in 2004 and stayed until 2024. Currently, he is a professor in the Electrical Engineering Program, at the College of Science and Engineering, at Hamad Bin Khalifa University. Dr. Qaraqe’s research interests include communication theory and its application to the design and performance analysis of wireless communication systems. Mainly, his research interests are in mobile networks, broadband wireless access, cooperative networks, cognitive radio, diversity techniques, Index Modulation, Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs), mmWave, 6G technology, Visible Light Communication, FSO, and Telehealth applications.