IZZAT M.

ALSMADI
Department of Computer Science
Boise State University
Boise, ID 83725, USA
2089726299
coen.boisestate.edu/faculty-staff/izzatalsmadi
izzatalsmadi@boisestate.edu
EDUCATION

2008 Ph.D., Software Engineering, North Dakota State University (NDSU), USA.
2005 M.S. Software Engineering, North Dakota State University (NDSU), USA.
2003 M.S. Computer Information Systems, University of Phoenix, USA.
1994 B. Sc., Electrical Engineering/Telecommunication/ Mutah University, Jordan.

RESEARCH INTERESTS
Computer security, software defined networking, software engineering, social networks
analysis.
TEACHING INTERESTS
Ethical hacking, computer and network security, computer forensics, software engineering,
software quality assurance, programming languages, computer networks, data mining, data
structure, web development, etc.
EMPLOYMENT
June 2014 present: Assistant research professor, Department of Computer Science, Boise
State University.
August 2013 June 2014: Associate professor, Department of Computer Information
Systems, Prince Sultan University, KSA.
March 2008 August 2013: Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Information
Systems, Yarmouk University, Jordan.
August 2004 March 2008: Lecturer and research assistant, Department of Computer
Science, North Dakota State University.
March 2006 March 2008: Software quality assurance, Feed Management Systems, Fargo,
North Dakota.
June 2005 September 2005: Software developer, Ecliptic Technologies, Fargo, North
Dakota.
August 2003 August 2004: Lecturer, Yarmouk University, Jordan.
August 2000 August 2003: Network engineer, Yegwa communications, Sunnyvale,
California
August 1999 August 2000: IT and technical support, Canon, UAE.
June 1994 August 1999: Telecommunication engineer, Telecommunication directorate,
Jordan.
GRANTS

1. Senior Personnel, REU Site: Software Security, NSF CNS 1461133, $324,000, 3/01/2015
2/28/2018.
2. Co-PI, Measuring Jordanian Hospitals' Efficiency through Mining Development Analysis,
Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research of Jordan, $45,000, 2009-2010.
3. Postdoc Fellowship, Avempace (European Grants), Bonn Rhein Sieg University of Applied
Sciences in Sankt Augustin, Germany, 2012-2013.
PEDNING AND DECLINED GRANTS
Co-PI, EDU: Developing a Software Artifact Repository for Software Assurance
Education, NSF, 9/01/2016-8/31/2018, Pending. Submitted in December 2014.
Co-PI, I-NEW: Infrastructure for Automated Testing of SDN-Based Security Services,
NSF, $579,227, submitted in November 2014, not funded but rated Competitive.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
1.

Izzat Alsmadi and Dianxiang Xu, Security of Software Defined Networks: A Survey,
Computers and Security, accepted for publications.

2.

Izzat Alsmadi and Ikadm Al, Hami, Clustering and Classification of Email Contents,
Journal of King Saud University Computer and Information Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 27,
Issue 1, January 2015, pp. 4657.

3.

Al-Kabi M., Alsmadi I., Wahsheh H. Evaluation of Spam Impact on Arabic Websites
Popularity, Journal of King Saud University - Computer and Information Sciences,
Elsevier, In press, doi:10.1016/j.jksuci.2014.04.005.

4.

Hussein AlNabulsi, Izzat Alsmadi, Mohammad AlJarrah, Textual Manipulation for SQL
Injection Attacks, International Journal of Computer Network and Information Security
(IJCNIS), pp. 26-33, 2014.

5.

Mohammad Dabbour, Izzat Alsmadi, and Emad Alsukhni, Efficient Assessment and
Evaluation for Websites Vulnerabilities Using SNORT, International Journal of Security
and its Applications, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 716, 2013.

6.

Mohammad Al-Ramahi, Iyad AlAzzam and Izzat Alsmadi, The Impact of

Using Pair Programming: A Case Study, International Journal of Teaching and Case
Studies, Inderscience, vol. 4, no.4, pp. 313 329, 2013.

7.

Izzat Alsmadi, Using Mutation to Enhance GUI Testing Coverage, IEEE Software, vol.
30 no. 1, pp. 6773, 2013.

8.

Yahya Tashtoush, Aisha Zaidan and Izzat Alsmadi, Implications for Websites Trust and
Credibility Assessment, The International Journal of E-Entrepreneurship and Innovation
(IJEEI), vol. 3, no. 4, pp. 1733, 2012.

9.

Heider A. Wahsheh, Mohammed N. Al-Kabi, and Izzat Alsmadi, A Link and Content
Hybrid Approach for Arabic Web Spam Detection, International Journal of Intelligent
Systems and Applications, MECS, 2012.

10. Izzat Alsmadi, Ahmed AlEroud, Toward Security Test Automation for Event Driven GUI
Web Contents, International Journal of Computer Network and Information Security
(IJCNIS), pp. 1925, 2012.
11. Mohammed Al-Kabi, Heider Wahsheh, Izzat Alsmadi, Emad Al-Shawakfa, Abdullah
Wahbeh and Ahmed Al-Hmoud, Content Based Analysis to Detect Arabic Web Spam,
Journal of Information Science JIS, April, 19, 2012.
12. Ikdam Alhami, and Izzat Alsmadi, Automatic Code Homework Grading Based on
Concept Extraction, International Journal of Software Engineering and Its Applications
IJSEIA, vol. 5, no. 4, 2011.
13. Izzat Alsmadi, and Hassan Najadat, Evaluating the Change of Software Fault Behavior
with Dataset Attributes Based on Categorical Correlation, Advance Engineering
Software, Elsevier, vol. 42, no. 8, pp. 535546, 2011.
14. Ahmad Al-Eroud, Mohammed AlRamahi, Mohammed AlKabi, Izzat Alsmadi, and Emad
Shawakfa, Evaluating Google Queries Based On Language Preferences, Journal of
Information Science (JIS), vol. 37, no. 3, 2011.
15. Muhammad Tubeishat, Izzat Alsmadi, and Muhammad Al-Kabi, Using XML for User
Interface Documentation and Differential Evaluation, Journal of Theoretical and Applied
Information Technology, JATIT, vol. 21, no. 2, 2010.
16. Izzat Alsmadi, and Mohammed Al-Kabi, The Introduction of Several GUI Structural
Metrics to Make Test Automation More Effective. Open Software Engineering Journal,
pp. 7277, 2009.
Conference/Workshop Papers
17. Izzat Alsmadi, Milson Munakami and Dianxiang Xu, Model-Based Testing of SDN
Firewalls: A Case Study, Proceedings of The Second International Conference on
Trustworthy Systems and Their Applications, (TSA15), Taiwan, July 2015.
18. Feras Hanandeh, Izzat Alsmadi and Muhammad M. Kwafha, Evaluating Alternative
Structures for Prefix Trees, Proceedings of the World Congress on Engineering and
Computer Science, vol. I, 22-24 October, 2014, San Francisco, USA.
19. Anis Zarrad, Abdulaziz Aljaloud and Izzat Alsmadi, Using Big Data Methods in Opinion
Mining and Sentimental Analysis, 2nd International Workshop on Big Data and Social
Networking Management and Security, BDSN-2014, London, UK.
20. Hisham Almubaid and Izzat Alsmadi, Predicting Protein Subcellular Localization with
Reduced Feature set, BICoB 2014, Las Vegas, USA.
21. Khasawneh R., Wahsheh H., AL-Kabi, M., Alsmadi I., Sentiment Analysis of Arabic
Social Media Content: A Comparative Study, 1st International workshop on Big Data and
Social Networking Management and Security (BDSN-2013), December 9-12, 2013,
London, UK.

22. Ahmed F. Aleroud, Izzat M. Alsmadi, Ahmad I. Alaiad, and Qasem A. Al-Radaideh, The
Effects of Neural Networks Training Factors on Stock Price Prediction Errors, In
proceedings of IASTED 2012, Human-Computer Interaction HCI 2012, USA.
23. Ahmad Eyadat and Izzat Alsmadi, Automatic Coverage Evaluation for a Medical Expert
System, ITNG, Ninth International Conference on Information Technology - New
Generations, pp. 867-872, Las Vegas, USA, 2012.
24. Hassan Najadat and Izzat Alsmadi, An Interactive DEA Management Based System for
Hospitals, In proceedings of International MultiConference of Engineers and Computer
Scientists, IMECS, Vol II, 16-18 March 2011, Hong Kong.
25. Izzat Alsmadi, Ahmad T. Al-Taani, and Nahed Abu Zaid, Web Structural Metrics
Evaluation, In Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Developments in
eSystems Engineering DESE 2010, UK.
26. Izzat Alsmadi, Using Genetic Algorithms for Test Case Generation and Selection
Optimization, CCECE, IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer
Engineering, 2010, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
27. Hassan Najadat, Mohammed Aref Diab, Izzat Alsmadi, A General Domain Application
for Implementing the Case-Based Reasoning, In Proceedings of International Conference
of Software Engineering and Computer Systems, ICSECS '09, 19 - 21 October 2009,
Pahang, Malaysia.
28. Izzat M. Alsmadi, and Mahmoud Dieri, Separation of Concerns in Teaching Software
Engineering. CISSE 2009. USA.
29. Izzat Alsmadi, and Mohammed Al-Kabi, Using Metrics to Evaluate User Interfaces
Automatically, SMEF 2009, Italy, 2009.
30. Izzat Alsmadi, The Utilization of User Sessions in Testing. In Proceedings of the Seventh
IEEE/ACIS International Conference on Computer and Information Science (ICIS 2008),
May 2008, Portland, Oregon. USA.
31. Kenneth. Magel and Izzat Alsmadi, GUI Structural Metrics and Testability Testing.
Proceedings of IASTED, SEA 2007, Boston USA.
32. Dianxiang Xu, Izzat Alsmadi, and Weifeng Xu, Model Checking Aspect-Oriented Design
Specification, In Proceedings of the 31st IEEE International Computer Software and
Applications Conference (COMPSAC'07), Beijing, July 2007.
33. Izzat Alsmadi Kenneth Magel, GUI Path Oriented Test Generation Algorithms, In
Proceedings of IASTED Human-Computer Interaction, March 14-16, Chamonix, France,
pp. 216-219, 2007.
34. Izzat Alsmadi and Kenneth Magel, GUI test automation framework. SERP07, Las Vegas,
2007.
35. Izzat Alsmadi and Kenneth Magel, GUI Path Oriented Test Generation, SETP07, Orlando,
Florida. 2007.

36. Izzat Alsmadi and Kenneth Magel, Open source evolution analysis. In Proceedings of
22nd IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM'06), Philadelphia,
PA, Sept. 24 to 27, 2006, pp. 276-278.
AWARDS AND CERTIFICATES

Microsoft graduate fellowship award, Fargo, ND, USA, 2006 (Offered once a year by
Microsoft starting 2006 to best graduate research).
Cisco Certified Network Associate CCNA, 2000.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

CS 397 Ethical Hacking, Spring 2015, BSU.

Software Configuration Management, Software Design, Software Quality Assurance,
Management Information Systems, Graphical User Interfaces, Fall 2013 - Spring 2014,
Prince Sultan University, KSA.
Software Engineering, Advanced Software Engineering. Advanced Software Design,
Software Testing, Introduction to Computer and Software Security, Introduction to
Information Systems, Management of Information Systems, Advance Object Oriented
Programming, Data Structure Programming, Fall 2008 to Spring 2012, Yarmouk
University, Jordan.
Introduction to Information Systems, Introduction to Programming, Data Structure
Programming with Java, Fall 2004 to Spring 2007, North Dakota State University, Fargo,
ND, USA (I was a full time lecturer in addition to my study as a master and PhD student).
I supervised several master students in both thesis and master projects during the period
from 2008 to 2013.

REVIEWER

International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering.

Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering.
An active reviewer for several periodic conferences and peer-reviewed journals.
An active reviewer for research projects; usually invited by several research agencies in
different countries.

REFERENCES
1. Prof. Kenneth Magel, Department of Computer Science, North Dakota State University,
Fargo, ND, Kenneth_Magel@ndsu.nodak.edu, http://www.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu/~kmagel/,
(701) 231-8189.

2. Prof. Kendall Nygard, Department of Computer Science, North Dakota State University,
Fargo, ND, http://www.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu/~nygard, kendall.nygard@ndsu.edu, (701) 2318203.
3. Prof. Dianxiang Xu, Department of Computer Science, Boise State University,
http://cs.boisestate.edu/~dxu, dianxiangxu@boisestate.edu, (208) 426-5734.
4. Prof. Mohammad Obaidat, Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering,
Monmouth
University,
New
Jersey,
http://www.monmouth.edu/academics/CSSE/faculty/obaidat.asp,
obaidat@monmouth.edu, (732) 571-4482.
5. Dr Hisham Al-Mubaid, Computer Information Systems Department, University of
Houston-Clear Lake, http://sce.uhcl.edu/almubaid, Hisham@uhcl.edu, (832) 807-1444.