Research
- Adaptive Learning; Incremental Feature Learning; Concept Drift Detection; Fraud Detection
- Incremental Dimensionality Reduction; Data Clustering
- Evoluationary Optimization Algorithms; Multi-Objective Optimization
- Text Classification; Word Embeedings; Deep Learning; Hate Speech
- "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.
- 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.
- Action Editor for the Computational Intelligence Journal (since June 2015 to present).
- External reviewer of grant applications:
- NSERC Discovery Grant, from 2017 to present
- MITACS Accelerate Research, from 2015 to present
- NSERC Alliance-MITACS Accelerate, 2022
- NSERC Idea to Innovation, 2018
- NSERC CRD, 2019
- 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:
- International Conference on Deep Learning Theory and Applications, DeLTA July 2024.
- 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.
- Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence, CAI, from 2011 to present.
- International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence, ICTAI, from 2018 to 2023.
- 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 reviewer:
- Internet of Things, Elsevier, October 2024
- Journal of Supercomputing, Springer, August 2024
- 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 numerous faculty promotion applications (to Full Professor and Associate Professor)
Samira Sadaoui