Omran Sharaf

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Omran Sharaf

Omran Sharaf (Arabic: عمران شرف; born 1984) is an Emirati engineer and the project manager of the first Emirates Mars Mission. He is also the director of the programs management department at the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre, a United Arab Emirates Space Agency.[1]

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Omran Anwar Sharaf
عمران شرف
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Sharaf at the Dubai Future Forum (2024)
Born1984 (age 4041)
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EmployerMohammed bin Rashid Space Centre
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Early life and education

Sharaf was born in Dubai.[citation needed] He graduated from the University of Virginia in 2005 with a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering and earned a master's degree in 2013 from KAIST.[citation needed] His dissertation was title "A Satellite for Knowledge Economy: Knowledge Transfer in the UAE Space Program".[2]

Career

In 2006, he was recruited as the first employee to join the newly established Emirates Institution for Advanced Science and Technology (EIAST). He lived in South Korea for seven years, working on the Command and Data Handling Subsystem of DubaiSat-1. On EIAST's second EO mission, DubaiSat-2, Omran worked on the Systems Engineering in addition to the Command & Data Handling Subsystem. He was assigned as Director of Space Images Processing & Analysis Department from the 2011–2014.[3]

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