Education

PhD in Computer Science, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA (2017).
Dissertation Title: MobiVPN: Towards a Reliable and Efficient Mobile Virtual Private Network.
 
Master of Science in Computer Science, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA (2009).
 
Bachelor in Computer Science (honors). King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (2003).
 

Work Experience

Academic:

December, 2017 – Now
Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, College of Computer and Information Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
 
June, 2016 - Decemeber, 2017
Lecturer, Department of Computer Science, College of Computer and Information Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

August, 2008 – May, 2009
Associate Instructor, Computer Science Dept., School of Informatics, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.

August, 2005 – June, 2016
Teaching Assistant, Department of Computer Sciences, College of Computer and Information Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Professional:

August, 2010 – March, 2016
Web Developer, Web Integration Team, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ.

 June, 2003 – August, 2005
Information Security Engineer, Elm, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Publications

Journals:
Pisharody, S., Natarajan, J., Chowdhary, A., Alshalan, A., & Huang, D. (2017). Brew: A Security Policy Analysis Framework for Distributed SDN-Based Cloud Environments. IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing.
 
Alshalan, A., Pisharody, S., & Huang, D. (2016). A Survey of Mobile VPN Technologies. IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, 18(2), 1177-1196.
Conferences:
A. Alshalan, S. Pisharody, and D. Huang, “MobiVPN: A Mobile VPN Providing Persistency To Applications”, in Proceedings of 2016 International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications Wireless Networks (ICNC), 2016.
 
A. Alshalan and D. Huang, “Prompt Lightweight VPN Session Resumption for Rapid Client Mobility and MTD Enablement for VPN Servers”, Communications, 2018. ICC'18. IEEE International Conference on. IEEE, 2018.
 

Awards

• Teaching Assistantship, Indiana University, 2008.
• National Winner, King AbdulAziz Competition for Scientific Creativity, King AbdulAziz and his Companions Organization for Talented, 2004.
• Best Open Source Project (LinuxAlarm), Saudi Linux Group, 2004.
• Best Graduation Project Award (LinuxAlarm), King Saud University, 2003.
• Scientific Excellence Award, King Saud University, 2000.
• Scientific Excellence Honor, Ministry of Education, 1997.

Memberships

• IEEE Membership.                             •    IEEE Young Professionals.