Dr.Amjad Gawanmeh

Amjad Gawanmeh is an Associate Professor and the director of Computer Engineering program at the University of Dubai, UAE. He is an Affiliate Adjunct Professor at Concordia University, Montreal, Canada.  He received his bachelor’s degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering for JUST, Jordan, 1998, the M.S. and Ph.D degrees from Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, 2003 and 2008; respectively. He has two edited books, 3 book chapters, more than 40 peer reviewed Q1, Q2 Scopus indexed journal papers, and more than 80 peer reviewed conference papers. He worked at Khalifa University from 2010 until 2019, before joining the University of Dubai on January 2020. He was a visiting scholar at Syracuse University, University of Quebec, and Concordia University. His research interests are verification of hardware systems, security systems, and healthcare systems, modeling and analysis of complex systems such as Cyber Physical Systems, performance analysis of complex systems, and finally engineering education and blended learning. He is the Editor in Chief for the International Journal of Cyber-Physical Systems (IJCPS) IGI, an associate editor for IEEE Access Journal, and for Human-centric Computing and Information Sciences Journal, Springer. He acted as guest editor for several special issues. He is on the reviewer board for several journals in IEEE, Elsevier, Wiley, MDPI, and many others. He chaired several international conferences, and gave invited talks in some conferences. He acted as a member of the executive committee for IPCCC conference. He has co-chaired several conference workshops and special sessions organized in key conferences including Globecom, ICC, ICDCS, IPCCC, Healthcom, WoWMoM, ISNCC, and WiMob. He is senior IEEE member, IGRSS chapter chair, and IEEE Conference Coordinator.