Mohammad S. Obaidat

Mohammad S.Obaidat

Mohammad Salameh Obaidat is a computer science/engineering academic and scholar, the President of and a Fellow of the Society for Modeling and Simulation International (SCS), and a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

Obaidat is a full professor of computer science and software engineering at Monmouth University in New Jersey^[1], United States. He was born in Jordan and received his M.S. and Ph.D. in computer engineering from the Ohio State University.

Biography

Obaidat has held various positions in the past,including Advisor to Adnan Badran, the President of Jordan's Philadelphia University, who served in 2005 as the Prime Minister of Jordan. Obaidat is the cousin of the former Prime Minister of Jordan, Ahmed Obaidat (also written as Ahmad Obeidat), who served as the Prime Minister of Jordan in 1984.

Obaidat was a Distinguished Fulbright Scholar to Jordan during the academic year 2004/2005. He served as Chair of the Department of Computer Science and the Graduate Studies Committee at Monmouth University. He has been invited to give keynote speeches and invited talks at international conferences, universities, and organizations all over the world.

Dr. Obaidat is the author or co-author of numerous books and refereed scholarly journal and conference papers. His books have been translated to several languages.^[1]

He held visiting professorships at various universities, including Aberdeen University, UK, INSA-Rouen, France, Philadelphia University, Jordan, University of Seville, Spain, University of Oviedo, Spain, National Ilan University, Taiwan, Tamkang University, Taiwan, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), South Korea, University of Girona, Spain, Genoa University, Italy, KFUPM, Saudi Arabia, Carthage University, Tunisia, EMI, Morocco, Torino Polytechnic, Italy, Bogazci University, Turkey, and International Islamic University Malaysia.

He served as IEEE Computer Society Distinguished lecturer/visitor (1994–1997) and now is a distinguished lecturer for the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)^[2] and SCS.^[3] His research interests encompass wireless systems, computer communication networking, cyber security, Learning Automata, Neural Networks, Parallel and Distributed Systems, Modeling and Simulation, Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems, Telecommunications, among others.^[1]

Literary efforts

Since 1997, Obaidat has been the editor–in-chief of the International Journal of Communication Systems, published by John Wiley & Sons.^[4] Obaidat is the editor of the Journal of Convergence published by FTRA. He is currently Editor, Advisory editor, or editorial board member of many other scholarly journals and transactions. Prof. Obaidat has chaired a number of international conferences and served as an advisor to many international conferences and organizations.

Awards

Obaidat has received many awards, including the SCS McLeod Founder's Award for his outstanding technical contribution to Computer modeling and simulation,^[5] the IEEE AICCSA 2009 Best Paper Award, the IEEE GLOBCOM 2009 Best Paper Award,^[6] the Nokia Research Fellowship Award, and the Fulbright Distinguished Scholar Award.

References

1. ^ ^{a b c} "Dr. Mohammad S. Obaidat". Bluehawk.monmouth.edu. http://bluehawk.monmouth.edu/mobaidat. Retrieved 2010-10-02. 
2. ^ http://www.dsp.acm.org/view_lecturer.cfm?lecturer_id=72
3. ^ http://www.scs.org/lecturers
4. ^ "International Journal of communication Systems". http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)1099-1131. 
5. ^ The Society for Modeling & Simulation International. "Awards | The Society for Modeling & Simulation International". Scs.org. http://scs.org/awards. Retrieved 2010-10-02. 
6. ^ http://cms.comsoc.org/eprise/main/SiteGen/Globecom_2009/Content/Home/technical_program/Best_Paper_Awards.html

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Name	Obaidat, Mohammad S.
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Short description	computer engineering professor and scholar
Date of birth
Place of birth	Jordan
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