Mahafzah Basel

Basel A. Mahafzah is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Jordan, Jordan. He received his B.Sc. degree in Computer Science in 1991 from Mu’tah University, Jordan. He also earned from the University of Alabama in Huntsville, U.S.A, a B.S.E. degree in Computer Engineering. Furthermore, he obtained his M.S. degree in Computer Science and Ph.D. degree in Computer Engineering from the same University, in 1994 and 1999, respectively. After he obtained his Ph.D. and before joining the University of Jordan, he joined the Department of Computer Science at Jordan University of Science and Technology, where Dr. Mahafzah held several positions; Vice Dean, Assistant Dean, and Chief Information Officer at King Abdullah University Hospital. His research interests include Performance Evaluation, Parallel and Distributed Computing, Interconnection Networks, Artificial Intelligence, Data Mining, Software Testing, and e-Learning. Moreover, Dr. Mahafzah supervised Master students and developed several graduate and undergraduate programs in various fields of Information Technology. His experience in teaching extends to 12 years.
Specialties: Parallel & Distributed Computing, Parallel & Message-Passing Programming, Interconnection Networks, Performance Evaluation & Analysis, Artificial Intelligence, Data Mining, Software Clustering & Testing, and e-Learning.
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