I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Computing and Information Science at the University of Guelph. I have served as: the founding Associate Chair of the Distributed Computing and Wireless Telecom program (Computing Co-Op) at the University of Guelph-Humber between August 2002 and April 2007, the founding Co-op Faculty Advisor for the Guelph-Humber Computing Co-Op program between May 2004 and April 2007, and the founding Coordinator of Final Year Projects for the same program between April 2006 and December 2006.

In the past, I have worked for Simon Fraser University, Carleton University, Sun Microsystems, Nortel Networks, Newbridge Networks (now Alcatel), Etisalat College of Engineering (UAE), and the University of New Brunswick.

I got my Ph.D. in Computer Science from Middlesex University in London, England, for my work on Mobile Agents for Wired and Wireless Computing. My Ph.D. supervisor was Dr. Luminita Vasiu, and my external examiners were Dr. Mike Holcombe (University of Sheffield, England) an Dr. Henry Tirri (Universiy of Helsinki, Finland). I received a B.Sc. in Data Analysis and a Masters degree in Computer Science (Dr. Weichang Du was my Master's thesis advisor -- check out the academic family tree), both from the University of New Brunswick, Canada.

Highlights

• Interview: Teaching Mobile Computing to Generation C, July 2008
• The paper Investigating Web Services on the World Wide Web (first author PhD student Eyhab Al-Masri) nominated for Best Student Paper Award at the 17th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2008). Acceptance rate 11% (97 papers out of 880), April 2008.
• A greenfoot-based scenario for teaching CS1: Going to the Moon, March 2008.
• Centre for Mobile Education Research (CMER). See the University of Guelph's news release, February 2008.
• QWS Dataset for Web Services Researchers (More details...), December 2007.
• An article about my teaching innovations using tools of trade, University of Guelph's Newpaper, November 2007.
• Received an HP Technology for Teaching Grant. See University of Guelph's announcement, June 2007.
• The first? book on Cognitive Networks published by Wiley, July 2007.
• Elected member of Java Champions: A community of influential Java leaders, July 2007.
• Eyhab Al-Masri and I received a Best Poster Award for Crawling Multiple UDDI Business Registries at the 16th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2007), May 2007.
• My very first blog (Java-centric), April 2007.
• The first Guelph-Humber Computer Programming Competition, April 2007.
• Elected to IEEE Senior Member, November 2006.
• A Best Paper Award for An Agent-Enabled System for Personalizing Wireless Mobile Services at 2005 Amcericas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS 2005), August 2005.

Contact Info:

• Office: Reynolds 302
• Email: qmahmoud AT uoguelph.ca
• Phone: (519) 824-4120 Ext. 58762
• Fax: (519) 837-0323