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
- Member of the Department Executive Committee (2 years)
- Served as a member of the Department Graduate Committee (5 years)
- Served as a member of the Department Undergraduate Committee (1 year)
- Served as a member of the Department Hardware Committee (1 year)
- Served on the Department Tenure & Promotion Committee
College-Level Service
- Serving as a member on the Global Education Task Force (7 years)
- Served as a Member on the College Awards Committee (1 year)
- Served on the hiring committee for the Computer Science Chair position
University-Level Service
- Member on the Provost Academic Program Review and Planning Observation Committee (2014-2015).
- Serving on the Faculty Research and Creative Activities Award (FRACAA) Review Panel (4 years)
- Served as a reviewer for The Hilltop Review Journal
Professional Service
- Editorial Board Member for the Security and Communication Networks Journal (John Wiley and Sons, Ltd.).
- Editorial Board Member for Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing (John Wiley and Sons, Ltd.).
- Area Editor and Editorial Board Member for the Industrial Networks and Intelligent Systems Journal (European Alliance for Innovation).
- International Advisory Board for the International Journal of Computing and Digital Systems.
- Served as external reviewer for tenure & promotion applications at US and international universities.
- IEEE IWCMC 2014 keynote session chair.
- IEEE ICCIT 2013 Networks and Internet Technologies Track Co-Chair.
- Reviewer for IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine, 2014.
- Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing, 2014.
- Reviewer for KSCE Journal of Civil Engineering, 2014.
- Technical Program Committee (TPC) member for IEEE PIMRC 2013 (Sep. 8-11, 2013, London, UK).
- Technical Program Committee (TPC) member for IEEE ICC 2013 (June 9-13, 2013, Budapest, Hungary).
- Technical Program Committee (TPC) member for IEEE GLOBECOM 2013 (Dec. 9-13, 2013, Atlanta, Georgia, USA).
- Technical Program Committee (TPC) member for IEEE IWCMC 2013 (July 1-5, 2013, Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy).
- Tutorial Speaker at the 8th International Conference on Innovations in Information Technology, “Current Trends in Native and Cross-Platform Mobile Application Development,” 2012.
- Technical Program Committee (TPC) member for IEEE ICC 2012 (June 10-15, 2012, Ottawa, Canada).
- Technical Program Committee (TPC) member for IEEE GLOBECOM 2011 (Dec. 5-9, 2011, Houston, USA).
- Technical Program Committee (TPC) member for IEEE GLOBECOM 2010 (Dec. 6-10, 2010, Miami, Florida).
- Technical Program Committee (TPC) member for IEEE GLOBECOM 2009 (Nov. 30-Dec. 4, 2009, Honolulu, Hawaii).
- Technical Program Committee (TPC) member for IEEE ICC 2009 (June 14-18, 2009, Dresden, Germany).
- Technical Program Committee (TPC) chair for IEEE GCC 2009 (March 17-19, 2009, Kuwait City, Kuwait).
- Technical Program Committee (TPC) member for IEEE GLOBECOM 2008 (Nov. 30-Dec. 4, 2008, New Orleans, USA).
- Program Chair for the IEEE IWCMC 2008 International Workshop on Cooperative Networking Applications, Theory & Usability Studies (August 6-8, 2008, Crete Island, Greece).
- Program Co-Chair for the IEEE IWCMC 2008 WiMAX/WiBro and QoS Management Symposium (August 6-8, 2008, Crete Island, Greece).
- Colloquium Talk @ WMU ECE 6900, “Surrendering Autonomy! Can Hybrid Technologies Help?,” 2008
- Technical Program Committee (TPC) member for the First International Workshop on Sensor Networks (SN 2008) to be held in conjunction with ICCCN 2008.
- Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 2008.
- 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
- Technical Program Committee (TPC) member for the Wireless Communication and Networking symposium, ChinaCom'08, August 25th ~ 27th, 2008, Hangzhou, China
- Technical Program Committee (TPC) member for IEEE International Workshop on Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing-AHUC 2008 (June 11-13, 2008, Taichung, Taiwan).
- Technical Program Committee (TPC) member for IEEE International Conference of Communications ICC’08 (19-23 May 2008, Beijing, China).
- Program Co-Chair for the International Workshop on Computer and Networking Security, Nov. 19 2007, Dubai, UAE).
- Technical Program Committee (TPC) member for the International Conference on Innovations in Information Technology (18-20 November 2007, Dubai, UAE).
- Reviewer for Maryland Technology Development Corporation (TEDCO) in 2007.
- Technical Program Committee (TPC) member for IEEE GLOBECOM 2007 – Ad-hoc and Sensor Networking Symposium (Nov. 26-30 2007, Washington D.C., USA).
- Technical Program Committee (TPC) member for IEEE International Conference of Communications ICC’07 (24-28 June 2007, Glasgow, Scotland).
- Publicity Chair and Technical Program Committee Member for the International Workshop on Specialized Ad-Hoc Networks and Systems (June 29, 2007, Toronto, Canada).
- Technical Program Committee (TPC) member for BodyNets07 (May 14-16, 2007, Florence, Italy).
- Reviewer for IEEE Communications Magazine in 2006.
- Technical Program Committee (TPC) member for IEEE GLOBECOM 2006 – Advanced Technologies & Protocols for Optical Networks (Nov. 27-Dec. 1 2006, San Francisco, California, USA).
- Technical Program Committee (TPC) member for IEEE GLOBECOM 2006 – Network Security Systems (Nov. 27-Dec. 1 2006, San Francisco, California, USA).
- Technical Program Committee (TPC) member for IEEE 63rd Vehicular Technology Conference (September 25-28 2006, Montreal, Canada).
- 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).
- Technical Program Committee (TPC) member for IEEE International Conference on Communications ICC’05 - Optical Networking (May 16-20 2005, Seoul, Korea).
- Technical Program Committee (TPC) member for IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference WCNC’07 (March 11-15 2007, Hong Kong, China).
- Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
- Reviewer for EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking
- Reviewer for the 16th International Symposium on Personal Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (September 11-14 2005, Berlin, Germany).
- Reviewer for IEEE INFOCOM 2005 (March 13-17, Miami, Florida).
- Reviewer for the 3rd ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications AICCSA-05 (January 3-6 2005, Cairo, Egypt).
- Reviewer for the International Journal of Computers and Their Applications (IJCA).
- Reviewer for IEEE GLOBECOM 2004 – Optical Communications, Networks, and Systems.
- Reviewer for IEEE Communications Magazine in 2003.
- Reviewer for IEEE Spectrum Magazine in 2003.