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Fahad Alshaibani

Election Year: 2016

Election Constituency: United Arab Emirates

Scholar Status: Scholar in Residence

Rhodes Identifier: United Arab Emirates & Magdalen 2016

Fahad Alshaibani

Biography

Fahad is a senior biomedical engineering student at Khalifa University in Abu Dhabi, UAE. He has been on the President's list for the past 2 years for exceptional academic performance. In addition to his academic performance, Fahad has joined many competitions in the fields of biomedical engineering, robotics and mobile applications winning some and achieving runner up in many. He has worked on various research topics in engineering such as in wearable technology, rehabilitative systems and unmanned systems; he was also a visiting student researcher at Stanford University Robotics Lab. Fahad has served as vice president of the Student Council and was responsible for the financial sector of the council. He is an active peer-mentor and has peer tutored various courses in the past years. Fahad enjoys playing football and has a great passion for chess