| Marenglen Biba is currently Head of Computer Science Department at the University of New York Tirana, Albania. Dr. Biba received his Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of Bari, Italy and the Laurea Degree (5 years degree) Cum Laude in Computer Science from the same university.
Dr. Biba has taught several courses of Computer Science at the University of Bari and currently teaches undergraduate and graduate courses at University of New York Tirana. His main research area is Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. He has published over forty papers in international journals, volumes and conference proceedings. He has served as a reviewer for many important conferences such as ECML, IJCAI, ECAI, KDD, ICPR, ICDAR and for international journals such as Neurocomputing, Neural Networks and International Journal on Knowledge and Information Systems. In 2008, his work on integrating logic and probability won the Best Paper Award at 18th International Conference in Inductive Logic Programming, Prague, sponsored by Machine Learning Journal, Springer, New York. He is active member of IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers; IEEE Computer Society; ACM - Association for Computing Machinery; ALP - Association for Logic Programming; CINI - Italian National Consortium for Computer Science. Dr. Biba has participated in several European and national research projects on Digital Libraries, Complex Data Analysis, Data Mining and Bioinformatics. In 2007 he was a visiting researcher at the Computer Science and Engineering Department, University of Washington, Seattle. |
