Academic profile

Dhiah el Diehn I. Abou-Tair

Full Professor of Computer Science, higher education leader, and principal investigator with sustained work across academic governance, externally funded programmes, and international cooperation.

Computer Science Department, School of Computing, German Jordanian University Amman, Jordan
Privacy-enhancing technologiesCybersecuritySystems-of-systemsDistributed ledger technologiesBlockchainInternet of Things
Portrait of Dhiah el Diehn I. Abou-Tair
Academic leadership, research, and international cooperation across computing and higher education.

Academic profiles

€37M+Competitive and strategic funding led or co-led
2023–2025Vice Dean, School of Computing
2015–presentEDU-SYRIA project leadership

Profile

Research, leadership, and institutional impact

Dhiah el Diehn I. Abou-Tair’s work connects privacy-enhancing technologies, distributed systems, blockchain, and Internet of Things applications with institutional leadership in higher education. His profile brings together scientific research, international academic cooperation, and stewardship of strategically funded programmes.

This website presents research, leadership, teaching, and academic service in a concise public format suited to collaboration, institutional outreach, and scholarly visibility.

Current roles

Selected appointments

  • Full Professor, Computer Science Department, School of Computing, German Jordanian University
  • Project Manager, EDU-SYRIA Programme
  • Exchange Coordinator, School of Computing
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Highlights

Recent and current academic milestones

2024–present

Full Professor at the German Jordanian University, continuing research, academic leadership, and international cooperation.

2023–2025

Vice Dean of the School of Computing, with responsibility across academic governance and school-level development.

2015–present

Project leadership for EDU-SYRIA and related externally funded higher-education initiatives.

Current

Research, supervision, and partnerships across cybersecurity, privacy-enhancing technologies, systems-of-systems, blockchain, and IoT.

Selected publications

Recent scholarly contributions

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2023

A Reliable System-of-Systems Healthcare Monitoring Framework

IEEE Access

2023

A Distributed and Secure Self-Sovereign-Based Framework for Systems of Systems

Sensors

2022

Distributed Self-Sovereign-Based Access Control System

IEEE Security & Privacy

2022

Coordination Protocol and Admission Control for Distributed Services in System-of-Systems with Real-time Requirements

IEEE Access

2021

Incremental, Distributed, and Concurrent Service Coordination for Reliable and Deterministic Systems-of-Systems

IEEE Systems Journal

2020

A Fog Computing-based Framework for Privacy Preserving IoT Environments

The International Arab Journal of Information Technology

Funding and projects

Programme and grant leadership

Work spans European Union, DAAD, Erasmus+, and DFG-funded initiatives, including multiple phases of EDU-SYRIA, data literacy initiatives, and collaborative IoT partnerships.

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Teaching and supervision

Core teaching areas

  • Software Engineering
  • Database Management Systems
  • Web Infrastructure, Services, and Applications
  • Object Oriented Programming
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