Biography

• Prof. Ahmad Azar is a full Professor at Prince Sultan University, Riyadh, Kingdom Saudi Arabia. He is also a full professor at the Faculty of Computers and Artificial Intelligence, Benha University, Egypt. He is the leader of Automated Systems & Soft Computing Lab (ASSCL), Prince Sultan University, Saudi Arabia.

• Prof. Azar is the Editor in Chief of the International Journal of Service Science, Management, Engineering, and Technology (IJSSMET) and International Journal of Sociotechnology and Knowledge Development (IJSKD) published by IGI Global, USA. He is also the Editor in Chief of the International Journal of Intelligent Engineering Informatics (IJIEI), Inderscience Publishers, Olney, UK.

• From 2013 to 2017, Prof. Azar was an associate editor of ISA Transactions, Elsevier. He is currently an associate editor for IEEE Systems Journal, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, Springer's Human-centric Computing and Information Sciences, and Elsevier's Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence.

• Prof. Azar specializes in artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, control theory and applications, robotics, computational intelligence, reinforcement learning, and dynamic system modeling. He has published/co-published over 500 research papers, book chapters, and conference proceedings in prestigious peer-reviewed journals.

• He is the editor of several books published by Springer, Elsevier, and IGI-Global on control systems, robotics, dynamic system modelling, artificial and computational intelligence, machine learning, fuzzy logic systems, and chaos modelling. Prof. Ahmad Azar serves as a reviewer for several international journals. He is a member of many international and peer-reviewed conference international programme committees.

• Prof. Ahmad Azar has been an IEEE Senior Member since December 2013 in recognition of his exceptional contributions to the profession. Dr. Ahmad Azar is the recipient of several awards, including the Benha University Prize for Scientific Excellence (2015, 2016, 2017, and 2018) and the Benha University Highest Citation Award (2015, 2016, 2017, and 2018).

• In June 2018, Prof. Azar was awarded the Egyptian State Encouragement Award in Engineering Sciences by the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research.

• In August of 2018, he was elected as a senior member of the International Rough Set Society (IRSS).

• Prof. Azar was named one of the top computer scientists in Saudi Arabia by Guide2Research in December 2019.

• Prof. Azar was awarded the Egyptian President's Distinguished Egyptian Order of the First Class in February 2020.

• In October 2020, Prof. Azar was awarded the Abdul Hameed Shoman Arab Researchers Award in Machine learning and Big data analytics.

• In October 2020- September 2023, Prof. Azar was selected as a Distinguished researcher at Prince Sultan University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

• In November 2020, October 2021, October 2022 and October 2023 Prof. Azar was named one of the top 2% of scientists in the world in Artificial Intelligence by Stanford University (Single year impact and Career long impact). Stanford University published these numbers in the PLOS journal and based them on the SCOPUS database.

• In October 2022, Prof. Ahmad Azar was ranked as one of the top 10 researchers at Prince Sultan University with the highest SCOPUS H-index in 2021.

• In October 2022, Prof. Ahmad Azar received an award for being among the top publishers of research at Prince Sultan University in 2021.

• In Sept. 2023, Prof. Ahmad Azar received a research Excellence Award for the academic year 2022/2023, Prince Sultan University, Saudi Arabia

• In Sept. 2023, Prof. Ahmad Azar received the Highest Impact Researcher's Award with H-index for the academic year 2022/2023, Prince Sultan University, Saudi Arabia.

• In Sept. 2023, Prof. Ahmad Azar received a PSU research award for listing among the top 5 publications with the highest impact factor for the academic year 2022/2023, Prince Sultan University, Saudi Arabia

Prof. Ahmad Azar is the Vice Chair of International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) Technical Committee of Control Design, vice chair of IEEE CIS IET "Interdisciplinary Emergent Technologies" Task Force, vice-Chair Research Activities of IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Egypt Chapter, Committee member of IEEE CIS Task Force on Fuzzy Logic in Medical Sciences  Also, he is the Vice President (North) of System dynamics Africa Regional Chapter and an Academic Member of IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society Technical Committee on Computational Collective Intelligence 

• Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D), Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University, Egypt, June 2009.

• Master of Science (M.Sc), Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt, May, 2006.

• • June 2023 - Currently: Full Professor, Faculty of Computers and Artificial Intelligence, Benha University, Egypt.

  • Jan. 2022 - Currently: Leader of Automated Systems & Soft Computing Lab (ASSCL), Prince Sultan University, Saudi Arabia

  • Sept. 2020 - Aug. 2022: Associate Director, Research and Initiative center, Prince Sultan University, Saudi Arabia

  • Sep. 2019 - Currently: Full Professor, College of computer and information Sciences, Prince Sultan University, Saudi Arabia.

  • May 2018 - June 2019: Founder and head of Computational intelligence research lab, Faculty of Computers and Artificial Intelligence, Benha University, Egypt.

  • March 2018  - May 2023: Associate Professor, Faculty of Computers and Artificial Intelligence, Benha University, Egypt.

  • Sep. 2016- Jan. 2018: Part-time Associate Professor, School of Engineering and Applied Science, Nile University, 6th of October City, Egypt.

  • April 2013 - March 2018: Assistant Professor, Faculty of Computers and Artificial Intelligence, Benha University, Egypt.

  • April 2013 - Jan. 2017: Part-time Assistant Professor, Faculty of Engineering, Misr University for Science & Technology (MUST), 6th of October City, Egypt.

  • Sept. 2009 - April 2013: Full-time assistant Professor, Faculty of Engineering, Misr University for Science & Technology (MUST), 6th of October City, Egypt.

  • Jan 2013 - June 2013: Part-time Assistant Professor, El Gazeera Engineering Academy, Cairo, Egypt.

  • Aug. 2009 - June 2011: Part-time assistant Professor, Electrical Communication & Electronics Systems Engineering Department, Modern Sciences and Arts University (MSA), 6th of October City, Egypt.

  • Aug. 2007 - Aug. 2009: Assistant lecturer, Biomedical Engineering Department, Misr University for Science and Technology, 6th of October City, Egypt.

  • July 2006 - July 2007: Assistant lecturer, Biomedical Engineering Department, Higher Technological Institute (HTI), Tenth of Ramadan City, Egypt.

  • Sep. 2002 - July 2006: Teaching Assistant, Systems and Biomedical Engineering Department, Higher Technological Institute (HTI), Tenth of Ramadan City, Egypt.

  • March 2001 - June 2002: Maintenance Engineer, BM-Egypt Company, Cairo, Egypt.

  • Oct. 2000 - March 2001: Maintenance Engineer, Medical Scientific Commercial Agency (MESCA) for Medical Instruments

• Oct. 2022: Selected from Stanford University among the top 2% scientists in the world in Artificial Intelligence

• Oct. 2022: Distinguished Researcher Award, Prince Sultan University, Saudi Arabia for the highest impact citations and publications

• Oct. 2021: Selected from Stanford University among the top 2% of scientists in the world in Artificial Intelligence 

• Oct. 2021: Distinguished Researcher Award, Prince Sultan University, Saudi Arabia for the highest impact citations and publications 

• Jan. 2021: Scientific Distinction Award from Benha University, Egypt for International publication.

• Nov. 2020: Selected from Stanford University among the top 2% of scientists in the world in Artificial Intelligence 

• Oct. 2020: Distinguished Researcher Award, Prince Sultan University, Saudi Arabia for the highest impact citations and publications 

• Oct. 2020: Abdul Hameed Shoman Arab Researchers Award in the field of Machine learning and Big data analytics

• Feb. 2020: Distinguished Order of the First Class from the President of the Arab Republic of Egypt 

• Dec. 2019: Selected as one of the top highly cited researchers in Saudi Arabia according to Research. 

• Sept. 2019: Web of Science peer reviewer award. Listed as top 1% of peer reviewer in Engineering and cross-field.

• July 2018-May 2019: Selected as a member of Energy and Electricity Research council, Academy of Scientific Research, Ministry of Higher Education

• July 2019: Scientific Distinction Award from Benha University, Egypt for International publication.

• July 2019: Paper Citations Award from Benha University, Egypt.

• Sept. 2018: Web of Science peer reviewer award. Listed as top 1% of peer reviewer in Engineering field.

• July 2018: Scientific Distinction Award from Benha University, Egypt for International publication.

• July 2018: Paper Citations Award from Benha University, Egypt.

• June 2018: State Encouragement Award in Engineering Science (2017) from the Academy of Scientific Research and Technology of Egypt.

• Jan. 2018: Scientific Distinction Award from Benha University, Egypt for International publication.

• Jan. 2018-Jan. 2019: Selected as a member of the Egyptian Young Academy of Science (EYAS), ASRT, Egypt www.eyas.eg.net

• Jan. 2018: Paper Citations Award from Benha University, Egypt.

• Sept. 2017: Web of Science peer reviewer award. Listed as top 1% of peer reviewer in Engineering Computer Science and Mathematics.

• July 2017: Scientific Distinction Award from Benha University, Egypt for International publication.

• July 2017: Paper Citations Award from Benha University, Egypt.

• Jan. 2017: Scientific Distinction Award from, Egypt for International publication.

• Jan. 2017: Paper Citations Award from Benha University, Egypt.

• Sep. 2016: Web of Science peer reviewer award. Listed as top 10% of researchers contributing to the peer review of the field of Engineering.

• July 2016: Scientific Distinction Award from Benha University, Egypt for International publication.

• July 2016: Paper Citations Award from Benha University, Egypt.

• July 2015: Scientific Distinction Award from Benha University, Egypt for International publication.

• July 2015: Paper Citations Award from Benha University, Egypt.

• Nov. 2014: Best Papers of the Year” from Computer Methods & Programs in Biomedicine (CMPB), Elsevier for a research paper:  Azar AT, El-Said SA, Hassanien AE (2013). Fuzzy and Hard Clustering Analysis For Thyroid Disease. Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine 111(1): 1-16, Elsevier.

• Dec. 2013-Currently: Honored IEEE Senior Member due to significant contributions to the profession.

• 2012: Awarded a fellowship to attend “Third LinkSCEEM Cross-Sectional HPC workshop Program” hosted by: Cairo University and American University in Cairo, from 11 Nov. to 15 Nov. 2012, two days for Parallel computing and three days for Structural and Computational Biophysics (featured software: NAMD2).

• July 2008: System Dynamics Scholarship in the 26th International Conference of the System Dynamics Society, July 20 – 24, 2008 --- Athens, Greece.

• June 2006: Academic Excellence Award: Budapest University For Applied Science, Hungary: From June 2006 to August 2006 due to my academic excellent attitude in my work, skills, commitment and continued hard work. During this period I participated in medical Training in Sensor Medical Ltd Company, Budapest, Hungary. I was selected also as the Egyptian students' coordinator in the summer training course, which was organized by Budapest University for applied science, Hungary during the period mentioned above.

• Programming Languages: Python, Java, C, C++, MATLAB/Octave, Weka Platform, LaTeX.

• ML libraries and tools: Numpy, Pandas, Matplotlib, Seaborn, SciPy, Scikit-Learn, Keras, Pytorch, TensorFlow.

• Robotic softwares: ROS, Gazebo, Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM)

• Electronic simulation programs: Multisim, Proteus, ORCAD, Pspice, Arduino, EAGLE Software (PCB Design).

• Predictive Modeling Software: DTREG, Salford Predictive Modeler software such as CART, TreeNet, MARS, Random Forests.

• Mathematical Simulation-Modeling packages: MTALAB/Simulink, LabVIEW, Ithink, Stella, Powersim, and Vensim.

• Statistical Analysis Softwares: SPSS, NCSS-PASS.

• Data Analysis Software: Power BI, Tableau, Jupyter Notebook

• Operating Systems: Windows, Linux, Unix.