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Ahmed Kattan finished his PhD from the School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering at University of Essex (UK) in 2010. He received his MSc in Software Engineering from the same university in 2007 and his Bsc from Jordan University of Science and Technology in 2005.

Ahmed Kattan's professional experience includes working as a programmer on the Saudi Arabian E-Government project in 2005 and teaching at School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering at University of Essex since 2007. In 2010, he worked as a research associate in the computer science department at Loughborough University (UK). Ahmed is also a founder of the PhD CEEC conference series that have started in 2009. Currently, Ahmed is an assistant professor, Head of the Computer Science Department at Um Al-Qura University (KSA) and a consultant at the Ministry of Labor (KSA) in the Jobs Nationalisation Project.

Ahmed is mainly interested in Evolutionary Computation and his main research interest lays in the applications of Genetic Programming (GP). To that extent, Ahmed has developed a series of universal compression systems based on the GP referred to as the GP-zip family. In addition, he  proposed several new novel algorithms based on the use of GP for several applications such as: data type analysis, Muscle Fatigue prediction and problem decomposition.

Other interests

 

· Software Engineering

· Genetic Algorithms

· Neural Networks

· Machine Learning

· Mixture of Experts

Important links

· Computer Science Bibliographies

· Artificial Intelligence Bibliography

· Genetic Programming Bibliography

· Evolutionary Computation Bibliography

Conference Organization

· CEEC’09

· CEEC’10

Referee 

· CEEC 2009-2010, 2012.

· ICADIWT 2009-2010.

· NDT 2009-2010.

· CIG 2011

· EuroGP 2012

· IEEE Transaction on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics-Part B  - 2012 Pending.

Editorial Member

· Member of the editorial board of International Journal of Ubiquitous Computing (IJUC)- Computer Science Open Access Journals,  August 2010

Membership

·  SGI-EVO

If you don't make mistakes, you're not working on hard enough problems. And that's a big mistake.

Frank Wilczek  American physicist (1951 - )

Topics within my research

 

· Genetic Programming

· Signal Analysis

· Information Theory

· Data Compression

· Data Mining

 

My Master thesis

My PhD thesis

”اللهم إني أعوذ بك من علم لا ينفع و من قلب لا يخشع و من دعاء لا يستجاب له يا رب العالمين“

Computing and Electronic Engineering

Ahmed Kattan