Bilal Al-Ahmad

Associate Editor
Associate Professor Bilal Al-Ahmad

Doctor of Philosophy in the specialty of Software Engineering
Associate Professor of Software Engineering
Department of Computing, Informatics and Data Science
St. Cloud State University: Saint Cloud, Minnesota, US

Contact
Email: bilal.al-ahmad@stcloudstate.edu

Academic Profiles

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Research Interests
software engineering, machine learning, computer science education

Representative Works

2024

Al-Zoubi, A. M., Hassonah, M. A., Al-Qaisi, L., Qaddoura, R., Al-Ahmad, B., Habib, M., & Aljarah, I. (2024). An Evolutionary Embedded Model Fake News Detector Using an Optimized Support Vectors Machines. Authorea Preprints. https://doi.org/10.22541/au.172114580.09945557/v1

2023

Abu-Faraj, M., Al-Hyari, A., Al-Ahmad, B., Alqadi, Z., Ali, B. J. A., & Aldebe, K. (2023). Improving the efficiency of median filters using special generated windows. Applied Mathematics & Information Sciences, 17(1), 187–200. https://doi.org/10.18576/amis/170119

Al-Ahmad, B., Al-Madi, N., Alzaqebah, A., Alkhawaldeh, R. S., Aldebei, K., Kabir, Md. F., Altaharwa, I., Abu-Faraj, M., & Aljarah, I. (2023). Meta-Heuristic Guided Feature Optimization for Enhanced Authorship Attribution in Java Source Code. IEEE Access, 11, 141657–141673. https://doi.org/10.1109/access.2023.3341395

Alkhawaldeh, R. S., Al-Ahmad, B., Ksibi, A., Ghatasheh, N., Abu-Taieh, E. M., Aldehim, G., Ayadi, M., & Alkhawaldeh, S. M. (2023). Convolution Neural Network Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory for Heartbeat Arrhythmia Classification. International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems, 16(1). https://doi.org/10.1007/s44196-023-00374-8

2022

Abu-Faraj, M., Al-Hyari, A., Al-Ahmad, B., Alqadi, Z., Ali, B., & Alhaj, A. (2022). Building a secure image cryptography system using parallel processing and complicated dynamic length private key. Applied Mathematics & Information Sciences (AMIS)16(6), 1017-1026. http://dx.doi.org/10.18576/amis/160619

Abu-Faraj, M., Al-Hyari, A., Aldebei, K., Alqadi, Z. A., & Al-Ahmad, B. (2022). Rotation Left Digits to Enhance the Security Level of Message Blocks Cryptography. IEEE Access, 10, 69388–69397. https://doi.org/10.1109/access.2022.3187317

Abu-Faraj, M., Al-Hyari, A., Al-Taharwa, I., Al-Ahmad, B., & Alqadi, Z. (2022). CASDC: A Cryptographically Secure Data System Based on Two Private Key Images. IEEE Access, 10, 126304–126314. https://doi.org/10.1109/access.2022.3226319

Abu-Faraj, M., Alqadi, Z., Al-Ahmad, B., Aldebei, K., & Ali, B. (2022). A Novel Approach to Extract Color Image Features using Image Thinning. Applied Mathematics & Information Sciences (AMIS)16(5), 665-672. https://doi.org/10.18576/amis/160501

Al-Ahmad, B. I., Al-Zoubi, A. A., Kabir, M. F., Al-Tawil, M., & Aljarah, I. (2022). Swarm intelligence-based model for improving prediction performance of low-expectation teams in educational software engineering projects. PeerJ Computer Science, 8, e857. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj-cs.857

Alsmadi, I., Al-Ahmad, B., & Alsmadi, M. (2022, September). Malware analysis and multi-label category detection issues: Ensemble-based approaches. In 2022 International Conference on Intelligent Data Science Technologies and Applications (IDSTA) (pp. 164-169). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/idsta55301.2022.9923057

Sharma, S., Alsmadi, I., Alkhawaldeh, R. S., & Al-Ahmad, B. (2022, June). Analytical and Predictive Model for the impact of social distancing on COVID-19 pandemic. In 2022 13th International Conference on Information and Communication Systems (ICICS) (pp. 405-410). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/icics55353.2022.9811168

Sharma, S., Alsmadi, I., Alkhawaldeh, R. S., & Al‐Ahmad, B. (2022). Data‐driven analysis and predictive modeling on COVID‐19. Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, 34(28). https://doi.org/10.1002/cpe.7390

2021

Al-Ahmad, B., Al-Taharwa, I, Alkhawaldeh, R. S., Alazzam, I. M., & Ghatasheh, N. (2021). JaCoCo-coverage based statistical approach for ranking and selecting key classes in object-oriented software. Journal of Engineering Science and Technology16(08), 3358-3386. https://tinyurl.com/jestec-16-4

Al-Ahmad, B., Al-Zoubi, A. M., Abu Khurma, R., & Aljarah, I. (2021). An Evolutionary Fake News Detection Method for COVID-19 Pandemic Information. Symmetry, 13(6), 1091. https://doi.org/10.3390/sym13061091

Alsmadi, I., Dwekat, Z., Cantu, R., & Al-Ahmad, B. (2021). Vulnerability assessment of industrial systems using Shodan. Cluster Computing, 25(3), 1563–1573. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10586-021-03330-3

2020

Al-Ahmad, B., Banitaan, S., & Alkhawaldeh, R. (2020).  The Impact of Software Team Project Measurements on Students’ Performance in Software Engineering Education. Journal of Education and Practice, 11(31). https://doi.org/10.7176/jep/11-31-02