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Rania MAALEJ
University of Sfax, Sfax
PhD Student
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Main page: http://www.mirlabs.net/global/index.php?c=main&a=person&id=1824
Short Biography
Rania Maalej received her Engineering Diploma in computer sciences engineering in 2006 and the MS degree in Automatic and Industrial Computing in 2008, both from the National School of Engineers of Sfax, University of Sfax, Tunisia. Currently, she is preparing her Ph.D at also National School of Engineers of Sfax and she is a computer science teacher at the faculty of medicine, University of Sfax in Tunisia. Her current research interests include learning algorithms, artificial neural networks and their engineering applications, pattern recognition and image analysis.
List of top 5 publications in the last 5 years
Maalej R., Kherallah M. (2019) Maxout into MDLSTM for Offline Arabic Handwriting Recognition. In: Gedeon T., Wong K., Lee M. (eds) Neural Information Processing. ICONIP 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 11955. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-36718-3_45 Maalej, R., Tagougui, N., & Kherallah, M. (2016, April). Online Arabic handwriting recognition with dropout applied in deep recurrent neural networks. In 2016 12th IAPR Workshop on Document Analysis Systems (DAS) (pp. 417-421). IEEE. Maalej, R., Kherallah, M.: Improving MDLSTM for offline Arabic handwriting recognition using dropout at different positions. In: Villa, A., Masulli, P., Pons Rivero, A. (eds.) ICANN 2016. LNCS, vol. 9887, pp. 431–438. Springer, Cham (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44781-0_51 Elleuch, M., Maalej, R., & Kherallah, M. (2016). A new design based-SVM of the CNN classifier architecture with dropout for offline Arabic handwritten recognition. Procedia Computer Science, 80, 1712-1723. Maalej, R., Kherallah, M.: Improving the DBLSTM for on-line Arabic handwriting recognition. Multimed. Tools Appl. (in press)
List of top 5 academic activities during the last 5 years
- Organization of the 18th International Arab Conference on Information Technology (ACIT'2017) https://acit2k.org/ACIT/index.php/acit2017 - Organization of the International Workshop on Smart Innovative Systems IWSIS 2018 ( December 17-19, 2018 Tunisia) - Several Journal reviews: https://publons.com/researcher/3246018/rania-maalej/peer-review/ - Deep learning Trainer - ICT Trainer and IT Consultant IREX Tunisia