Faculty & Staff Member Profile

Dr. Mahmoud H. Qutqut has been an associate professor in the computer science department at the Gulf University of Science & Technology (GUST) in Kuwait since Sept 2024. Before joining GUST, Dr. Qutqut was an associate professor in the faculty of computer science at the University of New Brunswick (UNB) in Fredericton, NB, Canada. Before that, he was Chair of the Cybersecurity and Cloud Computing Department in the Faculty of Information Technology at Applied Science University in Amman, Jordan, from July 2022 till August 2023, and as an Associate Professor since Dec 2019. He joined Applied Science University in Oct 2014, where he was appointed as Assistant Professor. Dr. Qutqut was a visiting assistant professor at Queen's University School of Computing and a research associate at the Telecommunications Research Lab from March 2017 to September 2019. He received his Ph.D. in 2014 from Queen's University in Canada, where he worked under the supervision of Professor Hossam S. Hassanien. He received his M.Sc. in Telecommunication Systems from DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois, in 2008 and his B.Sc. in Computer Systems from Applied Science University in Jordan in 2004. He is a member of the IEEE and ACM and has served as Technical Program Committee co-chair, member, and reviewer of many international conferences and journals. He has several publications in top-tier venues in the networking research area, such as IEEE Access, IEEE ICC, and IEEE Globecom.