Deep Learning for Biomedical Data Analysis (eBook)

Mourad Elloumi received an Undergraduate Degree in Mathematics and Physics in 1984, and a Master's Degree in Computer Engineering in 1988, from the Faculty of Sciences of Tunis, Tunisia. He also received a Master's Degree in Computer Science in 1989, and a PhD Degree in Computer Science in 1994, from the University of Aix-Marseilles III, France. Then, he received a Habilitation for conducting research in Computer Science in 2003, from the National School of Computer Science, Tunis, Tunisia. He is currently a Full Professor in Computer Science, Faculty of Computing and Information Technology, The University of Bisha, Saudi Arabia, and Head of the BioInformatics Group (BIG) of the Laboratory of Technologies of Information and Communication and Electrical Engineering (LaTICE), National Higher School of Engineers of Tunis (ENSIT), University of Tunis, Tunisia. Professor Mourad Elloumi is the author/co-author of more than 70 publications in international journals, books and conference proceedings. He was a Guest Editor of a special issue on biological knowledge discovery and data mining, Knowledge Based Systems Journal (Elsevier 2002), a Guest Editor of a special issue on pattern finding in Computational Molecular Biology, Recent Patents on DNA and Gene Sequence Journal (Bentham Science 2012), a Co-Editor of the proceedings of two international conferences and a Co-Editor of four books, respectively, on Algorithms in Computational Molecular Biology (Wiley 2011), Biological Knowledge Discovery (Wiley 2014), Pattern Recognition in Computational Molecular Biology (Wiley 2015), and Algorithms for Next-Generation Sequencing Data (Springer 2017). His research interests are Algorithmics, Computational Molecular Biology, Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, and Deep Learning.