Professor, Undergraduate Program Coordinator - Intelligent Systems Engineering
Monther Aldwairi is a full professor at the College of Technological Innovation at Zayed University, Abu Dhabi. He joined Zayed University in 2014 where he served as the chair of Computing and Applied Technology department in 2020 and the as the Graduate Program Coordinator for the Masters of IT in Cyber Security in 2023. Prior to joining ZU, he was an associate and assistant professor of computer engineering at Jordan University of Science and Technology since 2007. Prof. Aldwairi served as the vice dean of the Faculty of Computer and Information Technology from 2010 to 2012 and was the assistant dean for student affairs in 2008. In addition, he was an adjunct professor at New York Institute of Technology (NYiT)-Amman campus from 2009 to 2012. Prof. Aldwairi worked at NCSU as post-doctoral research associate in 2007 and as a research assistant from 2001 to 2006. He also held several industry parttime research positions during his PhD and worked as a System Integration Engineer for ARAMEX from 1998 to 2000.
Prof. Aldwairi’s main area of research is in “Applications of Artificial Intelligence for Malicious Behaviour Detection”. His research interests are in information, network, IoT and web security, intrusion detection, digital forensics, reconfigurable architectures, artificial intelligence applications and pattern matching. Prof. Aldwairi’s expertise spans multiple areas from digital circuit design, computer architecture, system engineering, software development, to information and network security.
Prof. Aldwairi’s is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, AdvanceHE, (FHEA), Senior IEEE member, ABET Program Evaluator, an Area Expert for IEEE ComSoc eHealth Technical Committee: Big Data for e-Health Special Interest Group. He is a member of several editorial boards, international conference TPCs and organizing committees. He was also the IEEE UAE Section Computer Society Vice-Chair, ZU studENts cyber-Security club (CiTIZenS), Club Advisor, and the JUST IEEE section student branch counsellor.
• Ph. D. in Computer Engineering, North Carolina State University, USA, 2006
• M. Sc. in Computer Engineering, North Carolina State University, USA, 2001
• B. Sc. in Electrical Engineering, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan, 1998
• Ethical Hacking and Countermeasures
• Information Security Technologies
• Digital Forensics
• Computer Architecture and Programming
Open-Source Software Contributions
• Plug and Play Signature-based Intrusion Detection Engine (link)
• MultiPLZW: A Novel Multiple Pattern Matching Search in LZW-Compressed Data (link)
• FLUKES: Log Visualization and Forensics Tool (link)
Research Area(s)
• Malicious Behaviour Detection
• Information, Network, and Web Security
• AI Applications
Professional Involvement
• Area Expert, IEEE ComSoc eHealth Technical Committee: Big Data for e-Health Special Interest Group
• IEEE UAE Section Computer Society Vice-Chair
• University Council, Jordan University of Science and Technology
• Club Advisor, Students Cybersecurity Club (CiTIZenS)
• Student Branch Counsellor, JUST IEEE Section
• Guest Editor, Ad Hoc Networks, Elsevier
• Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, ACM Transactions on Architecture and Compiler Optimization, IET Circuits, Devices & Systems, IET Wireless Sensor Systems, PLOS ONE, Ad Hoc Networks, Computers and Security, Computer Communications, etc.
• Steering/Advisory Committee, iCICS’11-13 and CITN’23
• Organizing, TPC Sessions Chair, and Committee Member, CSNet’21/25, MobiSPC’25, SocialSec’24, NSS 2024, MobiSPC TPC 2023, iCICS’09-23, BCCA 2022, ICSOC 21, DDSW’20, AIIPCC’20, CSAE 2019, AICCSA’15/19, NTMS’18-19, ZU URC’19-25, ICNAS'17, IICPS’16, ANT’16, MIC-CPE’08-12, MIC-CCA’11
Certifications and Training
• Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, AdvanceHE
• ABET Program Evaluator Candidate Simulated Visit Training
• Techniques for Effective External Reviews, ADEK External Reviewers Training
• International Academic Program Reviewer, NCAAA, KSA
• Designing assessment in the era of AI, The Assessment Network, Cambridge University
• Applying online course design rubric standards, Quality Matters
• CEH Ethical Hacking, EC-Council
• Computer Hacking Forensic Investigator (C|HFI), EC-Council
• FOR-508: Advanced Computer Forensic Analysis and Incident Response, SANS
• Blockchain Developer - Mastery Award, IBM
Notable Projects and Contributions
• Artificial Intelligence Applications in Defensive and Offensive Cybersecurity! Is AI Making us Safer or Increasing Risk of Exploitation?, Zayed University Research Incentive Grant
• Gamification and action-based learning in IT classrooms, Teaching Innovation Research Fund, Zayed University Center for Educational Innovation
• Framework for misinformation and fake news detections and prevention, Zayed Univ. Cluster Fund
• Artificial Intelligence Applications for the Security of Industrial Control Systems and Critical Infrastructure, Zayed University Research Incentive Grant
• Novel and Secure Framework for Smart Places: Smart Places Networks and Blockchain Prototyping, Zayed University Research Incentive Grant
• Document Certification and Nostrification Blockchain System, ZU Provost’s Research Fellowship
• Investigation of the impact of mobile and cloud-based technologies on efficiency and security of networked healthcare systems, Zayed University Research Incentive Grant
• AMAN: A Multilayer Framework for Assurance Security, Zayed Univ. Cluster Fund
• Characterizing Standard and Realistic Signature-based Intrusion Detection Benchmarks and Testing Engine, Zayed University Research Incentive Grant
• Characterizing Realistic Signature-based Intrusion Detection Benchmarks, JUST deanship of research sabbatical award
• MalPrint: Malware automatic signature generation system, Zayed Univ. Research Incentive Grant
• Smart data curation and privacy for IoT enabled devices, Zayed Cluster Fund
• Automatic signature generation using stop characters, Zayed Univ. Startup Grant
• Investigating the application of data mining prefetching-based algorithm to improve the performance of hybrid storage systems, IBM Shared University Research Grant
• Accelerated H/W Wu-Manber for IDS, JUST Deanship of Research
• Characterization and Detection of Fast Flux Networks, JUST Deanship of Research
