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Department of Information and Computer Science
College of Computer Sciences and Engineering
King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals
Dr. Lahouari Ghouti
Dr. Lahouari Ghouti is an Assistant Professor of the Information and Computer Science Department at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM). He received his BSc (First Honors) from the Algerian Institute of Telecommunications (AIT), Oran, Algeria in 1992, his MSc in Electrical Engineering Department at KFUPM University in 1997 and his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Queen’s University of Belfast (QUB), Belfast, UK in 2005.
He has several publications in the areas of Multimedia Security, Biometrics, Forensics and Homeland Security that appeared in International refereed Journals and Proceedings. He has seven (07) pending US patent applications. Dr. Ghouti has been acting as a Chair of several technical sessions on Multimedia Security, Biometrics, Forensics and Homeland Security. Also, Dr. Ghouti continues to provide consulting services to several Saudi private academic institutions on the development of computing-related academic programs. Also, he contributed to the development of a new Graduate Program in Forensics and Computer Security at Queen’s University of Belfast, UK. Dr. Ghouti is an active member of the IEEE and IEE Institutes. The research interests of Dr. Ghouti include watermarking technologies, information hiding, content identification, multimedia security, biometrics, and signal/image processing applications for forensic and homeland security.
Dr. Ghouti's interest into the field of information security, biometrics and forensics began with his dissertation on the copyright protection of multimedia content. He is currently investigating various approaches to fuse multibiometric information and the application of evidence theory and Bayesian networks to forensic sciences. He has recently established a group of graduate students working on various aspects of biometric and forensic processing (palmprint, fingerprint, iris, biometric template security and fusion of multimodal biometric information, etc.).
Dr. Ghouti has been the PI/Co-PI of projects funded by Government, industry and academia in the last 10 years.
Dr. Ghouti has given several invited talks in Saudi Arabia, Europe (UK and France), and Canada. He has co-supervised three (03) PhD students and two (02) MEng students at Queen’s University of Belfast, UK and one MSc student at KFUPM University. He serves as a reviewer of several IEEE and IEE premier journals in his area and has chaired two technical sessions in the IEE Visual Information Engineering (VIE) Conference.
Dr. Ghouti has won the Best paper award at the First IEEE/AHS Conference on Adaptive Hardware and System (AHS 2006) in Istanbul, Turkey and the Bronze Medal for the Best Applied Research at King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST) in October 2005.
Dr. Lahouari Ghouti is an Assistant Professor of the Information and Computer Science Department at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM). He received his BSc (First Honors) from the Algerian Institute of Telecommunications (AIT), Oran, Algeria in 1992, his MSc in Electrical Engineering Department at KFUPM University in 1997 and his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Queen’s University of Belfast (QUB), Belfast, UK in 2005.
He has several publications in the areas of Multimedia Security, Biometrics, Forensics and Homeland Security that appeared in International refereed Journals and Proceedings. He has seven (07) pending US patent applications. Dr. Ghouti has been acting as a Chair of several technical sessions on Multimedia Security, Biometrics, Forensics and Homeland Security. Also, Dr. Ghouti continues to provide consulting services to several Saudi private academic institutions on the development of computing-related academic programs. Also, he contributed to the development of a new Graduate Program in Forensics and Computer Security at Queen’s University of Belfast, UK. Dr. Ghouti is an active member of the IEEE and IEE Institutes. The research interests of Dr. Ghouti include watermarking technologies, information hiding, content identification, multimedia security, biometrics, and signal/image processing applications for forensic and homeland security.
Dr. Ghouti's interest into the field of information security, biometrics and forensics began with his dissertation on the copyright protection of multimedia content. He is currently investigating various approaches to fuse multibiometric information and the application of evidence theory and Bayesian networks to forensic sciences. He has recently established a group of graduate students working on various aspects of biometric and forensic processing (palmprint, fingerprint, iris, biometric template security and fusion of multimodal biometric information, etc.).
Dr. Ghouti has been the PI/Co-PI of projects funded by Government, industry and academia in the last 10 years.
Dr. Ghouti has given several invited talks in Saudi Arabia, Europe (UK and France), and Canada. He has co-supervised three (03) PhD students and two (02) MEng students at Queen’s University of Belfast, UK and one MSc student at KFUPM University. He serves as a reviewer of several IEEE and IEE premier journals in his area and has chaired two technical sessions in the IEE Visual Information Engineering (VIE) Conference.
Dr. Ghouti has won the Best paper award at the First IEEE/AHS Conference on Adaptive Hardware and System (AHS 2006) in Istanbul, Turkey and the Bronze Medal for the Best Applied Research at King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST) in October 2005.