Khalid Abualsaud, Ph.D. SMIEEE

Lecturer of Computer Engineering
Department of Computer Science & Engineering
College of Engineering, Qatar University (QU)

Biography

Khalid Abualsaud [M’14 and SM’15] received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from University Utara Malaysia (UUM) in 2009 and 2015 respectively. He worked as a Computer Engineer in the computer science and engineering department at Qatar University, Qatar from 1992-2005, taking a leadership role in managing 13 teaching labs in the college. However, in the fall of 2005, his professional skills promoted him to the position of Teaching Assistant of Computer Engineering (CE). He is currently a Lecturer of CE with the college of engineering at Qatar University. He was one of the committee team members that received the ABET accreditation in 2011 and 2017, and currently, he is working with the committee of quality assurance on the preparation for the next ABET visit in fall 2022. He has more than 30 years of professional experience in information technology. He teaches several courses in hardware and software systems.

Dr. Abualsaud’s research work has been presented in international conferences and journals. His research interests include health systems, wireless sensors for IoT applications, cybersecurity, cloud computing, and computer networks. He has authored more than 60 publications in refereed journals and conferences. Dr. Abualsaud is active in getting research funding from different sources, including the Qatar National Research Foundation, Supreme Committee for Delivery and Legacy (FIFA’2022), and some other organizations in Qatar. He is currently the LPI of NPRP research projects, in addition, he is a PI in some other internal research funded projects, which achieved significant outcomes.

Dr. Abualsaud has served as a TPC member and chair for various reputable IEEE conferences such as ICC’21, ICICT’21, ICIoT’20, and IWCMC’20, 21, 22, GLOBCOM’21, and 22. Moreover, he served as a technical reviewer for different international IEEE, ACM, and Elsevier journals. He participated actively in organizing a number of IEEE international conferences inside Qatar, namely ICIoT’20, IEEE WCNC’16, PLM’15, AICCSA’14, RelMiCS’11, and AICCSA’08. He received several awards from different local and international organizations. Recently, he served as a Guest Editor in Connected Healthcare’s special issue at IEEE Network Magazine. Dr. Abualsaud is currently an Associate Editor in IET Quantum Communication Journal.