Dr. Ossama Embarak

Dr. Ossama Embarak holds a PhD in computer and information science from Heriot-Watt University in Scotland, UK. He has more than two decades of research and teaching experience with a number of programming languages including C++, Java, C#, R, Python, etc. He is currently the lead CIS program coordinator for Higher Colleges of Technology, UAE’s largest applied higher educational institution, with more than 23,000 students attending campuses throughout the region. He received many research grants for industry and interdisciplinary research grants e.g. 199,000 to implement a machine learning system for mining students’ knowledge and skills. He has participated in many scholarly activities as a reviewer and editor for journals in the fields of computer and information science including artificial intelligence, data mining, machine learning, mobile and web technologies. He supervised a large number of graduation projects, as well as he has published numerous papers about data mining, users’ online privacy, and semantic web structure and knowledge discovery. Also he participated as a co-chair for numerous regional and international conferences.