Bilal Al-Ahmad

A tenured Associate Professor in Software Engineering with over 10 years of experience in teaching and research. Expertise in Software Engineering, Machine Learning, Cryptography, and Database, with rich publication record in high-impact Scopus-indexed journals.

A. [Journals (Selected)]

1. Ruba Abu-Khurma, Yaning Xiao, Bilal Al-Ahmad, Bilal Abu-Salih, David Camacho, Miguel Angel Diaz Martinez, "Captivating Insights into Sleep Health: Orchestrating Lifestyle Features and Predictive Models through Computational Intelligence". IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence, (Submitted), 2024. [Scopus Q1]

2. Ala' Al-Zoubi, Mohammad Hassonah, Laila Al-Qaisi, Raneem Qaddourad, Bilal Al-Ahmad, Maria Habib, Ibrahim Aljarah "An Evolutionary Embedded Model Fake News Detector Using an Optimized Support Vectors Machines". Computational Intelligence, (Submitted), 2024. [Scopus Q1]

3. Abhishek Mahakal, Anas AlSobeh, Bilal Al-Ahmad, Rami S. Alkhawalda, and Md Faisal Kabir "Proximity-Constrained Counterfactuals for Explainable Diabetic Risk Assessment". Applied Computational Intelligence and Soft Computing, (Submitted), 2024. [Scopus Q2]

4. Anas Alsobeh, Alhan Aljmal, Bilal Al-Ahmad, Amani Shatnawi, Samer Khamaiseh "Al-Powered AOP Enhancing Runtime Monitoring with Large Language Models and SL" International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications, 15(10), 2024. [Scopus Q3]

5. Ruba Abu Khurma; Robertas Damaševičius, Krishna Gopal Dhal, Bilal Al-Ahmad, Muhanad Abulhusn. "Strategic Insights into Crime Patterns in Los Angeles: A Clustering Based Approach for Enhanced Law Enforcement Efficiency". Expert Systems With Applications, (Submitted), 2024. [Scopus Q2]

6. Bilal Al-Ahmad, et al., "Meta-Heuristic Guided Feature Optimization for Enhanced Authorship Attribution in Java Source Code". IEEE Access, 2023. Scopus Q1]

7. Rami Alkhawaldeh; Bilal Al-Ahmad, Amel Ksibi, Nazeeh Ghatasheh, Evon Abu-Taich, Ghadah Aldehim, Manel Ayadi, Samar M. Alkhawaldeh "Convolution Neural Network Bidirectional Long Short Term Memory for Heartbeat Arrhythmia Classification". International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems, 2023. (Scopus Q1]

8. M. Abu-Faraj, A. Al-Hyari, Bilal Al-Ahmad, Z. Alqadi, B. J. A. Ali and K. Aldebe. "Improving the Efficiency of Median Filters Using Special Generated Windows". Applied Mathematics and Information Sciences. 17(1), 187-200 2023. [Scopus Q2]

9. M. Abu-Faraj, A. Al-Hyari, Ismail Altaharwa, Bilal Al-Ahmad,and Ziad Alqadi. "CASDC: A Cryptographically Secure Data System Based on Two Private Key Images". IEEE Access, 2023. [Scopus Q1]

10. Bilal Al-Ahmad, et al., Ala' Al-Zoubi, Md Faisal Kabir, Marwan Al-Tawil, and Ibrahim Aljarah, "Swarm intelligence-based model for improving prediction performance of low-expectation teams in educational software engineering projects". Peerj computer science, 2022. [Scopus Q1]

11. Muaad Abu-Faraj, Abeer Al-Hyari, Khaled Aldebei, Ziad Alqadi, Bilal Al-Ahmad, "Rotation Left Digits to Enhance the Security Level of Message Blocks Cryptography". IEEE Access, 2022. [Scopus Q1]

12. Mua'ad Abu-Faraj, Ziad Alqadi, Bilal Al-Ahmad, Khalid Aldebei and Basel Ali, "A Novel Approach to Extract Color Image Features using Image Thinning". Applied Mathematics and Information Sciences 16(5):665-672, 2022. [Scopus Q1]

13. Sonam Sharma, Izzat Alsmadi, Rami Alkhawaldeh, Bilal Al-Ahmad. "Data-driven Analysis and Predictive Modeling on COVID-19". Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Wiley, 2022. [Scopus Q2]

14. Bilal Al-Ahmad, et al., "An Evolutionary Fake News Detection Method for COVID-19 Pandemic Information". Symmetry 13 (6), 2021. [Scopus Q1]

15. Bilal Al-Ahmad, et al., "JaCoCo-Coverage Based Statistical Approach for Ranking and Selecting Key Classes in Object-Oriented Software". Journal of Engineering Sciences and Technology, 16 (4), 2021. [Scopus Q3]

16. Izzat Alsmadi, Zyad Dwekat, Ricardo Cantu, and Bilal Al-Ahmad "Vulnerability assessment of industrial systems using Shodan". Cluster Computing, Springer, 2021. [Scopus Q2]

17. Bilal Al-Ahmad, et al., "Survey of Testing Methods for Web Applications". European International Journal of Science and Technology, UK, 9 (12), 2020.

18. Bilal Al-Ahmad, et al., "The Impact of Software Team Project Measurements on Students" Performance in Software Engineering Education". Journal of Education and Practice, 11 (31), 2020.

19. Izzat Alsmadi, Bilal Al-Ahmad, Iyad Alazzam, "Behavioral-based malware clustering and classification". American Journal of Science and Engineering 1 (1), 2019.

20. Bilal Al-Ahmad, "Using Code Coverage Metrics for Improving Software Defect Prediction". Journal of Software, 13 (12) pp. 654-674, 2018.

21. Tareq Krishan, Rami S. Alkhawaldeh, Saed Khawaldeh, Bilal Al-Ahmad

, Adnan Al Smadi. "Hn-PERP: Hop by Hop-Power-Efficient Routing Protocol over Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks" Modern Applied Science Journal, 12 (11), pp. 186-198, 2018.

22. Nazech Chatasheh, Ismail Al-Tahrawee, Bilal Al-Ahmad, Mua'ad Abu-Faraj. "Dead Sea Starvation: Towards Enhanced Monitoring of Water Resources by Modeling Meteorological Variables and Remote. Sensing Data". Journal of Software Engineering and Applications, 9 (12), pp. 588-600, 2016.

23. Bilal Al-Ahmad, et al., "A Domain Ontology-Based Approach to Identify Effect Types of Security Requirements on Functional Requirements". International Journal of Knowledge Engineering, 1 (1), pp. 24-29, 2015.

24. Bilal Al-Ahmad, et al., "Tool Support for Automatically Identifying Effect Types of Security Requirements upon Functional Requirements". Lecture Notes on Software Engineering 4 (3), 2016.

B. [Conferences (Selected)]

1. Alaa Harasees, Bilal Al-Ahmad, Anas Alsobeh, Abdullah Abuhussein. "A Secure IoT Framework for Remote Health Monitoring Using Fog Computing". The International Conference on Intelligent Computing, Communication, Networking, and Services (ICCNS), IEEE, 2024.

2. Ensaf Alhazeem, Anas Alsobeh, Bilal Al-Ahmad "Enhancing Software Engineering Education through Al: An Empirical Study of Tree-Based Machine Learning for Defect Prediction". 25th ACM Annual Conference on Information Technology Education (SIGITE), 2024.

3. Sonam Sharma, Izzat Alsmadi, Rami S. Alkhawaldeh, Bilal Al-Ahmad. "Analytical and Predictive Model for t e impact of social distancing on COVID-19 pandemic". International Conference on Information and Communication Systems (ICICS), IEEE, 2022.

4. Izzat Alsmadi, Bilal Al-Ahmad, and Mohammad Alsmadi. Malware analysis and multi-label category. detection issues: Ensemble-based approaches". 2022 International Conference on Intelligent Data Science Technologies and Applications (IDSTA), IEEE, 2022.

• [ORCID] https://orcid.org /0000-0002-1267-1026
• [LinkedIn] https://www.linkedin.com /in/bilal-a-335385160/
• [Google Scholar] https://scholar.google.com /citations?hl=aruser=E17X2q EAAAAJ
• [Researchgate] https://www.researchgate.n et/profile/BilalAl Ahmad

A. [The University of Jordan]

1. CIS department committee (2015-2022) 

2. Graduation projects committee (2015-2022) 

3. Graduation projects committee (2015-2022) 

4. ABET Accreditation committee (2016-2017) 

5. Software Engineering program committee (2016-2017) 

6. Courses evaluation committee (2016-2017) 

7. Quality assurance committee (2016-2017) 

8. Scientific research committee (2016-2018)

 9. CIS program coordinator (2016-2019) 

10. Social committee (2016-2022) 

11. Director of courses equivalency committee (2016-2019) 

12. Dean Assistant for Quality and Development (2017-2018) 

13. Faculty deanship committee (2017-2018) 

14. Community services committee (2017-2019) 

15. Cultural committee (2017-2022) 

16. Curriculum plan committee (2018-2019) 

17. Students advising committee (2019-2022) 

18. Comprehensive exam committee (2019-2022) 

19. Qualification exam committee (2019-2022) 

20. Director of Higher studies committee (2019-2022) 

21. Cybersecurity and smart networks program committee (2021-2022)

B. [Saint Cloud State University]

1. Scholarship Committee (2023-2024) 

2. ABET Accreditation committee for Software Engineering (2023-2024) 

3. Courses Assessment Committee ( 2023-2024) 

4. Graduate Students Committee (2023-2024) 5. Students Grades Appeal (2023-2024)

A. [The University of Jordan] 

  A1.  [Undergraduate]

1. Smart Gate System, Main Advisor (Fall 2015)

2. Student's Attendance system, Main Advisor (Fall 2015)

3. Mathematical educational game application, Main Advisor (Fall 2016)

4. English educational system using Unity, Main Advisor (Spring 2016)

5. On-campus charity web system, Main Advisor (Spring 2017)

6. Hotel HR management system, Main Advisor (Fall 2018),

7. Flowers shop web system, Main Advisor (Spring 2018)

8. tourism web portal, Main Advisor (Fall 2022)

 A2. [Graduate]

1. The impact of COVID-19 pandemic on homework’s stress for student in Jordan, Main Advisor (Fall 2021) 

2. Remote Health System Using Fog Computing and IoT Application, Main Advisor (Fall 2021) 

3. Software Defects Prediction using Tree-based Classification Techniques, Main Advisor (Fall 2021) 

4. The Impact of COVID-19 Lock-Down on Vegetables Export in Jordan using time series forecasting, Main Advisor (Fall 2021)

B. [Saint Cloud State University]

 B1. [Undergraduate]

1. Phoneme Identification of Betine Language, Co-Advisor (Fall 2024)

2. Are Flash Study Software, Co-Advisor (Spring 2024)

B2. [Graduate]

1. Generated Webtoons, Co-Advisor (Spring 2024)

• Quality assurance forms and procedures (Fall 2016)
• Information privacy and security workshop (Spring 2017)
• Intended Learning outcomes (Fall 2017)
• Academic staff development workshops (Fall 2017)
• National qualifications essentials design (Spring 2018)
• Statistical analysis using SPSS (Spring 2018)
• E-Learning workshop (Fall 2020)
• E-Exams workshop (Spring 2020)

• Journal of Challenges and Issues of Modern Science, [Ukraine]

• 15th International Conference on Software Business, [Netherlands]
• 11th International Conference on Foundations of Computer Science and Technology, [Austria]
• The 2022 International Conference on Innovations in Computing Research, [Greece]
• The International Conference on Intelligent Computing, Communication, Networking and Services, [Croatia]

• International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems
• IEEE Access
• Scientific Reports
• American Journal of Software Engineering and Applications
• The International Arab Journal of Information Technology

• Member in US Research Software Engineer Association [USA]
• Member in International Association of Engineers [USA]
• Member in Internet Society [USA]
• Member in The Asia Society of Researchers [Hong Kong]

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