Mohammad S. Obaidat, Ph.D.
Life Fellow of IEEE, Fellow of AAIA, Fellow of FTRA, Fellow of AIIA, and Fellow of SCS
Distinguished Honorary Full Professor
King Abdullah II School of Information Technology
The University of Jordan, Amman 11942, Jordan,
Past President and Chair of the 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 8 Best Paper Awards from IEEE Systems Journal
Founding Editor-in-Chief, Security and Privacy Journal, Wiley
Editor in Chief, International Journal of Communication Systems, Wiley
Advisory Editor, Journal of Cybersecurity and Applications, KeAi
Advisory Editor for the Human-centric Computing and Information Sciences Journal, Springer,
Editor, IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing
Editor: SIMULATION: Transaction of the Society for Modeling and Simulation Intentional, SCS
World's Top Career-long top 2% Scientists as per Stanford University/Elsevier recent list
Ranked recently by ScholarGPS as the top Lifetime scholar in the World in Telecommunications Systems Management and the top scholar in Telecommunications in the World in the prior 5 Years.
Springer, published a book honoring Professor Mohammad S. Obaidat's significant scientific contributions to 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; see:
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-87049-2
Short Bio
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 (2024) over One Thousand (1,200) refereed technical articles-about half of them are journal articles, about 110 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 the 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 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 atMonmouth 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, He is also a Distinguished Visiting Professor at SRM University, India and an Honorary Distinguished Professor at the Amity University- A Global University. He is now a Distinguished/Honorary Professor at KASIT, University of Jordan.
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 IEEE Systems Journal in 2018 and 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) as NUMBER 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 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 2% Scientists as per Elsevier/Stanford University's recent list.
Professor Obaidat has been recently ranked by ScholarGPS as the top Lifetime scholar in the World in Telecommunications Systems Management and the top Worldwide scholar in Telecommunications in the prior 5 Years.
For the past several years, including 2025, he has been ranked by research.com agency as the number ONE Computer Researcher and number ONE Researcher 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, a Fellow of FTRA, a Fellow of AIIA, and a Fellow of SCS.
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