IEEE IMAS 2026 Industry Talks

Adel Alzogaiby holds a B.Eng. in Electronics and Communications Engineering from King Saud University (KSU), Saudi Arabia, obtained in 2004, and an M.Sc. in Electronics Engineering from the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa, obtained in 2014.

He began his career in 2005 as a Radar Engineer at King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST), Saudi Arabia, where he contributed to various defense research and development projects in collaboration with international organizations. His expertise spans radar systems engineering, waveform design and analysis, and radar signal and data processing.

In 2015, Adel joined PSDSARC, Saudi Arabia, initially as the Department Head of Defense Modelling and Simulation, later advancing to Director of the Radar and Communications Systems Lab. In this role, he led the technical management of various research and development projects, including passive radar and Counter-Unmanned Aerial Systems (C-UAS).

From 2022 to 2024, he served as Chief Engineer of Air Defense Systems at the Saudi Arabian Military Industries (SAMI). His work focused on the development of advanced air defense capabilities and strategic collaboration between industry, universities, and research centers in the field of Defense Electronics.

Today, he serves as the General Supervisor of the Technical Development Sector at PSDSARC, where he leads the development of local capabilities in Radar, Electronic Warfare (EW), and Unmanned Systems.

The rapid evolution of drone warfare is reshaping modern conflict, as low-cost, commercially available unmanned systems increasingly challenge traditional approaches to surveillance, air defense, electronic warfare, communications, and precision engagement.

As drones advance toward greater autonomy, coordination, and mass deployment, the competition between offensive and counter-UAS capabilities is intensifying. Key technical challenges include detecting and classifying small, low-RCS and RF-silent drones in complex environments, ensuring resilient communications under electronic attack, operating without GNSS, coordinating large-scale drone swarms, and countering saturation attacks in a cost-effective and scalable manner.

Many of these problems lie within the microwave, RF, and antenna domains, driving new research opportunities in distributed and passive radar, electronic warfare, adaptive antennas and digital beamforming, resilient and low-probability-of-intercept communications, RF-based navigation, sensor fusion, high-power microwave systems, and spectrum management.

This keynote highlights how the evolving drone battlefield is creating a new generation of technology that will significantly influence future sensing, communications, electronic warfare, and air-defense architectures, while opening a major research frontier for the IMAS community.