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Khaled Elleithy, Ph.D.
Distinguished Professor of Computer Science
Fellow, African Academy of Sciences
Website: http://khaledelleithy.org/
Dr. Elleithy has worked in academia for the past 30 years in various administrative and teaching roles, including Ph.D. Program Director, Online MS Program Advisor, Associate Dean for Engineering, Associate Vice President for Graduate Studies and Research, Associate Dean of the College of Engineering, Business, and Education, and Dean of the College of Engineering, Business, and Education.
Dr. Elleithy has published over 400 research papers in national and international journals and conferences, with more than 6,700 Google Scholar citations. His recent research focuses on cybersecurity, wireless communication security, microstrip antenna design, steganography, mobile collaborative learning environments, QoS routing protocols in wireless multimedia sensor networks, disaster recovery processes over wireless sensor networks, and quantum cryptography, all making significant contributions to science and technology.
Dr. Elleithy has actively participated in numerous professional societies over the past 30 years, including the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), and the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE). This involvement includes organizing conferences and workshops, serving in leadership positions, editing journals, and engaging in various other activities.
Dr. Elleithy has served as the PI or Co-PI for over $3 million in funded research projects over the past twenty years. Sponsors include the NSF, ARDEC, the United Nations, the Connecticut NASA Space Grant, Cisco, the University of Connecticut's START program, the University of Bridgeport's CTNEXT, Saudi Aramco, and the King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST).
Dr. Elleithy received the Distinguished Professor of the Year Award from the University of Bridgeport in 2005. He was awarded the 2015 Connecticut Quality Improvement Award (CQIA) Gold Innovation Award. In December 2017, he was elected a Fellow of the African Academy of Sciences in recognition of his contributions to Wireless Sensor Networks and Wireless Communications. In 2020, he was honored as the IEEE Connecticut Section Outstanding Member in Academia.
Dr. Elleithy is a member of the technical program committees of many international conferences as recognition of his research qualifications. He served as a guest editor for several international journals. He was the chairperson of the International Conference on Industrial Electronics, Technology & Automation. Furthermore, he is the co-Chair and co-founder of the Annual International Joint Conferences on Computer, Information, and Systems Sciences, and Engineering virtual conferences 2005 – 2014.
Dr. Elleithy is a member of several technical and honorary societies. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE computer society. He is a member of the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) since 1990, member of ACM SIGARCH (Special Interest Group on Computer Architecture) since 1990, member of the honor society of Phi Kappa Phi University of South Western Louisiana Chapter since April 1989, member of IEEE Circuits & Systems society since 1988, member of the IEEE Computer Society since 1988, and a lifetime member of the Egyptian Engineering Syndicate since June 1983.
Ph.D., Computer Science, The Center for Advanced Computer Studies (CACS), University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 1990
M.S., Computer Science, The Center for Advanced Computer Studies (CACS), University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 1988
M.S., Computer Science and Automatic Control, Computer Science and Automatic Control Dept., University of Alexandria, Egypt, 1986
B.S., Computer Science and Automatic Control, Computer Science and Automatic Control Dept., University of Alexandria, Egypt, 1983
Most Recent Journal publications (2023 - 2025)
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1. Shatha Alhazmi, Khaled Elleithy, Abdelrahman Elleithy, “Digital Forensics of Quantum Computing: The Role of Quantum Entanglement in Digital Forensics—Current Status and Future Directions,” Quantum Reports, MDPI, Volume 7, Issue 4, page 44 – 65, September 2025.
2. Rigel Mahmood, Sarsh Patel, Khaled Elleithy, “EEViT: Efficient Enhanced Vision Transformer Architectures with Information Propagation and Improved Inductive Bias,”AI, MDPI, Vol. 6, Issue 9, pp. 233-258, September 2025.
3. Abdulrahman Kariri, Khaled Elleithy, “AEA-YOLO: Adaptive Enhancement Algorithm for Challenging Environment Object Detection,”” AI, MDPI, Vol 6, Issue 7, pp. 132 – 156, June 2025.
4. Bishad Ghimire, Ausif Mahmood, Khaled Elleithy, “One-shot Autoregressive Generation of Combinatorial Optimization Solutions based on the Large Language Model Architecture and Learning Algorithms,” AI, MDPI, Vol. 6, Issue 4, pp. 66 - 79, March 2025.
5. Arar Al Tawil, Laiali Almazaydeh, Doaa Qawasmeh, Baraah Qawasmeh, Mohammad Alshinwan and Khaled Elleithy, "Comparative Analysis of Machine Learning Algorithms for Email Phishing Detection Using TF-IDF, Word2Vec, and BERT,” Computers, Materials & Continua, Tech science Press, Entropy, MDPI, Volume 81, pp. 3395 – 3412, November 2024.
6. Nadine Matondo-Mvula and Khaled Elleithy," Breast cancer detection with quanvolutional neural networks," Entropy, MDPI, Volume 26, Issue 8, pp. 630 - 641, July 2024.
7. Hamed Alshammari and Khaled Elleithy, “Toward Robust Arabic AI-Generated Text Detection: Tackling Diacritics Challenges,” Information, MDPI, Volume 15, issue 7, pp. 419 - 448, July 2024.
8. Hepseeba Kode, Khaled Elleithy, Laiali H Almazaydeh, "Epileptic Seizure detection in EEG signals using Machine Learning and Deep Learning Techniques," IEEE Access, pp. 80657- 80668, June 2024.
9. Hamed Alshammari, Ahmed El-Sayed, Khaled Elleithy, "AI-generated text detector for Arabic language using encoder-based transformer architecture," Big Data and Cognitive Computing, MDPI, Volume 8, issue 3, March 2024.
10. Bishad Ghimire, Ausif Mahmood, and Khaled Elleithy, Hybrid Parallel Ant Colony Optimization for Application to Quantum Computing to Solve Large-Scale Combinatorial Optimization Problems,” Applied Sciences, MDPI, Volume 13, Issue 21, pp. 11817- 11838, October 2023.
11. Zakareya Lasefr, Khaled Elleithy, Ramasani Rakesh Reddy, Eman Abdelfattah, and Miad Faezipour, “An Epileptic Seizure Detection Technique Using EEG Signals with Mobile Application Development,” Applied Sciences, MDPI, Volume 13, Issue 17, pp. 9571- 9595, September 2023.
12. Enas Abu Jrai; Shoroq Alsharari; Laiali Almazaydeh; Khaled Elleithy; Osama Abu-Hamdan “Improving LZW Compression of Unicode Arabic Text Using Multi-Level Encoding and a Variable-Length Phrase Code,” IEEE Access, vol. 11, pp. 51915-51929, June 2023.
13. Reyad Alsalameen, Laiali Almazaydeh, Bilal Alqudah, Khaled Elleithy, “Information Technology Students' Perceptions Toward Using Virtual Reality Technology for Educational Purposes,” International Journal of Interactive Mobile Technologies,” Volume 17, Issue 7, April 2023, pp. 148-166.
14. Laiali Almazaydeh, Mohammed Abuhelaleh, Arar Al Tawil, Khaled Elleithy, “Clinical Text Classification with Word Representation Features and Machine Learning Algorithms,” International Journal of Online & Biomedical Engineering, Vol. 19, April 2023, pp. 65-76.
15. Michael Joseph and Khaled Elleithy, “Beyond Frontal Face Recognition,” IEEE Access, Vol 11, March 2023, pp. 26850 – 26861.
16. Wafa Elmannai, Khaled Elleithy, Andrew Anthony Benz, Alberto Carmine DeAngelis, Nick Weaver, “An Enhanced Piezoelectric-Generated Power Technique for Qi Wireless Charging,” Clean Technologies, Vol. 5, Issue 1, March 2023.