Education

Ph.D.   Computer Science, University of Nottingham, England, United Kingdom, 2014.
 
M.Sc.   Technology for Teaching and Learning, the University of Glamorgan (formed the  University of South Wales) , United Kingdom, 2009.
 
BSc.  Computer Science, Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.2005.
 
Academia Experience

Associate Professor
 
Department of Software Engineering,College of Computer & Information Sciences, King Saud University, From September 2022 till now
 
Assistant Professor
 
Department of Software Engineering,College of Computer & Information Sciences, King Saud University, From September 2017 to 2022
 
Assistant Professor (Part-time)
 
 Department of Computer Engineering, College of Engineering and Architecture,Al Yamamh University,2019 .
 
Assistant Professor
 
Department of Computer Science, College of Computer & Information Technology, Tabuk University, From 2014 to September 2017
 
Teaching Assistant
Department of Computer Science, College of Computer & Information Technology, Tabuk University, From 2006 to 2014.
Lab Demonstrator
School of Computer Science, University of Nottingham, England, United Kingdom, 2012.
 
Instructor
 Computer Science Instructor at Tabuk Health Collage for Girls, Ministry of Health, Tabuk, Saudi Arabia. From 2006 to 2006.
 
Non-academic Experience
 
IT specialist at  IT Services Unit, Khadijah bint Khuwailid Center(KBK), Jeddah Chamber of Commerce & Industry (JCCI), Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.  From 2005 – 2006.
 
Professional Experience

Director , The Research Center - College of Computer and Information, King Saud University sciences. 2021- till now.
 
Head, Public  Relation and Media  Unit - College of Computer and Information, King Saud University sciences. 2020.
 
Head, Community Relation Unit - College of Computer and Information, King Saud University sciences. 2019- until now.
 
Director, Community Relation Unit - College of Computer and Information, King Saud University sciences. 2019- until now.
 
Chairman, Committee of  Community Service - Collage of Computer and Information, Female Section, King Saud University sciences. 2017- 2019.
 
Certifications/ Professional Registrations
Accredited Professional certificate from Staff and Educational Development Association (SEDA) , UK, 2018.
 
Service Activities

• An observer at Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET ) 2019.
• Cooperative Consultant at National Center for Academic Accreditation & Evaluation (NCAAA) 2019-2020.

 
Researcher Memberships

• Web of Science ID: AAJ-3501-2020
• ORCID: 0003-0446-5430
• Scopus ID: 56037647900

 
Research Activities

Guest Associate Editor for special issue entitled Challenges, Tools, and Applications in Industrial Artificial Intelligence in In Frontiers In Artificial Intelligence- AI in Business,2021

Guest Associate Editor for special issue entitled Challenges, Tools, and Applications in Industrial Artificial Intelligence in In Frontiers In Artificial Intelligence- AI in Business,2021.

· Guest Editor for a special issue entitled "Deep Learning for Internet of Anesthesia, Intensive Care, Emergency and Pain Medicine" is now open online in Signa Vitae Journal of Anesthesia, Intensive Care, Emergency and Pain Medicine, 2021.

·Guest Editor  for a special issue entitled “Intelligent system and computational methods in Medical and healthcare solution with it challenges during Covid-19 pandemic in Journal of intelligent System.2020

Vice of the president, Technical Program Committee, Artificial  Intelligent Society  AIS, the 3rd Saudi Mobile Show, Virtual Version,2020

·Lead Editor for a special issue entitled “Computational Engineering” in International Journal of Computational &Neural Engineering (IJCNE) 2017.

Workshop Organizer: The 4th international Conference on Innovative Computing and Communication (ICICC2021) entitled “Sustainable Heterogenous Energy-Aware Systems for next Generation Devices and networks”

Editor and member, the editorial board of the International Journal of Computational & Neural Engineering (IJCNE) 2015- until now

Congress Board Member: Global 2019 Congress on Computer Engineering (GC-CompEng 2019-till now

Conference Committees member, International Conference on Computer Science and Engineering (MIC-Computing-19) 2018-until now

Member,Technical program Committee TPC :The 1st International Conference on Evolutionary Computing (MIC-Evolu 2019)

Member,Technical program Committee TPC : The International Conference on Big Data and Security (ICBDS 2019)

Member, Technical program Committee: Future Computing Systems (FComp) Committee TPC . 1st International Conference on Future Communications and Computing (MIC-FutureCom 2020)

Member, the Automated Scheduling, Optimisation and Planning Research Group (ASAP) Reformed ( Computational Optimisation and Learning (COL) Lab)  at the School of Computer Science, University of Nottingham. 2010-2014.

 Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Computer Science Society, 2010- 2015.

Member, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2018- until now.

 Member, the Operational Research Society (OR), 2010- 2015.

Member, Saudi Science Club in Information Technology, 2005-2006.

Excellent Reviewer at Publons for several international scientific journals/conferences including: The IEEE Cybernetics Journal, the Computational Optimization and Applications Journal, Applied Soft Computing, International Journal of Information Technology, Decision Making, Advances in Mechanical Engineering, IEEE Access, Engineering Optimization  and Applied and Computational Mathematics.

Reviewer for The 4th International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Data Mining (FSDM 2018)

Reviewer for The International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Security (ICAIS 2019)

Referee, in Students Scientific Forum (Multqah)  and  the second scientific programming competition - Tabuk University,2015.

  
 
Taught Courses

• SWE 608 Search-based Software Engineering (PhD program- King Saud University)
• SWE 596 Thesis Proposal Preparation (Master program- King Saud University)
• SWE506 Software Project Management (Master course- King Saud University)
• SWE 505 Software Testing and Quality (Master course- King Saud University)
• SWE564 Software Data Mining (Master course- King Saud University)
• SWE520 Complex Software Engineering Systems (Master course- King Saud University)
• SWE381 Web Applications Development ( Bsc course King Saud University)
• SWE466 Software Project Management ( Bsc course King Saud University)
• IS230 Introduction of Database System (Bsc course -Information System Department-King Saud University)
• SWE599 Mater ProjectII (King Saud University)
• SWE598 Mater ProjectI (King Saud University)
• SWE496 B.Sc Project 1(King Saud University)
• SWE497 B.Sc Project2 (King Saud University)
• SWE301 Software Engineering Requirements (Al Yamaha University)
• SWE402 Software Maintenance and Evolution  (Al Yamaha University)
• CSC420 Theory of Computation (Tabuk University)
• CSC450 Artificial Intelligence. (Tabuk University)
• CSC321 Design and Analysis of Algorithms (Tabuk University)
• CSC590 Project 1(Tabuk University)
• CSC591 Project2 (Tabuk University)
• Comp101 Introduction of Computer (Tabuk Health Collage for Girls)
• Comp 102 Introduction of Computer-Level2 (Tabuk Health Collage for Girls)

 
 
Supervised Projects

• An investigation and evaluation  of the effectiveness of the current approaches of e-learning in higher education at the kingdom of Saudi Arabia during the Covid-19 pandemic (Master Thesis, 2020)
• Module Clustering Problem in Search-Based Software Engineering for Multi-objective  Optimization( Master project, 2020)
• Optimizing the Software development lifecycle (Master project, 2019)
• Optimizing the test suite in the regression testing (Master project, 2019)
• Modeling a bus navigation route using GA -optimization method for TSP (Master project, 2018)
• Developing IT smart matching social network application (B.Sc project, 2020)
• Developing a game mobile based application for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) (B.Sc project, 2019)
• Industrial Rotating Machinery Maintenance Prediction System using machine language  (B.Sc Project 2019)
• Developing an SWE-GPC system for Graduation Project Committee System for Software Engineering Department. This system embedded a proposed new linear algorithm for solving Student-project allocation problem and it applied a graph-coloring method to solve the presentation timetabling problem (B.Sc project, 2018)
• Developing Knowledge Investment Platform for Deanship of Scientific Research  at King Saud University (B.Sc project, 2018)
• Solving the examination scheduling optimization problem using GA –Case Study, Tabuk University (B.Sc project, 2015)

Research Interests

 
Intelligent computing, artificial intelligence, machine learning, hyper-heuristic, meta-heuristics, multi-objective optimization, evolutionary algorithms, classification, software optimization, search based of software engineering, bioinformatics.  
 
Publications
 
Mohammed A. M. , Elhoseny, M., Abdulkareem, K.,  Mostafa, S., Maashi, M.  “A Multi-agent Feature Selection and Hybrid Classification Model for Parkinson's Disease Diagnosis”, Transactions on Multimedia Computing Communications and Applications. Accepted
 
Abdulsahib, A.A., Mahmoud, M.A., Mohammed, M.A. , Hind H. Rasheed, 
Salama A. Mostafa, Mashael S. Maashi (2021)  Comprehensive review of retinal blood vessel segmentation and classification techniques: intelligent solutions for green computing in medical images, current challenges, open issues, and knowledge gaps in fundus medical images. Netw Model Anal Health Inform Bioinforma 10, 20 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13721-021-00294-7

Fatimah O. Albalawi., Mashael S. Maashi (2021)"A Methodology for Selection and Optimization the Software Development Life Cycles based on Genetic Algorithm" Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing". Vol.28, No.1, 2021, pp.39-52, doi:10.32604/iasc.2021.015657.
 
A. S. Al-Waisy, Mazin AbedMohammed, Shumoos Al-Fahdawi,M. S. Maashi,
Begonya Garcia-Zapirain, Karrar Hameed Abdulkareem, S. A.Mostafa, "COVID-DeepNet: Hybrid Multimodal Deep Learning System for Improving COVID-19 Pneumonia Detection in Chest X-ray Images" Computers,Materials & Continua, vol.67, No.2, 2021, pp.2409-2429, doi:  10.32604/cmc.2021.012955.

Ihsan Jasim Hussein, M. A. Burhanuddin, Mazin Abed Mohammed, Mohamed Elhoseny, Begonya Garcia-Zapirain, Marwah Suliman Maashi, Mashael S. Maashi (2021) Fully Automatic Segmentation of Gynaecological Abnormality Using a New Viola–Jones Model, Computers, Materials & Continua Vol.66, No.3, 2021, pp.3161-3182, doi:10.32604/cmc.2021.012691
 
M. Elhoseny, M. A., Mohammed, S. A. Mostafa, K. H. Abdulkareem, Mashael. S. Maashi, Begonya Garcia-Zapirain, Ammar Awad Mutlag and Marwah Maashi (2021)"A new multi-agent feature wrapper machine learning approach for heart disease diagnosis," Computers, Materials & Continua, vol. 67, no.1, pp. 51–71.

Theyazn H. H Aldhyani, Mohammed Al-Yaari, Hasan Alkahtani, Mashael Maashi (2020),  "Water Quality Prediction Using Artificial Intelligence Algorithms", Applied Bionics and Biomechanics 12 pages.  https://doi.org/10.1155/2020/6659314
 
Abed M. , Abdulkareem,  K., Garcia-Zapirain B., A.Mostafa, S., Maashi, M.,  . Alwaisy A., Subhi, M., Mutlag, A.  and Le., D (2021) “Comprehensive Investigation of Machine Learning Feature Extraction and Classification Methods for Automated Diagnosis of COVID-19 Based on X-ray Images”, Computers,Materials & Continua, 66(3). DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.012874
 
Mohammed, M..; Abdulkareem, K. Mostafa, S.; Khanapi, M.; Maashi, M.; Garcia-Zapirain, B.; Oleagordia, I.; Alhakami, H.; AL-Dhief, T. (2020) “Voice Pathology Detection and Classification Using Convolutional Neural Network Model”. Applied Science, 10, 3723.
 
Prasanna J., Subathra, M., Mohammed, M., Maashi, M. ; Garcia-Zapirain, Sairamya,  B.,  Thomas, S.(2020)  “Detection of Focal and Non-Focal Electroencephalogram Signals Using Fast Walsh-Hadamard Transform and Artificial Neural Network”, Sensors,  20 (17),4952.
 
Mohammed M. A, Abdulkareem K. H. , Al-Waisy A. S.  , Mostafa S. A. ,  Al-Fahdawi , S.  , Dinar A. M. ,  Alhakami ,W. and BAZ, A. ,  Al-Mhiqani, M. N. , Alhakami, Arbaiy ,H., N. , Maashi,  M. S. , Mutlag, A. A. ,B. García-Zapirain and De La Torre Díez ,I. D (2020) "Benchmarking Methodology for Selection of Optimal COVID-19 Diagnostic Model Based on Entropy and TOPSIS Methods," , IEEE Access, 8, 99115-99131,DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2020.2995597.
 
Maashi M., “Analysis Heart Disease Using Machine Learning”(2020), Multi-Knowledge Electronic Comprehensive Journal For Education And Science Publications (MECSJ) 29, ISSN: 2616-9185.
 
Mutlag, A.A.; Khanapi Abd Ghani, M.; Mohammed, M.A.; Maashi, M. S.; Mohd, O.; Mostafa, S.A.; Abdulkareem, K.H.; Marques, G.; de la Torre Díez, I.(2020) “MAFC: Multi-Agent Fog Computing Model for Healthcare Critical Tasks Management”. Sensors , 20, 1853.
 
Maashi, M., Alwhibi, N., Alamr,  F. , Alzahrani, R.,  Alhamid, A and Altawallah,N. (2020) “Industrial Duct Fan Maintenance Predictive approach based on Random Forest”. International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (CAIML 2020). In proceedings of 9th International Conference on Information Technology Convergence  and Services (ITCSE 2020) May 30~31, 2020, Vancouver, Canada.
 
Maashi, M., Almanea, G., Alqurashi, R.,  Alharbi, N.,  Alharkan, R.,  Alsadhan, F. (2020) “Solving Student-Project  Research Assignment Problems Using A Novel Greedy Linear Heuristic Algorithm: A Case Study At King Saud University, Riyadh Saudi Arabia”, Bioscience Biotechnology Research Communications, 13 (2) 1168-1173. DOI:10.21786/bbrc/13.3/27
 
Al-Waisy, A., Al-Fahdawi, S., Mohammed M. A., Abdulkareem, K., Mostafa S.,  Maashi, M., Arif, M ,  Garcia-Zapirain B. (2020) “COVID-CheXNet: Hybrid Deep Learning Framework for Identifying COVID-19 Virus in Chest X-rays Images”, Soft Computing. DOI: 10.1007/s00500-020-05424-3
 
Maashi, M., Almanea, G., Alqurashi, R.,  Alharbi, N.,  Alharkan, R.,  Alsadhan, F. (2019) “A greedy linear heuristic to solve Group-Project allocation problem: A case study at SWE-KSU”.
 International Conference on Communication, Management and Information Technology- ICCMIT’19, Vienna, Austria, March.
 
Maashi, M. (2017). Heuristics and Hyper-Heuristics - Principles and Applications, chapter   
Multi-Objective Hyper-Heuristics, pages 21-39.  InTech
                                                                                                  
Maashi, M., Kendall, G., and Özcan, E. (2015). “Choice function based hyper-heuristics for
multi-objective optimization”, Applied Soft Computing,28: 312-326.
 
Maashi, M.,  Özcan, E. and Kendall, G. (2014). “A multi-objective hyper-heuristic based on
choice function”, Expert Systems with Applications, 41(9): 4475-4493.
 
Maashi, M., Kendall, G., and Özcan, E. (2014). Comparison of Multi objective Hyper-heuristics
on tri-objective WFG test problems. The 7th  Saudi Students Scientific
Conference(SSCUK2013), Edinburgh, UK, February, Abstract.
 
Maashi, M. (2014). An Investigation Of Multi-Objective Hyper-Heuristics for Multi-Objective
Optimisation. PhD thesis, School of Computer Science, University of Nottingham, UK.
 
Maashi, M., Kendall, G., and Özcan, E. (2012).  A choice function based hyper-heuristic for
multi-objective optimisation. The 3rd  Student Conference on Operational Research (SCOR
2012). April, Abstract.
 
Maashi, M., Kendall, G., and Özcan, E. (2012). A great deluge based learning hyper-heuristic
for multi-objective optimisation. The 54th  Operation Research Annual Conference(OR54),
September. Available at:
 http://www.theorsociety.com/DocumentRepository/Browse.aspx?CatID=3, (Accessed: 17th April 2013), Abstract.
 
Maashi, M. (2009). Opportunities and Challenges using VLEs: A Case Study of Universities in
Saudi Arabia.. Master dissertation, Faculty of Advanced Technology, University of Glamorgan,
UK.
 
Academic Committees Memberships
 
-King Saud University- Collage of Computer and Information sciences

• Chairman , CCIS Media Committee , KSU Female Campus , 2021-till now
• Vice-Chairman, Digital Content Commitee, 2021-till now
• Chairman , Committee of  Media and Public Relation  Committee - Department of Software Engineering,  College of Computer and Technology Sciences2019.
• Chairman , Committee of  Community Service - College of Computer and Technology Sciences2017- 2019.
• Coordinator, Committee of  Graduation Project- Department of Software Engineering, College of Computer and Technology Sciences -  King Saud University , 2017- 2019
• Member , Committee of Academic Accreditation  - Department of Software Engineering, College of Computer and Technology Sciences -  King Saud University , 2017- until now.

-Tabuk University- Collage of Computer and Information Technology

• Member and coordinator, Committee of Staff Training and Skill Development - College of Computer and Information Technology - Tabuk University, 2014-2015

• Member and coordinator, Committee of Supervision and Follow-up Examinations - College of Computer and Information Technology - Tabuk University, 2014-2015
• Member and coordinator, Committee of  the Scientific Research - College of Computing and Information Technology , Tabuk University,  2014 -2015
• Member, Committee of the College Development – College  of Computer and Information Technology - Tabuk University, 2014-2015 .
• Member, Committee of Curriculum and Courses, College of Computer and Information Technology, Tabuk University, 2014-2015.
• Member, Committee of Academic Affairs - College of Computer and Information Technology - Tabuk University,  2014 – 2015.
• Member, Committee of Course Files - College of Computer and Information Technology - Tabuk University,  2014 - 2015.
• Member, Committee of Quality and Accreditation - College of Computer and Information Technology - Tabuk University, 2014 - 2015.
• Member, Committee of the Strategic Planning - College of Computer and Information Technology - University of Tabuk,  2014 -2015.
• Member and coordinator, Unit of E-learning - College of Computer and Information Technology - Tabuk University, 2014-2015
• Member and coordinator, Unit of Measurement and Evaluation - College of Computer and Information Technology - Tabuk University, 2014-2015
• Member,  Unit of Student Affairs and Alumni, College of Computing and Information Technology, Tabuk University, 2014-2015

 
-Collage of Health College for Girls,Tabuk

• Member, Committee of  Academic Development - 2006-2007
• Member,  Committee of Exam -  2006 -2007

 
-Other institutions

• Member, Executive Committee in the 19th  JCCI Elections, 2005-2006
• Member, Organizing Committee of the 7th  Jeddah Economic Forum 2006.

 
Workshop Participation
 

• Workshop of Partnership between the university and the business sector,KSU,2018
• Workshop of  UK-KSA Scientific Workshop on Clean Energy & AI, Research and Deployment Office , Ministry  of Education ,Riyadh ,29019.
• Workshop of Building and strengthening community links workshop Between the university and the community under the vision of the community 2030, KSU,2019.

 
Workshops Presented by Dr Maashi
 

• How to present a technical information effectively, Central Library  ,KSU, 2018
• How to enjoy the technology with our kids, King Salman Social Center ,2018
• Research Publication step by step, Deanship of Scientific Research, KSU,2019.
• How Artificial Intelligent plays roles in solving optimization problems, Artificial Intelligent Society AIS, the 3rd Saudi Mobile Show, Virtual Version ,2020
• Discussion Panel: The academic promotion: advice and recommendations in scientific publications, Graduate Study and Scientific Research Unit, College of Computer, and information Sciences, 2020.
• Benchmarking Methodology for Selection of Optimal COVID-19 Diagnostic Model Based on Entropy and TOPSIS Methods, the 1st Knowledge Integration Forum, Ministry of Education, KSA, 2020.

 
Professional Development Activities
 

• Management of the digital content training , (4 training hours), Deanship of Electronic Transactions, King Saudi University, 2021
• Completed the new faculty program (36 training hours), Deanship of skill Development , King Saudi University , 2017-2018.
• Workshop of Partnership between the university and the business sector,KSU,2018
• Workshop of  UK-KSA Scientific Workshop on Clean Energy & AI, Research and Deployment Office , Ministry  of Education ,Riyadh ,29019.
• Workshop of Building and strengthening community links workshop Between the university and the community under the vision of the community 2030, KSU,2019.
• Latex Course, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom. 2010.
• Five course in National Taught Course in Operational Research

(NATCOR) in United Kingdom (Heuristics and Approximation Algorithms, Convex Optimisation, Stochastic Modelling, Simulation, Combinatorial Optimisation) 2010-2011.
 
Award & Reward
 

• Wining the Second place in the 9th Undergraduate Research Competition , Abu daubi University for the project " Accident Reporting System based on GPS (Tayseer) in the software category.
• Distinction certificate from the Saudi Arabian Cultural Bureau, Saudi Embassy in London, United Kingdom for the distinction in Scientific Research. 2014.
• Reward from the Saudi Arabian Cultural Bureau, Saudi Embassy in London, United
• Kingdom for the distinction in academic year 2012-2013.
•  Reward from the Saudi Arabian Cultural Bureau, Saudi Embassy in London, United Kingdom for the distinction in academic year 2013-2014.
• Her name appeared  in the honor board on the web site of Saudi Arabian Cultural Bureau in London, for the distinction research and study.