Alaraje holds a master's in electrical engineering from Ohio State University and a BS in Electrical Engineering from Jordan University of Science and Technology, and is a PhD candidate in Electrical Engineering at Ohio State University.

His research interests include system-on-chip design techniques, system-on-chip micro-network architecture and system-on-chip interconnection architecture. Alaraje has taught courses in computer networking and hands-on computer networking in a lab. He also worked as a graduate teaching assistant for the microprocessor lab.

He has expertise in hardware design, testing, integration and troubleshooting of complex analog/digital electronics systems. Alaraje also has expertise in design tools, such as VHDL, Verilog, V-System, MTI/ATTSIM, Logic Analyzer, Cadence Design, Mentor Graphics, Lattice/Altera/Xilinx and MATLAB. He is familiar with assembly languages like Motorola 68X, MPC 750, 860, 8260, AMD 29K and Intel X86.

Alaraje achieved top rank in his electrical engineering graduate class of 1990 and earned the Fulbright Scholarship for an MS in Computer Engineering. In the past, he has worked as a hardware design engineer and a hardware design integration engineer for Lucent Technologies.

Yu Cai
Yu Cai joins the faculty of the School of Technology as an assistant professor. He comes to Michigan Tech from the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs.

Cai holds a BS from Zhong-Shan University in China and a PhD from the University of Colorado.

His research interests lie in the areas of network protocols, distributed systems and cyber security. His teaching interests include network and communication, formal language and automata, data structures and algorithms, computer architecture and operating systems, cyber security, emerging Internet protocols/systems and information assurance and IT certification training courses.

He has taught courses in object-oriented programming with Java, C++ and C programming languages.
Cai has published papers in journals like Proceedings of the IEEE Globalcom 2004, Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE International Conference on Web Services, Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE Information Assurance Workshop and Proceedings of the 2003 International Association of Science and Technology for Development Conference.

He has received the Outstanding Graduate award from the University of Colorado and the El Palmer Graduate Fellowship. He is a Sun-certified Java programmer and a Microsoft-certified systems engineer, solution developer and database administrator.

In the past, he has worked for CDI Information Services as a system analyst and software architect.