Dr. Islam Tanash is currently serving as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Prince Mohammad bin Fahd University (PMU), KSA. She received her PhD (with Distinction) from Tampere University, Finland, in December 2022, and her MSc & BSc degrees from Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan, in 2016 and 2014, respectively. Dr. Tanash has been a visiting researcher at the University of California San Diego, USA, and spent one and a half years as a postdoctoral researcher at Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland.
Her research focuses on improving statistical performance analysis for wireless communication systems through the development of new mathematical tools and optimization techniques. These tools have been applied to various wireless communication networks, with a focus on reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs). Currently, she is developing novel analytical frameworks for massive satellite networks and high altitude platforms (HAPs) using stochastic geometry and exploring their integration with RISs. Additionally, she is actively characterizing the Doppler effect in low Earth orbit satellite systems.
As the first author, Dr. Tanash has published extensively in prestigious journals and conferences, including IEEE TCOM, IEEE COMML, and IEEE ICC. Her work has been recognized with several prestigious awards, including the doctoral dissertation award from Tampere University in 2023, placing her research in the international top 10% in the field. She also won first place in the IEEE ComSoc Innovation Challenge on “Future 6G Non-Terrestrial Network Systems” for young scientists in 2024, the Nokia Foundation award in 2021, and received the Huawei Best Ph.D. student paper award in 2020. Furthermore, she was selected as one of 200 outstanding young researchers worldwide to attend the 7th Heidelberg Laureate Forum in Germany. In addition, her research on LEO satellites has been chosen among the top ten nominated contributions to the IEEE Future Networks Initiative’ award on Non-Terrestrial Networks for 6G competition (NTNYS’24) which is co-organized by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and the Communications, Space & Technology Commission (CST) of Saudi Arabia.
1. I. M. Tanash, Ayush Kumar Dwivedi, and T. Riihonen, " Integrating RIS into HAP Networks for Improved Connectivity" in IEEE 101st Vehicular Technology Conference, VTC2025-Spring (Under review).
2. Fatemeh Rafiei Malek, Ayush Kumar Dwivedi, I. M. Tanash, and T. Riihonen "Stochastic Modelling and Performance Analysis of Large LEO Constellations for Arctic Coverage," in IEEE International Conference on Communications, 2025 (Accepted).
3. Fatemeh Rafiei Malek, Ayush Kumar Dwivedi, I. M. Tanash, and T. Riihonen " Stochastic Modelling and Equatorial Coverage Analysis of Large Inclined LEO Constellations" in IEEE International Conference on Communications, 2025 (Under review).
4. I. M. Tanash and R. Wichman, "Performance Analysis of Urban Satellite-Terrestrial Networks with 3D Blockage Effects: A Stochastic Geometry Approach," in IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (Under review).
5. I. M. Tanash, Ayush Kumar Dwivedi, and T. Riihonen, " Integrating RIS into HAP Networks for Improved Connectivity" in International Symposium on Advanced Electrical and Communication Technologies (ISAECT’24), Saudi, 2024
6. I. M. Tanash, Ayush Kumar Dwivedi, Fatemeh Rafiei Malek, and T. Riihonen "Enhancing HAP Networks with Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces," in 6th International Conference on Communications, Signal Processing, and their Applications (ICCSPA), Türkiye, 2024.
7. I. M. Tanash and R. Wichman, "3D Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces for Satellite-Terrestrial Networks," IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIRMC), Spain, 2024.
8. I. M. Tanash and T. Riihonen, "Tight Logarithmic Approximations and Bounds for Generic Capacity Integrals and Their Applications to Statistical Analysis of Wireless Systems," in IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 70, no. 10, pp. 6456-6470, Oct. 2022.
9. I. M. Tanash and T. Riihonen, "Ergodic Capacity Analysis of RIS-Aided Systems with Spatially Correlated Channels," ICC 2022 - IEEE International Conference on Communications, Seoul, Korea, Republic of, 2022, pp. 3293-3298.
10. I. M. Tanash and T. Riihonen, "Generalized Karagiannidis–Lioumpas Approximations and Bounds to the Gaussian Q-Function with Optimized Coefficients," in IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 26, no. 3, pp. 513-517, March 2022.
11. I. M. Tanash and T. Riihonen, "Link Performance of Multiple Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces and Direct Path in General Fading," 2021 15th International Conference on Signal Processing and Communication Systems (ICSPCS), 2021, pp.1.
12. I. M. Tanash and T. Riihonen, "Remez Exchange Algorithm for Approximating Powers of the Q-Function by Exponential Sums," 2021 IEEE 93rd Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2021-Spring), 2021, pp. 1-6.
13. I. M. Tanash and T. Riihonen, "Quadrature-Based Exponential-Type Approximations for the Gaussian Q-Function," 2021 IEEE 93rd Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2021-Spring), 2021, pp. 1-5.
14. I. M. Tanash and T. Riihonen, "Improved Coefficients for the Karagiannidis–Lioumpas Approximations and Bounds to the Gaussian Q-Function," in IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 25, no. 5, pp. 1468-1471, May 2021.
15. I. M. Tanash and T. Riihonen, "Global Minimax Approximations and Bounds for the Gaussian Q-Function by Sums of Exponentials," in IEEE Transactions on
Communications, vol. 68, no. 10, pp. 6514-6524, Oct. 2020.
16. Islam Tanash, N. Okati, Taneli Riihonen, Numerical Approximations for the Gaussian Q-Function by Sums of Exponentials, in Finnish URSI.Convention on Radio Science, Oct. 2019.
17. N. Okati, Islam Tanash, Taneli Riihonen, Ilari Angervuori, and Risto Wichman, Performance Evaluation of Low Earth Orbit Communication Satellites, in Finnish URSI Convention on Radio Science, Oct. 2019.
18. W. Wang, N. Okati, I. Tanash, T. Riihonen and E. Lohan, "Location-Based Beamforming Architecture for Efficient Farming Applications with Drones," International Conference on Localization and GNSS (ICL-GNSS), Nuremberg, Germany, 2019, pp. 1-6
19. M. F. Al-Mistarihi, I. M. Tanash, F. S. Yaseen, and K. A. Darabkh, “Protecting Source Location privacy in a Clustered Wireless Sensor Networks against Local Eavesdroppers,” Mobile Networks and Applications, vol. 25, no. 1, pp. 42–54, 2020.
20. Islam M. Tanash, F. Yaseen, M. F. Al-Mistarihi, B. Al-Duwairi and M. Shurman, "Source location privacy in a cluster-based wireless sensor networks against local adversary," 2017 8th International Conference on Information and Communication Systems (ICICS), Irbid, 2017, pp. 348-351.
21. Islam M. Tanash, Mamoun F. Al-Mistarihi, Amer M. Magableh,”Physical-Layer Security for DF Two-Way Dual-Hop Cooperative Wireless Networks over Nakagami-m Fading Channels”. International Conference on Next Generation Wired/Wireless Networking, 2017, pp. 258-269.
22. Islam M. Tanash, Amer M. Magableh, Mamoun F. Al-Mistarihi, “Physical-Layer Security for DF Two-Way Full-Duplex Cooperative Wireless Networks over Rayleigh Fading Channels,” Internet of Things, Smart Spaces, and Next Generation Networks and Systems (NEW2AN), 2017, pp. 270-279.
