Name:                  Ouiem Bchir, PHD.
Position:              Assistant professor
Affiliation:           CS department, KSU
Email:                    obchir@ksu.edu.sa
                                 ouiem.bchir@gmail.com
Office: B8
 

 
2011       Ph.D. in Computer Engineering and Computer Science
University of Louisville, Ky.
Dissertation: Unsupervised and semi-supervised clustering with learnable cluster dependent kernels. 
Adviser: Dr. Hichem Frigui
 
2006       1 year of M.S. of Automatic and Signal Processing
National School of Engineering of Tunis,  Tunisia,  June 2005.
Thesis: Speech separation using wavelet analysis.
 Advised by: Dr. Amal Ben Slimane.Ranked: 3/120.
 
2002       B.S. Electrical Engineering
National School of Engineering of Monastir, Tunisia,  June 2002.
Graduation with honors. 
Ma- jor in Industrial computer science.
Graduation Project : Medical  image  processing.
Advised by: Dr. Najoua  Ben Amara.
 Graduation with highest honors and Presidential  award.
 
1999       Associate  Degree in Mathematics  and Physics
Preparatory engineering studies in Mathematics and  Physics  (Math  SUP-Math  SP).
L’Institut Preparatoire des Etudes  Scientifique  de Tunis  IPEST (1997-1999).
Advanced studies in mathematics  and  physics  are carried out  on two  years  after  which  students present the entrance examination for  Tunisian or  French  engineering colleges.  The program is both  the  French preparatory classes with major in math  and physics.
 
 

Aug 2011 – Present                         Assistant professor at King Saud university , Computer science departement

Aug 2006 – May 2011                      Graduate  Research Assistant
 
Multimedia Research  Lab, CECS, University of Louisville. Extensive  experience with
• Spectral and kernel clustering
• Hyperspectral image analysis
• Local distance measure learning
• Semi-supervised learning
• Data sets: Landmine data set, Geological  hyperspectral dataset, Corel image data set ...
 
September 2002-February 2006                                Co-Design  Engineer

STMicroelectronics, Ariana,  Tunisia. 
Co-Design Engineer involved in the high level design  of STMicroelectronics IPs and interconnects such as the STBus and the ST220 co-processor using systemC and  VHDL. 
Leading the  co-design Tunisian Team  and   in charge  of the coordination between the Tunisian and the French and Italian team.
Responsible for training the new recruits in the co-design team.
 
Feb 2002-June 2002        Graduation  Engineer Intern
Medical image processing Laboratory of the medical university of Monastir.
Graduation Project on Medical image processing.
 It consists of developing a software using Visual C++ that allows displaying DiCOM  type  medical  images,  pre-processing these  images  than  applying dedicated linear and non linear filters to extract useful information for the diagnostic of the patient. Presidential  award.
 
July 2001-August 2001                    Microelectronic  Engineer Intern
Audiovisual company, THOMSON, Sousse, Tunisia.
 Technician  in the After sale service.
 
July 2000-August 2000                    Electric  Engineer Intern
Airline  company, NOUVELAIR,  Monastir, Tunisia. 
Technician  in the  airplane maintenance service.
 
 

Ouiem  Bchir and  Hichem Frigui.  “Fuzzy clustering with learnable cluster dependent kernels”. FUZZ-IEEE
2011.
 
Ouiem Bchir and Hichem Frigui. Fuzzy relational kernel clustering with local scaling parameter learning. IEEE MLSP 2010 Kittila, Finland,  August 2010.
 
Ouiem  Bchir, Hichem Frigui,  Alina  Zare and  Paul Gader.  Multiple Model Endmember Detection Based On Spectral And Spatial Information. IEEE WHISPERS 2010, Reykjavik, Iceland  , June 2010.
 
 
Alina Zare, Ouiem Bchir, Hichem Frigui and Paul Gader  . Spatially-Smooth Piece-Wise Convex Endmember Detection. IEEE WHISPERS 2010, Reykjavik, Iceland,  June 2010.
 
Alina Zare, Ouiem Bchir, Hichem Frigui and Paul Gader.  A Comparison Of Deterministic And Probabilistic Approaches To Endmember Representation. IEEE WHISPERS 2010, Reykjavik, Iceland,  June 2010.
 
 

 
Alina  Zare,  Ouiem  Bchir, Hichem Frigui  and  Paul  Gader.  Piece-wise Convex Multiple Model Endmember Detection. IEEE TGRS. (under revision).
 
Ouiem Bchir and Hichem Frigui. Fuzzy clustering with learnable cluster dependent kernels. IEEE TFS. (under revision)
 
 

 
•  University of Louisville Dean citation, 2011- UofL- May  2011
•  Computer Engineering and Computer Science departement award- 2011
•  Graduate Research  Assistant ship – University of Louisville
•  Promoted to co-design job within STMicroelectronics on September 2002.
• Presidential award received for the electrical engineering diploma (2002).
•  Tunisian national scholarship for preparatory engineering studies in “l’Institut Preparatoire des Etudes  Scientifique  de Tunis" IPEST (1997-1999).
• Access to the preparatory classes IPEST which  is a selective  procedure for the best students of final classes (math  section) of schools (1997).

 
Arabic: native
French: fluent in reading/writing/speaking
English: fluent in reading/writing/speaking
 

Reviewer for the Fuzzy Sets and Systems journal  (FSS).
Reviewer for the WHISPERS IEEE conference.
 

 
1. Combinatorial Optimization
2. Image Processing and Pattern Recognition
3. Content Based Image Retrieval
4. Pattern Recognition and Machine  Intelligence
5. Data Mining
6. Artificial Intelligence
7. Multimedia and Hypertext
8. Content Based Video Retrieval
9. Computer Algorithms
10. Fuzzy theory
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Name:                  Ouiem Bchir, PHD.
Position:              Assistant professor
Affiliation:           CS department, KSU
Email:                    obchir@ksu.edu.sa
                                 ouiem.bchir@gmail.com
Office: B8
 

 
2011       Ph.D. in Computer Engineering and Computer Science
University of Louisville, Ky.
Dissertation: Unsupervised and semi-supervised clustering with learnable cluster dependent kernels. 
Adviser: Dr. Hichem Frigui
 
2006       1 year of M.S. of Automatic and Signal Processing
National School of Engineering of Tunis,  Tunisia,  June 2005.
Thesis: Speech separation using wavelet analysis.
 Advised by: Dr. Amal Ben Slimane.Ranked: 3/120.
 
2002       B.S. Electrical Engineering
National School of Engineering of Monastir, Tunisia,  June 2002.
Graduation with honors. 
Ma- jor in Industrial computer science.
Graduation Project : Medical  image  processing.
Advised by: Dr. Najoua  Ben Amara.
 Graduation with highest honors and Presidential  award.
 
1999       Associate  Degree in Mathematics  and Physics
Preparatory engineering studies in Mathematics and  Physics  (Math  SUP-Math  SP).
L’Institut Preparatoire des Etudes  Scientifique  de Tunis  IPEST (1997-1999).
Advanced studies in mathematics  and  physics  are carried out  on two  years  after  which  students present the entrance examination for  Tunisian or  French  engineering colleges.  The program is both  the  French preparatory classes with major in math  and physics.
 
 

Aug 2011 – Present                         Assistant professor at King Saud university , Computer science departement
Aug 2006 – May 2011                      Graduate  Research Assistant
 
Multimedia Research  Lab, CECS, University of Louisville. Extensive  experience with
• Spectral and kernel clustering
• Hyperspectral image analysis
• Local distance measure learning
• Semi-supervised learning
• Data sets: Landmine data set, Geological  hyperspectral dataset, Corel image data set ...
 
September 2002-February 2006                                Co-Design  Engineer
STMicroelectronics, Ariana,  Tunisia. 
Co-Design Engineer involved in the high level design  of STMicroelectronics IPs and interconnects such as the STBus and the ST220 co-processor using systemC and  VHDL. 
Leading the  co-design Tunisian Team  and   in charge  of the coordination between the Tunisian and the French and Italian team.
Responsible for training the new recruits in the co-design team.
 
Feb 2002-June 2002        Graduation  Engineer Intern
Medical image processing Laboratory of the medical university of Monastir.
Graduation Project on Medical image processing.
 It consists of developing a software using Visual C++ that allows displaying DiCOM  type  medical  images,  pre-processing these  images  than  applying dedicated linear and non linear filters to extract useful information for the diagnostic of the patient. Presidential  award.
 
July 2001-August 2001                    Microelectronic  Engineer Intern
Audiovisual company, THOMSON, Sousse, Tunisia.
 Technician  in the After sale service.
 
July 2000-August 2000                    Electric  Engineer Intern
Airline  company, NOUVELAIR,  Monastir, Tunisia. 
Technician  in the  airplane maintenance service.
 
 

Ouiem  Bchir and  Hichem Frigui.  “Fuzzy clustering with learnable cluster dependent kernels”. FUZZ-IEEE
2011.
 
Ouiem Bchir and Hichem Frigui. Fuzzy relational kernel clustering with local scaling parameter learning. IEEE MLSP 2010 Kittila, Finland,  August 2010.
 
Ouiem  Bchir, Hichem Frigui,  Alina  Zare and  Paul Gader.  Multiple Model Endmember Detection Based On Spectral And Spatial Information. IEEE WHISPERS 2010, Reykjavik, Iceland  , June 2010.
 
 
Alina Zare, Ouiem Bchir, Hichem Frigui and Paul Gader  . Spatially-Smooth Piece-Wise Convex Endmember Detection. IEEE WHISPERS 2010, Reykjavik, Iceland,  June 2010.
 
Alina Zare, Ouiem Bchir, Hichem Frigui and Paul Gader.  A Comparison Of Deterministic And Probabilistic Approaches To Endmember Representation. IEEE WHISPERS 2010, Reykjavik, Iceland,  June 2010.
 
 

 
Alina  Zare,  Ouiem  Bchir, Hichem Frigui  and  Paul  Gader.  Piece-wise Convex Multiple Model Endmember Detection. IEEE TGRS. (under revision).
 
Ouiem Bchir and Hichem Frigui. Fuzzy clustering with learnable cluster dependent kernels. IEEE TFS. (under revision)
 
 

 
•  University of Louisville Dean citation, 2011- UofL- May  2011
•  Computer Engineering and Computer Science departement award- 2011
•  Graduate Research  Assistant ship – University of Louisville
•  Promoted to co-design job within STMicroelectronics on September 2002.
• Presidential award received for the electrical engineering diploma (2002).
•  Tunisian national scholarship for preparatory engineering studies in “l’Institut Preparatoire des Etudes  Scientifique  de Tunis" IPEST (1997-1999).
• Access to the preparatory classes IPEST which  is a selective  procedure for the best students of final classes (math  section) of schools (1997).

 
Arabic: native
French: fluent in reading/writing/speaking
English: fluent in reading/writing/speaking
 

Reviewer for the Fuzzy Sets and Systems journal  (FSS).
Reviewer for the WHISPERS IEEE conference.
 

 
1. Combinatorial Optimization
2. Image Processing and Pattern Recognition
3. Content Based Image Retrieval
4. Pattern Recognition and Machine  Intelligence
5. Data Mining
6. Artificial Intelligence
7. Multimedia and Hypertext
8. Content Based Video Retrieval
9. Computer Algorithms
10. Fuzzy theory
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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