I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Tennessee. I earned my Ph.D. from the Department of Computer Science, North Dakota State University.

Before joining the University of Tennessee, I worked in research and teaching as I granted a research and teaching assistantship from the Department of Computer Science in North Dakota State University. Through by Ph.D. I conducted research with Dr. Kendall Nygard (Major advisor) and Dr. Weiyi (Max) Zhang (Co-advisor) in Wireless Networks, Wireless Mesh Networks, Interference aware Channel Assignment and Survivability as well as Security and Privacy in Wireless Networks.

In 2005 I received my M.S. degree in Computer Science, from the University of Jordan in JORDAN. I received my B.S. degree in Computer Science from the Hashemite University in JORDAN in 2002.