Ala Al-Fuqaha is professor and associate provost at Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU). He served as Principal Investigator or Co-PI on multiple research projects funded by NSF, MDOT, TUBITAK, Qatar Foundation, Cisco, Boeing, AVL, Stryker, Wolverine, Traumasoft, and Western Michigan University.
His research interests include the robustness, privacy, and ethical aspects of AI-driven systems, securing the Internet of Things (IoT) and smart city services, the use of edge computing in support of IoT and smart city applications, the use of machine learning in general and deep learning in particular in support of the data-driven and self-driven management of networks and large-scale deployments of IoT and smart city infrastructure and services, applications of digital twins and the metaverse, applications of distributed ledgers and blockchain, autonomic management and planning of software-defined networks (SDN), and engineering education.
He is a senior member of the IEEE, a senior member of the ACM, and an ABET Program Evaluator (PEV) and commissioner. He serves on editorial boards of multiple journals. He also served as chair, co-chair, and technical program committee member of multiple international conferences, including IEEE VTC, IEEE Globecom, and IEEE ICC.