Areas of interest: ubiquitous and pervasive computing; middleware; information security and privacy.

I received my PhD from the Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where I was a member in the Systems Research Group and Gaia.

"First Class Honor Award", 1996, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia.

"Best Project Award", 1995-1996. College of Computer and Information Sciences, King Saud University.

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* Cooper, R.G., Al-Muhtadi, J. and Ashford, R. “Smart Spaces with Real-Time Physiological Measurements and Mitigation of Stress”. Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Applications (ICPCA08), Vol. 1, October 6-8, 2008, Alexandria, Egypt: 3-8.

* Jalal Al-Muhtadi, “Augmenting Smart Spaces with Intelligent Robots,” the Second International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Applications (ICPCA07), Birmingham, UK, July 2007.

* Jalal Al-Muhtadi, “Moheet: A Distributed Middleware for Enabling Smart Spaces,” Proceedings of the First National IT Symposium, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, February 2006. 

* Jalal Al-Muhtadi, Raquel Hill, Roy Campbell, and Dennis Mickunas, "Context and Location-Aware Encryption for Pervasive Computing Environments," in 3rd IEEE International Workshop on Pervasive Computing and Communication Security (PerSec), 2006 at IEEE PerCom 2006. [PDF]

* Jerry O. Talton, Daniel L. Peterson, Sam Kamin, Deborah Israel, and Jalal Al-Muhtadi, "Scavenger Hunt: Computer Science Retention Through Orientation," Proceedings of the 37th SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, March 2006. [PDF]

* Adrian Friday, Manuel Roman, Christian Becker, and Jalal Al-Muhtadi, "Guidelines and open issues in systems support for ubicomp: reflections on ubisys 2003 and 2004," Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, pages 1-3, October 2005. [Article Link]

* Zahid Anwar, Jalal Al-Muhtadi, William Yurcik, Roy Campbell, “Plethora: A Framework for Converting Generic Applications to Run in a Ubiquitous Environment,” Mobiquitous 2005: The Second Annual International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Networks and Services, San Diego, California, July 2005. [PDF]

* Ellick Chan, Jim Bresler, Jalal Al-Muhtadi, Roy Campbell, “Gaia Microserver: An Extendable Mobile Middleware Platform,” In IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (IEEE PerCom 2005), Kauai Island, Hawaii, March 8-12, 2005. [PDF]

* Anand Ranganathan, Shiva Chetan, Jalal Al-Muhtadi, Roy H. Campbell, M. Dennis Mickunas, “Olympus: A High-Level Programming Model for Pervasive Computing Environments.” In IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (IEEE PerCom 2005), Kauai Island, Hawaii, March 8-12, 2005. [PDF]

* Anand Ranganathan, Jalal Al-Muhtadi, Jacob Biehl, Brian Ziebart, Roy Campbell, and Brian Bailey, “Towards a Pervasive Computing Benchmark,” In PerWare '05 (Workshop on Middleware Support for Pervasive Computing) at IEEE PerCom 2005, Kauai Island, Hawaii, March 8-12, 2005. [PDF]

* Shiva Chetan, Jalal Al-Muhtadi, Roy Campbell and M.Dennis Mickunas, “Mobile Gaia: A Middleware for Ad-hoc Pervasive Computing,” IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC 2005), Las Vegas, Jan. 2005. [PDF]

* Jalal Al-Muhtadi, Raquel Hill, and Roy Campbell, “A Privacy Preserving Overlay for Active Spaces,” presented at Ubicomp Privacy: Current Status and Future Directions at UbiComp '04, Nottingham, UK, 2004. [PDF]

* Shiva Chetan, Jalal Al-Muhtadi, Roy Campbell and M.Dennis Mickunas, “A Middleware for Enabling Personal Ubiquitous Spaces,” UbiSys '04: System Support for Ubiquitous Computing Workshop at Sixth Annual Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp 2004), Nottingham, England, Sept. 2004. [PDF]

* Anand Ranganathan, Jalal Al-Muhtadi, Shiva Chetan, Roy Campbell, M. Dennis Mickunas, "MiddleWhere: A Middleware for Location Awareness in Ubiquitous Computing Applications," the 5th International Middleware Conference (Middleware 2004). [PDF]

* R. Hill, J. Al-Muhtadi, R. Campbell, A. Kapadia, P. Naldurg, A. Ranganathan, "A Middleware Architecture for Securing Ubiquitous Computing Cyber Infrastructures," work-in-progress paper, IEEE Distributed Systems Online archive, Volume 5 , Issue 9, September 2004. [Article Link]

* James Bresler, Jalal Al-Muhtadi, Roy Campbell, "Gaia Mobility: Extending Active Space Boundaries to Everyday Devices," in the International Workshop on Smart Appliances and Wearable Computing (IWSAWC 2004), Hachioji, Tokyo, Japan, March 23, 2004. (In the proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems Workshops 2004). [PDF]

* Jalal Al-Muhtadi, Shiva Chetan, Anand Ranganathan, "Super Spaces: A Middleware for Large-Scale Pervasive Computing Environments," Middleware Support for Pervasive Computing Workshop (PerWare 2004), in conjunction with the 2nd IEEE Annual Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (IEEE PerCom 2004), Orlando, FL, 2004. [PDF]

* Ellick Chan, Jim Bresler, Chad Peiper, Jalal Al-Muhtadi, Roy Campbell, "Expanding Education through
Active Space Collaboration," in Workshop on Pervasive Computing Education at the 2nd IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (IEEE PerCom 2004), Orlando, FL, March 14, 2004. [PDF]

* James Bresler, Roy Campbell, Jalal Al-Muhtadi, "Providing a Web Interface for Active Spaces," in the Communication Networks and Distributed Systems Modeling and Simulation Conference (CNDS'04), San Diego, CA, January 18, 2004. [PDF]

* Anand Ranganathan , Jalal Al-Muhtadi, Roy H. Campbell, "Reasoning about Uncertain Contexts in Pervasive Computing Environments," IEEE Pervasive Computing Magazine, volume 3, no. 2, April-June 2004. [Magazine Link]

* Manuel Roman, Jalal Al-Muhtadi, Brian Ziebart, Roy Campbell, M. Dennis Mickunas, "System Support for Rapid Ubiquitous Computing Application Development and Evaluation," System Support for Ubiquitous Computing Workshop (UbiSys '03) in conjunction with UbiComp '03. [PDF]

* A. Shah, F Fotouhi, W. Grosky and J. Al-Muhtadi, "Operators of the Temporal Object System and their Implementation," Information Sciences -- Informatics and Computer Science: An International Journal, Volume 158, Issue 1, January 2004. [PDF]

* Jalal Al-Muhtadi, Anand Ranganathan, Roy Campbell and M. Dennis Mickunas, "Cerberus: A Context-Aware Security Scheme for Smart Spaces," in the Proceedings of the First IEEE Annual Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom 2003), pp. 489-496, Fort Worth, Texas, March 26, 2003. [PDF].

* Roy Campbell, Jalal Al-Muhtadi, Prasad Naldurg, Geetanjali Sampemane1, M. Dennis Mickunas, "Towards Security and Privacy for Pervasive Computing," International Symposium on Software Security, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan, November 8, 2002. [PDF]. Appeared in M. Okada, B. Pierce, A. Scedrov, H. Tokuda, A. Yonezawa, eds., "Software Security -- Theories and Systems." Springer LNCS Volume 2609, 2003 XI, 471 p.1-15 ISBN 3-540-00708-3.

* Jalal Al-Muhtadi, Dennis Mickunas, Roy Campbell, "A Lightweight Reconfigurable Security Mechanism for 3G Mobile Devices," IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine, Vol. 9, No. 2, April 2002. (This article is based on previously published material from 3Gwireless 2001). [Magazine Link]

* Jalal Al-Muhtadi, Roy Campbell, Apu Kapadia, Dennis Mickunas, and Seung Yi, "Routing Through the Mist: Privacy Preserving Communication in Ubiquitous Computing Environments," in the International Conference of Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2002), pp. 65-74, Vienna, Austria, July 3, 2002. [PDF]

* Jalal Al-Muhtadi, Anand Ranganathan, Roy Campbell and M. Dennis Mickunas, "A Flexible, Privacy-Preserving Authentication Framework for Ubiquitous Computing Environments," in the International Workshop on Smart Appliances and Wearable Computing (IWSAWC 2002), Vienna, Austria,  July 2, 2002. (Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems Workshops 2002, pp. 771 -776) [PDF]

* Jalal Al-Muhtadi, Wu-chun Feng and Mike Fisk, "An Inter-Realm, Cyber-Security Infrastructure for Virtual Supercomputing," Los Alamos Computer Science Institute (LACSI) Symposium, Santa Fe, NM, October 17, 2001. [PDF]

* Jalal Al-Muhtadi, Dennis Mickunas and Roy Campbell, "A Lightweight Reconfigurable Security Mechanism for 3G Mobile Devices," International Conference on 3rd Generation Wireless and Beyond (3Gwireless’01), pp. 163-168, San Francisco, CA, May 30, 2001.

* Jalal Al-Muhtadi, Dennis Mickunas and Roy Campbell, "Wearable Security Services," in the International Workshop on Smart Appliances and Wearable Computing (IWSAWC 2001), Phoenix, AZ, April 16, 2001. (Proceedings of the International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems Workshops 2001, pp. 266 -271) [PDF]

* Fabio Kon, Jalal Al-Muhtadi, Roy Campbell and Dennis Mickunas, "My Dream of Jini," OOPSLA'2000, Workshop on the Jini Pattern Language, Minneapolis, MN, October 15, 2000. [PDF]

* Jalal Al-Muhtadi, Manish Anand, Dennis Mickunas and Roy Campbell, "Secure Smart Homes Using Jini and UIUC SESAME," proceedings of the 16th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC'2000), New Orleans, LA, Dec. 13, 2000. Technical Report UIUCDCS-R-2000-2184.

* Apu Kapadia, Jalal Al-Muhtadi, Roy Campbell and Dennis Mickunas, "I-RBAC 2000: Secure Interoperability Using Dynamic Role Translation," proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Internet Computing (IC'2000), Las Vegas, NJ, June 26, 2000. Technical Report UIUCDCS-R-2000-2162.