Education
| Degree | Discipline | Institution | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ph.D | Distributed Systems | The University of Iowa | 1995 |
| M.S. | Distributed Systems | The University of Iowa | 1990 |
| B.S. | Computer Science and Engineering | The University of Hacettepe | 1987 |
Research Interests
Selected Publications
- Ebrahim A. Alrashed, Mehmet Hakan Karaata, Ali Hamdan, Malicious Replica Quarantining Protocol for Mobile Wireless Sensor Networks using Replica Detection and Identification, To appear in Internetof Things
- Mehmet Hakan Karaata, Aysha Dabees, Fawaz Alazemi, A reliable concurrent multicast algorithm for content distribution. Journal of Supercomputing 78(8), pp. 10542-10574, 2022
- Mehmet Hakan Karaata, Ebrahim Alrashed, Mohammad Allaho, Self-stabilizing c-wave algorithms for arbitrary networks, Computing, DOI:https://doi.org/10.1007/s00607-022-01110-4, 2022
- Mehmet Hakan Karaata, Algorithms for Finding Diameter Cycles of Biconnected Graphs, CIT. Journal of Computing and Information Technology, 28(4), pp. 225–240 doi: 10.20532/cit.2020.1005136, 2020
- Mehmet Hakan Karaata, Anwar Nais AlMutairi, A Snap-Stabilizing m-wave Algorithm for Tree Networks. Comput. J. 63(2): pp. 220-238, 2020
- Ebrahim A. Alrashed, Mehmet Hakan Karaata, Ali Hamdan, Badour Albahar, An Adaptive Stabilizing Imposter Detection Scheme for Distributed Mobile Wireless Sensor Networks, 65, pp. 1-12,Ad Hoc Networks, 2017.
- Mehmet Hakan Karaata, Ali Hamdan, Maha H. Faisal, Feda A AlShawan, Byzantine Fault Detection for Message Passing Systems,Journal of Circuits, Systems and Computers,27(5), 2018, (to appear in May 2018)
- Rachid Hadid and Mehmet Hakan Karaata, A stabilizing algorithm for finding two node-disjoint paths in arbitrary networks,International Journal of Foundations of Computer Science, 28(4), pp. 411-435, 2017
- Mehmet Hakan Karaata and Rachid Hadid, “A Stabilizing Optimal ℓ-Exclusion Algorithm”, Journal of Circuits, Systems and Computers, 25(8), 2016, DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/S0218126616500985
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Tassos Dimitriou, Ebrahim A. Alrashed, Mehmet Hakan Karaata, Ali Hamdan, Imposter detection for replication attacks in mobile sensor networks”, Computer Networks, 108(24), 2016, 210–222.
Work Experience
| Institution | Designation | Year/Period |
|---|---|---|
| Department of Computer Engineering, Kuwait University | Professor | 2010 Present |
| Department of Computer Engineering, Kuwait University | Associate Professor | 2001-2010 |
| Department of Computer Engineering, Kuwait University | Assistant Professor | 1996-2001 |
| Department of Computer and Information Engineering, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey | Assistant Professor | 1995-1996 |
| Department of Computer Science, Teikyo Marycrest University, Davenport, Iowa | Adjunct Instructor | Spring & Summer 1994 |
| Department of Computer Science | Research\Teaching | 1989-1995 |
| The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa Duties include teaching, grading, conducting research, attending research meetings, writing research papers. |
Assistant | |
| Department of Otolaryngology, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa Duties included developing software for research in hearing and cochlear implants. Use of C, Pascal, Atlab software and variety of audiovisual equipment, Data Translation hardware in conjunction | Programmer Analyst | 1990 to 1991 |
| Hacettepe University Registration Center, Ankara, Turkey. Developed a database system for a student registration center. Duties included system analysis, design of the database schema, implementing programs to load the existing data, and to update the database (with the consideration of database backup and failures) |
Database Programmer | 1986-1987 |
| STFA ELECTROCOM, Ankara, Turkey. Developed a stock control system, personally designed, and implemented | Application Programmer | 1986 Summer |
| Organization | Designation | Year/Period |
|---|---|---|
| STFA ELECTROCOM | Application Programmer | 1986 |
Professional Organizations
• ADVISORY BOARD of (ICARS) International Centre for Advanced Research and Studies (ICARS), Delhi
• 9th International Congress on Information and Communication Technology (ICICT 2024)
• 2nd International Conference on Computing and Data Analytics (ICCDA- 2024)
• 7th International Conference on Advances in Natural and Applied Sciences (ICANAS 2024)
• 6th International Conference on Communications, Signal Processing, and their Applications (ICCSPA 2024)
• 24th International Conference on Computational Science (ICCS 2023)
• 7th International Conference on Communication and Information Systems (ICCIS 2023)
• 6th International Conference on Advances in Natural and Applied Sciences (ICANAS 2023)
• 7th International Conference on Information and Computer Technologies (ICICT 2024)
• 6th International Conference on Information and Computer Technologies (ICICT 2023)
• 16th Asian Conference on Intelligent Information and Database Systems (ACIIDS 2024)
• 15th Asian Conference on Intelligent Information and Database Systems (ACIIDS 2023)
• 14th Asian Conference on Intelligent Information and Database Systems (ACIIDS 2022)
• 5th International Conference on Information and Computer Technologies (ICICT 2022)
• 5th annual International Conference on Cloud Technology and Communication Engineering (CTCE 2022)
• 4th International Conference of Computer and Data analysis (ICCDA 2021)
• 5th International Conference on Communication and Information Systems (ICCIS 2020)
• The 4th International Conference on Information and Computer Technologies (ICICT 2020)
• 5th International Conference on Communications and Network Engineering (ICCNE 2018)
• International Conference on Unmanned Aerial Systems and Aerospace (ICUASA 2018)
• International Conference on Computing Sciences and Engineering, ICCSE 2018
• 7th Asian Conference on Intelligent Information and Database Systems, ACIIDS 2018
Honors and Awards
- Best Graduation Project Award of College of Engineering (by Supervised Students) (2023)
Second Best Graduation Project Award of College of Engineering (by Supervised Students) (2023) - Winner of the Qatar Robotics Competition (by Supervised Students) (2017)
Best Graduation Project Award of College of Engineering (by Supervised Students) (2014, 2017) - Kuwait University Distinguished Researcher Award (2009) (college level)
- Kuwait University Best Young Researcher Award (2001) (college and university level)
- Turkish Government Outstanding Student Award and Scholarship (1988)
Regional Best Student Award (1983)
Service Activities
- Promotion Committee Coordinator (College of Architecture) (2023-present)
- Promotion Committee Member (2014-present except 2021/22)
- Graduate Committee member (2019-present)
- Programming Fundamentals TAG Coordinator (2021-2022)
- Assessment Committee Member (2021-2022)
- Capstone Design TAG Member (2022-2023)
- Promotion Committee Coordinator (2018-2021)
- Graduate Committee member (2019-present)
- Software Engineering (CpE221) Coordinator (2018-2019)