Khaled Harras

Dr. Khaled Harras, is the Senior Associate Dean for Faculty, and Teaching Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Melon University Qatar. He is also the Director of the HBJ Center for CS Education, and the founder/director of the Networking Systems Lab (NSL) there. Dr. Harras received his B.S., Summa Cum Laude, from the American University in Cairo (AUC), followed by his M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). He has received multiple awards that include the AUC’s President’s cup (4.0 GPA), Ahmed H. Zewail prize for excellence in Sciences and Humanities, Presidential merit scholarship, UC Graduate Fellowship, and the Outstanding Educator award. 

Academically, over the past two decades, he has been working on the areas of challenged and opportunistic networks, video sensor networks, unmanned air vehicles (UAVs), ubiquitous and pervasive systems, mobile edge computation/networked architectures, cyber security, federated learning, and AI in systems. He also has expertise in the domains of wireless and mobile networks measurement, building real systems and testbeds, as well as designing and implementing frameworks based on real data. Dr. Harras has more than 150 refereed publications in numerous international prestigious journals, conferences, and workshops, as well as 4 US patents. Along with his research group in the past few years, he has won the national best computing research award twice, received two best paper awards, and his work has been featured online various venues like MIT Tech Review and Tech the Future. To date, he has been involved in or managing research grants that amount to more than 5 Million USD, and has supervised over 45 different personnel including undergraduate and graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and research engineers. He is a senior member of the ACM and IEEE.

Outside of Academia, Dr. Harras has worked in the technology industry at Citrix Systems, and collaborated closely on joint projects with Intel, Lockheed Martin, and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL). He also worked as an advisor to the Minister of ICT, as well as a Senior Systems Scientist at the Qatar Computing and Research Institute (QCRI). He has been involved at different capacities in three different startup companies that worked on automated robotic delivery systems, AR/VR-based product development, and reimagning higher education.