Dr. Beza Negash Getu

Associate Professor – Electronics and Communications Engineering

School of Engineering and Computing

Department of Mechanical, Electrical & Intelligent Systems Engineering

G-334

+971 7 246 8736

bgetu@aurak.ac.ae

Beza Negash Getu is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical, Electronics, and Communications Engineering (EECE) at the American University of Ras Al Khaimah (AURAK). From August 2011- April 2016, he had been working in the position of Assistant Professor at AURAK and was promoted to Associate Professor in May 2016. He received the B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, in 1997, the M.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands, in 2000, and the Ph.D. degree from Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark, in 2003. He worked in the field of wireless communications focusing on Smart Antennas and MIMO systems during his Ph.D. In 2002/2003, he spent six months in the Wireless Communication Group at the Swiss Center for Electronics and Micro-technology (CSEM), Neuchâtel, Switzerland working in the same areas. He had been a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Massachusetts (UMASS), Amherst from Nov. 2004 to Dec. 2005 working on MIMO and compact antenna arrays. He worked as an Assistant Professor in the Telecom Engineering Department at the College of Telecommunications and Information Technology (CTIT), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia from June 2007 till July 2011 with main duties in Teaching, Research and Advising. During his academic career in the different institutions, he authored and coauthored several journal and conference publications.

Ph.D., Wireless Communications (Electrical and Electronic Engineering), Aalborg University, Denmark, 2003.
M.Sc., Electrical Engineering, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands, 2000.
B.Sc., Electrical Engineering, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia, 1997.

Research Interests

Signals, Systems, Control Systems and Signal Processing
Communications and Wireless Communications
Electronics and Digital System Design
AI Applications

Peer-reviewed Journals

Getu, B.N.; Semu, N.K. “Comparative Evaluation of MLP, 1D-CNN and LSTM for Waveform Classification in Additive White Gaussian Noise,” Algorithms, 2026, 19, 505.
Beza Negash Getu, Ali Al-Ataby, Hussain Attia, “Deep Learning-Based Signal Classification in Wireless Fading Channels,” Engineering, Technology & Applied Science Research, Vol. 15, No. 6, pp. 30296–30303, 2025.
Ali Al-Ataby, Beza Negash Getu, Hussain Attia, “Machine Learning-Based Water Quality Prediction,” Journal of Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems, 14(1), 1130634, 2026.
Beza Negash Getu, Ali Alnoman, “Wireless routeing scheme for UAV-assisted access networks based on the link path loss,” Journal of Information and Telecommunication, Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 279–293, 2025.
Beza Negash Getu, Hussain A. Attia, “System Simulation Comparison of Sliding Mode and PID Controller for Buck Converter,” International Journal of Emerging Technology and Advanced Engineering (IJETAE), Volume 13, Issue 02, pp. 121–129, February 2023.
Beza Negash Getu, “Comparison of PID & Fuzzy Controller for DC Motor Speed Control using SIMULINK,” Advances in Dynamical Systems and Applications, 16(2), pp. 1585–1597, 2021.
Beza Negash Getu, Ahmed Alahmed, Alya Alshamsi, Abdulla Alzaabi, Maryam Al Ali, Nujood Alshamsi, “A GSM and Arduino Based Fire Detection and Control System,” International Journal of Emerging Technology and Advanced Engineering, 12(05), pp. 8–14, May 2022.
Beza Negash Getu, Mohamed Abdulkadir, Michael Tous, “Remote Control of Garden Plantation Water Pumps using Arduino and GSM Mobile,” Advances in Science, Technology and Engineering Systems Journal, 5(4), pp. 499–504, 2020.
Beza Negash Getu, “Tuning the Parameters of the PID Controller Using MATLAB,” Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Volume 14, Issue 8, pp. 2538–2545, 2019.
Hussain Attia, Beza Getu, Abdullah Asaad, Ahmed Abbas, Mahmoud Al Nuaimi, Abdulhadi Brazi, “Implementation of sequential design based water level monitoring and controlling system,” International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE), Vol. 9, No. 2, April 2019, pp. 967–972.
Beza Negash Getu, Mutasim Alhalawani, Mohammed Atiyah, Adel Alkadri and Mohammed Zakri, “Design of Automatic Control System for Garden Plantations Based on Soil Moisture, Temperature and Light Sensing,” Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Volume 12, Issue 18, pp. 4782–4786, 2017.
Beza N. Getu, Nasser A. Hamad, Hussain A. Attia, “Remote Controlling of an Agricultural Pump System Based on the Dual Tone Multi-Frequency (DTMF) Technique,” Journal of Engineering Science and Technology, Vol. 10, No. 10, pp. 1261–1274, 2015.
Beza Negash Getu, “Water Level Controlling System Using PID Controller,” International Journal of Applied Engineering Research, Volume 11, Number 23, pp. 11223–11227, 2016.
Beza Negash Getu, Hussain A. Attia, “Electricity Audit and Reduction of Consumption: Campus Case Study,” International Journal of Applied Engineering Research (IJAER), Volume 11, Number 6, pp. 4423–4427, 2016.
Hussain A. Attia, Beza N. Getu, “Authorized Timer for Reduction of Electricity Consumption and Energy Saving in Classrooms,” International Journal of Applied Engineering Research (IJAER), Volume 11, Number 15, pp. 8436–8441, 2016.
Hussain A. Attia, Beza Negash Getu, and Nasser A. Hamad, “A Stable DC Power Supply for Photovoltaic Systems,” International Journal of Thermal & Environmental Engineering, Volume 12, No. 1, pp. 67–71, 2016.
Beza Negash Getu and Hussain A. Attia, “Remote Controlling of Light Intensity Using Phone Devices,” Research Journal of Applied Sciences, Engineering and Technology (RJASET), 10(10), pp. 1206–1215, 2015.
Hussain A. Attia and Beza Negash Getu, “Design and Simulation of Remotely Power Controller,” International Journal of Applied Engineering Research (IJAER), 10(12), pp. 32609–32626, 2015.
Nasser A. Hamad, Beza N. Getu, Hussain A. Attia, “Electromagnetic Fields Measurements of a Cellular Mobile Systems,” International Journal of Applied Engineering Research (IJAER), 10(10), pp. 26307–26320, 2015.
Attia H.A., Getu B.N., “Design & Simulation of a Solar Tracking System for Optimum Energy Absorption,” International Journal of Thermal & Environmental Engineering, Volume 8, No. 1, pp. 17–24, 2014.
Attia H.A., Getu B.N., Ghadban H., Mustafa A. K. Abu, “Portable Solar Charger with Controlled Charging Current for Mobile Phone Devices,” International Journal of Thermal & Environmental Engineering, Volume 7, No. 1, pp. 17–24, 2014.
Takele, Yalew Amare; Getu, Beza Negash, “A Direct Derivation Technique for the Near Fields of Dipole Antennas,” IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine, Volume 52, No. 3, pp. 156–159, June 2010.
Getu, B.N., Janaswamy, R., “The effect of mutual coupling on the capacity of the MIMO cube,” Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, Volume 4, pp. 240–244, 2005.
Getu, B.N., Andersen, J.B., “The MIMO cube - a compact MIMO antenna,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Vol. 4, Issue 3, pp. 1136–1141, May 2005.
Getu B. N., Andersen J. B., “MIMO Systems in Random Uncorrelated, Correlated and Deterministic Radio Channels,” Wireless Personal Communications, Vol. 30, No. 1, pp. 27–61, July 2004.
Hutter A. A., Mekrazi S., Getu B. N., Platbrood F., “Alamouti-Based Space-Frequency Coding for OFDM,” Wireless Personal Communications, Vol. 35, Issue 1–2, pp. 173–185, October 2005.
Negash B. G.; Nikookar H., “Wavelet-based multicarrier transmission over multipath wireless channels,” Electronics Letters, Volume 36, Issue 21, pp. 1787–1788, October 2000.

Peer-reviewed Conferences

B. N. Getu and N. K. Semu, “Performance Evaluation of a 1D CNN for Waveform Classification in Additive White Gaussian Noise,” 2026 International Conference on Electrical/Electronics, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, and Informatics (ICERAI), Ras Al Khaimah, United Arab Emirates, pp. 1–6, 2026.
Beza Negash Getu, “LSTM based time series forecasting of noisy signals,” 16th Asian Conference on Intelligent Information and Database Systems (ACIIDS 2024), 15–18 April 2024, Ras Al Khaimah, UAE.
Beza Negash Getu, “Control System Compensator Design using Root Locus Approach,” 2022 International Conference on Electrical and Computing Technologies and Applications (ICECTA), pp. 59–62, November 2022.
Beza Negash Getu, “Digital IIR Filter Design using Bilinear Transformation in MATLAB,” 2020 International Conference on Communications, Computing, Cybersecurity, and Informatics (CCCI), 3–5 November 2020.
Beza Negash Getu, “Modelling and Analysis of a Nonlinear System using Simulink,” The International Conference on Electrical and Computing Technologies and Applications (ICECTA), November 19–21, 2019.
Getu, B.N., Attia, H.A., “Automatic water level sensor and controller system,” 5th International Conference on Electronic Devices, Systems and Applications (ICEDSA 2016), December 6–8, 2016, Ras Al Khaimah, UAE.
Beza Negash Getu, Hussain A. Attia, “Automatic Control of Agricultural Pumps Based on Soil Moisture Sensing,” Proceedings of the IEEE AFRICON 2015 Conference, 14–17 September 2015, pp. 667–671.
Beza N. Getu; Hussain Al Thehabawy, “Identification of Dialed Telephone Numbers in Touch Tone Telephone System based on Frequency Analysis,” International Conference on Computer Vision and Image Analysis (ICCVIA'2014), 25–27 March 2014, Ras Al Khaimah, UAE.
Hussain A. Attia, Beza Negash Getu, Nasser Hamad, “Experimental Validation of DTMF Decoder Electronic Circuit to be used for Remote Controlling of an Agricultural Pump System,” The International Conference on Electrical and Biomedical Engineering, Clean Energy and Green Computing (EBECEGC2015), January 28–30, 2015, Dubai, UAE.
Hussain A. Attia, Beza N. Getu, Yousif I. Al-Mashhadany, “Design and Simulation of Dual Axis Solar Tracker for Optimum Solar Energy Absorption,” The International Conference on Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Clean Energy and Green Computing (EEECEGC2013), December 11–13, 2013, Dubai, UAE.
Hussain A. Attia, Yousif I. Al-Mashhadany, Beza N. Getu, “Design and Simulation of a High Performance Standalone Photovoltaic System,” ICREGA’14, Renewable Energy: Generation and Applications, Springer Proceedings in Energy, 2014, pp. 683–697.
Getu B. N., “Theoretical capacity of tripole array MIMO systems within a fixed area,” The 6th Joint IFIP Wireless and Mobile Networking Conference (WMNC'2013), April 23–25, 2013, Atlantis, The Palm, Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
Getu B. N., Andersen J. B., Farserotu, J. R., “MIMO Systems: Optimizing the Use of Eigenmodes,” 14th IEEE Proceedings on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, Vol. 2, pp. 1129–1133, September 2003.
Getu B. N., Andersen J. B., Farserotu, J. R., “MIMO systems: performance of eigenmode transmission based on channel estimation,” The 6th International Symposium on Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications 2003, October 2003.
Getu B. N., Andersen J. B., “BER and spectral efficiency of a MIMO system,” The 5th International Symposium on Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications, Volume 2, pp. 397–401, October 2002.
Andersen J. B. and Getu B. N., “The MIMO cube - a compact MIMO antenna,” The 5th International Symposium on Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications, Vol. 1, pp. 112–114, October 2002.
Andersen J. B., Eggers P., Getu B. N., Kotterman W., Kovacs I., Nielsen J., Pedersen G. F., “Development trends in antenna systems for wireless communications,” Proc. Antenna03, Kalmar, Sweden, May 2003.
Negash B. G.; Nikookar H., “Wavelet based OFDM for wireless channels,” Vehicular Technology Conference 2001 (VTC 2001 Spring), Volume 1, pp. 688–691.
Nikookar H., Negash B.G., “Frequency Offset Sensitivity Reduction of Multicarrier Transmission by Waveshaping,” IEEE International Conference on Personal Wireless Communications, 17–20 December 2000, pp. 444–448.

Signal and Systems II
Signal & Systems I
Signal & Systems I Lab
Electromagnetic Theory
Communication Systems

Last Updated: 27 Aug 2026