Dr. Mohamed F. Younis

Mohamed Younis is currently a professor in the department of computer science and electrical engineering at the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC). He received his Ph.D. degree in computer science from New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA. Before joining UMBC, he was with the Advanced Systems Technology Group, an Aerospace Electronic Systems R&D organization of Honeywell International Inc. While at Honeywell, he led multiple projects for building integrated fault tolerant avionics and dependable computing infrastructure. He also participated in the development of the Redundancy Management System, which is a key component of the Vehicle and Mission Computer for NASA’s X-33 space launch vehicle. Dr. Younis’ technical interest includes network architectures and protocols, wireless sensor networks, embedded systems, fault tolerant computing, secure communication and distributed real-time systems. He has published about 300 technical papers in refereed conferences and journals. Dr. Younis has seven granted and three pending patents. In addition, he serves/served on the editorial board of multiple journals and the organizing and technical program committees of numerous conferences. Dr. Younis is a senior member of the IEEE and the IEEE communications society.