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College / Department

College of Engineering

Department of Computer Science and Engineering

Teaching areas

Microprocessors, Microcontrollers, Embedded Systems, Cyber Physical Systems, Programmable Logic Controllers and SCADA.

Research areas

Embedded Systems, Industrial Internet of Things, Smart Grid, Smart Manufacturing and industry 4.0 Applications in Smart Cities and PLCs applications

Education

PhD, Electrical Engineering, Vanderbulit University, United States, 1990

Master, Master In Electrical Engineering, Polytechnic University (Polytechnic Institute of Technology, Brooklyn New York)., United States, 1986

BS, Electrical Engineering, Aleppo University, Syria, 1979

Professional experience

Professor, College Of Engineering, American University of Sharjah, Sharjah, UAE, United Arab Emirates, 2000 - Present

Associate/assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering Department, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi A, 1991 - 2000

R&d Engineer, Magnetic Separation System, Nashville, TN, USA, TN, United States, 1988 - 1991

Memberships

IEEE- Senior Member, International, January 1986

Syria Engineering Syndicate, September 1979

Contact

[email protected]

+971 6 515 2939

Dr. Abdulrahman Al-Ali

Professor

PhD, Vanderbulit University, United States

Prof. Al-Ali is with computer science and engineering at the American University of Sharjah since Sept 2000. He previously with the electrical engineering Dept., KFUPM , KSA1991-2000. His research and teaching interests include embedded systems hardware and software architectures, interface and programming, Cyber physical systems an IoT applications in smart cities including smart grid, remote monitoring and control industrial plants using PLCs and SCADA. Dr. Al-Ali has more than 150 publications, one US patent and one European patent. He has been a keynote and an invited speaker at several conferences. He is life-time senior member IEEE. Listed among the World’s Top 2% Scientists career long by Stanford University.

Publications

Abdulrahman Al-ali, Kadhim Hayawi And Sakib Shahriar. Ethical Considerations in Artificial Intelligence (AI) Applications in Smart Grid, 7th Ieee 2025 International Youth Conference On Radio Electronics, Electrical And Power Engineering, 8 April (2nd Quarter/Spring) 2025

Sana Khan, Salam Dhou And Abdulrahman Al-ali. Machine Learning Based Palm Farming: Harvesting and Disease Identification, Ieee Access, 1 November 2024

Sebah Al-ali, Ahmed Tlili And Abdulrahman Al-ali. LAIK your classroom: A practical framework to integrate generative AI in higher education classrooms, Journal Of Applied Learning & Teaching 7 (2), 1-16, September 2024

Abdulrahman Al-ali, Ragini Gupta, Imran Zualkernan And Sajal Das. Role of IoT technologies in big data management systems: A review and Smart Grid case study, Pervasive And Mobile Computing, May 2024

Salam Dhou, Ahmad Al Nabulsi, Abdulrahman Al-ali, Rim Tawfik, Raneem Al-qutayri, Ahmed Hamad And Adham Mossalam. IoT Machine Learning Based Health Compliance Monitoring, London, UK, 4 April (2nd Quarter/Spring) 2024

Abdulaziz Alqasimi, Khalid Al Marzouqi, Abdulla Alhammadi, Amer Aljasmi,, Ahmad Al Nabulsi And Abdulrahman Al-ali. An IoT-Based Mobile Air Pollution Monitoring System, London, UK, Feb 2024, 3 April (2nd Quarter/Spring) 2024

Abdulrahman Al-ali, Salwa Beheiry, Ahmad Al Nabulsi, Shahed Obaid, Noor Mansoor, Nada Odeh And Alaaeldin Mostafa. An IoT-Based Road Bridge Health Monitoring and Warning System, Sensors, 11 January (1st Quarter/Winter) 2024

Usama Iqbal, Jayroop Ramesh And Abdulrahman Al-ali. Deep Learning Approach for Wind Energy Time-Series Forecasting with Environmental Factors, 2023 International Conference On Power And Renewable Energy Engineering, October (4th Quarter/Autumn) 2023

Fatema Alwy, Raafat Aburukba, Abdulrahman Al-ali, Ahmad Al Nabulsi, Alaa Tarek, Ameen Ayub And Mariam Elsayeh. Data-Driven Safe Deliveries: The Synergy of IoT and Machine Learning in Shared Mobility, Future Internet, October (4th Quarter/Autumn) 2023

A. Binmahfooz, I. Mohammed, K. Alshamsi,, M. Alshaali, Salam Dhou, Ahmad Al Nabulsi And Abdulrahman Al-ali. IoT-Based Sustainable Parking Lot, The 7th International Conference On Smart Grid And Smart Cities, September 2023

Eman Shaikh, Abdulrahman Al-ali, Shahabuddin Muhammad, Nazeeruddin Mohammad And Fadi Aloul. Security Analysis of a Digital Twin Framework using Probabilistic Model Checking, Ieee Access, 14 March 2023

Zahra Solatidehkordi, Jayroop Ramesh, Abdulrahman Al-ali, Ahmed Osman-ahmed And Mostafa Shaaban. An IoT deep learning-based home appliances management and classification system, Energy Reports, 15 January (1st Quarter/Winter) 2023

Eman Shaikh, Nazeeruddin Mohammad, Abdulrahman Al-ali And Shahabuddin Muhammad. A Probabilistic Model Checking (PMC) Approach to Solve Security Issues in Digital Twin (DT), 6 January (1st Quarter/Winter) 2023

Jayroop Ramesh, Sakib Shahriar, Abdulrahman Al-ali, Ahmed Osman-ahmed And Mostafa Shaaban. Machine Learning Approach for Smart Distribution Transformers Load Monitoring and Management System, Energies 15 (energies), 1-19, 27 October (4th Quarter/Autumn) 2022

Fatema Elwy, Raafat Aburukba And Abdulrahman Al-ali. Role of Fog Computing in Smart Spaces, July (3rd Quarter/Summer) 2022

Salam Dhou, Ahmad Al Nabulsi, Abdulrahman Al-ali, Mariam Arshi, Fatima Darwish, Sara Almaazm And Reem Alameeri. An IoT machine learning-based mobile sensors unit for visually impaired people, Sensors 22 (14), 5202, 12 July (3rd Quarter/Summer) 2022

Sakib Shahriar, Jayroop Ramesh, Mohammed Towheed, Taha Ameen, Assim Sagahyroon And Abdulrahman Al-ali. Narrative Integrated Career Exploration Platform, (Journal), Frontiers In Education, March 2022

Jayroop Ramesh, Abdulrahman Al-ali, Ahmad Al Nabulsi, Ahmed Osman-ahmed And Mostafa Shaaban. Deep Learning Approach for Smart Home Appliances Monitoring and Classification (Conference), January (1st Quarter/Winter) 2022

Sakib Shahriar And Abdulrahman Al-ali. Impacts of COVID-19 on Electric Vehicle Charging Behavior: Data Analytics, Visualization, and Clustering (Journal), Journal Of Applied System Innovation, January (1st Quarter/Winter) 2022

Raafat Aburukba, Ar Al-ali, Ahmed Riaz, Ahmed Riaz, Danayal Khan, Shavaiz Khan And Moustafa Amer. Fog Computing Approach for Shared Mobility in Smart Cities (Journal), Energies, December 2021

Sakib Shahriar, A. R. Al-ali, Ahmed Osman-ahmed, Salam Dhou And Mais Nijim. Prediction of EV Charging Behavior Using Machine Learning (Journal), Ieee Access, September 2021

A. R. Al-ali, Raafat Aburukba, Ah Riaz, Ahmad Al Nabulsi, D Khan, S Khan And M Amer. IoT-Based Shared Community Transportation System Using e-Bikes (Conference), June 2021

Abdulrahman Al-ali, Ragini Gupta, Tasneem Zaman Batool, Taha Landolsi, Fadi Aloul And Ahmad Al Nabulsi. Digital Twin Conceptual Model within the Context of Internet of Things (Journal), Future Internet, September 2020

Ragini Gupta, Abdulrahman Al-ali, Imran Zualkernan And Sajal Das. Big Data Energy Management, Analytics and Visualization for Residential Areas (Journal), Ieee Access, August 2020

Sakib Shahriar, Abdulrahman Al-ali, Ahmed Osman-ahmed, Salam Dhou And Mais Nijim. Machine Learning Approaches for EV Charging Behavior: A Review (Journal), Ieee Access, August 2020

Mostafa Shaaban, Amal Alarif, Mohamed Mokhtar, Usman Tariq, Ahmed Osman-ahmed And Abdulrahman Al-ali. A New Data‐Based Dust Estimation Unit for PV Panels (Journal), Energies, 13 July (3rd Quarter/Summer) 2020

Jayroop Ramesh, Raafat Aburukba And Abdulrahman Al-ali. Big Data and IoT System for Utility Power Planning using Commercial Cloud Database (Conference), June 2020

Anwar Elsheikh, Bashayer Almarzooqi, Maryam Alsaedi, Ahmad Al Nabulsi, Abdulrahman Al-ali And Assim Sagahyroon. IoT-Based Vehicle Accident Monitoring and Reporting System (Conference), January (1st Quarter/Winter) 2020

Abdulrahman Al-ali, Ahmad Nabulsi, Shayok Mukhopadhyay, Mohammad Awal, Sheehan Fernandes And Khalil Ailabouni. IoT-solar energy powered smart farm irrigation system (Journal), Journal Of Electronic Science And Technology, December 2019

Mohammed Elnawawy, Abid Farhan, Ahmad Al Nabulsi, Abdulrahman Al-ali And Assim Sagahyroon. Role of FPGA in Internet of Things Applications, 2019 Ieee International Symposium On Signal Processing And Information Technology (isspit), 2019

Ahmed Fahmy, Hunain Altaf, Ahmad Al Nabulsi, Abdulrahman Al-ali And Raafat Aburukba. Role of RFID technology in smart city applications, 2019 International Conference On Communications, Signal Processing, And Their Applications (iccspa), 2019

Sarah Khan, Ramsha Qamar, Rahma Zaheen, Abdulrahman Al-ali, Ahmad Al Nabulsi And Hasan Al-nashash. Internet of things based multi-sensor patient fall detection system, Healthcare Technology Letters, 2019

Miraal Kamal, Manal Atif, Hafsa Mujahid, Tamer Shanableh, Abdulrahman Al-ali And Ahmad Al Nabulsi. IoT based smart city bus stops, Future Internet, 2019

Abdulrahman Al-ali, Ahmad Al Nabulsi, Shayok Mukhopadhyay, Mohammad Awal, Sheehan Fernandes And Khalil Ailabouni. IoT-solar energy powered smart farm irrigation system, Journal Of Electronic Science And Technology, 2019

Mohammed Elnawawy, Abid Farhan, Ahmad Nabulsi, A. Al-ali And Assim Sagahyroon. Role of FPGA in Internet of Things Applications, 1 December 2019

S. Khan, S. Qamar, R. Zaheen, A. Al-ali, A. Al-nabulsi And H. Al-nashash. IoT Based Multi-Sensor Patient Fall Detection System, Iet Healthcare Technology Letters, 14 November 2019

Manal Kamal, Mira Atif, Hafsa Mujahid, Tamer Shanableh, Abdulrahman Al-ali And Ahmad Al-nabulsi. IoT Based Smart City Bus Stops, Future Internet, 26 October (4th Quarter/Autumn) 2019

Abdulrahman Al-ali. Role of RFID Technology in Smart City Applications, March 2019

Omar Hamdan, Hassan Shanableh, Inas Zaki, A. Al-ali And Tamer Shanableh. IoT-Based Interactive Dual Mode Smart Home Automation, 6 March 2019

Ragini Gupta, Abdulrahman Al-ali, Imran Zualkernan And Sajal Das. Energy Big Data Management, Analytics and Visualization for Residential Areas, Ieee Transactions On Consumer Electronics

Abdulrahman Al-ali, Ragini Gupta And Ahmad Al Nabulsi. Cyber physical systems role in manufacturing technologies, 2018

A. Al-ali, Taha Tlandolsi, M. Hassan, M. Ezzeddine, M. Abdelsalam And M. Baseet. An IoT-Based Smart Utility Meter, 20 November 2018

Areej Essa, Tariq Al-shoura, Ahmad Al Nabulsi, A. Al-ali And Fadi Aloul. Cyber Physical Sensors System Security: Threats, Vulnerabilities, and Solutions, 20 November 2018

Abdulrahman Al-ali, Ragini Gupta And Ahmad Al Nabulsi. Conference, April (2nd Quarter/Spring) 2018

A. Al-ali, Ragini Gupta And Ahmad Nabulsi. Cyber physical systems role in manufacturing technologies, 19 April (2nd Quarter/Spring) 2018

Moamin Albayed, Abdulrahman Al-ali And Mostafa Shaaban. Online fuzzy logic base algorithm for electricity price prediction, Journal Of Electronic Science And Technology, 1 December 2017

Abdulrahman Al-ali, Imran Zualkernan, Mohammed Rashid, Ragini Gupta And Mazin Alikarar. A Smart Home Energy Management System Using IoT and Big Data Analytics Approach, Ieee Transactions On Consumer Electronics, 1 November 2017

A. Al-ali, Imran Zualkernan, Mohammed Rashid, Ragini Gupta And Mazin Alikarar. A smart home energy management system using IoT and big data analytics approach, Ieee Transactions On Consumer Electronics, 1 November 2017

Raafat Aburukba, Abdulrahman Al-ali, Mohammed Rashid And Rizwan Hassan. Internet of Things Cloud Framework for Smart Home, Journal Of Electronic Science And Technology, December 2016

Raafat Aburukba, A. Al-ali, Taha Landolsi, Mohammed Rashid And Rizwan Hassan. IoT based energy management for residential area, 25 July (3rd Quarter/Summer) 2016

Raafat Aburukba, A. Al-ali, Nourhan Kandil And Diala Abudamis. Configurable ZigBee-based control system for people with multiple disabilities in smart homes, 28 April (2nd Quarter/Spring) 2016

Salsabeel Shapsough, Fatma Qatan, Raafat Aburukba, Fadi Aloul And A. Al Ali. Smart grid cyber security: Challenges and solutions, 15 April (2nd Quarter/Spring) 2016

A. Al-ali, Murad Qasaimeh, Mamoun Al-mardinia, Suresh Radder And Imran Zualkernan. ZigBee-based irrigation system for home gardens, 6 April (2nd Quarter/Spring) 2015

Abdulrahman Al-ali. Wireless Sensor Network Monitoring System for Highway Bridges, Proceedings Of The International Conference On Electrical And Information Technologies (iceit'15), Marrakech, Morroco, March 2015., 25 March 2015

Amro Al-radaideh, A. Al-ali, Salwa Bheiry And Sameer Alawnah. A wireless sensor network monitoring system for highway bridges, 1 January (1st Quarter/Winter) 2015

Ban Al-omar, Taha Landolsi And A. Al-ali. Evaluation of WiMAX technology in smart grid communications, Journal Of Communications, 1 January (1st Quarter/Winter) 2015

Ahmed Osman-ahmed, Abdulrahman Al-ali, H. Khalil, K. Prem, M. Haider And M. Eskander. Distributed Air-Conditioning Energy Management System within the Smart Grid Context, Journal Of Electronic Science And Technology, March 2014

Ahmet Zarqa, Tarik Ozkul And A. Al-ali. A study toward development of an assessment method for measuring computational intelligence of smart device interfaces, International Journal Of Mathematics And Computers In Simulation, 1 January (1st Quarter/Winter) 2014

Ayesha Hafeez, Nourhan Kandil, Ban Al-omar, Taha Landolsi And A. Al-ali. Smart home area networks protocols within the smart grid context, Journal Of Communications, 1 January (1st Quarter/Winter) 2014

Hesham Omran, Lutfi Albasha And Abdulrahman Al-ali. Design and implementation of a low-cost multiple-range digital phase detector, International Journal Of Electronics, 2012

Abdulrahman Al-ali. Smart Home Renewable Energy Management System, December 2011

Assim Sagahyroon, Abdulrahman Al-ali, F Sajwani, A Al-muhairi And E Shahenn. Assessing the feasibility of using RFID technology in airports, 2007

Conference Presentations

 AI as a Catalyst in Education - The Practical Impact of ChatGPT and Gemini in the Academic world, Ai Week, April 2024

IoT Machine Learning Based Health Compliance Monitoring, International Iot, Electronics And Mechatronics Conference 2024, London, Uk, 5 April 2024

An IoT-Based Mobile Air Pollution Monitoring System, International Iot, Electronics And Mechatronics Conference 2024,, 4 April 2024

Role of Internet of Things, Smart Grid, Smart Energy and Virtual Power Plants in UNSDGs, Cop28-dubai, December 2023

Smart Grid Management Techniques Using Fog and Cloud Competing Paradigms, 2023 International Conference On Power And Renewable Energy Engineering-tokyo-japan, Oct-2023japan, October 2023

Deep Learning Approach for Wind Energy Time-Series Forecasting with Environmental Factors, 2023 International Conference On Power And Renewable Energy Engineering-tokyo-japan, Oct-2023japan, 21 October 2023

IoT-Based Sustainable Parking Lot, The 7th International Conference On Smart Grid And Smart Cities (icsgsc),china-2023, September 2023

Smart Grid Applications within the Fog Computing Context, Keynote Speaker & Conf. Chair, The Seventh International Conference On Smart Grid And Smart Cities, China, Sept-2023 (icsgsc), September 2023

Smart Cities Technologies from Theory to Practice-March-2023- Oman, Invited-talk-march-2023, March 2023

Smart Cities Technologies from Theory to Practice, 6th Iet Smart Cities Symposium. Dec-2022, December 2022

Smart Grid Networks Reference Model within the Fog Computing Context, 3rd International Conference On Power, Energy And Electrical Engineering, 18 November 2022

A 3-Tier, 3-Dimensions Reference Model for Smart Cities Applications, The 6th. International Conference On Smart Grid And Smart Cities, 22 October 2022

Smart Cities Technologies from the ground to the cloud-Shahba-University-Aleppo-SYR, Webinar, March 2022

Digital Citizenship day- Oct -2021, Al Nahda National School Abu Dhabi, October 2021

Smart Cities Applications Enable Technologies: from the Ground to the cloud-Oct-2021, Uae-ieee Youth Chapter, October 2021

Digital Twins Rising Role in Smart Cities Applications-Japan-06-2021, The 5th International Conference On Smart Grid And Smart Cities (icsgsc-21),, June 2021

Sharjah Sustainable City AUS, Meeting, April 2021

Smart Cities from the Ground to the Cloud: Technologies and Services, Arab Ict Forum 2020, December 2020

Smart Cities Application",, Meeting, November 2020

Smart-Cities-Talk-4-RTA-Dubai-July-2020., July 2020

Speaker-Panel discussion on Hiring for the 4th Industrial Revolution,, Panel Discussion, July 2020

Smart Manufacturing Enabling Technologies in Smart City, Uae Society Of Engineers, Uae, April 2020

Internet of Things Role in Smart Cities Applications, Ieee International Symposium On Signal Processing And Information, December 2019

Smart Manufacturing Enabling Technologies in Smart City, Ieee International Conference On Smart Grid And Smart Cities And International Conference On Energy, Electrical And Power Engineering (ceepe 2019), June 2019

Grants and sponsorships

Grant, IoT-based Black Box for Monitoring Delivery Motorcyclists, October 2022 - May 2023

Grant, Sustainable Parking Lot, 2022 - May 2022

Grant, Smart Cane for Visually Impaired Children using IoT and AI, Sandooq Al Watan, 28 February 2020 - 22 December 2020

Grant, Autonomous Vehicle Detection and Monitoring System, Sandooq Al Watan, March 2019 - 20 December 2020

Grant, Smart Campus Mobility, CRO-Office-AUS, October 2019 - May 2020

Grant, Long-term assessment of Photo-voltaic Generation in UAE: Environmental impacts and mitigations, AUS-EFRG2, 01 September 2018 - 31 May 2020

Grant, A Comparison of Big Data Architectures for Smart Energy, FRG2-AUS, 1 September 2017 - 31 May 2020

Awards and Honors

Best Paper Award for “IoT-Based Sustainable Parking Lot”, the Seventh International Conference on Smart Grid and Smart Cities (ICSGSC) 2023 held recently in Lanzhou, China, September 2023

Best paper Award For: IoT-Based Shared Community Transportation System Using e-Bikes, IEEE 5th Int. Conf. on Smart Grid and Smart Cities, 2021,Tokyo, Japan., 2021 5th International Conference on Smart Grid and Smart Cities (ICSGSC), A. R. Al-Ali, Raafat Aburukba, A. H. Riaz, Ahmad Al Nabulsi, D. Khan, S. Khan, M. Amer, June 2021

1st Place Award: Smart Campus Mobility- CEN-CSE Senior Design Projects 2020 Competition, CEN 2020 Senior Design Projects Competition, First Place Award: Smart Campus Mobility Senior project I am the advisor and we have got undergraduate research grant from the AUS-CRO office Academic Year 2019-2020., May 2020

1st Place Award: Smart Retail Shelf- CEN-IEN Senior Design Projects 2020 Competition, CEN-Senior Design Projects 2020 Competition, 7 May 2020

2020 winners of the IEEE Consumer Electronics Society Chester Sall Award for the First place best paper in the IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, IEEE Consumer Electronics Society Chester Sall Award, January 2020

Best paper award, International Conference on Recent Advances in Science, Technology & Engineering, 7 January 2020

AUS wins first place at IEEE 37th International Conference on Consumer Electronics poster competition, IEEE Consumer Electronics, Las Vegas, USA, Jan 2019, The graduation project of American University of Sharjah (AUS) computer science and engineering alumni titled “Internet of Things (IOT)-based interactive dual mode smart home automation” won first place in the poster competition category of the IEEE 37th International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE) held in Las Vegas, USA, in January 2019. Students: Omar Hamdan, Hassan Shanableh and Inas Zaki, and was supervised by ...

Second Place award: Gulf Traffic Driving Innovation - intelligent solution - 2018, Gulf Traffic,, Project name: IoT Smart Vehicle Blackbox, Winning the 2nd place in the 2 categories which Project Name: Judge's Choice Award and People's Choice Award. SudentsL Bashayer Al-Marzooqi, Anwar Elshaikh and I have participated in a competition under the supervision of Dr. Abdul-rahman Al-Ali and Mr. Ahmad Al Nabulsi., 2 December 2018

Annual Engineering Design and Innovation Competition and Exposition (EDICE), CEN-AUS, Best senior project awards in the electrical engineering dept., 1 May 2018

First place award: smart utility meter, the Future Generation Undergraduate category of the Middle East Electricity Awards 2017, Middle East Electricity Conference and exhibition 2017., 6 March 2017

The second place award in Renewable Energy Competition, "Project: Renewable Energy Based Smart Irrigation System,, Awarad by Arab-German Young Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Jan, 2017., 17 January 2017