Dr. Adnan El-Nasan received his B.Sc. in 1988, his M.S. in 1997, and his Ph.D. in Computer and System Engineering in 2003. Prior to joining AUD, Dr. El-Nasan was an Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Engineering as well as an Assistant Dean at the Hijjawi Faculty for Engineering Technology at Yarmouk University in Jordan. While at Yarmouk University, Dr. El-Nasan helped setting up the Biomedical Engineering and Medical Informatics department. He was also an active board member of Yarmouk University's Academic Entrepreneurship Center of Excellence, where he was actively working on narrowing the gap between academia and industry as well as fostering innovation and entrepreneurship among students. During his 12 year tenure in the US, Dr. El-Nasan worked in the industry with a number of companies including the West Group, Thomson Publishing, and IBM Research. He has also held a number of visiting scholar positions at Iowa State University working on interdisciplinary research topics with the Center for Transportation Research and Education. Dr. El-Nasan's research interests include human-computer interaction (HCI), image processing, programming language design, medical informatics, classification, machine learning, content management and information retrieval.

Computer and System Engineering