Professor Ali El-Zaart is a Full Professor of Computer Science at Beirut Arab University. He earned his M.Sc. (1996) and Ph.D. (2001) from the University of Sherbrooke, Canada. He previously worked at Semiconductor Insight, Canada, and King Saud University, Saudi Arabia. At BAU, he has served as department chairman and director of the Continuing Education and Entrepreneurship Centers. His research spans AI, machine learning, image processing, data mining, healthcare, and smart cities. He has published over 160 papers, holds a US patent, served on over 50 conference committees, and supervised over 25 graduate students

Professor Ali El-Zaart has published numerous articles and proceedings in the areas of image processing, remote sensing, computer vision, Machine Learning, data mining, and smart cities, Artificial Intelligence in health care, cloud computing.

1996-2000 University of Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada. Faculty of Science, Department of Computer Science. Ph.D. in computer Science Subject: Oil Spill Detection Using RADARSAT images In Collaboration with Canadian Space Agency, Ottawa and Satlantic Company, Halifax. 1994-1996 University of Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada. Faculty of Science, Department of Computer Science Master (M.Sc.) in computer science Subject: 3D images reconstruction using stereo images 1986-1990 Lebanese University, Beirut, Lebanon. Faculty of Science, Department of Computer Science Bachelor (B.Sc.) in Computer Science

1- Data structures, 2)Software Engineering, 3)Software Design and Quality, 4) Computer Organization and Assembly, 5) Multimedia Systems, 6) Signal Processing, 7) Image processing, 8)Artificial intelligence, 9)Calculus, 9) Data Mining, 10)Information System Software project Management, 11) E- Business for Software development 12) Introduction to Algebra, and 13)Machine Learning, 14) Applied Artificial Intelligence, 15) Machine Learning Applied on Cybersecurity.

- A patent final acceptance at United States Patent and trademark office, 2018. - Gold Medal for the invention of “Braille copy machine using Image Processing Techniques”, King Saudi university, 2010 - Gold Medal for the invention of Braille copy machine using Image Processing Techniques, Malaysia February 2011. - Silver Medal for the invention of Braille copy machine using Image Processing Techniques, Geneva, April 2011. - Award of the Dean for high quality scientific research papers, 2010.