Associate Professor

Post Doc  Graduate School of Management and Technology, University of
                   Maryland, University College (UMUC), Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
Ph.D.         Department of Computer Sciences, The University of Reading,
                   Reading, United Kingdom, UK.
B. Eng.     Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The University of
                  Wales, Swansea, Swansea, South Wales, UK

Bio

Huwida Said is an Associate Professor in the College of Technological Innovation at Zayed University, Dubai, UAE. She received her Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the University of Wales, Swansea, UK, and a Ph.D. in Computer Sciences from the University Of Reading, UK. In 2008, she received a National Science Foundation (NSF) fellowship grant to conduct a post-doctorate certificate in Information Assurance from the University of Maryland University College UMUC, Maryland USA. Her areas of teaching and research interests are information security, computer networking, Internet security, computer and mobile forensics and video game to teach information security. She has more than 6 years of experience teaching graduate courses specialized in cyber security and digital forensics. She has published several peer-reviewed papers in journals and conferences, and she is the founder and co-chair of the Undergraduate Intercollegiate Cyber Defense Competition (UICDC) in the UAE and the GCC area since 2011. She served on review committees of well reputed journals and local conferences as well as track Chair of IEEE & ACM conferences.

Office: Dubai Academic City, (Wing E-L1-007)
Phone: +9714 402 1475
Email: Huwida.Said@zu.ac.ae

Teaching Areas

Bachelor of  Sciences in IT - Specialization in Security and Network Technologies courses: Info Sec. Basics, Info Sec. Technology, Ethical Hacking and Countermeasures, Operating Systems Admins. Information Security Management.

Master of Science in Information Technology - MSIT (Specialization in Cyber Security): Info Sec, Linux Security, Network and Internet Security, Info Sec Policy, Ethics and Law, Penetration Testing and Advance Hacking Techniques

Research and Professional Activities

Recent Refereed Articles:

Said, H., Alfandi, O., Iqbal, F., Omar, A., Matter, K., Lubna Zuhair (2015). Investigating Malware Behavior Using Passive DNS Data., Graduate Students Research Conference (GSRC 2015), Abu Dhabi, UAE

2014: AlBarghuthi, Nedaa B., and Said, H.,(2014, Nov, ), “Ethics behind Cyber Warfare: A study of Arab Citizens Awareness”, The  IEEE International Symposium on Ethics in Engineering, Science, and Technology (Ethics’  2014),  May 23rd-24th, Chicago, IL, USA, pp. 1-7.

2013: AlBarghuthi, Nedaa B.,and Said, H.,(2013, Nov) "Social Networks IM Forensics: Encryption Analysis," Journal of Communications, vol. 8, no. 11, pp. 708-715, 2013. doi: 10.12720/jcm.8.11.708-715.ISSN:1796-2021.

2013: Iqbal, A., Guimaraes, M., Obaidli, H., Said, H., (2013, Oct),” The Study of the Interrelation between Law Programs and Digital Forensics in UAE”, Information Security Curriculum Development Conference (InfoSecCD'13), Oct 12th, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, pp. TBD.

2013: Guimaraes, M., Said, H., (2013, Mar),” A Multi-level Video Game for Teaching Security”, the Proceeding of the 44th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE’13), March 6th-9th, Denver, Colorado, USA, pp. 739-739.

2012: Yousif, A., Humaid, H., & Said, H. (2012, Dec), “Smart Phone Forensics and Social Network”, the IEEE Multidisciplinary Engineering Education Magazine (MEEM), Vol. 6, No. 4, IEEE, pg. 7-13.

2012: Guimaraes, M. & Said, H. (2012, May), “Constructing video games to teach security using GameMaker, Flash and Unity”, Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges, Vol. 27, No. 5, pp. 6-6.

2012: Guimaraes, M., Said, H., & Austin, R. (2012, Jan), “Experience with Video Game for Security”. The Journal of the 27th Annual Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges (CCSC), Vol. 27, No. 3, pp.95-104.

2011: Said, H., Guimaraes, M., Al Mutawa, N., & Al Awadhi, I. (2011, Dec), “Forensics and War-Driving on Unsecured Wireless Network”, The proceedings of the 6th International Conference for Internet Technology and Secured Transactions (ICITST-2011), Dec 11-14, Yas Island, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, pp.19-24.

2011: Guimaraes, M., Said, H., & Austin, R. (2011, Oct),” Experience with Video Game For Security”, The proceedings of the 27th Annual Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges, CCSC, October 14th -15th , Arlington, Virginia, USA, pp. 95-104

Current Grant(s):

2015: Said, Dr. Huwida E., Bataineh, E., & Graber, G., Video Games to Improve Teaching Digital Forensics, Principal Investigator, The Office of Research, Zayed University.

2015: ALFandi, Dr. Omar, Iqbal, Dr. Farkhund, Said, Dr. Huwida E. , ElBrachi, Dr. May, & Debabi, Dr. Mourad Characterizing Cyber-threat infrastructure for predicting Cyber-attacks in the UAE, Co-Principal Investigator, The Office of Research, Zayed University.

2015: Alfandi, Dr. Omar, Iqbal, Dr. Farkhund, ElBarachi, Dr. May, Said, Dr. Huwida E. , & Debbabi, Dr. Mourad Malware Analysis for Detecting Cyber-threats in the UAE, Co-Principal Investigator, Office of Research, Zayed University.

2014: Marir, F., Said, H. E. , ALAlami, Dr. Usama, & Lessan, Dr. Nader, Text Mining Approaches for developing an integrated diabetic knowledge repository (ontology), Co-Principal Investigator, Office of Research, Zayed Uinversity.

2014: Said, Dr. Huwida, AlFandi, Dr. Omar, Iqbal, Dr. Farkhund, & Badra, Dr. Mohamed Infrastructure, Laboratory Equipment, Research, and Library VP Support Grants, Principal Investigator, Office of VP.
 
2013 [Year 2 of 2]: Guimaraea, M. & SAid, H. E., Constructing video games to teach security using GameMaker, Flash and Unity, Co-Principal Investigator, Office of Research, Zayed Uinversity.