Qusay Mahmoud holds a B.Sc. in Data Analysis, a Masters degree in Computer Science, and a PhD in Computer Science. He has been working in the academia for over 9 years teaching courses on Network Computing, Distributed Systems, Network Programming, Java Programming, Software Engineering, Software Agents. Between 1999-2001 he taught courses for developers at Nortel Networks on Java programming, RMI, CORBA, J2EE, and building software components using JavaBeans.

He has helped to organize numerous events such the Track on Handheld Computing, part of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing in 2005 and 2006 and is the Program Vice Chair (Semantic Services) for IEEE AINA, Vienna, Austria, 2006.  His research interests include distributed systems, network management middleware computing, agent technology, wireless and mobile computing, and service-oriented computing.