Interest in Simulation, Software Engineering, data and knowledge-relational mining, particularly in intelligent medical applications and e-learning as they relate to Information Systems and Technologies.

• CMU-Adjunct Faculty--Development of a rules-based, decision support system (DSS) for medical helicopter dispatch and communications during medical emergencies. UPMC-EM, CMU-MISM, and Western PA Emergency Medicine. 2008 - 2009.

• A Software Design Laboratory for Computer Science and Related Curriculum--NSF grant proposal on CCLI-Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement [submitted May 2007].

• E-Learning and Distance Education: The Virtual Classroom Project.

• Chronobot System: Time and Knowledge Exchange in E-Learning [Project Group Leader].
• Intelligent Relational Mining and Application to the Chronobot: time and knowledge exchange.
• Choronobot Community for Senior Citizens Health Care in Pittsburgh Area.
• PDM: Project Discrete Mathematics (PDM) --Interactive Multi-Modal Learning in Discrete Mathematics (download system .jar).
  Funded project by an ACIE Provost Grant 2004/2005 – University of Pittsburgh.
• Organizational Medical Simulation System: Effects of Multi-Agent Communications on System Performance (UPMC).

- "Mitigating Errors in Simulated Emergency Medical Environments", IESC08 International Engineering Sciences Conference, Aleppo University, Syria. November 2008.

- “Effects of Multi-Agent Communications on System Performance in Medical Organizations”,  DMS-2007 International Conference on Distributed Multimedia Systems, San Francisco, USA. September 6-8, 2007.

- “Intelligent Relational Mining for Time and Knowledge Exchange in E-Learning”,  DET-2007 The International Workshop on Distance Education Technologies, San Francisco, USA. September 6-8, 2007.

- “Learning Discrete Mathematics through Interaction, Exploration, and Constructive Feedback”, DMS-2007 International Conference on Distributed Multimedia Systems, San Francisco, USA. September 6-8, 2007.

- “Interactive Multi-Modal Learning in Discrete Mathematics”, The Inaugural Conference of the Business, Information and Management Academy (BIMA), American University of Sharjah, UAE, March 17-18, 2007.

- Innovation in Education Project, University of Pittsburgh. “Interactive Multi-Modal Learning in Discrete Mathematics”. Awarded Educational Research Grant  to design Discrete Math software calculator & student tools (PDM). Developed a robust software for Discrete Math Computations, evaluated & class tested. Report submitted to University Fair on Teaching Excellence, October 2005. 

-“Declarative Representation of  Medical Data Collection and Explanation System”, Technical Report, Computer Science Department, University of Pittsburgh, April 1999.

-"A Prototype Spatial-Temporal Reasoning System for Emergency Management", Proc. of Int'l Conference on Visual Information Systems VISUAL96. Australia, 469-478, February 5-7, 1996.

-Expert Systems, “Building a Diagnostic and Treatment Plan System in Emergency Medicine--Knowledge Acquisition and Intelligent System Interface Design”, Joint Research Projects with the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC). Technical Report, Computer Science Department, September 1994.

-Simulation, Software Engineering, and Learning in Medical Information Systems: “Organizational Medical Simulation System: Effects of Intelligent Multi-Agent Communications on System Performance”,  (PhD Thesis).

“Computer Applications and the Internet – A Laboratory Approach to Computer Literacy”, Co-Author, Pearson Publishing, August 2003, ISBN: 0-536-74567-6. 

"Computers and the Internet", Co-Author, The McGraw-Hill Companies, New York, 2000. - 711 p. ; 28 cm.CD, ISBN 0-07-244660-9.

"Principles of Electrical Engineering", "Principles of Linear Communications", "Electrical Physics”, and “Electrical Circuits, Manuscript Editor, University of Aleppo Press. 1980, 1982.The