Mahmoud Hammad, PhD
Associate Professor
Jordan University of Science and Technology
Software Engineering Department
Office: A1L2
Phone: (+962) 2 7201000 Ext: 26307
Email: m-hammad"AT"just"DOT"edu"DOT"jo ; hammadm"AT"uci"DOT"edu
Dr. Mahmoud Hammad is an Associate Professor in the
Software Engineering Department
within the
Computer and Information Technology School
at the
Jordan University of Science and Technology (JUST).
He is also the director of the Center for E-Learning and Open Educational Resources .
Hammad's research interests are in the field
of software engineering, specifically in the area of software architecture,
self-adaptive software systems, mobile computing, software analysis, software security, natural language processing and machine learning.
Hammad received his Ph.D. in Software Engineering from the
University of California, Irvine (UCI)
under the supervision of Prof. Sam Malek .
During his Ph.D., Hammad developed
a self-protecting Android software system ,
an Android software system that can monitor itself and adapt (change)
its behavior at runtime to keep the system secure and protected from Inter-Component Communication
attacks at all times.
Hammad received his M.S. in Software Engineering from
George Mason University, VA, USA and
B.S. in Computer Science from
Yarmouk University, Jordan .
Hammad is a member of the
Association of Computing Machinery (ACM),
ACM Special Interest Group on Software Engineering (SIGSOFT),
and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).