Ahmad Taher Azar

Prof. Ahmad Azar is a full Professor at Prince Sultan University, Riyadh, Kingdom Saudi Arabia. He is the leader of Automated Systems and Computing Labopens in new tab/window (ASCL), Prince Sultan University, Saudi Arabia.

Prof. Azar is the Editor in Chief of the International Journal of Intelligent Engineering Informatics (IJIEI)opens in new tab/window, Inderscience Publishers, Olney, UK. He is also the Editor in Chief of International Journal of Service Science, Management, Engineering, and Technology (IJSSMET)opens in new tab/window and International Journal of Sociotechnology and Knowledge Development (IJSKD)opens in new tab/window published by IGI Global, USA. From 2013 to 2017, Prof. Azar was an associate editor of ISA Transactionsopens in new tab/window, Elsevier.

He is currently an editor for IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systemsopens in new tab/window, IEEE Systems Journalopens in new tab/window, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systemsopens in new tab/window, Springer's Human-centric Computing and Information Sciencesopens in new tab/window.

Prof. Azar specializes in artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, machine learning, control theory and applications, computational intelligence, reinforcement learning, and dynamic system modeling. He has published or co-published over 550 research papers, book chapters, and conference proceedings in prestigious peer-reviewed journals.

Dr. Ahmad Azar has received several awards, including the Benha University Prize for Scientific Excellence (2015, 2016, 2017, and 2018) and the Benha University Highest Citation Award (2015, 2016, 2017, and 2018).

In June 2018, he was awarded the Egyptian State Encouragement Award in Engineering Sciencesopens in new tab/window by the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research. In August 2018, he was elected as a senior member of the International Rough Set Society (IRSS).opens in new tab/window

Prof. Azar was named one of the top computer scientists in Saudi Arabia by Research.comopens in new tab/window since December 2019.

He was awarded the Egyptian President's Distinguished Egyptian Order of the First Class in February 2020.

In October 2020, Prof. Azar received Abdul Hameed Shoman Arab Researchers Awardopens in new tab/window in Machine Learning and Big Data Analytics.

From October 2020 to September 2023, Prof. Azar was recognized as a Distinguished researcher at Prince Sultan Universityopens in new tab/window, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

In November 2020opens in new tab/window, October 2021opens in new tab/window, October 2022opens in new tab/window, October 2023opens in new tab/window, September 2024opens in new tab/window, and September 2025opens in new tab/window Prof. Azar was named one of the top 2% of scientists in the world in Artificial Intelligence by Stanford University, based on single-year impact and career-long impact. These rankings were published by Stanford University in the PLOS journal and were based on the SCOPUS database.

Prof. Ahmad Azar has been recognized as one of the top ten researchers at Prince Sultan University, based on his Scopus H-index. He has also received a university award for being among his top publication of research.

Prof. Azar has received Prince Sultan University’s Research Excellence Award. He is also the recipient of the university’s Highest Impact Researcher Award, based on his H-index. Additionally, he has earned a PSU research award for having publications ranked among the top five by impact factor.

Prof. Ahmad Azar is the Vice Chair of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) Technical Committee of Control Designopens in new tab/window, Vice chair of IFAC Technical committee 4.3 Roboticsopens in new tab/window, Vice chair of IFAC Technical committee 9.3 “Control for Smart Citiesopens in new tab/window”. He is a technical Committee Member of Data Mining and Big Data Analytics of IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS)opens in new tab/window, IFAC Technical committee Member TC 2.2. Linear Control Systemsopens in new tab/window, IFAC Technical committee Member TC 1.2. Adaptive and Learning Systemsopens in new tab/window.

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