Ayman ElNashar

Ayman Elnashar, PhD, has 20+ years of practical experience and leadership positions in ICT industry including planning, deployment and operation domains. He was part of three major start-up service providers (Orange/Egypt, Mobily/KSA, and du/UAE). Currently, he is VP and Head of Infrastructure Planning – ICT & Cloud with the Emirates Integrated Telecommunications Co. “du”, UAE. He is the founder of the Terminal Innovation Lab and UAE 5G innovation Gate (www.u5gig.ae) to derive 5G adoption in UAE. He is leading the mobile/fixed network transformation towards SDN/NFV and digital transformation of EITC Infrastructure to become a digital ICT service provider. Prior to this, he was Sr. Director – Wireless Networks, Terminals and IoT where he managed and directed the evolution, evaluation, and introduction of du wireless networks, terminals and IoT including LTE/LTE-A, HSPA+, WiFi, NB-IoT and currently working towards deploying 5G network in UAE.

Prior to this, he was with Mobily, Saudi Arabia, from June 2005 to Jan 2008 as Head of Projects. He played key role in contributing to the success of the mobile broadband network of Mobily/KSA. From March 2000 to June 2005, he was with orange Egypt.

He published 30+ papers in wireless communications and wireless networks in highly ranked journals and international conferences. He is the author three books published by Wiley:

• Design, Deployment, and Performance of 4G-LTE Networks: A Practical Approach, published in May 2014,

• Practical Guide to LTE-A, VoLTE and IoT: Paving the Way Towards 5G, published in July 2018,

• Simplified Robust Adaptive Detection and Beamforming for Wireless Communications, published in July 2018.

His research interests include practical performance analysis, planning and optimization of wireless networks (3G/4G/WiFi/IoT/5G), digital signal processing for wireless communications, multiuser detection, smart antennas, massive MIMO, and robust adaptive detection and beamforming.

He is more focused now on network transformation towards SDN/NFV, Cloud transformation, digital transformation, ICT applications, IoT evolution and 5G use cases.