Biography

Wissam was born in Basra, Iraq. He received BSc(Eng) and MSc(Eng) degrees both in Computer Engineering with distinction from the University of Basrah, Iraq, in 2001 and 2005, respectively.

He was a Computing Labs Instructor at the Department of Computer Engineering, University of Basrah 2003-2005, and upon graduation he joined the GSCS IT support team, which was his first technical position within IT industries.

From 2005 to 2010 he held several IT technical / research development positions within both industrial and Higher Education environments such as South Refineries Company, University of Basrah,UK's government FCO & DFID, University of East Anglia and Oilennium Ltd. He then decided to back to academia as a Research Student with the University of Surrey where he is currently pursuing the PhD starting from January 2011.

Wissam is a member of the Nature Inspired Computing and Engineering (NICE) research group, led by Prof. Yaochu Jin. He is also a member of the Multimedia Security and Forensics (MSF) group at the Department of Computing, University of Surrey. His current research is to develop an algorithm for copyright protection and forensics of bootleg images funded by EPSRC and Intellas UK. The industrial CASE (Collaborative Awards in Science and Engineering) studentship was awarded via the Digital Systems Knowledge Transfer Network (KTN) through an open competition on behalf of EPSRC.

Research Interests

• Multimedia Technology, "Invariant feature extraction".
• Image Processing: Recognition and Copyright protection,
• Computational Intelligence and Multi-Objective Optimization,
• Hybrid Intelligent Systems: Neural Networks, Fuzzy Systems and Evolutionary Algorithms, 

Other interests:

• Robotics,
• Computer Vision,
• BioTechnology

Research Collaborations

Intellas UK Ltd, the artificial intelligence in information security and computer forensics company,
Level 37
One Canada Square
Canary Wharf
London, E14 5AA

Publications

• W. A. Albukhanajer, Y. Jin, J. A. Briffa and G. Williams "Evolutionary Multi-Objective Optimization of Trace Transform for Invariant Feature Extraction" IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation CEC, Brisbane, Australia, June 10-15, 2012. [PDF]  Digital Object Identifier :  10.1109/CEC.2012.6256160
• W. A. Albukhanajer, Y. Jin, J. A. Briffa and G. Williams ''A Comparative Study of Multi-Objective Evolutionary Trace Transform Methods for Robust Feature Extraction'' 7th International Conference on Evolutionary Multi-Criterion Optimization. Sheffield, UK, March 19-22, 2013.[PDF]

Departmental Duties

• Web Assistant

External:

• Main Conference Activities:
  • Web Chair, IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, May 9-12, 2012, San Diego, USA

  • Web Chair, 2013 UK Workshop on Computational Intelligence, UKCI2013 September 9-11, 2013, University of Surrey, Guildford, United Kingdom

Affiliations

• Nature Inspired Computing and Engineering (NICE) Group,
  Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences
  Department of Computing, (BB02)
  University of Surrey
  Guildford, Surrey, United Kingdom, GU2 7XH
• Multimedia Security and Forensics (MSF) Group,
  Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences
  Department of Computing, (BB02)
  University of Surrey
  Guildford, Surrey, United Kingdom, GU2 7XH
• The Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE),
  IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, IEEE Computer Society

Honours and Awards