Computer Science and Convergence / Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering Bd.114 (PDF)

has been invited frequently to give talks at national and international conferences and research organizations.

Mohammad S. Obaidat is an internationally well known academic/researcher/ scientist. He received his Ph.D. and M. S. degrees in Computer Engineering with a minor in Computer Science from The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA. Dr. Obaidat is currently a full Professor of Computer Science and Software Engineering at Monmouth University, NJ, USA. Among his previous positions are Chair of the Department of Computer Science and Director of the Graduate Program at Monmouth University and a faculty member at the City University of New York. Prof. Obaidat is the author/co-author of numerous books including "E-business and Telecommunication Networks",  (Springer in 2008) and APPLIED SYSTEM SIMULATION: Methodologies and Applications, (Springer 2003). Professor Obaidat has served as a consultant for several corporations and organizations worldwide.  Dr. Obaidat received very recently the Society for Modeling and Simulation Intentional (SCS) prestigious McLeod Founder's Award  in recognition of his outstanding technical and professional contributions to modeling and simulation. He also received the Nokia Research Fellowship Award and the distinguished Fulbright Scholar Award. He has been invited to lecture and give keynote speeches worldwide. His research interests are: wireless communications and networks, computer networks and telecommunications, security of network, information and computer systems, security of e-based systems, performance evaluation of computer systems, algorithms and networks,  high performance and parallel computing/computers, applied neural networks and pattern  recognition, adaptive learning and speech processing.

Jongsung Kim received his Bachelor and Master degrees in Mathematics from Korea university, Korea in 2000 and 2002, respectively. He received double Doctoraldegrees on "Combined Differential, Linear and Related-Key Attacks on Block Ciphers and MAC Algorithms", completed in November 2006 and February 2007 at the ESAT/COSIC group of Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and at Engineering in Information Security of Korea University, respectively. He had been a Research Professor of Center for Information Security Technologies (CIST) at Korea University, from March 2007 till August 2009. Dr. Kim has been an Assistant Professor of Division of e-Business, Kyungnam University, Korea, since September 2009. His research interests include symmetric cryptosystems, side-channel attacks, ubiquitous computing systems and digital forensics.