Computer Science & Engineering Department

Education:
Ph.D., Washington State University
M.S., Washington State University
B.S., University of Lahore, Pakistan

Professor Tarek M. Sobh received the B.Sc. in Engineering degree with honors in Computer Science and Automatic Control from the Faculty of Engineering, Alexandria University, Egypt in 1988, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer and Information Science from the School of Engineering, University of Pennsylvania in 1989 and 1991, respectively. He is currently the Senior Vice President for Graduate Studies and Research, Dean of the School of Engineering and Distinguished Professor of Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Bridgeport (UB), Connecticut; the Founding Director of the Interdisciplinary Robotics, Intelligent Sensing, and Control (RISC) laboratory; the Founder of the High-Tech Business Incubator at UB (CTech IncUBator), and a Professor of Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering.

He was Vice President from 2008-2014, Vice Provost from 2006-2008, Interim Dean of the School of Business, Director of External Engineering Programs, Interim Chairman of Computer Science and Computer Engineering, and Chairman of the Department of Technology Management at the University of Bridgeport. He was an Associate Professor of Computer Science and Computer Engineering at the University of Bridgeport from 1995-1999, a Research Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the Department of Computer Science, University of Utah from 1992-1995, and a Research Fellow at the General Robotics and Active Sensory Perception (GRASP) Laboratory of the University of Pennsylvania from 1989-1991. He was the Founding Chairman of the Discrete Event and Hybrid Systems Technical Committee of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society from 1992-1999, and the Founding Chairman of the Prototyping Technical Committee of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society from 1999-2001.

His background is in the fields of computer science and engineering, control theory, robotics, automation, manufacturing, AI, computer vision and signal processing.

Education:
Ph.D. Computer and Information Science, General Robotics and Active Sensory Perception (GRASP) Laboratory, School of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Pennsylvania, 1991
M.S., Engineering, Computer and Information Science, (GPA 4.0), School of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Pennsylvania, 1989.
P.E. Licensed Professional Electrical Engineer, State of Utah, 1994
CMfgE, Certified Manufacturing Engineer, Society of Manufacturing Engineers, 1997.
C.R.E., Certified Reliability Engineer, American Society of Quality Control, 1996
C.M., Certified Professional Manager, Institute of Certified Professional Managers, James Madison University, 1996
B.Sc., Engineering (with Honors), Computer Science and Automatic Control, School of Engineering, Alexandria University, 1988
General Certificate of Education, 5 Advanced and 8 Ordinary Level Subjects, With Distinction, University of London, England, 1985

Courses Taught:
CpE/CS 460 Introduction to Robotics
CpE/CS 560 Advanced Robotics
CPSE 692/693 Advanced Topics / Ph.D. Seminar in Robotics and Automation

Publications:
Last 5 years Journal Publications only – full list available on tareksobh.org

Abrar Alajlan, Khaled Elleithy, Marwah Almasri and Tarek Sobh,"An Optimal and Energy Efficient Multi-Sensor Collision-Free Path Planning Algorithm for a Mobile Robot in Dynamic Environments", Robotics, Vol.6, No.2, pp1-18, 31 March 2017. doi:10.3390/robotics6020007

Almat Raskaliyev, Sarosh Patel and Tarek Sobh,"A dynamic model for GPS based attitude determination and testing using a serial robotic manipulator", Journal of Advanced Research, Vol.8, No.4, pp333-341, October, 27 March 2017. DOI: doi.org/10.1016/j.jare.2017.03.005

Madhav Patil, Tamer Abukhalil, Sarosh Patel, and Tarek Sobh,"Deployment Environment for a Swarm of Heterogeneous Robots", International Journal of robotics, Vol.5, No.4, pp1-21, October, 2016. DOI: 10.3390/robotics5040022

Alsahafi, Hesham, Majed Almaleky, and Tarek M. Sobh,"Design and Implementation of Metallic Waste Collection Robot", Journal of Transactions on Techniques in STEM Education, Vol.1 No.4, pp 86-95, September, 2016. ISSN: 2381-649X

Munoz, Carlos, Patel, Sarosh, and Sobh, Tarek M.,"Object Tracking Using Autonomous Quad Copter", Journal of Transactions on Techniques in STEM Education, Vol.1 No.4, pp 9-15, September, 2016. ISSN: 2381-649X

Madhav Patil, Tamer Abukhalil, Sarosh Patel, and Tarek Sobh,"UB Swarm: hardware implementation of heterogeneous swarm robot with fault detection and power management", International Journal of Computing, Vol.15, No.3, pp162-176, September 2016. ISSN 2312-5381

Peter J. Zeno, Sarosh Patel, and Tarek M. Sobh,"Review of Neurobiologically Based Mobile Robot Navigation System Research Performed Since 2000", Journal of Robotics, vol. 2016, Article ID 8637251, 17 pages, August, 2016. DOI:10.1155/2016/8637251

Alshibli, Mohammad, Ahmed El Sayed, Elif Kongar, Tarek M. Sobh, and Surendra M. Gupta," Disassembly Sequencing Using Tabu Search", Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems, ISSN 1573-0409, Vol. 82, No. 1, pp. 69-79, April 2016

Patel, Sarosh, and Tarek Sobh, "Task based synthesis of serial manipulators", Journal of advanced research, Vol. 6, No. 3, pp. 479-492, May 2015.

Abuzneid, Abdel-Shakour, Tarek Sobh, Miad Faezipour, Ausif Mahmood, and John James, "Fortified anonymous communication protocol for location privacy in WSN: a modular approach", Journal of Sensors, Vol. 15, No. 3, pp. 5820-5864, March 2015.

Sarosh Patel and Tarek Sobh, " Manipulator Performance Measures; A Comprehensive Literature Survey", In Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems, Volume 77, Issue 3, pp 547-570, March 2015.

Abuzneid, Abdel-Shakour, Tarek Sobh, and Miad Faezipour, "An enhanced communication protocol for location privacy in WSN", International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks vol. 2015, pp. 62, January 2015.

Ayssam Elkady, Jovin Joy, Tarek Sobh and Kimon Valavanis, "Modular Design: A Plug and Play Approach to Sensory Modules, Actuation Platfroms and Task Descriptions for Robotics and Automation Applications", in the Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems, Springer, Volume 72, No.2, pp 271-289, August 2014

Ayssam Elkady, Jovin Joy, Tarek Sobh and Kimon Valavanis, “Modular Design: A Plug and Play Approach to Sensory Modules, Actuation Platforms and Task Descriptions for Robotics and Automation Applications”, in the Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems, Springer, Volume 72, Number 1, pp 5-19, 7 October 2013.

Tamer Abukhalil, Tarek Sobh and Madhav Patil, “Survey on Decentralized Modular Swarm Robots and Control Interfaces”, International Journal of Engineering (IJE), Volume 7, Number 2, pp 44-73, 30 June 2013."

Madhav Patil, Tamer Abukhalil and Tarek Sobh, “Hardware Architecture Review of Swarm Robotics System: Self-Reconfigurability, Self-Reassembly, and Self-Replication”, in the ISRN Robotics, Volume 2013, 24 April 2013

Gad Selig, Elif Kongar, Neal Lewis, Christian Bach and Tarek Sobh, “The Proposed Ph.D. in Technology Management at the University of Bridgeport: A Case Study”, International Journal of Information and Operations Management Education (IJIOME), Volume 5, Number 2, February 2013.

Khaled Elleithy, Jeongkyu Lee, Tarek Sobh, Ali El-Rashedy, Jovin Joy, and Leon Manole, “Design and Implementation of Wireless Camera, Communication and Control Modules for a Transformable Unmanned Aerial Vehicle”, in the Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems, Springer, Volume 66, Number 3, Pages 401-414, 2012.

Ayssam Elkady and Tarek Sobh, “Robotics Middleware: A Comprehensive Literature Survey and Attribute-Based Bibliography”, in the Journal of Robotics, 2012.

Ahmed ElSayed, Elif Kongar, Surendra M. Gupta and Tarek Sobh, “A Robotic-Driven Disassembly Sequence Generator for End-Of-Life Electronic Products”, In the Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems, Volume 68, Number 1, Pages 43-52, 2012.

Madhav Patil, Jack Toporovsky, Lawrence Hmurcik and Tarek Sobh, “Integration of Vision System, Intelligent Robo-Actuator, HMI and PLC to Design a Universal Quality Inspection or Control Machine”,I-Manager” Journal on Mechanical Engineering, Vol. 2, No. 3, pages 5-13, June 2012.

Ahmed ElSayed, Elif Kongar, Surendra Gupta and Tarek Sobh, “Robotized End-of-Life Product Disassembly”, Robotics News, June 2012.

Ayssam Elkady, Jovin Joy,Tarek Sobh and Kimon Valavanis, “Structured Approach for Modular Design in Robotics and Automation Environments”, in the Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems, Volume 72, Number 1, May 2012.

Honors and Awards:
Full list available on tareksobh.org
Gold CQIA Innovation Prize, 29th Annual Conference, The CQIA innovation prize, a division of the Connecticut Quality Improvement Award Inc., for CISSE: First Online Research Engineering Conference in the World, June, 2015.
Entrepreneur Innovation Award, CTNext, Connecticut’s Entrepreneurial Ecosystem, 2015.
ASEE Northeast Section Engineering Professor of the year 2015 Award, February, 2015.
Member, IBM Partner World – Global Entrepreneur, October, 2014.
2013 Tech Company to Watch Award, 7th Annual Connecticut Innovation Summit Awarded to Facechecks, A Connecticut Startup Company [Founding Partner] November, 2013.
Silver Medal Award, The Connecticut Quality Improvement Award; Awarded to Facechecks, A Connecticut Startup Company [Founding Partner] June, 2013.
Commendation, University of Bridgeport Board of Trustees, May 2013.
Member, The Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering, elected in February 2011.
Distinguished Professor of Engineering and Computer Science. Unanimously named by the University of Bridgeport Board of Trustees, February 2010.
Fellow, African Academy of Sciences, elected in December 2009
American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) 2008 – Professional Regional Award.
Named Director, Connecticut Center for Advanced Technologies (CCAT) Center for Robotic Simulation (2008)

Grants:
Sample of recent grants only – full list available on tareksobh.org
“Facial Recognition for Security Applications II”, State of CT SBIR Award with UB Incubator, $25,000, [10/2012 – present], Current.
Innovation Places Planning Grant, Developing strategic plans and applications for an Innovation Places Implementation, CTNext, $50,000, 2016, current.
Eigel Scholarship fund. $15,000, Current.
National Institute of Health Grant, "Enhancing Research Administration at an Emerging Research Institution in Urban, Southwest Connecticut" project, $447,252 grant, current.
Department of Education grants, improving retention and graduation for deserving students, $220,000 grant, 2015-2020
Student Travel grant for the ICDL-EPIROB 2016, $5,000 grant, July, 2016.
Society of Women Engineers Scholarship Fund, 2 scholarships, $40,000, May 2014.
AWS in Education Research, $10, 000 grant in AWS credits, 2014.
Delmia Software grant, $68,000, 2014.
Unitronics PLC equipment grant, $950, 2014.
Standard Oil Scholarship fund $10,000, 2014.
“Facial Recognition for Security Applications I”, State of CT SBIR Award with the UB Incubator, $25,000, [4/2012 – 9/2012], Funded.
“Graduate Visiting Scholar Research Program – Online Robotics”, U.S.A. – Austria Marshall Plan program, Graduate Scholar Support for 1 year, $25,000, Funded, [3/1/2010 – 2/28/2011].
“Advanced Technology in Support of Hybrid Projectiles”, FY 2010 Defense Appropriation Request, $2.4 million, Funded. [1/1/2010 – 1/7/2011]
Hybrid Projectile Vision System, Imperial Machine and Tool Company, $30,000; April 2010 – July 2010 – Funded.
Development of a travel grant, U.S. Army Armament, Research, Development & Engineering Center (ARDEC), $5,000, Funded. [1/2010]
“Hybrid Projectile Design,” U.S. Army Armament, Research, Development & Engineering Center (ARDEC), $57,688, Funded. [8/1/2008 – 5/31/2009]
Connecticut Center for Advanced Technology Grant for project entitled: “Center for Simulation, Modeling and Analysis for Robotic Applications”, 1/1/08-12/31/08, $40,000, Funded.

Dr. Elleithy is the Associate Vice President for Graduate Studies and Research at the University of Bridgeport. He is a professor of Computer Science and Engineering. His research interests include wireless sensor networks, mobile communications, network security, quantum computing, and formal approaches for design and verification. He has published more than three hundred fifty research papers in national / international journals and conferences in his areas of expertise. Dr. Elleithy is the editor or co-editor for 12 books published by Springer.

Dr. Elleithy received the B.Sc. degree in computer science and automatic control from Alexandria University in 1983, the MS Degree in computer networks from the same university in 1986, and the MS and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from The Center for Advanced Computer Studies at the University of Louisiana – Lafayette in 1988 and 1990, respectively.

Prof. Elleithy has more than 30 years of teaching experience. He is the recipient of the “Distinguished Professor of the Year”, University of Bridgeport, academic year 2006-2007. He supervised hundreds of senior projects, MS theses and Ph.D. dissertations. He developed and introduced many new undergraduate/graduate courses. He also developed new teaching / research laboratories in his area of expertise. His students have won more than twenty prestigious national / international awards from IEEE, ACM, and ASEE.

Dr. Elleithy is a member of the technical program committees of many international conferences as recognition of his research qualifications. He served as a guest editor for several international journals. He was the chairperson of the International Conference on Industrial Electronics, Technology & Automation. Furthermore, he is the co-Chair and co-founder of the Annual International Joint Conferences on Computer, Information, and Systems Sciences, and Engineering virtual conferences 2005 – 2014.

Dr. Elleithy is a member of several technical and honorary societies. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE computer society. He is a member of the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) since 1990, member of ACM SIGARCH (Special Interest Group on Computer Architecture) since 1990, member of the honor society of Phi Kappa Phi University of South Western Louisiana Chapter since April 1989, member of IEEE Circuits & Systems society since 1988, member of the IEEE Computer Society since 1988, and a lifetime member of the Egyptian Engineering Syndicate since June 1983.

Education:
Ph.D., Computer Science, The Center for Advanced Computer Studies (CACS), University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 1990
M.S., Computer Science, The Center for Advanced Computer Studies (CACS), University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 1988
M.S., Computer Science and Automatic Control, Computer Science and Automatic Control Dept., University of Alexandria, Egypt, 1986
B.S., Computer Science and Automatic Control, Computer Science and Automatic Control Dept., University of Alexandria, Egypt, 1983

Courses Taught:
CPEG 481: Mobile Communications
CPEG 387/587: Embedded Systems Design
CPEG 572: Data Communications
CPEG 561: Network Security
CPEG 606: Quantum Computing
CPEG 691: Advanced Wireless Sensor Networks

Publications:
Abdulbast Abushgra and Khaled M. Elleithy, “ A Shared Secret Key Initiated by EPR Authentication and Qubit Transmission Channels,” IEEE Access Journal, Vol. 5, September 2017, pp. 17753 – 17763.

Ramadhan Mstafa, Khaled Elleithy and Eman Abdelfattah, “A Robust and Secure Video Steganography Method in DWT-DCT Domains Based on Multiple Object Tracking and ECC,” IEEE Access Journal, Vol. 5, April 2017, pp. 5354 – 5365.

Reem Mahjoub and Khaled Elleithy, “Efficient Actor Recovery Paradigm for Wireless Sensor and Actor Networks,” Sensors, Vol. 17, No. 4, April 2017, pp. 1-30.
Sumaya Abusaleh, Ausif Mahmood, Khaled Elleithy and Sarosh Patel, “A Novel Vision-Based Classification System for Explosion Phenomena,” Journal of Imaging, 3, No. 2, April 2017, pp. 2-18.

Samir Hamada, Ibrahim Alkore, Khaled Elleithy, Ioana Badara, and Saeid Moslehpour, “Updating Student Profiles in Adaptive Mobile Learning using ASP.net MVC, dotNetRDF, Turtle, and the Semantic Web.” International Journal of Interactive Mobile Technologies (iJIM), Vol. 11, Number 1, April 2017, pp. 16-38.

Abrar Alajlan, Khaled Elleithy, Marwah Almasri and Tarek Sobh, “An Optimal and Energy Efficient Multi-Sensor Collision-Free Path Planning Algorithm for a Mobile Robot in Dynamic Environments,” Robotics,” Vol. 6, No. 2, March 2017, pp. 1-18.

Wafa Elmannai and Khaled Elleithy, “Sensor-Based Assistive Devices for Visually-Impaired People: Current Status, Challenges, and Future Directions,” Sensors, Vol. 17, No. 3, March 2017, pp. 1-42.

Remah Alshinina and Khaled Elleithy, “Performance and Challenges of Service-Oriented Architecture for Wireless Sensor Networks,” Sensors, Vol. 17, No. 3, March 2017, pp. 1-39.

Ramadhan Mstafa and Khaled M. Elleithy, “Compressed and raw video steganography techniques: a comprehensive survey and analysis,” Multimedia Tools and Applications, Springer, November 2016, pp. 1-38.

Bandar Alotaibi and Khaled Elleithy, “Rogue Access Point Detection: Taxonomy, Challenges, and Future Directions,” Wireless Personal Communications, Springer, October 2016, pp. 5021- 5028.

Adwan Alanazi and Khaled Elleithy, “An Optimized Hidden Node Detection Paradigm for Improving the Coverage and Network Efficiency in Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks,” Sensors,” Vol. 16, No. 9, September 2016, pp. 1-19.

Abdulbast Abushgra and Khaled Elleithy, “Simultaneous Initiating EPR and Quantum Channel by Quantum Key Distribution Protocol,” Global Journals Inc., Vol.16, Issue 5, July2016, pp. 1-5.

Marwah Almasri, Abrar Alajlan, and Khaled Elleithy, “Trajectory Planning and Collision Avoidance Algorithm for Mobile Robotics System,” IEEE Sensors Journal, Vol. 16, June 2016, pp. 5021- 5028.

Laiali Almazaydeh, Khaled Elleithy, and Maid Faezipour, “A highly Reliable and Fully Automated Classification System for Sleep Apnea Detection”, International Journal of Intelligent Systems and Applications in Engineering, Vol. 4, No. 3, 2016, pp. 66-70.

Laiali Almazaydeh, Khaled Elleithy, Maid Faezipour, and H. Ocbagabir, “SVM-Based Sleep Apnea Identification Using Optimal RR-Interval Features of the ECG Signal”, International Journal of Intelligent Systems and Applications in Engineering, Vol. 4, No. 1, 2016, pp. 1-4.

Bandar Alotaibi and Khaled Elleithy, “A New MAC Address Spoofing Detection Technique Based on Random Forests,” Sensors, vol. 16, February 2016, pp. 1-14.

Abdul Razaque, Khaled M Elleithy, “Mobility-Aware Pheromone Termite (PT) Analytical Model to Support Robust Routing over Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs),” Engineering Structures, accepted for publication.

Abdul Razaque, Khaled M Elleithy, “Energy-efficient boarder node medium access control protocol for wireless sensor networks,” Sensors, Vol 14, No. 3, pp. 5074-5117, January 2014.

Muhammad Shoaib Khan, Khaled Elleithy, “Robust Heterogeneous Network to Support Multitasking,” International Journal of Computers and Technology, Vol 6, No 4, 2014.

Abdul Razaque and Khaled Elleithy, “Automatic Energy Saving (AES) Model to Boost Ubiquitous Wireless Sensor Networks,” International Journal of Computers and Technology, Vol. 10 , No. 5, pp. 1569-1579, 2013.

Abrar Alajlan, Khaled Elleithy, and Varun Pande, “A New Programming Model to Simulate Wireless Sensor Networks : Finding The Best Routing Path,” International Journal of Computer Networks & Communications (IJCNC, Vol. 5., No. 4, pp. 1 – 14, July 2013.

Ibrahim Alkore Alshalabi, Samir Hamada, Khaled Elleithy, “Research Learning Theories that Entail M-Learning Education Related to Computer Science and Engineering Courses,” International Journal of Engineering Sciences, Vol 2. No. 3., pp. 88-95, March 2013.

Wafa Elmannai, Abdul Razaque, Khaled Elleithy, “Deployment of TCP University of Bridgeport (UB) to Control Law Enforcement Department over Wireless Mesh Network,” Journal of Communications and Computer Engineering, Vol. 3, Issue 1, pp. 40-47, 2013.

Zyad Nossire, Khaled Elleithy, and Boraq Ammourah, “A New Improved Storage Model of Wireless Devices using the Cloud,” International Journal of Computer Networks & Communications(IJCNC), Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 69 – 80, January 2013.

Abdul Razaque and Khaled Elleithy, “Controlling Attacks of Rogue Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) to Improve Pedagogical Activities in Mobile Collaborative Learning (MCL) Environment, “International Journal of Communication and Computer Engineering, Vol. 3, Issue 1, pp. 15-29, 2013.

Abrar Alajlan, Benjamin Dasari, Zyad Nossire, Khaled Elleithy and Varun Pande, “Topology Management in Wireless Sensor Networks: Multi-State Algorithms,” International Journal of Wireless & Mobile Networks (IJWMN) Vol. 4, No. 6, pp. 17-25, December 2012.

Honors and Awards:

Honors
Recipient of the 2015 Connecticut Quality Improvement Award (CQIA) Gold Innovation Prize.
Distinguished Professor of the Year, University of Bridgeport, academic year 2006-2007.

Awards
Eugene Gerety and Khaled Elleithy, Best Student Poster Award, ASEE American Society Engineering Education North East Conference, University of Lowell, Lowell, MA, May 2017.
Wafa Elmannai and Khaled Elleithy, Best Graduate Student Poster Award, Connecticut Symposium on Microelectronics & Optoelectronics, University of Connecticut, CT, April 2017.
Reem Mahjoob and Khaled Elleithy, Best Graduate Student Poster Award, Connecticut Symposium on Microelectronics & Optoelectronics, University of Connecticut, CT, April 2017.
Eugene Gerety and Khaled Elleithy, Best Graduate Student Poster Award, Connecticut Symposium on Microelectronics & Optoelectronics, University of Connecticut, CT, April 2017.
Razan Abdulhammed and Khaled Elleithy, First Place Best Doctoral Student Poster Award, Faculty Research Day, Bridgeport, CT, March 2017.
Eugene Gerety and Khaled Elleithy, Second Place Best Doctoral Student Poster Award, Faculty Research Day, Bridgeport, CT, March 2017.
Naser M. Alajmi and Khaled Elleithy, Best Paper in the Technology Track, Best paper in Technology track, IEEE Long Island Systems, Applications and Technology Conference, May 2016.
Zakareya Lasefr and Khaled Elleithy, First Place, Student Poster Award for Doctoral Category, Faculty Research Day, University of Bridgeport, Bridgeport, CT, 2016.
Marwah Almasri and Khaled Elleithy, Student Poster Award for Doctoral Category, Faculty Research Day, University of Bridgeport, Bridgeport, CT, 2016.
Abrar Alajlan, Marwah Almasri and Khaled Elleithy, Fourth place Poster award, ASEE Conference, Rhode Island, 2016.
Zakareya Lasefr and Khaled Elleithy, Honorable mention, ASEE Conference, Rhode Island, 2016.
Abrar Alajlan, Marwah Almasri and Khaled Elleithy, Best paper in Applications track, IEEE Long Island Systems, Applications and Technology Conference, 2015.
Abdulbast Abushgra and Khaled Elleithy, Best Student Poster Award for Doctoral Category, Faculty Research Day, University of Bridgeport, Bridgeport, CT, 2015.
Wafa Elmannai: Advisor – Khaled Elleithy, $20,000 award, Association of University Women International Fellowship for 2015-16, 2015.
Mostafa Ramadhan and Khaled Elleithy, Fourth place honorable mention Poster award, ASEE Conference, Boston, 2015.
Wafa Elmannai and Khaled Elleithy, Third Place, Student Poster Award for Doctoral Category, Faculty Research Day, University of Bridgeport, Bridgeport, CT, 2015.
Muneer Alshowkan and Khaled Elleithy, Second Place, Student Poster Award for Doctoral Category, Faculty Research Day, University of Bridgeport, Bridgeport, CT, 2014.
Wafa Elmannai and Khaled Elleithy, Best Professional Paper Award, ASEE Conference, University of Bridgeport, Bridgeport, CT, 2014.
Tamer Youssef and Khaled Elleithy, Second Place Student Poster Award, ASEE Conference, University of Bridgeport, Bridgeport, CT, 2014.
Laiali Almazaydeh and Khaled Elleithy, Best Graduate Paper Award, ASEE Conference, Norwich University Northfield, VT, 2013.
Sumaya Abusaleh and Khaled Elleithy, Fourth place honorable mention Poster award, Faculty Research Day, Bridgeport, CT, 2012.
Laiali Almazaydeh and Khaled Elleithy, Fourth place honorable mention Poster award, ASEE Conference, University of Massachusetts, Lowell, MA, 2012.
Eugene Gerety and Khaled Elleithy, Second Place, Student Poster Award, ASEE Conference, University of Bridgeport, Bridgeport, CT, 2011.
Eugene Gerety and Khaled Elleithy, Best Student Poster Award, Faculty Research Day, Bridgeport, CT, 2011.
Syed Rizvi and Khaled Elleithy, Best Poster Award, ASEE Conference, University of Bridgeport, Bridgeport, CT, 2009.
Syed Rizvi and Khaled Elleithy, Best Paper Award, 13th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC’08), Marrakech, Morocco, 2008.

Grants:
Principal Investigator, Cisco Networking Academy, Equipment Grant, $16,000, Funded, November 2014.
Co-Investigator, Advanced Technology in Support of Hybrid Projectiles, FY 2010 Defense Appropriation Request, $2.4 million; 1/1/2010 – 7/1/2012.
Co-Investigator, Hybrid Projectile Vision System, Imperial Machine and Tool Company, $30,000; April 2010 – July 2010.
Co-Investigator, Development of a travel grant, U.S. Army Armament, Research, Development & Engineering Center (ARDEC), $5,000, Funded. [1/2010]
Co-Investigator, Hybrid Projectile Design, U.S. Army Armament, Research, Development & Engineering Center (ARDEC), $57,688, Funded. [8/1/2008 – 5/31/2009]
Principal Investigator, Mobile Content Manager, United Nations Development Program (UNDP), Transfer of Knowledge through Expatriate Nationals (TOTKEN) Fund, $3,500, June 2001, Funded.
Co-Investigator, Security Implementation and Evaluation of Aramco Enterprise Network, Saudi Armco, SR 200,000, May 1999- May 2000, Funded.
Principle Investigator, A Formal Methodology for Parallel VLSI Algorithm Design, Jan. 1993- Dec. 1995. King Abdul Aziz City of Science and Technology (KACST), SR 293,000, Funded.

Dr. Jeongkyu Lee is a Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at University of Bridgeport. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Arlington in 2006 under Dr. JungHwan Oh’s supervising. Previously, he received a B.S. from Sungkyunkwan University in Mathematic Education and an M.S. from Sogang University in Computer Science, both of South Korea. Before he pursued his doctorate, he worked as a database administrator for seven years with companies including Boram Bank, Hana Bank and IBM Korea.

Dr. Lee’s primary research area is in the multimedia database management system and analytics. Research interests include graph-based multimedia data modeling, indexing structure, query processing, content/semantic based multimedia retrieval, and summary. In addition, his interests include big data system/analytics, social media data mining, and user profiling. His research works utilize various techniques, such as multimedia data mining, video processing, multimedia ontology, medical imaging/video, and natural user interface.

Education:
Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering, University of Texas at Arlington, 2006
M.S. in Computer Science, Graduate School Sogang University, Seoul, Korea, 2001
B.S. in Mathematics Education, Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, Korea, 1996

Courses Taught:
CPSC 651: Big Data Systems and Analytics (Graduate Course)
CPSC 592: Parallel and Distributed Databases (Graduate Course)
CPSC 550: Multimedia Database Systems (Graduate Course)
CPSC 556: Data Mining (Graduate Course)
CPSC 551: Advanced Database Design (Graduate Course)
CPSC 540: Image Processing (Graduate Course)
CPSC 503: Operating Systems (Graduate Course)
CPEG 408: Operating Systems (Undergraduate Course)
CPSC 450: Database Design (Graduate Course)

Publications:
Hau-Wen Chang, Dongwon Lee, Mohammed Eltaher, Jeongkyu Lee, “@Phillies Tweeting from Philly? Predicting Twitter User Locations with Spatial Word Usage,” In IEEE/ACM Int’l Conf. on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM), Istanbul, Turkey, 111-118, August 2012.
Yingju Chen, Jeongkyu Lee, “Ulcer detection in wireless capsule endoscopy video”. ACM Multimedia 2012: 1181-1184, Nara, Japan, 2012.
Skander Benayed, Ali Eltaher Mohammed, and Jeongkyu Lee. “Developing Kinect-Like Video Motion Detection using Canny Edge Detector,” Proceeding of 2012 New England American Society for Engineering Education Conference, Lowell, MA, April 27-28, 2012.
Jeongkyu Lee, and Omar Abuzaghleh. Implementing an Affordable High Performance Computing Platform for Teaching-oriented Computer Science Curriculum. Proc. of the 2011 National ASEE conference, Vancouver, BC, June 2011. [Award the Best Paper]
Yingju Chen, Ahmad Abushakra and Jeongkyu Lee. “Vision-based Horizon Detection and Target Tracking for UAVs,” In the 7th International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC), Las Vegas, NV, September 2011.
Ying-ju Chen, and Jeongkyu Lee, Bleeding Detection in Wireless Capsule Endoscopy Videos using Temporal Features, In the 15th IASTED International Conference on Robotics and Applications (RA 2010), Cambridge, MA, November 2010.
Hau-Wen Chang, Hung-sik Kim, Shuyang, Li, Jeongkyu Lee, and Dongwon Lee, Comparative Study on Subject Classification of Academic Videos using Noisy Transcripts, In IEEE Int’l Conf. on Semantic Computing (ICSC), Pittsburgh, PA, September 2010.
Omar Abuzaghleh, Kathleen Goldschmidt, Yasser Elleithy, Jeongkyu Lee. Implementing an Affordable High-performance Computing for Teaching-oriented Computer Science Curriculum, ACM Transaction on Computing Education (TOCE) Vol. 13(1): 3, 2013.
Yingju Chen and Jeongkyu Lee, “A Review of Machine-Vision-Based Analysis of Wireless Capsule Endoscopy Video,” Diagnostic and Therapeutic Endoscopy, vol. 2012, Article ID 418037, 9 pages, 2012.
Khaled Elleithy, Jeongkyu Lee, Tarek Sobh, Ali El-Rashedy, Jovin Joy, and Leon Manole, “Design and Implementation of Wireless Camera, Communication and Control Modules for a Transformable Unmanned Aerial Vehicle”, the Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems, 66(3), 401-414, Springer, 2012.

Honors and Awards:
STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics) Doctoral Research and Assistant Fellowship, University of Texas at Arlington, $6,000/y, 2005 – 2006.
J. T. Hermann Ph.D. Fellowship, University of Texas at Arlington, $1,000/y, 2002–2006.
Outstanding Master Thesis Award, Sogang University, 2001.
Student Scholarship Award, Sungkyunkwan University, 1991 – 1992.

Grants:
2010 – 2011: Advanced Technology in Support of Hybrid Projectiles, FY 2010 Defense Appropriation Request, $2.4 million (Senior Investigator: Jeongkyu Lee, Funded)
2009: Development of a travel grant, U.S. Army Armament, Research, Development & Engineering Center (ARDEC), $900.00 (Jeongkyu Lee, Funded)
2009: JusTDo: Developing Automatic Judging System for Taekwondo Poomsae Videos, Seed money grant at University of Bridgeport, $10,000 (PI: Dr. Jeongkyu Lee, Completed)
2008 – 2009: Hybrid Projectile Design, U.S. Army Armament, Research Development & Engineering Center (ARDEC), $57,688 (Co-PI: Dr. Jeongkyu Lee, Completed)
2008 – 2009: A Proposal for the Developing Smart View Module in Wireless Capsule Endoscopy Videos, IntorMedic Co., Ltd., $65,000 (PI: Dr. Jeongkyu Lee, Completed).

Education:
Ph.D., University of Connecticut
M.S., University of New Haven
B.S., University of New Haven

Shakour A. Abuzeid received B.S. in engineering degree with honors in Computer and Control Engineering from the Faculty of Engineering, Yarmouk University, and M.S. Degree in Computer Engineering from the School of Engineering, University of Bridgeport. He received Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Bridgeport. He is currently the Director of Systems and Engineering Laboratories and the Associate Dean for international initiatives at the University of Bridgeport. His background is in the fields of computer science and engineering, computer communications, networks, computer and networks security, wireless and mobile communications, could computing and virtualization, control theory, robotics, and automation.

Education:
Ph.D., Computer Engineering and Computer Science, University of Bridgeport
M.S., Computer Engineering, University of Bridgeport
B.S., Computer and Control Engineering, Yarmouk University

Courses Taught:
CS 101 Introduction to Computing
CS102 Data Structures
CS 400 Object Oriented Programming Using C++
CPE 371 Data and Computer Communications
CPE 472 Computer Networks
CPE 473 Local Area Networks
Cpe 572 Advanced Data and Computer Communications
CPe 481 Mobile Communications
CPE 561 Network Security
CS 450 Database design
CpE/CS 460 Introduction to Robotics
CS 435 UNIX Systems Programming
CPE 410 introduction to Computer Architecture
CS442 Python Programming
CPE 577 Internet of Things

Publications:
Journal Articles:

1) Bushnag, Anas; Abuzneid, Abdelshakour; Mahmood, Ausif. 2016. " Source Anonymity against Global Adversary in WSNs Using Dummy Packet Injections a Survey." Sensors, Under Review.

2) Bushnag, Anas; Abuzneid, Abdelshakour; Mahmood, Ausif.           2016. "Source Anonymity in WSNs against Global Adversary Utilizing Low Transmission Rates with Delay Constraints." Sensors 16, no. 7: 957.

3) Abuzneid A., Sobh, T., Faezipour, M., Mahmood A., James J., Fortified Anonymous Communication Protocol for Location Privacy in WSN: A Modular Approach, Sensors 2015, 15, 5820-5864, MDPI. 

4) Abuzneid, A., Sobh, T., and Faezipour, M., "An Enhanced Communication Protocol for Location Privacy in WSN," International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks Volume 2015 (2015), Article ID 697098, 15 pages. 

5) Tarek M. Sobh, Abdelshakour A. Abuzneid, and R. Mihali, "A PC-Based Simulator/Controller/Monitor Software for Manipulators and Electromechanical Systems.'' In the Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems, 31: 355-377, 2001.

6) Amer A. Al-Rahayfeh, Muder M. Almi’ani, and Abdelshakour A. Abuzneid, “Parameterized Affect of Transmission-range on Lost o Network Connectivity (LNC) of Wireless Sensor Networks.” International Journal of Wireless & Mobile Networks (IJWMN) Vol.2, No.3, August 2010.

Book Chapters:

7) Tarek M. Sobh and Abdelshakour A. Abuzneid, ``A Generic Simulator/Controller for Robot Manipulators.'' In Recent Advances in Mechatronics, Springer Verlag, pp. 575-589, 1999.

Conference Papers:

8) Bushnag, A., Abdelshakour, A., Mahmood, A. An Efficient Source Anonymity Technique based on Exponential Distribution against a Global Adversary Model using Fake Injections. In Proceedings of the 13th ACM Symposium on QoS and Security for Wireless and Mobile Networks. 2017. ACM. Accepted.

9) Ali Al Essa; Xuan Zhang; Peiqiao Wu; Abdelshakour Abuzneid, ZigBee network using low power techniques and modified LEACH protocol, 2017 IEEE Long Island Systems, Applications, and Technology Conference (LISAT).

10) Abul Hasan Fazulullah; Purva Vansia; Kartavi Patel; Dipesh Patel; Abdel-shakour A. Abuzneid, Secure transmission with matrix encryption and data compression mechanism, 2017 IEEE Long Island Systems, Applications, and Technology Conference (LISAT).

11) Bushang, A. Abuzneid and A. Mahmood, "Source anonymity in WSNs against global adversary based on low rate fake injections," 2016 IEEE/ACES International Conference on Wireless Information Technology and Systems (ICWITS) and Applied Computational Electromagnetics (ACES), Honolulu, HI, 2016, pp. 1-2. doi: 10.1109/ROPACES.2016.7465306

12) V. Gudipati, M. Gaffoor, O. Barman, and A. Abuzneid, " Efficient Facial Expression Recognition Using Adaboost and Haar Cascade Classifiers," Annual IEEE Connecticut Conference on Industrial Electronics, Technology & Automation (CT-IETA 2016), Bridgeport, CT, October 14 - 15, 2016.

13) Vamshi Krishna Gudipati, Aayush Vetwal, Varun Kumar, Anjorin Adeniyi, and Abdelshakour Abuzneid, Detection of Trojan Horses by the Analysis of System Behavior and Data Packets, 2015 IEEE LISAT, Long Island, NY.

14) Jasim Almotir, Johnu Celestine, Tushar Vinayaraj, Keerthi Vallepalli & Abdelshakour Abuzneid, An Energy-Efficient Flooding Protocol for Enhanced Security in Wireless Sensor Networks, 2015 IEEE LISAT, Long Island, NY.

15) Abuzneid, A., Sobh, T., and Faezipour, M., An Enhanced Communication Protocol for Anonymity and Location Privacy in WSN, in IEEE WCNC 2015. 2015.  

16) Abuzneid, A., Sobh, T., and Faezipour, M., Temporal Privacy Scheme for End-to-End  Privacy in Wireless Sensor Networks in Electrical, Electronics, Signals, Communication & optimization EESCO-2015. 2015. p. 2476-2481. 

17) Abuzneid, K. Elleithy, M. Abuzneid,” Using Available Wireless / Wired Network Infrastructure for Public Safety and Emergency Early Response”. In the proceedings of ASEE08 West Point, NY, March 2008. 

18) A.  Abuzneid, M. Abuhelaleh, T. Mismar,” Armor-LEACH – Energy Efficient, Secure Wireless Networks Communication.” In Proceedings of Proceedings of the 17TH International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks, August 2008 St. Thomas U.S. Virgin Islands.

19) Abuzneid, K. Elleithy, M. Abuzneid,” Using Available Wireless / Wired Network Infrastructure for Public Safety and Emergency Early Response.” In the proceedings of ASEE08 West Point, NY, March 2008.

20) Abuzneid, M. Abuhelaleh, T. Mismar,“Armor-LEACH for Wireless Sensor Network.” In the proceedings of ASEE08 West Point, NY, March 2008.

21) Elleithy, A. Abuzaghleh, A. Abuzneid,” A New Mechanism to Solve IEEE 802.16 Authentication Vulnerabilities”. In the proceedings of ASEE08 West Point, NY, March 2008.

22) Sarosh Patel, Abdelshakour Abuzneid, Viqar U.Mohammed, Varun Kumar Godula, “TDM & FDM Multiplexing Overlays on Bluetooth”. In Proceedings of Proceedings of the International Conference on Telecommunications and Networking (TeNe 07), December 3-12, 2007.

23) Abdelshakour Abuzneid, Moeen Uddin, Shaid Ali Naz, Omar Abuzaghleh,” An Algorithm to Remove Noise from Audio Signal by Noise Subtraction”. In Proceedings of Proceedings of the International Conference on Telecommunications and Networking (TeNe 07), December 3-12, 2007.

24) Abdelshakour Abuzneid, Florina Ochis, Rashmi Bajracharya, Lisa Rajbhandari, Shailaza Shrestha,” Using DES in a Modified Design to Keep it from Oblivion”. In Proceedings of Proceedings of the International Conference on Telecommunications and Networking (TeNe 07), December 3-12, 2007.

25) T. Sobh, A. Abuzneid, B. Ghimire, K. Vovk, G. Gosine, P. Batra, A. Singh, S. Pathak, T. Tomas, A. Rosca and R. Mihali, "Case Studies in Web-based Robotics, Automation and Prototyping," In proceedings of the AMSE Conference on Science, Technology and Entrepreneurship, Washington, D.C., October 2000.

26) Tarek M. Sobh and Abdelshakour A. Abuzneid, "A Generic Simulator/Controller for Robot Manipulators." In Proceedings of the IEEE 2nd International Conference on Recent Advances in Mechatronics, Istanbul, Turkey, May 1999.

27) Tarek M. Sobh and Abdelshakour A. Abuzneid, "A PC-Based Simulator/Controller/Monitor Software for Manipulators and Electromechanical Systems." In Proceedings of the Seventh International Symposium on Robotics with Applications (ISORA '98), Alaska, May 1998. 

Posters:

28) Anas Bushnag, Abdulshakour Abuzneid, and Ausif Mahmood, “An Efficient Source Anonymity Technique based on Exponential Distribution against a Global Adversary Model using Fake Injections.” The 13th ACM Symposium on QoS and Security for Wireless and Mobile Networks. 2017. ACM.

29) Komareddy Anusha, Neha Nomula, Neha Panuganti, Niharika Chitumadugula, Satya Sai Charan Pusapati, Srividya Ranganthan and Shakour Abuzneid, “Authentication Using Voice Recognition and Timestamp OTP.” ASEE 2017.

30) Muhammad Bahauddin Khan, Nitish Makam Prashanth, Neha Nomula, Prachi Pathak,  Ajay Menon Muralidhar and Shakour Abuzneid, “Auto Student Attendance System Using Student ID Card via Wi-Fi.” ASEE 2017.

31) Meghana Ajith Prasad, Namrata Jagannath, Sumantha D Shivalingu and Shakour A. Abuzneid, “Data Privacy- AES Using Secure Hashing.” ASEE 2017.

32) Amulya Chava, Bhargava Chithanya Kumar Gunde, Divya Sree Pothireddy, Naresh Chalivendra, Naveen Cheldhi, and Sai Charitha Nallaguntla and Shakour Abuzneid, “Efficient and Privacy-Preserving Access to Sensor Data for the Internet of Things (IoT) based services.” ASEE 2017.

33) Bodapati Navya Mounica, Pooja Challa, Devi rajyalakshmi, Siva Peddi, Pradeep Kumar, Charan Laddu and Shakour Abuzneid,” Security Management in Wireless Sensor Network in the presence of Dumb Node.”FRD 2017.

34) Shakour Abuzneid, “Fortified End-To-End Anonymity and Location Privacy Using IoT.” FRD 2017.

35) Ajay Menon Muralidhar, Muhammad Bahauddin Khan, Nitish Makam Prashanth, Neha Nomula, Prachi Pathak and Shakour Abuzneid, “Heating Oil Level Detection and Assistance Using Amazon Alexa.” ASEE 2017.

36) Abul Hasan Fazulullah, Kartavi Patel, Dipesh Patel, Purva Vansia and Shakour A. Abuzneid, “Secure Transmission with Matrix Encryption and Data Compression Mechanism.” ASEE 2017.

37) Muhammad Bahauddin Khan, Nitish Makam Prashanth, Neha Nomula, Prachi Pathak,  Ajay Menon Muralidhar and Shakour Abuzneid, “Auto Student Attendance System Using Student ID Card via Wi-Fi.” ASEE 2017.

38) Ajay Menon Muralidhar, Muhammad Bahauddin Khan, Nitish Makam Prashanth, Neha Nomula, Prachi Pathak and Shakour Abuzneid, “Heating Oil Level Detection and Assistance Using Amazon Alexa.” FRD 2017.

39) Abul Hasan Fazulullah, Kartavi Patel, Dipesh Patel, Purva Vansia and Shakour A. Abuzneid, “Secure Transmission with Matrix Encryption and Data Compression Mechanism.” FRD 2017.

40) Bodapati Navya Mounica, Pooja Challa, Devi rajyalakshmi, Siva Peddi, Pradeep Kumar, Charan Laddu and Shakour Abuzneid, “Security Management in Wireless Sensor Network in Presence of Dumb Node.” ASEE 2017.

41) Sai Teja Kadiyala, Anusha Sowdhari, Sowmya Valina, Sajeesh Pandhaloor, Harrison Osula and Shakour Abuzneid, “Security/Privacy in Health Care Monitoring Using Wireless Sensor Networks.” RFD 2017.

42) Mohan Raju Anga, Kotaiah Tellagorla, Mohammad Z Farooqui and Shakour Abuzneid, “A novel mechanism for Cheiloscopy Authentication using the Bio-hashing technique.” ASEE 2016.

43) Srinivas Kaluri, RaviTeja Katheti, Lakshmi Mogilineedi and Shakour Abuzneid, “Privacy-Preserving Data Aggregation Using Perturbation for Wireless Sensor Networks.” ASEE 2016.

44) Rajesh Aglawe, Department of Computer Science, Shirdi Nagaraju Mudunuri, Deon Taylor and Shakour Abuzneid, “Cloud Computing Security: Vulnerabilities And Countermeasures.” ASEE 2016.

45) R.S.N.V. Durga Bai, B.Pravallika, K.Prathyusha and Shakour Abuzneid, “Data Anonymization for Preserving Data Privacy in Cloud Computing.” ASEE 2016.

46) Harender Singh Bisht, Mengdi Liu, Italo Guedes Almeida Silva, and Shakour A. Abuzeid, “Video Analysis using Content-based Video Retrieval and Artificial Neural Network for Government Censorship.” ASEE 2016.

47) Mofica Gaffoor, Oindrila Ray Barman, Harshagandha Patki, and Shakour Abuzneid, “Facial Expression Recognition Using ADABOOST Algorithm.” ASEE 2016.

48) Srikanth Reddy Enugu, Vinay Peddireddy, Akhilesh RVN and Shakour Abuzneid, “Pre-Login Authentication of Nodes in MANETs Using SHA-1 Hash Key”. ASEE 2016.

49) Goutham Siddharthan Balu, Shakour Abuzneid, Ganga Nidhi Gaddam and Vishal Singh, “Ensuring Distributed Accountability for Data Sharing in the Cloud.” ASEE 2016.

50) Venkatesh Konada, Rakesh Yadav, Pavan Kumar, and Shakour Abuzneid, “Defend and Detect SSL Strip Attacks.” ASEE 2016.

51) Meet Patel, Tahr Daduch , Shamili Galla and Shakour Abuzneid, “Risk Evaluation Based on Reliable Trust and Reputation Management Scheme in Wireless Sensor Network.” ASEE 2016.

52) Moin Ali Syed, Amreen Sultana, Nishanth kumar, and Shakour Abuzneid, “Remote Attestation Scheme using Camenisch Dynamic Accumulator with Certificate Generation.” ASEE 2016.

53) Vamshi Krishna Gudipati, Varun Kumar, Aayush Vetwal, Anjorin Adeniyi and Shakour Abuzneid, “Detection of Trojan horse by Analysis of System Behavior and Data Packets.” ASEE 2015.

54) Sean Laurel Rex Bashyam, Karthik Shankar, Sai Theja kadiyala and Abdelshakour Abuzneid, “Hybrid Cryptography using symmetric key Encryption.” ASEE 2015.

55) Devon Thomas, Alex Isaac, Majdi Alharthi, Ali Albatainah and Abdelshakour Abuzneid, “Improving Security Over Ipv6 Authentication Header Protocol using IP Traceback and TTL”. ASEE 2015.

56) Chen Fan, Long Tan, Rawad Felimban and Abdelshakour Abuzneid, “A Classification for Access Control List To Speed Up Packet-Filtering Firewall.” ASEE 2015.

57) Afroz Babu Patnam , Rohit Ramesh Dalvi, Dhruv Minesh thakkar  and  Abdelshakour Abuzneid, “Overview of Energy Consumption in Wireless Sensor Security.” ASEE 2015.

58) Saeed Aldawsri, Ahmed Alamri, and Abdelshakour Abuzneid, “Secure Modules in TinyOS.” ASEE 2015.

59) Vamshi Krishna Gudipati, Varun Kumar, Aayush Vetwal, Anjorin Adeniyi and Shakour Abuzneid, “Detection of Trojan horse by Analysis of System Behavior and Data Packets.” RFD 2015.

Honors and Awards:
Yarmouk University Computer and Control Engineering Academic Achievement Award. 
High School Academic Achievement Award. Ranked #2 in Yarmouk High School 1990 & #10 nationwide in National High School Exam.
Best Employee for the year 1993 in Andalus Corporation, Jordan.
Awardee for International Engineering Training (1 out of 4 ) at Hajjjawi College.
Rank #1 student in Computer and Control Engineering from Yarmouk University in 1994.
Best poster in Faculty development day, 2014.
Member of Upsilon Pi Epsilon, Computer Science Honor Society
Member of Phi Kappa Phi, Honor Society
Member of SIGMA XI The Scientific Research Honor Society
Member of IEEE Communications Society
Member of the IEEE Computer Society
Member of Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Member of American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE)
Member of the Jordanian Engineering Society

Grants:
University of Bridgeport Seed Money Grant (Funded: $15,000) Jan. 2018-Dec. 2018
- Principal Investigator, Dynamic Intrusion Detection System for the Internet-of-Things Using Machine Learning

ASA Connecticut Space Grant Consortium  (Funded: $5,000) Dec. 2017-May 2018

NASA Connecticut Space Grant Consortium (Funded: $27,300) Jun. 2017-May 2018
- Principal Investigator, Computer-Aided Simulator and Benchmark Testbed for the Internet of WSNs Using Satellite Link Communications. UB' matching fund: $17,300

Miad Faezipour is an associate professor in Computer Science & Engineering and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Bridgeport, CT, and the founder and director of the Digital/Biomedical Embedded Systems & Technology (D-BEST) research laboratory since July 2011. Prior to joining UB as an assistant professor, she has been a post-doctoral research associate at the University of Texas at Dallas collaborating with the CICS and QoLT laboratories. She received the B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Tehran, Iran and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Dallas. Her research interests lie in the broad areas of biomedical signal processing and behavior analysis techniques, machine learning/classification, high-speed packet processing architectures, and digital/biomedical embedded systems. She is a member of IEEE, EMBS and IEEE Women in Engineering.

Education:
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, University of Texas at Dallas, 2010
M.S. in Electrical Engineering, University of Texas at Dallas, 2006
B.S. in Electrical Engineering, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran, 2002

Courses Taught:
CPEG 210 Digital Systems Design I
CPEG 315 Digital Systems Design II with Lab
CPEG/BMEG 387/587 Embedded Systems Design
CPEG 447 Logic Synthesis Using FPGAs
CPEG/BMEG 415/515 Advanced Digital Systems

Publications:
M. Daneshzand, M. Faezipour and B. D. Barkana, "Towards Frequency Adaptation for Delayed Feedback Deep Brain Stimulations",   Neural Regeneration Research Journal, Vol. 13, No. 3, Mar. 2018.

A. Alessa and M. Faezipour, "A Review of Influenza Detection and Prediction through Social Networking Sites",   BioMed Central Theoretical Biology and Medical Modeling Journal, Vol. 15, No. 2, pp. 1-27, Feb. 2018.

M. Daneshzand, M. Faezipour and B. D. Barkana, “Computational Stimulation of the Basal Ganglia Neurons with Cost Effective Delayed Gaussian Waveforms”, Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience, Vol. 11, No. 73, pp. 1-16, Aug. 2017.

M. Daneshzand, M. Faezipour and B. D. Barkana, “Hyperbolic Modeling of Subthalamic Nucleus Cells to Investigate the Effect of Dopamine Depletion”, Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience, 2017.

K. A. I. Aboalayon, M. Faezipour, W. S. Almuhammadi and S. Moslehpour, “Sleep Stage Classification Using EEG Signal Analysis: A Comprehensive Survey and New Investigation”, Entropy, Special Issue in Entropy and Electroencephalography II, Vol. 18, No. 9, 272, pp. 1-31, Aug. 2016.

O. Abuzaghleh, B. D. Barkana and M. Faezipour, “Noninvasive Real-Time Automated Skin Lesion Analysis System for Melanoma Early Detection and Prevention”, IEEE Journal on Translational Engineering in Health and Medicine (IEEE J-TEHM), Vol. 3, No. 4300212, pp. 1-12, Apr. 2015. RANKED TOP #3 MOST ACCESSED ARTICLES IN MARCH 2017.

A. Abuzneid, T. M. Sobh, M. Faezipour, A. Mahmood and J. James, “Fortified Anonymous Communication Protocol for Location Privacy in WSN: A Modular Approach”, Sensors Journal, Vol. 15, pp. 5821-58642, Mar. 2015.

O. Abuzaghleh, M. Faezipour and B. D. Barkana, “SkinCure: An Innovative Smart Phone Based Application to Assist in Melanoma Early Detection and Prevention”, Signal & Image Processing : An International Journal (SIPIJ) Vol.5, No.6, pp. 1-15, Dec. 2014.

A. Abushakra and M. Faezipour, “Augmenting Breath Regulation Using a Mobile Driven Virtual Reality Therapy Framework”, IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, Vol. 18, No. 3, pp. 746-752, May 2014.

A. Al-Rahayfeh and M. Faezipour*, “Eye Tracking and Head Movement Detection: A State-of-Art Survey”, IEEE Journal on Translational Engineering in Health and Medicine, Vol. 1, pp. 1-12, Nov. 2013. RANKED TOP #1 MOST ACCESSED ARTICLES IN MARCH 2017.

A. Abushakra and M. Faezipour*, “Acoustic Signal Classification of Breathing Movements to Virtually Aid Breath Regulation”, IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in BioMedicine (TITB), newly named as IEEE Journal of Biomedical Health Informatics, Vol. 17, No. 2, pp. 493-500, March 2013.

S. Ostadabbas, R. Yousefi, M. Nourani, M. Faezipour, L. Tamil and M. Pompeo, “A Resource-Efficient Planning for Pressure Ulcer Prevention,” IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine (TITB), Vol.16, No. 6, pp. 1265-1273, Nov. 2012.

M. Faezipour*, A. Saeed, M. Nourani and S. Addepalli, “Progress and Challenges in Intelligent Vehicle-Area-Networks”, Communications of the ACM, Vol. 55, No. 2, pp. 90-100, Feb. 2012.

M. Faezipour*, A. Saeed, S. C. Bulusu, M. Nourani, H. Minn and L. S. Tamil “A Patient-Adaptive Profiling Scheme for ECG Beat Classification”, IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine, Vol. 14, No. 5, pp. 1153-1165, Sep. 2010. RANKED TOP 10 ACCESSED ARTICLES IN DECEMBER 2010.

M. Faezipour*, M. Nourani and R. Panigrahy, “A Hardware Platform for Efficient Worm Outbreak Detection”, ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems, pp. Vol. 14, No. 4, Article 49, pp. 49-67, Aug. 2009.

A. Saeed, M. Faezipour, M. Nourani, S. Banerjee, G. Lee, G, Gupta, L. S. Tamil, “A Scalable Wireless Body Area Network for Bio-Telemetry”, Journal of Information Processing Systems (JIPS), Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 77-86, Jun. 2009.

M. Faezipour* and M. Nourani, “Wire-Speed TCAM-Based Architectures for Multi-Match Packet Classification”, IEEE Transactions on Computers, Vol. 58, No. 1, pp. 5-17, Jan. 2009.

Honors and Awards:
Honored Certificate of Appreciation & Recognition: Contributing Women Faculty, We L.E.A.D & Student Programming Board, March 2017.
Honored Certificate of Appreciation: Scientific Efforts on IEEE International Conference on Multidisciplinary in IT and Communication Science Technologies, May 2016.
Awarded Recognized Reviewer, Biomedical Signal Processing and Control Journal, Feb. 2016
Recipient of the Best Faculty Poster Award, Faculty Research Day, Bridgeport, CT, Mar. 2014.

Grants:
University of Bridgeport Seed Money Grant (Funded: $15,000) Jan. 2018-Dec. 2018
Co-Principal Investigator, Dynamic Intrusion Detection System for the Internet-of-Things Using Machine Learning

NASA Connecticut Space Grant Consortium (Funded: $27,300) Jun. 2017-May 2018
Co-Principal Investigator, Computer-Aided Simulator and Benchmark Testbed for the Internet of WSNs Using Satellite Link Communications
UB’ matching fund: $17,300

University of Bridgeport Seed Money Grant (Funded: $9,975) Jan. 2016-Dec. 2016
Co-Principal Investigator, Automatic Gait Balance Detection: Hardware/Software and Mobile Application Design

University of Bridgeport Seed Money Grant (Funded: $6,000) Feb. 2015-Feb. 2016
Principal Investigator, Histogram Analysis for Automatic Blood Vessels Detection: First Step of Intraocular Pressure (IOP)

University of Bridgeport Seed Money Grant (Funded: $6,000) Feb. 2014-Feb. 2015
Principal Investigator, Efficient EEG Analysis for Seizure Monitoring in Epileptic Patients

University of Bridgeport Seed Money Grant (Funded: $6,000) Feb. 2014-Feb. 2015
Co-Principal Investigator, SKINaid: A Real-Time Image Analysis System to Aid in the Malignant Melanoma Prevention and Early Detection

National Science Foundation (NSF) (Funded: $2,000) Mar. 2013-Mar. 2014
Co-Principal Investigator, Engaging Students: Everyday Examples in Engineering (E3s)
NSF E3s Minigrant

NASA Connecticut Space Grant Consortium (Funded: $5,000) 2013-May 2013
Investigator/Supervisor, Identifying Breathing Movements to Aid Breath Regulation
Undergraduate Fellowship Awarded to Sarah Michels

University of Bridgeport Seed Money Grant (Funded: $6,000 Ranked:#1 Mar. 2012-Mar. 2013
Principal Investigator, Breathing Movement Classification for Lung Cancer Patients

Abhilasha Tibrewal is a Senior Lecturer of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Bridgeport. She currently teaches courses in programming languages, algorithms and computer ethics. In addition, she serves as the ABET coordinator for the department; the faculty advisor to the UB chapter of Upsilon Pi Epsilon; and, the Co-Director of Grand Challenges Scholar Program. In the past, she has been the recipient of the "Distinguished Professor of the Year", University of Bridgeport, academic year 2008-2009. 

Education:
M.S. Computer Science University of Bridgeport
M.S. Education University of Bridgeport
M.S. Home Science (Textiles & Clothing) Lady Irwin College, Delhi University, India
B.S. Home Science (Textiles & Clothing) Lady Irwin College, Delhi University, India

Grants:
ASA Connecticut Space Grant Consortium
(Funded: $5,000)
Dec. 2017-May 2018

Grants:
NASA Connecticut Space Grant Consortium
(Funded: $27,300)
Jun. 2017-May 2018

Dr. Abuzaghleh is an Assistant Professor of Engineering and Technology and the Computing Laboratories System Manager at the University of Bridgeport. His research interests are in the areas of Image Analysis, High Performance Computing, Big Data, Network Security, Blockchain and Cloud Computing. He is a member of several professional organizations and specialty labs, including ACM, IEEE, International Honor Society for The Computing and Information Disciplines (UPE), and Digital/Biomedical Embedded Systems and Technology (D-BEST) Lab

Education:
Ph.D., Computer Science and Engineering, University of Bridgeport, 2014
M.S., Computer Science, University of Bridgeport, 2007
B.S., Computer Science and Applications, Hashemite University, Zarqa, Jordan, 2004

Courses Taught:
CPEG-371 Computer Communication I
CPEG-572 Data and Computer Communication
MATH-105 Intermediate Algebra
MATH-110 Calculus I
CPSC-551 Advance Database
CPEG-481 Mobile Communications

Publications:
Abuzaghleh, Omar, Miad Faezipour, and Buket D. Barkana. “SkinCure: An Innovative Smart Phone Based Application to Assist in Melanoma Early Detection and Prevention.” Signal & Image Processing: An International Journal (SIPIJ), 2014.

Abuzaghleh, Omar, Kathleen Goldschmidt, Yasser Elleithy, and Jeongkyu Lee. “Implementing an affordable high-performance computing for teaching-oriented computer science curriculum.” ACM Transactions on Computing Education (TOCE) 13, no. 1 (2013): 3.

Abuzaghleh, Omar, Buket D. Barkana, and Miad Faezipour. “Automated skin lesion analysis based on color and shape geometry feature set for melanoma early detection and prevention.” In Systems, Applications and Technology Conference (LISAT), 2014 IEEE Long Island, pp. 1-6. IEEE, 2014.

Abuzaghleh, Omar, Buket D. Barkana, and Miad Faezipour. “SKINcure: A real time image analysis system to aid in the malignant melanoma prevention and early detection.” In Image Analysis and Interpretation (SSIAI), 2014 IEEE Southwest Symposium on, pp. 85-88. IEEE, 2014.

Abuzaghleh, Omar, Miad Faezipour, and Buket D. Barkana. “Skinaid: A virtual reality system to aid in the skin cancer prevention and pain treatment.” In Systems, Applications and Technology Conference (LISAT), 2013 IEEE Long Island, pp. 1-6. IEEE, 2013.

Omar Abuzaghleh and Miad Faezipour. “A Novel Virtual Reality System for Skin Cancer Prevention Aid” In proceeding of: American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Northeast Regional Conference, 2013, pp. 1-5. ASEE, 2013.

Al-okaily, Anas, Qassim Bani Hani, Laiali Almazaydeh, Omar Abuzaghleh, and Zenon Chaczko. “Designing and Integrating a New Model of Semi-Online Vehicle’s Fines Control System.” In Innovations and Advances in Computer, Information, Systems Sciences, and Engineering, pp. 1205-1217. Springer New York, 2013.

Jeongkyu Lee, Omar Abuzaghleh “Implementing an Affordable High Performance Computing for Teaching-oriented Computer Science Curriculum”, 2011 National ASEE conference, Vancouver, BC; 06/2011

Abuzneid, Abdelshakour, Moeen Uddin, Shaid Ali Naz, and Omar Abuzaghleh. “An Algorithm to Remove Noise from Audio Signal by Noise Subtraction.” In Advances in Computer and Information Sciences and Engineering, pp. 5-10. Springer Netherlands, 2008.

Honors and Awards:
Best Paper Award in the American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE). Implementing an Affordable High Performance Computing Platform for Teaching-Oriented Computer Science Curriculum. Proc. of the 2011 National ASEE conference, Vancouver, BC, June 2011.

Received Full Graduate scholarship Award from CPSC department at UB for Jan. 2006-May 2006 and Sep. 2006 – Dec. 2006 and Jan. 2007 – May 2007.

Member, Upsilon Pi Epsilon (The National Honor Society for the Computing Sciences, Connecticut Delta Chapter.)

ASEE Award, Campus Representative, (2007)

Grants:
Principal Investigator, Computer-Aided Simulator and Benchmark Testbed for the Internet of WSNs Using Satellite Link Communications. UB matching fund: $17,300