Mohammad S. Obaidat

Mohammad Salameh Obaidat (Also known as Mohammad S. Obaidat or M. S. Obaidat) is the President of the Society for Modeling and Simulation International, SCS (see: http://scs.org/officers), a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, IEEE (see: http://www.ieee.org/membership_services/membership/fellows/chronology/fellows_2005.html#O, a Fellow of the Society for Modeling and Simulation International, SCS and worldwide known computer science/engineering academic and scholar.

He is a full Professor of Computer Science and Software Engineering at Monmouth University, NJ, USA (see: http://bluehawk.monmouth.edu/mobaidat/). He was born in Jordan and received his MS and Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from The Ohio State University, OSU, USA. He has held various positions in the past including being the Advisor to the President of Philadelphia University, Jordan, Dr. Adnan Badran, who served in 2005 as the Prime Minister of Jordan; see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adnan_Badran. Mohammad Obaidat s the cousin of the former Prime Minster of Jordan, Ahmed Obaidat (also written as Ahmed Obeidat)who served as the Prime Minster of Jordan in 1984.

Dr. Obaidat was also a Distinguished Fulbright Scholar to Jordan during the academic year 2004/2005. He also served as Chair of the Department of Computer Science and the Graduate Studies Committee at Monmouth University, NJ, USA. He was invited to give distinguished keynote speeches and invited talks at international conferences and universities and organizations all over the world. Dr. Obaidat is the author or co-author of numerous books and refereed scholarly journal and conference papers. His books have been translated to several languages.

He held visiting professorships at various universities including Aberdeen University, UK, INSA-Rouen, France, Philadelphia University, Jordan, University of Seville, Spain, University of Oviedo, Spain, National Ilan University, Taiwan, Tamkang University, Taiwan, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), South Korea, University of Girona, Spain, Genoa University, Italy, KFUPM, Saudi Arabia, among others. Dr. Obaidat is the Editor –in-Chief of the International Journal of Communication Systems, published by John Wiley & Sons, since 1997 and is serving as Editor, Advisory editor or editorial board member of many other scholarly journals and transactions.

Prof. Obaidat has chaired a huge number of international conferences and served as an advisor to many of international conferences; see for partial listing: http://bluehawk.monmouth.edu/mobaidat/. He has received many distinguished awards such as the most prestigious SCS McLeod Founder’s Award for his outstanding technical contribution to modeling and computer simulation (see: http://scs.org/awards) , the IEEE AICCSA 2009 Best Paper Award, the IEEE GLOBCOM 2009 Best Paper Award, the Nokia Research Fellowship Award, and the Fulbright Distinguished Scholar Award. He served as IEEE Computer Society Distinguished lecturer/visitor (1994-1997) and now is a distinguished lecturer for the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and SCS. His research interests encompass wireless systems, computer communication networking and cyber security.