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Academic

Dr.

Buthainah S. Al-Kazemi

Assistant Professor

Office Location:
S02E1175
b.alkazemi@ku.edu.kw

Education

Degree Discipline Institution Year
Ph.D Computer Engineering Syracuse University May, 2002
M.Sc Computer Engineering Syracuse University Aug, 1998
B.Sc Computer Engineering Kuwait University Jan, 1996

 

Research Interests

Evolutionary algorithms (e.g. Particle Swarm Optimization, Genetic algorithm) and their applications, Scheduling problem, Neural Networks, Computer Architecture.

Selected Publications

  • Ahmad, B. Al-Kazemi and A. S. Das, “An Efficient Algorithm to Find Broadcast Schedule in Ad-Hoc TDMA Networks”, Journal of Computer Systems, Networks, and Communications,, 2008, Vol. 2008, Article ID 712126
  • Buthainah S. Al-Kazemi, Sami J.Habib, “Internal behavior analysis of GA and PSO using problem-specific distance functions”, Kuwait Journal of Science and Engineering, Dec, 2007, Kuwait
  •  Buthainah S. Al-Kazemi, Sami J. Habib, “Internal Behavior Analysis of PSO to Predict Ability of Solving Problems”, WSEAS Transaction on Information Science and Applications, September 2006.
  • Buthainah S. Al-Kazemi, Sami J. Habib, "Complexity analysis of problem-dimension using PSO." Proceedings of the 7th WSEAS International Conference on Evolutionary Computing. 2006.
  • Buthainah S. Al-Kazemi, “Velocity analysis for particle swarm optimization.” WSEAS Transactions on Information Science and Applications. April 2006.
  • Buthainah S. Al-kazemi, "Multi-speed particle swarm optimization." Proceedings of the 5th WSEAS International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Knowledge Engineering and Data Bases. February 2006.
  • Sami Habib and Buthainah Al-kazemi, “Comparative Study between the internal behavior of GA and PSO Through Problem-Specific Distance Functions”, Congress on Evolutionary Computation, Edinburgh, Scotland, 2005.
  • Al-kazemi, B., Mohan, C. Discrete Multi-Phase Particle Swarm Optimization. In: Wu, X., Jain, L., Graña, M., Duro, R.J., d’Anjou, A., Wang, P.P. (eds) Book title: Information Processing with Evolutionary Algorithms. Advanced Information and Knowledge Processing. Springer, London 2005.
  • Buthainah Al-kazemi and Chilukuri K. Mohan, " Training Feedforward Neural Networks Using Multi-Phase Particle Swarm Optimization", 9th International Conference on Neural Information Processing, Singapore November 2002
  • Buthainah Al-kazemi and Chilukuri K. Mohan ''Generalization of the Particle Swarm Optimization, IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence: Congress on Evolutionary Computation., Honolulu, Hawaii May 2002 
  • Buthainah Al-kazemi and Chilukuri K. Mohan, ''Multi-Phase Discrete Particle Swarm Optimization, 6th Joint Conference on Information Sciences: 4th International Workshop on Frontiers in Evolutionary Algorithms, North Carolina March 2002 
  • Chilukuri K. Mohan and Buthainah Al-kazemi ,"Discrete Particle Swarm Optimization", Workshop on Particle Swarm Optimization, Indianapolis March, 2001 

  • Buthainah Al-kazemi and Chilukuri K. Mohan, "Solving Problems with Overlapping Building Blocks", Genetic and Evolutionary Computation, Las Vegas, Nevada May 2000

     

Work Experience

Academic Experience
Institution Designation Year/Period
Kuwait University ASSISTANT PROFESSOR May, 2002

 

Industry Experience
Organization Designation Year/Period
Computer Engineering, Syracuse University Graduate Scholar Aug, 1997 - May, 2002
Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering Lab Engineer Sep, 1996 - Aug, 1997

 

Other

Honors and Awards

  • IEEE NNS, Student Travel Grant, 2002. 
  • Graduate Scholarship, From Kuwait University, 1997 - 2002. 

Certifications / professional registrations

  •  Certificate for attending "Enriching Research Using Artificial Intelligence" program offered by HKUST Business School through KFAS. October 7-9, 2023.
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