• Published several papers in local and international journals and conferences.
• The Principal Investigator of the project “Filed Study of Electromagnetic Radiation Level in Riyadh area”. A project supported by KACST King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology during 1995-1997.
• Member of the research team of a study under the title: Field Measurements for Radiation Levels at KSA (CITC Funded Research Project)
• Developing special reports for government and private entities.
• Conducting research in the higher education field with particular focus on the following:
  • The estimated demand for higher education in the next 20 years, 2000.
  • The available options for admission systems in KSA, 2006.
  • Evaluation of the current education/registration system in KSA universities, 2006.
  • Preparatory studies for the future plane plan in higher education, 2000.]
• Member of the admission and capacity study of the future plan of higher education.  A study conducted by Taybah University 2006.
• Development and operation of the anechoic chamber lab at the EE Electrical Engineering Department, 1994.
• Refereeing fewS a number of papers in local and international journals and conferences.
• Development of computer tools to identify and rectify mismatches in Mobile operators (GSM) operational data bases (HLR, FNR, AUC,…) 2006-2007.
• Field visit to seven American universities on behalf of Ministry of Higher Education.
• Part-time Consultant at the Ministry of Interior Communications Department: 1998-2001.       
• Graduate Research Associate at the Ohio State University Electro-science Laboratory, (Jan. 1987-June 1992), Anechoic Chamber Compact Range Reflector Design Evaluation, scattering from thin dielectric straps surrounding conducting structures, and at projects of Development of  hybrid methods and codes to compute the scattered fields from complex structures.
• Teaching courses in electromagnetics and communications

Committees
• King Saud University council member 2007 – up to date
• King Saud University council member 95 – 2000
• Head of Curriculum and Education System Committee, 2007 –  up to date
• A Member (or Membership of) of Curriculum and Education System Committee, 1995- 2004
• A Member of the University Committee for Information and Computer Systems 1996 – 2006 
• A Member of the technical committee of the National center for assessment in Higher education 2002-up to  date.
• A Member of the supervising committee for the higher education future plan, 2005.
• A Member of Student Discipline Committee 1995 – 1998
• A Member of the Restructuring Committees of two university colleges.
• A Member of Al-Qasime University Restructuring Committee.
• Student representative in Safety and Security Committee 1984-1985.
• A Member of the Main University Committee for Planning, the University Committee for Cooperate Education, the University Curriculum and Educational System Committee, the Technical Committee for Admission and Registration, and of other task-related committees

Publications
 Special Analysis and performance Measurement of Rectangular Microstrip Antennas
Zeyad O.I.  Al-Hekail and Mostafa S. Afifi,  Proceedings, Conference on  antennas and communications, IEEE MONTECH'86, Sep 29- Oct. 1, 1986, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Study of Compact Range Reflector System to Measure 20 feet Targets
Gupta, Z. Alhekail and  W.D. Burnside, Technical report No. 312884-1, ElectroScience Lab., Ohio State University. Prepared under a grant for Boeing Aerospace Company, Seattle, Washington, May 1987.

Generalized Impedance/Resistive boundary conditions for electromagnetic scattering problems
R. Rojas and Z. Al-Hekail, Radio Science, Volume 24, Number 1, pages 1-12, January-February 1989.
Scattering  from Thin Dielectric Straps Surrounding A Perfectly Conducting Structure
Alhekail, and I.J., Gupta, Technical Report  No. 719493-5, ElectroScience Lab., Ohio State University. Prepared under a grant for NASA Langley research center, Hampton, VA,  January 1989.

Scattering from Thin Dielectric Straps Surrounding A Perfectly Conducting Structure
Alhekail, W.D. Burnside and I.J. Gupta, Presented in The 11th  AMTA annual meeting and symposium.  Monterey, California, October 9-13, 1989.

Scattering from Thin Dielectric Straps Surrounding A Perfectly Conducting Structure
Alhekail, I.J. Gupta and  W.D. Burnside, IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagations, pp. 442-447, April 1993.

Scattered Fields From Open-Ended Waveguide Cavities
Al-hekail, W.D. Burnside, C. W. Chuang and P. H. Pathak ,Proceedings of  the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium and URSI Radio Science Meeting, 1993, Vol. 3, pp. 1424-1427.

Scattering from Corner Reflectors; A Hybrid Approach
Al-hekail, and  W.D. Burnside, Proceedings of  the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium and URSI Radio Science Meeting, 1993, Vol. 3,  pp. 1432-1435.
A hybrid method for computing the scattered fields from complex structures
Al-Hekail, Z.O.; Burnside, W.D. ,Antennas and Propagation, IEEE Transactions on , Volume: 42 Issue: 6 , June 1994 ,Page(s): 847 -852

Utilizing structure symmetry in REDUCING THE CPU time for computing the MOMENT METHOD [Z] matrix elements
Zeyad O. Al-Hekail, 1994 ACES Conference, the 10th Annual Review of progress In Applied Computational Electromagnetic, March 21-26, 1994. Monterey, California, USA
Possible Effects of Electromagnetic Waves
Zeyad Othman Al-Hekail, Proceedings of the Industrial Air Pollution Symposium, Mechanical Eng. Dept., College of Eng., King Saud University. 15-17 November, 1993. PP.553-565.
Utilizing Structure Symmetry to Reduce the CPU Time for Computing [Z] Matrix Elements in the Method of Moments
Zeyad Alhekail, Journal of King Saud University [Engineering Sciences], Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, vol 14, No.1 , 1422 H.  letter of acceptance date is 7/11/2000.
Field study of Electromagnetic radiation level in Riyadh area
Zeyad Alhekail, Abdulaziz Alrowise, Mostafa Afifi, Fayez Alhargan, King Abdulaziz city for science and technology, project number ,final report, 1420H.
Electromagnetic Fields Intensities near Transformers, Heavy Equipments and Transmission Lines
Zeyad Alhekail, Journal of King Saud University [Engineering Sciences], Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, vol 14, No.2 , 1422 H.  letter of acceptance date is 13/1/2001.
Radiated power from GSM Mobile phones
Zeyad Alhekail, Journal of King Saud University [Engineering Sciences], Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, vol 14, 1422 H.  letter of acceptance date is 20/2/2001.
Electromagnetic Radiation from Microwave Ovens
Zeyad O. ALHEKAIL, International Conference on Communication Computer And Power
February 12-14, 2001. Muscat, Sultanate of Oman.
ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION FROM VISUAL DISPLAY UNITS
Mostafa S. AFIFI, AND Zeyad O. ALHEKAIL, International Conference on Communication Computer And Power, February 12-14, 2001. Muscat, Sultanate of Oman.

Other Memberships:
IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society member
Saudi Computer Society member
Saudi Engineering Society member
The Ideal Student Award at KSU 1984