Atef Abdrabou received the Ph.D. degree in 2008 from University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, in electrical engineering. In 2010, he joined the Department of Electrical Engineering, UAE University, Al-Ain, Abu Dhabi, UAE, where he is an Assistant Professor. He is a co-recipient of a Best Paper Award of IEEE WCNC 2010.

Dr. Atef received the National Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) postdoctoral fellowship for academic excellence, research potential, communication and leadership abilities in 2009.

He spent a significant part of his professional career working in research and development. He worked at Lucent Technologies-Bell Labs (now Alcatel-Lucent) in the development of radio resource allocation algorithms of general packet radio service (GPRS) and enhanced data rate for GSM evolution (EDGE) cellular systems. He also worked for Hewlett Packard (HP) in testing carrier-class network performance management software.

His current research interests include network resource management, QoS provisioning and information dissemination in self-organizing wireless networks.