Biography

Ala Al-Fuqaha (S’00-M’04-SM’09) received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Missouri, in 1999 and 2004, respectively.  Currently, he is an Associate Professor and director of NEST Research Lab at the Computer Science Department of Western Michigan University. His research interests include intelligent network management and planning, QoS routing and performance analysis and evaluation of software-defined networks and VANETs. He is currently serving on the editorial board for John Wiley’s Security and Communication Networks Journal, John Wiley’s Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Journal, Industrial Networks and Intelligent Systems Journal, and International Journal of Computing and Digital Systems. He is a senior member of the IEEE and has served as Technical Program Committee member and reviewer of many international conferences and journals.