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Dr. Salah Dowaji

Salah DOWAJI received his Engineering degree in Information Technology from Higher Institute of Applied Sciences and Technology at Damascus, Syria in 1989, and the PhD degree in parallel programming from Pierre and Marie Curie University (Paris VI University), Paris, France in 1995. He is now an associated professor at Software Engineering department in Information Technology Engineering Faculty, Damascus University. He has 30 years of experience in educational sector in many Universities and Higher-education Institutes (Higher Institute of Applied Sciences and Technology at Damascus (HIAST), Higher Institute of Business Administration (HIBA), Syrian Virtual University (SVU), Syrian Private University (SPU), Arab International University (AIU) and Al-Yarmouk Private University (YPU)).

Birth date: 1965

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Mobile phone: 00963994200500

Telephone: 00963994200500

Address: Damascus _Syria

E-mail: [email protected]

1991-1995 PARIS VI University (Université Pierre et Marie Curie – PARIS VI), Paris, France Ph.D. in Informatics 

 Field: Parallel and Distributed Programming. 

1990-1991 INPG (Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble), Grenoble, France Master in Informatics  Field: Parallel and Distributed Systems. 

1983 - 1989 HIAST (Higher Institute of Applied Science and Technology), Damascus, Syria Engineering Diploma in Informatics

2013 till 2017 Information Technology Faculty - Damascus University 

2021 till 2023 (for a sconed period of time) 

Dean of Information Technology Engineering Faculty 

 2018 till 2019 Information Technology Faculty - Damascus University 

Head of Networking and Computer Systems Department

 2011 till 2013 Information Technology Faculty - Damascus University Head of Networking and Computer Systems Department Head of Software Engineering and Information Systems Department 

2007 - 2008 Information Technology Faculty - Damascus University Vice Dean for Students and Administrative Affairs 

2002 - 2004 HIAST Head of Computer Science Department Damascus, Syria

 


Supervising many Graduate and Post Graduate projects

Doctoral Supervisor -  Dissertations

Osama Ebrahem, Salah Dowaji and Suhel Alhammoud, “On the Limited Generalizability of a Universal Features Set for DDoS Detection Across Network Environments”, IEEE Access Journal, Vol. 14, Pages: 7932 7974, (2026).

 Osama Ebrahem, Salah Dowaji and Suhel Alhammoud, “A lightweight machine learning approach for DDoS detection and classification”, Scientific Reports Journal (Under Reviewing) (2025).

 Osama Ebrahem, Salah Dowaji and Suhel Alhammoud, “Towards a Minimum Universal Features Set for IoT DDoS Attack Detection”, Journal of Big Data, https://doi.org/10.1186/s40537-025-01146-1 - 2:88 (2025).

 Zein, Alaa Aldin; Dowaji, Salah; Al-Khayatt, Mohamad Iyad, “Clustering based method for big spatial data partitioning”, Measurement: Sensor, Vol. 27, Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.measen.2023.10073, June 2023, 100731.

H. Ahmad and S. Dowaji, “A Semantic Approach for Outlier Detection in Big Data Streams”, Webology journal, vol. 16, Issue 1, 2019.

 H. Ahmad and S. Dowaji, “A Novel Framework for Context-aware Outlier Detection in Big Data Streams”, Journal of Digital Information Management, vol. 16, Issue 6, 2018/10.

 Roua Achi, Kadan Joumaa, Salah Dowaji, “PISWAS: Improving What-If Analysis Model to Suggest the Best Offers Scenarios in Telecom Companies”, International Review on Computers and Software (I.RE.CO.S), Vol. 11, N. 12, 2016.

 H. Ahmad and S. Dowaji, “Linked-OWL: A new approach for dynamic linked data service workflow composition”, Webology journal - Vol. 10, No. 1, 2013.

Al-Hilal and S. Dowaji, “Base Station Distance Adaptive LEACH”, arXiv preprint arXiv:1902.00052, 2018/12/21. 

A. Al-Hilal and S. Dowaji, Evaluation of WSN hierarchical routing protocols according to energy efficiency heterogeneity levels, International Review on Computers and Software (I.RE.CO.S), Vol. 8, N. 5, ISSN 1828-6003, May 2013.

 Cloud & Parallel Computing Murad, S.E, Dowaji, S, “Value Driven Management of Cloud Services”, International Journal of Web Applications, vol. 10, pp. 22-37, 2018/3. 

Murad, S. E, Dowaji, S, “Using Value-Based Approach for Managing Cloud-Based Services”, Book: Resource Management and Efficiency in 7 7/10 Cloud Computing Environments, IGI Global, pp. 33-62, 2017.

 Murad, S.E, Dowaji, S, “Semantic Web Framework for Hybrid Cloud”, International Review on Computers and Software (IRECOS), vol. 11, No. 7, pp. 587-593, 2016. 

Murad, S. E, Dowaji S, “Service Value Optimization of Cloud Hosted Systems Using Particle Swarm Technique”, Journal of Enterprise Information Management, vol. 29, Issue 4, pp 612-626, 2016.

 V. Cung, S. Dowaji, B. Le Cun, T. Mautor, C. Roucairol, Concurrent Data Structures and Load Balancing Strategies for Parallel Branch-and Bound/A* Algorithms.

 3rd DIMACS Parallel Implementation Challenge Workshop, DIMACS – New Brunswick, October 17 and 18, 1994 Salah Dowaji and Catherine Roucairol, Influence of Priority of Tasks on Load Balancing for Distributed Branch-and-Bound Algorithms, 8th International Parallel Processing Symposium (IPPS’95) – Workshop on Solving Irregular Problems on Distributed Memory Machines, pp. 83-90, Sanata Barbara (USA), April 25-28, 1995.

 Salah Dowaji and Catherine Roucairol, Load Balaning strategy and priority of tasks in distributed environments, 14th Annual IEEE Conference - International Phoenix Conference on Computers and Communication, pp. 15-22, Scottsdale, Arizona (USA), March 28-31, 1995. 

les Salah DOWAJI – Mécanismes de déclenchement de l’équilibrage de charge pour algorithmes branch-and-bound distribués. Rencontres Francophones de Recherche Opérationnelle: FRANCORO. – Mons (Belgique, Juin 1995).

 M. Benachouche, V.-D. Cung, S. Dowaji, B. Le Cun, T. Mautor, and C. Roucairol, Building a parallel branch and bound library, in: Solving combinatorial optimization problems in parallel, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1054 (Springer, Berlin, 1996) 201-231.

 N Yahfoufi and S Dowaji. Self-stabilizing distributed branch-and-bound algorithm. In Proceedings of the 1996 IEEE 15th Annual International Phoenix Conference on Computers and Communications, pages 246--252, 1996. 

M. Benaichouche, V.-D. Cung, S. Dowaji, B. Le cun, T. Mautor, and C. Roucairol. SCOOP : Solving Combinatorial Optimization Problems in Parallel, chapter Building a Parallel Branch and Bound Library, pages 201 231. LNCS State-of-the-Art Survey. Springer-Verlag, 1996. 

Miscellaneous Iyad Khaddam, Jean Vanderdonckt, Salah Dowaji, Donatien Grolaux, “Towards Rapid Prototyping of Foldable Graphical User Interfaces with Flecto”, Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, vol. 4, Issue ISS, pp: 1-33, ACM, 11/2020.

 S. Khoury Noumer and S. Dowaji, Knowledge Representation Approach to Measure Distributed Systems Performance, International Review on Computers and Software (I.RE.CO.S), Vol. 8, N. 7, ISSN 1828-6003, July 2013.