Louai A. Al-Awami

Homepage: http://www.cs.queensu.ca/~louai
E-Mail: louai [at] cs.queensu.ca

Home Phone: +1 (613) 547-4299
Work Phone: +1 (613) 533-3103

Personal Info

Date Of Birth: 8-8-1979

Marital Status: Married

Education

    M.S. in Computer Engineering

2003-2006

King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals (KFUPM), Dhahran, Saudi Arabia

    Thesis: “A Framework for Reliable and Fault-Tolerant Network Management Architecture”

    B.S. in Computer Engineering

1997–2002

King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals (KFUPM), Dhahran, Saudi Arabia

    Areas of Concentration: Computer Networks

Awards

KFUPM Graduate with a second honor award

2002

Work Experience

Graduate Assistant (King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals - Computer Engineering Department)

2003-2006

- Teaching “Assembly Language Programming” laboratory.

- Teaching “Digital Systems Design” laboratory.

- Developing a lab manual for microcontroller course using “Tiny Internet Interface (TINI)”

Summer Training (Saudi ARAMCO)

Summer 2000

Involved in a 10 weeks summer training program in Saudi ARAMCO Company in Network Administration & Computer Support Group.

Computer Related Experience

Programming

Java, C, Assembly, HTML, XHTML, PHP, VHDL and Linux shell programming.

Computer Skills

- Working with Windows, Linux & UNIX systems.

-  Word Processing using MS Office, Latex.

-  Images Editing using Adobe Photoshop.

- Audio Editing using Steinberg Cubase.

-  Web development and administration using PHPNuke, Invision Power Board, VBulletin, XHTML & PHP.

-  Database with SQL & Oracle.

-   Networking, Installation and configuring of Linux Virtual Server.

Scientific Applications

Matlab, Network Simulator (NS-2), Opnet, SPICE, Xilinx Foundation Series, Spin, and UML.

Publications

- Abd-El-Barr, M. I. and Al-Awami, L. A., "Analysis of Direct Cover Algorithms for Minimization of MVL Functions", in the Proceedings of the IEEE 15th International Conference on Microelectronics (ICM'03), Dec. 9-11, 2003. pp. 308-312.

- Abd-El-Barr, M. I. and Al-Awami, L. A., "Iterative-based Minimization of Unary 4-valued Functions for Current-mode CMOS Realization", in the Proceedings of the IEEE 34th International Symposium on Multiple-Valued Logic , 19-22 May, 2004. pp. 315-320.

Research Interest

-   Computer Networks Design

-   Network Management

-   Wireless Networks

- Information Theory & Network Coding

Language

Arabic – native language

English – speak fluently and read/write with high proficiency

Memberships

Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

References

Available upon request.