Professor Qutaibah Malluhi is the head of Computer Science and Engineering Department at Qatar University. Before joining Qatar University he was a professor of Computer Science at Jackson State University where he served as a faculty member between 1994 and 2005. During 1995 and 1996, he was a research faculty at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley California. Dr Malluhi was the was the co-founder and CTO of Data Reliability Inc. between 2001 and 2005. He was a consultant for several telecommunication companies where he built networks, designed internet/intranet systems, and developed distributed application and telecommunication management software. As a consultant, Dr Malluhi's work in 1997 pioneered the introduction of Internet-to-Pager messaging (Unitel Corp.) and Internet surveillance systems (Orblink, Inc.) in the southern region of the US. Dr Malluhi’s research area is in the fields of parallel and distributed high performance computing, networking, data management, and storage systems. His research efforts have been supported by government grants and contracts from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, the US Department of Energy, the National Science Foundation, NASA, and the US Department of Defense, and the Qatar National Research Fund. Dr Malluhi has received a number of honors and awards including the QU research award (2007), the JSU Technology Transfer and Entrepreneurship award (2004), the Mississippi University Research Authority to establish material financial interest in a private entity (2003), and the JSU faculty Excellence award (2001).
Dr Qutaibah Malluhi has received M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from the Center of Advanced Computer Studies, University of Louisiana (Lafayette), in 1993 and 1994, respectively. He also has B.S. and M.S. degrees, with honors in Computer Engineering from King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia in 1988 and 1990, respectively. |
