Osameh M. Al-Kofahi received his B.Sc. from Jordan University of Science and Technology (JUST) in 2002, and the Ph.D. degree (with honors) from Iowa State University in 2009, both in Electrical and Computer Engineering. Upon his graduation, he joined the Computer Engineering department at Yarmouk University in Jordan. Currently, he is a visiting assistant professor at the American University of Sharjah. His research has focused on wireless sensor networks, wireless mesh networks, cognitive radio networks, survivability and fault-tolerance, and practical network coding applications. He was the co-recipient of the best paper award of the IEEE Globecom 2008 Symposium on Ad Hoc networks.