Biography
Dr. Abdallah is an <b>Associate Professor of Computer and Electrical Engineering at
Ìð¹ÏÊÓƵapp</b>, a position he began in <b>January 2025</b>. Before
joining WCU, he served at <b>Penn State Erie – The Behrend College from 2017 to 2024</b>,
first as an <b>Assistant Professor</b> and later as a <b>tenured Associate Professor</b>.
During his time at Penn State, he founded and directed the <b>Internet of Things Research
Lab (IoT@Behrend)</b> and focused on <b>wireless networks, IoT, video streaming, signal
processing, and applied machine learning</b>.<br><br>Beyond academia, Dr. Abdallah's
experiences bridge <b>academic research and industry applications</b>, supporting
<b>product development and technological innovation</b>. Before transitioning to academia,
Dr. Abdallah gained <b>extensive industry experience</b>. He worked at <b>Intel Corporation</b>
as an <b>embedded systems software engineer</b> at their advanced production and testing
facility in Aloha, Oregon. He also completed graduate PhD internships at <b>Intel</b>,
focusing on <b>wireless and telecom standards</b>, and at <b>Broadcom Inc.</b>, where
he contributed to <b>interoperability testing for LTE devices</b>. Additionally, he
spent seven years as a freelance embedded systems engineer between 2025 and 2012.<br><br>An
active researcher, Dr. Abdallah is a <b>regular author and reviewer for IEEE journals
and conferences</b>. He is a <b>Senior Member of IEEE</b> and a <b>member of the American
Society for Engineering Education (ASEE)</b>. He earned his <b>M.Sc. in Computer Engineering
in 2007</b> and his <b>Ph.D. in Computer Engineering in 2016</b> from the <b>Bradley
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech</b>. He is also
a <b>certified deep learning instructor with NVIDIA’s Deep Learning Institute (DLI)</b>.
Teaching Interests
Programming in Matlab, Python, C and C++<br>Data Structure and Algorithms<br>Digital
Logic Design and Advanced Digital Systems Design using VHDL/Verilog<br>Computer Architecture
and Microprocessors (Intel/MIPS/ARM)<br>Embedded Systems & Microcontrollers<br>Computer
Networks and TCP/IP Protocols<br>Parallel and Cloud Computing<br>Software Defined
Radios<br>Applied AI and Machine Learning<br>Internet of Things
Research Interests
<b>wireless networks, IoT, HTTP adaptive video streaming, radar sensing for automotive
applications, computer vision, applied machine learning, optimal control design using
Markov Decision Processes and Reinforcement Learning, and Large Language Models </b>
