Academic
Mohammad H. Al-Shayeji
Associate Professor
- Date of Birth: August 22, 1966
- Nationality: Kuwaiti
- Marital Status: Married
- Address: Kuwait University, College of Engineering and Petroleum,
- Department of Computer Engineering, P.O. Box 5969 Safat 13060
Education
Degree | Discipline | Institution | Year |
---|---|---|---|
Ph.D | Computer Science | University of Southern California | 1999 |
M.S. | Computer Science | University of Central Florida | 1994 |
B.S. | Computer Engineering | University of Miami | 1989 |
Research Interests
• Machine Learning
• Image Processing
• Multimedia Systems
• Computer Security
• Distributed Systems
• Very Large-Scale Integration (VLSI)
Courses Taught
Selected Publications
Books
Sa’ed Abed, Salam I. Nachawi and Mohammad Alshayeji, "Efficient Implementation of Parallel SAT Solver Based Stochastic Local Search," Nova Science Pub Inc., January 2020, ISBN: 978-1-53617-001-6 [88 pages], https://novapublishers.com/shop/efficient-implementation-of-parallel-sat-solver-based-stochastic-local-search/.
Refereed Journal Papers Published/Accepted
- Alshayeji, M. H., Abed, S., & Sindhu, S. C. (2024). Automatic arabic handwritten characters Recognition using ensemble of convolutional neural networks from scratch. Multimedia Tools and Applications.https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-024-20282-z
- Mohammad H. Alshayeji, “Alzheimer's disease detection and stage identification from magnetic resonance brain images using vision transformer”, Machine Learning: Science and Technology. 5 (2024), 035011, ISSN:2632-2153, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1088/2632-2153/ad5fdc (IF: 6.34, Q1 JCR (Journal Citation Reports))
- Mohammad H. Alshayeji, “CAD system for epileptic seizure detection from EEG through image processing and SURF-BOF technique”, Machine Learning: Science and Technology. 4 (2023), 045029, ISSN: 2632-2153, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1088/2632-2153/ad0572 (IF: 6.34, Q1 JCR (Journal Citation Reports))
- Mohammad H. Alshayeji, “Early Thyroid Risk Prediction by Data Mining and Ensemble Classifiers”, Machine Learning and Knowledge Extraction. 2023, 5(3), 1195-1213; https://doi.org/10.3390/make5030061 (IF: 3.8, Q2 JCR (Journal Citation Reports)).
- Mohammad H. Alshayeji, Al-Buloushi, J. “Breast Cancer Classification Using Concatenated Triple Convolutional Neural Networks Model”, Big Data and Cognitive Computing. 2023, 7, 142. https://doi.org/10.3390/bdcc7030142 (IF: 3.6, Q2 JCR (Journal Citation Reports)).
- Mohammad H. Alshayeji, Sa'ed Abed, and Silpa ChandraBhasi Sindhu, “Two-stage framework for diabetic retinopathy diagnosis and disease stage screening with ensemble learning”, Expert Systems with Applications, 225, 2023, 120206, ISSN 0957-4174, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2023.120206 (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S095741742300708X) (IF: 8.665, Q1 JCR (Journal Citation Reports))
- Mohammad H. Alshayeji, S. Abed, “Lung cancer classification and identification framework with automatic nodule segmentation screening using machine learning”, Applied Intelligence, Mar 2023, 10.1007/s10489-023-04552-1, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10489-023-04552-1
- Mohammad H. Alshayeji, Silpa ChandraBhasi Sindhu, and Sa'ed Abed, “Viral genome prediction from raw human DNA sequence samples by combining natural language processing and machine learning techniques”, Expert Systems with Applications, 2023, 119641, ISSN 0957-4174, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2023.119641
- Mohammad H. Alshayeji, ChandraBhasi Sindhu, S. and Abed, S. “Early detection of diabetic foot ulcers from thermal images using the bag of features technique”. Biomedical Signal Processing and Control, Volume 79, Part 2, Jan. 2023, 104143, ISSN: 1746-8094, Online ISSN: 1746-8108, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bspc.2022.104143.
- Mohammad H. Alshayeji, ChandraBhasi Sindhu, S. and Abed, S. “CAD systems for COVID-19 diagnosis and disease stage classification by segmentation of infected regions from CT images”. BMC Bioinformatics 23, 264, Jul. 2022, ISSN: 1471-2105, Online ISSN: 1471-2105, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12859-022-04818-4
- Mohammad H. Alshayeji, Al-Roomi, S.A. & Abed, S. “Efficient hand vein recognition using local keypoint descriptors and directional gradients”, Multimedia Tools and Applications (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-022-12608-6
- Mohammad H. Alshayeji and Mousa AlSulaimi, Sa'ed Abed, and Reem Jaffal. "Network Intrusion Detection with Auto-Encoder and One-Class Support Vector Machine," International Journal of Information Security and Privacy (IJISP) 16, no.1: 1-18, 2022.
- Mohammad H. Alshayeji, Hanem Ellethy, Sa'ed Abed, Renu Gupta, “Computer-aided detection of breast cancer on the Wisconsin dataset: An artificial neural networks approach”, Biomedical Signal Processing and Control, Volume 71, Part A, 2022.
- Mohammad H. Alshayeji, Sa'ed Abed, "Enhanced VoD Security in Cloud Computing Against Insider and Outsider Threats”, International Journal of Security and Networks, Vol. 17, No. 1, 2022
- Mohammad H. Alshayeji, Behbehani, B, Ahmad, I. “Spark-based parallel processing whale optimization algorithm”, Concurrency and Computation Practice and Experience, 2022; 34(4): e6607. https://doi.org/10.1002/cpe.6607
- Abed, S, Mohd, BJ, Hayajneh, T, Mohammad H. Alshayeji, “Hardware Trojan detection for lightweight ciphers implemented on field-programmable gate arrays using the replay algorithm,” International Journal of Circuit Theory and Applications, 2021; 49(11): 3607- 3629. https://doi.org/10.1002/cta.3098
- Mohammad H. Alshayeji, Al-Buloushi, J., Ashkanani, A., and Abed, S. “Enhanced brain tumor classification using an optimized multi-layered convolutional neural network architecture”, Multimedia Tools and Applications, 80, 28897–28917 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-021-10927-8
- Abed, S., Jaffal, R., Mohd, B.J., Mohammad H. Alshayeji, “An analysis and evaluation of lightweight hash functions for blockchain-based IoT devices”, Cluster Computing 24, 3065–3084 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10586-021-03324-1
- Areej Ahmad Abdelaal, Sa'ed Abed, Mohammad Al-Shayeji, Mohammad Allaho, “Customized frequent patterns mining algorithms for enhanced Top-Rank-K frequent pattern mining”, Expert Systems with Applications, Volume 169, 2021, 114530, ISSN 0957-4174, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2020.114530.
- Abed, S, Abdelaal, AA, Mohammad H. Alshayeji, Ahmad, I. “SAT-based and CP-based declarative approaches for Top-Rank-K closed frequent itemset mining”, International Journal of Intelligent Systems, 2021; 36: 112− 151. https://doi.org/10.1002/int.22294.
- Abed, S., Jaffal, R., Mohd, B.J. and Mohammad H. Alshayeji (2021), “Performance evaluation of the SM4 cipher based on field-programmable gate array implementation”, IET Circuits Devices Syst, 15: 121-135. https://doi.org/10.1049/cds2.12011
- Bassam Jamil Mohd, Sa’ed Abed, Thaier Hayajneh and Mohammad H. Alshayeji, "Run-Time Monitoring and Validation Using Reverse Function (RMVRF) for Hardware Trojans Detection," in IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, vol. 18, no. 6, pp. 2689-2704, 1 Nov.-Dec. 2021, doi: 10.1109/TDSC.2019.2961902.
- Sa’ed Abed, Mohammed H. Ali, and Mohammad H. Alshayeji, "Enhanced GPU based Anti-Noise Hybrid Edge Detection Method," Computer Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE), Vol. 35, No. 1, pp. 21-37, Jan. 2020
- Khalil, Y, Mohammad H. Alshayeji, Ahmad, I. “Distributed Whale Optimization Algorithm based on MapReduce”, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, 2019; 31: e4872. https://doi.org/10.1002/cpe.4872
- Abed, S., Al-Roomi, S.A. & Mohammad H. Alshayeji, "Efficient cover image selection based on spatial block analysis and DCT embedding," EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing, 2019, 87 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13640-019-0486-8
- Sa'ed Abed, Mohammad H. Alshayeji, Fahad Ebrahim, “A secure and energy-efficient platform for the integration of Wireless Sensor Networks and Mobile Cloud Computing", Computer Networks, Volume 165, 2019, 106956, ISSN 1389-1286, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.comnet.2019.106956.
- Sahel Al-Ouneh, Sa'ed Abed, Mohammad H. Alshayeji, and Raed Mesleh, “A comprehensive study and analysis on SAT-solvers: advances, usages and 33 achievements", Artificial Intelligence Review, Vol. 52, Issue: 4, pp. 2575-2601, Dec. 2019, Springer, Netherlands, DOI: 10.1007/s10462-018-9628-0
- Sa’ed Abed, Mohammad H. Alshayeji, and Sari Sultan, “Diacritics Effect on Arabic Speech Recognition", Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering, Vol. 44, No. 11, pp. 9043-9056, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, November 2019, DOI: https://doi.org/ 10.1007/s13369-019-04024-0.
- Sa’ed Abed, Bassam Jamil Mohd, and Mohammad H. Alshayeji, “Implementation of Speech Feature Extraction for Low-Resource Devices", IET Circuits, Devices & Systems, Vol. 13, No. 6, pp. 863-872", The Institution of Engineering and Technology, September 2019, DOI: 10.1049/ietcds.2018.5225
- Abed S, Jaffal R, Mohd BJ, Mohammad H. Alshayeji, “FPGA Modeling and Optimization of a SIMON Lightweight Block Cipher. Sensors (Basel). 2019 Feb 21;19(4):913. DOI: 10.3390/s19040913.
- Sahel Alouneh, Sa'ed Abed, Mohammad H. Alshayeji and Raed Mesleh, “A comprehensive study and analysis on SAT-solvers: advances, usages and achievements,” To appear in Artificial Intelligence Review, Springer, Netherlands, published online March 2018).
- Mohammad H. Alshayeji, Mohammad Al-Rousan, Eman Yossef, Hanem Ellethy, “A Study on Fault Tolerance Mechanisms in Cloud Computing”, International Journal of Computer and Electrical Engineering (IJCEE), Vol.10 (1): 62-71, 2018.
- Mohammad H. Alshayeji, Yousef Sharaf, Sa’ed Abed, M.D. Samrajesh “AN ENHANCED VOD STREAMING MODEL FOR P2P CLOUD COMPUTING SYSTEMS”, Journal of Telecommunication, Electronic and Computer Engineering (JTEC), Vol. 9 No. 2-6:11-15, 2018.
- Mohammad H. Alshayeji, Suood Abdulaziz Al-Roomi, and Sa’ed Abed, A high-capacity and secure least-significant-bit embedding approach based on word and letter frequencies, Security and Communication Networks, Vol. 9, No. 18, pp. 5764-5788, 2016.
- Sa’ed Abed, Suood Abdulaziz Al-Roomi, and Mohammad H. Alshayeji. Effective optic disc detection method based on swarm intelligence techniques and novel pre-processing steps, Applied Soft Computing, vol. 49, pp. 146-163, 2016.
Work Experience
Institution | Designation | Year/Period |
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Kuwait University, Kuwait | Associate Professor | Dec,1999 –present |
under Kuwait University Scholarship, USA | Research Scholar | Aug, 1995- Dec,1999 |
The Public Authority for Applied Education and Training (PAAET) | Faculty Member | May, 1992- Aug,1995 |
Organization | Designation | Year/Period |
---|---|---|
Schlumberger | Field Engineer | Mar,1991-May,1992 |
The Public Authority for Applied Education and Training (PAAET) | Computer Engineer | Dec, 1989- Mar,1991 |
Honors and Awards
- Kuwait University Research Award 2024
Mohammad H. Alshayeji, “Alzheimer's disease detection and stage identification from magnetic
resonance brain images using vision transformer”, Machine Learning: Science and Technology.
5 (2024), 035011, ISSN:2632-2153, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1088/2632-2153/ad5fdc
- Kuwait University Research Award 2024
Mohammad H. Alshayeji, “CAD system for epileptic seizure detection from EEG through image
processing and SURF-BOF technique”, Machine Learning: Science and Technology. 4 (2023),
045029, ISSN: 2632-2153, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1088/2632-2153/ad0572
- Kuwait University Research Award 2023
Mohammad H. Alshayeji, Sa'ed Abed, Silpa ChandraBhasi Sindhu, “Two-stage framework for
diabetic retinopathy diagnosis and disease stage screening with ensemble learning”, Expert
Systems with Applications, 225, 2023, 120206, ISSN 0957-4174,
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2023.120206
- Kuwait University Research Award 2023
Mohammad H. Alshayeji, Silpa ChandraBhasi Sindhu, Sa'ed Abed, “Viral genome prediction from
raw human DNA sequence samples by combining natural language processing and machine
learning techniques”, Expert Systems with Applications, May 2023, 119641, ISSN 0957-4174,
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2023.119641
- Kuwait University Research Award 2022
Bassam Jamil Mohd, Sa’ed Abed, Thaier Hayajneh and Mohammad H. Alshayeji, "Run-Time
Monitoring and Validation Using Reverse Function (RMVRF) for Hardware Trojans Detection,"
in IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, vol. 18, no. 6, pp. 2689-2704, 1
Nov.-Dec. 2021, DOI: 10.1109/TDSC.2019.2961902
- Kuwait University Research Award 2021
Areej Ahmad Abdelaal, Sa'ed Abed, Mohammad Al-Shayeji, Mohammad Allaho, “Customized
frequent patterns mining algorithms for enhanced Top-Rank-K frequent pattern mining”, Expert
Systems with Applications, Volume 169, 2021, 114530, ISSN 0957-4174,
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2020.114530
- Kuwait University Research Award 2020
Abed, S, Abdelaal, AA, Mohammad H. Alshayeji, Ahmad, I. “SAT-based and CP-based declarative
approaches for Top-Rank-K closed frequent itemset mining”, International Journal of Intelligent
Systems, 2021; 36: 112− 151. https://doi.org/10.1002/int.22294
- Kuwait University Research Award 2019
Sa'ed Abed, Mohammad H. Alshayeji, Fahad Ebrahim, “A secure and energy-efficient platform for
the integration of Wireless Sensor Networks and Mobile Cloud Computing", Computer Networks,
Volume 165, 2019, 106956, ISSN 1389-1286, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.comnet.2019.106956
- Kuwait University Research Award 2016
Sa’ed Abed, Suood Abdulaziz Al-Roomi, and Mohammad H. Alshayeji, Effective optic disc detection
method based on swarm intelligence techniques and novel pre-processing steps, Applied Soft
Computing, Elsevier, ISSN 1568-4946, vol. 49, pp. 146-163, DOI: 10.1016/j.asoc.2016.08.015,
2016.
- Best Paper Award
Sa’ed Abed, Hanem Ellethy and Mohammad Alshayeji, “Continuous Formal Arabic Speech
Recognition System Based on Hidden Markov Model,” In Proc. of the 3rd International
Conference On Computer Science Networks and Information Technology (ICCSNIT’17),
Montreal, Canada, Aug. 26-27, 2017, pp. 110-121, IRP Publication, ISBN: 9780998900032.
- Best Oral and Paper Award
Sa’ed Abed, Mohammad Alshayeji, Zahra'a Abdullah and Zainab Al-Saeed, “Fault Tolerance
Design for NoCs: Partial Virtual-Channel Sharing,” In Proc. of the 6th International Conference
on Software and Computer Applications (ICSCA 2017), Bangkok, Thailand, Feb 26-28, 2017,
pp. 233-238. ACM, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3056662.3056674.
- Best Paper nomination Award
Mohammad H. Alshayeji and M.D. Samrajesh, An energy-aware virtual machine migration
algorithm, Proceedings of the IEEE Second International Conference on Advances in Computing
and Communications (ACC-2012).
- Best Oral Presentation Paper Award
Mohammad H. Alshayeji, Freya Raina Saldanha, Haya Al Fassam and M.D. Samrajesh, Intelligent
threat detection and mitigation in cloud computing, 2014, International Conference on Power and
Energy Systems Engineering (CPESE 2014)