CURRICULUM VITAE

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EDUCATION

Ph.D. Computer Science, 2020, University of Hamburg, Germany

M.Sc. Computer Science, 2014, University of Malaya, Malaysia

B.Sc. Informatics Engineering, 2011, University of Damascus, Syria

WORK EXPERIENCE

2020-present: Postdoctoral Associate, University of Hamburg, Germany

2016-2020: Doctoral Research Associate, University of Hamburg, Germany

2015-2016: Researcher, Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore

2013-2014: Research Assistant, University of Malaya, Malaysia

SERVICE

Reviewer (full list of verified peer reviews is available on Web of Science):

  • International Journal of Machine Learning and Cybernetics

  • Neurocomputing

  • Neural Computing and Applications

  • Expert Systems with Applications

  • IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems

  • IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics

  • IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2017, 2020, 2021, 2022)

  • IEEE Intl. Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2023)

  • IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids 2022)

  • IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning and on Epigenetic Robotics (ICDL-EpiRob 2020)

Sub-reviewer:

  • IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2018, 2019)

  • International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN 2018, 2019)

  • IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning and on Epigenetic Robotics (ICDL-EpiRob 2017, 2019)

  • International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP 2014)

Program Committee:

  • IEEE RAS Summer School on Multi-Robot Systems (MRSSS 2016), Singapore, June 6–10, 2016