Abdelwahab Hamam

Education
Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Ottawa, 2013
M.S. in Electrical Engineering, University of Ottawa, 2007
B.S. in Computer Engineering, University of Ottawa, 2004

About
Dr. Abdelwahab Hamam came to Florida Poly in 2013 as an assistant professor of computer science. Before then, he was a teaching and research assistant at the University of Ottawa from 2005-13. He has more than 30 academic papers and pending patent applications as well as eight issued USPTO patents.

Expertise

• Haptic applications and technology
• Virtual and augmented reality
• Quality of experience for multimedia applications
• Human-computer interaction
• Software engineering

Professional Activities

• Software engineering concentration advisor
• Computer science search committee
• Computer science concentration committee
• University research award committee
• Technical co-chair of the 2015 Haptic Audio-Visual Environments and Games (HAVE) Workshop
• Co-organizer of the 2015 QoMEX Workshop special session on haptics quality of experience

Awards and Honors

• Best paper award, 2015 Quality of Multimedia Experience (QoMEX) workshop
• Nicolas D. Georganas Best Paper Award, 2015 ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications (TOMM)

Selected Publications

• “A Quality of Experience Model for Haptic Virtual Environments” (TOMM vol.10, Issue 3).