THE FORMER CHIEF ARCHITECT FOR NETWORKING AND NETWORK SECURITY AT MICROSOFT. HE WAS ALSO THE GENERAL MANAGER OF THEIR ENTERPRISE NETWORKING GROUP. ALKHATIB HOLDS 74 US AND INTERNATIONAL PATENTS IN THE FIELDS OF NETWORKING, NETWORK SECURITY, AND CLOUD COMPUTING. HIS PATENTED TECHNOLOGIES WITH IP DYNAMICS WAS LATER ADOPTED BY MAJOR TELECOMMUNICATION CARRIERS LIKE AT&T, DEUTSCHE TELEKOM, CHINA TELECOM, CHINA NETCOM, CHINA UNICOM, CHINA MOBILE, BRITISH TELECOM. HE IS AN INTERNATIONAL SPEAKER AND WAS THE LEAD AUTHOR OF NINE CO-AUTHORS OF THE COMPUTING 2022 REPORT, COMMISSIONED BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE COMPUTER SOCIETY OF THE IEEE IN 2014. HE AUTHORED OVER 50 SCHOLARLY ARTICLES IN THE FIELDS OF NETWORKING, NETWORK SECURITY, AND DISTRIBUTED PROCESSING. ALKHATIB RECEIVED A PH.D. IN ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IN 1983.