2025 Member-at-Large - Europe, Middle East, Africa Region Candidate

Position Statement

My involvement with ComSoc for many years (conferences, journals and executive committees) has been fuelled by my desire to give back to my community. Throughout those years, I’ve been committed to the mission of ComSoc, which centres around providing avenues for its members to flourish professionally. Among the areas that I thought might need some improvements were transparency, fairness, and providing equal opportunity to all. I’ve been a strong advocate for those aspects in whatever capacity I had. If elected, besides becoming the first member from the Middle East, I will continue to

• Promote transparent and fair policies for all levels of awards. (I’ve contributed to the new ComSoc awards policies to be implemented this year.)
• Promote giving junior members a chance to serve in leading roles. (I’ve done this at conferences and committees I’ve served on.)
• Promote mentorship and professional activities for graduate students. (To be implemented at PIMRC’25.)  

Biography

Ali Ghrayeb received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from The University of Arizona, Tucson, USA. He is currently a Professor with the College of Science and Engineering, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar. From 2012-2024, he was with Texas A&M University at Qatar. Before moving to Qatar, he was a tenured professor in the ECE Department at Concordia University, Montreal, Canada. He served as the Executive Chair of IEEE WCNC’16. He served as a member of the IEEE ComSoc Conferences Council, a member of the IEEE GITC Committee, and a member of the IEEE WCNC Steering Committee. He served in different editorial capacities on several IEEE transactions journals. He currently serves as the co-Chair of IEEE PIMRC’25, and a member of the IEEE ComSoc Awards Committee, a member of the IEEE ComSoc Fellow Evaluation Standing Committee, and a member of the IEEE MECOM Steering Committee. He is an IEEE Fellow.