Assistant Professor
Department of Artificial Intelligence Science & Engineering
Biography
Islam Elkabani received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from New Mexico State University (NMSU), USA in 2007. He worked as Research Associate and Teaching Associate for most of his graduate studies at NMSU. He is also a member of the Knowledge Representation, Logic, and Advanced Programming Laboratory (KLAP) team at NMSU and participated in many research projects funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) during the period of 2001 and 2007. He worked as an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the Faculty of Science, Alexandria University, Egypt starting from 2007.
He worked as an adjunct professor at Beirut Arab University, Lebanon during the period of 2009 till 2020. He also worked as a part-time faculty member at many reputed universities and institutes in Egypt such as the Arab Academy for Science and Technology (AAST) and the Information Technology Institute (ITI). He is currently an Assistant Professor at Alamein International University and member of Alexandria Quantum Computing Group (AleQCG) at Alexandria University. His research interests include Knowledge Representation, Logic Programming, Natural Language Processing, Quantum Computing and Data Mining. He is currently participating in some active research in using logic programming in quantum circuits optimization, quantum machine learning and using deep Learning in natural Language processing applications.
- Academic Positions
- Administrative Positions
- Teaching Summary
- Journal Publications
- Conference Publications
- Program Coordinator of the Software Industry and Multimedia program at Faculty of Science, Alexandria University (2020-2022)
- Executive Director of the Computer Center at the Faculty of Science, Alexandria University (2007-2009)
1. Introduction to Programming using C++
2. Object Oriented Programming using Java
3. Web Programming
4. Database Management Systems
5. Compilers Construction
6. Discrete Mathematics
7. Theory of Computation
8. Machine Learning
9. Natural Languages Processing
10. Concepts of Programming Languages
11. Data Structures and Algorithms
12. Operating Systems
13. Neural Networks
14. Deep Learning
15. Knowledge Representation
16. Data Mining
17. Denotational Semantics
1. Menna Elmasry, Ahmed Younes, Islam Elkabani, Ashraf Elsayed, “Quantum Pattern Classification in a Three-Qubit System”, Symmetry, 15(4), 883, 2023, doi:10.3390/sym15040883
2. Tasneem Selim, Islam Elkabani, Mohamed A. Abdou, “Students Engagement Level Detection in Online e-Learning Using Hybrid EfficientNetB7 Together With TCN, LSTM, and Bi-LSTM”, in IEEE Access, Vol. 10, pp. 99573-99583, 2022, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2022.3206779
3. Sara Anwar, Ahmed Younes, Islam Elkabani, Ashraf Elsayed, “Preparation of quantum superposition using partial negation”, in IEEE Access, Vol. 10, pp. 18944-18954, 2022, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2022.3151196.
4. Roua A. Abou Khachfeh, Islam Elkabani, Ziad Osman, “A NOVEL ARABIC CORPUS FOR TEXT CLASSIFICATION USING DEEP LEARNING AND WORD EMBEDDING”, BAU Journal-Science and Technology, Vol. 3, No.1, 2021
5. Cerine Tafran, Mohamed El-Abed, Islam Elkabani, Ziad Osman, “Blind Image Quality Assessment for Face Pose Problem”, BAU Journal-Science and Technology, Vol. 1, No. 2, 2020
6. Layal Abu Daher, Islam Elkabani , Rached Zantout, “Identifying Influential Users on Twitter: A Case Study from Paris Attacks”, Journal of Applied Mathematics and Information Sciences, Vol. 12, No. 5, 1021-1032, 2018
7. May Itani, Sanaa Sharafeddine and Islam Elkabani, “Dynamic Multiple Node Failure Recovery in Distributed Storage Systems”, Ad Hoc Networks, Vol. 72, 1-13, Elsevier, 2018
8. Layal Abu Daher, Rached Zantout, Islam Elkabani, “User Influence on Twitter Hashtags Evolution: A Case Study from Career Opportunities Groups”, International Journal of Applied Engineering Research, Vol. 13, No. 6, 3157-3164, 2018
9. May Itani, Sanaa Sharafeddine and Islam Elkabani, “Dynamic Single Node Failure Recovery in Distributed Storage Systems”, Computer Networks, Vol 113, 84-93, Elsevier, 2017
10. Islam Elkabani, Lama Hamandi, Rached Zantout and Simar Mansi, “Improving Web Accessibility”, International Journal of Applied Engineering Research, Vol. 11, No. 12, 7836-7845, 2016
11. Islam Elkabani, Roaa Aboo Khashfeh, “Homophily Based Link Prediction in The Facebook Online Social Network: A Rough Sets Approach”, Journal of Intelligent Systems, Vol 24, No. 4, 491-503, 2015
12. Suhad A. Yousif, Venus W. Samawi, Islam Elkabani and Rached Zantout, “Enhancement of Arabic Text Classification Using Semantic Relations of Arabic WordNet”, Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 11, No. 3, 498-509, 2015
13. Suhad A. Yousif, Venus W. Samawi, Islam Elkabani and Rached Zantout, “The Effect of Combining Different Semantic Relations on Arabic Text Classification”, World of Computer Science and Information Technology Journal (WCSIT), Vol. 5, No. 6, 112- 118, 2015
1. Nour Moadad, Issam Damaj and Islam Elkabani, “A Generic MDA-IoT Architecture for Connected Vehicles in Smart Cities”, in 2022 IEEE Global Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Internet of Things (GCAIoT), December 2022
2. Rached Zantout , Islam Elkabani, Lama Hamandi, and Bassam Elmasri, “Experimental Evaluation of an Interactive Workspace for Helping the Visually Impaired in Learning Linear Algebra”, In: Ahram T., Falcão C. (eds) Advances in Usability, User Experience, Wearable and Assistive Technology. AHFE 2020. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1217. Springer, 2020
3. Islam Elkabani, Layal Abu Daher and Rached Zantout, “Use of FP-Growth Algorithm in Identifying Influential Users on Twitter Hashtags”, in ACM Proceedings of the 2020 4th International Conference on Compute and Data Analysis, Silicon Valley, San Jose, USA. pp. 113-117, March 2020.
4. Cerine Tafran, Mohamed El-Abed, Islam Elkabani, Ziad Osman, “A No-Reference Image Quality Assessment For Detecting Illumination Alteration”, in Proceedings of 10th International Conference on Information and Communication Systems (IEEE ICICS 2019), pp. 94-98, Irbid, Jordan, 2019.
5. Islam Elkabani, Lama Hamandi, Rached Zantout and Salma Ghali, “Evaluation of a Multilingual Workspace to Practice Math for Visually Impaired Students”, in Proceedings of 10th International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics (AHFE 2019), Springer, 2019.
6. Layal Abu Daher, Islam Elkabani , Rached Zantout, “Identifying Influential Users on Twitter’s Trendy Hashtags Using Association Rule Learning”, in Proceedings of International Conference on Computational Science and Computational Intelligence (IEEE CSCI 2018), Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, December 2018.
7. Layal Abu Daher, Rached Zantout, Islam Elkabani, Khaled Almustafa, “Evolution of Hashtags on Twitter: A Case Study from Events Groups”, In: Alenezi M., Qureshi B. (eds) 5th International Symposium on Data Mining Applications: Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, Vol 753, Springer, 2018.
8. Lama Soboh, Islam Elkabani, Ziad Othman, “Arabic Cultural Style Based Music Classification” , International Conference on New Trends in Computing Sciences (IEEE), Amman, Jordan, 2017
9. Layal Abu Daher, Rached Zantout, Islam Elkabani, “Dynamic Evolution of Hashtags on Twitter: A Case Study from Career Opportunities Groups”, International Conference on New Trends in Computing Sciences (IEEE), Amman, Jordan, 2017
10. Suhad A. Yousif, Venus W. Samawi and Islam Elkabani, “Arabic Text Classification: The Effect of the AWN Relations Weighting Scheme”, The World Congress on Engineering 2017 WCE 2017, London, U.K., Volume: Vol II, July 2017
11. May Itani, Sanaa Sharafeddine and Islam Elkabani, “Practical Multiple Node Failure Recovery Using Fractional Repetition Codes in Data Centers”, in Proceedings of The Twenty-First IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communication (ISCC 2016), pp. 901-907, 2016, doi:10.1109/ISCC.2016.7543851.
12. Islam Elkabani, Rached Zantout, Lama Hamandi and Manal Zahreddine, “Towards Improving Educational Decisions: Automating The Assessment of Learning Outcomes”, International Education Conference, San Francisco, USA, August 2016
13. Salma Ghali, Islam Elkabani and Rached Zantout, “A Multilingual Interactive Workspace for Helping the Visually Impaired Learn and Practice Algebra”, 15th International Conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs (ICCHP 2016), in Proceedings of Universal Learning Design (ULD), pp. 21-30, Linz, Austria, July 2016
14. May Itani, Sanaa Sharafeddine and Islam Elkabani, “Practical Single Node Failure Recovery Using Fractional Repetition Codes in Data Centers”, in the Proceedings of 2016 IEEE 30th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA), Crans-Montana, Switzerland, March 2016, pp. 762-768