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Djamel Bouchaffra
Djamel Bouchaffra is a mathematician and computer scientist. His fields of interest is pattern recognition, machine learning, artificial intelligence, cognitive computing, computer vision and signal processing.

Career
Dr. Djamel Bouchaffra is a Director of Research at the Center for Development of Advanced Technologies. He is currently the Head of the ASM Division.

Prior to this appointment, Dr. Djamel Bouchaffra was a Professor of Computer Science at Grambling State University (USA). He started his academic position at Joseph Fourier University, Grenoble (France), and then he held a position of Assistant Professor at Oakland University, Michigan (USA). Professor Bouchaffra was teaching a wide spectrum of courses including machine learning and pattern recognition, artificial intelligence, soft computing and discrete mathematics. Dr. Bouchaffra has been selected as the recipient of the Oakland University Teaching Excellence Award for 2004 (awardees) as well as the recipient of the School of Engineering Teaching Excellence Award. This recognition acknowledges the genuine admiration of his students and his colleagues for his superior level of professionalism in teaching. His personal views on the art of teaching are published in this Oakland University Newsletter link. In February 2005, he was invited by OU-TV "Focus on Faculty Program" broadcasted on Comcast cable channel 74 image. Prior to this appointment, he held a position of Senior Research Scientist at the "Center of Excellence for Document Analysis and Recognition" (CEDAR) located at The State University of New York. He was a technical lead (research director) of different research groups in several federally sponsored projects.

He is currently working on (i) the optimization of Deep Learning (DL) graphical representations and memory-prediction theory of brain (e.g., Hierarchical Temporal Memory) for object perception, and (ii) the design of dynamical models for online big data management. Professor Bouchaffra introduced both the structural and the topological hidden Markov models as two paradigms that attempt to merge topology and statistics for sequential objects recognition. His areas of applications include (but are not limited to) Brain Machine Interface, Remote Sensing, Biometrics, Handwriting Recognition, Language Modeling, Speech Recognition, and Bioinformatics. He is the director of the "Design and Implentation of Intelligent Machines Laboratory". His scholar contribution to this field has been recognized internationnally.

He has written several papers in peer-reviewed conferences and premier journals. He chaired several sessions in conferences, he was one of the general chairs of the IEEE conference ICSIT'05 held in Algiers. He also served as a Vice Chair at the 9th International Workshop on Systems, Signal Processing and their Applications (WoSSPA'13). Prof. Bouchaffra is among the reviewer panel of some governmental funding agencies such as NASA (ADP Program: Data Analysis and Astrophysics) and (EPSRC). He is also a regular reviewer for several journals such as IEEE TPAMI, TNN, TKDE, and Image Processing. He is a currently the lead guest editor of a special issue of Pattern Recognition journal (Elsevier) titled:"Machine Learning and Pattern Recognition Models for Change Detection ". He was also the lead guest Editor for Pattern Recognition journal titled: "Feature Generation and Machine Learning for Robust Multimodal Biometrics", volume 41, number 3 that has been published in March 2008 as well as Advances in Artificial Intelligence Journal titled: "Machine Learning Paradigms for Modeling Spatial and Temporal Information in Multimedia Data Mining"). He has been an "invited Professor" by University Paris 13 (Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris-Nord UMR CNRS 7030) for the summer 2010 and 2011.

Professor Bouchaffra is an editorial board member of the Journal of "Pattern Recognition" (published by Elsevier), "The Open Information Systems Journal", Bentham Science Publisher, an associate editor for the Journal titled "Advances in Artificial Intelligence" (published by Hindawi Corporation), "the Journal of Engineering Letters " (published by the International Association of Engineers), the "Scientific Journals International" (SJI) and Transactions on Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence (Society for Science and Education, UK).

Dr. Bouchaffra is a Founding Member of the Algerian Academy of Science and Technology (AAST).

He is a senior member of the IEEE, a member of the IEEE Computer Society and the vice chair of the IEEE/SEM chapter V. He is listed in the prestigious Marquis Who's Who in America, and Marquis Who's Who in Engineering and Science.

Publications

 * 1) D. Bouchaffra and N. Zerrouki, “Geometric Hidden Markov Models: Application to Land Cover Change Detection”, submitted to IEEE Transactions On Neural Networks and Learning Systems (TNNLS), 2016.
 * 2) H. Ykhlef and D. Bouchaffra, “Induced Subgraph Game for Ensemble Selection”, in International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools, WorldScientific, Volume 26, No. 1, 2017.

Grants, Awards and Distinctions

 * Invited by NASA in the Data Analysis Panel in Washington DC


 * DOD Proposal: “Introduction to the Structural Hidden Markov Decision Processes”. DOD/Air Force 2008.


 * NSF CAREER: “Adaptive Structural HMM’s”, recommended for funding by the panel of the Adaptive Artificial Intelligence NSF Program, 2006.


 * Michigan Space Grant Consortium/ NASA: University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, 2003: (funded) “Galaxy Classification using Galois Lattice Theory”


 * Oakland University Fellowship, 2002 (funded) “A Multimodal Computer System”


 * REU NSF grant, 2002 (funded) “Undergraduate Computer Research for Women at Oakland University”


 * Awarded IEEE Senior Member (2001)


 * European Excellence Grant AUPELF/UREF for a post-doctoral position in University of Québec at Montréal (UQAM) (1994-95)

Recent News
June 2015

Founding Member of the Algerian Academy of Science and Technology AAST.

November 2015

Dr. Djamel Bouchaffra was awarded the status of Outstanding Reviewer as he is within the top 10th percentile of reviewers for the Journal of Pattern Recognition.

March 2016

Prof. Djamel Bouchaffra is serving as a member of the "Commission Nationale d'Evaluation des Chercheurs" (CNEC) (National Commission for Researchers Assessment) of the DGRSDT.

October 2016

Upcoming: Special Issue of Cognitive Systems Research Journal published by Elsevier: “Deep Machine Learning for Intelligent Big Data Management” Call for Papers Guest Editors: Djamel Bouchaffra (Lead), Jenny Zhang, Diane Beck, and Jaouad Boumhidi.

December 2016

Keynote Speaker at the CSA 2016: The Second Conference on Computing Systems and Applications, Algiers, December 13-14 2016.

Febuary 2017

The Socio-Economic project titled: "Stress Measurement and Management Ambulatory Device" of Prof. Djamel Bouchaffra was accepted for funding by the ATRSS Agency of the DGRSDT.