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Ahmad Al-Hammouri

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Ahmad Al-Hammouri

Associate Professor

Department

The Beacom College of Computer & Cyber Sciences

Education

Ph.D., Computer Engineering - Case Western Reserve University (CRWU), 2008
M.S., Computer Engineering - Case Western Reserve University (CWRU), 2004
B.S., Electrical Engineering - Jordan University of Science and Technology (JUST), 2000

Biography

I am an Associate Professor in The Beacom College of Computer & Cyber Sciences at Dakota State University (DSU). Before joining DSU, I was an Assistant then an Associate Professor at Jordan University of Science and Technology since 2008.

I received the B.S. degree with first-class honors in Electrical Engineering from Jordan University of Science and Technology, Irbid, Jordan, in 2000; and the M.S. and the Ph.D. degrees in Computer Engineering from Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA, in 2004 and 2008, respectively.

I made research visits to the Department of Industrial Information and Control Systems, KTH---Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden (Summers of 2011 and 2013); to the Department of Distributed Systems, Institute for Parallel and Distributed Systems, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany (Summer of 2012); and to the Department of Electronic Systems (Wireless Communication Networks Section), Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark (Summer of 2019).

In my current profession, I am involved in academic activities: teaching and mentoring, and conducting research.

Contact

Office Location: East Hall
Phone: (605) 256-5838
Email
Website

  • Research Methodologies
  • Reverse Engineering and Malware Analysis
  • Software Security
  • Operating Systems Security
  • Networks Security
  • Computer Networks
  • Network Management
  • Network Programming
  • Software-Defined Networks
  • Network Modeling and Simulation

Broad area of research: Computer communication networks and distributed systems with emphasis on the intersection of networks and control theory

Particular subjects include:

  • Cyber-Physical Systems (IoT)
  • Smart power grid
  • Cybersecurity
  • Computer Networks
  • Distributed Systems
  • Software Defined Networks
  • Congestion control
  • Middleware for real-time applications

  • Erasmus Mundus Action 2 - DUNIA BEAM Scholarship, June 2013
  • Erasmus Mundus Partnership JOSYLEEN Scholarship, June 2011 - August 2011
  • USENIX Association Student Travel Stipend Award, June 2005
  • Full scholarship from JUST to pursue graduate studies, August 2001 - August 2006
  • Graduated at the top of class among 107 students, JUST, June 2000
  • Dean's Honor List eight of ten semesters, JUST, September 1995 - June 2000

Characterization and Detection of Fast Flux Networks - JUST Deanship of Research, December 2011 - December 2013

  • JD14700 ($20700)
  • Co-PI with B. Al-Duwairi and M. Aldwairi

Journal Papers

  • Ala' A. Samarneh, Omar Y. Al Jarrah, and Ahmad T. Al-Hammouri. NIT: a dataset for network intent translation. Data in Brief, page 111842, 2025.

  • Ala' A. AlSamarneh, Ahmad T. Al-Hammouri, and Omar Y. Al-Jarrah. Navigating intent-based networking: from user descriptions to deployable configurations. Neural Computing and Applications, 2025.

  • Ahmad T. Al-Hammouri and Rasmus L. Olsen. A dataset for buffering delays due to the interaction between the Nagle algorithm and the delayed acknowledgement algorithm in cyber-physical systems communication. Data in Brief, 39:107530, 2021.
  • Ahmad T. Al-Hammouri, Zaid Al-Ali, and Basheer Al-Duwairi. ReCAP: A distributed CAPTCHA service at the edge of the network to handle server overload. Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies, 29(4):e3187, 2018.
  • Natheer Khasawneh, Rami A. Al-Hailat, and Ahmad T. Al-Hammouri. Employing physical distance in ranking image-search results. International Journal of Intelligent Information and Database Systems, 8(4):324-339, 2014.
  • Basheer N. Al-Duwairi and Ahmad T. Al-Hammouri. Fast flux watch: A mechanism for online detection of fast flux networks. Journal of Advanced Research, 5(4):473-479, 2014.
  • Ahmad T. Al-Hammouri. A comprehensive co-simulation platform for cyber-physical systems. Computer Communications, 36(1):8-19, 2012.
  • Natheer Khasawneh, Rami Al-Salman, Ahmad T. Al-Hammouri, and Stefan Conrad. A generic framework for collecting and mining client paradata for web applications. Journal of Emerging Technologies in Web Intelligence, 4(4):324-332, 2012.
  • Ahmad T. Al-Hammouri, Wenhui Zhang, Robert F. Buchheit, Vincenzo Liberatore, Panos K. Chrysanthis, and Kirk Pruhs. Network awareness and application adaptability. Information Systems and E-Business Management, 4(4):399-419, October 2006.
  • Ahmad T. Al-Hammouri, Vincenzo Liberatore, Michael S. Branicky, and Stephen M. Phillips. Complete stability region characterization for PI-AQM. SIGBED Review, 3(2), April 2006.
  • Nathan A. Wedge, Ahmad T. Al-Hammouri, Michael S. Branicky, and Vincenzo Liberatore. Discussion on: Development and experimental verification of a mobile client-centric networked controlled System. European Journal of Control, 11(2):243-246, 2005

Conference and Workshop Papers: (Presenter’s name is in boldface)

  • Basheer N. Al-Duwairi, Ahmed Shatnawi, and Ahmad T. Al-Hammouri. Harnessing large language models for passive SCADA security risk assessment. In The 8th International Balkan Conference on Communications and Networking (Balkancom 2025), Piraeus, GREECE, June 2025.
  • Jumana Khrais, Mariam Al-Issa, Reham Al-Omari, and Ahmad T. Al-Hammouri. A software-defined networks approach for cyber physical systems. In The 37th International Conference on Information Networking (ICOIN 2023), Bangkok, THAILAND, January 2023.
  • Zaid Al-Ali, Basheer Al-Duwairi, and Ahmad T. Al-Hammouri. Handling system overload resulting from DDoS attacks and flash crowd events. In IEEE International Conference on Cyber Security and Cloud Computing (CSCloud 2015), New York, New York, USA, November 2015.
  • Basheer Al-Duwairi, Ahmad Al-Hammouri, Monther Aldwairi, and Vern Paxson. GFlux: A googlebased system for fast flux detection. In IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS 2015), Florence, ITALY, September 2015.
  • Mikel Armendariz, Moustafa Chenine, Ahmad Al-Hammouri, and Lars Nordström. A co-simulation platform for medium/low voltage monitoring and control applications. In IEEE Conference on Innovative Smart Grid Technologies (ISGT 2014), Washington, D.C., USA, February 2014.
  • Isra’ Al-Qasem, Sumaya Al-Qasem, and Ahmad T. Al-Hammouri. Leveraging online social networks for a real-time malware alerting system. In IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN 2013), Sydney, AUSTRALIA, October 2013.
  • Kun Zhu, Samarth Deo, Ahmad T. Al-Hammouri, Nicholas Honeth, Moustafa Chenine, Davood Babazadeh, and Lars Nordström. Test platform for synchrophasor based wide-area monitoring and control applications. In IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting (PES GM 2013), Vancouver, British Columbia, CANADA, July 2013.
  • Davood Babazadeh, Moustafa Chenine, Kun Zhu, Lars Nordström, and Ahmad T. Al-Hammouri. A platform for wide area monitoring and control system ICT analysis and development. In IEEE PowerTech Grenoble (PowerTech 2013), Grenoble, FRANCE, June 2013.
  • Kun Zhu, Ahmad T. Al-Hammouri, and Lars Nordström. Examination of data delay and packet loss for wide-area monitoring and control systems. In IEEE International Energy Conference and Exhibition (EnergyCon 2012), Florence, ITALY, September 2012.
  • Ahmad T. Al-Hammouri, Lars Nordström, Moustafa Chenine, Luigi Vanfretti, Nicholas Honeth, and Rujiroj Leelaruji. Virtualization of synchronized phasor measurement units within real-time simulators for smart grid applications. In IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting (PES GM 2012), San Diego, California, USA, July 2012.
  • Kun Zhu, Ahmad T. Al-Hammouri, and Lars Nordström. To concentrate or not to concentrate: Performance analysis of ICT system with data concentrations for wide-area monitoring and control systems. In IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting (PES GM 2012), San Diego, California, USA, July 2012.
  • Isra’ Al-Qasem, Sumaya Al-Qasem, and Ahmad T. Al-Hammouri. Leveraging online social networks for a real-time malware alerting system. In Undergraduate Research Conference on Applied Computing (URC 2012), Dubai, UAE, April 2012. Short Abstract.
  • Vincenzo Liberatore and Ahmad T. Al-Hammouri. Smart grid communication and co-simulation. In IEEE EnergyTech 2011, Cleveland, OH, USA, May 2011.
  • Amro J. Awad, Hatem S. Mashaqi, Abdirahman S. Alasow, and Ahmad T. Al-Hammouri. Undoing sending an E-mail. In Undergraduate Research Conference on Applied Computing (URC 2011), Dubai, UAE, May 2011. Short Abstract.
  • Vincenzo Liberatore and Ahmad T. Al-Hammouri. Networked control of the smart grid. In NITRD Workshop on New Research Directions for Future Cyber-Physical Energy Systems, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, June 2009.
  • Natheer Khasawneh, Eyad Taqieddin, and Ahmad Al-Hammouri. Collaborative arabic morphological service. In Khalid Choukri and Bente Maegaard, editors, International Conference on Arabic Language Resources and Tools, Cairo, EGYPT, April 2009. The MEDAR Consortium.
  • Ahmad T. Al-Hammouri, Michael S. Branicky, and Vincenzo Liberatore. Co-simulation tools for networked control systems. In International Conference on Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control (HSCC 08), St. Louis, MO, USA, April 2008.
  • Ahmad T. Al-Hammouri, Vincenzo Liberatore, Huthaifa Al-Omari, Zakaria Al-Qudah, Michael S. Branicky, and Deepak Agrawal. A co-simulation platform for actuator networks. In ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys 07), Sydney, AUSTRALIA, November 2007.
  • Ahmad T. Al-Hammouri and Vincenzo Liberatore. Analytic derivation of the PI-AQM stability region. In Northeast Ohio Networking Workshop (NEONet 07), Baldwin Wallace College, Cleveland, OH, USA, April 2007. Short Abstract.
  • Ahmad T. Al-Hammouri, Michael S. Branicky, Vincenzo Liberatore, and Stephen M. Phillips. Decentralized and dynamic bandwidth allocation in networked control systems. In International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Real-Time Systems (WPDRTS 06), Island of Rhodes, GREECE, April 2006.
  • Ahmad T. Al-Hammouri, Vincenzo Liberatore, Michael S. Branicky, and Stephen M. Phillips. Parameterizing PI congestion controllers. In International Workshop on Feedback Control Implementation and Design in Computing Systems and Networks (FeBID 06), Vancouver, CANADA, April 2006.
  • Ahmad T. Al-Hammouri, Vincenzo Liberatore, Huthaifa A. Al-Omari, and Stephen M. Phillips. Transversal issues in real-time sense-and-respond systems. In ACM Workshop on End-to-End, Senseand-Respond Systems, Applications, and Services (EESR 05), Seattle, WA, USA, June 2005.
  • Ahmad T. Al-Hammouri and Vincenzo Liberatore. Optimization congestion control for networked control systems. In IEEE INFOCOM Student Workshop, Miami, FL, USA, March 2005. Abstract.
  • Ahmad T. Al-Hammouri, Vincenzo Liberatore, and Michael S. Branicky. A testbed for networked control systems. In Research ShowCase, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA, April 2004. Poster.
  • Ahmad T. Al-Hammouri, Adam Covitch, David Rosas, Murat Kose, Wyatt S. Newman, and Vincenzo Liberatore. Compliant control and software agents for Internet robotics. In IEEE International Workshop on Object-oriented Real-time Dependable Systems (WORDS 03), Guadalajara, MEXICO, January 2003.
  • Vincenzo Liberatore, Wyatt Newman, Ahmad T. Al-Hammouri, Adam Covitch, David Rosas, and Murat Kose. Remote interaction with machines. In Wireless Communications and Networking Workshop, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA, November 2002. Poster and live demonstration.

  • Software Defined Networks (SDN): The Network's Buzzword Du Jour. Department of Computer Engineering, Princess Sumaya University for Technology (PSUT), Amman, JORDAN, July 2017. Invited Talk.
  • Co-simulation and emulation platforms for the smart grid. Coordinated Science Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA, August 2012. Invited Talk.
  • Cyber-physical systems: Bandwidth allocation and co-simulation. Department of Distributed Systems, Institute for Parallel and Distributed Systems, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, GERMANY, June 2012.
  • Cyber-physical systems security. In NSF United-States/Middle-East Workshop On Trustworthiness in Emerging Distributed Systems and Networks, Koc University, Istanbul, TURKEY, June 2012. Invited Talk.
  • A real-time CORBA middleware for networked surgical simulations. In Ohio ICE Technical Conference, University of Akron, Akron, OH, USA, October 2006.
  • Several presentations on various topics related to Networks. In Network Chat course, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA, 2004-2007.