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Professor
  • Ph.D. in Computer Science (on Deductive Database Systems), Salford University and Manchester Universities, UK, 1989-1993.
  • B.Sc. in Computer Science- Option: Software Engineering, University of Constantine in Algeria, 1977-1982.
  • Holder of IQF Green Belt Six Sigma Certificate (12th of August 2020), IQF Black Belt Six Sigma Certificate (26th of July 2020), and ADEK External Quality Assurance Reviewer.
Bio

Prof. Farhi Marir is a full professor at the college of technological Innovation (CTI) at Zayed University (ZU), UAE. He is fellow member of British Computer Society (BCS) for the last twenty-five years. His research interest revolves around data science and artificial intelligence.

He joined Zayed University in 2013, where he was the director of the big data research lab (2013-15) and then acting director of institutional research (2015-17) where he led the AED 2.5 million ZUBID project for the development of a university wide data warehouse and business intelligence dashboards. Prior to joining Zayed University, he was working for twenty years in different UK universities of which he spent thirteen years as the director of the Knowledge Management Research Centre (KMRC) at London Metropolitan University (2000-13).

In ZU, he initiated the first courses in data analytics and data warehousing courses that led to the development of the most successful program of Business Intelligence (BI) and related courses on artificial intelligence and big data at the graduate level. While in the UK, he developed several undergraduate and postgraduate programs in software engineering, advanced databases and data warehousing and data mining.

In research, he supervised thirty PhDs to completion, four of them completed their PhDs while he was in ZU.  He published more than one hundred and twenty articles and conference papers. In ZU, he secured twelve internal funding (RIFs) worth 1.7 million AED and three external funding from National Research Funding (NRF) and medica science department of Mohammed Ben Rached University (MBRU) worth 1.5 million AED. In UK universities, he led thirty-five researchers working on thirty-five UK and EU funded research projects on data science, business intelligence and artificial intelligence for different UK industries (transport, energy, health, education, etc.) worth more than £7 Million.

Before that Prof Farhi Marir worked in Algerian universities for six years. He was leading the department of computer Science in the University of Batna in Algeria where he developed several programs and courses in software engineering, databases systems, and programming languages (1984-88). In 1982 he set up the first university computer center which he managed for 2 years before becoming the head of the computer Science department (1984-86).

 
Office

Dubai Academic City, D-L1-35

Phone:

+9714 402 1598

Email:
Teaching Areas

  • Database systems,
  • Knowledge Management,
  • Data warehouse,
  • Business Intelligence,
  • Data analytics,
  • Data Science,
  • Machine learning and
  • Artificial Intelligence

Research and Professional Activities

Research Area(s)

  • Knowledge Management,
  • Data warehouse,
  • Business Intelligence,
  • Data Science and
  • Artificial Intelligence

-          eraUI tool for search engine optimization (SEO) that uses data mining and heatmap for tracking frequent customer behavior and dynamically change the home page content to meet users’ needs: https://eraui.blogspot.com/

-          CBRefurb tool which use Case Based Reasoning to support constructions contractor in estimating refurbishment projects:  https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/478101

-          OSCONCAD Tool for integrating construction applications from project management, to architectural design (CAD systems) to monitoring construction project using Virtual reality https://www.itcon.org/paper/1998/3

-          VIGILANT tool: An intelligent Content and Event Based Indexing and Retrieval of Surveillance Video (https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/645457.655322)

-          Marir, F. & Ndeta, J. (2010). Workflow Design Patterns for Developing and Maintaining e-Business Workflow Systems. 2010 BPM and Workflow Handbook: Spotlight on Business Intelligence.  

Professional Fellowship/Memberships

-          Fellow Member of the British Computer Society 2000-Present

-          Member of several Journal editing boards,

 

Completed PhD Supervision

Supervised thirty PhD to completion, four of them while I was in Zayed University, and most recently:

  1. 2020: Dr Wahid Chergui (2016-20) at Laghrour Abbas in Khenchela in Algeria. He successfully defended his on the 20th of October 2020. His PhD Knowledge Management with the title: “Développement d'un Framework pour l'acquisition et le transfert de connaissance tacite dans le domaine médical." which translate in English as: "Development of a framework for the acquisition and transfer of tacit knowledge in the medical field."

Internal & External Research Fundings

In addition to £7 million of UK & EU research, Professor Marir received more than AED 5 million internal and external research funding, below a selection of the last five years research funding:

  1. 2022-24: AED 271,200 Enhancing Performance of Recommendation Systems through Intelligent Collaborative Filtering Techniques. PI: Prof Farhi Marir, Co-PI: Dr Mohammed Hussain and Dr Moussa Al-Kfairy.
  2. 2022-24: AED 300,000 Developing an Arabic & English Literature-Based Health Discovery Tool for confirming, refuting, and discovering scientifically based natural cure for human recurrent disease. PI: Dr Iqbal Taleb, Co-PI: Dr Farhi Marir and Dr Hussein Fakhry.
  3. 2022-24: AED 300,000 Developing computational Knowledge Sharing Tool to analyse and measures SECI model knowledge conversion processes including systematic innovation for students at higher learning. PI: Syed M. F. Duani, Co-PI: Dr Roshyayu Mhamad and Dr. Farhi Marir
  4. 2020-22: 300K AED joint Research Grant between Mohamed bin Rached University of Medicine (MBRU) Department of Medical Science and CTI titled: “Would the subtypes of Type 2 Diabetes segregate into distinct disease entities enabling better Clinical Utility?”
  5. 2019-21: 800K AED joint Research Grant between Mohamed bin Rach University of Medicine (MBRU) Department of Medical Science and CTI titled to work on the use of data analytics for subtyping Type 2 Diabetes (T2D) for better and targeted medication of diabetes patients.
  6. 2019-21: 98,970 AED RIF funded project in collaboration with college of Humanities and social science on a RIF Grant titled: Internet and the emergence of new politics? Assessing the role of new media in new and established democratic landscapes.

 

Selected Refereed journal papers 

  1. S. M. F. D. Syed Mustapha, Edmund Evangelista and Farhi Marir (2023). Towards Designing a Knowledge Sharing System for Higher Learning Institutions in the UAE Based on the Social Feature Framework. Sustainability Journals Volume 15 Issue 22 10.3390/su152215990 (Q1)       
  2. Feras Al-Obeidat, Farhi Marir and Fares Howari, Abdel-Mohsen Mohamed and Neil Banerjee (2020): "ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND DATA ANALYTICS FOR GEOSCIENCE: THEORY AND APPLICATION". https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780128095829000219. Published in book: Pollution Assessment for Sustainable Practices in Applied Sciences and Engineering. Publisher: Elsevier Inc.; DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-809582-9.00021-9
  3. Tlemsani I.  F. Marir; and Majdalawieh M. (2020). Screening of Murabaha business process through Quran and hadith: a text mining analysis. ttps://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=85087787950&origin=inward. Publisher: Journal of Islamic Accounting and Business Research, Publication Year:2020 (Q2)
  4. Chergui W. Chergui; Zidat S. and Marir, F. (2020); An approach to the acquisition of tacit knowledge based on an ontological model. Journal of King Saud University _ Computer and Information Sciences, Publication Year:2020 (Q1)

Selected Papers in refereed conference proceedings 

  1. Farhi Marir, Hussein Fakhry and Aida Azar (2022). Mining Biomedical Literature to Discover Natural Cure for Recurrent Disease. International Conference on Machine Learning & Applications (CMLA 2022)
  2. Marir Farhi. Issam Tiemsani and Munir Majdalawieh (2019) A Recursive Co-Occurrence Text Mining of the Quran to Build Corpora for Islamic Banking Business Processes. 2nd International Conference on Intelligent Human Systems Integration (IHSI 2019) to be held at The Hilton San Diego Bayfront, San Diego, California, United States of America, February 7-10, 2019. (http://ihsint.org)

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