The Computer Science and Engineering Department happily welcome 8 new members this fall. Here is a small biography about each of the new members.

Prof. Saeed Salem is currently a full professor at our department. He received his Ph.D. in computer science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, New York. From 2009 to 2022, he was an assistant, associate and then full professor at North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND,  USA. Dr. Salem’s research is in the broad areas of graph mining, network learning, and machine learning with a focus on developing algorithms for mining frequent and significant graphs for cybersecurity and bioinformatics. Dr. Salem’s group developed enumeration algorithms for mining all frequent subgraphs, cross-graph dense graphs, and approximate frequent subgraphs from heterogeneous graphs.

Dr. Mahmoud Barhamgi is a currently an associate professor at our department. He received his Ph.D. and HDR (Accreditation to Direct Research) in Computer Science from Claude Bernard Lyon-1 University in 2010 and 2020. He worked as Associate Professor in the Computer Science department of Lyon-1 University between 2011 and 2022, and was member of the French National Research Centre (CNRS). His current research work is focused on engineering solutions that would make the digital space safer for people and more respectful of their rights such as the right to privacy, transparency and fairness. 

Dr. Mohammed Al-Sada is an assistant professor at our department. He earned his B.S and Msc in computer science from Qatar University and Waseda University, respectively. He earned his Doctoral of Engineering Degree in computer science and communications engineering through the leading graduate program of embodiment informatics, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan. His research interests are mainly in design, development and evaluation of novel wearablerobotic systems and x-reality systems.

Dr. M. Moazam Azeem is currently working as an assistant professor at our department. He worked as Assistant Professor at King Faisal University, KSA in 2021. He was a Research Associate at the School of Computing and Digital Technology, Birmingham City University, UK in 2020. He also has been working as System Architect at Continental Automotive at the department of Wireless Communication from 2018-2020 in France.  Mr Moazam received his industrial PhD degree in Radiocommunications from France-Telecom in collaboration with CNAM Paris in 2014. His main research interests lie in Cognitive Radios, Spectrum Sensing, Opportunistic Spectrum Access, Erasure Correcting codes, Multiple FPGS Boards, IoT, Smart Cities and V2X Communication. 

Dr. Ahmed Badway is currently an assistant professor at our department. He received  the PhD from Politecnico di Torino, Italy in 2017. Soon after finishing his PhD, he joined Ericsson, Canada as a Radio Algorithm designer, where he got to work on state-of-the-art algorithm design for 5G radios. He also worked as a Systems Engineer for Riots Micro, now acquired by STMicroelectonics. His research interests include wireless communication and networking, physical layer security, smart antenna systems, biomedical signal processing and hardware implementation of communication systems. Dr. Badawy has more than 25 publications in top tier journal and conference venues and has three granted US patents and another 4 filed patent applications. Dr. Badawy is currently serving as an Associate Editor of IEEE Networking Letters and IEEE Open Journal of the Communication Society.

Dr. Jurlind Budurushi is currently a lecturer at our department – Cyber Security Concentration. He is currently teaching Applied Cryptography, and Operating Systems. He is an active researcher in Cyber Security, Cloud Security, Usable Security and Secure, Verifiable Electronic Voting Systems. He has published more than 25+ peer-reviewed papers in interdisciplinary journals and conferences, and has served in many security journals and conferences as organizer, editor, program committee, and reviewer. Before joining QU he has gained extensive experience in industry by working for 5+ years in different projects while holding different roles as Security Consultant, Security Subject Matter Expert, Security Engineer, and Chief Cyber Security Officer. Previous to his industrial experience, as a postdoctoral researcher, he has been leading the research field of “Security and Privacy Delegation”

Eng. Amal Almasri is currently a teaching assistant of Computer Engineering at our department. She received her Master of Science in Computer engineering from the German Jordanian University, Amman, Jordan in 2018, and her bachelor’s degree in Computer & Communication Engineering from Al-Zytoonah University of Jordan with honors in 2013. Eng. Almasri has an experience in higher education that started 9 years ago. She taught many courses for undergraduate students in Jordan and the United Emirates and participated as a research assistant in a project funded by NATO at German Jordanian University. She has a promising publication record in the field of Wireless Sensor Network’s power optimization and routing protocols in prestigious journals.

Eng. Leila Gastli is a teaching assistant of Computer engineering at our department. In 2018, she graduated from Qatar University with BSc. in Electrical Engineering along with a High Distinction Award. During her studies, she was the secretary then the vice chair of QU IEEE Student Branch. In 2020, she received her master’s degree from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH), in Biomedical engineering. She was a graduate student researcher at the Computer Vision Lab there then the MR Technology and Methods Lab. Her research interests include medical imaging, computer vision and signal processing.