Education
•Ph.D., Engineering – Columbia University
•M.Phil., Engineering – Columbia University
•MS, Engineering – Columbia University
•BS, Engineering – Cairo University
Positions and Employment
2021-present Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Phalcon, LLC
2021-present Professor Emeritus, Rutgers University
2017-2021 Professor, Department of Medicine, New Jersey Medical School, Rutgers
2012-2021 Distinguished Professor, Management Science & Information Systems, Rutgers
2014-2018 Vice Chancellor for Research & Collaborations, Rutgers University.
2014-2019 Founding and past Director, Rutgers Institute for Data Science, Learning, and Applications (I-DSLA), Rutgers University.
1975-2012 Assistant/Associate/Full Professor, Management Science & Information Systems, Rutgers University.
1996-2021 Founder and Director, Center for Information Management, Integration, and Connectivity, Rutgers.
1998-2006 Co-Founder and past Director, Meadowlands Environmental Research Institute (MERI).
Government Experience
• 3/30/2009-01/31/2013 IPA Assignment – Science & Technology Directorate, US Department
of Homeland Security, Washington, DC
Fellow, Senior Program Manager, and Branch Chief
• Hold active TS‐SCI security clearance and an active COTR certificate.
• Award: “Honorable Mention for the 2010 Under-Secretary’s Award for Science and
Technology”, US Department of Homeland Security, Science & Technology
Directorate
• Duties include:
a. Mentor a group of physical/computer scientists, engineers, and program
managers
b. Program Manager of “Modeling, Simulation, and Analysis”
c. Initiative Lead, “Cyber-physical Systems Security” – a new initiative
d. Technical lead of the “Unified Incident Command Decision Support”
(UICDS) Program
e. Member of the Healthcare and Public Health Sector R&D Joint Advisory
Working Group; Chair of the Medical Supply Chain R&D Subgroup
f. Representing the S&T Division at the Network and Information Technology
R&D (NITRD), National Coordination Office
• Program Committee Assignments:
a. Program Chair, “Analytic Capability Development” workshop, sponsored by
Science & Technology Directorate, US DHS, February 2011
b. Program Chair, “Grand Challenges in Modeling, Simulation, and Analysis for
Homeland Security (MSAHS-2010), Sponsored by Science & Technology
Directorate, US DHS, March 2010
c. Program Chair, “Emergency Management: Incident, Resource, and Supply
Chain Management” workshop, sponsored by Science & Technology
Directorate, US DHS, November 2009
d. Program Chair, “Future Directions in Cyber-physical Systems Security”
workshop, sponsored by Science & Technology Directorate, US DHS, USAF,
DOD, NIST, and DOE, July 2009
e. Program Chair, “Future Directions in Critical Infrastructure Modeling and
Simulation” workshop, sponsored by Science & Technology Directorate, US
DHS, October 2008
Published Agency Reports:
a. Contributor to “SUPPLEMENT TO THE PRESIDENT’S BUDGET FOR the
FISCAL YEAR 2012,” Network and Information Technology Research and
Development, February 2011,
http://www.nitrd.gov/pubs/2012supplement/FY12NITRDSupp-lement.pdf
b. Contributor to “SUPPLEMENT TO THE PRESIDENT’S BUDGET FOR the
FISCAL YEAR 2011,” Network and Information Technology Research and
Development, February 2010,
http://www.nitrd.gov/pubs/2011supplement/FY11NITRDSupp-FINAL-Web.pdf
c. Nabil Adam, Christopher Doyle, Lawrence Skelly, “Emergency Management:
Incident, Resource, and Supply Chain Management,” June 2010
d. Nabil Adam, “Future Directions in Cyber-physical Systems Security,” Homeland
Security Science & Technology, January 2010
e. Nabil Adam, “Future Directions in Critical Infrastructure Modeling and
Simulation,” Homeland Security Science & Technology, December 2008
1994-1998 The NASA Center of Excellence in Space Data and Information Sciences
(CESDIS), NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD.
The National Academy of Sciences established CESDIS to bring together
computer scientists from leading universities, industry, and government
laboratories to conduct computer science research applicable to space and earth
sciences.
• Research Fellow
o Took part in several initiatives, including Management of the
Largest Unclassified Archive in the World; Data
Warehousing/Mining of Earth Observing System Data and
Information System (EOSDIS); Global Legal Information
Network (GLIN); The NASA Solutions for Enterprise-Wide
Procurement (SEWP); Mass Storage Management; Geodata
Modeling and Query in GIS.
o Participated in the commercialization of Linux software, now
Red Hat
o Served as a member of a scientific/management team to
establish a commercial arm for the Universities Space Research
Association.
2000-2005 Member, Science Council of the Research Institute for Advanced Computer
Science, NASA Ames.
Service to New Jersey State Government
Appointed by the Executive Director of the New Jersey Commission of Science and
Technology to serve as a member of the “Working Group of Logistics”; 1986-1989.
Industry Experience
2004-present Founding member of the consortium for System of Systems Security
(SOSSEC) and member of the Board of Directors of the SOSSEC, Inc.
2004-2005 Visiting Scholar; SAP Research Center, Palo Alto, CA
1988-1994 Consultant to Operations and Engineering Department and to Corporate Education Department International Paper, New York, NY