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Dr. Belgacem Ben Youssef

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علوم الحاسب والمعلومات
bbenyoussef@KSU.EDU.SA

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Summarized CV for Dr. Belgacem Ben Youssef

Bio
Belgacem Ben Youssef is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Engineering, College of Computer & Information Sciences at King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He received his PhD from the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Cullen College of Engineering, University of Houston, Texas, USA. He was previously an Assistant Professor at Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, Canada. His research interests include parallel computing and processing, computer architecture, hyperspectral image processing, computational biology, and machine learning. He has two years of industrial experience in software development and technical project management. He is a member of the IEEE, IEEE Computer Society, and the ACM.
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1. Name: Dr. Belgacem Ben Youssef
2. Education

  • Ph.D., Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cullen College of Engineering, University of Houston, Texas, USA, May 1999.

3. Academic experience

  • King Saud University, Associate Professor, September 2012 – Present, Full Time.
  • King Saud University, Assistant Professor, September 2010 – August 2012, Full Time.
  • Simon Fraser University (Canada), Assistant Professor, March 2003 – August 2010, Full Time.

4. Non-academic experience

  • Software Project Manager, TradeNet, Inc., Tunis, Tunisia, November 2001 – August 2002, Full Time.

5. Current membership in professional organizations

  • IEEE and IEEE Computer Society, Member.
  • ACM, Member.

6. Honors and awards

  • Best Paper Award for “Teaching First-Year Interdisciplinary Students to Use Computational Design Software in a Spatial Thinking Course”. Proceedings of the IEEE Interdisciplinary Engineering Design Education Conference (IEEE IEDEC 2012), p. 10-17, Santa Clara, California, USA, March 19-21, 2012, IEEE Xplore (with B. Berry and M. Sjoerdsma).

7. Service activities (within and outside of the institution)

  • Graduate Studies Committee, Member, Department of Computer Engineering, KSU, Fall 2014 - Present.
  • Laboratories Committee, Convener, Department of Computer Engineering, KSU, Fall 2020 - Present.
  • College Graduate Studies Committee, Member, Vice-Deanship for Graduate Studies & Scientific Research, College of Computer & Information Sciences, KSU, Fall 2018 – Spring 2020.
  • HPC Acquisition Committee, Member, College of Computer & Information Sciences, KSU, Spring 2017 – Fall 2019.

8. Briefly list the most important publications and presentations from the past five years

  • B. Ben Youssef, “An Agent-Based Model for Wound Healing and Its Parallelization”. Accepted for Publication in the International Conference on Computer Applications & Information Security (ICCAIS 2021), Sousse, Tunisia, March 18-20, 2021.
  • B. Ben Youssef, “Fast Parallel Algorithms for the Generation and Evaluation of a Class of Orthogonal Polynomials”, Department of Computer Engineering, KSU, pp. 1-23, Summer 2019, (Technical Report).
  • B. Ben Youssef, “Simulating Cell-Cell Interactions Using a Multicellular Three-Dimensional Computational Model of Tissue Growth". Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications (ICCSA 2018), LNCS vol. 10961, pp. 215-228, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, July 2-5, 2018.
  • B. Ben Youssef, “Cellular Automata Based Modeling of Three-Dimensional Multicellular Tissue Growth”. Published in Emerging Trends in Computational Biology, Bioinformatics, and Systems Biology – Systems & Applications, Q-N. Tran and H. R. Arabnia (Eds.), Chapter 19, pp. 287-303, Elsevier/Morgan Kaufmann, 2016, ISBN-13: 978-0-12-804203-8, USA, 2016, (Book Chapter).
  • B. Ben Youssef, “A Parallel Cellular Automata Algorithm for the Deterministic Simulation of 3-D Multicellular Tissue Growth”. Cluster Computing Journal, vol. 18, no. 4, pp.1561-1579, December 2015 (ISI Indexed, Springer).
  • B. Ben Youssef, “Exploring the Effect of Cell Heterogeneity in Wound Healing Using a 3D Multicellular Tissue Growth Model”. Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Unconventional Computation and Natural Computation (UCNC 2015), LNCS vol. 9252, pp. 109-120, Auckland, New Zealand, August 30-September 3, 2015.
  • L. Hidri, B. Ben Youssef, and A. Gazdar, “Lower Bounds for the Parallel Processing Scheduling Problem with Multiprocessor Tasks, Release Date and Delivery Time”. Proceedings of the 7th Multidisciplinary International Conference on Scheduling – Theory and Applications (MISTA 2015), pp. 403-411, Prague, Czech Republic, August 25-28, 2015.
  • B. Ben Youssef, “Simulating the Effect of Cell Migration Speed on Wound Healing Using a 3D Cellular Automata Model for Multicellular Tissue Growth”. Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications (ICCSA 2015), LNCS vol. 9156, pp. 28-42, Banff, AB, Canada, June 22-25, 2015.

9. Briefly list the most recent professional development activities
Workshop on Course Assessment Strategies, Deanship of Skills Development, King Saud University, January 13, 2013.