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RESEARCH & InITIATIvES

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The Research and Initiatives Center (RIC) and events including webinars, seminars, finance, followed by discussions of energy that followed, the discussion was shifted
is the administrative research structure tutorials, workshops, etc., in addition to and then electrical engineering under the to internet-of-things. Following that was
at Prince Sultan University that provides research capacity building workshops. umbrella of emerging technologies. another AI session concerning its use in
faculty members with different research Details of each type were explained and The final day of the conference was medical applications--a continuation of
services. It was established in September clarified separately in the meeting for the scheduled into five sessions. It kicked one of the previous day’s sessions. Third,
2017 and since then the center worked off with another AI session. However, security applications under the umbrella of
on developing research policies and sake of achieving a greater spread among
bylaws for the university. faculty members in the various colleges of this one focused on the usage of AI in cybersecurity and finally the usage of AI for
Prince Sultan University. detecting human activity. In the session prediction and detection.
1. RIC Committee Meeting for Brighter
and Further Progression Steps 2. SMARTTECH Post Conference Report
As part of the continuous development From the 3rd to 5th of November, Research
of the Research and Initiatives Center and & Initiatives Center jointly with RIOTU Lab
to take into account all the suggestions
and difficulties facing the colleges at at Prince Sultan University organized The
PSU, the Research and Initiatives Center First International Conference of Smart
Committee held a meeting to discuss the Systems and Emerging Technologies
colleges' current status and the strategic (SMARTTECH). The 3-day remote
planning for the next batch of research. conference was attended by people from
Among the main points discussed during different locations and institutions around
the meeting were the policies and bylaws the world. With respect to the overall
of the Research and Initiatives Center,
and how they could be updated to reflect attendance, the number of attendees
all cases encountered during the last was excellent. In total, 251 distinct users
batches. The Research and Initiatives were recorded over the three days among There were a total of 40 papers accepted were able to recognize digits much quicker.
Center has also enabled faculty members 400 registrations. The following figure for SMARTTECH. It was a tough decision to Additionally, he also found the presentation
to present several types of conferences illustrates the daily attendance. award the Best Paper and the Best Student by Alam Noor on DriftNet: Aggressive
Paper. In the end, the Best Paper Award was Driving Behaviour Detection using 3D
presented to Alaeddine Mihoub, Hosni hhh, Convolutional Neural Networks was
Moez Krichen, Riadh Bel Hadj Salah and interesting. During the session, Alam Noor
Montassar Kahia for paper their paper titled presented a solution he and his colleagues
Predicting COVID-19 Spread Level using worked on to detect a form of human
Socio-Economic Indicators and Machine behavior. Their solution named DriftNet
Learning Techniques. Meanwhile, the efficiently detects aggressive driving
Best Student Paper Award was presented behavior, specifically drifting. Besides, the
to Sotirios Panagiotis Chytas, Leandros organizers have received excellent feedback
Maglaras, Abdelouahid Derhab and George from top scholars who were participating as
Stamoulis for their paper titled Assessment General Chairs and Keynote Speakers in the
of Machine Learning Techniques for
Building an Efficient IDS. conference.
The conference went very well and was SMARTTECH 2020 made history by being
much appreciated by all members of the the first international conference of its type
audience including committee members. to gather researchers in the field of smart
One participant kindly shared his experience systems and emerging technologies in one
attending SMARTTECH. He pointed out event. Hence, we would like to thank Prince
how he enjoyed the presentation by Sultan University for supporting this event
Ali Mohammed and Irfan Ahmed titled as well as all the attendees, speakers, and
Feature Compression Based on Discrete organizers. As a result of the high level of
Cosine Transform for Handwritten Digit participation and impact that was seen from
Recognition. The session presented a SMARTTECH, the organizers are already
solution for tracking human activity—in this looking forward to organizing plenty more
The opening address was presented by topics were covered during the four case, handwriting—using a faster method. successful series of such conferences in the
Dr. Ahmad Yamani, President of PSU. sessions. Firstly, how researchers used By compressing images, the researchers future.
He noted the importance of organizing computer vision to detect objects and
conferences like SMARTTECH due human behavior. Second, next generation
to the ever evolving technological protocols revolving around 5G and 6G.
advancements happening in our lives. Third, robotic control under unmanned
Plus, it is an effort that aligns with the systems and finally machine learning
kingdom’s Vision 2030. SMARTTECH research works in the cybersecurity field.
sessions revolved around five main
tracks namely Artificial Intelligence, On day two of SMARTTECH, another set
Cybersecurity, Communication and of four sessions were put in place. These
Networking, Unmanned Systems, and revolved around the usage of AI in medical
Emerging Technologies. applications, intelligent applications in
On the first day of the conference, various different fields including business and