Experience

Head of CCIS Development and Quality Unit, King Saud University                                                                                      March 2022 – Current

Develop plans, policies and objectives to achieve national and international academic accreditations via complying CCIS academic programs with requirements and standards of ABET and NCAAA. Participate in building the CS college strategic plan.

Assistant Professor, King Saud University                                                                                             Jan 2022 – Current     CSC 113: Object-Oriented Programming II, IT 496/497: Project I&II,

                  IT 381: Wireless & Mobile Computing,

IT 427: Entrepreneurship and Innovation in IT.

Assistant Researcher, Distributed Systems Middleware (DSM) Group Lab, UC Irvine                                        Sep 2015 – Jan 2022

 Applied experience, working on the deployment and operation of IoT middleware solutions for distributed cyber-physical and healthcare embedded systems, designing and building algorithms that optimize energy efficient personal sensing, projects: Safe Community Awareness and Alerting Network. (SCALE), personal sensing energy optimization  with perpetual operations (SAFER).

Teaching Assistant, University of California, Irvine                                                                                                Jan 2017 – Jan 2019

ICS 122B: Projects in Databases and Web Applications,

                  ICS 260: Fundamentals of the Design and Analysis of Algorithms,

                  ICS 237: Distributed Systems Middleware,

                  ICS 297P: Capstone Design.

                  UCI Certificate in Teaching Excellence

Lecturer, King Saud University                                                                                                                                                             Jul 2010 – Jun 2013

IT 222: Database management, IT 221: Computer Networks,

Teaching Assistant, King Saud University                                                                                                                          Sep 2009 – Jan 2010

                  CS 457: Web application development, CS 111: Assembly language.

Education

PhD in Computer Science, University of California, Irvine                                                                                                     Sep 2015 – Jan 2022

                  Thesis: Perpetual Operations in IoT Deployments for Smart Communities

Master’s in Computer Science, University of California, Irvine                                                                 Sep 2015 – Sep 2017

                  Researcher and Developer, Distributed Systems Middleware (DSM) Group.      

Master’s in Computer Science, King Saud University ‘with honor’                                                                              Sep 2006 – May 2009

               Graduation Project: NLP research- Finding similarities between Java programs for plagiarism detection

Bachelor’s in Computer Science, King Saud University ‘with honor’                                                                          Sep 2001 – May 2006

              Graduation Project: Visualizing, scheduling and paging techniques simulation in operating systems

Professional Activities

• Mentor at IoT-Sity REU: Cultivating the IoT-Enabled Smart Community program, Research Experiences for Undergraduates at UC Irvine, Summer 2019.
• Speaker at ExploreCSR Google workshop; “Distributed Computing and Connected Communities", CalState Long Beach, February 2019.
• Presenter at NASADIRECT-STEM Annual Research Symposium; “Optimizing Energy in Heterogeneous Perpetual IoT Platforms”, CalState LA, April 2018.

Selected Publications

• Nailah Alhassoun, and Nalini Venkatasubramanian. “Scaling Compute-Intensive Telehealth Monitoring Operations in IoT-Enabled Smart Spaces,” IEEE International Conference on E-health Networking, Application & Services, (Healthcom, 2024). 
• Nailah Alhassoun, M. Y. S. Uddin, and N. Venkatasubramanian. “Multi-Network Provisioning for Perpetual Operations in IoT-Enabled Smart Spaces”. In 2020 IEEE International Conference on Smart Computing (SMARTCOMP, 2020).
• Nailah Alhassoun, Md Yusuf Sarwar Uddin, and Nalini Venkatasubramanian. “Context-Aware Energy Optimization for Perpetual IoT-Based Safe Communities,” Sustainable Computing: Informatics and Systems, (SUSCOM, 2019) 
• Nailah Alhassoun, Md Yusuf Sarwar Uddin, and Nalini Venkatasubramanian. "SAFER: An IoT-Based Perpetual Safe Community Awareness and Alerting Network," in 8th International Green and Sustainable Computing Conference (IGSC, 2017).
• M. Y. S. Uddin, A. Nelson, K. Benson, G. Wang, Q. Zhu, Q. Han, Nailah Alhassoun, P. Chakravarthi, J. Stamatakis, D. Hoffman, S. Almomen, L. DArcy, and N. Venkatasubramanian, “The SCALE2 Multi-network Architecture for IoT-based Resilient Communities, ” 2016 IEEE International Conference on Smart Computing (SMARTCOMP, 2016).