Background
Shukri Wakid was born on December 20, 1945, in Kfarshima, Lebanon. Came to the United States in 1967 as a Fullbright-Hays Fellow after being a Rockefeller Fellow at the American University of Beirut. Son of Edward and Renee Wakid.
Mobility Solutions IoT and related light weight security methods 5G mobile security
Shukri Wakid was born on December 20, 1945, in Kfarshima, Lebanon. Came to the United States in 1967 as a Fullbright-Hays Fellow after being a Rockefeller Fellow at the American University of Beirut. Son of Edward and Renee Wakid.
Bachelor of Science, American University Beirut, 1967. Postgraduate, University Pittsburgh, 1967. Doctor of Philosophy, Louisiana State University, 1971.
Vice-President of Mobile Security at the Technology Division of Morgan Stanley (2020-Present), Senior Mobility Architect at Leidos (2018-2019), Distinguished Member of Technical Staff at Verizon (2011-2017), Deputy CTO and Technical Manager at BAE Systems (2008-2011), Master Technologist at Hewlett Packard (2001-2008), Group manager then Division Chief, then Laboratory Director then First CIO at the National Institute Standards and Technology (NIST), followed by being the first CIO at the National Weather Service in the year 2000.
Prior to NIST, career included Bell Labs, Computer Sciences Corp, Senior Research Associate at NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Pittsburgh, and postdoc at LSU. A career in Lebanon covered a Chair of the Department of Physics, Math, and Computer Science at Haigazian University, Beirut, 1972-1976 as well as a Physics Professor at the College of Sciences at the Lebanese University.
At NIST, achievements include founding the National Information Assurance Program (NIAP), and the North American Users Forum. Also; the managing of the Introduction of the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), standardization of the Integrated Services Digital Network technology, introducing measurement techniques for high-speed networks and Information Technology at large. Academic achievements included the theoretical prediction of positronium formation in hydrogen at low energy positron-hydrogen collisions as well as the discovery of inelastic resonances in helium and lithium.
In addition, Shukri has 4 patents, over 59 open publications plus numerous (over 20) proprietary publications. Recent patents address lightweight security by information-theoretic techniques and high-end 5G services.
Life Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). Shukri was also a vice-chair of the technical advisory board of the IEEE-Computer Society.
Shukri is married to Jane Abraham on 29 May in 1978. They have two children: Edward, Jacob.
