Khaled Ahmed

Khaled R. Ahmed
Assistant Professor

School of Computing
Southern Illinois University
Carbondale, IL, USA 62901
1230 Lincoln Drive, Engineering A. Room 409G
Phone: +1 618-453-6057
Fax: +1 618-453-6044

E-mail: kahmed@cs.siu.edu

Academic Qualification

Ph. D. from (Tokyo Institute of Technology), Tokyo, Japan in 2004 (Major: Computer Science).

Short Bio

Khaled Ahmed is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at Southern Illinois University. He was associate professor in the department of computer science, College of Computer and Information Technology at King Faisal University. Moreover, he was a postdoctoral researcher at University of Tokyo, Japan. He has over 19 years of experience in Academia, Research and Industry. His research background in Software Engineering, Distributed Systems, Parallel Computing, Machine Learning, Computer Vision and Intelligent Transport systems and published over 56 articles in journals and proceedings. He acted as PI and Co-PI in about 8 funded research projects. He edited three books in Peer-to-peer, Wireless sensor network and advances in Big data and Deep Learning.

His current research focus in the areas of Big data, Deep learning, real-time video analysis for safety applications.

Download CV

News

Received research fedral award from USDA-NIFA titled Artificial Intelligence for Greener Livestock: Educational and Research.
My graduate student Subash Kharel received Outstanding Thesis Award. Congratulations!
Research Assistant Oppurtunity: OPEN right now to start on Fall 2022
A competitive two-years research assistantship is open for graduate student to complete his/her M.Sc. degree. Please contact me for further information.
My resarch lab (Big dAta and Software Engineering) is actively seeking well-motivated Ph.D. and MSc. students to work on different projects. The minimum requirements are:
1. An MS/BS degree in computer science or related fields,
2. Background on Deep learning, Big data (e.g. Apache Spark), and SE.
3. Efficient programming skills in C++/Python/Java.
Interested person should contact me directly through mail: : kahmed@cs.siu.edu.

2021-2022 Fulbright-Nehru Postdoctoral Research Fellowships
Indian faculty and researchers who are in the early stages of their research careers in India. This fellowshop will provide you an opportunity to strengthen your research capacities. Postdoctoral fellows having research interest in Deep learning and object detection could use this fellowship to join BASE lab. This fellowship are for eight to 24 months. Due date: Jul. 15, 2020