Excellence in Education

Dr. Awos Kanan

Head of Computer Engineering Department
Assistant professor

Assistant professor in Computer Engineering at Princess Sumaya University for Technology, Amman, Jordan and Adjunct Professor at the University of Victoria, Victoria BC, Canada. Received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Victoria, Canada, M.Sc. and B.Sc. degrees from Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan, all in Computer Engineering. Dr. Kanan has more than 15 years of academic experience in Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Canada. His research interests are in Data Mining, Parallel Computing, Hardware Acceleration for Big Data processing, Applied Machine Learning, Meta-Heuristic Optimization Algorithms, and Computer Networks. He is a member of IEEE and Jordanian Engineers Association (JEA).