Dr. Muhannad Almutiry
Co-founder and CBO, SARsatX
Dr. Muhannad Almutiry is Co-Founder and Chief Business Officer of SARsatX, a Saudi space-technology company building synthetic aperture radar systems and Earth-observation analytics in the Kingdom. He served as the company's acting Chief Technology Officer through 2025.
He brings more than fifteen years of work in radar algorithm development, SAR systems and machine learning, spanning the full chain from signal digitization to data analytics. His technical focus is SAR image formation — stripmap, spotlight, 3D and tomographic — combined with deep learning for target detection and tracking.
He was Co-Principal Investigator for the design and development of an X-band airborne SAR payload funded by the National Technology Development Program, and is Principal Investigator of SmartEye, a cognitive small-satellite mission for near real-time Earth observation funded by the Research, Development and Innovation Authority.
Previously Associate Professor and Head of the Remote Sensing Research Unit at Northern Border University, he holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Dayton and a U.S. patent in 3D RF tomographic imaging.
Speakers
Prof. Paul D. Asimow
Eleanor and John R. McMillan Professor of Geology and Geochemistry
Prof. Dara Entekhabi
Bacardi and Stockholm Water Foundations Chair
Prof. Howard Zebker
Kwoh-Ting Li Professor of Engineering Stanford University
Dr. Amani Alonazi
Associate Technical Fellow
Dr. Michelle Parker
Vice President and Chief Engineer, Boeing Defense, Space and Security
Mr. Waleed Alwalaie
GM Space Data and Applications
Eng. Muryah Alshahrani
General Manager of Space Systems and Infrastructure
Eng. AlHarith Almoosa
General Manager of Spacecrafts Engineering & Integration
Mr. Khalid Manjoo
Director of Spacecraft Engineering
Prof. Alexander Hayes
Director, Cornell Center for Astrophysics and Planetary Saturn