Sani Mubarak Ellis was born in Accra, Ghana. He received his B.S degree in Telecommunication Engineering at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana, and his M.S degree in Microwave and Photonics Engineering at Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden.

In summer 2010, he researched on GNU radio for the department of Microtechnology and Nanoscience at Chalmers University. From September 2010 – January 2011, he worked as a Trainee on indoor MIMO measurements at Ericsson AB. From September 2010 – June 2011, he worked as a Student Researcher on gap waveguides for Huawei AB and the Antenna Group at Chalmers University. He pursued his Ph.D. degree at the University of Electronic Science and Technology, Chengdu, China from 2011 - 2015. He is currently working as an Associate Professor in the Department of Telecommunication Engineering at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi-Ghana. He has done extensive research in the area of antennas and has over 40 publications in refereed journals. He is the head of the radio frequency and microwave Lab, and head of the Antenna Group at the Department of Telecommunication Engineering.

His research interests include planar monopole unidirectional antennas, reconfigurable and beam-steering antennas, body-centric antennas. Other areas of interest include Software Defined Radio and IoT/Machine applications in antennas. https://antennagroupknust.com/