Dr. Iyad Abu Doush is a Full Professor in the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences at the American University of Kuwait. Since 2020, he served as the director of the Office of Research and Grants. Dr. Abu Doush is a consultant in technology accessibility and an invited expert in Mada (Qatar Assistive Technology Center). He is a Certified "Trusted Tester Web Certification" by Section 508. Dr. Abu Doush is a certified ABET program evaluator (PEV) since March 2021. 

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Education:

Ph.D. of Computer Science /New Mexico State University - USA

Qualifications Summary

• Strategic knowledge on increasing research productivity and building and/or improving university-industry links.

• Extensive research experience in Accessibility, Human-Computer Interaction, and Machine Learning, Optimization algorithms. Authored and co-authored more than 91 journal and conference publications. High h-index and citation records.

• Consultant and trainer in the areas of technology accessibility and web accessibility; and member of the Arab Digital Accessibility – Mada (Qatar Assistive Technology Center) Expert Group “ADA-MEG”. Certified "Trusted Tester Web Certification" by Section 508.

• Teaching experience in graduate and undergraduate computer science courses.

• Expert with ABET accreditation process and assessment; and certified ABET program evaluator.

• Experience in writing funded research proposals.

• Organizing and judging university technological competitions.

Research Interests:

* Human-Computer Interaction: Multi-Modal Navigation, Speech Interfaces.

* Computer Accessibility: Web Accessibility, Applications Accessibility.

* Evolutionary Algorithms, Optimization Algorithms

* Artificial Intelligence methods