Bio Sketch:

Sherif Abdelwahed is an Associate Professor in the Electrical and
Computer Engineering Department at Mississippi State University (MSU)
where he teaches and conducts research in the area of computer
engineering, with specific interests in cyber-security, autonomic
computing, real-time systems, modeling and analysis of discrete-event
and hybrid systems, model-integrated computing, and formal
verification. He received his Ph.D in 2002 from the Department of
Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of
Toronto. Prior to joining Mississippi State University, he was a
research assistant professor at the Department of Electrical
Engineering and Computer Science and senior research scientist at the
Institute for Software Integrated Systems, Vanderbilt University, from
2001-2007. From 2000-2001 he worked as a research scientist with
Rockwell Scientific Company. He established, collaboratively, the
first NSF I/UCRC center at Mississippi State University, the Center
for Autonomic Computing. He is currently the co-director of this
center. He is also serving as the associate director of the
Distributed Analytics and Security Institute (DASI) at MSU. He
co-chaired several international conferences and conference tracks,
and has served as technical committee member at various national and
international conferences. He received the StatePride Faculty award
for 2010 and 2011, the Bagley College of Engineering Hearin Faculty
Excellence award in 2010, and recently the 2016 Faculty Research Award
from the Bagley College of Engineering at MSU. Dr. Abdelwahed has more
than 120 publications and is a senior member of the IEEE.