Dr. Elleithy has worked in academia for the past 30 years in various administrative and teaching roles, including Ph.D. Program Director, Online MS Program Advisor, Associate Dean for Engineering, Associate Vice President for Graduate Studies and Research, Associate Dean of the College of Engineering, Business, and Education, and Dean of the College of Engineering, Business, and Education.
Dr. Elleithy has published over 400 research papers in national and international journals and conferences, with more than 6,500 Google Scholar citations. His recent research focuses on cybersecurity, wireless communication security, microstrip antenna design, steganography, mobile collaborative learning environments, QoS routing protocols in wireless multimedia sensor networks, disaster recovery processes over wireless sensor networks, and quantum cryptography, all making significant contributions to science and technology.
Dr. Elleithy has actively participated in many professional societies over the past 30 years, including the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), and the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE). This participation includes organizing conferences and workshops, taking on leadership roles, editing journals, and engaging in various other activities.
Dr. Elleithy has served as the PI or Co-PI for over $3 million of funded research projects in the past twenty years. Sponsors include the NSF, ARDEC, the United Nations, the Connecticut NASA Space Grant, Cisco, the University of Connecticut's START program, the University of Bridgeport's CTNEXT, Saudi Aramco, and the King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST).
Dr. Elleithy received the Distinguished Professor of the Year Award from the University of Bridgeport in 2005. He was awarded the 2015 Connecticut Quality Improvement Award (CQIA) Gold Innovation Award. In December 2017, he was elected a Fellow of the African Academy of Sciences in recognition of his contributions to Wireless Sensor Networks and Wireless Communications. In 2020, he was honored as the IEEE Connecticut Section Outstanding Member in Academia.