Rate My Professor Ghassan Saba

Dr. Ghassan Saba is a Professor, Research Director, and Vice President in the Faculty of Informatics and Communication Engineering at Yarmouk Private University. He teaches undergraduate and postgraduate courses in data communication, networking, information security, operating systems, and distributed systems. Saba earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science specializing in internetworking from the University of Nancy II and INPL in 1996 with a thesis on 'Multipoint protocols and FIP networks interconnection'; DEA in Computer Science from the same institutions in 1991; DES in Computer Science from HIAST in 1990; and Engineering diploma in Computer Science from HIAST in 1989. His academic appointments include professor at HIAST (2012-2014) teaching various networking courses, assistant professor at Damascus University (2003-2007) in networking and modeling, tutor at Syrian Virtual University (2008-2020), Head of Communication Systems and Networking Department at ARAEB (2017-2019), Associate Head of Computer Sciences Department for research at HIAST (2010-2017), and Head of Operating Systems and Networking Laboratory at HIAST (2008-2016). In public service, he served as Deputy Minister of Communications and Technology (2019-2021), CEO of the third mobile operator Wafa Telecom (2022-2023), head of the e-government team (2019), executive head for the national IPv6 transition plan, chairman of the Personal Data Protection Law drafting committee, and member of the Syrian digital transformation strategy committee.