​Ahmad Mahmoud  Alshamali received his BSc degree in electrical Engineering in 1983 from the University of Jordan. He worked as a communication engineer for two years in the special communication commission in Jordan and as a project engineer in the National Jordanian  Electricity Company in Jordan for four years. Between 1990 and 1993 he worked as a teaching assistant at Yarmouk University where he was awarded a scholarship to pursue his graduate studies in the UK. He received MPhil and PhD degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Wales, Swansea in 1994 and 1996, respectively. Since 1997 he has been with the Department of Communication Engineering, Hijjawi Faculty for Engineering Technology, Yarmouk University, Irbid, Jordan, where he is currently an associate professor. His research interest includes performance evaluation of mobile radio systems, compression of biomedical signals,  mobile telemedicine systems and the effect of mobile phones RF radiation on human health. Alshamali received Hisham Hijjawi award for Applied Science, Information Technology and Communication sector for the year 2003.​