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Mohammad Hashem Ryalat was appointed as a lecturer at Al-Balqa applied University in September 2005 and won a British Council competition to pursue his PhD in 2014 at University of East Anglia in the United Kingdom. He was awarded a PhD titled: Automatic Construction of Immobilisation Masks for use in Radiotherapy Treatment of Head-and-Neck Cancer in 2017. Ryalat research interests include optimization algorithms, machine learning and deep learning applications in medicine.
He is currently an assistant professor and working with different research teams and committees. Dr Ryalat was appointed as the head of computer information systems department from 2018 to 2020 at Prince Abdullah bin Ghazi faculty of ICT at Al-Balqa Applied University and he is currently the assistant Dean for planning, development and quality assurance.
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 Research Intersets:
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Optimization algorithms, artificial intelligence, machine learning, deep learning applications in medicine
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 Qualifications
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| 1 | PHD | University of East Anglia | Computer Science | 2017 | | 2 | MASTER DEGREE | Al-Balqa Applied University | Computer Science | 2005 | | 3 | BACHELOR'S DEGREE | Al-Balqa Applied University | Information Technology | 2003 |
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 Experiences
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Academic Experience:
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 2022 -Current :Member of the curriculum Committee at Prince Abdullah Bin Ghazi College of Communications and Information Technology for the academic year 2022/2023.,Prince Abdullah bin Ghazi Faculty of ICT,Jordan.
2020 -2020 :Member of a committee to prepare a course curriculum for computer skills and distance e-learning,Computer science department,Jordan.
2019 -2019 :Following-up and coordination with the committees formed to prepare study plans and syllabuses for the Faculty of Artificial Intelligence for the specialization of ?data science? and the specialization of ?artificial intelligence and robotics?. Development a plan to equip interactive classrooms and advanced laboratories in the field of simulation, robots and programming, and all that is necessary for the new disciplines in the Faculty of Artificial Intelligence.,Prince Abdullah bin Ghazi Faculty of ICT,Jordan.
2019 -2019 :Member of a committee for the purposes of preparing and following up the ranking of academic programs emanating from the decision of the Commission for Accreditation of Higher Education Institutions and ensuring its quality for the application of the Jordanian ranking of academic programs.,Center of development and quality assurance,Jordan.
2018 -2018 :Member of the college preparatory committee for international accreditation (ABET),Prince Abdullah bin Ghazi Faculty of ICT,Jordan.
2018 -2018 :Member of ABET preparation,Center of development and quality assurance,Jordan.
2018 -2018 :Committee member for course plans accreditation.,Prince Abdullah bin Ghazi Faculty of ICT,Jordan.
2018 -2018 :Member of the Laboratory Follow-up Committee in the Department of Computer Science by ensuring the course description, following up the laboratory worksheets according to the model and their conformity to the plan, and approving electronic resources and a textbook for each of the practical subjects.,Laboratories of Prince Abdullah bin Ghazi Faculty of ICT,Jordan.
2018 -2018 :Participating in qualifying graduate students and holding a series of remedial lectures,Prince Abdullah bin Ghazi Faculty of ICT,Jordan.
2018 -2018 :Chairman of the committee formed in the Department of Computer Information Systems to provide the Vice President for International Cooperation and Quality with the objectives of the Computer Information Systems program with learning outcomes related to the program.,Computer information systems department,Jordan.
2018 -2020 :Chairman of the Academic Advising Committee in the Computer Information Systems Department Council for the academic years 2018/2019 and 2019/2020.,Computer information systems department,Jordan.
2018 -2020 :Member of the Committee for curriculums in the Council of the Department of Computer Information Systems for the academic years 2018/2019 and 2019/2020.,Computer information systems department,Jordan.
2018 -2019 :Member of committee for equivalence of courses and study plans,Computer information systems department,Jordan.
2018 -2018 :Member of the committee for reviewing the content of placement exam questions for new students, and feeding the bank with additional questions that keep pace with recent developments in the curricula and study plans for computer subjects and computer skills materials for scientific and humanities colleges.,The General Evaluation and Examination Unit,Jordan.
2017 -2018 :Member of the Scientific Research Committee of the Computer Science Department Council for the academic year 2017/2018,Prince Abdullah bin Ghazi Faculty of ICT,Jordan.
2017 -2017 :Participating in preparing the material of the virtual course for the proficiency exam.,Prince Abdullah bin Ghazi Faculty of ICT,Jordan.
2017 -2017 :Participating in qualifying graduate students and holding a series of remedial lectures for the university proficiency exam in the field of computer science.,Prince Abdullah bin Ghazi Faculty of ICT,Jordan.
2017 -2018 :Member of the Computer Graphics and Animation Specialization Committee of the Computer Science Department Council for the academic year 2017/2018.,Prince Abdullah bin Ghazi Faculty of ICT,Jordan.
2017 -2017 :Participation in the activities of a workshop entitled Qualifying Program for New Academics, which was organized by the center of development and quality assurance at Al-Balqa Applied University,Center of development and quality assurance,Jordan.
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Administrative Experience:
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 2023 -2023 :Member of the Bidding committee in charge of studying the offers received for Bid No. (1/2023) related to the supply, installation, operation and maintenance of computers, printers and office equipment for the needs of the Womns Center within the research project funded by ENI.,The Procurement Committee and Women Center,Jordan.
2023 -2023 :Chairman of the Bidding committee charged with auditing the Bid No. (125/2022) for furnishing, equipping, supplying, installing, operating, and maintaining devices, equipment, tools, and tools needed for the computer graphics laboratory at Irbid University College, funded by the Korean International Cooperation Agency (KOICA).,The Procurement Committee and the Korean International Cooperation Agency (KOICA),Jordan.
2023 -Current :Member of the Advisory Committee at Prince Abdullah Bin Ghazi faculty of ICT based on the Article (16/1) of the instructions of the Center for Consultations, Studies and Training.,The Center for Consultations, Studies and Training,Jordan.
2022 -Current :Assistant Dean for planning, development and quality assurance,Prince Abdullah bin Ghazi Faculty of ICT and the center of development and quality assurance,Jordan.
2022 -Current :Chairman of the Planning, Development and Quality Assurance Committee at the Council of Prince Abdullah Bin Ghazi Faculty of ICT for the academic year 2022/2023.,Prince Abdullah bin Ghazi Faculty of ICT,Jordan.
2022 -Current :Chairman of the Alumni Follow-up Committee at Prince Abdullah Bin Ghazi Faculty of ICT for the academic year 2022/2023.,Prince Abdullah bin Ghazi Faculty of ICT,Jordan.
2021 -2022 :Member of the committee formed to ensure the departments readiness to participate in the Distinguished Official University Award - King Abdullah II Center for Excellence, and to check the documents and files required for the award.,Computer science department,Jordan.
2021 -2021 :Member of the Comprehensive Exam Committee for Master Program Students - Artificial Intelligence Exam.,Faculty of higher studies,Jordan.
2020 -2020 :Member of the committee to study the offer Bid No. (3/2020) for the purchase of licenses for (Adobe Creative Cloud for Education) integrated educational programs for 23 users.,The Procurement Committee,Jordan.
2020 -2020 :Member of the preparation committee for holding the annual scientific day of Prince Abdullah bin Ghazi Faculty ICT.,Deanship of students affairs,Jordan.
2020 -2020 :Member of the Committee for checking materials supplied for Tender No. (3/2020) Decision No. (26/2020), and providing a consultation regarding the performance of the tender.,The Procurement Committee,Jordan.
2020 -2021 :Chairman of the Scientific Research, scholarships and Creativity Committee related to the preparation, collection and classification of all documents related to the Quality Assurance Certificate - Higher Education Institutions Accreditation and Quality Assurance Commission,Center of development and quality assurance,Jordan.
2019 -2019 :Chairman of a committee to provide consultation related to the letter of the Scientific and Medical Supplies Company, which includes a request for approval to supply the new version of HP Pro Desk 600 G5 computers, according to Bid No. (58/2019).,The European Union grant,Jordan.
2019 -2019 :Chairman of the Tenders Committee to study the offers received for Bid No. (58/2019) for the supply, installation, operation and maintenance of 500 personal computers funded by the European Union grant.,The European Union grant,Jordan.
2018 -2018 :Participation in the training program in the field of E-learning and blended learning, in cooperation with the French National Institute of Science and Technology, for a full week, in addition to 4 meetings distributed over a month using the technology of remote meetings.,The French National Institute of Science and Technology,Jordan.
2018 -2018 :Chairman of the committee formed in the Department of Computer Information Systems based on the letter of the President of the University to prepare the necessary plan and take the necessary measures to achieve further improvement in the performance of students in the university proficiency exam and to highlight the outstanding academic level of students.,Computer information systems department,Jordan.
2018 -2020 :Liaison officer with the Deanship of Scientific Research and Innovation to follow up on electronic systems, including: submitting requests for participation in scientific conferences, submitting requests for sabbatical leave, the system of archiving research papers into the database, submitting requests for scientific research projects funds, monitoring the plagiarism check system, and any other related systems launched by the Deanship of Scientific Research and Innovation.,Deanship of Scientific Research and Innovation,Jordan.
2018 -2018 :Member of the committee for reviewing and updating the vision, mission and objectives of the computer science program in both Arabic and English so that they are in conformity with the international accreditation standards (ABET).,Center of development and quality assurance,Jordan.
2018 -2018 :Checking and updating the data of the departments on the main pages of the official university website,Computer Center,Jordan.
2018 -2018 :Providing technical consultation regarding the need to renewal purchase an annual educational license to use GIS software.6,Computer information systems department,Jordan.
2018 -2020 :Member of the Faculty Council of Prince Abdullah Bin Ghazi Faculty of ICT from 2018 to 2020.,Faculty Council of Prince Abdullah bin Ghazi Faculty of ICT,Jordan.
2018 -2020 :Head of Computer Information Systems Department,Prince Abdullah bin Ghazi Faculty of ICT,Jordan.
2017 -2018 :Member of the Planning, Development and Quality Assurance Committee of the Council of Prince Abdullah Bin Ghazi College of Information Technology for the academic year 2017-2018.,Prince Abdullah bin Ghazi Faculty of ICT,Jordan.
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 Publications
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1- A hybrid convolutional neural network model for detection of diabetic retinopathy ,International Journal of Computer Applications in Technology, 2023,Vol. 70,no. 3-4.
2- Enhanced Multi-Verse Optimizer (TMVO) and Applying it in Test Data Generation for Path Testing ,International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications, 2023,Vol. 14,no. 2.
3- Harris hawks optimization for COVID-19 diagnosis based on multithreshold image segmentation ,Neural Computing and Applications, 2022,Vol. 0,no. 0.
4- U-NetCTS: U-Net deep neural network for fully automatic segmentation of 3D CT DICOM volume ,Smart Health, 2022,Vol. 26,no. 4.
5- Memory based hybrid crow search algorithm for solving numerical and constrained global optimization problems ,Artificial Intelligence Review, 2022,Vol. 56,no. 1.
6- A New Algorithm to Find The Kth Smallest Element in an Unordered List (Efficient for Big Data) ,Proceedings of the 2022 2nd International Conference on Computing and Information Technology (ICCIT), 2022,Vol. 0,no. 978-1-6654-3605-2/22/$31.00 ?2022 IEEE | DOI: 10.1109/ICCIT52419.2022.9711643.
7- A novel meta-heuristic algorithm for solving numerical optimization problems: Ali Baba and the forty thieves ,Neural Computing and Applications, 2022,Vol. 34,no. 1.
8- Deep CNN Model based on VGG16 for Breast Cancer Classification ,2021 International Conference on Information Technology (ICIT), 2021,Vol. 0,no. 0.
9- Evaluation of Applying Surface Simplification Techniques in Medical Volume Data ,International Journal of Computer Applications, 2021,Vol. 183,no. 9.
10- Monarch butterfly optimization algorithm for computed tomography image segmentation ,Multimedia Tools and Applications, 2021,Vol. 80,no. 1.
11- African buffalo algorithm: Training the probabilistic neural network to solve classification problems ,Journal of King Saud University - Computer and Information Sciences, 2020,Vol. 34,no. 5.
12- Automatic body segmentation for accelerated rendering of digitally reconstructed radiograph images ,Informatics in Medicine Unlocked, 2020,Vol. 20,no. 2.
13- Optimizing MapReduce Model for Big Data Analytics Using Subtractive Clustering Algorithm ,International Journal of Advanced Science and Technology, 2020,Vol. 29,no. 4.
14- WATER EVAPORATION ALGORITHM WITH PROBABILISTIC NEURAL NETWORK FOR SOLVING CLASSIFICATION PROBLEMS ,Jordanian Journal of Computers and Information Technology, 2020,Vol. 6,no. 1.
15- Data Augmentation to Stabilize Image Caption Generation Models in Deep Learning ,International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications, 2019,Vol. 10,no. 10.
16- Automatic Removal of Mechanical Fixations from CT Imagery with Particle Swarm Optimisation ,Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering: 5th International Work-Conference, IWBBIO 2017, Granada, Spain, April 26?28, 2017, Proceedings, 2017,Vol. 0,no. 0.
17- A Fast and Automatic Approach for Removing Artefacts due to Immobilisation Masks in X-ray CT ,2017 IEEE EMBS International Conference on Biomedical & Health Informatics (BHI), Florida, USA, 2017,Vol. 0,no. 0.
18- Evaluation of Particle Swarm Optimisation for Medical Image Segmentation ,Advances in Systems Science: Proceedings of the International Conference on Systems Science 2016 (ICSS 2016) 19, 2016,Vol. 0,no. 0.
19- Evaluation of 3-D printed immobilisation shells for head and neck IMRT ,Open Journal of Radiology, 2014,Vol. 4,no. 4.
20- A New Software Reliability Growth Model Genetic-Programming-Based Approach ,Journal of Software Engineering and Applications, 2011,Vol. 4,no. 8.
21- Fast and Accurate Detection and Classification of Plant Diseases ,Fast and Accurate Detection and Classification of Plant Diseases, 2011,Vol. 17,no. 1.
22- Forecasting Stock Exchange Using Soft Computing Techniques ,ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications-AICCSA 2010, 2010,Vol. 0,no. 0.
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 University Courses Taught
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1- Data Structures.
2- Web Engineering and Design.
3- Introduction to Programming.
4- Object Oriented Programming Laboratory.
5- Information Systems for Human Resources (MSc. course).
6- Artificial Intelligence.
7- Pattern Classification and Clustering.
8- Advanced Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning.
9- Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems (MSc. course).
10- Java Programming.
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 Master and Phd thesis contributions
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Thesis Supervision
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Evaluation of Deep Learning Techniques for Heart Disease Prediction ,Al-Balqa Applied University,Master Thesis,2023.
A Deep Learning Framework for Early Detection of Alzheimer Disease ,Al-Balqa Applied University,Master Thesis,2022.
A Deep Learning Framework for Detection of Skin Lesion and Melanoma ,Al-Balqa Applied University,Master Thesis,2022.
A Deep Learning Framework for Detection of Diabetic Retinopathy Disease ,Al-Balqa Applied University,Master Thesis,2021.
Deep Learning Framework for Images Classification with Pretrained Networks,Al-Balqa Applied University,Master Thesis,2021.
Machine Learning Approach for Counting Germ Layers Cells Differentiated from Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells ,Al-Balqa Applied University,Master Thesis,2021.
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Thesis Defense Committee Membership
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Evaluating String Pattern Matching Algorithms on Large Data ,Al-Balqa Applied University,Master Thesis,2023.
A Swarm based Model for Solving Intrusion Detection Problem ,Al-Balqa Applied University,Master Thesis,2022.
Feature Selection problems Using Marine Predator optimization algorithm ,Al-Balqa Applied University,Master Thesis,2021.
Squirrel Search Algorithm for Feature Selection Problems ,Al-Balqa Applied University,Master Thesis,2020.
Securer Internet of Things Framework ,Al-Balqa Applied University,Master Thesis,2020.
An efficient virtual machine scheduling approach in Cloud Computing ,Al-Balqa Applied University,Master Thesis,2019.
Training The Probabilistic Neural Network Using African Buffalo Algorithm to Solve Classification Problems ,Al-Balqa Applied University,Master Thesis,2019.
Accelerated Digitally Reconstructed Radiograph (DRR) Using Automatic Body Segmentation ,Al-Balqa Applied University,Master Thesis,2018.
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 Projects
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A Novel Optimization Algorithm for Solving Engineering Design Problems ,Deanship of Scientific Research and Innovation - Al-Balqa Applied University,2022/03-2023/03.
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 Conferences and Workshops
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| 1 | 2022 2nd International Conference on Computing and Information Technology (ICCIT) | Saudi Arabia | 2022/01 | | 2 | The 10th International Conference on Information Technology (ICIT 2021) | Jordan | 2021/07 | | 3 | The 19th International Arab Conference on Information Technology (ACIT2018) | Lebanon | 2018/11 | | 4 | IWBBIO 2017 (5th International Work-Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering) | Spain | 2017/04 | | 5 | 2017 IEEE EMBS International Conference on Biomedical & Health Informatics (BHI) | United States of America | 2017/02 | | 6 | International Conference on Systems Science (ICSS 2016) | Poland | 2016/09 | | 7 | ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications-AICCSA 2010 | Tunisia | 2010/05 |
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* Liaison officer between Al-Balqa Applied University and the Crown Prince Award for Best Government Services Application.
* Liaison officer with Al-Balqa Applied University Radio.
* Volunteer with the office of the King Abdullah II for Career Development..
* Member of the committee formed to supervise the various programming competitions for students of Al-Balqa Applied University (the centers colleges)..
* Certified trainer for Al-Balqa Applied University teams in the African and Arab Programming Championships for two consecutive years (ACPC-2018 + ACPC-2019), which were held at the Applied Science University (October 2018) and Princess Sumaya University for Technology (September 2019)..
* Assignment from the Dean of Prince Abdullah bin Ghazi College for Communications and Information Technology to participate in preparing for the participation of students from local community and college students in international competitions and awards (His Highness the Crown Prince Award for Best Government Services Application, Hackathon Competition (Amazon), Capture the Flags Competition, Huawei Communications and Information Technology Competition).
* Member of the committee related to the inclusion of the digital media major from Luminus Technical University College for the intermediate university degree level among the corresponding majors in Jordanian universities..
* Liaison officer with the Language Center.
* Organizing and participating with a group of orphan associations in preparing the Iftar for orphaned children in the month of Ramadan of the year 2018, under the auspices of the Dean of Prince Abdullah Bin Ghazi Faculty of ICT..
* Participation and organization of the activities of the fifth Scientific Day of Prince Abdullah Bin Ghazi Faculty of ICT for the year 2018, which was held under the title Cyber Security with the participation of representatives of technical companies operating in the ICT sector and members of the local community..
* Member of the Coordination Committee with the global Huawei Company to establish the Huawei Academy at Al-Balqa Applied University to serve the local community, and actively participate with the college work team regarding cooperation, coordination and meetings with the work team from Huawei..
* Securing a number of students in Al-Balqa Applied University with job and training opportunities in Jordanian companies like the one that I made with the STME (one smart solution) to save 10 positions each year..
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 Refrences
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Prof. Dr. Nijad Al-Najdawi-Al-Balqa Applied University ,n.al-najdawi@bau.edu.jo.
Dr. Osama Dorgham-Sky Line University ,o.dorgham@skylineuniversity.ac.ae.
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