Sanaa Sharafeddine received her B.E. and M.E. degrees in Computer and Communications Engineering from the American University of Beirut (AUB), Lebanon, in 1999 and 2001, respectively. Upon graduation, she received the Charli Korban award for the outstanding graduate student. From 2002 to 2005, she joined the research staff of the Institute of Communication Networks headed by Prof. Jörg Eberspächer at Technische Universität München (TUM), Munich, Germany. During this time, she had been working with Siemens AG, Munich. She received her Doktor-Ingenieurs (Dr.-Ing.) degree in June 2005. The subject of her PhD thesis is “IP Network Planning for Realtime Services with Statistical QoS Guarantees”. In her thesis, she handled various network planning and quality of service provisioning areas including traffic characterization, capacity assignment, robust network dimensioning, and generic planning tool architecture. She filed three patents out of her PhD thesis related to novel network dimensioning mechanisms.

In October 2005, she joined the Division of Computer Science and Mathematics at the Lebanese American University as an Assistant Professor. Her research interests include IP network planning, quality of service for realtime services, peer-to-peer networking, network coding, and pervasive and mobile computing.

She is a member of LAU faculty senate since January 2007 and has served on various university councils. She serves as a Technical Program Committee member of a number of international conferences and a reviewer for a number of conferences and journals.