Khaled Shaalan Email & Phone Number

Khaled is an accomplished full professor of Computer Science & AI with over thirty years of experience in academia. ‎‎He has a strong background in teaching, mentoring, academic training, community development, and academic ‎‎administration. Khaled has received numerous honors and awards for academic excellence and outstanding ‎‎achievements. As the Head of the Computer Science Department, he successfully built the department from ‎‎scratch and oversaw the development of the academic programs' curricula. He has mentored academic staff, ‎‎established a team of researchers, and increased program enrolment. Khaled has collaborated with international ‎‎institutions, organizations, and corporations and has published extensively in high-quality international journals, ‎‎book chapters, and conference proceedings. His expertise is widely recognized, and he is frequently invited to ‎‎evaluate research proposals, academic programs, PhD theses, and academic promotions. Khaled has also taught ‎‎Computer Science courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels and served as chair of numerous international ‎‎conferences and on the editorial boards of various international journals.‎HIGHLIGHTS• Ranked among the worldwide 2% top scientists in 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023 according to a ‎study published by Dr ‎Ioannidis and his research team in Stanford University. ‎• Ranked as one of the Top Computer Scientists, in UAE according to the Research.com index‎.‎ ‎• Selected for membership in the esteemed Mohammed bin Rashed Academy of Scientists ‎‎(MBRAS) in the United Arab Emirates since 2021 in the Engineering and Technology Category. ‎• Gained a wealth of experience in academia spanning through a ‎career and affiliations, which ‎enabled him to collaborate with international institutions, ‎such as Swedish Institute of Computer ‎‎Science, School of Informatics (University of Edinburgh) , Faculty of Engineering & IT (The ‎‎British University in ‎Dubai), and Faculty of Computers & AI (Cairo University), international ‎organizations such as ‎UNDP/FAO, and ‎industrial corporates, such as Microsoft/FAST search.‎• Developed and revised the curriculum and the syllabi as well as successfully led the ‎‎(re)accreditation of both BSc in CS, MSc. in Informatics, MSc. in Cyber security, PhD in CS ‎degrees as needed.‎ ‎• Solicited and supervised student interns to participate in outreach activities, such as IEEE and ‎VEX Robotics Competition, to market the department and college to potential students.‎• Founded and led the Natural Language Processing (NLP) Research Group at BUiD. ‎

Listed skills include Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, Computer Science, Computational Linguistics, and 41 others.