Ala’ Khalifeh received a Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of California, Irvine -the USA in 2010. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Communication Engineering department at the German Jordanian University and the department chair. Dr. Khalifeh is the recipient of the Fulbright scholarship (2005-2007) sponsored by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the United States Department of State and the University of California Pedagogical fellowship for his excellent teaching and leadership skills. He is currently the IEEE chair for the communication society in Jordan. His research is in communications technology, signal processing, and networking with particular emphasis on optimal resource allocations for multimedia transmission over wired and wireless networks, VoIP, E-health applications, medical signal processing, , speech, video, and audio signal processing. He has published numerous research papers at national and international journals, conference proceedings as well as chapters of books. The European Union Support to Research, Technological Development and Innovation in Jordan (SRTD – II (2015-2017), project title: (A videoconferencing platform for e-health services). The Jordanian Scientific research funding,(2015-2017), project title (A Smartphone-based online video conferencing platform for eHealth services in rural areas). Further, he is the CO-PI of the NATO SPS project entitled (Hybrid sensor networks for emergency critical scenarios)
(2015-2018).