Main researcher and project mentoring and management.
Rebhi S. Baraka is an associate professor of Computer Science and ex-dean of the faculty of Information Technology at the Islamic University of Gaza, Palestine. He obtained his PhD degree in Computer Science from Johannes Kepler University, Austria in 2006 with the dissertation in the field of Distributed Systems and Web Services. He obtained his MSc degree in Computer Science from De La Salle University, Philippines in 1996 with the thesis in the field of Distributed Systems and Load Balancing. He obtained his BSc degree in Electronics and Communications Engineering from the University of the East, Philippines in 1991.
Dr. Baraka has more than 18 years of teaching and research. His research interests include Semantic Web and Ontology Engineering with focus on Arabic related issues, Parallel and Distributed Computing with focus on Cloud Computing, Big Data and Web Services. He has supervised and evaluated a number of thesis researches in areas and topics related to Web Services, Semantic Web, Cloud Computing, and Information Retrieval with several publications. He is a referee in a number of scientific journals in the above areas. He has joined several research and capacity building projects related to scientific and social issues. He is also a member and organizer of several scientific, academic and social committees and events.