Papers and Research


A. A. S. Elkhaldy et al., "Syntheses, density functional and sparkle PM6 semi empirical theoretical studies of O,O '-dialkyl/alkylenedithiophosphate derivatives of tin(IV) phthalocyanine adducts," Journal of Molecular Structure, vol. 1167, pp. 294-304, Sep 2018.


N. Wazzan, I. B. Obot, and H. Faidallah, "Experimental and theoretical evaluation of some synthesized imidazolidine derivatives as novel corrosion inhibitors for X60 steel in 1 M HCl solution," Journal of Adhesion Science and Technology, vol. 32, no. 23, pp. 2569-2589, Dec 2018.


N. Wazzan and A. Irfan, "Theoretical study of triphenylamine-based organic dyes with mono-, di-, and tri-anchoring groups for dye-sensitized solar cells," Organic Electronics, vol. 63, pp. 328-342, Dec 2018.


N. Andijani and N. A. Wazzan, "The effect of electron-donating substituents on tuning the nonlinear optical properties of pyrene-core arylamine derivatives: DFT calculations," Results in Physics, vol. 11, pp. 605-616, Dec 2018


DIERY, W.A. ; MOUJAES, ELIE A. ; NUNES, R. . Nature of localized phonon modes of tilt grain boundaries in graphene. CARBON, v. 140, p. 250-258, 2018. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.carbon.2018.08.045


Eltayeb Eljack and Julio Soria, (2018) "The underlying mechanism behind the bursting and reformation cycle of the laminar separation bubble over a NACA-0012 at the inception of stall", 71st Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics. http://meetings.aps.org/Meeting/DFD18/Session/M14.2


Ali W. Mohamed, Anas A. Hadi, and Kamal M. Jambi, "Novel Mutation Strategy for Enhancing SHADE and LSHADE Algorithms for Global Numerical Optimization", Swarm and Evolutionary Computation, 2018, pp. 145-15, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.swevo.2018.10.006


Anas A. Hadi, Ali W. Mohamed, and Kamal M. Jambi, "Single-objective Real-parameter Optimization: Enhanced LSHADE-SPACMA Algorithm", Technical Report, 2018, doi: 10.13140/RG.2.2.33283.20005


Anas A. Hadi, Ali W. Mohamed, and Kamal M. Jambi, "Single-objective Real-parameter Optimization: Enhanced LSHADE-SPACMA Algorithm", META’2018 International conference on Metaheuristics and Nature Inspired Computing, Marrakech (Morocco), 27-31 October 2018.


Muhammad Aqib, Rashid Mehmood, Ahmed Alzahrani, Iyad Katib, and Aiiad Albeshri, A Deep Learning Model to Predict Vehicles Occupancy on Freeways for Traffic Management, International Journal of Computer Science and Network Security (IJCSNS), VOL.18 No.12, December 2018, pp 246 – 254 (ISI indexed, Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), Clarivate Analytics), http://paper.ijcsns.org/07_book/201812/20181233.pdf


T Muhammed, R Mehmood, A Albeshri, I Katib, UbeHealth: A Personalized Ubiquitous Cloud and Edge-Enabled Networked Healthcare System for Smart Cities, IEEE Access (ISI Impact Factor 2017: 3.557), Vol. 6, pp. 32258-32285, June 2018. DOI:10.1109/ACCESS.2018.2846609


Ibrahim SM, Karim S, Abusamra H, Pushparaj PN, Khan JA, Abuzenadah AM, Bakhashab S, Ahmed F*, Al-Qahtani MH. Genomic amplification of chromosome 7 in Doxorubicin resistant K562 cell line. Bioinformation, 29 December 2018, 14(9): 587-593


Hossam M. Faheem, Birgitta König-Ries, Muhammad A. Aslam, Naif R. Aljohani, and Iyad Katib, “Ontology design for solving computationally-intensive problems on heterogeneous architectures,” Sustainability, Vol. 10(2), 2018.


Almazroui Mansour 2018. Assessment of CMIP5 global climate models and projected changes in surface air temperature over the Arabian Peninsula in the 21st century. Arabian Journal of Geosciences 11:650. DOI: 10.1007/s12517-018-4011-7. 


Md. Arfan Ali, Md. Monirul Islam, Md. Nazrul Islam, Mansour Almazroui 2018. Investigations of MODIS AOD and cloud properties with CERES sensor based net cloud radiative effect and a NOAA HYSPLIT Model over Bangladesh for the period 2001–2016. Atmospheric Research 215: 268-283.


Almazroui M., Meshari Alobaidi, Sajjad Saeed, Abdulwahab Mashat, Mazen Assiri 2018. The possible impact of the circumglobal wave train on the wet season dust storm activity over the northern Arabian Peninsula. Climate Dynamics 50: 2257-2268. DOI: 10.1007/s00382-017-3747-1.


Abid M. Adnan, Almazroui Mansour, Kucharski Fred, O’Brien E., Yousef A.E. 2018. ENSO relationship to Summer Rainfall Variability and its Potential Predictability over Arabian Peninsula Region. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science. doi:10.1038/s41612-017-0003-7.


Rahman, M. Ashfaqur, Almazroui, Mansour, Islam, M. Nazrul, O'Brien, Enda, Yousef, Ahmed Elsayed 2018. The role of land surface fluxes in Saudi-KAU AGCM: Temperature climatology over the Arabian Peninsula for the period 1981-2010. Atmospheric Research 200:139-152.


Mahmoud Fayez, Iyad Katib, George N. Rouskas, H. Khaled, Tarek F. Gharib and Hossam M. Faheem. "Scalability Evaluation of Brute Force Techniques for Routing and Spectrum Assignment in Elastic Optical Network using MPI and CUDA", 2018. The 2018 International Conference on Computational Science and Computational Intelligence (CSCI'18).


Mirvat M. Al-Qutt, Heba Khaled, Hossam M. Faheem, and Rania El Gohary, "Towards a Full Big Data Based Solution for Computationally Intensive Problems: Solving Motif Finding Problem as a Case Study," in 2018 13th International Conference on Computer Engineering and Systems (ICCES), 2018, pp. 245–251.


Maaz Ahmed, Mohsin Khan, Waseem Ahmed, Rashid Mehmood, Abdullah Algarni, Aiiad Albeshri, and Iyad Katib, "PSim: A Simulator for Estimation of Power Consumption in a Cluster," Lecture Notes in Engineering and Computer Science: Proceedings of The World Congress on Engineering and Computer Science 2018, San Francisco, USA, October, 2018


Roqaya Hashem Al-Barakati; Ab Initio Calculations of the Structures and Tautomers of Benzothiazole Derivatives in the Gas Phase and Different Solutions and their Corrosion Inhibition for Carbon Steel in Acidic Medium; MSc Thesis, Faculty of Science, Chemistry Department, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, May 2018.


N. Wazzan and Z. Safi, "Effect of number and position of methoxy substituents on fine-tuning the electronic structures and photophysical properties of designed carbazole-based hole-transporting materials for perovskite solar cells: DFT calculations," Arabian Journal of Chemistry, vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 1-20, Jan 2019.

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I. B. Obot, I. B. Onyeachu, N. Wazzan, and A. H. Al-Amri, "Theoretical and experimental investigation of two alkyl carboxylates as corrosion inhibitors for steel in acidic medium," Journal of Molecular Liquids, vol. 279, pp. 190-207, Apr 2019.


O. Dagdag et al., "Rheological, electrochemical, surface, DFT and molecular dynamics simulation studies on the anticorrosive properties of new epoxy monomer compound for steel in 1 M HCl solution," Rsc Advances, vol. 9, no. 8, pp. 4454-4462, 2019.


N. A. Wazzan, "A DFT/TDDFT investigation on the efficiency of novel dyes with ortho-fluorophenyl units (A1) and incorporating benzotriazole/benzothiadiazole/phthalimide units (A2) as organic photosensitizers with D–A2–π–A1 configuration for solar cell applications," Journal of Computational Electronics, journal article January 31 2019.


Nuha Andijani, Ohoud Al-Qurashi, Nuha Wazzan, and Ahmad Irfan, “Modelling of efficient pyrene-core substituted with electron-donating groups as hole-transporting materials in perovskite solar cells”, Solar Energy, 2019, (in press)


Yasir A. ElAwad and Eltayeb Eljack, (2019) "Numerical investigation of the low-frequency flow oscillation over a NACA-0012 aerofoil at the inception of stall", International Journal of Micro Air Vehicles, Volume: 11, pp. 1-17. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1756829319833687


Amjad Ali Pasha, A. Raheem, N. Islam, K. A. Juhany,  A. Mushtaq and S.S. Halkarni “CFD study of variable property effects on laminar micro-convective heat-transfer” Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering, 2019 (Springer). DOI: 10.1007/s13369-019-03797-8 (published online)


Anas A. Hadi, Ali W. Mohamed, and Kamal M. Jambi, "LSHADE Semi-Parameter Adaptation Memetic Framework for Solving Large-Scale Optimization Problems", Complex & Intelligent Systems, no. 5, 2019, pp. 25-40, doi: 10.1007/s40747-018-0086-8


T Muhammed, R Mehmood, A Albeshri, I Katib, SURAA: A Novel Method and Tool for load balanced and Coalesced SpMV Computations on GPUs, Applied Sciences (ISI Impact Factor 2017: 1.689), 9(5), 947, MDPI, 2019, https://doi.org/10.3390/app9050947


Alwadei, S., Dahab, M., & Kamel, M. (2019). High performance GA-LDA feature selection model for Brain Computer Interface data. International Journal of Information Technology and Language Studies, 3(1).  http://journal-ik.twoa.ac.nz/index.php/ijitls/article/download/55/pdf


Yara M. Abdelaal, Mahmoud Fayez, and Hossam M. Faheem. "Performance Evaluation of Image Scanning: Face Detection Case Study". Advances in Computer Science and Engineering, Vol 18(1), 2019.


Rasool M, Pushparaj PN, Mirza Z, Naseer MI, Abusamra H, Alquaiti M, Shaabad M, Sibiany AMS, Gauthaman K, Al-Qahtani MH, Karim S. Array Comparative Genomic Hybridization based Identification of Key Genetic Alterations in 3p23-p14.2 (MLH1), 2p21-p16.3 (MSH2, MSH6, EPCAM), 7p22.1 (PMS2), 1p34.1-p33 (MUTYH) in Hereditary Non Polyposis Colorectal Cancer (Lynch Syndrome) in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. [Saudi Journal of Biological Sciences;  May 2019, Submitted]


Ibrahim SM, Bakhashab SM, Ilyas AM, Pushparaj PN, Karim S, Khan JA, Abuzenadah AM, Chaudhary AG, Al-Qahtani MH, Ahmed F*. WYE-354 restores adriamycin sensitivity in multi-drug resistant acute myeloid leukemia cell lines. Oncology Report, 2 Apr 2019, 41: 3179-3188 (IF = 2.97)


Abdulkareem AA, Abulnaja KO, Jan MM, Karim S, Rasool M, Ansari SA, Chaudhary AG, Al-Qahtani MH, Naseer MI*. A novel homozygous nonsense mutation in CCDC88A gene cause PEHO-like syndrome in consanguineous Saudi family Neurological Sciences, 27 January 2019, 40: 299-303 (IF = 2.28).


Mansour Almazrouia, Zekâi Şena, Abdullah M. Mohorji and M. Nazrul Islam 2019. Impacts of climate change on water engineering structures in arid regions: Cases studies in Turkey and Saudi Arabia. Earth Systems and Environment 3: 43-57. 


Muhammad Azhar Ehsan, Fred Kucharski, Mansour Almazroui, Muhammad Ismail, Michael K Tippett 2019. Potential predictability of Arabian Peninsula summer surface air temperature in the North American multimodel ensemble. Climate Dynamics, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-019-04784-3.


Mansour Almazroui 2019. Temperature changes over the CORDEX-MENA domain in the 21st century using CMIP5 data downscaled with RegCM4: A focus on the Arabian Peninsula. Advances in Meteorology. Article ID 5395676.


Naim Ahmad and Rashid Mehmood, Enterprise Systems for Networked Smart Cities, In Smart Infrastructure and Applications: Foundations for Smarter Cities and Societies. Springer (2019). DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-13705-2_1.


Ebtesam Alomari, Rashid Mehmood, and Iyad Katib, Sentiment Analysis of Arabic Tweets for Road Traffic Congestion and Event Detection, In Smart Infrastructure and Applications: Foundations for Smarter Cities and Societies. Springer (2019). DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-13705-2_2.


Sugimiyanto Suma, Rashid Mehmood, and Aiiad Albeshri, Automatic Detection and Validation of Smart City Events Using HPC and Apache Spark Platforms, In Smart Infrastructure and Applications: Foundations for Smarter Cities and Societies. Springer (2019). DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-13705-2_3.


Muhammad Aqib, Rashid Mehmood, Ahmed Alzahrani, and Iyad Katib, In-Memory Deep earning Computations on GPUs for Prediction of Road Traffic Incidents using Big Data Fusion, In Smart Infrastructure and Applications: Foundations for Smarter Cities and Societies. Springer (2019), DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-13705-2_4.


Bdoor Alsolami, Rashid Mehmood, and Aiiad Albeshri, Hybrid Statistical and Machine Learning Methods for Road Traffic Prediction: A Review and Tutorial, In Smart Infrastructure and Applications: Foundations for Smarter Cities and Societies. Springer (2019). DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-13705-2_5.


Furqan Alam, Rashid Mehmood, and Iyad Katib, Comparison of Decision Trees and Deep Learning for Object Classification in Autonomous Driving, In Smart Infrastructure and Applications: Foundations for Smarter Cities and Societies. Springer (2019). DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-13705-2_6. 


Muhammad Aqib, Rashid Mehmood, Ahmed Alzahrani, and Iyad Katib, A Smart Disaster Management System for Future Cities using Deep Learning, GPUs, and In-Memory Computing, In Smart Infrastructure and Applications: Foundations for Smarter Cities and Societies. Springer (2019). DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-13705-2_7. 


Yasir Arfat, Sugimiyanto Suma, Rashid Mehmood, and Aiiad Albeshri, Parallel Shortest Path Big Data Graph Computations of US Road Network using Apache Spark: Survey, Architecture, and Evaluation, In Smart Infrastructure and Applications: Foundations for Smarter Cities and Societies. Springer (2019). DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-13705-2_8.


Emad Alamoudi, Rashid Mehmood, Aiiad Albeshri, and Takashi Gojobori A Survey of Methods and Tools for Large-Scale DNA Mixture Profiling, In Smart Infrastructure and Applications: Foundations for Smarter Cities and Societies. Springer (2019). DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-13705-2_9. 


Shoayee Alotaibi, Rashid Mehmood, and Iyad Katib, The Role of Big Data and Twitter Data Analytics in Healthcare Supply Chain Management, In Smart Infrastructure and Applications: Foundations for Smarter Cities and Societies. Springer (2019). DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-13705-2_11.


Thaha Muhammed, Rashid Mehmood, Ehab Abozinadah, and Sanaa Sharaf, SelecWeb: A Software Tool for Automatic Selection of Web Frameworks, In Smart Infrastructure and Applications: Foundations for Smarter Cities and Societies. Springer (2019), DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-13705-2_14.


Hana Alyahya, Rashid Mehmood, and Iyad Katib, Parallel Iterative Solution of Large Sparse Linear Equation Systems on the Intel MIC Architecture, In Smart Infrastructure and Applications: Foundations for Smarter Cities and Societies. Springer (2019). DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-13705-2_16. 


Sarah AlAhmadi, Thaha Muhammed, Rashid Mehmood, and Aiiad Albeshri, Performance Characteristics for Sparse Matrix Vector Multiplication on GPUs, In Smart Infrastructure and Applications: Foundations for Smarter Cities and Societies. Springer (2019). DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-13705-2_17.


Thaha Muhammed, Rashid Mehmood, Aiiad Albeshri, and Fawaz Alsolami, HPC-Smart Infrastructures: A Review and Outlook on Performance Analysis Methods and Tools, In Smart Infrastructure and Applications: Foundations for Smarter Cities and Societies. Springer (2019). DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-13705-2_18.


Yasir Arfat, Sardar Usman, Rashid Mehmood, Iyad Katib, Big Data Tools, Technologies and Applications: A Survey, In Smart Infrastructure and Applications: Foundations for Smarter Cities and Societies. Springer (2019). DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-13705-2_19. 


Yasir Arfat, Sardar Usman, Rashid Mehmood, and Iyad Katib, Big Data for Smart Infrastructures Design: Opportunities and Challenges, In Smart Infrastructure and Applications: Foundations for Smarter Cities and Societies. Springer (2019). DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-13705-2_20.


Fatmah Yousef Assiri and Rashid Mehmood, Software Quality in the era of Big Data, IoT and Smart Cities, In Smart Infrastructure and Applications: Foundations for Smarter Cities and Societies. Springer (2019), DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-13705-2_21. 


Emad Alamoudi, Rashid Mehmood, Wajdi Aljudaibi, Aiiad Albeshri, and Syed Hamid Hasan, Open Source and Open Data Licenses in the Smart Infrastructure Era: Review and License Selection Frameworks, In Smart Infrastructure and Applications: Foundations for Smarter Cities and Societies. Springer (2019). DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-13705-2_22.


Sardar Usman, Rashid Mehmood, and Iyad Katib, Big Data and HPC Convergence for Smart Infrastructures: A Review and Proposed Architecture, In Smart Infrastructure and Applications: Foundations for Smarter Cities and Societies. Springer (2019). DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-13705-2_23. 


Thaha Muhammed, Rashid Mehmood, Aiiad Albeshri, and Ahmed Alzahrani, HCDSR: A Fault Tolerant Routing Technique for IoT based Smart Societies, In Smart Infrastructure and Applications: Foundations for Smarter Cities and Societies. Springer (2019). DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-13705-2_25.


Sabban S., Markovsky M. (2019) RamaNet: Computational De Novo Protein Design using a Long Short-Term Memory Generative Adversarial Neural Network. BioRxiv 671552; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/671552


Amjad Ali Pasha, K. A. Juhany & M. Khalid, “Numerical simulations of three-dimensional cylinder flare at hypersonic flows”, 8th European Conference for Aeronautics and Space Sciences, 1-4 July 2019, Madrid, Spain (accepted for presentation).


Ebtesam Alomari, Rashid Mehmood, Iyad Katib, Road Traffic Event Detection Using Twitter Data, Machine Learning, and Apache Spark, Submitted to the 3rd IEEE International Conference on Smart City Innovations (SmartWorld/SCALCOM/UIC/ATC/CBDCom/IOP/SCI 2019), 19-23 August 2019, Leicester, UK, accepted, to appear.


Shoayee Alotaibi, Rashid Mehmood, Iyad Katib, Sentiment Analysis of Arabic Tweets in Smart Cities: A Review of Saudi Dialect, In Proc. Of the Fourth IEEE International Conference on Fog and Mobile Edge Computing (FMEC 2019), Rome, Italy, June 10-13, 2019, to appear.


Mohammed M. Fouad, Ahmad Mahny and Iyad Katib, "Masdar: A Novel Sequence-to-Sequence Deep Learning Model for Arabic Stemming". SAI Intelligent Systems Conference (IntelliSys 2019).


Mohammad Rafi Ikbal, Mahmoud Fayez, Mohammed M. Fouad, and Iyad Katib, "Fast Implementation of Face Detection using LPB Classifier on GPGPUs". SAI Computing Conference (Computing 2019).


Mehmood, R., See, S., Katib, I., Chlamtac, I. (Eds.). Smart Infrastructure and Applications: Foundations for Smarter Cities and Societies, Springer International Publishing, to appear, June 2019. https://www.springer.com/us/book/9783030137045. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-13705-2.


Anas A. Hadi, "Global Optimization Technique for Big Data Processing ", PhD Thesis, Faculty of Computing and Information Technology (FCIT), King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, April 2019.


Furqan Alam, Data Fusion Techniques for Safer Connected Autonomous Vehicles, PhD Thesis, Faculty of Computing and Information Technology (FCIT), King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, April 2019.


Sardar Usman, Machine learning based Performance Optimization of SpMV kernel for Distributed Memory Exascale Systems, PhD Thesis, Faculty of Computing and Information Technology (FCIT), King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, April 2019.


Muhammad Aqib, Big Data and HPC Integration: An Investigation: GPUs, Deep Learning and In-Memory Big Data Computing, PhD Thesis, Faculty of Computing and Information Technology (FCIT), King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, April 2019.


Nuha Abdulrahman Andijani; DFT Investigation on Some Pyrene−Based Derivatives as Hole Transporting Materials in Perovskite Solar Cells and as Nonlinear Optical Materials; MSc Thesis, Faculty of Science, Chemistry Department, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, May 2019.


Sarah Hamed Alahmadi, Jacobi Iterative Method and SpMV Computations on GPUs , MSc Thesis, Faculty of Computing and Information Technology (FCIT), King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, May 2019.


Bdoor Mogamal Salem Alsolami, Hybrid Methods for Road Traffic Prediction and Analysis using GPS Big Data, MSc Thesis, Faculty of Computing and Information Technology (FCIT), King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, May 2019. 


Faisal Al A’amri, Mohammed Shalabi, Moysar Tamim, A Smart Selective Tool for DNA Profiling, BSc Thesis, Faculty of Computing and Information Technology (FCIT), King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, May 2019.


Thamer Zahrani and Hussain Bathabi, Accelerating Bioinformatics Applications, BSc Thesis, Faculty of Computing and Information Technology (FCIT), King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Fall 2019