Honors and Awards KFUPM Excellence in Teaching Award for the year 2012-2013 KFUPM Excellence in Academic Advising Award for the year 2011-2012 Supervised a project that won the first position of the “academic track” in the national completion for Open Source (Motah) (February 27th, 2012). Motah is a national contest and award organized by KACST-KSA and offered to national organizations with the highest adoption of Open Source Software (OSS). The project is part of the Saudi Honeynet (SAHNET) research project, aiming to build an IT surveillance network in the KFUPM Campus at minimal cost. Fulbright Scholarship (1994-1998) sponsored by the Moroccan-American Commission for Education and Cultural Exchange (MACECE). Second prize student paper award at the Seventh International Workshop on Principles of Diagnosis (DX-96), Canada.

 

Experience Assistant Professor and IT/e-Government Consultant (February 2011 – Present), King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. Assistant Professor, Computer Engineering Department at King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, August 2002 – January 2011.  Senior Automation Testing Specialist, Siemens - Mobile - Telecom Innovation Centre, Ottawa, Canada, Sept. 1999 – July 2002. Research and Project Assistant at the ATM Consortium, InterOperability Lab, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, USA, May 1996 – August 1999. Software Engineer, Computer Science Department, Ministry of Finance, Rabat, Morocco, Sept. 1992 - June 1994.