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Ala Al-Fuqaha, Ph.D. Associate Professor Director, NEST Research Lab College of Engineering &
Applied Sciences Computer Science Department Email: ala DOT al-fuqaha AT wmich DOTedu |
Western Michigan University 1903 West Michigan Ave. Kalamazoo, MI 49008 Phone: 269.276.3868 Fax:
269.276.3122 |
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Ala Al-Fuqaha (S’00-M’04-SM’09)
received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from
the University of Missouri-Columbia and the University of Missouri-Kansas City,
in 1999 and 2004, respectively. Currently, he is an Associate Professor
and director of NEST Research Lab at the Computer Science Department of Western
Michigan University. Dr. Al-Fuqaha served as the Principal Investigator or
Co-PI on multiple research projects funded by NSF, Qatar Foundation, Cisco,
Boeing, AVL, Stryker, Wolverine,Traumasoft,
and Western Michigan University. His research grant activities
and collaborative efforts have culminated in $2.62 million funding. Chief among
these research activities is an international collaborative effort with Qatar
University and Purdue University to study the interplay between safety,
security and performance in vehicular networks. Another chief research activity
is a NSF funded collaborative effort with the City University of New York and
the University of Nebraska Lincoln on bio-socially inspired techniques for
enhanced spectrum access in cognitive radio networks.
His research interests include Wireless Vehicular Networks
(VANETs), cooperation and spectrum access etiquettes in cognitive radio
networks, smart services in support of the Internet of Things, management and
planning of software defined networks (SDN), intelligent services for the blind
and the visually impaired, QoS routing in
optical and wireless networks, and performance analysis and evaluation of
high-speed computer and telecommunication networks.
Dr. Al-Fuqaha advised multiple Ph.D. and Master’s students at
Western Michigan University. In 2006, he was the recipient of the outstanding
new educator award at the college of Engineering and Applied Sciences of
Western Michigan University. So far, his research efforts have culminated in
more than seventy five refereed journal, conference and book publications in a
wide variety of prestigious international conferences and journals including
the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (IEEE JSAC), IEEE
Transactions on Vehicular Technology (IEEE TVT), IEEE Transactions on
Communications, IEEE Communication Magazine, IEEE ICC, and IEEE GLOBECOM.
He is currently serving on the editorial board for John Wiley’s
Security and Communication Networks Journal, John Wiley’s Wireless
Communications and Mobile Computing Journal, Industrial Networks and
Intelligent Systems Journal, and International Journal of Computing and Digital
Systems. He is a senior member of the IEEE and has served as Technical
Program Committee member and reviewer of many international conferences and
journals.
Before joining Western Michigan University, Dr. Al-Fuqaha was
active in research and development with Lambda Optical Systems and Sprint
Telecommunications. He contributed to the design and development of lambda’s
optical routing protocol. He also played a key role in the design and
development of Lambda’s Intelligent Network Management System for Dense
Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM) optical networks. Lambda’s IOS2000
optical switches that he contributed to were deployed at 6 sites (NRL, NSA,
NASA, DIA, DISA, DARPA) in the Washington DC metropolitan area as part of the
MONET project (first all-optical network in the world).