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Dr. Mahmoud Elkhodr completed his Ph.D. degree in Information and Communication technologies at Western Sydney University (Western), Australia. Mahmoud has been awarded the International Postgraduate Research Scholarship (IPRS) and Australian Postgraduate Award (APA) in 2012-2015. He has been awarded the High Achieving Graduate Award twice in 2010 and 2012. Mahmoud has authored several journal articles and book chapters and presented at prestigious conference venues. He is currently editing two books on Future Networks and 5G technologies to be published in 2017. His research interests include: Internet of Things, e-health, Human Computer- Interactions, Security and Privacy.
Dr. Qusay F. Hassan is an independent researcher and a technology evangelist with 15 years of professional experience in ICT. He is currently a systems analyst at the United States Agency for International Development in Cairo, Egypt, where he deals with large-scale and complex systems. Dr. Hassan has received his BS, MS, and Ph.D. from Mansoura University, Egypt in computer science and information systems in 2003, 2008, and 2015, respectively. His research interests are varied which include IoT, SOA, high- performance computing, cloud computing and grid computing. Dr. Hassan has authored and co-authored a number of journal and conference papers as well as book chapters. He also published a book lately: Applications in Next-Generation High Performance Computing (published in 2016 by IGI Global), and he is currently editing two new books on the Internet of Things to be published in 2017. Dr. Hassan is an IEEE senior member, and a member of the editorial board of a number of associations
Dr. Seyed Shahrestani completed his PhD degree in Electrical and Information Engineering at the University of Sydney. He joined Western Sydney University (Western) in 1999, where he is currently a Senior Lecturer. He is also the head of the Networking, Security and Cloud Research (NSCR) group at Western. His main teaching and research interests include networking, management and security of networked systems, artificial intelligence applications, health ICT, IoT and smart environments. He is also highly active in higher degree research training supervision, with successful results. |
