Research Skills Series: Art of Reading\Reviewing Scientific Papers

A workshop that helps you to find answers to these questions:

·        Where can I get a research idea from?

·        How good is this paper?

·        Can I develop my thesis\project based on this paper?

·        Why should I not use this paper among my references?

·        Why should this paper stand out in my reference list?

and other related dilemmas that researchers face.

Heba Kurdi: Dr. Heba Kurdi is Assistant Professor of Wireless Networks and Communication Engineering at King Saud University. She is also a research affiliate at the Aeronautics and Astronautics Department at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Dr. Heba completed her PhD from Brunel University’s School of Engineering and Design (London, UK) in 2010 achieving the Shield of Distinguished Research from the Saudi Ambassador in the UK and Ireland.

Dr. Kurdi has dozens of journal and conference publications and received the Best Paper Award in London's 2012 Science and Technology Conference sponsored by Springer and IEEE. Dr. Kurdi works as a reviewer for several journals and is a principal investigator and project manager on several research projects. Her main research interest is Bio-inspired Engineering, in which she received two US patents. She is also interested in Multi-agent Systems, Distributed Systems, Wireless networks and Mobile Computing.

Dr. Kurdi has been working in academia for the past ten years, where she played different roles including vice chair of the department of Computer Sciences, vice dean of the College of Computer and Information Sciences and vice dean of the Career and Entrepreneurship Centre at Al-Imam Muhammed Ian Saud Islamic University

Unmanned Vehicles Series: Introduction to Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)

An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), commonly known as a drone and flying robots, is an aircraft without a human pilot aboard. The flight of UAVs may operate with various degrees of autonomy: either under remote control by a human operator, or fully or intermittently autonomously, by onboard computers.

This workshop provides a general overview of UAVs hardware and software components and how you can develop your own drone and program it to do some simple jobs.

Ebtesam Aloboud:  received her Master degree in Advanced Software Engineering from University of Leicester, UK. Currently, she is a Lecturer in the department of Computer Science al Al-Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud University. Her research interests include Cloud Computing, Model Driven Engineering and Distributed Systems.

Unmanned Vehicles Series: Simulating Multi-UAVs Missions

MASPlane++ is an open source multi-UAVs simulator developed by our research team that simulates an actual world application domain to aid the development and testing of UAV coordination mechanisms and tasks allocation. It is an enhanced version of the simple MASPlane simulator for multi-UAVS call on-demand msiossions. MASPlane focuses on two phase missions such as search and rescue, detect and treat, and search and fix.

This workshouls aims at providing a general overview of the tool and its main meatures.

Ebtesam Aloboud:  received her Master degree in Advanced Software Engineering from University of Leicester, UK. Currently, she is a Lecturer in the department of Computer Science al Al-Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud University. Her research interests include Cloud Computing, Model Driven Engineering and Distributed Systems.

Research Skills Series: Drawing Professional 3D Graphs in MS Excel

This workshop provides an introduction to using Essential Regression software which is developed as an MS Excel Add-In (compiled Excel Macro) to allow non-statisticians to analyze experimental designs and quantitative data using polynomial and multiple linear regression in a straightforward and understandable manner.  

The user can work in the familiar and powerful data analysis environment of Excel and does not have to learn a new statistical software package. Other benefits from working directly in Excel are that it trivializes some of the most time consuming steps of regression analysis when compared to large conventional packages because the entire input and output of the regression lies within a standard spreadsheet workbook which eliminates the need to learn a new interface.  

 Ebtehal Turki Saho Alotaibi: Lecturer at Al Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University. She got his master’s degree in Computer Science – Artificial Intelligence from Al Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University at 2016. She has many publications in international conferences and journals. She is interested in Artificial Intelligence fields; Optimization problems, Multi-Objective Assignment problems and Routing problems. In addition, she is interested in Artificial Intelligence applications; Scheduling in Cloud Computing, Multi-Objective Assignment applications and Multi-Robot Path Planning.  https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ebtehal_Turki

Unmanned Vehicles Series: Introduction to Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGVs)

An Unmanned Ground Vehicle (UGV) is a vehicle that operates while in contact with the ground and without an onboard human presence. UGVs can be used for many applications where it may be inconvenient, dangerous, or impossible to have a human operator present. This workshop gives a general overview of UGVs and how you can implement your own circuits and add additional things to the robot easily.

Ebtehal Turki Saho Alotaibi: Lecturer at Al Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University. She got his master’s degree in Computer Science – Artificial Intelligence from Al Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University at 2016. She has many publications in international conferences and journals. She is interested in Artificial Intelligence fields; Optimization problems, Multi-Objective Assignment problems and Routing problems. In addition, she is interested in Artificial Intelligence applications; Scheduling in Cloud Computing, Multi-Objective Assignment applications and Multi-Robot Path Planning.  https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ebtehal_Turki