Dr Abdelwahed is a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Vanderbilt University. He is also a research scientist at the Institute for Software Integrated Systems (ISIS) at Vanderbilt University.  

He received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Toronto, Canada, in 2002 under the supervision of Professor W. M. Wonham with the discrete event system group. Between 2000 and 2001 He worked as a research scientist with the system diagnosis group at the Rockwell Scientific Company.  He received the Master of Science in Electrical Engineering in 1993 from the department of Communication and Electronics Engineering, Cairo University, Egypt.

Dr. Abdelwahed research interests include autonomous self-managing computing systems, model-based design of embedded systems, verification of real-time systems, supervisory control of discrete event systems, model-based fault diagnosis, and model integrated computing. His research work have been funded by DARPA, NASA, NSF, and Boeing.

Dr. Abdelwahed is a senior member of the IEEE, a member  of Scientific Research Society (Sigma Xi), and a member of the IEEE SCC20 Diagnostic and Maintenance Control standardization committee.