Research

Current Research Interests

Fraud Detection: Adaptive Learning; Incremental Feature Learning; Concept Drift Detection
Incremental Dimensionality Reduction; Data Clustering
Evoluationary Optimization Algorithms; Multi-Objective Optimization
Text Classification: Word Embeedings; Deep Learning; Hate Speech

Interviews-Media

"Going green to make green: Selling renewable energy in Sask. a future possibility", CBC Radio, The Morning Edition (also posted on CBC news), February 2017.
"Online electricity auction on the horizon", University of Regina Feature Stories, January 2017 (also posted on NSERC website, March 2017).
"Anti-Fraud Software Systems", CBC Radio, The Afternoon Edition (also posted on CBC news), August 2015.
"Detecting online auction fraud", University of Regina Feature Stories, July 2015.

Grants

President’s Tri-Agency Support Grant, $10, 000, Fall 2023
NSERC Individual Discovery Grant, $36, 000/year from 2023 to 2028.
MITACS Business Strategy Internship, $60, 000, 2022 to 2024.
MITACS Accelerate Research (with Ericsson Montreal), $60, 000, 2020 to 2022.
Distance and Distributed Learning Grant, $8000, U of Regina, 2021.
President's Research Seed Grant, $5000, U of Regina, July 2020.
NSERC Individual Discovery Grant, $115,000 from 2018 to 2023.
Distance and Distributed Learning Grant, $8000, U of Regina, 2019.
MITACS Globalink Research Internship, 2018-2022.
NSERC ENGAGE Grant (with SaskPower), $25, 000 - June to Novembre 2016
NSERC Individual Discovery Develpoment Grant, $20,000 - 2016 to 2018
VP Research Fund, $6,000, 2016 to 2018.
NSERC Individual Discovery Grant, $100,000 - 2010 to 2016.
NSERC Individual Discovery Grant, $60,000 - 2005 to 2010.
NSERC Research Tools and Instruments (RTI) Grant, $17.061 (with two other faculty members) - 2005.
TEL (Technology of Enhanced Learning) Fund, $15,000, U. of Regina - 2005-2006.
TEL Fund, $17,500, U. of Regina - 2003-2005.
Vice President Research Fund, $2,500, U. of Regina - 2002-2003.
Start Up Research Grant, Faculty of Science, $45,000, U. of Regina - 2002.
NSERC Individual Discovery Grant, $48,000 - 2001 to 2005.
Research Excellence Envelope, $12,000, U. of Lethbridge - 2001-2002.
University of Lethbridge Research Fund, $4,500, U. of Lethbridge - 2001-2002.
Start Up Research Grant, Faculty of Art & Science, $10,000, U. of Lethbridge - 2000.

Other Research Activities

Action Editor for the Computational Intelligence Journal (since June 2015 to present).
External reviewer of grant applications:
- NSERC Discovery Grant, from 2017 to present
- NSERC Alliance-MITACS Accelerate, 2022
- NSERC Idea to Innovation, 2018
- NSERC CRD, 2019
- MITACS Accelerate Research, from 2015 to present
- Enhancement Research Grant, USA, 2015
- Fonds de Recherche du Quebec, 2011
Program co-chair of 31st International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems, IEA-AIE, June, 2018, Montreal, AI Magazine

Session chair:

Canadian Artificial Intelligence Conference, CAI, May 2023
International Conference on Deep Learning Theory and Applications, DeLTA 2022.
International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence, ICAART 2022.
International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications, ICMLA 2018.
International Conference on Industrial, Engineering & Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems, IEA-AIE 2018, IEA-AIE 2019.
Canadian Artificial Intelligence Conference, C AI, May 2017
International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI, July 2016
International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering SEKE, June 2013
International Conference on Information Society iSociety, June 2012
International C* Conference on Computer Science & Software Engineering, June 2012
International Conference on Modeling and Simulation, May 2005

Program committee member:

International FLAIRS Conference, from 2020 to present.
International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence, ICTAI, from 2018 to 2023.
Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence, CAI, from 2011 to present.
International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI 2020.
Social Computing and Semantic Data Mining Symposium, SCSD, 2020.
International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications, ICMLA 2019.
International Conference on Industrial, Engineering & Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems, IEA-AIE 2018, IEA-AIE 2019, IEA-AIE 2020
International Conference on Software Engineering & Knowledge Engineering, from 2009 to 2018.
Canadian Conference on Computer Science & Software Engineering, C3S2E 2008, C3S2E 2009, C3S2E 2010, C3S2E'10P, C3S2E 2012.
Doctoral Symposium of International Conference on Computer Science and its Applications, 2018 .
International Conference on Computer Science and its Applications, CIIA 2011, CIIA 2013 and CIIA 2018.
International Conference on Software Engineering Research, Management and Applications, SERA 2010 and SERA 2014, SERA 2015
International Conference on Intensive Applications and Services, INTENSIVE 2009 and INTENSIVE 2010.
International Conference on Software Engineering Advances, ICSEA 2006, ICSEA 2007 and ICSEA 2009.
International Conference on Computer Science & Informatics, CSI 2005 and CSI 2008.
International Workshop on Advanced Multimedia Technology and Applications, 2006.
International Conference on Software Engineering & Applications, SEA, from 2003 to 2007.
International Conference in Software Engineering, Research and Practice, 2003.

Invited referee:

IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, May 2019, June 2020, June 2021, May 2022, May 2023
IEEE Access, Oct. 2019.
Cambrigde Scholars Publishing, Feb. 2019.
Journal of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce, Oct. 2018.
Electronic Commerce Research and Applications, July 2018. Dec. 2018.
Artificial Intelligence Research, 2016-2019.
ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security, August and December 2017.
IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence, April and July 2017.
Applied Intelligence Journal, October 2016.
Journal of Electronic Commerce Research, April 2013.
International Journal of Computational Intelligence, May 2010, May 2011, September 2011, February 2012 and July 2013.
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, April 2010.
Journal of Universal Computer Science, March 2010.
International Journal of Software Engineering & Knowledge Engineering, 2004 and 2005.
International Conference on Advances in Computer Science and Technology, 2006.
International Conference on Computing, Communications and Control Technologies, 2004.

External examiner of faculty promotion applications.

Samira Sadaoui