Nidal Nasser

Biography

Dr. Nidal Nasser received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees with Honors in Computer Engineering from Kuwait University, State of Kuwait, in 1996 and 1999, respectively. He completed his Ph.D. in the School of Computing at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, in 2004. He is currently an Associate Professor and Acting Dean of the College of Engineering at Alfaisal University, Saudi Arabia. He worked in the School of Computer Science at University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada (2004-2011). Dr. Nasser was the founder and Director of the Wireless Networking and Mobile Computing Research Lab @ Guelph (WiNG: http://wing.socs.uoguelph.ca). He has authored 129 journal publications, refereed conference publications and book chapters in the area of wireless communication networks and systems. He has also given tutorials in major international conferences. Dr. Nasser is currently serving as an associate editor of Wiley's International Journal of Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, Wiley's International Journal on Communication Systems, Wiley's Security and Communication Networks Journal and International Journal of Ad Hoc & Sensor Wireless Networks. He has been a member of the technical program and organizing committees of several international IEEE conferences and workshops. Dr. Nasser is a member of several IEEE technical committees. He received Fund for Scholarly and Professional Development Award in 2004 from Queen's University. He received the Computing Faculty Appreciation Award from the University of Guelph-Humber. He received the Best Research Paper Award at the ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA'08), at the International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC'09), at the International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC'11), at the International Conference on Computing, Management and Telecommunications (ComManTel'13), and at the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC'14).

Research Interest

Broadband wireless networks , wireless and mobile ad hoc and sensor networks, fifth generation ( 5 G) wireless mobile networks and systems, mobile and wireless computing, radio resource management, performance evaluation of communication networks, and communication protocols and algorithms , Internet of thin gs and cloud computing .