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Academic

Prof.

Maitham H. Safar

Professor

Office Location:
S02D1149

Education

Degree Discipline Institution Year
Ph.D Computer Science University of Southern California, USA 2000
M.S. Electrical Engineering University of Colorado at Boulder, USA 1995
B.S. Computer Engineering Kuwait University, Kuwait 1992

 

Research Interests

social networks, complex networks, location based services, and geographic information systems.

Courses Taught

CPE
493
Special Topics in Computer Engineering
CPE
414
Quantum Computing
CPE
410
Theory of Computation
CPE
399
Engineering Training
ENG
310
Engineering Ethics
ENG
304
Engineering Probability and Statistics
CPE
300
Design and Analysis of Algorithms
CPE
262
Fundamentals of Digital Logic
CPE
207
Data Structures
CPE
203
Discrete Structures

Selected Publications

  •  Tasneem Abass Najeeb, and Maytham Safar, ”Dates Maturity Status and Classification
    using Image Processing”. The Second International Conference on Computing Sciences and
    Engineering (ICCSE), 2018.
  • Duha Shubair, Imtiaz Ahmed and Maytham Safar, ”A Survey on IoT contribution in smart
    goods ordering cycle in GCC Amazon buttons”. International Conference on Future Networks
    and Distributed Systems, 2018.
  • Amna Safar and Maytham Safar, ”Intelligent Flower Detection System Using Machine
    Learning”. Intelligent Systems Conference (IntelliSys), 2019.
  • Geng Zhao, Kefeng Xuan, David Taniar, Maytham Safar, and Bala Srinivasan, Time Constraint Route Search over Multiple Locations. The Knowledge Engineering Review Journal (KER), Special Issue on Web and Mobile Information Services, Cambridge University Press, Volume 29, Issue 02, pp 217-233, 2014.
  • Maytham Safar, Khaled Mahdi, Hisham Farahat, Saud Albehairy, Ali Kassem, Khalid Alenzi, Approximate Cycles Count in Undirected Graphs". International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems (IJCIS), Taylor & Francis, Vol. 7, Issue 2, pp. 305-311, 2014.
  • Sultan Alamri, David Taniar, and Maytham Safar,''A Taxonomy for Moving Object Queries in Spatial Databases''. Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS), Elsevier, Vol. 37, pp. 232-242, 2014.
  • Sultan Alamri, David Taniar, Maytham Safar, and Haidar Al-Khaldi, ``A Connectivity Index For Moving Objects in Indoor Cellular Space". Personal Ubiquitous and Computing  (PUC), Springer, Vol 18, Issue 2, pp. 287-301, 2014.
  • Sultan Alamri, David Taniar, Maytham Safar, Haidar Al-Khalidi, ``Tracking Moving Objects Using Topographical Indexing". Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Vol 27, Issue 8, Wiley-Blackwell, Hoboken NJ USA, pp. 1951-1965, 2015.

Work Experience

Academic Experience
Institution Designation Year/Period
Kuwait University Laboratory Engineer 1992/ 1 yr
Kuwait University Scholarship Engineer 1993/ 7 yrs
Kuwait University Assistant Professor 2000 - 2007
Kuwait University Associate Professor 2007 - 2012
Kuwait University Professor 2012/Present
Kuwait University Acting Chairman 2012/1W
Kuwait University Acting Chairman 2013/4W
Kuwait University Professors' Representative in the Council 2013/1Y
Kuwait University Acting Chairman 2014/1W
Kuwait University Chairman 2014-2018
Kuwait University Faculty Sponsor  for ACM Student Chapter, Kuwait,  October 2015 -
September 2018, December 2020 - Date.
Kuwait University, Ministry
of Higher Education
Member of an Investigation Committee on the Act of Plagiarism at  February 2018.
 Kuwait University Acting Chairman for the Computer Engineering Department April 2018-July 2018.
Council of Ministers, Kuwait,  Consultant for Legal Advice & Legislation,  September 2018-2019.
 Research Directorate, Kuwait Partial Secondment for Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Science (KFAS), Consultant for Research Grants, September 2019 - till date
Supreme Council for Planning & Development, Kuwait Member of Committee on Evaluating the Tender for Astrolabe Project, 
 
 June 2021
Supreme Council for Planning & Development,Kuwait Member of an Investigation Committee,  October 2021
Council of College of Engineering and Petroleum,  Professors’ Representative Academic year 2022-2023.
Kuwait University Acting Chairman for the Computer Engineering Department,   17-29 January 2023.
Kuwait University, Ministry of Higher Education, Kuwait Member of an Investigation Committee on the Act of Disclosing Confidential Documents at May-June 2023.
Kuwait University Member of committee to consider the bylaws and regulations and work
on developing them and proposing the necessary amendments, 
June-August 2023
Kuwait University,  Acting Chairman for the Computer Engineering Department 1-14 August, 2023
KFAS Prizes, Member of a committee to revisit the requirements and evaluation process July-September 2023
Council of College of Computing Sciences and Engineering, Professors’ Representative  Academic year 2024-2025
Industry Experience
Organization Designation Year/Period
His Highness Sheikh Salem Al-Ali Al-Sabah Informatics Award Member of the Review Committee 2006 - Present
Axis Solutions Co. for Computer Systems (K.S.C.C.) Board Member 2012/2Y

Community Service

1. ACM member 1988, promoted to Professional member in 2002. The first Kuwaiti to become ACM Senior member in 2009. Membership No.: 4198636.
2. IEEE Computer Society member 1988. Membership No.: 00286203
3. IEEE member 1988, promoted to Senior Member 2008. Membership No.: 00286203.
4. Member of the International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS) 2001.
5. Member of the Oracle Academic Initiative 2004.
6. Member of the IBM Academic Initiative 2005.
7. Member of International Organization for Information Integration and Web-based Applications & Services (WAS) 2007.
8. Member of Microsoft Developer Academic Initiative 2008.
9. IEEE Standards Association member 2008-2009.
10. IEEE Geoscience & Remote Sensing Society member, 2008 - 2009.
11. Member of the International Network for Social Network Analysis (INSNA) 2009-2018.
12. Member of Machine Intelligence Research (MIR) Labs , USA, 2009 - 2010.
13. Member of Apple iOS Developer University Program 2011.
14. Member of Intel Software Network 2012.
15. IEEE Communications Society member 2013.
16. Member of The Science and Information Organization 2014.
17. Member of SAP University Alliance 2014.
18. Member of Siemens Automation Cooperates with Education (SCE) 2017.

Conference Attendance

1. Global Research Council (GRC) Virtual Conference on Responsible Research Assessment,
GRC MENA Closed Regional Session, 25 November, 2020.


Examination Committees

1. External Examiner for Bojie Shen, ”Finding surrounding objects in spatial database ”,
Master Project, Clayton School of Information Technology, Monash University, Australia,
2018.

Awards Committees

1. Served as a Committee member for the Research Productivity Award (Natural Sciences and
Mathematics Field, Engineering Sciences Field) - Kuwait , Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences (KFAS), Kuwait, 2018.
2. Served as a Committee member for the Research Productivity Award (Natural Sciences and
Mathematics Field, Engineering Sciences Field) - Kuwait , Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences (KFAS), Kuwait, 2019.
Conference Advisory Board
1. International Advisory Board Committee, International IEEE Conference on Current
Trends in Computer Science Fields (ICCTCT), 2018.
Program Committee Member and Reviewer of International Conferences
1. Future of Information and Communication Conference (FICC), 2018.
2. SAI Computing Conference (CC), 2018.
3. International Conference on Engineering & Emerging Technologies (ICEET), 2018.
4. The 9th International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies (ANT),
2018.
5. The Second International Conference on Computing Sciences and Engineering (CCSE), 2018.
6. The 12th International Conference on Multimedia and Ubiquitous Engineering (MUE), 2018.
7. The 2018 Global Conference on Information Technology, Computing, and Applications (Global
IT), 2018.
8. SAI Intelligent Systems Conference (IntelliSys), 2018.
9. International Conference on Sensor Networks and Signal Processing (SNSP), 2018.
10. The International Conference on Physiological Computing Systems (PhyCS), 2018.
11. The 10th International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Communication Networks (CICN), 2018.
12. 16th International Conference on Advances in Mobile Computing and Multimedia (MoMM),
2018.
13. The 20th International Conference on Information Integration and Web-based Applications &
Services (iiWAS), 2018.
14. Future Technologies Conference (FTC), 2018.
15. 17th International Conference on WWW/Internet (ICWI), sponsored by International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS), 2018.
16. The 18th IEEE International Conference on Communication Technology (ICCT), 2018.
17. 2nd International Conference Europe Middle East & North Africa Information Systems and
Technologies to support Learning (EMENA-ISTL), 2018.
18. The 15th International Conference on Mobile Systems and Pervasive Computing (MOBISPC),
2018.
19. The International Conference on Big data, IoT, and Cloud Computing (BIC), 2018.
20. The 19th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing, Applications and
Technologies (PDCAT), 2018.
21. SAI Computing Conference (CC), 2019.
22. The Workshop on Design, Modeling and Evaluation of Cyber Physical Systems (CyPhy), 2019.
 

Other

Organizing and Participating in Events

1. Participated in ”Learning By Design” workshop. Organized by Kuwait University. March 13,
2018.
2. Participated in ”How to Improve the Laboratory Training of Students in Engineering Programs
at Kuwait University” workshop. Organized by College of Engineering, Kuwait University.
March 21, 2018.
3. Participated in LSE workshop on ”Worldviews & Science Culture in Kuwait” . Organized by
Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences. November 1, 2023.
4. Participated in the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) West Asia regional foresight workshop. Organized by Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences. November 19-20,
2023.
5. Participated in the 4th Knowledge Economy forum - The Fourth Industrial Revolution for
Development Planning in the GCC. November 29-30, 2023.