Rate My Professor Mohamed-Vall Zein

Professor Mohamed-Vall M. Salem Zein serves as President of the University of Wollongong in Dubai (UOWD). He was appointed to this role in January 2015. Professor Zein joined UOWD in 2004 and has held several leadership positions at the institution, including Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences and a ten-month period as Acting President. In addition to his presidential duties, he holds the position of University of Wollongong Pro Vice-Chancellor Middle East and North Africa. He is a founding member of the Council of Deans of Engineering in the UAE and has served as Chair of the UOWD Education Committee and Chair of the UOWD Research Committee.

Prior to joining UOWD, Professor Zein worked as a software engineer in both the public and private sectors in Mauritania and Canada. He also participated in combined research projects with industry partners in the UAE and Canada. His areas of interest and expertise encompass technical and non-technical aspects of computing, including software engineering, performance analysis, scalability, innovation, and ethics in information technologies. Professor Zein received his PhD from the University of Montreal in Canada in 2002. He is a recipient of IBM’s Centre for Advanced Studies PhD fellowship and the Bourse d’excellence de la Francophonie from the Canadian International Development Agency.