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Mohammad Zuhier Badie Hourani

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علوم الحاسب والمعلومات
Building 31, Office G92
السيرة الذاتية

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Mohammad Z. Hourani
Office: +96614694079
Email: mzhourani@ksu.edu.sa
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Mohammad Z. Hourani

Personal Information

Office: +96614694079

Email: mzhourani@ksu.edu.sa

 

Qualification

King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom Of Saudi Arabia.
MS (Network Engineering), CGPA 4.78/5.00, 2011.

Thesis: Enhanced Multi-Hop Data Harvesting Protocol Implementation In Vehicular Sensor Networks.

Amman Univeristy, Amman, Jordan.
BCE* (Computer Engineering), CGPA 86.6/100, 2008.

FYP: Temperature profile Control System.

 

Professional Experience

Almost 10 years of IT experience as Network Engineer, Technical Writer, Lecturer, Research Assistant and LAB Engineer this involves Planning, Designing, Implementation and troubleshooting of Networks

 

King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (2008- Till date)

Working at College of Computer & Information Science accomplishing the following Responsibilities:

Conducted Undergraduate Tutorial for the course “Embedded System"

  • Conducted Undergraduate Tutorial for the course “Network Protocols and Algorithms”.

Conducting Tutorials & Lab Sessions

 

Amman University, Amman, Jordan (Sept 2008 - Nov 2008)

Worked as Lab Engineer & Teaching Assistant. (Digital Logic Design, Networking, Neural Network & Artificial Intelligence, Embedded Systems)

 

Main Responsibilities:

 

  • Conducting Lectures & Lab Sessions.
  • Conducting Quizzes and Assignments.

 

RESEARCH AND ACADEMIC PROJECTS

 

· Conference: 

 

 

 

§ WORLDCOMP’11, ICWN, “Integrated Control Channel Mechanism for Efficient Channel Utilization in TDMA For WLAN Networks”.

 

§ WORLDCOMP’11, ICWN, “Novel Data Harvesting Scheme for Efficient Data Aggregation”.

 

 

 

· Journal:

 

§ ISSN 1013-5316; CODEN: SINTE 8, “Efficient Data Harvesting for Inelastic Traffic in Vehicular Sensor Networks

 

 

 

· Conducted a Survey and wrote a technical report about an embedded system application in Power Plant which includes the following area. Choice of Processor (Micro-controller, Microprocessor, FPGA, DSP, Cell ), Choice of Memory Used (ROM, Flash, Static Ram, Dynamic RAM etc), Sampling rates of the controlled loops, Choice of ADC and DAC for each controlled loop, Choice of Real-Time OS and Real-Time Scheduling algorithms used, Some Failure conditions and how the system detects and handles the failure conditions, Performance measures used.

 

· Report written on applications of Adaptive Control, Optimal Control, Predictive Control, Physiological Control, Artificial Intelligence and Artificial Neural Network in Health Care

 

· Conducted survey on the routing algorithms involved in routing wireless sensor networks.

 

· Proposed a feasibility study addressing security measures in campus wide wireless networks.

 

· Conducted a literature review on internal architecture for the Cell processor found in the PS3.

 

· Implementation of Random Number Generator (Combined LCG’s) and testing their reliability using different testing techniques.

 

· Designed queue optimization techniques for minimizing queuing delay.

 

· Performance Enhancement of Large Scale Networks with Heterogeneous Traffic using OPNET.

 

· Implementation of a Beowulf cluster in a Distributed Computing Environment.

 

· Designed a Traffic light system in Verilog (HDL).

 

· Student’s Info. System implemented in C++.

 

· Designed Circuit layout of a 4-bit ALU in LASI.

 

 

 

 

 

Areas of Interest

 

Distributed Control System (DCS), Micro-Controller & Microprocessor based Embedded Systems, Industrial/ Process Automation, Control Engineering, Intelligent Sensors, , Network Planning and Optimization, Network Security, Data Communication and networking, Management Information Systems.