Prof Abdelsalam Helal in Egypt Business Directory

Dr. Abdelsalam (Sumi) Helal is a Professor at the Computer and Information Science and Engineering Department (CISE) at the University of Florida. His research interests span the areas of Pervasive Computing, Mobile Computing and networking and Internet Computing. He directs the Mobile and Pervasive Computing Laboratory and leads the technology development of the NIDRR-funded Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center on Successful Aging (RERC). He is co-founder and Director of the Gator Tech Smart House, an experimental home for applied pervasive computing research in the domain of elder care. Additionally, he is founder, President and CEO of Phoneomena, Inc., a mobile application and middleware company, and founder and President of Pervasa, Inc., a University of Florida start-up focused on platform and middleware products for sensor networks. Outside of his teaching and research, Dr. Helal is a co-founder and an editorial board member of the IEEE Pervasive Computing magazine. He is the Editor of the magazines column on Standards, Tools and Emerging Technologies. He is also an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transaction on Mobile Computing. He has published over 200 books, book chapters, journal articles, and conference or workshop papers. He is a Senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and a member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the USENIX Association. Born in Suez, Egypt, Dr. Helal earned his B.E. and M.E. degrees in Computer Science and Engineering from Alexandria University, Egypt, in 1982 and 1985 respectively. He earned his Ph.D. in Computer Sciences from Purdue University in 1991. Before joining the University of Florida, he held academic and industrial research positions at MCC, Purdue University and the University of Texas at Arlington.

Address: P.O. Box 116125, Gainesville, Florida 32611-6120
Telephone: (352) 392-6845
Fax: (352) 392-6949
Website: http://www.cise.ufl.edu/~helal/