Professor of Computer Science at James Madison University

College of Integrated Science and Engineering
Harrisonburg, VA 22807

Grants & Funding:

  • 4VA (JMU & VT LoCATE Project $10000) – Spring 2018
  • Innovative Diversity Efforts Award (IDEA) Grant March (Funded for $4000) Year 2017
  • CISE (College of Integrated Science & Engineering) Faculty Development Award Spring 2013, Spring 2018
  • Funded $37700 ( 4-VA with University of VA) - Dec 2015, Dec 2016
  • Funded Madison Trust - Jan 2016
  • Center for STEM Education and Outreach - Funded May 2016
  • Provost Research Grant – JMU (Co-PI) Spring 2017

Awards

  • 2018 Excellence in Teaching and Learning with technology “ at the 2018 JMUTLT conference
  • My class “Autonomous Vehicles” - Spring 2018 was awarded the 2018 VA Governor's Technology Awards in the category of “Innovative use of Technology in Education.” Fall 2018
  • The partnership Award for the Service Recognition, College of Education, James Madison University Spring 2017
  • Outstanding Junior Faculty at The College of Integrated Science & Engineering Spring 2017
  • JMU CFI Engaged Teacher Scholar Spring 2017
  • Award for best volunteer (Judge) 2015- 2016 at FIRST LEGO LEAGUE FLL
  • Travel Award: IEEE MASS - Junior Faculty members Travel Award Fall 2014

    • Selected Publications: (Please check my google scholar for a complete list of publication)

  • M. Tellez, S. El-Tawab and M. H. Heydari, "IoT security attacks using reverse engineering methods on WSN applications," 2016 IEEE 3rd World Forum on Internet of Things (WF-IoT), Reston, VA, 2016, pp. 182-187.
  • S. El-Tawab, R. Oram, M. Garcia, C. Johns and B. B. Park, "Poster: Monitoring Transit Systems using low cost WiFi Technology," 2016 IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference (VNC), Columbus, OH, 2016, pp. 1-2.    
  • M. Tellez, S. El-Tawab and H. M. Heydari, "Improving the security of wireless sensor networks in an IoT environmental monitoring system," 2016 IEEE Systems and Information Engineering Design Symposium (SIEDS), Charlottesville, VA, 2016, pp. 72-77.
  • M. Garcia, P. Rose, R. Sung and S. El-Tawab, "Secure Smart Parking at James Madison University via the Cloud Environment (SPACE)," 2016 IEEE Systems and Information Engineering Design Symposium (SIEDS), Charlottesville, VA, 2016, pp. 271-276.
  • X. Wang; S. El-Tawab; A. Alhafdhi; M. Almalag; S. Olariu, "Toward Probabilistic Data Collection in the NOTICE Architecture," in IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, vol.PP, no.99, pp.1-10 May 2016
  • Ahmed Salem, Tamer Nadeem, Mecit Cetin, Samy El-Tawab ”DriveBlue: Traffic Incident Prediction through Single Site Bluetooth” in 18th IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems, September 15-18, 2015
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  • Ghazizadeh, P.; Olariu, S.; Zadeh, A.G.; El-Tawab, S., ”Towards Fault-Tolerant Job Assignment in Vehicular Cloud” in Services Computing (SCC), 2015 IEEE International Conference on , vol., no., pp.17-24, June 27 2015-July 2 2015
  • [IEEE ITS Podcast] Interviewed by Professor Javier Sanchez- Medina, from the IEEE ITS Society. He serves as EiC for the ITS Podcast (http://itsp.cicei.com), a monthly publication we put online to disseminate the cutting edge on Intelligent Transportation, within the ITS society and also from top folks or institutions on topics related. To check the whole PodCast: http://itsp.cicei.com/?p=614
  • Samy El-Tawab, Ahmad Alhafdhi, Dusadee Treeumnuk, Dimitrie Popescu, Stephan Olariu, “Physical Layer Aspects of Information Exchange in the NOTICE Architecture”, Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine, IEEE , vol.7, no.1, pp.8,18, Spring 2015.
  • El-Tawab, S.; Xianping Wang; Alhafdhi, A.; Olariu, S., ”On Probabilistic Data Collection in the NOTICE Architecture” in Mobile Ad Hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS), 2014 IEEE 11th International Conference on , vol., no., pp.642-650, 28-30 Oct. 2014
  • Puya Ghazizadeh, Ravi Mukkamala, and Samy El-Tawab. “Scheduling in Vehicular Cloud using mixed Integer Linear Programming”. In Proceedings of the first international workshop on Mobile sensing, computing and communication (MSCC ’14). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 7-12 August 2014.
  • Mohammad Almalag, Michele C. Weigle, Stephan Olariu and Samy El-Tawab ”Peer-to-Peer File Sharing in VANETs Using TC-MAC” in The IEEE 9th International Workshop on Mobile Peer-to-Peer Computing workshop in the IEEE PerCom 2013, San Diego, California, USA.
  • Samy El-Tawab, Stephan Olariu and Mohammad Almalag ”FRIEND: A Cyber-physical System for Traffic Flow Related Information aggrEgatioN and Dissemination” in IEEE VTP 2012 workshop June 25th, 2012 in the IEEE WoWMoM 2012, San Francisco, California, USA.
  • Samy El-Tawab, and Stephan Olariu ”Communication in FRIEND: A Cyber-physical System for Traffic Flow Related Information aggrEgatioN and Dissemination” in the First IEEE International Workshop on Cognitive Computing and Communications (CCC 2013) workshop March 22nd, 2013 in the IEEE PerCom 2013, San Diego, California, USA.
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    Selected Presentations:

  • Andrew Hutchson, Matthew Hess, Benjamin Campbell, Robert Spinosa Jr, and Samy El-Tawab. From Theory to Practice: Toward a Telecommunication and Networking Studies, “Where do I park?” Presented at the Thirteenth Annual Graduate Research Symposium (GRS), March 21-22, 2014 at the college of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA, USA. - A group of ISAT students (three undergrads) with a graduate student from CS are working in a project called “Where do I park at JMU”.

  • Samy El-Tawab. From Theory to Practice: Toward a Telecommunication and Networking Studies That Interest Students, “Where do I park?” Pencils to Pixels: Teaching with Technology: Individual Paper. At the Interlink Alliance 2014 Faculty Development and Leadership Conference in Virginia State University in March 2014 http://www.vsu.edu/news/headlines/2013/10/conference.php In this paper, I talked about the student’s interest and effect of participating in a project!