Hany H. Ammar

Professor, Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
Professor, College of Engineering and Mineral Resources

Approved Graduate Faculty for CEMR MS and PhD committees

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Dr.Ammar is a Professor of Computer Engineering in the Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at West Virginia University. He joined the faculty at WVU in 1990 after five years of service on the faculty at Clarkson University. Dr. Ammar has published over 80 articles in prestigious journals and conference proceedings such as the IEEE Transaction on Software Engineering, the IEEE Transactions on Computers, and the IEEE Transactions on Reliability.
Education
	Ph.D., University of Notre Dame, 1986
	M.S., Electrical Engineering, University of Texas at El Paso, 1980
	B.Sc., Physics, Cairo University, 1977
	B.S., Electrical Engineering, Cairo University, 1975
Research Focus Areas
	Software Engineering
Research Interests
	Software Risk and Reliability Assessment Methodologies
	Software Specification and Design
	Software Metrics
	Software Architecture and Design Metrics
	Software Design using Object-Oriented Patterns and Frameworks
	Analysis and Design of Real-Time Systems
	Automated Dental and Fingerprint Identification systems
	Parallel Processing techniques for Fingerprint Image Comparison
	Modeling and Evaluation of Parallel and Distributed Systems Performance and Dependability
Teaching Interests
	Software Engineering
	Computer Architecures
Professional Societies
	IEEE
	ACM