Abdelwahab Hamam

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.

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)

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

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

Select Publications

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