Wael A. Hashlamoun received the B.S. degree from the University of Jordan, Amman, in 1981 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, in 1983 and 1991, respectively, all in electrical engineering.

From 1983 to 1987, he was an instructor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Birzeit University. From 1987 to 1991, he was a teaching and research assistant in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Syracuse University. Since 1991, he has been a faculty member in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Birzeit University where he is currently a Professor of Electrical Engineering. He served as Chairman of the Department from 1995 to 1998, Dean of the Faculty of Engineering from 1998 to 2004, and Assistant Vice President for Academic Affairs at Birzeit University from 2012-2015. His research interests include sensor networks, detection theory, systems and control theory, and security in cognitive radio networks.

Dr. Hashlamoun received the AMIDEAST scholarship to pursue an M.S. study at Syracuse University in 1982, the Fulbright Scholarship to spend the academic year 2006-2007 as a visiting research scholar at the University of Maryland, College Park, the German DAADVisiting Scholarship to spend one semester at the University of Stuttgart, Germany in 2005, and the Bank of Palestine Zamaleh Scholarship to spend the academic year 2015-2016 as a research associate at Syracuse University.