He received his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin in December 2011. He was a member of Wireless Networking and Communications Group (WNCG) during his Ph.D. In 2012, he joined Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Hume Center for National Security and Technology at Virginia Tech. His research interests are in the areas of resource allocation optimization, radar and wireless systems, and security. Dr. Abdelhadi has coauthored more than 50 journal and conference papers and 5 books in these research topics.