Publications
M. Awadin, A. Gomaa, and N. Al-Dhahir, OFDM AF Relaying Under I/Q Imbalance: Performance Analysis and Baseband Compensation , in IEEE Transactions on Communications, 2013 2013 - Publication
H. Soy, O. Ozdemir, M. Bayrak, R. Hamila, and N. Al-Dhahir, Decentralized Multiuser Diversity with Opportunistic Packet Transmission in MIMO Wireless Sensor Networks , in International Journal of Electronics and Communications, 2013 2013 - Publication
O. Ozdemir, R. Hamila, and N. Al-Dhahir, I/Q Imbalance in Multiple Beamforming OFDM Transceivers : SINR Analysis and Digital Baseband Compensation , in IEEE Transactions on Communications, May 2013 2013 - Publication
J. Lee and N. Al-Dhahir, Exploiting Sparsity for Multiple Relay Selection with Relay Gain Control in Large AF Relay Networks , in IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, 2013 2013 - Publication
Y. Chi, A. Gomaa, N. Al-Dhahir, and A.R. Calderbank, Training Signal Design and Tradeoffs for Spectrally-Efficient Multi-User MIMO-OFDM Systems , in IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, July 2011 2011 - Publication
P. Rabiei, W. Namgoong, N. Al-Dhahir On the Performance of OFDM-Based Amplify-and-Forward Relay Networks in the Presence of Phase Noise in IEEE Transactions on Communications, May 2011 2011 - Publication
H. Eghbali, H. Muhaidat, N. Al-Dhahir A Novel Receiver Design for Single-Carrier Frequency Domain Equalization in Broadband Wireless Networks with Amplify-and-Forward Relaying , in IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, March 2011 2011 - Publication
A. Gomaa, and N. Al-Dhahir, A New Design Framework for Sparse FIR MIMO Equalizers , in IEEE Transactions on Communications, August 2011 2011 - Publication
A. Gomaa, N. Al-Dhahir, A Sparsity-Aware Approach for NBI Estimation in MIMO-OFDM , in IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, June 2011 2011 - Publication
K.M. Zahidul Islam, T. Al-Naffouri, N. Al-Dhahir On Pilot Design for Comb-Type OFDM Transmission Over Doubly-Selective Channels , in IEEE Transactions on Communications, April 2011. 2011 - Publication
Appointments
Full Professor (tenured)
University of Texas at Dallas [2007–Present]
Associate Professor (tenured)
University of Texas at Dallas [2003–2007]
Principal member of the technical staff
AT&T Shannon Laboratory [8–7]
Member of the technical staff
Corporate R&D Center, General Electric Company [8–7]
Instructor
Stanford University [1–4]
Research Assistant
Stanford University [1–7]
News Articles

Professor Naofal Al-Dhahir has been named an IEEE fellow, one of the highest honors bestowed by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
The honor, for “contributions to high data-rate communication over broadband channels,” recognizes Al-Dhahir for a large body of work that includes an important component of the high-speed DSL Internet technology used by millions of people around the world.

RICHARDSON, Texas (Sept. 21, 2005) — An electrical engineering professor at The University of Texas at Dallas (UTD), in collaboration with and a researcher from Princeton University, has been awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to investigate the value of algebraic signal structures in the cross–layer design of multiple–antenna wireless communication systems.
Dr. Naofal Al–Dhahir, an associate professor in UTD’s Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science will work with Dr. Robert Calderbank, who holds a joint appointment as a professor with Princeton’s departments of mathematics and electrical engineering, to demonstrate how algebraic signal structures make it possible to integrate different multiple–antenna system functions efficiently at an end–to–end complexity equal to that of the single–antenna systems used today.
Naofal Al-Dhahir, an associate professor of electrical engineering in the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science at The University of Texas at Dallas (UTD), has been named a co-recipient of the prestigious Donald G. Fink Prize Paper Award for 2006 by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
The award is given for the most outstanding survey review or tutorial paper published in IEEE transactions, journals or magazines, or in proceedings of the IEEE. Established in 1979, it is named in honor of Donald G. Fink, a distinguished editor and author who was the first general manager and executive director of the IEEE. The Fink award is the only IEEE-wide journal best paper award; all other paper awards are at the technical society level.
An electrical engineering professor and a Ph.D. student at The University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) together won the “Best Paper” award at the 2005 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Vehicular Technology Conference recently held in Dallas.
Dr. Naofal Al–Dhahir, an associate professor, and Sushanta Das are part of the electrical engineering department in UTD’s Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science. They are co-authors of the paper with Dr. Robert Calderbank of Princeton University and Dr. Suhas Diggavi of Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland.

RICHARDSON, Texas (Sept. 9, 2004) — An electrical engineering professor at The University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) has been awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to investigate new methods for broadband multimedia wireless communications.
Dr. Naofal Al-Dhahir, an associate professor in UTD’s Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science, received the award, which covers a four-year period and is worth $250,000, from the NSF’s division of Computing and Communication Foundations (CCF).