Plenary Lecture

The Cloud as a Platform for Teaching and Research

Professor Khaled Salah
Electrical and Computer Engineering Department (Sharjah Campus)
Khalifa University of Science, Technology & Research (KUSTAR)
Sharjah, UAE
E-mail: khaled.salah@kustar.ac.ae

Abstract: The cloud computing platform has become prevalent today and is being utilized by many organizations in government, industry as well as academia. For teaching and training, the cloud can be an attractive and cost effective alternative to physical labs. The cloud can offer virtual labs with abundant on-demand virtual machines that can be rapidly launched and configured to provide necessary hands-on lab exercises. For research, the cloud can be used as a powerful high performance computing platform with almost infinite amount of storage and compute power to run scientific applications. In this talk, we share our experience in using the cloud to empower students with practical skills when teaching computer networks and cybersecuriy courses. In addition, we describe how we used the cloud to execute highly parallel scientific simulations and applications.

Brief Biography of the Speaker: Khaled Salah is an associate professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Khalifa University of Science, Technology and Research (KUSTAR). He received the B.S. degree in Computer Engineering with a minor in Computer Science from Iowa State University, USA, in 1990, the M.S. degree in Computer Systems Engineering from Illinois Institute of Technology, USA, in 1994, and the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the same institution in 2000. Prior to joining KUSTAR, Khaled was an associate professor in the Department of Information and Computer Science, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM), Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. Khaled has been teaching graduate and undergraduate courses and has over 100 publications in the areas of cloud computing, computer and network security, operating systems, computer networks, and performance evaluation. Khaled is an Editorial Board member of a number of prestigious international journals including IET Communications, IET Networks, Elsevier JNCA, Wiley IJNM, Wiley SCN, and J.UCS. Khaled was the recipient of Khalifa University Outstanding Research Award 2014/2015, KFUPM University Excellence in Research Award of 2008/09, and KFUPM Best Research Project Award of 2009/10, and also the recipient of the departmental awards for Distinguished Research and Teaching in prior years. Khaled has given a number of public talks, tutorials, and seminars on cloud computing and network security.

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