CIS 275: Discrete Structures I, Fall 2011, Winter 2012, Fall 2012.

CIS 657: Wireless Sensor Networks, Winter 2013.

Jun. 16, 2013: Prof. Ammari was invited to give a talk in the 2013-2014 Academic Year EECS Department Seminar Series of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Central Florida.

Jun. 5, 2013: Prof. Ammari was invited to give an Invited Lecture in the Third International conference of Gwalior Academy of Mathematical Sciences (GAMS) on Mathematical, Computational and Integrative Sciences, Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India, September 22-26, 2013.

Jun. 4, 2013: Prof. Ammari was invited to serve as Session Chair of the 33rd International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, July 8-11, 2013.

May 23, 2013: Prof. Ammari traveled to Boston, Massachusetts to give a talk in the Spring 2013 Computer Science Colloquium of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. It was a wonderul visit to one of the beautiful campus locations in the nation!

May 22, 2013: Prof. Ammari received the Certificate of Appreciation Award for his outstanding service and contributions as a Technical Program Co-Chair of the 9th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (IEEE DCoSS), which was held in Cambridge, Massachusetts, May 21-23, 2013.

May 20, 2013: Prof. Ammari traveled to Cambridge, Massachusetts to run the prestigious 9th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (IEEE DCoSS), Cambridge, Massachusetts, May 21-23, 2013. Prof. Ammari is the Program Co-Chair of IEEE DCoSS'13.

May 15, 2013: A Great 2013 Turing Award Winner, Prof. Shafi Goldwasser, has gladly accepted Prof. Ammari's invitation with kindness and humbleness to visit UM-Dearborn and give a Distinguished Lecture in the Fall 2013 CIS-ECE-IMSE Distinguished Lecture Series, which has been founded and coordinated by Prof. Ammari. The Turing Award is recognized as the highest distinction in Computer science and Nobel Prize of computing.

May 13, 2013: Prof. Ammari was invited to serve as Program Co-Chair of the Information Infrastructure and Networking (IIN) for Rural and Developing Areas Track of the 5th Global Information Infrastructure and Networking Symposium (GIIS), Trento, Italy, October 28-31, 2013.

May 5, 2013: Prof. Ammari was invited by the Deanship of Research at Sultan Qaboos University to evaluate research proposals, which were submitted for funding through internal grants.

May 2, 2013: Prof. Ammari was invited to join the Steering Committee of the International Workshop on Wireless Mesh and Ad Hoc Networks (WiMAN).

Apr. 26, 2013:

• Prof. Ammari was invited to serve as a TPC Member for The 34th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), which will be held in 2014.
  
  

• Prof. Ammari was invited to join the International Advisory Committee for the First International conference on Explorations and iNnovations In Advanced Computing (ENIAC'14), January 8-10, 2014.
  
  

Apr. 9, 2013: Prof. Ammari was invited by Prof. Jie Wu, Chair of the Computer and Information Sciences Department, Temple University, to visit his Research Lab and meet with his Ph.D. and M.S. students on April 10, 2013. It was a great visit to the CIS Department and Temple University!

Apr. 8, 2013: Prof. Ammari traveled to Philadelphia to attend the prestigious ACM/IEEE IPSN'13 Conference, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, April 8-11, 2013.

Apr. 3, 2013: Prof. Ammari was invited to join the Consultancy Council for the Program of Computer Science in the Faculty of Sciences and Arts in Oklat Assoqour, Al Qassim University, Saudi Arabia. The council should include experts in the field of computer science. Prof. Ammari will help with developing such a program and will be invited to visit the above institution as an external reviewer.

Mar. 22, 2013: Prof. Ammari was invited to give a talk in the Spring 2013 Colloquium Series of the Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Boston.

Mar. 13, 2013: Prof. Ammari was invited to serve as reviewer for a Ph.D. Dissertation in the Faculty of Computing at Mohammad Ali Jinnah University, Pakistan.

Feb. 28, 2013:

• Prof. Ammari traveled to Reno, Nevada to give a talk in the Spring 2013 Computer Science and Engineering Colloquium of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Nevada, Reno, on March 1, 2013. It was a great visit!
  
  

• Prof. Ammari got his first paper accepted for publication in the prestigious ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (ACM TOSN). Hearty Congratulations, WiSeMAN Research Lab!
  
  

Feb. 13, 2013: Prof. Ammari was invited to serve as a TPC Member for The 38th IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN) , which will be held in Citigate Central, Sydney, Australia, October 21-24, 2013.

Feb. 9, 2013: Prof. Ammari was invited to attend an NSF CAREER Proposal Writing Workshop at the University of Texas at Arlington, May 17, 2013.

Jan. 23, 2013: Prof. Ammari was invited to join the Technical Program Committee of The Tenth IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems (IEEE MASS), which will be held in Hangzhou, China, October 14-16, 2013.

Jan. 19, 2013: The Steering Committee of ACM MiSeNet'12 was invited to co-locate the second edition of MiSeNet (ACM MiSeNet'13) again with ACM MobiCom'13. Prof. Ammari is the founder and member of the Steering Committee of MiSeNet

Jan. 17, 2013: This Winter 2013, Wireless Sensor and Mobile Ad-hoc Networks (WiSeMAN) Research Lab launched the first edition of the WiSeMAN Research Seminar Series.

Jan. 13, 2013: Prof. Ammari was invited to serve as examiner for a Ph.D. Dissertation in the Gippsland School of Information Technology at Monash University, Australia.

Dec. 1, 2012: Prof. Ammari was invited to serve as a Chair of the Pervasive/Ubiquitous Ad hoc, Mesh and Sensor Networks Track of the 4th International Conference on Emerging Ubiquitous Systems and Pervasive Networks (EUSPN), which will take place in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, October 21-24, 2013.

Nov. 29, 2012: Prof. Ammari traveled to Norfolk, Virginia to give a talk in the Fall 2012 Computer Science Colloquium of the Department of Computer Science at Old Dominion University, on November 30, 2012. It was an enjoyable visit!

Nov. 7, 2012: Prof. Ammari was invited to the 2012 Niagara Peace and Dialog Awards Ceremony organized by Niagara Foundation-Michigan .

Nov. 5, 2012: A Great 1995 Turing Award Winner, Prof. Manuel Blum, has gladly accepted Prof. Ammari's invitation with kindness and humbleness to visit UM-Dearborn on January 25, 2013 and give a Distinguished Lecture in the Winter 2013 CIS-ECE Distinguished Lecture Series, which has been founded and coordinated by Prof. Ammari. The Turing Award is recognized as the highest distinction in Computer science and Nobel Prize of computing.

Nov. 3, 2012: Prof. Ammari was invited to give a talk in the Spring 2013 Colloquium Series of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Nevada, Reno.

Sep. 23, 2012: Prof. Ammari was invited to join the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing (IJAHUC).

Sep. 18, 2012: Prof. Ammari was invited to serve as Program Co-Chair for 3rd International Conference on Computational Problem-Solving (ICCP), which will take place in Leshan, China, October 19-21, 2012.

Sep. 17, 2012: Prof. Ammari was invited to serve on the Faculty Promotion Committee at Al-Balqa'a Applied University in Jordan.

Sep. 10, 2012:

• Prof. Ammari was invited to serve as a Program Co-Chair for The 1st International Symposium on Wireless Sensor Networks for Developing Countries (WSN4DC), which will be held in Pakistan, April, 2013.
  
  
• Prof. Ammari was invited to visit Pakistan and give a Keynote Speech at The 1st International Symposium on Wireless Sensor Networks for Developing Countries (WSN4DC), which will be held in Pakistan, April, 2013.
  
  

Aug. 30, 2012: Prof. Ammari was invited to serve as a Program Chair for The 9th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (IEEE DCOSS) , which will be held in Boston (actually Cambridge, next to MIT), May 22-24, 2013.

Aug. 26, 2012: Prof. Ammari was invited to give a talk in the Fall 2012 Colloquium Series in the Department of Computer Science, Old Dominion University.

Jul. 28, 2012: Prof. Ammari was invited to serve as a TPC Member for The IEEE ICC 2013 - Wireless Networking Symposium (ICC-WN), which will be held in Budapest, Hungary, June 9-13, 2013.

Jul. 17, 2012: Prof. Ammari was invited to serve as a TPC Member for The 33rd International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), which will be held in Philadelphia, USA, July 8-11, 2013.

Jun. 24, 2012: Prof. Ammari traveled to San Francisco, California to participate to the success of IEEE WoWMoM'12 Conference as a Demo Co-Chair.

Jun. 7, 2012: Prof. Ammari was invited to serve as a TPC Member for The IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (IEEE WCNC), which will be held in Shanghai, China, April 7-10, 2013.

May 23, 2012: Because of their great successes, both of the CIS Distinguished Lecture Series and CIS Research Colloquium Series, founded by Prof. Ammari, will be jointly organized by the CIS and ECE Departments at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. Prof. Ammari will be the coordinator of the CIS-ECE Distinguished Lecture Series and CIS-ECE Research Colloquium Series.

May 6, 2012: Prof. Ammari was invited to participate as a panelist in an NSF Panel.

Apr. 14, 2012: Prof. Ammari gave a presentation to the high-school students and their families in the Spring 2012 Open House, which was organized by the Office of Admissions and Orientation. Prof. Ammari had to talk to one parent and asked him to give him a grade for his presentation. He gave him "A+" :-)))

Apr. 5, 2012: Prof. Ammari was invited to serve as a General Co-Chair for The 5th FTRA International Workshop on Web and Pervasive Security (WPS), which will be in Jeju, Korea on Nov. 22-25, 2012.

Mar. 31, 2012: Prof. Ammari was invited to give a talk in the School of Automation and Electrical Engineering at the University of Science and Technology Beijing.

Mar. 29, 2012: The first edition of The Annual International Workshop on Mission-Oriented Wireless Sensor Networking (MiSeNet) Workshop has been accepted to be co-located with the most prestigious and tier-1 conference, ACM MobiCom'12, which will be held in Istanbul, Turkey, August 22-26, 2012. Prof. Ammari is the founder of MiSeNet. Hearty congratulations!.

Mar. 18, 2012: Prof. Ammari was invited to give a talk in the Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong.

Mar. 14, 2012: Prof. Ammari was invited to conduct a presentation in the annual Spring Open House, which will take place on Saturday, April 14, 2012. He was recommended as a great representative of the College of Engineering and good fit for this event by Dr. Rey Perez (Director of Academic Services), and as a great person by Ms. Deb Peffer (Director of the Office of Admissions and Orientation).

Mar. 6, 2012: Prof. Ammari traveled to Detroit, Michigan and gave a talk in the Graduate Seminar Lectures 2011-2012 in the Department of Computer Science, Wayne State University.

Feb. 20, 2012: Prof. Ammari has officially joined the Editorial Board of the prestigious IEEE Transactions on Computers (IEEE TC) as Associate Editor (after approval of the IEEE TC Editorial Board and the Computer Society Publications Board).

Feb. 17, 2012: Prof. Ammari was invited to serve as a Program Chair for The 10th IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing (IEEE/IFIP EUC) , which will be held in Cyprus, October/November, 2012.

Feb. 16, 2012: Prof. Ammari was invited to serve as a TPC Member for The 37th IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN) , which will be held in Clearwater, Florida, USA, October 22-25, 2012.

Feb. 9, 2012: Prof. Ammari was invited to give a talk in the Department Research Seminar in the Department of Computer Science, Wayne State University.

Jan. 29, 2012: Prof. Ammari has been selected for inclusion in the AcademicKeys Who's Who in Engineering Higher Education (WWEHE).

Jan. 9, 2012: Prof. Ammari was invited to serve as a Ph.D Thesis Examiner at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bhubaneswar, India (One of the premier institutes of India).

Jan. 6, 2012: Prof. Ammari was invited to join the International Reviewing Committee of the Nature & Technology scientific journal.

Dec. 29, 2011:

• Prof. Ammari was invited to join the Editorial Board of the prestigious IEEE Transactions on Computers (IEEE TC) as Associate Editor (subject to approval of the IEEE TC Editorial Board and the Computer Society Publications Board).
  
  

• Prof. Ammari was invited to join the the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Computer Networks (IJCN).
  
  

Dec. 24, 2011: Prof. Ammari was invited to serve as a TPC Member for The Ninth International Conference on Networked Sensing Systems (INSS), which will be held in Antwerp, Belgium, June 11-14, 2012.

Dec. 15, 2011: Prof. Ammari was invited to serve as a TPC Member for The 8th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS), which will be held in Hangzhou, China, May 18-20, 2012.

Nov. 21, 2011: Prof. Ammari was invited to serve as a TPC Member for The 32nd International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), which will be held in Macau, China, June 18-21, 2012.

Oct. 27, 2011: Prof. Ammari traveled to Lowell, Massachusetts to give a talk in the Fall 2011 Computer Science Colloquia Series in the Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Lowell.

Oct. 14, 2011: Prof. Ammari was invited to serve as a Publicity Chair of WASA'12.

Oct. 5, 2011: Prof. Ammari was invited to serve as a Publicity Chair of MedHocNet'12.

Sep. 26, 2011: The Department of Computer and Information Science (CIS) at the University of Michigan-Dearborn (UM-Dearborn) started the Fall 2011 CIS Research Colloquium Series. Prof. Ammari is the coordinator of this research colloquium series.

Sep. 22, 2011: Prof. Ammari was invited to give a talk in the Fall 2011 Computer Science Colloquia Series in the Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Lowell.

Sep. 21, 2011: Prof. Ammari received the Certificate of Appreciation Award in recognition of his efforts as a Web and Publicity Co-Chair of the The 17th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (ACM MobiCom), which was held in Las Vegas, Nevada, September 19-23, 2011.

Sep. 18, 2011: Prof. Ammari traveled to Las Vegas, Nevada to attend ACM MobiCom'11 Conference as a Web and Publicity Co-Chair, and participate to its success.

Sep. 2, 2011:

• Prof. Ammari was invited to serve as Co-Chair for the track Sensor Network, Embedded System, and Pervasive Computing, 20th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN), which will be held in Munich, Germany, July 30 - August 2, 2012.
  
  

• Prof. Ammari was invited to serve as Demo Co-Chair for The 13th IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM), which will be held in San Francisco, California, June 25-28, 2012.
  
  

Sep. 1, 2011: Prof. Ammari was hired as Associate Professor of Computer and Information Science in the Department of Computer and Information Science, College of Engineering and Computer Science, The University of Michigan-Dearborn.

Aug. 18, 2011: Mr. Dennis Mirante, Master student and member of WiSeMAN Research Lab, successfully defended his Master's thesis with a book chapter publication. Hearty congratulations, Dennis!

Aug. 11, 2011: Prof. Ammari was invited to deliver an Invited Talk at the First International Conference on Wireless Technologies for Humanitarian Relief (ACWR), which is cosponsored by both IEEE and ACM, and will be held in Kerala, India, December 18-21, 2011.

Aug. 2, 2011: Prof. Ammari received the Outstanding Leadership Award at the 20th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN) during its 20th anniversary at Sheraton Hotel and Resorts, Maui, Hawaii, July 31 - August 4, 2011.

Jul. 30, 2011: Prof. Ammari traveled to Maui, Hawaii to run WiMAN'11 Workshop, which will be held on Sunday, July 31, 2011, and participate to the success of IEEE ICCCN'11 Conference as a Session Chair.

Jul. 28, 2011: Prof. Ammari was invited to serve as Publicity Chair for the The Fourth International Workshop on Information Quality and Quality of Service for Pervasive Computing (IQ2S), which will be held in conjunction with IEEE PerCom 2012, Lugano, Switzerland, March 19, 2012.

Jul. 15, 2011: Prof. Ammari was invited by the President of the Romanian National Council for Scientific Research, to serve as expert evaluator of some of the research programs funded by the Romanian Government through the National Council for Scientific Research.

Jul. 6, 2011: Our Symposium on Wireless Sensor Networks received the Best Symposium Award! This symposium is part of the 7th IEEE International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference, which was held in Istanbul, Turkey, July 5-8, 2011. Prof. Ammari is a Co-Chair for this symposium.

Jun. 30, 2011: Prof. Ammari was invited to serve as Program Vice-Chair for the Ubiquitous Computing track of The 3rd International Conference on Mobile, Ubiquitous, and Intelligent Computing (MUSIC).

May 19, 2011:

• Mr. Raymond Mulligan, Master student and member of WiSeMAN Research Lab, successfully defended his Master's thesis with a journal publication. Hearty congratulations, Ray!
  
  

• Prof. Ammari was invited as a Session Chair for the 20th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN), and to participate to the celebration of its 20th anniversary at Sheraton Hotel and Resorts, Maui, Hawaii, July 31 - August 4, 2011. It is wonderful to visit Hawaii again after his first visit in April 1996!
  
  

Apr. 15, 2011: Prof. Ammari was invited to serve as Program Co-Chair for The Second International Workshop on Cyber-Physical Networking Systems (CPNS'12).

Apr. 9, 2011: Prof. Ammari traveled to Shanghai, China to attend Infocom'11 conference and participate to its success as a Session Chair. Also, Prof. Ammari attended the INFOCOM 2012 TPC Informational Meeting, which was held on April 13, 2011 during INFOCOM 2011. Shanghai is one of the best places he has ever visited. It is a very beautiful and spectacular city!

Mar. 24, 2011: Prof. Ammari was invited to serve as Program Vice-Chair for the Sensor Networks track of the 9th IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing (EUC'11), which will take place in Melbourne, Australia, Oct. 24-26, 2011.

Feb. 24, 2011: Prof. Ammari was selected for inclusion in the AcademicKeys Who's Who in Sciences Higher Education.

Feb. 4, 2011: Prof. Ammari was invited by the Deputy Minister for Education, Life Long Learning, and Religious Affairs, to act as an external evaluator for research proposals in Greece.

Jan. 28, 2011: Prof. Ammari received a five-year NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award in the amount of $450,000.00 for his research proposal, A Theoretical Foundation for Achieving Sustainability and Scalability in 3D Wireless Sensor Network Deployments. Prof. Ammari is the Hofstra's first ever NSF CAREER Award recipient. This is the most prestigious NSF Award to young investigators. The award recognizes and supports junior faculty who "exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through outstanding research, excellent education and the integration of education and research within the context of the mission of their organizations." Congratulations WiSeMAN Research Lab and Hofstra! More...

Dec. 30, 2010: Prof. Ammari traveled to Bangalore, India to give an Invited talk at the Sensor-Enabled Situation-awareness (SESA) Workshop, which was held on January 2, 2011 in conjunction with the 12th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking (ICDCN). Also, he visited the Department of Computer Science and Automation at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.

Dec. 17, 2010: Prof. Ammari was invited to be a member of the Advisory Panel of the International Conference on High Performance Architecture and Grid Computing (HPAGC-2011), which will be held in Rajpura, Punjab, India, July 21-22, 2011.

Nov. 9, 2010: Prof. Ammari was invited as a Track Co-Chair, Web Technologies and Home Networking - IEEE International Symposium on Consumer Electronics (ISCE), which will be held in Singapore, June 14-17, 2011.

Oct. 24, 2010: Prof. Ammari was invited to give an Invited talk at the Sensor-Enabled Situation-awareness (SESA) Workshop, which will be held in conjunction with the 12th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking (ICDCN), which will take place in Bangalore, India, January 2-5, 2011. It will be wonderful to visit India again, one of the best places I have ever seen.

Oct. 12, 2010: Prof. Ammari was invited by the Chair of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Texas at Arlington (Alma Mater!), Prof. Fillia Makedon, to be their feature alumnus in their next newsletter.

Oct. 6, 2010: Prof. Ammari traveled to Arlington, Texas to attend the Symposium on Emerging Trends in Mobile, Sensor, and Social Networks (MSS 2010) in celebration of the 10th Anniversary of CReWMaN (Center for Research in Wireless Mobility and Networking) at the University of Texas at Arlington (Alma Mater!). He attended MSS 2010 as a Co-Organizer of a Session on Frontiers in Sensor and Vehicular Networks and as a Panelist in a panel, titled Connecting the Crew. Hearty congratulations CReWMaN on the 10th anniversary of your great success!

Sep. 29, 2010: WiSeMAN Undergraduate Research Assistants, John Guidici and Robert Lavoie, participated in the Hofstra University Summer Science Research Program (HUSSRP) Poster Symposium, which was held in the multi-purpose room at Hofstra University on September 29, 2010. While John had a poster on "Lessons learned from the simulation of a centralized connected k-coverage protocol for wireless sensor networks", Robert had a poster on "A distributed connected k-coverage protocol for wireless sensor networks: Simulation experience".

Sep. 5, 2010: Prof. Ammari was invited to join the Editorial Board of the prestigious Wiley Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Journal (WCMC) as Associate Editor.

Aug. 11, 2010: Prof. Ammari and his WiSeMAN Undergraduate Research Assistants, John Guidici and Robert Lavoie, participated in the Hofstra University Summer Science Research Program (HUSSRP) Seminar, which was held in 101 Berliner Hall at Hofstra University on August 11, 2010. While Prof. Ammari made a presentation on the connected k-coverage problem in mission-oriented mobile wireless sensor networks, John and Robert talked about the simulation of real-world sensing applications using TOSSIM as well as some preliminary results on the simulation of a centralized k-coverage protocol using TOSSIM.

Aug. 4, 2010: Prof. Ammari was invited to join the Editorial Board of the Ad Hoc & Sensor Wireless Networks (AHSWN) Journal as Associate Editor. AHSWN is an International Journal specifically dedicated to the field of ad hoc and sensor wireless networks.

Aug. 2, 2010: Prof. Ammari was invited to join the Editorial Board of the ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (ACM TOSN) as Associate Editor. ACM TOSN is the premier journal in the field of sensor networking.

Jul. 30, 2010: Prof. Ammari traveled to Zurich, Switzerland to attend ICCCN'10 conference and participate to the success of WiMAN'10 workshop as a Program Co-Chair. WiMAN'10 workshop will be held on Thursday, August 5, 2010.

Jun. 29, 2010: Prof. Ammari traveled to Caen, France to attend IWCMC'10 conference and participate to the success of the Wireless Sensor Networks Symposium as a Symposium Co-Chair.

Jun. 19, 2010: Prof. Ammari was invited to join the Editorial Board of the Journal of Computer Systems, Communications and Networking as Associate Editor.

Jun. 14, 2010: Prof. Ammari traveled to Montreal, Canada to attend WoWMoM'10 conference as he was invited by the Steering Committee to participate in the future organization of the conference.

May 16, 2010: Prof. Ammari has been honored with one of the two prestigious Stessin Prizes awarded this year by Hofstra University, for his book, Challenges and Opportunities of Connected k-Covered Wireless Sensor Networks: From Sensor Deployment to Data Gathering, which was published by Springer in August 2009! Each year, the University awards the Lawrence A. Stessin Prize for Outstanding Scholarly Publication. This prize was established in the 1984/85 academic year to reward the scholarly efforts of junior faculty. The Prize carries with it an award of $1,000 and recognition at this year's Commencement Ceremony (Honors Recognition Convocation), which was held at John Cranford Adams Playhouse at Hofstra University, on May 16, 2010! Prof. Ammari would like to dedicate this prestigious Honor Award to his family and all of his friends and colleagues at Hofstra University for their great and wonderful support! More...

Apr. 23, 2010: As an Upsilon Pi Epsilon (UPE) advisor, Prof. Ammari invited three scientists, Drs. Peter Brass (Department of Computer Science, City College of New York), Krishnan Pillaipakkamnatt (Department of Computer Science, Hofstra University), and Sabrina Sobel (Department of Chemistry, Hofstra University), to a Panel Discussion, titled Research at Undergraduate Level: Challenges and Opportunities. These three panelists shared their successful research experiences with undergraduate students and provided key insights on how to conduct research involving undergraduate and even high-school students.

Apr. 9, 2010: Prof. Ammari and Raymond Mulligan, a Graduate Research Assistant and a Member of WiSeMAN Research Lab, participated in the 2010 HCLAS Natural Sciences Research Symposium, which was organized by Hofstra College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (HCLAS) on April 9, 2010. While Prof. Ammari proposed a geographic forwarding protocol for always-on wireless sensor networks, along with some theoretical results, Raymond discussed the concept ternary computing and its potential applications in wireless sensor networks for energy savings, which is related to the research topic of his Master's Thesis.

Mar. 15, 2010: Prof. Ammari traveled to San Diego, California to attend Infocom'10 conference and participate to its success as a Session Chair. Also, Prof. Ammari attended the INFOCOM 2011 TPC Informational Meeting, which was held on March 17, 2010 during INFOCOM 2010. California weather reminded him of the wonderful weather in Texas!

Feb. 27, 2010: Prof. Ammari has been invited to serve on the Technical Program Committee (TPC) for the prestigious INFOCOM 2011 - The 30th IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (IEEE Infocom), 2011. Infocom 2011 will be held in Shanghai, China, in the week of April 10-15, 2011.

Jan. 1, 2010: Prof. Ammari traveled to Calcutta, India to attend ICDCN'10 conference and present their research paper (co-authored with Prof. Sajal K. Das). Also, Prof. Ammari attended ICDCN'10 to participate to its success as a Session Chair. Calcutta is one of the nicest places he visited. There is a saying about India when you visit it: "If you do not have patience, you will learn it. And if you have it, you will lose it."!

Nov. 7, 2009: Prof. Ammari has been invited to submit an extended version of his ICDCN'10 Conference paper for possible Fast Track publication in the Pervasive and Mobile Computing (PMC) Journal (Elsevier).

Nov. 6, 2009: Prof. Ammari has a paper accepted at a prestigious journal, Elsevier's Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (co-authored with Prof. Das).

Sep. 15, 2009: Prof. Ammari has a paper accepted as a regular paper (co-authored with Prof. Das) at a high-quality conference, 11th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking (ICDCN 2010), which will be held in Kolkata, India, January 3-6, 2010. A total of 169 papers were submitted, of which 37 were accepted as regular papers and 7 as short papers.

Sep. 13, 2009: Prof. Ammari has been invited to serve on the Technical Program Committee (TPC) for the prestigious INFOCOM 2010-WiP (Work in Progress) Track of The 29th IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (IEEE Infocom), 2010. Infocom 2010 will be held in San Diego, California, in the week of March 15-19. Prof. Ammari is also on the TPC for the premier conference on networking, IEEE Infocom 2010.

Sep. 10, 2009: Prof. Ammari has been invited to serve as a Co-Chair of IWCMC 2010 (Wireless Sensor Networks Symposium).

Aug. 11, 2009: Prof. Ammari has published his first book, Challenges and Opportunities of Connected k-Covered Wireless Sensor Networks: From Sensor Deployment to Data Gathering, with Springer.

Jul. 30, 2009: Prof. Ammari has been invited to submit an extended version of his WoWMoM'09 Conference paper for possible Fast Track publication in the Pervasive and Mobile Computing (PMC) Journal (Elsevier).

Jul. 24, 2009: Prof. Ammari has been awarded an NSF Research Grant of $400,000.00 for his research proposal, A Collaborative and Secure k-Cover-Sense-Inform Framework (k-CSI) for Heterogeneous Deployment of Mission-Oriented Mobile Wireless Sensor Networks. Congratulations WiSeMAN Research Lab and Hofstra! More...

Jun. 30, 2009: Prof. Ammari traveled to Sousse, Tunisia to attend ISCC'09 conference and present their research paper (co-authored with Prof. Sajal K. Das). Also, Prof. Ammari attended ISCC'09 to participate to its success as a Session Chair.

Jun. 28, 2009: Prof. Ammari has been invited to serve as a Co-Chair of WiMAN 2010 (The Fourth IEEE International Workshop on Wireless Mesh and Ad Hoc Networks).

Jun. 21, 2009: Prof. Ammari traveled to Montreal, Quebec, Canada to attend ICDCS'09 conference and present their research paper (co-authored with John Giudici). Also, Prof. Ammari attended ICDCS'09 to participate to the success of WiMAN'09 workshop as a Workshop Co-Chair and also WWASN'09 workshop as a Session Chair. WWASN'09 will be held on Monday, June 22, 2009, while WiMAN'09 workshop will be held on Friday, June 26, 2009.

Jun. 9, 2009: Prof. Ammari has a paper accepted at a top-quality journal, IEEE Transactions on Computers (co-authored with Prof. Das).

May 27, 2009: Prof. Ammari has received an NSF Travel Grant Award of up to $500 to attend and present a research paper accepted at ICDCS'09, which will be held in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, in June 22-26, 2009.

May 19, 2009: Prof. Ammari has been elected to join the Center for Teaching and Scholarly Excellence (CTSE) at Hofstra University. He will be appointed as a member of CTSE for three years from 2009-2012.

May 15, 2009: John A. Giudici, an Undergraduate Research Assistant and a Member of WiSeMAN Research Lab, received a Travel Grant Award of up to $400 from the Dean's Office at HCLAS to attend ICDCS'09 conference. John is a co-author with Prof. Ammari of their ICDCS'09 paper.

May 11, 2009: Prof. Ammari has been awarded an NSF Travel Grant of up to $1,400 from IEEE WoWMoM 2009 Organizing Committee so he can attend the conference and present his research paper at WoWMoM'09, which will be held in Kos, Greece, on June 15-19, 2009.

May 7, 2009: John A. Giudici, an Undergraduate Research Assistant and a Member of WiSeMAN Research Lab, participated in the Undergraduate Research Day, which was organized by Hofstra University Honors College (HUHC) on May 7, 2009. John presented our research paper, titled "On the connected k-coverage problem in heterogeneous sensor nets: The curse of randomness and heterogeneity", which has been accepted at ICDCS'09 conference.

Apr. 28, 2009: Prof. Ammari has been elected by The Special Committee on Recruitment, Elections and Nominations (SCREAN) to serve a three-year term on the University Senate representing HCLAS, Division of Natural Sciences. The Senate Executive Committee has assigned him to the Faculty Affairs Committee.

Apr. 27, 2009: Prof. Ammari has been awarded $1,000 from Hofstra College of Liberal Arts and Science (HCLAS) for his Faculty Research and Development Grant proposal. The elected members of the Executive Committee and representative from each division of HCLAS reviewed proposals from 116 applicants while the budget for this year's Faculty Research and Development Grant is $105,000.

Apr. 17, 2009: John A. Giudici, Robert Lavoie, and Jeremy Lewitt, three Undergraduate Research Assistant, and Raymond Mulligan, a Graduate Research Assistant, all of them are Members of WiSeMAN Research Lab, participated in the 2009 HCLAS Natural Sciences Research Symposium, which was organized by Hofstra College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (HCLAS) on April 17, 2009. While Jeremy presented an overview of wireless sensor networks, John and Robert discussed several of their real-world applications. On the other hand, Raymond Mulligan discussed the problem of k-coverage in two-dimensional and three-dimensional wireless sensor networks, which is related to the research topic of his Master's Thesis.

Mar. 25, 2009: Prof. Ammari has been invited by Profs. Azer Bestavros and Benyuan Liu, TPC Co-chairs of the International Conference on Wireless Algorithms, Systems and Applications (WASA'09), to submit an Invited Paper to WASA'09. The paper will be included in the conference proceeding published in the Springer-LNCS series.

Mar. 8, 2009: Prof. Ammari traveled to Galveston, Texas to attend PerCom'09 conference and participate to the success of IQ2S'09 workshop as a Program Co-Chair and a Chair of one of its sessions. IQ2S'09 workshop will be held on Monday, March 9, 2009.

Feb. 20, 2009: Prof. Ammari traveled to Arlington, Texas to attend the Engineering Week Award Ceremony at the University of Texas at Arlington. He received the Nortel Outstanding CSE Doctoral Dissertation Award for his dedication to research and overall preparation as a scholar, from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Texas at Arlington (Alma Mater!).

Feb. 17, 2009: Room 305 Roosevelt Hall has been given and designated by the Dean's Office as the location of WiSeMAN Research Lab. Prof. Ammari and his Graduate and Undergraduate Research Assistants are very grateful and thankful to Prof. Bernard Firestone, Dean of Hofstra College of Liberal Arts and Science (HCLAS), and Mr. Richard Apollo, Senior Assistant Dean for HCLAS Planning and Budget, for their wonderful and continuous support to WiSeMAN Research Lab.

Feb. 9, 2009: Prof. Ammari has a paper accepted at a high-quality conference, The 29th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (IEEE ICDCS 2009), which will be held in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, June 22-26, 2009. The paper selection in ICDCS is highly competitive. The Program Committee only selected 74 papers out of 455 submissions (16% acceptance rate). John Guicidi (co-author) is an Undergraduate Research Assistant and a Member of WiSeMAN Research lab.

Jan. 14, 2009: One paper from WiSeMAN Research Lab (co-authored with Prof. Das) has appeared in the ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems (ACM TAAS), volume 4, Issue 1, January 2009.

Nov. 18, 2008: Prof. Ammari has been considered for inclusion in the upcoming 2010 Edition of Who's Who in America, which is scheduled for publication in October 2009.

Mar. 19, 2008: Prof. Ammari was awarded the Best Contribution Paper Award for his research paper, titled "Geographic Forwarding in Duty-Cycled Connected k-Covered Wireless Sensor Networks," at the Google Ph.D. Forum on Pervasive Computing and Communications, The Sixth Annual IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (IEEE PerCom), which was held in Hong Kong, China, March 17 - 21, 2008.

Feb. 22, 2008: Prof. Ammari received the John Steven Schuchman Award for 2006-2007 Outstanding Research by a PhD Student, from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Texas at Arlington (Alma Mater!), at the Engineering Week (EWeek).

Jan. 31, 2008: Prof. Ammari was awarded the Best Paper Award for his research paper, titled "Clustering-based minimum energy m-connected k-covered wireless sensor networks," (co-authored with Prof. Das) at the European conference on Wireless Sensor Networks (EWSN), which was held in Bologna, Italy, January 30 - February 1, 2008.

May 31, 2004: Prof. Ammari received the Best Graduate Student Paper Award for his research paper on the integration of mobile ad-hoc networks and the Internet, at the Nokia Budding Wireless Innovators Awards 1st Prize competition, which was organized by the Department of Electrical Engineering, Southern Methodist University, May 2004.

Feb. 10, 2004: Prof. Ammari received the 2004 Research Day Award from the Office of Research and Graduate Studies, for his research work on the integration of mobile ad-hoc networks and the Internet, which was presented at the Research Day that was held at Southern Methodist University, February 10, 2004. Also, he received the First Prize Award from Ericsson Professional Services for the quality of work presented at the Southern Methodist University's Research Day.

Awards

1. Certificate of Appreciation Award, The 17th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (ACM MobiCom). This award was given to Prof. Ammari in recognition of his efforts as a Web and Publicity Co-Chair of the ACM MobiCom at Mirage Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, September 19-23, 2011.
   
   

2. Hired as Associate Professor of Computer and Information Science in the Department of Computer and Information Science, College of Engineering and Computer Science, The University of Michigan-Dearborn, September 1, 2011.
   
   

3. Outstanding Leadership Award, The 20th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN). This award was given to Prof. Ammari at the celebration of the 20th anniversary of ICCCN at Sheraton Hotel and Resorts, Maui, Hawaii, July 31 - August 4, 2011.
   
   

4. Best Symposium Award, Symposium on Wireless Sensor Networks. This award was given to the WSN Symposium organizers (Prof. Nidal Nasser, Prof. Ammari, and Prof. Tomohiko Taniguchi) at the 7th IEEE International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference, which was held in Istanbul, Turkey, July 5-8, 2011.
   
   

5. Lawrence A. Stessin Prize for Outstanding Scholarly Publication, Hofstra University, April 8, 2010. Each year, the University awards the Lawrence A. Stessin Prize for Outstanding Scholarly Publication. This prize was established in the 1984/85 academic year to reward the scholarly efforts of junior faculty. More...
   
   

6. Nortel Outstanding CSE Doctoral Dissertation Award, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Texas at Arlington, February 20, 2009. This award is presented to the student with the most significant dissertation research effort.
   
   

7. John Steven Schuchman Award for 2006-2007 Outstanding Research by a PhD Student ($1,000), Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Texas at Arlington, February 22, 2008.
   
   

8. Best Paper Award (HK $10,000), Google Ph.D. Forum, The Sixth Annual IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom'08), Hong Kong, China, March 18, 2008.
   
   

9. Best Paper Award (GBP 150 worth books from Wiley), The 5th European conference on Wireless Sensor Networks (EWSN'08), January 30-31, February 1, 2008.
   
   

10. Best Graduate Student Paper Award ($500), Nokia Budding Wireless Innovators Awards 1st Prize, Department of Electrical Engineering, Southern Methodist University, May 2004.
    
    

11. Best Graduate Student Presentation Award ($500), Ericsson Award 1st Prize, Graduate Research Day, Southern Methodist University, February 2004.
    
    

12. Laureate in Physics and Chemistry, Faculty of Sciences of Tunis, Tunisia, Academic years 1987 and 1988 (ranked the 1st among about 400 undergraduate students).