John Tadrous is a professor and chair of the electrical and computer engineering department at Gonzaga University, having been elevated to full professor in August 2026. He served as associate professor at Gonzaga from September 2021 to 2026, and as assistant professor from 2016 to 2021. He earned his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the ECE Department at The Ohio State University in 2014, his M.Sc. in wireless communications from the Center of Information Technology at Nile University in 2010, and his B.Sc. from the EE Department at Cairo University in 2008. Before joining Gonzaga, he spent two years as a post-doctoral research associate with the ECE Department at Rice University, from 2014 to 2016. Dr. Tadrous was elevated to Senior Member of the IEEE in 2020, and his contributions have been recognized with Gonzaga's Faculty Award for Professional Contributions (2019-20) and its Teaching Excellence Award (2025-26).
His research centers on the design and analysis of proactive and dynamic resource allocation strategies for wireless and edge networks, with particular emphasis on freshness-aware content caching, demand prediction under uncertainty, and network optimization and control. This work draws on tools from information theory, stochastic modeling, and smart-data pricing, and has been published extensively in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, alongside appearances at IEEE INFOCOM, WiOpt, and other leading networking venues. In recent years, his teaching and research have grown to encompass embedded and real-time systems and robotics, where he has built hands-on laboratory curricula spanning autonomous navigation, object detection and tracking, sensor integration, and precision robotic control. Dr. Tadrous served as an associate editor for IEEE Access (2019-2020) and continues to serve as a technical program committee member for conferences such as Mobihoc and WiOpt, in addition to reviewing for a wide range of scientific journals and conferences. Beyond his departmental chair duties, he advises Gonzaga University's IEEE Student Club and its Robotics Club.
