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 7^th 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.