Prof. Mohammad S. Obaidat

The University of Jordan, Jordan

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IEEE LIFE Fellow, Fellow of AAIA, Fellow of FTRA, Fellow of AIIA, Fellow of SCS

Professor Mohammad S. Obaidat ( Life Fellow of IEEE)is recognized around the World for his pioneering and lasting contributions to several areas in ICT. He 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, over One Thousand (1,200) refereed technical articles —about half of which are journal articles, over 110 books, and 70 Book Chapters. He is the Editor-in-Chief of three scholarly journals and an editor of numerous other international journals.  He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Wiley International Journal of Communication Systems and Founding Editor-in-Chief of the Wiley Security and Privacy Journal. He is also the founding Advisory Editor of theCybersecurity and Applications Journal, KeAi.

 Moreover, he is founder or co-founder of 5 IEEE 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 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, the University of Science and Technology Beijing, and Amity University.

He has chaired numerous (Over 185) international conferences and has given numerous (Over 185) keynote speeches worldwide. He has served as an ABET/CSAB evaluator and on the IEEE CS Fellow Evaluation Committee. He has served as an IEEE CS Distinguished Speaker/Lecturer and an ACM Distinguished Lecturer. Since 2004, he 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, IEEE ICCCA, and international conferences. He also received Best Paper awards from the 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 in 2021 received the best paper award from IEEE Systems Journal.

During his tenure as Founding Dean of the College of Computing and Informatics at the University of Sharjah, the Computer Sciences program has been ranked by Times for Higher Education (THE) asNUMBER 1 in the 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 prestigiousMcLeod Founder's Award, Presidential Service Award, SCSHall 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 has been listed on the World's Top Career-long 2% Scientists as per Elsevier/Stanford University’s list since its inception.

Professor Obaidat has beenranked recently byScholarGPS as the   Lifetime scholar in the World in Telecommunications Systems Management and thetop scholar in Telecommunications in the World intheprior 5 Years. He is also ranked in thetop 0.05% of all scholars worldwide according to the most recent 2025 ScholarGPS.

For the past several years, including 2025, he has been ranked byresearch.com agency as the numberONE Computer Scientist andnumber ONE Scholar in Electronics and Electrical Engineering in Jordan.

In recognition of his significant scientific contribution, Springer published recently 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 aLife Fellow of IEEE, a Fellow of AAIA, a Fellow of FTRA, a Fellow of AIIA, and a Fellow of SCS.

Prof. Qingyu Zhang

Shenzhen University, China

Introduction:Zhang Qingyu is a distinguished professor at the School of Management, Shenzhen University. Before returning to China, he taught atArkansas State University. He is mainly engaged in the research of supply chain management, sustainable operation management, data mining and intelligent algorithms. He has published more than 100 papers and 5 books in academic journals and conferences, and most of his research results have been published in key academic journals such as JOM, EJOR, IJPR, IJPE, IJOPM, COR, IEEE, etc. He is a Certified Senior Production and Inventory Manager (CFPIM Fellow) by the American Operations Management Institute (APICS). He is also a Microsoft Certified Solution Specialist (MCSD), Systems Engineer (MCSE), and Database Administrator (MCDBA). He has received three outstanding journal paper awards, three outstanding Conference paper awards, and three Arkansas State University College of Business Research Excellence Awards. One of his highly cited hot papers on supply chain cooperation won the Journal ofOperations Management Jack Meredith Best Paper Award (JOM Best Paper Award) in 2016. The journal is one of the 24 internationally recognized top journals in UT/DALLAS Economic Management category). He chaired the National Natural Science Foundation Project and chaired/participated in more than $800,000 of scientific research projects in the United States. He is a member of the editorial board of six journals, including Journal of Operations Management, Transportation Research Part E, Associate editor of the Iranian Journal of Management Studies, Judge of the American Natural Science Foundation, and judge of the Portuguese Science and Technology Foundation.