Ehab S. Al-Shaer
Associate Professor

School of Computer Science, Telecommunications and Information Systems,
DePaul University
243 South Wabash Av.,
Chicago, IL 60604-2301

Office : (312) 362-5137
Fax : (312) 362-6116
ehab"_AT_"cs"DOT"depaul"DOT"edu

 

Short Biography (long Bio) 

Ehab Al-Shaer is an Associate Professor and the Director of the Multimedia Networking Research Lab (MNLAB) in the School of Computer Science, Telecommunications and Information Systems at DePaul University. He has joined DePaul University as an Assistant Professor in 1998. His primary research areas are network security, Internet monitoring, fault management in overlay networks, and multimedia transport protocols. He has many refereed publications in premier journals and conferences in his area. He also was a Co-Editor of number of books in the area of Multimedia Networking and Internet Monitoring, and a Guest Editor for number of journals. He was an invited speaker, tutorial presenter and panelist in many conferences and industrial seminars. He also served as session chair, poster chair, workshops chair, steering committee member and program committee member in many major IEEE and ACM conferences including INFOCOM, ICNP, IM, NOMS, ICDCS, CCNC, GLOBECOM, ICC, MMNS DSOM, and E2EMON. He was awarded the Best Paper Award at the IEEE IM03 and NASA fellowship in 1997. Prof. Al-Shaer also received funding and professional awards from NSF, Cisco, Intel, Sun Microsystems, Aprisma, DataGeneral, Tellabs and Racal Melgo.  

Education
  • Ph.D. in Computer Science, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA -- 1998 
  • Master of Science in Computer Science, Northeastern University, Boston, MA -- 1994
  • Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering, KFUPM, Dhahran, SA -- 1990

Teaching
  • TDC561:  Network Programming
  • TDC562: Network Design & Analysis (Internet Engineering)
  • TDC568: Network and Distributed Systems Management
  • TDC573: Multimedia and QoS Networking
  • TDC368: Unix and Network Programming 
  • TDC477: Introduction to Network Security  
  • TDC577: Advanced Network Security  

Research

        (Link to Multimedia Networking Research LAB (MNLAB))

  • Network Security: security policy management, firewalls, Grid Security, Worm control and P-IDS
  • Internet Monitoring
  • Multimedia Transport Protocols
  • Overlay and P2P Networks

 

Projects

       Projects Link in MNLAB

 

Talks, Panels and Tutorials

Invited Talks

§      “ Management of Network Security Policies Between Crises and Fanacies ”, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), Urbana-Champiagn, September, 2005

§      “ Network Security Policy Verification and Optimization ”, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, October, 2005

§      “Policy-based Enterprise Security Solutions”, Cisco Security Team, San Jose, October 10, 2004

§     “Next-generation Firewall”, Cisco Workshop on Network Security, San Jose, November 17, 2003

§     “Tightening Your Firewall Security”, CTI Network Security Seminar, October, 2003

§     “Multimedia Networking Research Agenda”, The 5th PhD Conference, CTI, September 2003

§      “The Role of Multicasting in Supporting Event Correlation”, Networking 2000, Paris, May 2000

§     “Emerging Technologies for A Networked Society”, The IT Government Summit, Puerto Rico, March 2000

Panel Chair

§      “Toward Next-generation Monitoring System”, IEEE E2EMON (with Keith Ross Polytechnic University, James Hong POSTEC, and Masum Hasan Cisco systems), October 2004

§      “Is the Internet Ready for Multimedia”, IEEE MMNS, California, October 2002

§     “Overlay Networks and Management: A Real Solution or New Hype?”, IEEE Integrated Management (IM’03), Colorado, March 2003

Tutorials

§      “Managing Network Security Policies: Firewall and IPSec/VPN”, IEEE IM 2005, May, 2005

§     “Managing Firewall and Network-Edge Security Policies”, IEEE NOMS 2004, April, 2004

 

 

Professional Services

 

  • Conference/Workshop Chair
  • Journal Guest Editor
  • Member of Steering/Advisory Committee
    •  IEEE/IFIP Conference on Management of Multimedia Networks and Services
    • IEEE End-to-End Monitoring Techniques and Services (E2EMON
  • Member of Technical Program Committee (TPC) of
    • IEEE ICC (2006)
    • IEEE IEEE Symposium on Network Security and Information Assurance (2006)
    • IEEE GLOBECOM (2006)
    • IEEE INFOCOM (2006)
    • IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols, ICNP (since 2005)
    • IEEE Global Internet (since 2004)
    • IEEE Autonomic Grid Networking and Management, AGNM, (since 2005)
    • IEEE Conference on Local Area Networks, LCN (since 2005)
    • IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Integrated Network Management, IM (since 2002)
    • IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium, NOMS (since 2002)
    • IEEE/IFIP International Workshop on Distributed Systems: Operations & Management, DSOM (since 2002)
    • IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Management of Multimedia Networks and Services, MMNS (since 1999)
    • IEEE Consumer Communication and Networking Conference, CCNS (since 2004)
    • IASTED Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems (since 2000)
    • IEEE End-to-End Monitoring Techniques and Services, E2EMON (since 2002)
    • IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, ICDCS (1999)
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  • I am a “frequent” reviewer for the following Agencies, Institutions and Journals:
    • National Science Foundation
    • IEEE/ACM Transaction on Networking (ToN)
    • IEEE Transaction on Networks and System Management
    • Journal of Network and System Management
    • Software Practice & Experience,
    • Journal of High Speed Networking, Computer Communications
    • IEEE Network
    • IEEE Communications
    • IEEE JSAC
    • Computer Networks Journal
    • Journal of Computer Communications
    • Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing

 

HONORS & AWARDS
  • IEEE Service Award in CCNC 2005 and IM 2005
  • Featured Alumni Award by ODU, 2004
  • BEST PAPER AWARD in IEEE Symposium on Integrated Network Management  (IM) 2003, March 2003
  • Received a Certificate of Service Appreciation from IEEE Communication Society for my service in the IM TPC, 2003 \
  • Received NASA fellowship from NASA Langley Research Center, May 1997-current
  • Awarded USENIX Student Fellowship, June 1994.
  • Awarded 12 Professional Certificates in Networking from Data General and Tellabs Corporations, 1990-1993
  • Mideast Data Systems Award as Outstanding Network Engineer in 1993.

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Students
§         Current Ph.D. students: 
§         Co-advisor for the Ph.D. students:
    • Joe Elarde
§         Previous Students:
    • Peter Nyberg, "Interoperability Architectures for Reliable Multicasting Protocols", MS thesis, 1999

 

Industry Contacts
  • Cisco Systems, Firewall Policy Management
  • Intel Corporation, Autonomic Security Configuration  
  • Stonewater Software, Inc. Project: Design and Development Distributed Load Management (DLM) System.
  • US Trade & Development Agency, Washington D.C.: I was the consulting team leader for Malaysia Multimedia University project sponsored by US Trade and Development Agency in Malaysia
  • NASA, Langley Research Center in VA: Large-scale Distributed Monitoring project
  • HP Labs in CA: Internet Monitoring and Control Project using HiFi
  • Neal and Nelson Associates (NNA) in Chicago: IP Multicast Benchmarking Project
  • DuPont Computers in Washington D.C.: Nuun Project

 

Last modified: January, 2005