Prof. Abulnaja received the BS degree in computer science from King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, in 1986. He received the MS degree in computer science and the PhD degree in engineering (computer science) from University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA, in 1990 and 1996, respectively. Currently, he is a professor of computer science at King Abdulaziz University. His research interests are Fault Tolerance, Systems Programming, Software Engineering, Parallel and Distributed Processing, and Systems Performance.