Alaa Sheta

Alaa Sheta is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Southern CT State University. He received his B.E., M.Sc. degrees in Electronics and Communication Engineering from the Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University in 1988, and 1994, respectively. In 1997, he received his Ph.D. from the Computer Science Department, School of Information Technology and Engineering, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA. He also published two books in the area of Landmine Detection and Classification and Image Reconstruction of a Manufacturing Process by LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing. He is also the co-editor of the book entitled,” Business Intelligence and Performance Management - Theory, Systems, and Industrial Applications” by Springer Verlag, United Kingdom, published in March 2013. He received the Best Poster Award from the SGAI International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Cambridge, the UK in December 2011 for his publication on Quality Management of Manufacturing Processes. He has 22 years of experience in the area of Evolutionary Computation, Modeling and Simulation of Dynamical Nonlinear Systems, Image Processing, Robotics, Swarm Intelligence, Search Algorithms, Optimization, Automatic Control, Fuzzy Logic, and Neural Networks. Dr. Sheta supervised more than 30 MS and Ph.D. dissertations. His research record includes more than 150 conference and journal publications, 6 book chapters, and 3 books. He is an Associate Editor of the International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications (IJACSA) and the International Journal of Computational Complexity and Intelligent Algorithms.