Issa Khalil received the B.Sc. and the M.S. degrees from Jordan University of Science and Technology in 1994 and 1996 and the PhD degree from Purdue University, USA in 2006, all in Computer Engineering. Immediately thereafter he worked as a post-doctoral researcher at the Dependable Computing Systems Lab of Purdue University until he joined the College of Information Technology (CIT) of the United Arab Emirates University (UAEU) as an assistant professor in 2007. Khalil’s research interests span the areas of wireless and wireline communication networks. He is especially interested in security, routing, and performance of wireless Sensor, Ad Hoc and Mesh networks. His current research is funded by grants from National Research Foundation, Emirates Foundation, and United Arab Emirates University. Dr. Khalil is the technical program co-chair of the 6th International Conference on Innovations in Information Technology and was appointed as a Technical Program Committee member and reviewer for many international conferences and journals. He is a member of IEEE since 2006.

PhD in Computer Engineering, Purdue University, 2006
MSC in Computer Engineering, Jordan Unversity of Science and Technology, 1996.
BSC in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Jordan Unversity of Science and Technology, 1994.

Network security and dependability: intrusion detection, diagnosis, and mitigation, key management, secure sleep/wake scheduling, mesh network applications and security. 
Computer networks and protocols: sensor network infrastructure and applications, underwater acoustic wireless sensor networks, wireless reprogramming, reliable data dissemination. 
Network encoding: secure network encoding. 
Broadband Networks: routing, scheduling, Security, and QoS.
Software security: Quality testing and vulnerability detection and diagnosis

Reliable data communication: designed a protocol for reliable data dissemination in multihop sensor networks. Implemented on a testbed of Crossbow Mica2 motes (nesC & TinyOS)

Wireless reprogramming: designed a protocol for wireless reprogramming of sensors. Implemented on a testbed of Mica2 motes and real-word application of Chasqui motes (nesC & TinyOs)

Static and mobile wireless multihop networks with Ns-2 simulator: setup  and developed distributed application-layer agents that implemented encryption and authentication, using public key cryptography, and have been integrated with other Ns-2 network layers ( C++ and Tcl)

Local monitoring: developed a distributed monitoring agent for wireless traffic snooping, attack detection, and attacker diagnosis and isolation (c++) 

A generic multihop routing protocol: developed an on-demand shortest-path flooding-based routing protocol for multihop wireless networks (c++)

Multihop wireless attacks: designed application-layer agents that implemented wireless control and data traffic attacks such as wormhole, Sybil, and selective forwarding (c++)

On-demand sleep/wake protocol: designed an on-demand secure sleep/wake protocol that has been integrated with local monitoring for static sensor networks (C++) 

Computer Architecture project: implemented dead-block pre-fetching in the cache using SimpleScalar simulator. Dead-Block pre-fetching is a trace-based prediction, which accurately identifies when a block in cache becomes “dead” and thus can be replaced by data that likely to be used.  (c)

Compiler project:  implemented a compiler that includes several optimization passes for a simple language. Implemented register allocation, code scheduling, intra-procedural/global sub-expression elimination. I used Lex for program scanning and YACC to write a parser of the grammar. 

Cryptography project: Implemented threshold-based cryptography protocol in mobile ad hoc networks which allow a collection of may be not trusted servers to replace a single trusted certificate authority, (c++)

Graphical simulation of the run-time behavior of multi-buffer Banyan networks (Pascal)

Wireless and wireline network security
Cryptography
Intrusion Detection
Computer Architecture
Operating Systems
Security Architecture

Al-Quds Open University, Ramallah, West Bank (July 1999 – Dec 2002)
Director, Information and Communication Technology Center (ICTC)
o	Setup and implemented projects for integrating technology into university education.
o	Established a WAN computer network connecting the 22 university branches allover West Bank, Gaza, and many Arab countries such as United Arab Emirates
o	Setup programming systems related to administrative, financial, and academic affairs of the university. Created virtual campus for the web-based contents, courses, and materials.

Al-Quds Open University, Ramallah, West Bank (March 1998 – June 1999)
Head of computer, networking and maintenance department, ICTC 
o	Led the network project group responsible for building the local area and WAN networks of the university.
o	Managed and organized the maintenance, deployment, backup, and software and hardware upgrading of university’s servers and workstations.
 
Palestinian Ministry of Interior, Hebron, West Bank (June 1996 – Feb 1998)
Computer engineer
 UNIX administrator and network manager and administrator. 

Grants
III.4.a	Emirates Foundation Grants
(Note: Total funds for approved Emirates Foundation grants as of Sep. 25, 2010: 800,000 AED.) 

“Remote health monitoring in UAE,” April 2009 – April 2011 (200,000 AED) (with F. Awwad and S. Bouktif)

“Low power protocols design and implementation for implantable wireless body sensor networks,” April 2010– April 2011 (200,000 AED) (with F. Awwad and S. Bouktif).

“Water conservation and irrigation control in the UAE using wireless sensor network technology,” November 2009 – November 2011 (200,000 AED) (with Y. Gaddallah and M. Hayajneh)

“Extending network communications reach to desert and disaster areas,” February 2009 – February 2011 (200,000 AED) (with N.A. Ali and M. Hayajneh)

III.4.b	National Research Foundation Grants 

“A  framework  for  designing  reliable  body  area  networks  for  remote  well-being monitoring,”  Evaluation received April 2010 (Ranked “Competitive;” To be funded if budget becomes available) (996,000 AED) (with N. A. Ali and M. Hayajneh)

“CMOS based implantable biosensor integrated with nano-layers of biomaterials for continuous-time glucose monitoring,” Evaluation received April 2010 (Ranked “Competitive;” To be funded if budget becomes available) (850,000 AED) (with F. Awwad and I. Barhumi)

Individual Grants

“SVNM: secure verification of neighborhood membership in multihop wireless networks,” March 2008-June 2009 (19400 AED)

I. Khalil and S. Bagchi, “Stealthy attacks in wireless ad hoc networks: detection and countermeasure,” IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, to appear (accepted August 26, 2010). (IF = 1.72)

S. Bouktif, F. Ahmed, I. Khalil and G. Antoniol, “A novel composite model approach to improve software quality prediction,” Information and Software Technology (an Elsevier journal), to appear (accepted July 14, 2010). (IF = 1.821) 

I. Khalil, S. Bagchi, N. Abu Ali and M. Hayajneh, “DISA: Detection and isolation of sneaky attackers in locally-monitored multi-hop wireless networks,” Security and Communication Networks (a Wiley journal), published online on October 13, 2009, DOI: 10.1002/sec.152

I. Khalil, S. Bagchi, C. Nina-Rotaru and N. Shroff, “UNMASK: Utilizing neighbor monitoring for attack mitigation in multihop wireless sensor networks,” Ad Hoc Networks (an Elsevier Journal), Volume 8, Issue 2, pp. 148-164, March 2010. (IF = 1.293) (Citations = 2)

M. Hayajneh, N. Abu Ali and I. Khalil, “Uplink and downlink scheduling for point to multipoint WiMAX networks,” Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing (a Wiley journal),  Volume 9, Issue 9, pp. 1231-1242, September 2009, doi.wiley.com/10.1002/wcm.688. (IF = 1.016) (Citations = 2)

R. K. Panta, S. Bagchi and I. Khalil, “Efficient wireless reprogramming through reduced bandwidth usage and opportunistic sleeping,” Ad Hoc Networks (an Elsevier Journal), Volume 7, Issue 1, January 2009, pp. 42-62. (IF = 1.293) (Citations = 2)

I. Khalil, S. Bagchi and N. B. Shroff, “MOBIWORP: Mitigation of the wormhole attack in mobile multi-hop wireless networks,” Ad Hoc Networks (an Elsevier Journal), Volume 6, Issue 3, pp. 344-362, May 2008. (IF = 1.293) (Citations = 23)

I. Khalil, S. Bagchi and N. B. Shroff, “LITEWORP: Design and analysis of a protocol for detection and isolation of the wormhole attack in multihop wireless networks,” Computer Networks (an Elsevier Journal), Volume 51, Issue 13, pp. 3750-3772, September 2007. 
(IF = 1.201) (Citations = 14)

I. Khalil, S. Bagchi and  N. B. Shroff, “Analysis and evaluation of SECOS, a protocol for energy efficient and secure communication in sensor networks,” Ad Hoc Networks (an Elsevier Journal), Volume 5, Issue 3, pp. 360-391, April 2007. (IF = 1.293) (Citations = 8)

I. Khalil, “MCC: Mitigating colluding collision attacks in wireless sensor networks” Proceedings of the IEEE Global Communications Conference (IEEE GLOBECOM’10), December 6 – 10, 2010, Miami, Florida, USA (to appear).

I. Khalil, “MPC: Mitigating stealthy power control attacks in wireless ad hoc networks” Proceedings of the IEEE Global Communications Conference (IEEE GLOBECOM’09), Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, Nov. 30 – Dec. 4 2009, pp. 1-6. (DOI: 10.1109/GLOCOM.2009.5425559). (Acceptance rate 34.8 %).

I. Khalil, “using secure verification of neighborhood membership to defend misrouting in multihop wireless networks” Proceedings of  the 10th Annual Research Conference (ARC10), United Arab Emirates University, Al Ain, UAE, April 10 2009, pp. 1049-1057.
I. Khalil, M. Hayajneh and M. Awad “SVNM: Secure verification of neighborhood membership in static multi-hop wireless networks,” Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC’09), Sousse, Tunisia, July 5-8 2009, pp. 368-373. DOI: 10.1109/ISCC.2009.5202232. August 2009. (Acceptance rate 36%).

M. Hayajneh, I. Khalil and M. Awad, “Non-cooperative uplink power control game for CDMA wireless communications systems,” Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC’09), Sousse, Tunisia, July 5-8 2009, pp. 587-592. DOI: 10.1109/ISCC.2009.5202235. (Acceptance rate 36%)

M. Hayajneh, I. Khalil and Y. Gadallah, “An OFDMA-based MAC protocol for under water acoustic wireless sensor network,” Proceedings of the 2009 ACM International Conference on Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing (IWCMC'09), Leipzig, Germany, June 21 – 24 2009, pp. 810-814. (Citations = 1)

I. Khalil, “MIMI: Mitigating packet misrouting in locally-monitored multi-hop wireless ad hoc networks,” Proceeding of the IEEE Global Communications Conference (IEEE GLOBECOM’08), New Orleans, USA, November 30 – December 4 2008, pp. 1-5. (Acceptance rate 36.8%)

I. Khalil and S. Bagchi, “MISPAR: Mitigating stealthy packet dropping in locally-monitored multi-hop wireless ad hoc networks,” Proceedings of the Fourth International conference on Security and Privacy in Communication networks (SecureComm’08), Istanbul, Turkey, September 22 – 25 2008, pp. 1–10, doi: http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1460877.1460913. (Acceptance rate 21%)

F. Ahmed, S. Bouktif, A. Serhani and I. Khalil, “Integrating function point project information for improving the accuracy of effort estimation” Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Advanced Engineering Computing and Applications in Sciences (ADVCOMP’08), Valencia, Spain, September 29 - October 4, pp. 193-198.

R. Panta, S. Bagchi, I. Khalil and L. Montestruque “Single versus multi-hop wireless reprogramming in sensor networks,” Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Testbeds and Research Infrastructures for the Development of Networks & Communities (Tridentcom’08), Innsbruck, Austria, March 17-20 2008, Article No. 34. (Citations = 6)

I. Khalil, S. Bagchi and N. B. Shroff, “SLAM: Sleep-wake aware local monitoring in sensor networks,” Proceedings of the 37th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN’07), Edinburgh, UK, June 25 - 28 2007, pp. 565-574. (Acceptance rate 20%) (Citations = 4)

R. K. Panta, I. Khalil and S. Bagchi, “STREAM: Low overhead wireless reprogramming,” Proceedings of the 26th Annual IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM’07), Anchorage, Alaska, USA, May 6-12 2007, pp. 928-936. (Acceptance rate 18%) (Citations = 30)

I. Khalil, S. Bagchi and N. B. Shroff, “MOBIWORP: Mitigation of the wormhole attack in mobile multi-hop wireless networks,” Proceedings of the Second International conference on Security and Privacy in Communication networks (SecureComm’06), Baltimore, MD, USA, August 28 - September 1 2006, p.p. 1-12. (Acceptance rate 25.4%) (Citations = 23)

I. Khalil, S. Bagchi and C. Nina-Rotaru, “DICAS: Detection, diagnosis and isolation of control attacks in sensor networks,” Proceedings of the First International conference on Security and Privacy in Communication networks (SecureComm’05), Athens, Greece, September 5-9 2005, pp. 89-100. (Acceptance rate 19.6%) (Citations = 28)

I. Khalil, S. Bagchi and N. Shroff, “LITEWORP: A lightweight countermeasure for the wormhole attack in multihop wireless networks,” Proceedings of the 35th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN’05), Yokohama, Japan, June 28 - July 1 2005, pp. 612-621. (Acceptance rate 20.9%) (Citations = 87)