Contact information (014675188, ykhlef@ksu.edu.sa),
        Office room number: Building 31 Office 2035
        Position: Professor
        Department name: Information Systems
 

Educational Dossier (Diplomas):
1999    Ph. D in Computer Science, University Bordeaux 1, Bordeaux, France
            Thesis title: "Querying semi-structured data"
1995   M Sc in Artificial Intelligence, University of Paris 13, Paris, France
            Thesis title: "Query optimization in deductive and object oriented databases"
1994   B  Eng (Engineer) in Computer Science, University of Constantine, Constantine, Algeria
One Year Graduation Project: "Urban Spatial Analysis for Digital Cartography"
 
ACADEMIC RANKS:
June 2017-Up to now: Full Professor in Information System department, College of Computer Science and Information Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
December 2010-June 2017: Associate Professor in Information System department, College of Computer Science and Information Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Sept 2003-November 2010: Assistant Professor in Information System department, College of Computer Science and Information Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
 
Research areas:

1. Data Mining and Big Data Analytics
2. Social Network, Text Mining and Information Retrieval
3. Data Mining for Finance and Marketing
4. Risk analysis  
5. E-Business and E-Commerce
6. Bio-inspired computing
7. Collective Intelligence
8. Natural Language Processing