Committees

Honorary Chair:

• Sallie V. Sheppard, Former Vice Chancellor, AUS, UAE

General Chair:

• Mohsen Guizani, WMU, USA
  mguizani@cs.wmich.edu

Program Chair:

• Mike Langston, University of Tennessee, USA
  langston@cs.utk.edu 
  
  

Conference Coordinator:

• Suzanne Haddad Baktash, University of Tennessee, USA
  baktashsh@ornl.gov 
  
  

Steering Committee:

• Hany Ammar, West Virginia University, USA
  hany.ammar@mail.wvu.edu 
  
  
• Salim Hariri, University of Arizona, USA (Chair)
  hariri@ece.arizona.edu 
  
  
• Nashat Mansour, Lebanese American University, Lebanon
  nmansour@lau.edu.lb 
  
  
• Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia
  zomaya@ee.uwa.edu.au 
  
  
• Hesham El-Rewini, SMU, USA
  mailto:rewini@engr.smu.edu 
  
  

Local Arrangements Chairs:

• Eesa Bastaki, DSO, UAE
  eesa@dso.ae 
  
  
• Abdul-Rahman Al-Ali, AUS, UAE
  aali@ausharjah.edu 
  
  

Track Chairs:

• Algorithms and Bioinformatics:
  Mike Atallah, Purdue University, USA
  mja@cs.purdue.edu
  Algorithms Track TPC Member List
   
• Database and Data Mining:
  Ghassan Qadah, AUS, UAE
  gqadah@ausharjah.edu
  Database and Data Mining Track TPC Member List
   
• Embedded Systems:
  Abdul-Rahman Al-Ali, AUS, UAE
  aali@ausharjah.edu
  Embedded Systems Track TPC Member List
   
• e-Learning:
  Imran Zualkernan, AUS, UAE
  izualkernan@ausharjah.edu
  e-Learning Track TPC Member List
   
• Multimedia:
  Jianping Pan, University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
  pan@uvic.ca
  Multmedia Track TPC Member List
   
• Networking and Wireless Technology:
  Surong Zeng, Motorola, USA
  surong.zeng@motorola.com
  Networking and Wireless Technology Track TPC Member List
   
• Security and Information Assurance:
  Marco Marchetti, SMU, USA
  marco@engr.smu.edu
  Security and Information Assurance Track TPC Member List
   
• Software Engineering and Applications:
  Kamel Barkaoui, CNAM/CEDRIC, France
  barkaoui@cnam.fr
  Software Engineering and Applications Track TPC Member List
   
• VLSI Circuits, Systems Applications and Signal Processing:
  Mohamed A. Imam, Dubai Silicon Oasis, UAE
  mimam@dso.ae
  VLSI Circuits, Systems Applications and Signal Processing Track TPC Member List
   

Poster Chair:

• Hossam Hassanein, Queen’s University, Canada
  hossam@cs.queensu.ca

Workshop Chairs:

• Ashfaq Khoukar, University of Illinois Chicago
  ashfaq@cs.uic.edu 
  
  
• Abdullah Ismail, UAEU, UAE
  abdulla@uaeu.ac.ae 
  
  

Tutorials & Panels Chairs:

• Kassem Saleh, AUS, UAE
  ksaleh@ausharjah.edu 
  
  
• Nidal Nasser, University of Guelph, Canada
  nasser@cis.uoguelph.ca 
  
  

Registration and Publication Chairs:

• E. K. Park, U Missouri Kansas City, USA
  ekpark@umkc.edu 
  
  
• Sherif Yehia, Western Michigan University, USA
  sherif.yehia@wmich.edu 
  
  

International Publicity Chairs:

• Mohammad Al-Rousan, AUS, UAE
  malrousan@ausharjah.edu
   
• Omar Al-Jarrah, JUST, Jordan
  aljarrah@just.edu.jo
   
• Said Abu Bakr, Western Michigan University, USA
  said.abubakr@wmich.edu
   
• Abdullah Al-Dhelaan, KSA, Saudi Arabia
  dhelaan@ksu.edu.sa
   
• Karim Djouani, Universite Paris 12, France
  djouani@univ-paris12.fr
   
• Zohra Sbai, ENIT, Tunisia
  zsbai@yahoo.fr