Dr. Khaled Harras is the Senior Associate Dean for Faculty and Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar (CMU-Q). He is also the Director of the Hamad Bin Jassim Center for CS Education and the founder and director of the Networking Systems Lab (NSL) at CMU-Q.

Over the past two decades, he has worked on various areas of computer networks, UAVs, ubiquitous and pervasive systems, edge computing, and federated learning. Dr. Harras has authored more than 150 refereed publications and holds four U.S. patents. He has won the national best computing research award twice, received two best paper awards, and his work has been featured in outlets such as MIT Tech Review and Tech the Future.

To date, he has been involved in and managed research grants totaling over USD 5 million. He has supervised more than 55 researchers, including undergraduate and graduate students, postdoctoral scholars, and research engineers.

Outside of academia, Dr. Harras has worked at Citrix Systems and collaborated closely with Intel, Lockheed Martin, and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL). He also served as an advisor to the Minister of ICT and as a Senior Systems Scientist at the Qatar Computing and Research Institute (QCRI).