He received his B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia in 2005. He received the M.A.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada, in 2009 and 2013, respectively. From 2005 to 2007, he worked as a Graduate Assistant in the Electrical Engineering Department at KFUPM. His research interests span topics in the areas of wireless communication systems, diversity techniques, and information theory.