Mahmoud Abaza is an associate professor at Athabasca University. Dr. Abaza has graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee 1992, and worked since then with different universities. Dr. Abaza has been with Jordan University of Science and Technology, United Arab Emirates University and Athabasca University. Embedded Systems is one of Dr. Abaza’s research interests, as well as Distributed Systems, Algorithms and Computer Networks.