Alaa Youssef is a Research Staff Member at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center. He joined IBM Research in 1998. He is currently a member of the Service Management Middleware group. He received his BS and MS degrees in computer science and automatic control from Alexandria University, Egypt, in 1991 and 1994, respectively. He received his PhD degree in computer science in 1998 from Old Dominion University, Virginia.
His research interests include distributed systems, service management middleware, network and application level quality of service, content security, and digital rights management. Dr. Youssef has over 20 referred journal and conference publications. He has 1 issued patent and 8 more pending with the US Patent and Trademark Office. Dr Youssef is a member of the IEEE. He served on the technical and executive committees of several IEEE conferences, including INFOCOM, CSCW, and MMNS. Dr. Youssef is a member of the IBM team that has recently developed a pioneering quality of service and SLA-based performance management system for Web Services. He is the co-author of a paper based on this work, which acquired the Best Paper Award at the IEEE Integrated Management conference (IM'03). A prototype system is available for download as part of the IBM Web Services Toolkit.
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