Dr Safa Najim
Research Associate (Visiting)

Biography
Professor Najim, Safa Amir Najim (PhD) (Computer Science in the data visualization and GPU processing) Email: s.najim@chester.ac.uk Qualifications: - PhD degree in Computer Science, 2014, School of Computer Science, Bangor University, UK. (Title of PhD thesis: Faithful visualization and dimensionality reduction on graphics processing unit) - MSc Computer Science, 1996, Computer Science Dept., Science College, Basrah University, Iraq. - BSc Computer Science, 1998, Computer Science Dept., Science College, Basrah University, Iraq. Work Experience: - University of Chester, UK. - Teesside University, UK. - Swansea University, UK. - University of Bangor, UK. - University of Basrah, Iraq. Journal Reviewer: - IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, - IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters (GRSL) - IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence - Information Sciences (Elsevier) Committee Member: - RIVIC (Research Institute of Visual Computing), - Iraqi Computer Science Committee.
Teaching and Supervision
I have good experience in teaching undergraduate and postgraduate students: In Undergraduate: I have taught the following subjects: Software Engineering, Data Visualization, Machine Learning, Data analysis, Geographical information system GIS, Artificial Intelligent AI, Computer Programming: Java, C++, Prolog, Pascal …, Computer Simulation and others In Postgraduate: I have taught the following subjects: Data visualization, Machine Leaning, Wireless Sensor Networks, Multimedia, Advance Software Engineering, Software Quality Assurance, GIS, and Parallel Processing (GPU).
Research and Knowledge Exchange
Specialist Knowledge & Expertise: Data Visualization, Machine Learning, Software Engineering, Parallel Processing by Graphic Processing Units (GPU), Remote Sensing Imagery, Image Processing, wireless Sensor Networks