Prof. Dr. Ayman A. Abdel-Hamid is a professor of Computer Science in the College of
Computing and Information Technology (CCIT), Arab Academy for Science, Technology, and
Maritime Transport (AASTMT), Alexandria, Egypt. He currently holds the position of CCIT’s
Dean since May 2021. In addition, he is a member of the sector committee for Computer Science
and Informatics as part of the Egyptian Supreme Council of Universities. Previously, he held a
number of CCIT’s administrative positions such as the Head of Computer Science Department and
the Vice Dean for Postgraduate Studies and Scientific Research. Moreover, he was the manager of
AASTMT’s Computer Networks and Data Center, where he led to completion the design and
realization of AASTMT’s state-of-the-art Data Center. Furthermore, he was affiliated with the
Computer Science Department, Virginia Tech, USA as an adjunct professor as part of the VTMENA program.
In the past, he held an assistant professor position in the Department of Computer
Science at Lamar University, TX, USA. He received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Computer Science,
from the Faculty of Engineering, Alexandria University, Egypt. He received his Ph.D. degree in
Computer Science from Old Dominion University, VA, USA. He regularly serves as a technical
program committee in a number of international reputed computing conferences and as a reviewer
for a number of notable scholarly journals. In addition, he regularly acts as the conference
coordinator and technical program chair of the International Conference on Computer Theory and
Applications, Alexandria, Egypt. His research interests and numerous scholarly publications span a
wide range of areas including computer and network security, computer networking, distributed
systems, mobile computing, network-layer mobility support, and cloud computing. He is a member
of IEEE, IEEE Computer Society, ACM, and ACM SIGCOMM.