Biography

Hussein Alnuweiri is a Professor at the College of Science and Engineering at Hamad Bin Khalifa University. He received his PhD in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. Before joining HBKU, he was a professor at Texas A&M University at Qatar and the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, BC, Canada.From 2000 to 2006, he served as a Canadian Delegate to the ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29 Standards Committee (MPEG-4 Multimedia Delivery), where he worked within the MPEG-4 standardization JTC1- SC29WG11 group and contributed one of the first client-server video streaming reference software. He has an established record of industrial collaborations with several major companies worldwide. He is also an inventor and holds four US patents.