Ali Maqousi

Background

About Ali Maqousi

Ali Al Maqousi is currently the director of Office of External Funding for Research Projects at University of Petra (UOP) and an associate professor at the Faculty of Information Technology, Amman-Jordan. He was appointed head of the department of Computer Science and Computer Networks during the period of Sep. 2009 till Sep. He received his PhD in computer science from Oxford Brookes University, UK, 2003 for his work on providing Quality of Service (QoS) in packet switched networks. He worked as a network administrator in different organizations during the period and full-time teacher assistant from Since 2003 he is an assistant professor at the Faculty of Information Technology at UOP. He is the founder & the Secretary General of ITSAF (Information Technology Students Activity Fair) since 2005. He organized five international conferences and two of them specialized in ICT Applications for Renewable Energy Sources. He served at the faculty as Student Advisor for more than 6 years during the period 2003 and 2008. Since 2008 he worked as a committee coordinator and University Liaison officer for European Union projects and in 2013 has appointed the director of OFFER office. He is involved in research relating to multi-service networking, network performance, security and privacy, social networks, smart cities and smart grids