User:AhmadAlomari

Dr. AHMAD AL-OMARI

Received the B.Sc. degree of electrical and computer engineering from Yarmouk university, Irbid, Jordan, in 2004. He was a teaching assistant and a lab engineer with the department of electrical and computer engineering, Yarmouk university, from 2004 to 2010. He was involved in more than 30 different projects on computers, communication, and electronic engineering. He received a grant of over $150,000 from Yarmouk university to pursue the Ph.D. degree of bioinformatics and in the same theme he received a Teaching Assistant grant of over $133,000 from The University of Georgia/USA, which is considered the oldest public university in the US and one of the biggest and the most top ranked university as well. Dr. Al-Omari was a member of professor Jonathan Arnold's research group with the university of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA, on systems biology and genetic networks.

He joined the Graduate Program at the University of Georgia in August 26th, 2010 and graduated on May 8th, 2015. In return, Dr. Al-Omari was a teaching assistant for graduate level courses in the Bioinformatics program. He also taught an advanced programming course, BINF 6003, titled “A Practical Advanced Programming Course/C++ Object Oriented Design and GPU/CUDA” during summer term of 2014. Moreover, was an instructor for the CUDA teaching center at the University of Georgia.

Dr. Al-Omari is a grant proposal writer and has many published papers and posters in the bioinformatics, numerical methods, and parallel algorithms on the GPGPUs. He attended 5 international conferences that are related to his field. Recently, he has gotten a grant from Nvidia company including that 1) Yarmouk University has been selected as a GPU Education Center around the world. 2) GPU teaching kit consisting of (10) books, one Tesla K40 {active} and two Titan X GPUs 3)  $2500.​With total amount of money $13000.

He is considered to be the first Bioinformatician getting Ph.D. of Bioinformatics in Jordan and might be in the Middle East.

Currently, he is an assistant professor and a researcher at Yarmouk university and his current research interests include parallel computation, systems biology, finite elements method, machine learning and pattern recognition, biological circuits and gene networks, and numerical analysis.

Loves his parents, family, job, and country, in addition to books and nature.