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Yousef,<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium\">Senior scientist, ISOT LAB;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: medium\">Adjunct professor, University of Victoria;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: medium\">Senior member, IEEE.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium\">Email: wyousef at uvic dot ca<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large\"><strong>Education<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium\">M.Sc. in Statistics, The George Washington University (GWU), 2007.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium\">Ph.D. in Computer Engineering, GWU, 2006.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium\">M.Sc. in Computer Science, Helwan University, 1999.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium\">Professional Certificate in Computer Systems and Applications, American University in Cairo (AUC), 1997.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium\">B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, Communications and Electronics, Ain Shams University, 1995.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large\"><strong>Research Interest<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium\">Data Science, Data Analysis, Statistical Learning, Machine Learning, and Pattern Recognition.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium\">Assessment of Classification Rules and ROC Analysis.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium\">Data Visualization.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;color: #000000\"><strong>Teaching<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/DrWaleedAYousef\/Teaching\">Teaching Materials\u00a0<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/FCIHOCW\">Youtube Channel\u00a0<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;color: #000000\"><strong>Publication<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=dfBOO6oAAAAJ&amp;hl=en\">Google Scholar\u00a0<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large\"><strong>Research Positions<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium\">Senior Scientist, ISOT lab., University of Victoria, BC,Canada (2019-present).<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium\">Adjunct professor, University of Victoria, BC, Canada (2021-present).<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium\">Lab Director,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hciegypt.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Human Computer Interaction Laboratory (HCILAB)<\/a> (2011-present).<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium\">CEO, Research Director,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mesclabs.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MESC for Research and Development.<\/a> (2010-present).<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium\">Research Member,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fda.gov\/ScienceResearch\/BioinformaticsTools\/MicroarrayQualityControlProject\/default.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i>Microarray Quality Control Phase 2 (MAQC2) Project<\/i><\/a> (2007-2010). In response to the FDA Critical Path Initiative, scientists at the FDA\u2019s National Center for Toxicological Research (NCTR), Jefferson, Arkansas, formally launched the MAQC project. This is a group of over 100 members from industry, academia, and US government working on methods for developing predictive models that use high-dimensional microarray (\u201cDNA chips\u201d) data to classify patients into low- or high-risk with respect to getting a specified kind of cancer.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium\">Research Fellow,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fda.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i>U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)<\/i><\/a>\u00a0\/\u00a0<i>Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH)<\/i>\u00a0(2005-2007). Designing and testing statistical learning algorithms to work on real data problems, e.g., medical data for diagnostic purposes.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[\/et_pb_tab][\/et_pb_tabs][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American Scientist Online Computer Communication Review Elsevier Computer Science Annual Computer Security Applications Conference IEEE Computer Society IEEE Security &amp; Privacy Magazine IEICE Trans Search System International Journal of Digital Evidence ScienceDirect &#8211; Computers &amp; Security ACM TISSEC (Transactions on Information &amp; System Security) ACM CSC ACM SIGKDD ISOC (Internet SOCiety) Conferences Annual Computer Security [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17669,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1272","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/isot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/isot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/isot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/isot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17669"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/isot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1272"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/isot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1308,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/isot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1272\/revisions\/1308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/isot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}