Dr. Abdulrahman S.N. Alarifi

College of Telecom & Information

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

E-mail:

aalarifi@py.ksu.edu.sa

Name

Ph.D. in Computer and Information Science

Syracuse University, Syracuse NY

Starting Date: August 2002

Grade Point Average 3.872 (of 4.0)

Field of Study: Sensor Networks Security

Graduation date: February 2007

MS in Engineering Management

Syracuse University, Syracuse NY

Starting Date: May 2005

Grade Point Average 3.872 (of 4.0)

Graduation Date: December 2006

MS in Computer Science

Syracuse University, Syracuse NY

Starting Date: January 2001

Grade Point Average 3.97 (of 4.0)

Graduation Date: August 2002

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

King Saud University, Riyadh Saudi Arabia

College of Computer and Information Science

Starting Date: August 1995

Grade Point Average 4.34 (of 5.0)

Senior Design Project: “Online Arabic Characters Recognitions”

Graduation Date: December 1999

Advanced Technical courses

Projects Management

Database Management Systems

ORACLE and Developer 2000

Object Oriented Design

Distributed Objects Processing

Software Modeling and Analysis

Computer Algorithms

Computer Networks Security

Artificial Intelligent

Computer Architecture and Operating System

Education

2007 – now

College of Telecom & Information (CTI)

General Organization for Technical Education and Vocational Training, Saudi Arabia

·         Assistant Professor in Computer and Information Science Department.

·         Microsoft Academy Director.

·         Oracle Academy Director.

·         Microsoft Club Director.

·         Coordinator of faculty and staff training program.

·         Participating in preparing new curriculums for General Organization for Technical Education and Vocational Training.

2006

Microsoft Company, Redmond, WA, USA

·         Summer Internship

·         Working as a software engineer for MapPoint development team.

2006

Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department

Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, USA

·         Research Assistant in SCIENS LAB.

2002-2004

Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department

Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, USA

·         Teaching Assistant for Grad/Under Grad Level Courses, such as:

–      CIS 575: Introduction to Analysis of Algorithms.

–      CIS 623: Structured Programming and Formal Methods.

–      CIS 335: Java Programming for the Internet.

–      CIS 657: Principles of Operating Systems.

–      CSE 585: Design of Operating Systems.

CIS 667: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence.

2000-2001

College of Telecom & Information (CTI)

General Organization for Technical Education and Vocational Training, Saudi Arabia

·         Teaching Assistant Under Grad Level Courses, such as:

–      Introduction to Computer Science.

–      Introduction to Database Management Systems.

2000

Advanced Electrical Company

Saudi Arabia

·         US $30,000,000.00 Company Capital.

·         Research and Development Programmer.

1998

Arabian American Oil Company (ARAMCO) (summer training)

·         Working for EXPEC Computer Center

·         Participating in building a training lab for the training department

1997

Saudi Telecom Company (summer training)

·         Working for the computer center

·         Software maintenance and quality control

Experience

·         Awarded a 100% tuition scholarship from :

–      College of Telecom and Information at Saudi Arabia (2001-2003).

–      Ministry of Higher Education at Saudi Arabia (2003-2006)

–      Teaching Assistant scholarship by Syracuse University (2002-2004).

–      Research Assistant scholarship by Syracuse University (2006)

·         Maintained Dean’s list in my undergraduate study for 8 semesters

·         Awarded the best undergraduate senor project design in Computer Science Department, Information System Department, Computer Engineering Department, and Electrical Engineering Department.

·         Came in the second place in my undergrad class rank out of 30 students at King Saud University

Honors

·         Abdulrahman Alarifi and Wenliang Du. Diversifying Sensor Nodes to Improve Resilience against Node Compromise. To appear in Proceedings of the 4th ACM Workshop on Security of Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks (SASN), 2006.

·         Abdulrahman Alarifi, Wenliang Du: Risk-Based Routing Protocol for Wireless Ad-hoc Networks. ICWN 2005: 161-165

·         Abdulrahman Alarifi: Random Pairwise Key Management Scheme for Wireless Sensor Networks Using Deployment Knowledge. ICWN 2005: 583-589

Publication

·         Reviewer for the IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (Globecom 2005)

·         Reviewer for the ACM Symposium on InformAtion, Computer and Communications Security (ASIACCS 2005)

·         Reviewer for the ACM Workshop on Wireless Security  (WiSe 2006)

·         Reviewer for the International Conference on Information and Communications Security (ICICS 2006)

·         Member of the SU Muslim Student Association (MSA)

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