Sherif Abdelwahed is an Assistant Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Mississippi State University where he teaches and conducts research in the area of computer engineering, with specific interests in embedded systems, self-managing systems, distributed systems, computer architecture, model-integrated computing, and formal verification of digital systems.

He received his Ph.D in 2002 from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto under the supervision of Professor W. M. Wonham. Prior to joining Mississippi State University, he was a research assistant professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and senior research scientist at the Institute for Software Integrated Systems, Vanderbilt University, from 2001-2007. From 2000-2001 he worked as a research scientist with the system diagnosis group at the Rockwell Scientific Company.

• Senior Member of the IEEE.
• Elected member of the Scientific Research Society, Sigma Xi.
• Member of the American Society for Engineering Education.
• Member of the ACM and AIAA.

• Program co-chair, the 18th International Workshop on Principles of Diagnosis (DX'07), Nashville, TN, May 2007.
• Technical Program Committee member, the 4th International Workshop on Feed- back Control Implementation and Design in Computing Systems and Networks (FeBID 2009), San Francisco, CA, 2009.
• Program committee member, the International Conference on Prognostics and Health Management (PHM08) Denver, Colorado, October, 2008.
• Program committee member, the 3rd International Workshop on Feedback Control Implementation and Design in Computing Systems and Networks (FeBID 2008), Annapolis, Maryland, June, 2008.
• International program committee member, the 19th International Workshop on Principles of Diagnosis (DX'08), Sydney, Australia, September 2008.
• Technical program committee member, the 3rd International Conference on Modeling, Simulation, and Applied Optimization, Jan. 2009, Sharjah, UAE.
• International program committee member, the Conference of 2008 Systemics and Informatics World Congress (SIWN 2008), Glasgow, UK, 21-24 July 2008.
• Technical program committee member, the IEEE 42nd annual Systems Readiness Technology Conference, Autotestcon 2007, Baltimore, Maryland, Sept. 2007.
• Program committee member, the Second International Workshop on Feedback Control Implementation and Design in Computing Systems and Networks, FeBID'07, Munich, Germany, June 2007.
• Planning committee member, North American Power Symposium, Starkville, Mississippi, October 2009.
• Session chair, the 3rd International Workshop on Feedback Control Implementation and Design in Computing Systems and Networks (FeBID 2008), Annapolis, Maryland, June, 2008.
• Active member of the IEEE SCC20 Diagnostic and Maintenance Control Standards Committee since January 2003.
• Reviewer for the NASA Post doc Award Program, 2007.
• NSF Panel reviewer, CyberTrust Program, June 2008.
• NSF Panel reviewer, Computer Systems Research Program, June 2008.