Professional Activities:

Hanors

IEEE senior member.

• Selected to the Fulbright Specialist Roster.
• ABET Program Evaluator (PEV).
• Certificate of appreciation from IEEE ICCIT 2013 for serving as track co-chair.
• Certificate of appreciation from IEEE IWCMC 2012 for tutorial talk on SDN.
• Certificate of appreciation from IEEE IWCMC 2008 for serving as symposium co-chair.
• M.Sc., Outstanding Graduate Student Award, University of Missouri-Columbia/Kansas City.
• B.Sc. (First Honors), KFUPM.

Awards

Awarded the 2006 Outstanding Educator in the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Western Michigan University.

• Received the Outstanding Student Service Award for 2007.
• Best Paper Award, ICOCN 2005: “A. Al-Fuqaha, O. Awwad, “Fuzzy-Based RWA Engine for All-Optical DWDM Backbone Networks with Sparse Wavelength Conversion Capabilities,” The 4th International Conference on Optical Communications and Networks, Bangkok, Thailand, Dec. 14-16, 2005”.

Professional Service

Department-Level Service

1. Member of the Department Executive Committee (2 years)
2. Served as a member of the Department Graduate Committee (5 years)
3. Served as a member of the Department Undergraduate Committee (1 year)
4. Served as a member of the Department Hardware Committee (1 year)
5. Served on the Department Tenure & Promotion Committee

College-Level Service

1. Serving as a member on the Global Education Task Force (7 years)
2. Served as a Member on the College Awards Committee (1 year)
3. Served on the hiring committee for the Computer Science Chair position

University-Level Service

1. Member on the Provost Academic Program Review and Planning Observation Committee (2014-2015).
2. Serving on the Faculty Research and Creative Activities Award (FRACAA) Review Panel (4 years)
3. Served as a reviewer for The Hilltop Review Journal

Professional Service

1. Editorial Board Member for the Security and Communication Networks Journal (John Wiley and Sons, Ltd.).
2. Editorial Board Member for Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing (John Wiley and Sons, Ltd.).
3. Area Editor and Editorial Board Member for the Industrial Networks and Intelligent Systems Journal (European Alliance for Innovation).
4. International Advisory Board for the International Journal of Computing and Digital Systems.
5. Served as external reviewer for tenure & promotion applications at US and international universities.
6. IEEE IWCMC 2014 keynote session chair.
7. IEEE ICCIT 2013 Networks and Internet Technologies Track Co-Chair.
8. Reviewer for IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine, 2014.
9. Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing, 2014.
10. Reviewer for KSCE Journal of Civil Engineering, 2014.
11. Technical Program Committee (TPC) member for IEEE PIMRC 2013 (Sep. 8-11, 2013, London, UK).
12. Technical Program Committee (TPC) member for IEEE ICC 2013 (June 9-13, 2013, Budapest, Hungary).
13. Technical Program Committee (TPC) member for IEEE GLOBECOM 2013 (Dec. 9-13, 2013, Atlanta, Georgia, USA).
14. Technical Program Committee (TPC) member for IEEE IWCMC 2013 (July 1-5, 2013, Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy).
15. Tutorial Speaker at the 8th International Conference on Innovations in Information Technology, “Current Trends in Native and Cross-Platform Mobile Application Development,” 2012.
16. Technical Program Committee (TPC) member for IEEE ICC 2012 (June 10-15, 2012, Ottawa, Canada).
17. Technical Program Committee (TPC) member for IEEE GLOBECOM 2011 (Dec. 5-9, 2011, Houston, USA).
18. Technical Program Committee (TPC) member for IEEE GLOBECOM 2010 (Dec. 6-10, 2010, Miami, Florida).
19. Technical Program Committee (TPC) member for IEEE GLOBECOM 2009 (Nov. 30-Dec. 4, 2009, Honolulu, Hawaii).
20. Technical Program Committee (TPC) member for IEEE ICC 2009 (June 14-18, 2009, Dresden, Germany).
21. Technical Program Committee (TPC) chair for IEEE GCC 2009 (March 17-19, 2009, Kuwait City, Kuwait).
22. Technical Program Committee (TPC) member for IEEE GLOBECOM 2008 (Nov. 30-Dec. 4, 2008, New Orleans, USA).
23. Program Chair for the IEEE IWCMC 2008 International Workshop on Cooperative Networking Applications, Theory & Usability Studies (August 6-8, 2008, Crete Island, Greece).
24. Program Co-Chair for the IEEE IWCMC 2008 WiMAX/WiBro and QoS Management Symposium (August 6-8, 2008, Crete Island, Greece).
25. Colloquium Talk @ WMU ECE 6900, “Surrendering Autonomy! Can Hybrid Technologies Help?,” 2008
26. Technical Program Committee (TPC) member for the First International Workshop on Sensor Networks (SN 2008) to be held in conjunction with ICCCN 2008.
27. Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 2008.
28. Technical Program Committee (TPC) member for the International Workshop on Multimedia Security in Communication (MUSIC'08) In Conjunction with ChinaCom'08, August 25th ~ 27th, 2008, Hangzhou, China
29. Technical Program Committee (TPC) member for the Wireless Communication and Networking symposium, ChinaCom'08, August 25th ~ 27th, 2008, Hangzhou, China
30. Technical Program Committee (TPC) member for IEEE International Workshop on Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing-AHUC 2008 (June 11-13, 2008, Taichung, Taiwan).
31. Technical Program Committee (TPC) member for IEEE International Conference of Communications ICC’08 (19-23 May 2008, Beijing, China).
32. Program Co-Chair for the International Workshop on Computer and Networking Security, Nov. 19 2007, Dubai, UAE).
33. Technical Program Committee (TPC) member for the International Conference on Innovations in Information Technology (18-20 November 2007, Dubai, UAE).
34. Reviewer for Maryland Technology Development Corporation (TEDCO) in 2007.
35. Technical Program Committee (TPC) member for IEEE GLOBECOM 2007 – Ad-hoc and Sensor Networking Symposium (Nov. 26-30 2007, Washington D.C., USA).
36. Technical Program Committee (TPC) member for IEEE International Conference of Communications ICC’07 (24-28 June 2007, Glasgow, Scotland).
37. Publicity Chair and Technical Program Committee Member for the International Workshop on Specialized Ad-Hoc Networks and Systems (June 29, 2007, Toronto, Canada).
38. Technical Program Committee (TPC) member for BodyNets07 (May 14-16, 2007, Florence, Italy).
39. Reviewer for IEEE Communications Magazine in 2006.
40. Technical Program Committee (TPC) member for IEEE GLOBECOM 2006 – Advanced Technologies & Protocols for Optical Networks (Nov. 27-Dec. 1 2006, San Francisco, California, USA).
41. Technical Program Committee (TPC) member for IEEE GLOBECOM 2006 – Network Security Systems (Nov. 27-Dec. 1 2006, San Francisco, California, USA).
42. Technical Program Committee (TPC) member for IEEE 63rd Vehicular Technology Conference (September 25-28 2006, Montreal, Canada).
43. Technical Program Committee (TPC) member for IEEE International Conference on Communications ICC’06 – Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks (June 11-15 2006, Istanbul, Turkey).
44. Technical Program Committee (TPC) member for IEEE International Conference on Communications ICC’05 - Optical Networking (May 16-20 2005, Seoul, Korea).
45. Technical Program Committee (TPC) member for IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference WCNC’07 (March 11-15 2007, Hong Kong, China).
46. Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
47. Reviewer for EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking
48. Reviewer for the 16th International Symposium on Personal Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (September 11-14 2005, Berlin, Germany).
49. Reviewer for IEEE INFOCOM 2005 (March 13-17, Miami, Florida).
50. Reviewer for the 3rd ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications AICCSA-05 (January 3-6 2005, Cairo, Egypt).
51. Reviewer for the International Journal of Computers and Their Applications (IJCA).
52. Reviewer for IEEE GLOBECOM 2004 – Optical Communications, Networks, and Systems.
53. Reviewer for IEEE Communications Magazine in 2003.
54. Reviewer for IEEE Spectrum Magazine in 2003.