Prof. Dr. Jassim M. Abdul-Jabbar was born in Basrah, Iraq, on July 25, 1958. He received the B. Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering (1979), the M. Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering (1983), and the Ph.D. degree in Electronic & Communication Engineering (1997); all from Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Basrah, Basrah, Iraq.

He was the Head of Dept. of Computer Engineering, University of Basrah (1998-2002), Dean Asst. – College of Engineering, University of Basrah (2003- 2004) and Head of Dept. of Computer Engineering, University of Mosul (2011- 2018). Since 2018, he is the chairman of the central committee for scientific promotions at the University of Mosul. Since 2009 till now, he is a Professor of Signal and Image processing, Department of Computer Engineering, University of Mosul, Mosul, Iraq. His research interests include analogue and digital signal processing, image processing, multi-dimensional systems, filter banks and wavelets, FPGA-based system design & realization, linear phase 1-D & 2-D FIR & IIR filters and application, wavelet and wavenet techniques for system control and identification, electromagnetic wave theory , modulation and spread spectrum systems, optical systems, array antennas & smart antennas, computer network application improvements, cognitive transceivers, biomedical information and engineering. He is the supervisor of more than 50 M. Sc., and Ph.D. theses in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer science, Mathematics and physics, in the University of Basrah and then in the University of Mosul. He is the author of more than 80 papers.