Mr. Ashraf Abusharekh

Ashraf Abusharekh is a PhD student at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at George Mason University and, since January 2006, a graduate research assistant in the System Architectures Laboratory. Ashraf has a Bachelor's degree in Physics from Al-Ahzhar University, Gaza (2001), and a master's degree in Computer Engineering from George Mason University (2004) where he conducted research on Public Key Cryptography at the Cryptography and Network Security Implementations Lab.

Ashraf received the Clinton Scholarship (2002-2004), the Office of Diversity Programs and Services' Vision Awards - Academic Excellence (2003) and the ECE department's Academic Achievement Award (2004). His research interests include Computer Networks, Cryptography and Network Security, Discrete Event System Modeling and Simulation and Distributed Computing.

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