About Me

Dr. Abdel-Rahman Hedar

             Department of Computer Science,

             Faculty of Computer and Information Sciences,

             Assiut University, EGYPT.

JSPS Research Fellow (From July 2005 ~ July 2007)

Department of Applied Mathematics & Physics,

Graduate School of Informatics,

Kyoto University,

Kyoto 606-8501, JAPAN.

Membership

IEEE, ACM, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society

Education

· Doctor of Informatics, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, 2004.

· Master of Science, Mathematics, Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt, 1997.

· Bachelor of Science, Mathematics, Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt, 1993.

Positions Held

· From June 2005 till now, Lecturer, Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Computers and Information Sciences, Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt.

· From July 2005 to July 2007, JSPS Research Fellow, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.

· From Nov. 2004 to June 2005, Computer Science Lecturer, Department of Mathematics, Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt.

· From Sep. 1997 to Oct. 2004, Assistant Lecturer, Department of Mathematics, Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt.

· From Nov. 1993 to Aug. 1997, Demonstrator, Department of Mathematics, Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt.

Awards, Fellowships, Grants

· Doctoral Scholarship, Egyptian Government,  Egypt, from Aug. 2000 to Sep. 2004, to obtain the Doctor Degree from Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.

· Postdoctoral Fellowship, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS),  Research Fellow in Kyoto University from July 2005 to June 2007.

· Best Paper Awards in CI, Presentation and Innovation, 2nd International Workshop on COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE & APPLICATIONS, Dec 15, 2006, Okayama, JAPAN.

Fields of Interest

Computational Intelligence, Global Optimization, Meta-heuristics (Genetic Algorithms, Simulated Annealing, Tabu Search, Neural Networks, etc.),  Artificial Intelligence, Direct Search Methods, Fixed Point Theory.

Conference Presentations

· “Meta-Heuristics Programming”, Oral Presentation, 2nd International Workshop on COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE & APPLICATIONS, Okayama, Japan, Dec 15, 2006.

· “Evolution strategies learned with automatic termination criteria”, Oral Presentation, SCIS&ISIS 2006, Tokyo, Japan, September 20-24, 2006.

· “Directed Evolution Strategy: Towards an Improved Performance of Evolution Strategies”, Oral Presentation, INFORMS 2006, Hong Kong, June 25-28, 2006.

· “Simulated Annealing Heuristic Pattern Search: A hybrid method for minimizing multimodal functions”, Oral Presentation, The Fifth Metaheuristics International Conference (MIC’2003), Kyoto, Japan, August 2003.

· “Simplex coding genetic algorithm for the global optimization of nonlinear functions”, Oral Presentation, The Fifth International Conference on Multi-Objective Programming and Goal Programming: Theory & Applications (MOPGP’02), Nara, Japan, June 2002.

· “Hybrid simulated annealing and direct search method for nonlinear unconstrained global optimization”, Poster Presentation, New Trends in Optimization and Computational Algorithms (NTOC2001), Kyoto, Japan, Dec 2001.

References

· Masao Fukushima, Professor, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.

Research and Teaching Experiences

· November 1993 to June 2000: Teaching Assistant, Department of Mathematics, Assiut University, Egypt. Dr. Hedar assisted in teaching; calculus, linear algebra, abstract algebra, introduction to statistics, introduction to probability, introduction to numerical analysis, introduction to computer science, introduction to programming, introduction to computer languages, theory of algorithms, dynamics and statics.

· September 2000 to March 2001 : Research Student at Department of Applied Mathematics and Physics, Kyoto University, Japan.

· October 2002 to March 2004: Teaching Assistant at Baba Lab, Information Science, Osaka Kyoiku University, Osaka, Japan. Dr. Hedar assisted in teaching; introduction to MATALB and MATLAB supplement to genetic algorithms and neural networks.

· November 2004 to present: Member of Teaching and Academic Staff at Assiut University, Egypt.

· July 2005 to July 2007: JSPS Research Fellow at Kyoto University, Japan.

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Abdel-Rahman Hedar