Dr. Gheith Abandah is an Assistant Professor of Computer Engineering in the University of Jordan since 1998, and department chair since 2006. He holds a Bachelor degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Jordan (1985) and a Master degree and a PhD degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Michigan (1995 and 1998). Dr. Abandah has long experience in industry and research. He worked as a development engineer and development manager with the local industry on many projects such as computer arabization, artillery computer solutions, news processing, and information display. He also has a long experience in managing software development projects and process improvement. As graduate research assistant, Dr. Abandah worked on tuning Ford Motors’ crash simulator on parallel computers and reducing the communication cost in scalable shared-memory systems. As a research intern in Hewlett-Packard Labs, Dr. Abandah built tools for characterizing shared-memory applications to support the design of the next generation scalable shared-memory systems. His areas of research are Computer Architecture, Parallel Processing, Software Development, and Arabic Optical Character Recognition.
