Competitive Research Grants

Research Grants for the year - 2014-2015

No	PI	Title	College	Department	Amount (AED)	Duration
1	Emad Mushtaha	Improvement of Walkability As A Prerequisite for Sustainability at University Of Sharjah	Engineering	Architectural Engineering	60,000	24 months
2	Maalej Mohamed	Innovative Vibration Attenuation Devices for Equipment and Structures	Engineering	Civil and Environmental Engineering	48,000	24 months
3	Salah Altoubat	Rapid Strengthening of Unreinforced Masonry Walls for Out-of-Plain Action Using Fiber Reinforced Shotcrete.	Engineering	Civil and Environmental Engineering	60,000	24 months
4	Imran Nazir Junejo	Scene Understanding and Visualization (SUV)	Sciences	Computer Science	60,000	24 months
5	Zaher Al Aghbari	A Data Mining Approach for Detecting and Tracking harmful Environmental Phenomena using WSN	Sciences	Computer Science	150,000	24 months
6	Najeh M Jisrawi Zarir	An analytical and numerical study of thermoelectric materials using the lambert W and ploylog functions	Sciences	Applied Physics	80,000	24 months
7	Md Mamun Ur Rashid	Assessment of 'consolidated' residential block design: A critical investigation into spatiality and technology	Engineering	Architectural Engineering	60,000	24 months
8	Abdallah Shanableh	Inhibition of Biogas Production from Sewage Sludge Co-digested with Date Palm (Phoenix dactylifera L.) Seeds and Antibacterial and Anticancer Characteristics of Date Seeds Extracts	Engineering	Civil and Environmental Engineering	150,000	24 months
9	Anwar Hasan Mohammed Jarndal	GaN Switching-Mode Power Amplifier Design for High Frequency Applications	Engineering	Electrical and Computer Engineering	40,000	24 months
10	Mahmoud Allawy Mohsin	Solid Waste Management in UAE. Recycling of Plastic Containers, Properties and Applications	Sciences	Chemistry	40,000	24 months
11	Maher Omar	Influence of Particle Morphology on Strength Properties of UAE Carbonate Sands	Engineering	Civil and Environmental Engineering	93,400	15 months
12	Samer Barakat	Experimental Study on Shear strength of trapezoidal corrugated steel webs	Engineering	Civil and Environmental Engineering	60,000	24 months
13	Ahmed Ali Mohamed	Synthesis and Applications of Organometallic Gold Nanoparticles as Antifouling Agents	Sciences	Chemistry	40,000	12 months
14	Abdul-Kadir M. Hamid	3KW Photovoltaic/Thermal Hybrid System with (front & back) cooling	Engineering	Electrical and Computer Engineering	40,000	24 months
15	Abdelaziz Tlili	Molecular Analysis of a Consanguineous Family with Palmoplantar Keratoderma.	Sciences	Applied Biology	79,500

Research Grants for the year - 2015-2016

No	PI	Title	College	Department	Amount (AED)	Duration
1	Gehad Kandeel Sadik	Dynamics of Quantum entanglement in Heisenberg spin Systems coupled to dissipative environment	Sciences	Applied Physics	80,000	24 months
2	Amer Mohammad Yusuf	On Performance Advances of Smart Enable Solid State Transformers	Engineering	Electrical and Computer Engineering	80,000	24 months
3	Rami Issa Al-Ruzouq	Digital Mapping of groundwater potential zones in Sharjah/UAE using remote sensing data and GIS.	Engineering	Civil and Environmental Engineering	80,000	24 months
4	Saleh Abu Dabous	Deployment of Non-Destructive Technologies in Condition Assessment of Concrete Bridge Infrastructure	Engineering	Civil and Environmental Engineering	80,000	24 months
5	Ali Ahmed Adam Ismail	Design of Drive System for a Half-Model Electric Vehicle	Engineering	Electrical and Computer Engineering	80,000	24 months
6	Hussain Alawadhi	Identifying PM2.5 Pollutants Sources in some Urban areas of Sharjah	Sciences	Applied Physics	80,000	24 months
7	Mounir Kaidi	Novel Metal oxide/nanoporous composite coatings for enhancing silicon solar cells photo conversion and for high sensitivity gas sensors	Sciences	Applied Physics	80,000	24 months
8	Manar Abu Talib	Enhancing Computing Studies in High Schools in UAE	Sciences	Computer Science	65,000	24 months
9	Ismail Shahin	Capturing, Studying, and Analyzing Arabic Emarati-Accented Speech Database in Stressful and Emotional Talking Environments for Different Applications	Engineering	Electrical and Computer Engineering	80,000	24 months
10	Md Mamun ur Rashid	Harnessing the wind Power in generation of clean energy in the cities of UAE : Maximizing the impact of in urban settings on building Integrated Wind Turbine	Engineering	Architectural Engineering	80,000	24 months
11	Houssem gazzah	Vector-Sensor Arrays for Underwater Observation	Engineering	Electrical and Computer Engineering	30,000	12 months
12	Anis Allagui	On the Chaotic Behavior of Electric and Spectral Emission Responses of Contact Glow Discharge Electrolysis	Engineering	Sustainable and Renewable Energy	80,000	24 months
13	Shek Md Rahman	Study on anoval approach of a atmospheric freeze drying system using vortex tube	Engineering	Sustainable and Renewable Energy	80,000	24 months
14	Amir Ali Khan	The role of mir-22 and the 1GF-1 in the enhanced differentiation of very small embryonic-like stem cell (CD 133+) into neural progenitor-like cells in the presence of bFGF and EGF	Sciences	Applied Biology	80,000	23 months
15	Ahmed Ali Mohamed	Convergence of Nano diamonds with water-Soluble Gold Nanoparticles for potential Biomedical Applications	Sciences	Chemistry	80,000	24 months
16	Maher Omar	Management of Load Transfer to Underground Structures by Using Geocell Soil Reinforcement	Engineering	Civil and Environmental Engineering	99,400	15 months
17	Mohamed Talal Bonny	Designing Customized Processor to Implement New Techniques to Speed up the Database Sequencing Applications	Engineering	Electrical and Computer Engineering	80,000	24months
18	Abrar Inayat	Development of Systematic Algorithm for the Production of Synthetic Natural Gas for Vehicles (SNGV) from Biomass	Engineering	Sustainable and Renewable Energy	64,000	24 months
19	Manar Abu Talib	Open Source Software Use for Law Enforcement in the UAE	Sciences	Computer Science	80,000	24 months
20	Naveed Ahmed	3D Digitization and Recognition of Real-world Actors using off-the-shelf RGB-D Sensors	Sciences	Computer Science	80,000	24 months
21	Gehad Kandeel	Quantum entanglement sharing in two interacting two-level atoms coupled to an off-resonance quantized radiation field	Sciences	Applied Physics	80,000	24 months
22	Ismail Shahin	Emotion Recognition in each of Stressful and Emotional Talking Environments Using Artificial Models	Engineering	Electrical and Computer Engineering	80,000	24 months

Research Grants for the year - 2016-2017

No	PI	Title	College	Department	Amount (AED)	Duration
1	Khalid Baju	Use of 14K growth hormone as a potent pro-thrombolytic agent	Sciences	Applied Biology	80,000	24 months
2	Raouf Fareh	Control of a space robot with flexible links	Engineering	Electrical and Computer Engineering	80,000	24 months
3	In-Ju Kim	Nanotechnology Application for the Improvements of Pedestrian Walkway Slip Resistance Performance	Engineering	Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management	80,000	24 months
4	Bassam A. Khuwaileh	Developing a Toolkit for Uncertainly, Sensitivity Model Calibration and Validation for Nuclear Engineering	Engineering	Nuclear Engineering	80,000	22 months
5	Hamdi Bashir	An Empirical Study on Improving Organizational Innovation in the United Arab Emirates	Engineering	Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management	49,000	24 months
6	Houssem gazzah	Calibration of Radio-telescopes	Engineering	Electrical and Computer Engineering	45,000	24 months
7	Mohamed Abdallah	Continuous Pilot-scale Operation of Microbial Fuel Cells for Simultaneous Energy Production and Wastewater Treatment under Realistic Operating Conditions	Engineering	Civil and Environmental Engineering	80,000	24 months
8	Bashir M. Suleiman	Investigation of the thermal properties of the Aluminum Cladding façades in the construction of towers in the United Arab Emirates	Sciences	Applied Physics	75,000	24 months
9	Di Zhang	Enhancing the performance of low-cost ball-milled graphene in energy and environmental applications	Engineering	Sustainable and Renewable Energy	70,000	24 months
10	Salah Al Toubat	Punching Shear Strength of Reinforced Concrete Slabs with Macro Synthetic Fibers	Engineering	Civil and Environmental Engineering	75,000	24 months
11	Soliman Mahmoud	A 90-nm CMOS EEG Detection System with a Configurable Analog Frontend Architecture	Engineering	Electrical and Computer Engineering	80,000	24 months
12	Walid A. Metwally	Using Neutron Generators in Boron and Gadolinium Neutron Capture Therapy	Engineering	Nuclear Engineering	80,000	24 months
13	Mohamed Abdallah	Experimental Assessment and life Cycle Analysis of State-of-art Manure Management Technologies in the United Arab Emirates	Engineering	Civil and Environmental Engineering	71,000	24 months
14	Muhammad Talha Junaid	Restrained Shrinkage and Cracking Behavior of Ambient Cured Geopolymer Concrete	Engineering	Civil and Environmental Engineering	69,100	24 months
15	Muhammad Zubair	Reliability Evaluation of Reactor Protection System (RPS) considering different failure modes.	Engineering	Nuclear Engineering	71,000	24 months
16	Qassim Nasir	Remote attestation of Cyber Physical Systems (CPS)	Engineering	Electrical and Computer Engineering	64,000	24 months
17	Qassim Nasir	Towards Blockchains Benchmarking & its Security Metrics for UAE Governments	Engineering	Electrical and Computer Engineering	62,000	36 months
18	Syarif Junaid	Investigation of quasicrystal compound formation of Fe-Cu alloy using Molecular Dynamic modeling and experimental analysis: toward application to a mesoporous layer in the third generation photovoltaics and solar absorber	Engineering	Mechanical Engineering	80,000	24 months

Research Grants for the year - 2017-2018

No	PI	Title	College	Department	Amount (AED)	Duration
1	Bassam Abdullah Khuwaileh	Optimizing the Design of Nuclear Fuel Assembly Mixing Vanes using CFD Analysis	Engineering	Nuclear Engineering	59,000	28 months
2	Rachik Soualah	Probing the Majorana Neutrino Nature in Radiative Neutrino Mass Models at Current and Future Colliders	Sciences	Applied Physics	66,000	24 months
3	Tareq Samir Zaki Salameh	Thermo hydraulic performance of heat transfer process provided with roughened surface and construction materials for renewable energy applications	Engineering	Sustainable and Renewable Energy	80,000	24 months
4	Ilias Fernini	Comparative Planetology of Martian Ionosphere	Sciences	Applied Physics	80,000	24 months
5	Amr Elnady	Advanced Sliding Mode Control for The Distributed Generation System	Engineering	Electrical and Computer Engineering	80,000	24 months
6	Gehad Kandeel Sadiek	Quantum control of interacting two-level quantum systems using a quantized radiation field	Sciences	Applied Physics	77,000	24 months
7	Abdelaziz Sofiane	Burgers as a Turbulence Model: Domain Decomposition Modeling of the Burgers Equation with Local Perturbation and Global Control	Sciences	Mathematics	37,000	24 Months
8	Abdelaziz Tlili	Identification of Genetic Factors Responsible for Hearing Impairment in 10 Patients Living in the UAE	Sciences	Applied Biology	79,500	24 Months
9	Abrar Inayat	Development and Simulation of Integrated System for the Hydrogen Production from Wastes via Anaerobic Digestion, Dry Reforming and Steam Gasification	Engineering	Sustainable and Renewable Energy	48,000	24 Months
10	Ayssar Nahle	UAE Plants Extracts as Corrosion Inhibitors for Mild Steel in HCL Solution.	Sciences	Chemistry	36,500	24 Months
11	Di Zhang	Investigating plasmonic-electrical nanostructures for performance enhancement in dye-sensitized solar cells	Engineering	Sustainable and Renewable Energy	80,000	24 Months
12	Khalid Bajou	PAI-1 in tumor angiogenesis and metastasis.	Sciences	Applied Biology	79,000	36 Months
13	Mohamed Gamal Elsayed Ali Arab	Using Alkali-Activated Binders to to Improve UAE Sabkha Approval Soils.	Engineering	Electrical Engineering	79,000	24 Months

Research Grants for the year - 2018-2019

No	PI	Title	College	Department	Amount (AED)	Duration
1	Ali Jaballah	Algebraic and Discrete Structures with Some Finiteness Conditions	Sciences	Mathematics	14,000	24 months
2	Ali Jaballah	Algebraic and Discrete Structures with Some Finiteness Conditions	Sciences	Mathematics	14,000	24 months
3	Kamrul Hasan	Developing Sustainable Catalysts via Effective Anchoring of Cu(II) Schiff Base Complexes on Magnetic Chitosan and Their Application in C-C and C-N Coupling Reactions towards Organic Synthesis	Sciences	Chemistry	80,000	36 months
4	Abdelsalam Aldawoud	Demand Response and Renewable Energy Integration in Institutional Buildings: A Case Study of a University of Sharjah Campus-UAE	Engineering	Architectural Engineering	80,000	28 months
5	Kamrul Hasan	Developing Sustainable Catalysts via Effective Anchoring of Cu(II) Schiff Base Complexes on Magnetic Chitosan and Their Application in C-C and C-N Coupling Reactions towards Organic Synthesis	Sciences	Chemistry	80,000	36 months
6	Mohamed Abdallah	Integrated Wastewater Management Through Onsite Treatment and Unconventional Collection	Engineering	Civil and Environmental Engineering	80,000	24 months
7	Muamer Abuzwidah	Initiation of Development of a Highway Safety Manual for the UAE	Engineering	Civil and Environmental Engineering	40,000	24 months
8	Muamer Abuzwidah	Assessment of the Lane Chang Maneuvers Impact on Safety and Operation on the Freeways and Develop Innovative Solutions for Improvements	Engineering	Civil and Environmental Engineering	80,000	24 months
9	Rami Al-Ruzouq	Artificial Groundwater Recharge towards Strategic Water Storage Plan in Sharjah	Engineering	Civil and Environmental Engineering	74,000	18 months
10	Abdelsalam Aldawoud	Demand Response and Renewable Energy Integration in Institutional Buildings: A Case Study of a University of Sharjah Campus-UAE	Engineering	Architectural Engineering	80,000	28 months
11	Mohamed Abdallah	Integrated Wastewater Management Through Onsite Treatment and Unconventional Collection	Engineering	Civil and Environmental Engineering	80,000	24 months
12	Muamer Abuzwidah	Initiation of Development of a Highway Safety Manual for the UAE	Engineering	Civil and Environmental Engineering	40,000	24 months
13	Muamer Abuzwidah	Assessment of the Lane Chang Maneuvers Impact on Safety and Operation on the Freeways and Develop Innovative Solutions for Improvements	Engineering	Civil and Environmental Engineering	80,000	24 months
14	Rami Al-Ruzouq	Artificial Groundwater Recharge towards Strategic Water Storage Plan in Sharjah	Engineering	Civil and Environmental Engineering	74,000	18 months
15	Abdelaziz Tlili	Identification of a new gene responsible for distichiasis in a large UAE family.	Sciences	Applied Biology	74,500	24 Months
16	Waleed Zeiada	Effect of Bio-Oils Extracted from Local Date Seeds on Rheological Properties of Modified Asphalt Binder	Engineering	Civil and Environmental Engineering	79,400	24 Months
17	Abdelsalam Aldawoud	Demand Response and Renewable Energy Integration in Institutional Buildings: A Case Study of a University of Sharjah Campus-UAE	Engineering	Architectural Engineering	80,000	28 Months
18	Tarek Merabtene	Development of Conceptual and Physically based Rainfall-Runoff Models for selected ungagged arid basins in United Arab Emirates (UAE).	Engineering	Civil and Environmental Engineering	80,000	24 Months
19	Abdul Hai Alami	Enhancement of Optical, Radiative and Corrosion Resistance Properties of Solar Absorbers by Low-cost Graphene Bulk Surface Modification.	Engineering	Sustainable and Renewable Energy	80,000	24 Months
20	Abdul Kadir M. Hamid	3KW PV/T System Using Front ( Optical Filter) and Back Nano Fluid Cooling	Engineering	Electrical Engineering	74,000	24 Months
21	Luai M. S. Al Labadi	A New Bayesian Approach for Model Checking and for the Two-sample Problem with Right Censored Data.	Sciences	mathematics	28,000	24 Months
22	Zafar Said	Performance Enhancement of Evacuated Tube Solar Collector Using Different Nanomaterials Based Fluid.	Engineering	Sustainable and Renewable Energy	80,000	24 months
23	Mona Rushdi Hassuneh (submitted 31/1/2018)	The Immunomodulatory Effects of Two Natural Small Molecules in the Model of Multiple Sclerosis Experimental Autoimmune Encephalitis (EAE)	Sciences	Applied Biology	80,000	24 months
24	Muhammad Azeem	Coherent Control of two-electron spin quantum bits in undoped GaAs/AlGaAs semiconducting quantum device	Sciences	Applied Physics	80,000	36 months
25	Kamrul Hasan	Developing sustainable catalysts via effective anchoring of Cu(II) Schiff Base complexes on magnetic chitosan and their application in C-C and C-N coupling reactions towards organic synthesis	Sciences	Chemistry	80,000	36 months
26	Saleh Abu Dabous	Integrated Method for Bridge and Elevator Assets Condition Monitoring Using Failure Mode Effects and Criticality Analysis (FMECA)	Engineering	Civil and Environmental Engineering	80,000	24 months

Research Grants for the year - 2019-2020

No	PI	Title	College	Department	Amount (AED)	Duration
1	Mohamed Abdallah	Smart Waste Collection Through Predictive Modeling and Machine-Learning	Engineering	Civil and Environmental Engineering	80,000	24 Months
2	Muhammad Talha Junaid	3D-Printed Polymer-Based Reinforcement for Structural Elements	Engineering	Civil and Environmental Engineering	80,000	24 Months
3	Oleg Olendski	Quantum information measures of two-dimensional disc and annulus: influence of the boundary conditions and Aharonov-Bohm fields	Sciences	Applied Physics	80,000	24 months
4	Salim Messaoudi	On the stability of some wave and viscoelastic systems with non-standard nonlinearities	Sciences	Mathematics	80,000	24 Months
5	Ahmed Amine Hachicha	Numerical and Experimental Investigations of Dust Effect on Solar Systems under United Arab Emirates Weather Conditions and Dust Mitigation Methods	Engineering	Sustainable and Renewable Energy Engineering	80,000	24 months
6	Rami Al-Ruzouq	Spatio-temporal Assessment of Urban Heat Island in a Hot Climate Region: Case Study of Coastal Cities at the Northern UAE	Engineering	Civil and Environmental Engineering	80,000	24 months
7	Shek Md Atiqur Rahman	Feasibility and life cycle analysis of green solar thermal energy storage system application for cooling and/or heating in United Arab Emirates	Engineering	Sustainable and Renewable Energy Engineering	80,000	24 months