Dr. Yonis Gulzar is an Associate Professor at King Faisal University (KFU) in Saudi Arabia, specializing in computer vision, deep learning, and database systems.

He earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) and has since focused on advancing machine understanding of visual information and optimizing database systems.

Recognized for his contributions, Dr. Gulzar received the Best Ph.D. Student Award from IIUM. He is committed to fostering innovation and mentoring students in computer science.

As an Associate Professor, Dr. Gulzar continues his research while inspiring future professionals in the field.

Research Interest: 

• Artificial Intelligence, Deep Learning; Database Systems; Query Processing

Research Projects

Ongoing: 

1. A Model for Skyline Queries Over Knowledge Large-Scale Uncertain and Incomplete Graphs

   • 1. 1. • Ministry of Higher Education, Malaysia

           • Grant No. FRGS/1/2021/ICT01/UIAM/02/2, 2021-2024.   

           • Co-Investigator

2. The impact of Dark Personality Traits on Software professionals’ performance

   • 1. 1. • Deanship of Research, King Faisal University, Saudi Arabia

           • Grant No. 206042, 2020-2022.   

           • Co-Investigator

Completed:

3. Harnessing the Power of Transfer Learning in Sunflower Disease Detection: A Comparative Study

   • 1. 1. • Deanship of Research, King Faisal University, Saudi Arabia 

           • Grant No. GRANT3625, 2023. 

           • Principal Investigator

4. Estimation of the Extent and Vulnerability of Climate Change on Agriculture Using Analytical and Deep-learning Methods: A case study in Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh

   • 1. 1. • Deanship of Research, King Faisal University, Saudi Arabia 

           • Grant No. GRANT3672, 2023. 

           • Principal Investigator

5. SBXception: A Shallower and Broader Xception Architecture for Efficient Classification of Skin Lesions

   • 1. 1. • Deanship of Research, King Faisal University, Saudi Arabia 

           • Grant No. GRANT3701, 2023.  

           • Principal Investigator

6. Data Rate Aware Reliable Transmission Mechanism in Wireless Sensor Networks using Bayesian Regularized Neural Network approach

   • 1. 1. • Deanship of Research, King Faisal University, Saudi Arabia 

           • Grant No. GRANT3701, 2023. 

           • Principal Investigator

7. Image Acquisition, Preprocessing and Classification of Citrus Fruit Diseases: A Systematic Literature Review

   • 1. 1. • Deanship of Research, King Faisal University, Saudi Arabia 

           • Grant No. GRANT2790, 2023. 

           • Principal Investigator

8. Genetic-Based Virtual Machines Consolidation Strategy With Efficient Energy Consumption in Cloud Environment

   • 1. 1. • Deanship of Research, King Faisal University, Saudi Arabia 

           • Grant No. GRANT473, 2023. 

           • Principal Investigator

9. Adversarial Approaches to Tackle Imbalanced Data in Machine Learning

   • 1. 1. • Deanship of Research, King Faisal University, Saudi Arabia 

           • Grant No. GRANT2518, 2023. 

           • Principal Investigator

10. eLearning acceptance and adoption challenges in Higher Education

    • 1. 1. • Deanship of Research, King Faisal University, Saudi Arabia 

            • Grant No. GRANT3142, 2023. 

            • Principal Investigator

11. Blockchain-Based Framework for Interoperable Electronic Health Records for an Improved Healthcare System

    • 1. 1. • Deanship of Research, King Faisal University, Saudi Arabia 

            • Grant No. GRANT3091, 2023. 

            • Principal Investigator

12. Weighted Average Ensemble Deep Learning Model for Stratification of Brain Tumor in MRI Images

    • 1. 1. • Deanship of Research, King Faisal University, Saudi Arabia 

            • Grant No. GRANT2792, 2023. 

            • Principal Investigator

13. OCA: Ordered Clustering-Based Algorithm for E-Commerce Recommendation System

    • 1. 1. • Deanship of Research, King Faisal University, Saudi Arabia 

            • Grant No. GRANT473, 2023. 

            • Principal Investigator

14. Fruit Image Classification Model Based on MobileNetV2 with Deep Transfer Learning Technique

    • 1. 1. • Deputyship for Research and Innovation, Ministry of Education, Saudi Arabia 

            • Grant No. INST199, 2022. 

            • Principal Investigator

15. Enhancing Image Annotation Technique of Fruit Classification Using a Deep Learning Approach

    • 1. 1. • Deanship of Research, King Faisal University, Saudi Arabia 

            • Grant No. GRANT2,263, 2022. 

            • Principal Investigator

16. Generating Image Captions Using Bahdanau Attention Mechanism and Transfer Learning

    • 1. 1. • Deanship of Research, King Faisal University, Saudi Arabia 

            • Grant No. GRANT2,086, 2022. 

            • Principal Investigator

17. An Artificial Intelligence-Based Stacked Ensemble Approach for Prediction of Protein Subcellular Localization in Confocal Microscopy Images

    • 1. 1. • Deanship of Research, King Faisal University, Saudi Arabia 

            • Grant No. GRANT1,978, 2022. 

            • Principal Investigator

18. Abdomen Fat and Liver Segmentation of CT Scan Images for Determining Obesity and Fatty Liver Correlation

    • 1. 1. • Deanship of Research, King Faisal University, Saudi Arabia 

            • Grant No. AN000372, 2022. 

            • Principal Investigator

19. Investigation of Machine Learning Methods for Early Prediction of Neurodevelopmental Disorders in Children

    • 1. 1. • Deanship of Research, King Faisal University, Saudi Arabia

            • Grant No.GRANT753, 2021-2022.   

            • Principal Investigator 

20. Skin Lesion Segmentation Based on Vision Transformers and Convolutional Neural Networks—A Comparative Study

    • 1. 1. • Deanship of Research, King Faisal University, Saudi Arabia

            • Grant No.GRANT382, 2021-2022.   

            • Principal Investigator 

21. CIDS: An efficient Algorithm for Processing Skyline Queries for Partially Complete Data in Cloud Environment

    • 1. 1. • Deanship of Research, King Faisal University, Saudi Arabia

            • Grant No.GRANT64, 2021-2022.   

            • Principal Investigator 

22. A Deep Learning-Based Model for Date Fruit Classification

    • 1. 1. • Deanship of Research, King Faisal University, Saudi Arabia

            • Grant No. RA00017, 2021-2022.   

            • Co-Investigator

23. IDSA: An Efficient Algorithm for Skyline Queries Computation on Dynamic and Incomplete Data with Changing States

    • 1. 1. • Deanship of Research, King Faisal University, Saudi Arabia

            • Grant No. 186331, 2019-2021.   

            • Principal Investigator 

24. A Convolutional Neural Network Based Seed Classification System 

• • • • • Deputyship for Research & Innovation, Ministry of Education, Saudi Arabia

        • Grant No. IFT20056, 2020

        • Principal Investigator 

25. Optimizing Skyline Query Processing in incomplete data

    • 1. 1. • Deanship of Research, King Faisal University, Saudi Arabia

            • Grant No. 186304, 2019-2020

            • Principal Investigator 

26. An Efficient Model for Processing Skyline Queries in Incomplete and Uncertain Databases 

• • • • • Ministry of Higher Education, Malaysia

        • Grant No. FRGS15-205-0491, 2015-2018

        • Member