Dr. Shuaib received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the City University of New York, 1999. Since Sept. 2002, he has been with the College of Information Technology, at the UAE University where he is an Associate Professor and the Director of the Networking Track. Since Jan. 2004, Dr. Shuaib has also been the Director of the UAEU Cisco Regional Networking Academy. Prior to joining the UAE University, Dr. Shuaib had several years of industrial experience in the US as a Senior MTS at GTE Labs (Currently Verizon Tech. Center) (1997-99), and as a Principle Performance Engineer for Lucent Tech. (1999-02). His work was focused on the transmission of video over IP and ATM based networks and on the performance evaluation, design and scalability of major ISPs such as AT&T, MCI, SBC and several others. Dr. Shuaib is a holder of 2 US Patents and has over 45 referred publications. He also serves as a TPC on various IEEE conferences and as a reviewer for several International Journals.