Dr. Omar Alfandi

Omar Alfandi is the Dean and Professor at Zayed University College of Technological Innovation. He received a doctoral degree (Dr. rer. nat.) in Computer Engineering and Telematics from the Georg-August-University of Goettingen, Germany, in 2009. He received his M.Sc. degree in Telecommunication Engineering in 2005 from the University of Technology, Kaiserslautern, Germany. Between 2009 and 2011, he enjoyed a post-doctoral Fellowship at Telematics Research Group, and he founded a research and education sensor lab where he is currently a lab advisor. Before that, he carried out his doctoral research as part of an Industry, Academia, and Research center collaboration with the European Union (EU) project. Dr. Alfandi was 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 co-director of the Sensors and Mobile Applications Research and Education (SMART) Lab at CTI. His current research activities focus on Internet of Things (IoT), security in next generation networks, smart technologies, security engineering, and mobile and wireless communications.