EDUCATION

• Ph.D. (Computer Engineering), University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, 1986.
• M.Sc., Electrical Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, 1982.
• B.Sc., Electrical Engineering, Damascus University, Damascus, Syria, 1977.

AREAS OF RESEARCH INTEREST

Autonomic computing, self-protection of networks and computers, self-control and management of network centric systems, high performance distributed computing, agent-based control and management of networked systems, performance analysis of parallel and distributed systems, software design tools for large scale interactive networked systems, high speed networks and communications protocols, cyber security and proactive network management.