I received my Ph.D. degree from Trinity College Dublin in 2010 where I carried out my research at the Distributed Systems Group. My Ph.D. was a specialization in urban traffic control optimization using distributed reinforcement learning. I also hold an M.Sc. in dependable computer systems from Chalmers tekniska högskola in Göteborg besides a B.Sc. in Computer Science from Jordan university of science and technology.

I am currently a Marie Curie Researcher in the Aeronautics, Space and Defence (ASD) department at Critical Software S.A. in Coimbra, Portugal.
Selected Publications
  1. As'ad Salkham and Vinny Cahill, "Soilse: A Decentralized Approach to Optimization of Fluctuating Urban Traffic Using Reinforcement Learning". ITSC 2010: 13th International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Madeira Island, Portugal, September 2010.

  2. Brendan Tangney, Stefan Weber, Patricia O'Hanlon, David Knowles, Jenney Munnelly, As'ad Salkham, Ronan Watson and Kevin Jennings, "MobiMaths: An approach to utilising smartphones in teaching mathematics". mLearn2010: 9th International Conference on Mobile Learning, Valletta, Malta, October 2010. (Best paper award)

  3. As'ad Salkham, Raymond Cunningham, Anurag Garg and Vinny Cahill, "A Collaborative Reinforcement Learning Approach to Urban Traffic Control Optimization". In Proceedings of the IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology 2008, (IAT 2008), Sydney, Australia, December 2008. (Acceptance rate: 18%).

  4. As'ad Salkham, Raymond Cunningham, Aline Senart and Vinny Cahill, "A Taxonomy of Collaborative Context-Aware Systems". In Proceedings of the Workshop on Ubiquitous Mobile Information and Collaboration Systems (UMICS'06), CAiSE'06, pages 899-911, Luxembourg, June 2006.