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Professor Khalid Al-Begain
Director, Centre of Excellence in Mobile Applications and Services, University of Glamorgan, UK
Prof. Khalid Al-Begain is a Professor of Mobile Computing and Networking and the Director of the Integrated Communications Research Centre (ICRC) at the University of Glamorgan, UK. He is also the Director of the Centre of Excellence in Mobile Applications and Services (CEMAS), a £5million Centre partly funded by European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).
He received his PhD in Communications engineering in 1989 from Budapest University of Technology, Hungary. He has been working in different universities and research centres in Jordan, Hungary, Germany and the UK. He has also obtained a PG Diploma in Management from Glamorgan Business School in 2011
He is the President of the Federation of European Simulation Societies (EuroSim) leading the UK Presidency term of 2010-2013 and Past-President of the European Council for Modelling and Simulation (2006-2010). He is the first person ever to take this role in both organisations.
He is UNESCO Expert in networking, Senior Member of the IEEE and IEEE Communications and
Computer Societies, British Computer Society Fellow and Chartered IT Professional, member of the UK EPSRC College (since 2006), Wales Representative to the IEEE UK&RI Computer Chapter management committee, and UK representative to the COST290 Action management committee. He has led and is leading several projects in mobile Computing, wireless networking, multimedia multicasting and performance evaluation.
Prof. Al-Begain has been also appointed as Adjunct Professor at the Department of Computing and Engineering at Edith Cowen University, Australia, and as a member of the Governing Board of the West Australia Centre of Excellence on Microphotonic Systems since 2005.
So far, Al-Begain has been the General Chair of Eighteen international conferences including two in 2011. He has been the General Chair of the International Conference of Analytical and Stochastic Modelling Techniques and Applications (ASMTA) since 2003 and, in particular, he is the Founder and General Chair of the IEEE International Conference and Exhibition on Next Generation Mobile Applications, Services and Technologies (NGMAST) which has its 5th edition in Cardiff, UK in September 2011.
In October 2006, he received Royal Recognition from Her Majesty The Queen as one of only 500 British Scientists to his contributions to the British scientific community.
He has co-authored two books; the first entitled “Practical Performance Modelling” by Kluwer in 2001 and the recent one is entitled:”IMS: Deployment and Development Perspective” by John Wiley & Sons in 2009. He also edited 15 books, and authored more than 180 papers in refereed journals and conferences and filed two patents. He is member of the editorial board of several international journals and acted as Guest Editor for 4 journal special issues. He is the co-inventor of MOSEL: The Modelling, Specification and Evaluation Language. He has already supervised over 15 successful PhD projects.
Professor Al-Begain has recently secured £5million for establishing the Centre of Excellence for Mobile Applications and Services to be based at the University. He is also currently a number of EU FP7 and WAG funded projects. Among many projects, he is currently leading the project on the IMS based next generation service and applications creation environment at ICRC supported by major industries. This facility is one of very few in universities worldwide.
Al-Begain has also a number of company directorships including being the CEO of Glamex Security Limited (http://www.glamex.co.uk/), a spinout company of the University of Glamorgan exploiting an innovative Video-to-Mobile-Phone home/office security system based on his invention.