I was born and educated in Yemen, where I studied computer science at Taiz University and spent five years teaching undergraduates at Ibb University. A master's at Universiti Putra Malaysia took me into wireless mesh networks. My work there on where to place internet gateways became a granted patent and, later, an article in Future Generation Computer Systems.
My PhD at the University of Malaya focused on mission-critical machine-type communication: links for machines and sensors that must deliver short packets with very high reliability and very low delay. I compared polar, LDPC and convolutional codes on an IEEE 802.11-based physical layer and designed a short-preamble scheme that cuts overhead without losing reliability.
Alongside research I've spent more than a decade building software, first in enterprise systems in Kuala Lumpur and now on academic platforms. In 2025 I founded London Academic Research Press Ltd, a company based in London, and I run it as founder and director while editing its journal, MIRJ, as Editor-in-Chief.