Dr. Khalid A. Qaraqe (S'00 ) is currently is a full professor in the Electrical Engineering Program in the College of Science and Engineering at Hamad Bin Khalifa University. Dr. Qaraqe received a B.S. degree in EE from the University of Technology, Bagdad, Iraq in 1986, with honors. He received his M.S. degree in EE from the University of Jordan  in 1989, and he earned his Ph.D. in EE from Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, in 1997. From 1989 to 2004, Dr. Qaraqe held various positions in several prominent telecommunication companies and has over 12 years of experience in the telecommunication industry. Dr. Qaraqe has worked on numerous projects and has experience in product development, design, deployments, testing, and integration. After 12 years in the industry, Dr. Qaraqe joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University in Qatar in July 2004 until October of 2024, where he moved to HBKU,

Dr. Qaraqe has also been awarded over 14 million USD in competitive research grants for his research initiatives. He has published 5 books, 20 book chapters, 5 US Patent, and more than 200 journals and 313 conference papers.

Dr. Qaraqe's research interests include communication theory and its application to wireless communication systems design and performance analysis. His main research interests are mobile networks, broadband wireless access, cooperative networks, cognitive radio, diversity techniques, Index Modulation, Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs), mmWave, THz, Visible Light Communication (VLC), FSO, and telehealth applications.

1. Broadband wireless access 
2. Lightweight security for wireless networks
3. AI and Machine learning for wireless communication
4. 6G & beyond systems
5. Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs)
6.  mmWave and Terahertz Technologies
7.  UAV and Satellite Communication