Dr. Rashid Jayousi 

Dr. Rashid Jayousi graduated from the University of Reading, the UK in 1983 in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, holds a Master’s degree in Computer Engineering from Lowell University, USA, and gained his Ph.D. in computer science from Keele University, the UK in 2003. He joined the Computer Science Department at Al-Quds University in 1984 as a teaching assistant. He chaired the Computer Science Department for three years 2006-2009. He supervised different Master Thesis as well as postgraduate and undergraduate projects. He acted as an external and internal examiner to the number of Master thesis at different Universities. He was an external examiner to a Ph.D. Thesis at Lyon University, France. He serves as a member of the editorial board of several scientific journals as well as a reviewer for different journals and conferences. He also serves as a committee member for different conferences. His main research interest is in Multiagent Systems, eLearning Systems, and Distributed Systems. He published several research articles in different Journals, conferences and workshops. He was the director of the centers and institutes at Al-Quds University for three years 2009-2011. He also served as a member of several committees at the university. He directed several World Bank, USAID, EU, and Tempus funded projects. Such projects were related to research in e-learning and digital libraries as well as user training. He worked for the past four years as a coordinator for the e-learning project funded by the Belgium Technical Cooperation (BTC) at the Ministry of Education. He is currently the dean of digital education and the general director of Al-Quds University libraries.