Ahmad Taher Azar
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Ahmad Taher Azar
Research Professor
Prince Sultan University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Prof. Ahmad Azar is a Research Professor at Prince Sultan University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He is also an associate professor at the Faculty of Computers and Artificial intelligence, Benha University, Egypt.
Prof. Azar is the Editor in Chief of the International Journal of System Dynamics Applications (IJSDA)(opens in new tab/window) and International Journal of Service Science, Management, Engineering, and Technology (IJSSMET)(opens in new tab/window), published by IGI Global, USA. He is also the Editor in Chief of the International Journal of Intelligent Engineering Informatics (IJIEI)(opens in new tab/window), Inderscience Publishers, Olney, UK.
Prof. Azar has worked as associate editor of IEEE Trans. Neural Networks and Learning Systems(opens in new tab/window) from 2013 to 2017 and Associate Editor of ISA Transactions, Elsevier(opens in new tab/window) from 2018 to 2020. He is currently associate editor of IEEE systems journal(opens in new tab/window) and Human-centric Computing and Information Sciences(opens in new tab/window), Springer. Dr. Ahmad Azar has worked in Control Theory & Applications, Robotics, Process Control, Artificial Intelligence, and machine learning. He has authored/co-authored over 350 research publications in peer-reviewed reputed journals, book chapters, and conference proceedings.
He is an editor of many books in Fuzzy logic systems, modeling techniques, control systems, Robotics, computational intelligence, Chaos Modeling, and Machine learning published by Springer and Elsevier. Dr. Ahmad Azar is closely associated with several international journals as a reviewer. He serves as an international program committee member in many international and peer-reviewed conferences.
Prof. Ahmad Azar has been a Senior Member of IEEE since Dec. 2013 due to his significant contributions to the profession. Dr. Ahmad Azar is the recipient of several awards, including the Benha University Prize for Scientific Excellence (2015, 2016, 2017, and 2018) and the Highest Citation Award from Benha University (2015, 2016, 2017, and 2018).
In June 2018, Prof. Azar was awarded the Egyptian State Encouragement Award in Engineering Sciences, the Academy of Scientific Research and Technology of Egypt, 2017.
In July 2018, he was selected as an Energy and Electricity Research council member, Academy of Scientific Research, Ministry of Higher Education. In Aug. 2018, he was selected as a senior Member of the International Rough Set Society (IRSS).
In Dec. 2019, Prof. Azar was selected from Guide2Research(opens in new tab/window) among the top researchers in Saudi Arabia in the computer science field.
In February 2020, Prof. Azar was awarded the Distinguished Egyptian Order of the first class from the Egyptian President.
In October 2020, Prof. Azar was awarded Abdul Hameed Shoman Arab Researchers Award in Machine learning and Big data analytics, and was selected as a Distinguished researcher at Prince Sultan University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
In November 2020, Prof. Azar was selected from Stanford university among the top 2% of scientists in the world in Artificial Intelligence. These statistics were published by Stanford University in PLOS journal and based on SCOPUS Database.
In October 2021, Prof. Azar was selected from Stanford university among the top 2% of scientists in the world in Artificial Intelligence and image processing. These statistics were published by Stanford University in PLOS journal and based on SCOPUS Database, and was selected as a Distinguished researcher at Prince Sultan University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Prof. Ahmad Azar is the Chair of IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS) Egypt Chapter, Vice-chair of IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Interdisciplinary Emergent Technologies Task Force(opens in new tab/window), vice-Chair Research Activities of IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Egypt Chapter(opens in new tab/window), Committee member of IEEE CIS Task Force on Fuzzy Logic in Medical Sciences(opens in new tab/window) Also, he is the Vice-president (North) of System dynamics Africa Regional Chapter and an Academic Member of IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society Technical Committee on Computational Collective Intelligence(opens in new tab/window).