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Zaher Al Aghbari
University of Sharjah, Sharjah
Regular Member
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Short Biography
Zaher Al Aghbari is a Professor at the Department of Computer Science at University of Sharjah, UAE. He received his B.Sc degree from the Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, USA, in 1987, and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan, in 1998 and 2001, respectively. He worked as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Intelligent Systems, Kyushu University, Japan, from 2001 to 2003. Since 2003 he has been with the Department of Computer Science, University of Sharjah, UAE. He was the Head of the Department of Computer Science from 2008 to 2012. Currently, he is a Professor of databases and data mining in the Department of Computer Science, College of Sciences, University of Sharjah. He has published more than 75 refereed research publications in international journals and conferences such as JDPD, ESWA, DKE, IJDAR, JIIS, IJPEDS, VCIR, IDA, IJIS and ACM SIGSpatial. His research interests include data mining, multidimensional indexing, multimedia databases, distributed indexing, and Arabic handwritten text retrieval. Recently, Prof. Zaher has been working on data streams management, social networks analysis, wireless sensor network data mining. He has been a reviewer of several international journals published by IEEE, Springer and Elsevier. He has been a member of the organizing committee or technical program committee of several international conferences. Prof. Zaher is an editorial board member of the American Journal of Database Theory and Application, international journal on Advances in Software, International Journal of Informatics and IT today and International Journal of Data Engineering.
List of top 5 publications in the last 5 years
1. Ibrahim Kamel, Ayesha Talha, Zaher Al Aghbari, “Dynamic Spatial Index for Efficient Query Processing at the Cloud Service Provider“, Springer Journal of Cloud Computing, vol. 6, no 1, 2017. 2. Rima Chaker, Zaher Al Aghbari, Imran Junejo. “Social Network Model for Crowd Anomaly Detection and Localization”, Elsevier Pattern Recognition, vol. 61, (2017), pp.266-281, Jan. 2017. 3. Amany Abou Safia, Zaher Al Aghbari, Ibrahim Kamel. “Phenomena Detection in Mobile Wireless Sensor Networks”, Springer International Journal on Network and Systems Management, vol. 24, no. 1, pp.92-115, 2016. 4. Zaher Al Aghbari, Imran N. Junejo. “DisCoSet: Discovery of Contrast Sets to Reduce Dimensionality and Improve Classification”, Taylor & Francis International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems, vol. 8, no. 6, pp 1178-1191, 2015. 5. Imran N. Junejo, Khurram Nazir Junejo, Zaher Al Aghbari."Silhouette-based Human Action Recognition using SAX-Shapes", Springer International Journal on the Visual Computer, vol. 30, no. 3, pp. 259-269, 2014. 6. Moftah Elzobi, Ayoub Al-Hamadi, Zaher Al Aghbari , Laslo Dings, “IESK-ArDB: a database for handwritten Arabic and an optimized topological segmentation approach”, Springer International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition, vol. 16, no. 3, pp. 295-308, 2013.
List of top 5 academic activities during the last 5 years
o Session Chair at the Second International Conference on Arabs' & Muslims' History of Sciences (ICHS 2014), University of Sharjah, Sharjah, UAE o Session Chair at the 2^nd IEEE International Conference on Open and Big Data conference (OBD 2016), Vienna, Austria. o Mini-Track Chair at International Conference on Innovations in Information Technology (IIT 2016), Al-Ain, UAE o Vice-Program co-chair for “Social Computing” in Arab International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICSSA'2013), o Organizing Committee member of International Conference on Computational and Network Technologies (ICCNT 2014).