Adnan Yahya is a Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Birzeit University, Palestine.

Received his PhD from Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA in 1984.

Had several visiting appointments at universities and research centers in the US, Germany, France and the UK, including longer term stays at The University of Maryland College Park, Duke University, The University of Munich and Koblenz University.  

Research interests include Artificial Intelligence,   Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval, Computing Curriculum Development. Well published in each of these areas.

Served as Department Chair, Dean and Vice President for Academic Affairs at Birzeit University.

Served on many committees: academic, administrative and professional. Coordinated the Evaluation of Engineering and Technology Programs at Palestinian Universities. Coordinated the authoring of 4 technology textbooks for Palestine.

Member of Palestine Engineers Association, Member of the ACM, Senior Member of the IEEE and ABET (Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology) evaluator.

More details:

WWW:home.birzeit.edu/eng/enee/yahya