Khalid Al-Begain

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 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 led and is leading several projects in mobile Computing, wireless networking, multimedia multicasting
and performance evaluation.
He is the President of the European Council for Modelling and Simulation, 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 (2006‐2009), Wales Representative to the IEEE UK&RI Computer Chapter management committee, and UK representative to the COST290 Action management committee.
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 twelve international conferences including two in 2009. He has been the General Chair of the International Conference of Analytical and Stochastic Modelling Techniques and Applications (ASMTA) since 2003 but, in particular, he is the Founder and General Chair of the IEEE International Conference and Exhibition on Next Generation Mobile Applications, Services and Technologies founded in 2007 with the third to be held in Cardiff in September 2009.
He has co‐authored two books; the recent one is entitled: ”IMS: Deployment and Development Perspective” by John Wiley & Sons. He also edited 12 books, and authored more than 150 papers in refereed journals and conferences. He is member of the editorial board of several journal and acted as Guest Editor for 4 journal special issues
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. He is also leading a project on developing innovative platform for smart care systems to help people at risk of Dementia.
Additionally, Prof. Al‐Begain has been the founder and CEO of Glamex Security Ltd. He is also the Chief Scientist of Omniplug Technologies Ltd.
Full details: http://www.comp.glam.ac.uk/staff/kbegain/webpage/index.htm