Activities in Academic and Professional Organizations

Service in Professional Organizations

University Service

Member, International Coordinating Committee, January 2009-present
Member, Study Abroad Committee, October 2008-present
Faculty Advisor, Saudi Student, Summer 2008-present
Project Director, UConn-Dubai Initiative, October 2006-August 2007.
The Academic Center/Institute Review Committee, 2005-present
The UConn coordinator of the agreement and cooperation between the University of Connecticut and the Educational Culture and Educational Bureau, Egypt.
The UConn coordinator of the agreement and cooperation between the University of Connecticut and Menoufia University, Egypt.
The UConn coordinator of the agreement and cooperation between the University of Connecticut and Helwan University, Egypt.
The UConn coordinator of the agreement and cooperation between the University of Connecticut and Ain Shames University, Egypt.
The UConn coordinator of the agreement and cooperation between the University of Connecticut and Egyptian Cultural and Educational Bureau, Washington, DC.
Chancellor special committee on diversity and event programming
A professional marshal, Graduate and undergraduate Ceremony, 1991-present (except 1996).
Department representative in the Convocation of the freshmen class, August 1999-present.
Department representative in the library re-dedication, October 18, 1998.
Department representative in the Connecticut Community Colleges workshop, October 16, 1998.
Initiate and participate in developing the memorandum of agreement and cooperation between the University of Connecticut and Ain Shames University, Egypt.
The Industry Liaison for the Booth Research Center, University of Connecticut, June 1992-1998.
Advisor of the Muslim Student Association since 1986.
Advisor of the Egyptian Student Association since 1985.
Advisor of the Middle East Student Association, 1998-2000.
The departmental representative in the President’s Inauguration, April 17, 1997.
The chairman of the “BRC Research Initiation” Committee, 1994-1995.
A member of the Physical Sciences Review Panel, University of Connecticut, 1992-1994.

School Service

Chairman, Task Force on International Development, January 2008-present.
Member of the Task Force on Curriculum Committee for Freshmen year.
Member of the Task Force Committee for Master of Engineering.
Representing the school in the PTR workshop on April 20th, 2007,.
Member, Dean Search Committee
Executive committee of BME program
HPC Steering committee
Member, Search Committee for ECE Computer Engineering Faculty, 2004-2005
Chair of Search Committee for Computer Engineering, 2003-2004 and 2004-2005
Chair of Special committee on the Computer Engineering program, 2001.
Special committee on Engineering Computing Service 2001.
Special committee on the freshmen year experience 2002.
A member of the search committee for Computer Engineering in ECE, 2001-2002.
A member of the academic council, June 1998-present.
A member of the BRC Steering committee, 1998-2001.
A member of the SoE Alumni Award, 1999-present.
A member of the ITE building committee, 1999-present.
A member of the ART for the ITE building committee, 2002.
A member of the SNET endowed professor search committee, 1999-2000.
A member of the Department Head Search Committee, Computer Science & Engineering Department, University of Connecticut, 1997 – 1998.
A member of Lower Division Curriculum Committee, School of Engineering, University of Connecticut, 1991 – 1997.
The departmental representative on the School of Engineering Newsletter Committee, 1991-1998.
A member of the Department Head Search Committee, Computer Science & Engineering Department, University of Connecticut, 1996 – 1997.
A member of School Research Policy Committee, School of Engineering, University of Connecticut, 1991-1992.
The department representative in the School of Engineering area-review committee, 1993-1995.
A member of the School of Engineering Research & Grants Committee, the Computer Science Department, the American University in Cairo, 1995-1996.

Department Service

Chair, Search Committee for Computer Engineering, 2004-2005.
Strategic Planning Committee, 2006
ACM students advisor, 2003-2007.
A member of a special committee for a joint computer engineering degree with the Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
CSE Space coordinator 2000-present.
Advisor for all CSE-Computer Engineering students.
Industrial Liaison, 1998-present.
Outreach committee, 1998-present.
Teaching assignments coordinator, Spring 1998-present
Graduate Assistants and adjunct faculty coordinator, Spring 1998-present
A member of the graduate admissions committee, 1997- 1998.
Transfer credit liaison, 1997-1998
Classes’ schedule coordinator, Spring 1998
Director of the Distributed Computing Lab., The Booth Research Center, June 1997-present.
A member of the Faculty (architecture position) Search Committee, Computer Science & Engineering Department, University of Connecticut, 1996 – 1997.
The advisor to Sophomores, the Computer Science Department, the American University in Cairo, 1995-1996.
The Coordinator of the Self-Assessment process, the Computer Science Department, the American University in Cairo, 1995-1996.
The Chairman of the Research & Grants Committee, the Computer Science Department, the American University in Cairo, 1995-1996.
The Teaching Assistant Coordinator, the Computer Science Department, the American University in Cairo, 1995-1996.
The Graduation Project Coordinator, the Computer Science Department, the American University in Cairo, 1995-1996.
The chairman of the Department Search Committee, 1994-1995.
A member of the Department’s Promotion Tenure Re-appointment Committee, 1994-1995.
A member of the graduate admissions committee at University of Connecticut, Fall 1993- Fall 1995.
A member of the Department’s Promotion Tenure Re-appointment Committee, 1992-1993.
A member of the graduate admissions committee at University of Connecticut, Spring 1991.
Colloquium chairman for 5 years at the University of Connecticut, 1986-1991.
A member in the Department Head Search Committee, Computer Science & Engineering Department, University of Connecticut, 1990.

Service in Professional Organizations

National Science Foundation:

a reviewer and a panelist to NSF.

Assessment Panel:

A member of the assessment panel for the Computer Science Department, Louisiana State University, April 2nd- April 4th, 2003.
ssessment of CS department, University of Vermont, April 2007

Journal Editorial Board

Editor-in-chief of the International Journal on Computers and Their Applications, 2001-2007
Associate Editor, Computing Letters, 2004-present.
Associate Editor of the SIMULATION Journal for Hardware Engineering. June 1992-2002.
Associate Editor of the International Journal on Computers and Their Applications, 1994-2001.

Officer in Professional Organization

Editor-in-chief of the International Journal on Computers and Their Applications, 2001-2007.
Associate Editor, Computing Letters, 2004-present.
Associate Editor, International Journal on Software Engineering, 2007-present
Associate Editor of the SIMULATION Journal for Hardware Engineering. June 1992-2002.
Associate Editor of the International Journal on Computers and Their Applications. March 1994-2001.
Editorial board member, the International Journal of Intelligent Computing and Information Sciences
Editorial board member, the International Journal of Software Architectures (IJSA).
Editorial board member, the International Journal of Software Engineering (IJSE).
President, the International Journal on Computers and Their Applications, 2008-present.
President-Elect and Co-Founder, .American Arab Engineers & Scientists Society, 2002-2006
Honorary member, Arab Healthy Water Association Abroad Advisors, October 2004-2006
Chair, AAESS, Students Mentor Committee, 2002-present
Member of ISCA Board of Directors, 2004-present
The chairman of the IEEE Technical Committee on Simulation, 1995-1999.
The Vice President and a member of the Board of Directors of the International Society of Computers and Their Applications, March 1995-1999.
The Conference Coordinator and a member of the Board of Directors of the International Society of Computers and Their Applications, March 1992-March 1995.

Conference Chairman and Steering Committees

Registration & Finance Chair, the IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications, Tunisia, July 2009.
Registration & Finance Chair, the IEEE Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology, Bosnia, December 2008.
Registration & Finance Chair, the IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications, Portugal, July 2008.
Registration & Finance Chair, the IEEE Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology, Egypt, December 2007.
General Chair, the 20th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems, Las Vegas, USA, September 2007.
Registration & Finance Chair, the IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications, Portugal, July 2007.
Registration & Finance Chair, the IEEE Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology, Canada, August 2006.
Registration & Finance Chair, the IEEE Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology, Greece, December 2005.
General Chair, the 18th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems, Las Vegas, USA, September 2005.
Co-General Chair, the 10th IEEE International Symposium on Computers and Communications, 2005, Spain.
Registration & Finance Chair, the IEEE Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology, Italy, December 2004.
Member of the steering committee, the IEEE International Symposium on Computers and Communications, 2003-present.
Registration & Finance Chair, the IEEE Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology, Germany, December 2003.
Registration & Finance Chair, the IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications, Turkey, July 2003.
Chairman, the 2nd IEEE International Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology, Morocco, December 2002.
Member of the steering committee, the IEEE International Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology, 2000-present.
Registration & Finance Chair, the IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications, Italy, July 2002.
The registration & finance chair, the 1st IEEE International Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology, Egypt, December 2001.
Member of the steering committee and the registration & finance chair, the IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications, Tunis, July 2001.
The general chairman of the 13th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing, and Systems Processing, Las Vegas, August 2000.
Registration & Finance Chair, the IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications, France, July 2000.
Registration & Finance Chair, the IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications, Sharm Al-Shiekh, Egypt, July 1999.
Registration & Finance Co-Chair, the IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications, Athens, Greece, July 1998.
The chairman of the Parallel & Distributed Computing steering committee, the International Society of Computers and Their Applications, March 1992-1999.
Registration & Finance Co-Chair, the IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications, Alexandria, Egypt, July 1997.
A program co-chairman of the 8th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing, and Systems Processing, Orlando, Florida, September 20, 1995.
An associate chairman of one of the five streams of the 7th International Conference on Computing and Information, Toronto, Canada, May 1995.
Registration & Finance Co-Chair, the IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications, Alexandria, Egypt, July 1995.
An associate chairman of one of the five streams of the 6th International Conference on Computing and Information, Toronto, Canada, May 1994.
Program chairman of the 4th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing, and Systems Processing, Washington, D.C., October 8-11 1991.
Program chairman of the International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing, and Systems Processing, New York, October 10-12 1990.
Program chairman of the International Conference on Intelligent Distributed Processing, Fort Lauderdale, Florida December 13-15, 1989.
Short papers coordinator and a program committee member for the 1989 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Cambridge, Massachusetts, November 1989. I also built the database system required for this conference.

Conference Session Chairman

The Inter. Conference on Computers and Their Applications, Cancun, Mexico, April 2008.
The Int. Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems, Las Vegas, September 2007.
The Inter. Symposium on Computers and Communication, Aveiro, Portugal, July 1-4, 2007
The Inter. Conference on Computers and Their Applications, Honolulu, Hawaii, March 2007.
The IEEE International Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology, Canada, August 2006.
The 11th IEEE International Symposium on Computers and Communication, Italy June 2006.
The International Conference on Computers and Their Applications, San Francisco, March 2006.
The third IEEE International Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology, Greece, December 2005.
The International Conference on Computers and Their Applications, New Orleans, Louisiana March 2005.
The International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and System Conference, San Francisco, September 2004.
The third IEEE International Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology, Germany, December 2003.
The International Conference on Computer Application in Industry, San Diego, November 2002.
The International Conference on Computers and its Applications, San Francisco, April 2002.
The International Conference on Computers & Their Applications, Seattle, Washington, March 2001
The International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and System Conference, Las Vegas, August 2000.
The International Conference on Computers & Their Applications, New Orleans, Louisiana, March 2000.
The International Conference on Intelligent Systems, Boston, Mass., June 11-13, 1997.
The International Conference on Computers & Their Applications, Tempe, Arizona, March 1997.
The Second IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems, Amman, Jordan, December 1995.
The International Conference on Computer Applications in Engineering and Medicine, Indianapolis, March 15-17, 1995.
The International Conference on Computers and Their Applications in Modeling, Simulation and Design, Long Beach, California, March 17-19, 1994.
The 6th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing, and Systems Processing, Louisville, Kentucky, October 14-16, 1993.
The 5th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing, and Systems Processing, Pittsburgh October 1-3, 1992.
The Twenty First Annual Pittsburgh Conference on Modeling and Simulation, Pittsburgh, May 3-4, 1990.
The Twentieth Annual Pittsburgh Conference on Modeling and Simulation, Pittsburgh, May 4-5, 1989.
The International Conference on Computer Applications in Design, Simulation and Analysis, Reno, Nevada, February 22-24, 1989.

Conference Program Committee Member

The 4th International Conference on Standardization and Innovation in Information Technology, Geneva, Switzerland, September 2005.
The 2005 High Performance Computing & Simulation (HPC&S), 2005.
Second International Workshop on Biomedical Computations on the Grid(BioGrid), Apr. 19-22, 2004 held in conjunction with
the 4-th IEEE/ACM Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid.
The International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and System Conference, Reno, August 2003.
The 2004 High Performance Computing & Simulation (HPC&S), 2004.
The International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems, Louisville, Kentucky, September 2002.
A member of the program committee, the International Conference on Computers and its Applications, San Francisco, April 2002.
The International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems, Dallas, Texas, August 2001.
A member of the program committee, the International Conference on Computers and its Applications, Seattle, Washington, March 28-30, 2001.
The International Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems, Canada, July 2000.
The International Conference on Computer Applications in Industry and Engineering, Atlanta, Georgia, November 1999.
The International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, August 1999.
The International Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems, Reno, Nevada, July 19-22, 1999.
A member of the program committee, The International Conference on Computers and Communication, Phoenix, Arizona, March 1999.
The International Conference on Computer Applications in Industry and Engineering, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 1998.
The International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing, Chicago, Illinois, September 1998.
The International Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems, Reno, Nevada, July 19-22, 1998.
A member of the program committee, The International Conference on Computers and Communication, Phoenix, Arizona, March 1998.
The International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing, New Orleans, Louisiana, October 1997.
The International Conference on Computers & Their Applications, Honolulu, Hawaii, March 1997.
The International Conference on Computers & Their Applications, Tempe, Arizona, March 1997.
The International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing, DiJoin, France, September 1996.
The International Conference on Computers and Communication, Phoenix, Arizona, March 1996.
The Second IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems, Amman, Jordan, December 1995.
The International Symposium on Applied CORPORATE Computing, Mexico 1995.
The International Conference on Computer Applications in Engineering and Medicine, Indianapolis, March 15-17, 1995.
The International Symposium on Applied CORPORATE Computing, Mexico 1994.
The 7th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing, and Systems Processing, Las Vegas, Nevada, October, 1994.
The International Conference on Computers and Their Applications in Modeling, Simulation and Design, Long Beach, California, March 17-19, 1994.
The International Conference on Computer Applications in Industry and Engineering, Hawaii, December 1993.
The 6th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing, and Systems Processing, Louisville, Kentucky, October 14-16, 1993.
The International Symposium on Applied Computing, Monterrey, Mexico 1993.
The 5th International Conference on Computing and Information, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada, May 1993.
The 5th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing, and Systems Processing, Pittsburgh October 1-3, 1992.
The International Workshop on Parallel Computing, Trani, Italy, September, 1991.
The International Conference on Computer Applications in Design, Simulation and Analysis, New Orleans, March 5-7, 1990.