Ehab Al-Shaer is an assistant professor and the director of the Multimedia Networking Research Lab (MNLAB) in the School of Computer Science, Telecommunications and Information System at DePaul University since 1998. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Old Dominion University, M.S. in Computer Science from Northeastern University, Boston and B.S. in Computer Engineering from KFUPM, Dhahran in 1998, 1994, and 1990 respectively. His primary research areas are Internet monitoring, fault management, management of multicast networks, overlay networks, multimedia and QoS protocols, and network security.
Prof. Al-Shaer published more than 30 refereed journal and conference publications. He was a Co-Editor of a book with a title: "Management of Multimedia On the Internet" published by Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Prof. Al-Shaer was also the Conference Program Co-chair for the 4th IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Management of Multimedia Networks and Services (MMNS) held in Chicago in October 2001. Prof. Al-Shaer was a Guest Editor for Journal of High Speed Networking, Special Issue on Management of Multimedia on the Internet that was published in May 2001. Prof. Al-Shaer is a Steering Committee Member of IEEE/IFIP MMNS and served as TPC member for many IEEE and IFIP. He also served as a guest speaker, session chair, and panelist for many IEEE/ACM conferences. Prof. Al-Shaer acquired the Best Paper Award in IEEE Integrated Management (IM03), a pioneer conference in his area. He has one pending patent under the name of "Anomaly Detection in Firewall Policy".
In addition to his academic work, Al-Shaer was awarded 15 professional certificates from the industry in various networking topics. He received a fellowship award from USENIX in 1992 and from NASA Langley Research Center in 1997. Prof. Al-Shaer is a member in IEEE, ACM, ISCA, USENIX, IETF and Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society.
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