Dr. Shatha Jawad

Contact Information

Dr. Shatha Jawad

College: College of Business, Engineering, & Technology

Department: Department of Engineering, Data and Computer Science

[email protected]

(858)309-3413

Kearny Mesa Campus


Education

University of Technology - PHD - Computer Engineering
Dr. Shatha Jawad has over 25 years of teaching experience and more than three years of experience as a software engineer. She holds a Ph.D. in computer engineering. In 2024, she received the Full-Time Faculty Excellence in Scholarship Award for the School of Technology and Engineering at National University, following her receipt of the Full-Time Faculty Excellence in Teaching Award in 2023. She is a Co-PI on a 5-year, $20M NSF grant that began on November 1, 2021, for The Institute for Learning-enabled Optimization at Scale (TILOS)*. In 2002, she was awarded a UNESCO Fellowship in the field of Information and Communication Technologies. She has published numerous research papers, with her research interests spanning operating systems, system software, artificial intelligence, neural networks, fuzzy logic, image recognition, quantum computing, and computer science education. *TILOS is a National Science Foundation-funded Artificial Intelligence (AI) Research Institute led by the University of California-San Diego and includes faculty from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Texas at Austin, Yale University, and the National University.