Deputy Project Manager and Spacecraft Development Team Leader of the Emirates Mars Exploration Project " Hope Probe " at the Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre since July 2014, United Arab Emirates. He has been the Senior Manager of the Space Systems Department at the Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre since November 2016. He held the position of Head of the Electronic Payload Section at the Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre between 2014 and 2016, and held several positions at the Emirates Institution for Advanced Science and Technology (EIAST), previously affiliated with the same centre, including: Head of the Payload Electronics System Section between 2011 and 2014, Digital Equipment Team Leader between 2010 and 2011, Assistant Engineer between 2006 and 2010, and Research Engineer in the Space Systems Development Department. He was also a visiting engineer at Satrec Initiative in South Korea between 2006 and 2015. He holds a Master’s degree in Aerospace Engineering, specializing in Space Systems, in 2013 from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) in South Korea, and a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering in 2006 from the American University of Sharjah .