M. H. Assaf

Biography

Dr. Assaf joined The University of the South Pacific (USP) in 2010. Prior to USP, he was an Associate Professor of Centre for Information and Communications Technology, at The University of Trinidad and Tobago. Before that, he served as a Research Scholar and Lecturer at The School of Information Technology and Engineering (SITE) of the University of Ottawa (UOO), Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from UOO where he also received his M.A.Sc. in Electrical Engineering and the B.A.Sc. degree in Telecommunications. He holds a B.Sc. degree in Applied Physics from The Lebanese University (LU). His research interests are in the areas of computer architecture, mixed-signal analysis, hardware/software co-design and test, fault-tolerant computing, distributed detection in sensor networks, and RFID technologies. Dr. Assaf is a senior member of the IEEE, and a member of the ACM. He received the 2003 IEEE Donald G. Fink Prize Paper Award.

Research Interest

Fault Tolerant Computing, Embedded Systems, Sensor Networks