Research Interests

• Cloud computing and distributed systems
• Microservices architecture
• Data analytics, machine learning, and AI for real time systems
• Emergent technology in humanitarian applications including disaster management and the health domain.

Courses

Spring 2026

• CSC258 Distributed Systems (Graduate)
• CSC139: Operating Systems (Undergraduate)

Courses Taught: CSC130 (Algorithms and data structures), CSC131 (Software Engineering)

Publications

A. A. Khaleq and S. Gupta, "Decentralized Microservices-based Framework for Disaster Resource Allocation using Blockchain," 2025 3rd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, and Internet of Things (AIBThings), Mt Pleasant, MI, USA, 2025, pp. 1-5, doi: 10.1109/AIBThings66987.2025.11296261 Link

Khaleq, Abeer Abdel, Yash More, Brody Skaufel, and Mazen Al Borno. 2025. "The Effects of Vibrotactile Stimulation of the Upper Extremity on Sensation and Perception: A Study for Enhanced Ergonomic Design" Theoretical and Applied Ergonomics 1, no. 2: 8. doi:10.3390/tae1020008  PDF

Abdel Khaleq, Abeer, et al. "The Effects of Vibrotactile Stimulation of the Upper Extremity on Sensation and Perception." bioRxiv (2024): 2024-05 Link

Abdel Khaleq, A., Ra, I. Intelligent microservices autoscaling module using reinforcement learning. Cluster Comput 26, 2789–2800 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10586-023-03999-8 

A. A. Khaleq and I. Ra, "Development of QoS-aware agents with reinforcement learning for autoscaling of microservices on the cloud," 2021 IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing and Self-Organizing Systems Companion (ACSOS-C), DC, USA, 2021, pp. 13-19, doi: 10.1109/ACSOS-C52956.2021.00025. Link

Abdel Khaleq, A. “Design and evaluation of QoS aware intelligent autoscaling services for microservices in cloud computing environments” (Order No. 28419510). Available from Dissertations & Theses @ University of Colorado at Denver; Dissertations & Theses @ University of Colorado System; ProQuest Dissertations & Theses A&I. (257256696)

A. A. Khaleq and I. Ra, "Intelligent Autoscaling of Microservices in the Cloud for Real-Time Applications," in IEEE Access, vol. 9, pp. 35464-35476, 2021, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3061890. Link

A. Abdel Khaleq and I. Ra, "Agnostic Approach for Microservices Autoscaling in Cloud Applications," 2019 International Conference on Computational Science and Computational Intelligence (CSCI), Las Vegas, NV, USA, 2019, pp. 1411-1415, doi: 10.1109/CSCI49370.2019.00264.Link 

A. A. Khaleq and I. Ra, "Cloud-Based Disaster Management as a Service: A Microservice Approach for Hurricane Twitter Data Analysis," 2018 IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (GHTC), San Jose, CA, USA, 2018, pp. 1-8, doi: 10.1109/GHTC.2018.8601887. Link

Khaleq, A.A., Ra, I. (2019). Twitter Analytics for Disaster Relevance and Disaster Phase Discovery. In: Arai, K., Bhatia, R., Kapoor, S. (eds) Proceedings of the Future Technologies Conference (FTC) 2018. FTC 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 880. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02686-8_31