Ali Maqousi received his PhD in computer science from Oxford Brookes University, UK, 2003 for his work on providing Quality of Service (QoS) in packet switched networks. He was a network administrator and part-time teacher assistant at Petra University (PU) from 1993 – 1997 and full-time teacher assistant from 1999 - 2003. Since 2003 he is an assistant professor in the Faculty of Information Technology at PU and currently he is the head of computer science department and computer networks department. He is ITSAF Secretary - General (Information Technology Students Activity Fair, ITSAF is a yearly event for all Jordanian Universities since 2005). He is the university liaison officer for European Union 7th framework program (FP7) to support and fund R&D since 2007. He is involved in research relating to multi-service networking, network performance, computer and internet security awareness, and network architectures for large scale distributed virtual environment.
