Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering
Dr. Assim Sagahyroon
Associate Professor and Department Head
Assim Sagahyroon received his PhD degree from the University of Arizona, USA. He was a tenured faculty member with the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Northern Arizona University, and then joined the Department of Math and Computer Science at California State University. He worked in industry with Lucent and Zhone technologies. His research interests include power consumption and testing of VLSI designs, hardware description languages, FPGAs, computer architecture and innovative applications of emerging technology.
Dr. Armin Eberlein
Professor and Coordinator - Accrediation
Armin Eberlein received his PhD in Software Engineering from the University of Wales, Swansea, UK. Previously, he was a faculty member at the University of Calgary, Canada, where he was awarded tenure. In Calgary, he was also the Director of the Software Engineering Program and one of the Co-Directors of the Alberta Software Engineering Research Consortium (ASERC). He previously worked as a developer at Siemens in Munich, Germany, and has consulted for various companies in Germany, the UK and Canada. His research interests focus on the improvement of requirements engineering practices and techniques.
Dr. Rana Ejaz Ahmed
Associate Professor
Rana E. Ahmed received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from Duke University, USA. He has worked as a faculty member at Lakehead University, Canada, and at King Saud University, Saudi Arabia. He was a visiting faculty member at the University of Ottawa during academic year 2007-08 while on sabbatical leave. He also worked at Research In Motion (RIM) and SpaceBridge in Canada in the areas of software testing, ATM switch testing and software quality assurance. His current research interests are in the areas of computer networking, telecommunications and computer architecture.
Dr. Abdulrahman Al-Ali
Professor
Abdul-Rahman Al-Ali received his PhD in Electrical Engineering and minor in computer science from Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA. He has previously taught at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals in Saudi Arabia. His research and teaching interests include embedded systems hardware and software architectures, interface and programming, and applications in smart grid, remote monitoring and control industrial plants utilizing Internet, GSM and GPRS networks He has around 100 publications, one US patent and one European patent. He has been a keynote and an invited speaker at several conferences. He is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
Dr. Fadi Aloul
Associate Professor
Fadi Aloul earned a PhD in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA. His areas of expertise include IT security, design automation and optimization. He is the recipient of the Sheikh Khalifa Award for Higher Education and the Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) Fellowship. He has more than 75 publications and one US patent. He has been a keynote and an invited speaker at several conferences. He is a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the Associate of Computing Machinery (ACM). He is also currently the IEEE GOLD Chair of the UAE Section.
Dr. Gerassimos Barlas
Professor
Gerassimos Barlas earned a PhD degree from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece, on a scholarship from the Institute of Informatics and Telecommunications of the NCSR "DEMOCRITOS." His research interests include parallel computation, high-performance computing, grid computing, multimedia systems, compression of biomedical signals and images, and medical informatics. Dr. Barlas is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Computer Society.
Dr. Khaled El Fakih
Associate Professor
Khaled El-Fakih received a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Ottawa, Canada. He has worked as a Graduate Fellow at the IBM Toronto Laboratory and as a Verification Engineer at a Nortel Company. He has been a visiting researcher at Verimag Laboratory, University Joseph Fourier, France; Osaka University, Japan; Tomsk State University, Russia; the University of Ottawa, Canada; Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan; Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble, France; and Université Antilles-Guyane, France. His research is in software testing, synthesis of distributed systems, formal methods, optimization and application of genetic algorithms.
Dr. Taha Landolsi
Associate Professor
Taha Landolsi received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Dallas, USA. He worked in the US telecommunication industry for more than seven years, designing and planning wireless and optical networks. His research interests include wireless and optical networks, optical switching and computing, multimedia networking and wavelet transforms applications.
Dr. Tarik Ozkul
Associate Professor
Tarik Ozkul has received his PhD degree in Computer and Electrical Engineering from Florida Institute of Technology, USA. He has worked in industry in different capacities ranging from design engineer to director of research and development, designing and manufacturing various computer-based equipment and systems. He has published two books and dozens of scholarly articles related to computer engineering. His research interest is in computer architecture, soft computing and engineering applications of soft computing. He has several patents and is avid supporter of the implementation of innovation in engineering education. Dr. Ozkul is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the International Society of Automation (ISA).
Dr. Michel Pasquier
Associate Professor
Michel Pasquier received a PhD in Computer Science from the National Polytechnic Institute of Grenoble, France. He has 15 years experience teaching artificial intelligence and related CS courses at the Nanyang Technological University of Singapore. Previously he was a researcher for the AIST and Sanyo Electric in Tsukuba, Japan. His research interests include cognitive computing and systems, adaptation and learning, knowledge discovery, as well as nature-inspired methods for approximate reasoning and decision making. He has published, led projects and served as a consultant in application areas including intelligent robotics and transportation systems, online learning, medical diagnosis and healthcare, and financial engineering.
Dr. Ghassan Zaki Qadah
Associate Professor
Ghassan Qadah earned a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Michigan/Ann Arbor, USA. Dr. Qadah has taught at Northwestern University and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology/Zurich. He has also worked with AT&T/Lucent Technologies Bell Labs, and holds a patent for his work there on Voice-over-IP (VOIP). He has extensive academic and industrial experience in information technology, serial/parallel database systems, XML databases and queries and data mining. He has supervised over 30 master's and PhD-level students. He has served as a symposium chair, track chair and a member of technical program committees of many international conferences. He has presented a number of tutorials worldwide and published over 37 papers in prestigious journals and conference proceedings.
Dr. Tamer Shanableh
Associate Professor
Tamer Shanableh earned his PhD in Electronic Systems Engineering from the University of Essex, UK. He was also a senior research officer at the University of Essex, during which he collaborated with BTexact on inventing video transcoders. While at Motorola UK Research Labs, he contributed to establishing a new profile within the ISO/IEC MPEG-4 known as the Error Resilient Simple Scalable Profile. Dr. Shanableh spent the summers of 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007 and 2008 as a visiting professor at Motorola Labs.
Dr. Imran Zualkernan
Associate Professor
Imran Zualkernan received his PhD from the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, USA. He has taught at the University of Minnesota and Pennsylvania State University. He has held C-Level positions in various startup companies. His current research interests include ubiquitous tangible learning systems, wearable learning, and adoption and alignment models for learning technologies. He has published over 80 papers in refereed conference proceedings and journals.
