Dr. Rached Zantout:

Dr. Rached Zantout received his B.E. from The American University of Beirut, Lebanon in 1988, his MSc from the University of Florida in 1990 and Ph.D. from the Ohio State University in 1994, all degrees being in Electrical Engineering. He was a Research Associate and Teaching Associate for most of his graduate studies. Directly after finishing his PhD he joined Scriptel Corporation and worked on several R&D projects to develop a new generation of graphic input devices. Between 10/1995 and 8/2000 Dr. Zantout was an Assistant Professor at King Saud University in Riyadh (Saudi Arabia). Then Dr. Zantout moved to Lebanon and taught as an Assistant Professor at the University of Balamand for the period between 9/2000 and 9/2002. He also worked as a part-time faculty members at reputed Lebanese universities like the American University of Beirut, Lebanese American University and Beirut Arab University. Between 9/2003 and 8/2009 Dr. Zantout was at the Hariri Canadian University where he became an Associate professor at the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. Since 9/2009 Dr. Zantout is an Associate professor at the College of Computer and Information Sciences at Prince Sultan University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Dr. Zantout’s research interests cover Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, and Natural Language Processing. He currently works on developing components for Machine Translation and Natural Language Processing with a special focus on tools related to the Arabic Language. He also has active research in the area of autonomous robot navigation, Computer Vision, Digital Image Processing and Embedded Systems Design.

·         M. Salameh, R. Zantout, N. Mansour, “Improving the Accuracy of English-Arabic Statistical Sentence Alignment”, International Arab Journal of Information Technology (IAJIT), Volume 8, No. 2, April 2011.

·         Hamandi, Lama, AlMustafa, Khaled, Zantout, Rached, Obeid, Hasan, Automatic Recognition and Localization of Saudi License Plates, Accepted for publication as a Book Chapter in book Multidisciplinary Computational Intelligence Techniques: Applications in Business, Engineering, and Medicine, Ali, Shawkat, Abbadeni, Noureddine, Batouche, Mohamed (Editors), IGI Global.

·         Salameh, Mohamed, Hamandi, Lama, Zantout, Rached, and Mansour, Nashat, Towards Better Statistical English-Arabic Parallel Corpus Alignment, Accepted for publication as a Chapter in book CCIS, Natural Language Processing for Arabic language book, Series: Computer Science, Springer.

·         A. Yaqzan, I. Damaj, R. Zantout, Reconfigurable Hardware Implementation of a GPS-Based Vehicle Tracking System, in Advances in Electrical Engineering and Computational Science, Sio-Iong Ao and Len Gelman (Editors), Springer Netherlands, April 2009. V 39 P 289 – 299.

·         N. Mirza, Z. Osman, R. Zantout, M. El-Sayed, "Error Correction of noisy block cipher using cryptanalysis and natural language processing," Third International Conference on Network and System Security, Gold Coast, Australia, 19-21 October 2009.