User:Welhajj

Wassim El-Hajj is a Professor of Computer Science at the American University of Beirut (AUB). He received his BS degree from AUB in 2000, and the MS and Ph.D. degrees in 2002 and 2006, respectively, from Western Michigan University (WMU), all in Computer Science. Right after his graduation, he joined the Information Security department at UAE University as an assistant professor. He then joined the Electrical and Computer Engineering department at AUB as a visiting professor and then joined the Computer Science department as a full-time faculty member in 2011. In 2013, he was elected to Chair the department of Computer Science and served for two terms until 2019. In September 2019, he was apointed as Associate Dean of the Faculty of Arts & Sciences. His research interests are in the areas of Wireless Communication, Network Security, and machine learning (focusing on sentiment analysis and emotion recognition).