Mohammad S. Obaidat, Ph.D.
Life Fellow of IEEE, Fellow of AAIA and Fellow of SCS.
Distinguished/Honorary Professor, King Abdullah II School of Information Technology, (KASIT), The University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan.
Past President and Chair of Board of Directors of The Society for Modeling and Simulation International, SCS.
Inductee of SCS Hall of Fame-Life Achievement Award.
Recipient of the IEEE ComSoc Technical Committee on Communication Software Technical.
Achievement Award for Contribution to Cybersecurity, Wireless Networks, Computer Networks and Modeling and Simulation.
Recipients of 4 Best Paper Awards from IEEE Systems Journal in 2020.
Recipients of Best Paper Award from IEEE Systems Journal in 2021.
Founding Editor-in-Chief, Security and Privacy Journal, Wiley.
Editor in Chief, International Journal of Communication Systems, Wiley.
Executive Editor, International Journal of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Graphy.
Editor, IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing.
Editor, Simulation: Transactions of Society for Modeling and Simulation International, SCS.
Editor, IEEE Systems Journal.
In recognition of his significant scientific contribution, Springer published recently a book honoring his Contributions in Computing, Informatics, Networking and Cybersecurity.
Short Biography:
Professor Mohammad S. Obaidat is an internationally known academic/researcher/scientist/ scholar. He received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Engineering with a minor in Computer Science from The Ohio State University, Columbus, USA. He has received extensive research funding and published To Date (2023) over One Thousand and Two Hundred (1,200) refereed technical articles-About half of them are journal articles, over 100 books, and 70 Book Chapters. He is Editor-in-Chief of 3 scholarly journals and an editor of many other international journals.
He is the Editor-in Chief of the Wiley International Journal of Communication Systems and Founding Editor-in Chief of Wiley Security and Privacy Journal. He is also the founding Advisory Editor of the Cybersecurity and Applications Journal, KeAi. Moreover, he is the founder or co-founder of 5 International Conferences. Among his previous positions are Advisor to the President of Philadelphia University for Research, Development and Information Technology, President and Chair of Board of Directors of the Society for Molding and Simulation International (SCS), Senior Vice President of SCS, SCS VP for Membership and SCS VP for Conferences, Dean of the College of Engineering at Prince Sultan University, Founding Dean of the College of Computing and Informatics at the University of Sharjah, Chair and tenured Professor at the Department of Computer and Information Science and Director of the MS Graduate Program in Data Analytics at Fordham University, Chair and tenured Professor of the Department of Computer Science and Director of the Graduate Program at Monmouth University, Chair and Professor of Computer Science Department at University of Texas-Permian Basin, Distinguished Professor at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)-Dhanbad. Tenured Full Professor at King Abdullah II School of Information Technology (KASIT), University of Jordan, The PR of China Ministry of Education Distinguished Overseas Professor at the University of Science and Technology Beijing, China and an Honorary Distinguished Professor at the Amity University - A Global University. He is now a Distinguished Professor at KASIT, University of Jordan. He is also a Distinguished Professor at SRM University, India. He has chaired numerous (Over 185) international conferences and has given numerous (Over 185) keynote speeches worldwide. He has served as ABET/CSAB evaluator and on IEEE CS Fellow Evaluation Committee. He has served as IEEE CS Distinguished Speaker/Lecturer and an ACM Distinguished Lecturer. Since 2004 has been serving as an SCS Distinguished Lecturer. He received many best paper awards for his papers including ones from IEEE ICC, IEEE Globecom, AICSA, CITS, SPECTS, DCNET and IEEE ICCCA International conferences. He also received Best Paper awards from IEEE Systems Journal in 2018 and in 2019 (2 Best Paper Awards). In 2020, he received 4 best paper awards from IEEE Systems Journal and also in 2021 received the best paper award from IEEE System Journal. During his tenure as founding dean of college of Computing and Informatics at the University of Sharjah, the computer science program has been ranked by Times for Higher Education (THE) as NUMBER 1 in UAE and for the first time in the history of the university. He also received many other worldwide awards for his technical contributions including: The 2018 IEEE ComSoc-Technical Committee on Communications Software 2018 Technical Achievement Award for contribution to Cybersecurity, Wireless Networks, Computer Networks and Modeling and Simulation, SCS prestigious McLeod Founder's Award , Presidential Service Award, SCS Hall of Fame –Lifetime Achievement Award for his technical contribution to modeling and simulation and for his outstanding visionary leadership and dedication to increasing the effectiveness and broadening the applications of modeling and simulation worldwide. He also received the SCS Outstanding Service Award. He was awarded the IEEE CITS Hall of Fame Distinguished and Eminent Award. He also received the Nokia Distinguished Fellowship Award and Fulbright Distinguished Scholar Award, among others.
He is on the World's Top Career-long top 2% Scientists as per Stanford University recent list. In 2024, ScholarGPS has ranked him Number 1 Scholar Worldwide in Telecommunications and Telecommunication Systems Management. He was ranked recently by research.com agency as the number ONE Computer Scientist and number ONE Scholar in Electronics and Electrical Engineering in Jordan. In recognition of his significant scientific contribution, Springer published in 2022 a book honoring his contributions in Computing, Informatics, Networking and Cybersecurity. It is entitled: Advances in Computing, Informatics, Networking and Cybersecurity - A Book Honoring Professor Mohammad S. Obaidat’s Significant Scientific Contributions. Prof. Obaidat is a Life Fellow of IEEE, a Fellow of AAIA, Fellow of FTRA, Fellow of AIIA, and a Fellow of SCS.