External Funded Research

Dr. Ehab Moustafa Ahmed, Assistant Professor in Engineering Department, is conducting a research about studying the effect of doping the base glass of the composition of P2O5-Na2O with different rare earth ions (Pr, Sm, Tb, Ho, Tm, Lu) on the Structural, photoluminescence and negative resistance. Please contact me if you would like more information

Dr.Faizal Hajamohideen , Assistant Professor in the Information Technology Department, In this research work we propose DL algorithms for efficient detection of neurological disorders - focusing mainly on Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease and Schizophrenia. The study will analyze the MRI data gathered from different modalities such as functional and structural MRI. Please contact me if you would like more information

Dr. Mohamed Abdul Karim Sadiq, Assistant Professor in the Information Technology Department, is conducting research applying Natural Language Processing on jobs datasets. The objective is normalisation of employability pathways in Oman. The research aims to automate the matching of candidates to right jobs, as it is a herculean task to process them manually. This involves understanding of multiple formats and styles between English and Arabic texts. The research will investigate possible avenues for tackling the relevant problems associated in this regard and benefit the citizens and residents of Oman. Please contact me if you would like more information

Dr Thirumurugan Shanmugam, Assistant Professor in Information Technology Department, conducting funded research to study the various security issues of IoT in Seaports and provide solutions for the security issues. Please contact me if you would like more information

Dr. Shaik Abdul Saleem, Assistant professor of Electrical Engineering, is conducting research on investigation of extremely low frequency electric and magnetic fields near 400 kV transmission lines and substations in Oman and their biological effects. The research focuses on measurement of electric and magnetic field severity and their ranges at different locations in Sultanate of Oman. The evaluated values are going to correlating with the IEEE and ICNIRP standards and WHO norms. The useful results will be submitted to OETC and TRC for the precautionary measures.

Dr.Ramar Rajasekaran , Assistant Professor in Mathematics, doing research on Graph coloring in MATH, finding results on ND-coloring. Please contact me if you would like more information

Dr Roman Ullah , Assistant Professor in Mathematics, is Developing mathematical models to control the spread of pandemics of emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases. The work contributes to the understanding of behavior of infectious diseases, its impacts and possible future predictions about its spreading. Please contact me if you would like more information

Mrs. Asma Al Badi, Assistant lecturer in the Information technology department, is conducting research that investigates the potential use of blockchain technology in governmental services. The research focuses on enabling the smart services transformation and to achieve strategic goals to keep up with the big shift towards the provision of high-quality e-services facing the lack of Authentication and identification protocol which are used to identify people and organizations to access to the government services. Please contact me if you would like more information

Mrs Afaf Al Alawi, An assistant lecturer at the IT department is working on a model of integrating Information technology and Operational technology. The project meant to fill the gap between the gained knowledge of graduates in IT and the actual needed knowledge in a world that is rapidly changing. The study will provide a model that higher educational institutions can adapt on their curriculum. The model is focusing on IT major for now but might be expanded later to fit other major at the university. The model is helping the graduates specially to fit in working environment easier . Please contact me if you would like more information

Mrs.Alya -IT lecturer in UTAS Suhar- is currently working in Artificial Intelligence technology, to study a statistical procedure in order to provide predictions of the next volcanic eruptions. the methodology used is collecting data from 3 major volcanoes which they are the volcanic factors that may consider a sign of a future eruption. Using the matrix programming language a prediction system will be build to examine the ability of finding a link between volcanic factors and its activity. Please contact me if you would like more information

Mrs.Arwa AlBusaidi, Assistant Lecturer in Information security at UTAS-suhar . My major area of research is focused on adaptive security and specifically on the use of stochastic methods in low energy encryption, as well as on stochastic data mining and log file analysis for network forensics and network intrusion detection systems .Currently , I am holding funding from TRC under the a GRG scope, this funding is for a project titled " Balancing Security and Privacy with Data Usefulness and Efficiency in Wireless Sensor Network ", it's investigating the security elements in wireless security networks , and how to maintain the security of data and reliability .

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Mrs.Dhiya Hamed Al-Saqri, IT lecturer at UTAS-Suhar- is currently working on Motion detecting system to provide a safe and clever solution in using public electronic services by using Touch-free technology. So, users can navigate systems and make their tasks without having a physical touch on screens. This solution would provide a safe environment for those who seek for information and services specially in airports and malls during the pandemic. Please contact me if you would like more information

Ms.Hanan AL Hashmi, an Assistant lecturer in General Requirement Department, is conducting a study that highlights the main difficulties and challenges facing teaching and learning German language in schools and universities of the Sultanate of Oman and provides suggestions and recommendations to increase and promote its spread in the Sultanate. Please contact me if you would like more information

Ms.Maha AlBalushi, Assistant Lecturer at IT department, is implementing POST-PC technology study by conducting an experiment on four groups of information Technology major at UTAS-Sohar, where two groups will apply Instructional Technology (IT) and the other two will use the traditional learning strategy. The groups will be taught by similar lecturers to ensure the outcomes of the study. Tableau data visualisation tool will be used to analyse and visualise the collected data and compare the students' performance in 4 groups. This will help to emphasize the importance and impact of the IT on students’ learning process and achievements at HEIs. Please contact me if you would like more information

Mrs. Muna Al Balushi and Dr. Rasha Shakir AbdulWahhab, two academic staff members in the Information Technology Department, are working on a project that will minimize the number of type 2 diabetes patients. A clustering algorithm will be applied to the dataset to be collected from health records in hospitals in North Al-Batinah Governorate. Researchers and other stakeholders could use the insights of the study to reduce the economic and financial burden on the health sector in the Sultanate of Oman. Please contact me if you would like more information

Mrs. Raya Al-Khayari, assistant lecturer of Information Security, is conducting research on the risks of using the civil ID card for user authentication in Oman E-services. The use of civil ID card for e-services is emerging nowadays across the Sultanate of Oman as a way of authentication which leads to potential risks of information disclosure. The research focuses on analysing the mentioned authentication approach and studying the risks of using single factor authentication, accompanied by the risks of losing confidentiality of a user's ID number along with other information associated with the civil ID card. Please contact me if you would like more information