Mustafa M. Matalgah is Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Mississippi. His research spans wireless and next-generation communication systems, statistical signal processing, satellite and small-satellite communications, AI-enabled communications and autonomous systems, and communication-system security. His work integrates communication theory, stochastic modeling and performance analysis, simulation, measurement-driven analysis, and emerging AI-enabled engineering methods.
Research Interests
- 5G/6G wireless communications
- Ka-band small-satellite and CubeSat communications
- trustworthy generative AI for communications engineering
- AI-enabled communications and sensing
- UAV/UGV autonomous systems
- physical-layer and network security
- cooperative and relay communications
- stochastic channel modeling and performance analysis
- RF machine learning
- THz and line-of-sight communications
- MIMO-OFDM systems
- V2X communications and resource allocation
Biography
Mustafa M. Matalgah, Ph.D., is Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Mississippi, where he has served on the faculty since 2002 and as Professor since 2013. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Missouri-Columbia, his M.Sc. from Jordan University of Science and Technology, and his B.Sc. from Yarmouk University. Before joining the University of Mississippi, he accumulated more than six years of U.S. wireless-industry experience in engineering, research and development, network planning, testing, verification, and technology assessment.
Dr. Matalgah's research spans wireless communications, signal processing, satellite and small-satellite communications, autonomous systems, communication security, AI-enabled systems, and measurement-driven performance analysis. He has authored or coauthored more than 150 archival publications and has served as PI, Co-PI, or consultant on projects supported by federal agencies, national laboratories, industry, and university programs. His current research includes trustworthy generative AI for Ka-band small-satellite communications and AI-enabled autonomous UAV/UGV systems. He has served as major advisor for eight completed Ph.D. dissertations and eleven completed M.S. theses and continues to mentor graduate and undergraduate researchers.
His professional activities include serving as Executive Editor of Wiley's Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies and participating in IEEE conferences and technical committees. His research and educational activities emphasize interdisciplinary collaboration, experiential learning, and connecting fundamental communications research with emerging engineering applications.
Education
M.S. Electrical Engineering, Jordan University of Science & Technology (1990)
Ph.D. Electrical Engineering, University of Missouri-Columbia (1996)
B.S. Electrical Engineering, Yarmouk University (1987)