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Several research groups structure have evolved over time in response to cope with priorities and opportunities. Descriptions of the groups provide details of teams, personnel and contact details.

Signals and Multimedia Processing

The aim of this research group is to design a system that locates lost objects in both indoor and outdoor environments. The target audience are average people with smart, portable and handheld devices such as smartphones. The lost objects are either people or things. To consider real and practical scenarios of lost objects, no prior information about the environment shall be known.

Esam AlQaralleh

Received the B.Sc. degree from University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan, in 1995, the M.Sc. and Ph.D degree from National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan, in 2006, all in electrical engineering. He joined the Computer engineering department at Princess Sumaya University for Technology, Amman, Jordan in Sep 2006. He served as the Chair of the Computer Engineering Department from 2009 to 2011. He is a member of the IEEE computer, and RAs societies. He participated in organizing and conducting many local and international conferences and events.

Research interest:

Video coding/motion estimation: algorithm and implementation using FPGA.
Embedded Systems/RTOS.
Engineering Education and Arabic Handwritten Recognition.

Osama Abu-Sharkh

Osama M.F. Abu-Sharkh received the B.Sc. degree from University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan, in 1999, the M.Sc. degree from University of North Carolina, Charlotte, NC, USA, in 2001 and the Ph.D. degree from University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA, in 2006, all in electrical engineering. He joined the communications engineering department at Princess Sumaya University for Technology, Amman, Jordan in Sep 2007. He served as the Chair of the Communications Engineering Department from 2012 to 2014. He is currently with the computer engineering department, network and information security program. He is a member of the IEEE communications, computer, vehicular Technology, signal processing and intelligent transportation systems societies. He is also a member of ACM and a fellow member of the applied innovation institution. He participated in organizing and conducting many local and international conferences and events.

Research Interests:

Wireless telecommunications and computer networks.
Smart cities, wireless vehicular networks, smart grids.
Quality of Service.
Multimedia communications and processing.
Optical communications.
Wireless sensor networks, wireless positioning systems and resource allocation and management.

Amjed Almousa

Dr. Amjed Almousa has been an assistant professor at the Computer Engineering Department at Princess Sumaya University for Technology since 2012. He has received his Ph.D. from Santa Clara University, M.Sc. from Virginia Tech and B.Sc. from University of Jordan all in Electrical Engineering. Dr. Amjed combines this academic experience with more than 13 years of industry experience from the heart of Silicon Valley. He started his career by working at Intel Corporation in 2001 at the Graphics Department, and then moved to work on statistical analysis tools at PDF solutions in 2005. More recently in 2009 he took a senior manager position for data analytics at SEVEN networks, a mobile messaging firm. In this last position, he gained firsthand experience in cloud computing and big data. He is a senior IEEE member, JEA, Sigma Xi, MRS members.

Research Interests:

· In applications of fuzzy logic for control & Intelligent systems.

· The use and applications of Big Data, and cloud computing to serve IoT devices.

· Also he is working on nano-particles AFM image characterization.

Talal Edwan

Dr Talal A.Edwan has been involved in computer networks work since 2002, and in computer networks research since 2005. His main work has been in analysis of network performance evaluation, protocols and algorithms. He has a BSc in Electronics Engineering (Hons.) from Princess Sumaya University for Technology, MSc in Networks Engineering (with distinction) from University of Plymouth (UK), and a PhD in Computer Networks from Loughborough University (UK). He has worked at Princess Sumaya University for Technology since 2012 as a lecturer and assistant professor in the Department of Computer Engineering.

Research Interests:

· High-speed/Mobile/Wireless computer and telecommunication networks.

· Congestion control mechanisms with QoS constraints.

· TCP Congestion Control.

· Modelling and performance evaluation of computer and

Telecommunication networks (wired/wireless).

· Network algorithms.

· Wireless sensor networks.

Big Data and Cloud Computing

Various applied research, applications and topics to be investigated and to eventually establish long-term research projects in the following directions:

(a) Smart cities and IoT devices & applications.

(b) Big data and machine learning based automatic speech recognition systems for mobile applications.

Ashraf Ahmad

Ashraf Ahmad is currently an associate professor in Princess Sumya University for Technology (PSUT). Dr. Ahmad has obtained his PhD degree in Computer Science and Engineering from National Chiao Tung University (NCTU) in Taiwan with distinction. He obtained his B.Sc. degree from PSUT in Jordan. Dr. Ahmad has been the chairman of computer graphics and animation department in PSUT for four years. Dr. Ahmad has authored several scientific publications including journal papers, conference papers, book chapters and book. In addition, Dr. Ahmad has several US and international patents in his field of expertise. He serves as an associate editor in two journals and editorial member of several journals. Ashraf has been honored to serve as either a program committee or steering committee member for several international conferences. He has several funded projects on security and video domain. Moreover, Dr. Ahmad gave several Keynote speeches at many international conferences and workshops. With his supervision, his student teams won several international, regional and national prizes including imagine cup and world championship in programming. He has earned several funded research projects. Ashraf Ahmad has been chosen as one of the recipients of Leading Scientist award in the year 2006 for his outstanding contribution in field of Video Processing and Communications. In 2014, Dr Ahmad won the American challenge cup in Jordan for his invention border security device.

Research Interest:

· Security application development.

· Computer programming.

· Mobile application.

· Video transcoding, secure multimedia and interoperability.

Akram Alkouz

Akram Alkouz received his BSc degree in Computer Science from Princess Sumaya University for Technology /Jordan 1996, his Master Degree in Computer Science and Information Engineering from National Chiao Tung University Taiwan in 2003. Alkouz had a PhD. Degree in Computer Science from Technical University of Berlin (2013). And now he is an assistant professor ate Princess Sumaya University for Technology. Akram Alkouz holds different professional and academic positions in Jordan and outside.He has many publications in international conferences and journals.

Research Interest:

· Big Data.

· Social Networks Analysis.

· Natural Language Processing.

· Machine Learning, and Information Retrieval.

Amjed Almousa

Research Interests:

· In applications of fuzzy logic for control & Intelligent systems.

· The use and applications of Big Data, and cloud computing to serve IoT devices.

· Also he is working on nano-particles AFM image characterization.

Intelligent Embedded Systems

The aim of this research project is to create a unified intelligent protocol for unmanned aerial vehicle which should be responsible for:

• Maintain collision avoidance functionality

• Optimize the path planning for UAVs

• Allow for priority in UAV maneuvers based on UAV type.

Nailah Al-Madi

Nailah Al-Madi received the BSc degree in computer information system from Al Al-bayt University, Jordan, in 2005. She received her MSc degree in computer science form Jordan University of Science and technology, Jordan, in 2009. She received her PhD degree in computer science from North Dakota State University, USA, in 2014. She is currently working as assistant professor in Princess Sumaya University for Technology, Jordan.

Research Interests:

· Optimization and Evolutionary Computation.

· Data Mining.

· Big Data, MapReduce and Hadoop Framework.

· Robotics, and Wireless Sensor Networks.

Belal Sababha

Belal H. Sababha is the Acting Dean of the King Abdullah II Faculty of Engineering at Princess Sumaya University for Technology (PSUT) since October 2015. He joined PSUT as an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering in the Computer Engineering Department on January 2012. He is the Co-Founder of the Intelligent and Embedded Systems Research Group at PSUT. Before joining PSUT he worked as a Senior Controls Engineer in the Powertrain Controls department at Chrysler Group LLC, Michigan USA. Belal received his PhD degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering – Embedded Systems from Oakland University, MI, USA in 2011. He has taught electrical and computer engineering undergrad and grad courses at various universities in the US and Jordan. Dr. Sababha has extensive experience in embedded systems design, control algorithm design and software development with applications related to Gasoline Engine Controls and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). He is a consultant in the fields of Embedded Systems and UAV design and control for various governmental and commercial firms. He is an IEEE Senior member and a member of IEEE-RAS, ASME, AIAA and JEA.

Research Interests:

· UAV development.

· Biomedical instrumentation.

· Sensor communication.

· Routing in wireless ad hoc networks.

· Embedded RTOS, CAN networks.

· Distributed embedded systems.

· Graceful degradation in embedded systems.

· Rapid prototyping, and machine vision.

Moreover, he has several years of experience as an ICT Director.

Amjed Almousa

Research Interests:

· In applications of fuzzy logic for control & Intelligent systems.

· The use and applications of Big Data, and cloud computing to serve IoT devices.

· Also he is working on nano-particles AFM image characterization.

Advanced Microelectronics

The project aims to design a robust voltage controlled oscillator, VCO, that can automatically compensate for changes in environment and manufacturing corners and provide a stable frequency without the need of Phase Locked Loops.

Fadi Shahroury

Fadi R. Shahroury is an Assistant Professor of King Abdullah II School of Electrical Engineering at Princess Sumaya University for Technology, Amman, Jordan. Fadi R. Shahroury obtained his B.Sc. degree in Electronics Engineering with highest honors from Princess Sumaya University for Technology in Amman - Jordan in 2000. He got his M.Sc. and Ph.D degree in Electronics Engineering, in 2003 and 2008, respectively. With First rank Student in EE department of National Chiao-Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, He was a visiting researcher during the academic year of 2005 at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. Fadi R. Shahroury was awarded the 2009 Hisham Adeeb Hijjawi Award (HH) for Applied Science in the information technology and communication segment for his research, “The Design of Low Power 60GHz CMOS Self-Switching Current-Mode Mixer”. And Excellent Presentation Award and Innovation Contest Award in International PhD Workshop on SOC 2006, Taipei, Taiwan. Fadi R. Shahroury is a reviewer for IEEE ISWTA2013, IEEE ICECS, and IEEE ISCAS conferences.

Research Interests:

· Low-voltage, low-power.

· Very high-frequency integrated circuits design and analog integrated circuits design in CMOS technology.

Khaldoon Abugharbieh

Dr. Khaldoon Abugharbieh received a BSEE degree from Arizona State University in 1994 and an MSEE degree from Stanford University in 1996. He received a Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Santa Clara University in 2009. From 1995 to 1999, he worked on programmable logic devices and data communication products in Cypress Semiconductor. In 1999, he joined the RF Group in DataPath Systems, which was later acquired by LSI Logic Corporation, where he worked on consumer-product mixed-signal system-on-chips. In 2006, he joined National Semiconductor Corporation High Speed Signal Division. Dr. Abugharbieh also worked at Xilinx Corporation SerDes Technology Group as a senior design manager. Dr. Abugharbieh worked on RF-class voltage-controlled oscillators, phase lock loops, data converters, and high-speed and low-power I/Os. He is presently the head of the electrical engineering department at Princess Sumaya University for Technology in Amman, Jordan. Dr. Abugharbieh holds twelve issued US patents and has authored and co-authored twenty three technical refereed journal and conference publications.

Research Interests:

High-performance analog- and mixed-signal ICs

Smart Grid and Renewable Energy Systems

The research group conducts advanced research in areas of smart grids with current focus on demand side management and real time pricing and exploring the use of solar energy to power street lighting systems.

Ahmad Tawayha

Ahmad Mohammad Received his BSc in Electrical Engineering from Ein-Shams University in Egypt in 1981, and the MSc, and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering, from The University of Akron, USA, in 1989, and 1992, respectively. He was an assistant professor in electrical engineering dept. at The Applied Science University, Jordan, from 1993 until 2000. Since 2000 he has been a faculty member at princess Sumaya University, Jordan. He is currently an associate professor at the department of Electrical Engineering, Princess Sumaya University.

Research interests:

· Control systems.

· Image processing.

· Information security.

Ayman Faza

Ayman Faza is an Assistant Professor in the Electrical Engineering Department, at Princess Sumaya University for Technology (PSUT). He has earned his PhD and Master’s in Computer Engineering from Missouri University of Science and Technology in Rolla, MO, USA, in 2010 and 2007, respectively. His doctoral research area was in reliability modeling for Cyber Physical Systems, focusing on the reliability of the Smart Grid. He earned his Bachelor degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan in 2003. He has worked as a postdoctoral fellow in Missouri University of Science and Technology specializing in Audio Signal Processing, and has also worked as a postdoctoral fellow at La Spienza University in Rome focusing on Wireless Networks Technologies for Smart Grids implementations. Dr. Faza is a member of the IEEE. He is a recipient of the Fulbright Foreign Student Program Fellowship, the Erasmus Mundus Exchange Scholarship for postdoctoral studies, and has also received two best paper awards.

Research Interests:

· Smart Grids.

· Renewable Energy Sources.

· Photovoltaics, and Reliability Modeling.

Majd Batarseh

Majd Ghazi Batarseh received her B.Sc. degree from the University of Jordan in 2004 and the M.S.E.E. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Central Florida, Orlando, in 2006 and 2010, respectively, all in Electrical Engineering. She is currently an Assistant Professor in the Electrical Power and Energy Engineering Department at the Princess Sumaya University for Technology, Amman Jordan, where she teaches electrical engineering classes and conducts research focusing on Power Electronics and Renewable Energy systems mainly Solar and Photo Voltaic.

Research Interests:

· Pulse width modulation techniques in power electronics.

· PV systems, power management and renewable energy systems.

Computer and Network Security

The aim of this group is to conduct research in the following areas: Botnet Detection and Prevention, Forensic Investigation of the Internet of Things, Big Data Forensics, Network Flow Analysis, Intrusion Detection and Prevention, Digital Forensics and Anti-Forensics, Malware Analysis and Memory Forensics, Cryptography in Embedded and Reconfigurable Systems.

Sufyan Almajali

Dr Sufyan obtained his Bachelor and Master in Computer Science from University of Jordan. He obtained his PhD in Computer Science from Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL. Dr. Sufyan has 15 years of academic and industrial experience. This include teaching at Robert Morris University, Devry University, and Benedictine University in the United States in the period of 1999-2011. Teaching experience included three main Areas: Software Development Courses, Computer Networking Courses, and Security courses. In addition, Dr. Sufyan worked at multiple companies in Chicago such as Lucidline, Neotick, and Secure Data Replicator. His industrial experience included building, configuring, and maintaining data centers, Internet Service Providers, in addition to developing software solutions for security and other purposes. Dr. Sufyan is currently an assistant professor at Princess Sumaya University – Head of Software Engineering Department.

Research Interests

· Programming Languages

· Compilers

· Computer Networks

· Computer Security

Ali Hadi

Ali Hadi, University Professor at the Computer Science Dept, Princess Sumaya University for Technology (PSUT), Jordan. He's a senior level Information Security Officer with 14+ years of professional experience working for different high-reputed companies. Since 2007, he's been teaching different computer security, hacking techniques, digital forensics, and networking courses. He's also an author, speaker, and freelance instructor.

Research Interests:

· Digital forensics.

· Operating systems internals.

· Malware analysis, and network security.

Natural Language Processing and Text Mining

The aim of this group is to extract knowledge from natural language texts mainly Arabic texts through the development of solutions in the following areas: Semantic Processing, Lexical Semantics and Ontology, Latent Semantic Analysis, Linguistic Resources, Arabic Text Entailment, Machine Translation, Text Mining, Arabic Natural Language Processing.

Arafat Awajan

Arafat Awajan is a full professor at Princess Sumaya University for Technology (PSUT). He received his PhD degree in computer science from the University of Franche-Comte, France in 1987. He held different academic positions at the Royal Scientific Society and Princess Sumaya University for Technology. He was appointed as the chair of the Computer Science Department (2000-2003) and the chair of the Computer Graphics and Animation Department (2005-2006) at PSUT. He had been the dean of the King Hussein School for Information Technology from 2004 to 2007, the Dean of Student Affairs from 2011- 2014 and the director of the Information Technology Center in the Royal Scientific Society from 2008-2010. He is currently the dean of the King Hussein School for computing Sciences.

Research Interests:

· Natural Language Processing.

· Arabic Text Mining.

· Digital Image Processing.

Ghazi Al-Naymat

I received my PhD degree in May 2009 from the school of Information Technologies at The University of Sydney, Australia. My research interests include data mining and knowledge discovery specifically in the area of spatial, spatio-temporal, time series applications, and Cloud Computing. Currently, I am working as an Assistant Professor at the Computer Science Department, King Hussein Faculty of Computing Sciences at Princess Sumaya University for Technology (PSUT) . From 2012 to 2015, I worked as an Assistant Professor at the Computer Information Systems Department, College of Computer Science and Information Technology, University of Dammam, KSA. From 2010 – 2012, I was working as an Assistant Professor at the Information System department, College of Computers and Information Technology, University of Tabuk, KSA. Before that, I worked at Cemagref research center in Clermont-Ferrand, France. I am a member of the Laboratory of Engineering for Complex Systems (LISC) research group. The research I am conducting focuses at the development of machine learning techniques for computing viability kernels in dynamical systems. In 2009, I worked as a Postdoctoral research fellow at the School of Computer Science and Engineering - The University of New South Wales, Australia.

Research Interests:

· Data Mining

· Graph Data Management

· Cloud Computing

· Big Data Analytics

Nailah Al-Madi

Research Interests:

· Optimization and Evolutionary Computation.

· Data Mining.

· Big Data, MapReduce and Hadoop Framework.

· Robotics, and Wireless Sensor Networks.

Sara Tedmori

In 2001, Dr. Tedmori received her BSc degree in Computer Science from the American University of Beirut, Lebanon. In 2003, she obtained her MSc degree in Multimedia and Internet Computing from Loughborough University. In 2008, she received her Engineering Doctorate in Computer Science from Loughborough University, UK. Currently she is an assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at Princess Sumaya University of Technology, Jordan.

Research Interests:

· Natural Language Processing.

· Sentiment Analysis.

· Data Mining.

· Image Processing.

· Video Coding.

· Cryptography.

· Social Networks.

· Web Technologies.

· Classification.

Social Media Marketing

The aim of this group is to conduct research in the following areas: Facebook and Twitter Advertising, Content Marketing, Real-Time Marketing, B2B in the Context of Social Media, Social Media and Consumer Behavior.

Mohammad Al Khasawneh

Dr. Mohammad Al Khasawneh is an assistant professor in E-marketing and Social Media at Princess Sumaya University for Technology. Dr. Mohammad Al Khasawneh has obtained his bachelor degree from Yarmouk University and his master’s degree in Marketing from Coventry University in the United Kingdom. He received his doctorate in E-Marketing from Griffith University, in Australia. Mohammad’s main research expertise is related social media marketing, consumer behavior, online advertising and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). He is currently the Head of the E-Marketing & Social Media Committee at Princess Sumaya University for Technology.

Research Interests:

· Traditional and Online Advertising.

· Sponsored Search Advertising.

· Social Media Marketing

· E-Marketing

· Mobile Marketing

· Consumer Behavior.

· Corporate Social Responsibility.

Shafig AL-Haddad

Dr. Shafig AL-Haddad is a professor of Marketing and the Dean of King Talal Faculty of Business & Technology at Princess Sumaya University for Technology in Amman, Jordan since Oct, 4, 2015. Dr. Haddad has been working in PSUT since Sep. 14, 2014. He worked at Applied Science University from 1991 until Sep. 13, 2014. During these years, he held many administrative positions, from Sept. 25. 2012- July. 25. 2013, he was the Acting President of the Applied Science University, from August, 17. 2011- Sept. 13. 2014, he was the Vice President of Applied Science University, from Sept. 19. 2010- Sept. 13. 2014, he was the Dean of Scientific Research and Graduate Studies at Applied Science University, from Apr. 12, 2001 – Aug. 16, 2011, he was the Head of the Department of Marketing, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Science at the Applied Science University. He has a Ph.D. in Business Administration: Marketing, in 1988, M.Sc. in Business Administration: Marketing, in 1986, M.Sc. Management Development, in 1997, and B.Sc. in Accounting in 1984. Dr. Haddad research interest is in services marketing, marketing innovation and creativity, electronic marketing, sales and personal selling, and he is the author of Four books, 26 articles that have appeared in professional journals, and three Grants, and more than 15 papers presented at international, regional, and local conferences, and three case studies have been presented to the Euro-Arab Management School in Spain. Dr. Haddad has participated in more than 32 scientific committees, 95 Supervision and external referee for many MA theses, and PhD dissertations. And he has taught more than 100 training courses.

Research Interest:

· Services marketing.

· Marketing innovation and creativity.

· Electronic marketing, sales and personal selling.

Emotional Marketing

The aim of this group is to conduct research in the following areas: Emotional Branding, Emotional Selling, Emotional Advertising and Celebrity Endorsement.

Mohammad Al Khasawneh

Research Interests:

· Traditional and Online Advertising.

· Sponsored Search Advertising.

· Social Media Marketing

· E-Marketing

· Mobile Marketing

· Consumer Behavior.

· Corporate Social Responsibility.

Rand Irshaidat

I am an advocate of the merger of sciences, which explains my focus on integrating marketing strategies and tactics to politics, considering that political awareness is crucial and relevant to all fields. My first two degrees are in hardcore marketing; from the University of Jordan and the University of Surrey, UK, respectively. My PhD in Politics from York University dedicated its emphasis to Political Marketing.

Research interests:

· Ethics.

· Consumer behavior.

· International marketing, and marketing theory.

E-business and ICT adoption

The main aim of this research group is to promote and exchange ideas on e-business research and applications. It also collaborates in building and validating e-business theory and practice. The research group also explores issues related to e-government development and implementation. Research interests include Information and Communication Technologies adoption especially in developing countries.

Mahmoud Migdadi

Dr Mahmoud Migdadi is currently an associate professor teaching various subjects at the Business Information Technology Department, King Talal School of Business and Technology, Princess Sumaya University of Technology, Aljubiha, Amman, Jordan. Email: m.migdadi@psut.edu.jo Mahmoud got his Bachelor’s degree in computer science from Yarmouk University, Jordan, MBA from Johnson & Wales University, USA, and PhD in Information Systems from University of Wollongong, Australia. His research has been published in international journals such as Computers in Human Behavior, Internet Research, Industrial Management & Data Systems, Journal of Systems and Information Technology, Journal of Information and Knowledge Management, and International Journal of Business Information Systems.

Research Interest:

· Knowledge management.

· Knowledge management systems.

· Customer relationship management systems.

· Enterprise resource planning systems.

· Learning organization and e-business.

Omar Hujran

Dr Omar Al-Hujran is an associate professor in the Department of Management Information Systems and Technology at Princess Sumaya University for Technology (PSUT). He got his bachelor’s degree in computer science from Mutah University, Jordan, Master of Science in computing from University of Technology/Sydney, and PhD degree in Information Systems from Wollongong University, Australia. His work has been presented in several international Journals conferences such as Information Technology for development Journal, Computers in Human Behavior, Internet Research, Electronic Journal of E-Government, European Conference on e-Government, International Conference on e-Learning, e-Business, Enterprise Information Systems, and e-Government, ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications, and European Conference on Mobile Government.

Research Interests:

· E-government.

· Cloud computing.

· Social Media and e-government adoption in developing countries.

Energy, Environments and Economics

The research group investigates the use of renewable energy technology and the environment parameters impact on solar modules including all areas related to performance of these modules. The group also studies the implementation of solar panels for a green building in Jordan to generate solar energy and to support the electricity supplied by the national grid. This is to reduce the annual electricity bill, in addition to eliminate the CO2 emission. The study also to find the positive impact of implementation such systems for a local residential small project in Jordan, taking into consideration the escalating oil and natural gas prices, and the decrease in photovoltaic technology cost. These works resulted in one book, five international conference papers, three international journal published papers, and three international journals in review process.

Abdul Ghafoor Al-Saidi

Abdul Ghafoor Al-Saidi received the BSc degree in Management of Co-operation from Al-Mustansiria University, Baghdad. Iraq, in 1976. He received the MSc degree in Agricultural Economics from University of Baghdad, Baghdad, Iraq, in 1982. He is received PhD degree in Economics from University of Baghdad, Baghdad, Iraq, in 1997. What excites me most about these topics is that there are so many interesting and important problems where economic research can help to provide more disciplined structure for policy analysis. He is currently working as associate professor in Princess Sumaya University for Technology, Jordan.

Research Interests:

· Economics development.

· Food security and macroeconomic themes.

· Selected topics in the fields of finance, and health economics.

Abdul Ghani Albaali

Ghani Albaali, PhD in Chemical Engineering, 2001, The Univ. of Auckland, NZ New Zealand citizen, born in Baghdad - Iraq Currently working as a Assoc. Professor/Princess Sumaya University for Tech in Amman, Jordan. PUBLICATIONS: More than 140 published papers, books and chapters in books in the above areas. Developed several computer models (for the first time) in the areas of Heat & Mass Transfer, High Pressure Processing of Food, and Food Processing Engineering. These works are published in International Journals and presented in several International Conferences (USA, Australia, France, Japan, Mexico, Turkey, Italy, Canada, Jordan, Iraq, and New Zealand). Reviewer of several International Books and Journals Attended several training courses in US, Italy, Germany, Australia, New Zealand, Iraq and Jordan. One of the Internationals well known figures in the field of using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) in Food Engineering Applications. Awarded the Best Doctoral Thesis in the Faculty of Engineering in the year 2001. Awarded a Post-Doctoral Fellowship (Sept. 2002-Aug. 2005) from the New Zealand Foundation of Research Science and Technology. CITATIONS Who's Who in Science and Engineering, 7th Edition, 2003-2004 and 23rd Edition in 2005 & 2006. The Chronicle of Higher Achievements, NJ, USA. Outstanding Scientist by IBC, Cambridge CB2 3QP England Great Minds of 21st Century to the accomplishments, ideas and contribution to the field of Science, ABI, North Carolina 27622 USA. http://www.amazon.com/A.G.-Abdul-Ghani-AlBaali/e/B004Z6SZX4?ref_=pe_1724030_132998060

Research Interests:

· Heat & Mass Transfer.

· Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD).

· Numerical Analysis.

· Computer Simulations.

· Mathematical Modelling.

· Environment Engineering and Technology.

· Renewable Energy.

· Solar Energy.

· Energy Conversion.

· Fluid Mechanics.

· Physics.

· Thermal Sterilization of Food.

· High Pressure Processing.

· Food Processing Engineering.

· Research Methodology.

· Data Analysis, and Statistics.

Jaber Al -Bdour

After graduation in 1972, I started my work as an employee with the Ministry of National Economy (which becomes now the Ministry of Industry and Trade). Three years later I joined the Royal Scientific Society (RSS) Jordan as an economic researcher. In 1978 up to 1980 I promoted to became the Head of the Data Bank at RSS. 1980 RSS nominated me to the European Delegation in Amman to get a Master degree in England and I got this scholarship. I attended Keel University in England and in 1982 got my M Sc. in the field of International Economics. In 1983 I promoted to become the head of the Occupied Territories Economy Department. I accomplished many applied researches for the Jordanian and the West Bank Economies. In 1988 I got, through the European Delegations, a PhD scholarship. The emphasis of my PhD Thesis was on the role of macroeconomic policies on development and industrialization. I graduated in 1991, and back to RSS and assumed my job as a head of the Industrial Studies Department where emphasis was on conducting feasibility studies and economic consultations. In 1997 I joined PSUT as an assistant professor to teach principles of economics, Science, Technology and Growth, and technical writing. Recently my concern is focused on technology and innovation as well as with macroeconomic issues. Since I started my teaching with PSUT in 1997, four courses were my focus, these are; Principles of economics, science technology and growth, money& Banking, and Technical writing. My concern with the latter course derived from my previous experience with the RSS where I accomplished about 30 applied researches some of them with international research agencies like IDRC of Canada. My teaching philosophy is to let my students aware of the state-of-the-arts in all the courses I teach. I urge my students to participate in class discussions, home works essays, and not to depend on one reference in any course. I also avoid multiple choices exams. I believe in essay questions to push my students to argue and discuss issues and that I believe will enhance their communication skills. Up to 1997 I accomplish three big projects. The first one was supported by the IDRC of Canada, and the other was the feasibility of transferring Aqaba into free economic zone. The latter was a study requested by the Jordanian government at that time. The third one was also requested by the Ministry of planning and UNDP on the evaluation of the NGO’s in Jordan. In addition to this one research was accomplished as a request by the Jordanian government. This was the study of the cost of bread in Jordan. At that time the government was about to raise the price of bread and public unrest was spread in some parts of Jordan. The government decides to conduct a study on the cost of bread in Jordan. Three study researches were accomplished to help the government to take decision these are: 1. The feasibility of transferring Aqaba into economic free zone 2. The evaluation of the NGOS. In Jordan. 3. The cost of the bread.in Jordan 4. The financial situation in the West Bank and Gaza. Strip On the conference side, two participations were highly successful. : 1. Science $ technology in the Islamic world conference- Islam Abad / Pakistan /2006 2. Environment and health/Cairo 1995.

Research Interests:

· Economics in general.

· Macroeconomic policy.

· International economics.

· Economic growth and industrialization.

· Science and technology.

George Sammour

Dr. George Sammour is an Assistant Professor at Princess Sumaya University for Technology (PSUT). He received his Bachelor and Master degrees in Computer Science from PSUT. Dr. Sammour earned his PhD in Business Informatics from the University Of Hasselt, Belgium, in 2013. Currently, he is the coordinator for Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) International Accreditation in the Faculty of Business and Technology. Dr. Sammour is actively involved in research related to Data Mining, including predictive performance and model validation, Activity-based transportation forecasting models, data analysis and the implementation of e-learning systems as knowledge management component in higher education.

Research Interests:

· Modeling and Data mining Activity-based transportation forecasting models.

· Validation and performance analysis of process models.

· E-Learning.

· Knowledge Management, and Semantic Web.