Issa Khalil received the B.Sc. and the M.S. degrees from Jordan University of Science and Technology in 1994 and 1996 and the PhD degree from Purdue University, USA in 2007, all in Computer Engineering. Immediately thereafter he worked as a post-doctoral researcher at the Dependable Computing Systems Lab of Purdue University until he joined the College of Information Technology (CIT) of the United Arab Emirates University (UAEU) in August 2007 where he now an associate professor. In September 2012, Dr. Khalil was appointed as the coordinator of the Information Security Track in CIT.

Dr. Khalil’s research interests span the areas of wireless and wireline communication networks. He is especially interested in security, routing, and performance of wireless Sensor, Ad Hoc and Mesh networks. Dr. Khalil’s current research is geared towards systems’ security including cloud computing security, smart grid/city security, and E-Health security. His current research is funded by grants from National Research Foundation, Emirates Foundation, and United Arab Emirates University.

Dr. Khalil’s work proved to be very interesting and to have considerable impact as reflected by the high number of citations, publication in prestigious journals (IEEE Transactions and high impact factor journals) and top quality international conferences (Rank A & B conferences), the ranking of two of his journal papers among the hottest articles in its area, and the reception of three research champion awards.  In February 2012, Dr. Khalil has been awarded US Patent number 8,107,397 with title "Protocol for Secure and Energy-Efficient Reprograming of Wireless Multi-hop Sensor Networks (WSN)."

Dr. Khalil served as the technical program co-chair of the 6th International Conference on Innovations in Information Technology and was appointed as a Technical Program Committee member and reviewer for many international conferences and journals. In June 2011 Dr. Khalil has been granted the CIT outstanding professor award for outstanding performance in research, teaching and service.