AASU Names Department Head for Computer Science

(Savannah, GA-August 17) Ashraf Saad has been named department head and associate professor in the Computer Science Department in the School of Computing at Armstrong Atlantic State University (AASU).

Saad served as associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology from 2001 to 2006. He is the founder and former director of the Developmental Robotics Laboratory on the Georgia Tech-Savannah campus, and received the 2006 Institute-wide Outstanding Undergraduate Research Mentor Award.

He taught at the University of Cincinnati and has served as principal and co-principal investigator on two National Science Foundation-sponsored projects. He is currently serving as the general chair of the 11th Online World Conference on Soft Computing. He received a 2006 NASA/ASEE Faculty Fellowship to spend a summer residency at NASA's Glenn Research Laboratory.

Saad has worked at research and development laboratories and research organizations in France, Japan, and Spain. He holds a doctoral degree in electrical and computer engineering from Vanderbilt University, where he was a member of the Intelligent Robotics Laboratory between 1991 and 1996. He obtained his master of science in applied artificial intelligence from Cranfield Institute of Technology in England. He holds a bachelor of science in computer and automatic control engineering from Ain Shams University in Cairo.