Dr. Atif M. Alamri

Ph.D. in Computer Science

School of Information Technology and Engineering, University of Ottawa, Canada, 2010.

M.SC. in Information Systems

College of Computer and Information Science, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia, 2004.

BS in Information Systems

College of Computer and Information Science, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia, 2000.

2013-Present

Vice Chairman, Information Systems Department, College of Computer and Information Science, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

2012-Present

Executive Manager, Electronic Data Warehouse & Quality Management System, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

2012-Present

Principal Investigator, Novel Pervasive Computing Approach to Counter and Manage Obesity in KSA, (NPST Project # INF 1737)

2011-Present

Principal Investigator, Novel Pervasive Computing Approach to Counter and Manage Obesity in KSA, (NPST Project # BIO 1737)

2011-Present

Director, Chair of Pervasive and Mobile Computing (CPMC), College of Computer and Information Science, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

2010-2012

Project Manager, Electronic Quality Management System (E-QMS), King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

2010-Present

Assistant Professor, College of Computer and Information Science, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

2010-2012

Director, Information and Communications Technology Incubator (ICTI), Riyadh Valley Company (RVC), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

2006 - 2010

Research Assistant, School of Information Technology and Engineering, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada.

2004 - 2010

Lecturer, College of Computer and Information Science, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

2002 - 2004

Teaching Assistant, College of Computer and Information Science, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

2001 - 2002

Manager, Economic Information Bank, Riyadh Chamber Of Commerce And Industry, Saudi Arabia.

2000 - 2001

IT Specialist, Saudi Arabian Mining Company, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

2010

Nominated for the best Ph.D. Thesis award, University of Ottawa, Canada.

2010

Award of Appreciation, Saudi Club in Ottawa, Saudi Culture Bureau, Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia, Ottawa, Canada.

2007

Excellence Researcher Award, Saudi Culture Bureau, Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia, Ottawa, Canada.

2007

Certificate of Appreciation, Saudi Culture Bureau, Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia, Ottawa, Canada.

2005

Ministry of Higher Education Ph.D. Scholarship, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (Four years).

2002 - 2003

Part-Time consultant, IT Regulations taskforce, National Information Technology Plan Project (NITP), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

2003 - 2004

Part-time Senior Analyst, King Abdullah Institute for Consulting and Research, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. 

2004 - 2005

Part-time Senior Analyst, Deanship of Research, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

2004 - 2005

Part-Time consultant, IT Strategic Planning Project, Ministry of Transportation, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

2004 - 2006

Part-Time consultant, IT Strategic Planning Project, Ministry of Higher Education, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

2010- Present

Part-Time consultant, Integrated Web Portal Project, King Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz Public Education Development Project (Tatweer).

2010-Present

Member, Executive Quality Committee, Quality Deanship, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

2011-Present

Head, College Website Committee, College of Computer and Information Science, King Saud University

2011-2012

Member, ABET accreditation college committee, College of Computer and Information Science, King Saud University.

2011-2012

Head, College Booklet Committee, College of Computer and Information Science, King Saud University

2011-Present

Member, College Research Assistants Committee, College of Computer and Information Science, King Saud University

2010-Present

Member, Manpower Committee, IS Department, College of Computer and Information Science, King Saud University

2011-Present

Head, Research Assistants Committee, IS Department, College of Computer and Information Science, King Saud University

2010-Present

Head, Department Website Committee, IS Department, College of Computer and Information Science, King Saud University

2012-Present

Member, Faculty Appraisal Committee, College of Computer and Information Science, King Saud University

2012-Present

Member, PhD Program Committee, IS Department, College of Computer and Information Science, King Saud University

-        KSU Board of Assessors for Quality Management System, Quality Deanship, King Saud University, 2012

-        ISO 9001:2008 Quality Management System Internal Audtior Training Course, BUREAU VERITAS, 2012

-        Internal Board of Assessor for Quality Management System, Quality Deanship, King Saud University, 2011

-        Institutional and Program Assessment Principles, Optimal Global Solution, 2011

-        Project Management Professional (PMP)  Exam Preparation (PM10 course), THIQAH, 2011

-        Students Learning Outcomes Assessment, King Saud University, 2011

-        Extensive training for new faculty members in teaching and research, King Saud University, 2010

-        Abdulmotaleb El Saddik, Jongeun Cha, Mohamad Eid, Fawaz A Alsulaiman, Atif Alamri, Lara Rahal, Daniel J. Martin, “A Synchronous Interpersonal Haptic Communication System,” Patent Pending, Application number: 12/481,274, Date: 2009.06.09

2012

2011

TPC Member, ACM MM Workshop on Cloud-Based Multimedia Applications and Services for E-health (CBMAS-EH’12) to be held in Nara, Japan, 2012

Associate Editor, the IEEE transaction on Instrumentation and Measurements (IEEE TIM).

2011

TPC Member, ICME 2011 Workshop on Advances in Automated Multimedia Surveillance for Public Safety, Barcelona, Spain.

2011

TPC Member, 6th IEEE Intl Symp. on Medical Measurements and Applications (MeMeA 2011).

2010

TPC member, 9th IEEE International Symposium on Haptic Audio Visual Environments and Games (HAVE 2010).

2008

ACM Multimedia Recognition for contributing to the success of ACM MM 2008 as Web Co-Chair.

2008

IEEE Recognition for contributing to the outstanding organization of HAVE 2008 as a Local organization Co-Chair.

2007

IEEE Recognition for contributing to the outstanding organization of HAVE 2007 as a Local organization Co-Chair.

2007-Present

Reviewed many papers for the IEEE transaction on Instrumentation and Measurements (IEEE TIM).

2007-Present

Reviewed many papers for the Springer Multimedia Systems Journal.

2007-Present

Reviewed many papers for the International Journal of Web and Grid Services (IJWGS).

2006-Present

Reviewer of papers for many workshops and conferences.

1-       Atif Alamri , M. Shamim Hossain, D. T. Ahmed and M. Anwar Hossain, “Multimedia Content Adaptation in Ubiquitous E-learning Environment”. Journal of Information, In Press, 2012 (ISI Indexed)

2-       Atif Alamri, Mohammad Mehedi Hassan, M. Anwar Hossain, M. Shamim Hossain Mohammed Alnuem, Dewan Tanvir Ahmed, and Abdulmotaleb El Saddik. “A Cloud-Based Pervasive Serious Game Framework to Support Obesity Treatment”. Journal of Computer Science and Information Systems, (Accepted), 2012 (ISI Indexed)

3-       M. Masud, M.S. Hossain, and Atif Alamri, “Data Interoperability and Multimedia Content Management in Collaborative e-Health Systems", IEEE Trans.  Inf. Tech. in BioMedicine, Online First, 2012 (ISI Indexed)

4-       Muhammad Mostafa Monowar, Mohammad Mehedi Hassan, Fuad Bajaber, Musaed Al-hussein, Atif Alamri. “McMAC: Towards a MAC Protocol with Multi-constrained QoS Provisioning for Diverse Traffic in Wireless Body Area Networks”. Sensors Journal, In Press, 2012 (ISI Indexed)

5-       M. Anwar Hossain, Jorge Parra, Dewan T. Ahmed, Atif Alamri, Ahmed Ghoneim and M. Shamim Hossain. “Distributed multimedia presentation control – A system perspective”. Scientific Research and Essays, Vol. 7(19), pp. 1857-1863, 23 May, 2012 (ISI Indexed)

6-       F. Al Rashed, M. Iftikhar, I. A. Shoukat, M. S. Aksoy, M. Zuair, Wasai Shadab Ansari, Atif Alamri, B. Landfeldt, Albert Y. Zomaya, “The Exact Solution of Exhaustive, Gated And Mixed Exhaustive & Gated Service Polling Models with Multiple Classes of Self-Similar traffic Input”.  Journal of Information, In Press, 2012 (ISI Indexed)

7-       Wasai Shadab Ansari, Ijaz Ali Shoukat, Atif Alamri, Abdullah Al-Dhelaan, Mohsin Iftikhar, Mudassar Ayub, Mohammad Serajuddin, “Comprehensive Exploration for Proposing Hybrid Scheme upon Congestion Avoidance Algorithms”. International Journal of Computer Applications (IJCA), In Press, 2012

8-       M.S. Hossain, SK A. Hossain, Atif Alamri and A. El Saddik, “Ant-based service selection framework in smart home monitoring environment,” Springer Multimedia Tools and Applications, Online First, 2011 (ISI Indexed)

9-       Atif Alamri, Heung-Nam Kim, Jongeun Cha, and Abdulmotaleb El Saddik, "Serious Games for Rehabilitation of Stroke Patients with Vibrotactile Feedback," International Journal of Computer Science in Sport, vol. 9, no. 2, pp. 53-66, 2010.

10-   Atif Alamri, Jongeun Cha and Abdulmotaleb El Saddik, “AR-REHAB: an Augmented Reality Framework for Post-Stroke Patients Rehabilitation", IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurements, 2010 (ISI Indexed)

11-   Ahmad Barghout, Atif Alamri, Mohamad Eid, Abdulmotaleb El Saddik, “Haptic Rehabilitation Exercises Performance Evaluation Using Automated Inference Systems”, Int. Journal of Advanced Media and Communication, Vol. 3(2), pp: 197 – 214, 2009.

12-   M. Shamim Hossain, Atif Alamri and Abdulmotaleb El Saddik, “A Biologically-Inspired framework for Multimedia Service Management in Ubiquitous Environment”, Wiley: Concurrency and Computation: Practice & Experience, Vol. 21, No. 11, PP. 1450-1466, 2009. (ISI Indexed)

13-   Atif Alamri, Mohammad Eid, Rosa Iglesias, Abdulmotaleb El Saddik, and Shervin Shirmohammadi, “Haptic Virtual Rehabilitation Exercises for post-stroke diagnosis”, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurements, Vol. 57 (9), pp.: 1876-1884, 2008. (ISI Indexed)

14-   Mohamad Eid, Atif Alamri and Abdulmotaleb El Saddik, “A Reference Model for Dynamic Web Service Composition Systems”, International Journal of Web and Grid Services, Vol. 4 (2), pp 149 – 168, 2008.

15-   Atif Alamri, Mohamad Eid, and Abdulmotaleb El Saddik, “Classification of the State-of-the-Art Dynamic Web Services Composition Techniques”, International Journal of Web and Grid Services, Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 148 – 166, 2006 (cited: 66 times in Google scholar).

1-    Mohammad Mehedi Hassan, M. Shamim Hossain, Atif Alamri, M. Anwar Hossain, Muhammad Al-Qurishi, Yousuf Aldukhayyil and Dewan Tanvir Ahmed. “A Cloud-Based Serious Games Framework for Obesity”. In Proc. Of ACM Multimedia workshop on Cloud-Based Multimedia Applications and Services for E-health (CBMAS-EH’12) to be held in Nara, Japan, Nov 2, 2012

2-    Atif Alamri. “Cloud-based E-Health Multimedia Framework For Heterogeneous Network”. IEEE ICME MUST-EH’12, Melbourne, Australia, July 9-13, 2012

3-    Mohammed Alhamid, Atif Alamri, Jamal Saboune and Abdulmotaleb El Saddik, “Hamon: An Activity Recognition Framework for Health Monitoring Support at Home”, In Proceedings of the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (I2MTC 2011), Binjiang, Hangzhou, China.

4-    Atif Alamri, Heung-Nam Kim, and Abdulmotaleb El Saddik, ”A Decision Model of Stroke Patient Rehabilitation with Augmented Reality-based Games”, In proceedings of the International Conference on Autonomous and Intelligent Systems (AIS 2010).

5-    Mohammed Alhamid, Atif Alamri and Abdulmotaleb El Saddik, “Measuring Hand-Arm Steadiness for Post-Stroke and Parkinson’s Disease Patients Using SIERRA Framework”, In proceedings of the 2010 IEEE International Workshop on Medical Measurement and Applications, May 2010, Italy.

6-    Atif Alamri, Mohamad Eid, Jongeun Cha and Abdulmotaleb El Saddik, “Measurement Evaluating the Post-Stroke Patients Progress Using an Augmented Reality Rehabilitation System”, In proceedings of the 2009 IEEE International Workshop on Medical Measurement and Applications, May 2009, Italy.

7-    Atif Alamri, Mohamad Eid, and Abdulmotaleb El Saddik, “A Quality of Performance Model for Evaluating Post-Stroke Patients” In proceedings of the 2008 IEEE Int. Conf. on Computational Intelligence For Measurement Systems And Applications, pp: 14 – 18,Turkey, 2008.

8-    Mohamad Eid, Sheldon Andrews, Atif Alamri, and Abdulmotaleb El Saddik, “HAMLAT: A HAML- based Authoring Tool for Haptic Application Development”, In Proc. of the EuroHaptics 2008 conference, pp. 857-866, June 12-14, Madrid, Spain

9-    M. Shamim Hossain, Atif Alamri and Abdulmotaleb El Saddik “QoS-Aware Service Selection for Multimedia Transcoding”, In proceedings of the 2008 IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (I2MTC 08), Victoria Island, BC, Canada, May 2008.

10- Mohamad Eid, Atif Alamri, Jamil Melhem and Abdulmotaleb El Saddik, “Evalutation of UML CASE Tool with Haptics” In Proc. of Haptic in Ambient Systems (HAS 2008) Workshop, Feb. 11-14, 2008, Quebec City, Canada.

11- M. Shamim Hossain, Atif Alamri, and Abdulmotaleb El Saddik, “A Framework for QoS-aware multimedia service selection for Wireless Clients”, In Proceedings of the 3rd ACM International Workshop on Wireless Multimedia Networking and Performance Modeling (WMuNeP'07), 29 Oct., 2007, Greece

12- Sheldon Andrews, Mohamad Eid, Atif Alamri and Abdulmotaleb El Saddik, “Extending Blender: Development of a Haptic Authoring Tool” Proc. IEEE Workshop on Haptic Audio Visual Environments and their Applications, Ottawa, Canada, October 2007.

13- Ruba Kayyali, Atif Alamri, Mohammad Eid, Rosa Iglesias, Shervin Shirmohammadi, Abdulmotaleb El Saddik, and Edward Lemaire “Occupational Therapists’ Evaluation of Haptic Motor Rehabilitation” In proceedings of the 29th Annual Int. Conf. of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, August 23-26, 2007, Lyon, France.

14- Atif Alamri, Mohammad Eid, Abdulmotaleb El Saddik, “A Haptic-enabled UML CASE Tool”, in Proc. 2007 International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME), July 2-5, 2007, Beijing, China.

15- Atif Alamri, Mohammad Eid, Rosa Iglesias, Shervin Shirmohammadi, Abdulmotaleb El Saddik and Edward Lemaire, “Haptic-based Exercises for Post-Stroke Patient Rehabilitation”, ”, Proc. 2nd IEEE Workshop on Medical Measurement and Applications, Warsaw, Poland, May 4-5 2007. pp: 1-6.

16- Mohamad Eid, Atif Alamri and Abdulmotaleb El Saddik, “MPEG-7 Description of Haptic Applications Using HAML” In Proceedings of the fifth IEEE International Workshop on Haptic Virtual Environments and their Applications (HAVE2006)” Nov. 4-5 2006, Ottawa, Canada.

17-Atif Alamri, Mohamad Eid and Abdulmotaleb El Saddik, “Towards a Standard Modeling of Haptic Software System” In Proceedings of the fifth IEEE International Workshop on Haptic Virtual Environments and their Applications (HAVE2006)” Nov. 4-5 2006, Ottawa, Canada

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 Visual Programming.

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 Information Systems Analysis and Design.

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 Advanced System Analysis and Design.

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 Multimedia Communications Systems.

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 Advanced Enterprise Resource Planning.

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 Object Oriented System Analysis and Design.

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 Software Testing.

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 Net-Centric Computing.