Prof. M. Shamim Hossain
M. Shamim Hossain is currently a Professor at the Department of Software Engineering, College of Computer and Information Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He is also an Adjunct Professor with the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Ottawa, ON, Canada. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Ottawa, ON, Canada in 2009. His research interests include cloud networking, smart environments (smart city, smart health), AI, deep learning, edge computing, Internet of Things (IoT), multimedia for health care, and multimedia big data. He has authored and co-authored more than 415 publications, including refereed journals (370+ SCI/ISI-indexed papers, 150+ IEEE/ACM Transactions/Journal papers, 23+ ESI Highly Cited Papers, and 2 Hot Papers), conference papers, books, and book chapters. Recently, he co-edited a book on “Connected Health in Smart Cities”, published by Springer. He has served as the co-chair, general chair, workshop chair, publication chair, and TPC in several IEEE and ACM conferences. He is the chair of IEEE Special Interest Group on Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Health with the IEEE ComSoc eHealth Technical Committee. He is currently the Organizing Co-Chair of the Special Sessions with IEEE I2MTC 2022. He serves as the Co-Chair of the 2nd IEEE GLOBECOM 2022 Workshop on Edge-AI and IoT for Connected Health. He is the Symposium Chair of Selected Areas in Communications (E-Health) with IEEE GLOBECOM 2024. He is the Track Chair of the IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE 2024). He is the Technical Program Co-Chair of ACM Multimedia 2023. Currently, he is the Chair of the Saudi Arabia Section of the Instrumentation and Measurement Society Chapter. He was the recipient of a number of awards, including the Best Conference Paper Award, The 2024 IEEE Communications Society Outstanding Paper Award, the 2016 ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications (TOMM) Nicolas D. Georganas Best Paper Award, the 2019 King Saud University Scientific Excellence Award (Research Quality), and the Research in Excellence Award from the College of Computer and Information Sciences (CCIS), King Saud University (3 times in a row). He is on the editorial board of the IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement (TIM), IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM), ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (TOMM), IEEE Multimedia, IEEE Network, IEEE Wireless Communications, Journal of Network and Computer Applications (Elsevier), International Journal of Multimedia Tools and Applications (Springer), and Games for Health Journal. He has served as a Lead Guest Editor for more than two dozen of Special Issues (SIs) including ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (TOMM), ACM Transactions on Internet Technology, IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, IEEE Communications Magazine, IEEE Network, IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine (currently JBHI), IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, International Journal of Multimedia Tools and Applications (Springer), Cluster Computing (Springer), Future Generation Computer Systems (Elsevier), Sensors (MDPI), and International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks. He is a senior member of the IEEE and a Distinguished Member of the ACM. He is an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer (DL). He is the Highly Cited Researcher in the field of Computer Science – 2022 and 2023 (Web of Science™).
Hossain, M. Shamim, Ph.D., SM-IEEE, DM-ACM, IEEE Distinguished Lecturer (DL)
Professor, Department of Software Engineering,
College of Computer and Information Sciences
King Saud University, Riyadh 11543, Saudi Arabia
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Adjunct Professor, EECS, University of Ottawa, Canada
Email: mshossain[at]ksu.edu.sa, shamim.hossain[at]uottawa.ca
Web: http://fac.ksu.edu.sa/mshossain/home
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/M_Shamim_Hossain
b) DEGREES:
Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, EECS, University of Ottawa, 2009
M.Sc. in Computer Science, EECS, upgraded to Ph.D. due to outstanding performance, 2004
B.Eng. in Computer Science and Engineering, Khulna University, Khulna 1995
c) EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
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06/2022- Present
01/2018- Present 02/2014- 01/2018 01/2017- Present |
Director, Chair of Pervasive and Mobile Computing (CPMC), College of Computer and Information Science, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Professor, Software Engg. Dept. CCIS, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia Associate Professor, Software Engg. Dept. CCIS, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia Adjunct Professor, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), University of Ottawa, Canada, |
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04/2010-02/2014 |
Assistant Professor Software Engg. Dept. CCIS, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia |
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05/2009-03/2010 |
Post Doc Research Associate and Lab Manager, MCRLab, University of Ottawa, Canada |
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09/2002- 04/2009 |
Research Assistant and Lab Manager, MCRLab, University of Ottawa, Canada |
d) ACADEMIC HONOURS:
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2024 2023 2023 2022 2021 2022 2021 2020 2019 2019 2018 2018 2017 2016 2016 2016 2014 |
The IEEE Communications Society Outstanding Paper Award Clarivate Analytics (Web of Science™) Highly Cited Researcher in Computer Science—2023 IEEE Distinguished Lecturer, IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc) Clarivate Analytics (Web of Science™) Highly Cited Researcher in Computer Science – 2022 ACM Distinguished Member, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) IEEE Distinguished Lecturer, IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc) Top 2% Scientists of in the world in Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing Top 2% Scientists of in the world in the Networking and Telecommunication field Scientific Excellence Award (Research Quality), King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia DSR, KSU Research Excellence in publishing Top 2% in the field ACM Recognition as ACM Senior Member Excellence in Research Award 2017, CCIS, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Excellence in Research Award 2016, CCIS, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia ACM Transactions on Multimedia Nicolas D. Georganas Best Paper Award Best Paper Award, CLOUDCOMP 2016 Excellence in Research Award 2015, CCIS, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia The outstanding paper award, IEEE ICACT’2014, Phoenix Park, South Korea, Feb 16-19, 2014 |
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2013 |
IEEE Recognition for outstanding organization of HAVE 2013 |
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
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Senior Member, IEEE Senior Member, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Member, ACM SIGMM. Member, IEEE Communications Society Member, IEEE Computer Society Chair, SIG Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Health, IEEE ComSoc eHealth TC Chair, Saudi Arabia Section of the Instrumentation and Measurement Society Chapter Member, IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society Member, IEEE Technical Committee on Multimedia Communications (MMTC) Member, IEEE Technical Committee on Multimedia Computing (TCMC) Member, IEEE Cloud Computing Community Member, IEEE Industrial Electronics Society Member, IEEE Computer Society Technical Community on Cloud Computing Member, IEEE Internet of Things Community Member, IEEE Smart Cities Community Member, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society |
f) SCHOLARLY AND PROFESSIONAL ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES:
1. Editorial activities
i) Editorial Board/Associate Editor
Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement
Technical Editor, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
Associate Editor, ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (TOMM)
Technical Editor, IEEE Multimedia
Technical Editor, IEEE Network
Technical Editor, IEEE Wireless Communications
Associate Editor, IEEE Access
Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Computer Network and Applications (Elsevier)
Member, Editorial Board, Intl. Journal of Multimedia Tools and Applications (Springer)
Technical Editor, Games for Health
Associate Editor, International Journal of Information Technology, Communications and Convergence (Inderscience)
ii) Guest Editor
2023 Lead Guest Editor, IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, SI: Digital Twin and Metaverse for Consumer Health (MCH)
2021 Lead Guest Editor, ACM TOMM: SI: AI-empowered Multimedia Data Analytics for Smart Healthcare
2020 Lead Guest Editor, ACM Transactions on Internet Technology, SI: Edge-AI for Connected Living
2020 Lead Guest Editor, IEEE Network Magazine, SI: AI-enabled Networking Technologies for Tackling Epidemic Diseases
2020 Lead Guest Editor, Multimedia Systems, SI: Deep Learning for Multimedia Healthcare
2019 Lead Guest Editor, IEEE Network Magazine, SI: Enabling Networked Services and Technologies for Connected Healthcare
2018 Lead Guest Editor, IEEE Communications Magazine, SI: Advances of Next-Generation networking Technologies for Smart Healthcare
2016 Lead Guest Editor, IEEE Communications Magazine, SI: Impact of Next-Generation Mobile Technologies on IoT-Cloud Convergence
2017-18 Lead Guest Editor, Future Generation Computer Systems, SI: The convergence of the Internet of Things and Cloud for Smart Healthcare
2017 Lead Guest Editor, Springer Multimedia tools and Applications, SI: Multimedia for Smart Healthcare
2016 Lead Guest Editor, IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, SI: Advances of Multimedia Big Data on the Cloud
2016 Lead Guest Editor, MTAP, SI: Advances in Next Generation Multimedia Services and Applications: Impact of Cloud and social media
2016 Lead and Only Guest Editor, Springer Multimedia tools and Applications, SI: Multimedia for Smart Healthcare
2016 Lead Guest Editor, SENSORS (MDPI), SI: Multisensory Big Data Analytics for Enhanced Living Environments
2016 Lead Guest Editor, Elsevier Future Generation Computer Systems, SI: Cloud-Based Multimedia Services for healthcare and other related applications
2016 Lead Guest Editor, Elsevier Computers & Electrical Engineering, SI: Multimedia Services for E-health
2015 Lead Guest Editor, Springer Cluster Computing, SI: Advances in Multimedia-based Cloud-Computing for Healthcare
2015 Lead Guest Editor, International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks, SI: Advances in Multimedia Sensor Networks for Healthcare and Related Applications
2015 Lead Guest Editor, Springer Multimedia Tools and Applications, SI: Advances in Multimedia for Health
2012 Lead Guest Editor, IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine, SI: Multimedia Services and Technologies for E-health
2. Conference Organization Chair and invited talks
2024 Track Chair, IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE), 6-8 January 2024, Las Vegas, NV, USA.
2023 Technical Program Co-Chair, ACM Multimedia, 29 Oct-3 Nov. 2023, Ottawa, Canada
2022 Co-Chair, 3rd IEEE GLOBECOM 2023 Workshop on Edge-AI and IoT for Connected Health, 4–8 December 2023, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
2022 Co-Chair, 2nd IEEE GLOBECOM 2022 Workshop on Edge-AI and IoT for Connected Health, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 4–8 December 2022
2022 Organizing Co-Chair, Special Sessions with IEEE I2MTC 2022, Ottawa, Canada
2021 Co-Chair, 1st IEEE GLOBECOM 2021 Workshop on Edge-AI and IoT for Connected Health, Madrid, Spain, 7-11 December 2021
2021 Co-Chair of the Special Session “AI- Enabled technologies for smart health monitoring", with IEEE I2MTC 2021
2020 Co-Chair, IEEE Intl Workshop on Multimedia Services and Technologies for smart-health (MUST-SH 2020) with IEEE ICME 2020, London, UK
2020 Publicity Co-Chairs, IEEE 3rd International Conference on Multimedia Information Processing and Retrieval (IEEE MIPR 2020) April 9-11, 2020, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China.
2019 Co-Chair, 1st IEEE GLOBECOM 2019 Workshop on The Advances of the Internet of Things and Cloud for Smart Connected Living (AIoTCSCL 2019). Waikoloa, HI, USA.
2019 Co-Chair, IEEE Intl Workshop on Multimedia Services and Technologies for smart-health (MUST-SH 2019) held with IEEE ICME 2019, Shanghai, China
2018 Co-Chair, IEEE Intl Workshop on Multimedia Services and Technologies for smart-health (MUST-SH 2018) held with IEEE ICME 2018, USA
2017 Co-Chair, 7th IEEE Intl Workshop on Multimedia Services and Technologies for E-health (MUST-EH 2017) held with IEEE ICME 2017, Hong Kong
2016 Co-Chair, 6th IEEE Intl Workshop on Multimedia Services and Technologies for E-health (MUST-EH 2016) held with IEEE ICME 2016, Seattle, USA.
2015 Co-Chair, 5th IEEE Intl Workshop on Multimedia Services and Technologies for E-health (MUST-EH 2015) held with IEEE ICME 2015, Torino, Italy.
2014 Co-Chair, 4th IEEE Intl Workshop on Multimedia Services and Technologies for E-health (MUST-EH 2014) held with IEEE ICME 2014, Chengdu, China.
2013 Co-Chair, 3rd IEEE Intl Workshop on Multimedia Services and Technologies for E-health (MUST-EH 2013) held with IEEE ICME 2013, San Jose, CA, USA
2012 Co-Chair, 2nd IEEE Intl Workshop on Multimedia Services and Technologies for E-health
(MUST-EH 2012) held with IEEE ICME 2012 Melbourne, Australia.
2015 Co-Chair, 1st IEEE Intl Workshop on Multimedia Services and Technologies for E-health (MUST-EH 2011) held with IEEE ICME 2011, Barcelona, Spain.
2012 Chair, 1st ACM Multimedia Workshop on Cloud-Based Multimedia Applications and Services for E-health, November 2012, Nara, Japan
2012 “Cloud-based media service management for emerging applications". Invited talk at the Workshop on Next Generation Multimedia Research & Development, Abu Dhabi, May 2-3, 2012
Program committee member
- IEEE GLOBECOM 2022, IEEE I2MTC 2022, IEEE MIPR 2020, IEEE Globecom 2020 – AidSH, Taipei, Taiwan
- IEEE Globecom 2019 CSSMA, IEEE Globecom 2019 IoTCS, Hawaii, USA Dec 9-13, 2020.
- ICNC'19 MCC, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, February 18-21, 2019
- IEEE ICTS4eHealth 2019, Barcelona, Spain
- IEEE ICTS4eHealth 2018, Natal, Brazil, June 25-28, 2018
- Joint Conference on Serious Games 2018, Germany, 7-8 November 2018
- IEEE ICME 2012-2018[9 times]
- International Conference on Cloud Computing and Big Data (CCBD 2016) Chengdu, Sichuan, China
- International Conference on Cloud Computing and Big Data (CCBD 2015), November 4th-6th, 2015, Taipei. Taiwan.
- Gamedays, 2011-2016
- ACM Multimedia Workshop on Serious Games, 2014
- International Symposium on Emerging Inter-networks, Communication and Mobility (EICM'2014)
- MCIT 2010, ISSPA 2010
g) GRADUATE SUPERVISIONS:
Completed: 4 MSC.
In Progress: 3 Ph.D
NAME OF STUDENTS supervised within the past eight years, the title of thesis or project (specify), and both month and year of first registration and year of completion:
Ph.D.
1. Nojoom A. Al-Najem, (Ph.D.), "ML SW Requirement Similarity " 2021-
2. Abeer Alfaifi, Ph.D, LLM Security
3. Munira alsu, Ph.D,
MSC
1. Abdulaziz Alharbi (MSC) " Medical Image Classification using CNN" 2019-2020
2. Ahmad Alshomar, (MSC), "A Framework for Social Media Big Data Integration on Cloud ”, 2016-2018
3. Mohammed Albaqawi (MSC), “Service provisioning of social media big data on the cloud” Sep 2015 –2016
4. Bader Alqasem, (MSC), “Detecting and Tracking Arabic Abuse in Social Media”, 2016- 2018
h) GRADUATE COURSES:
2014-2015 Software Testing and Quality (SWE 505) / (CSI5118: Automated verification and Validation of Software (U Ottawa)
2014-2015 Software Usability Engineering (SWE 509) / (CSI5122: Software Usability (U Ottawa)
2015-2016 Software Usability Engineering (SWE 509) /CSI 5122: Software Usability (U Ottawa)
2016-2017 Multimedia System (SWE 518)/ ELG 5121 Multimedia Communications (U Ottawa)
2017-2018 Software Usability Engineering (SWE 509) /CSI 5122: Software Usability (U Ottawa)
2019-2020 Selected Topics: Machine Learning and Data Science (SWE 510)
2024-2025 Multimedia Software System (622)
UNDERGRADUATE COURSES:
| As a professor in the Software Engineering Dept, CCIS, King Saud University Human-Computer Interactions (SWE 482) Software Testing and Validations (SWE 434) Software Project Management (SWE 466) Software Maintenance and Evolution (SWE 455) Introduction to Software Engineering (SWE 211) Graduation Project I (SWE 496) Graduation Project II (SWE 497) As a TA and Lab Instructor in SITE, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada Analysis and Design for User Interfaces (SEG 3120) Software Quality Assurance (SEG 3203) Communication and Networking (SEG 3255) Introduction to Computing I (ITI 1220) Computing Concepts for Business (CSI 1301D) Data Structures and Algorithms (CSI 2114) Engineering Computation (GNG 1101 D A) SEG: Software Engineering, CSI: Computer Science |
PUBLICATIONS:
1) Life-time summary (count) according to the following categories:
| Books authored | 6 |
| Chapters in books | 3 |
| Patent (In process) | 1 |
| Papers in ISI-indexed journals | 365 |
| Papers in refereed conference proceedings | 37 |
| Total | 410 |