Dr. Omar Alfandi
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Zayed University, United Arab Emirates
Omar Alfandi (Member, IEEE) received the M.Sc. degree in telecommunication engineering from the University of Technology Kaiserslautern, Germany, in 2005, and the Dr. rer.nat. degree in computer science and telematics from the Georg-August-University of Goettingen, Germany, in 2009. He is an Assistant Dean for Students Affairs (AUH) and an Associate Professor with the College of Technological Innovation, Zayed University. From 2009 to 2011, he enjoyed a Postdoctoral Fellowship with the Telematics Research Group and he founded the Research and Education Sensor Laboratory, where he is currently a Lab Advisor. Before that, he carried his doctoral research as part of an industry, academia and research centers collaboration European Union (EU) project. He was a Working Package Leader of EU DAIDALOS II in the 6th framework project. He published numerous articles on authentication framework for 4G communication Systems, future Internet and trust and reputation systems in mobile ad hoc and sensor networks. He is the Co-Founder and the Co-Director of the Sensors and Mobile Applications Research and Education (SMART) Laboratory, CTI. In August 2015, he was appointed as the Assistant Dean for Abu Dhabi Campus. His current research interests include the Internet of Things (IoT), security in next generation networks, smart technologies, security engineering, and mobile and wireless communications.