| Hesham H. Ali is a Professor of Computer Science and the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs of the college of Information Science and Technology (IS&T), at the University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO). He is also the deputy director for computational sciences of the Nebraska Informatics Center for Life Center (NICLS), and a member of Nebraska Center for Biosecurity. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 1988, and his BS and MS from the University of Alexandria, in 1982 and 1985, respectively, all in Computer Science. He has published a large number of articles in various areas of Computer Science including scheduling, distributed systems, wireless networks, circuit design and, most recently, Bioinformatics. He has also published two books in scheduling and graph algorithms. He has been leading the IT components of a number of joint Bioinformatics projects between IT and Bioscience researchers, including a recently NIH funded grant for the construction of a Targeted Rhesus Macaque Microarray. He is currently serving as the PI or Co-PI of three projects funded by NSF, NIH and DoD in the areas of wireless networks and Bioinformatics. He has been leading a Bioinformatics Research Group at UNO that focuses on developing computational approaches used to identify and classify biological organisms, with the goal of complementing the current experimental approaches in predicting a wide range of events that range from potential virus outbreaks to bio-terrorism. He has also been leading a NSF funded project with the goal of developing secure wireless infrastructure. |