Professor Khaled M. Elleithy is the Associate Vice President for Graduate Studies and Research at the University of Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA. He is a professor of Computer Science and Engineering. His research interests include wireless sensor networks, mobile communications, network security, and quantum computing. He has published more than four hundred papers in national / international journals and conferences in his areas of expertise. Dr. Elleithy is the editor or co-editor for 12 books published by Springer. Professor Elleithy received the B.Sc. degree in Computer Science and Automatic Control from Alexandria University in 1983, the MS Degree in Computer Networks from the same university in 1986, and the MS and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from The Center for Advanced Computer Studies at the University of Louisiana - Lafayette in 1988 and 1990. Professor Elleithy is the recipient of the "Distinguished Professor of the Year", University of Bridgeport, academic year 2006 - 2007. He is the recipient of the 2015 Connecticut Quality Improvement Award (CQIA) Gold Innovation Prize. He supervised hundreds of senior projects, MS theses, and Ph.D. dissertations. He developed and introduced many new undergraduate/graduate courses and new teaching / research laboratories in his area of expertise. His students have won more than thirty prestigious national / international awards from IEEE, ACM, and ASEE. Professor Elleithy is a member of the technical program committees of many national / international conferences. He served as a guest editor for several international journals. He was the chairperson of the International Conference on Industrial Electronics, Technology & Automation. Furthermore, he is the co-Chair and co-founder of the Annual International Joint Conferences on Computer, Information, and Systems Sciences, and Engineering virtual conferences 2005 - 2014.
