Certification, grants and awards

• Award of Scientific Excellence for the paper titled “An immune Multi-Agent Based Decision Support System for the Control of Public Transportation Systems” presented in the 14th International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (PAAMS 2016) in Spain, 2016. 
• Distinguished Researcher Award for the academic year 2014-2015, College of Engineering, King Saud University.
• Visiting professor, University Lumiere, Lyon 2 (June –July 2015),
• Oracle Certified Professional, Java SE 6 Programmer, 2013
• Travel Grant from the French Institute of Cooperation in 2010, 2012 and 2013.
• 3-years research fellowship from the French ministry of higher education (2004-2007).