Maytham Safar

Curriculum Vitae:

Education

• Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
• M.S. in Electrical Engineering, University of Colorado at Boulder, CO, USA, 1995
• B.Sc. in Computer Engineering with Honors Class, Kuwait University, 1992

Professional Experience

• September 1992 – August 1993 Laboratory Engineer, Computer Engineering Department, Kuwait University
• September 1993 – September 2000 Scholarship holder for Masters and Ph.D. from Kuwait University
• October 2000 – December 2007 Assistant Professor, Computer Engineering Department, Kuwait University
• August 2003 – August 2004 Visiting Professor at the Computer Science Department, University of Southern California, U.S.A.
• December 2007 -present Promoted to Associate Professor rank at Kuwait University

Main Research Interests:

• image retrieval
• spatial index structures and databases
  
• multimedia databases
• data mining
• algorithms
• geographic information systems
• location based services
• social networks
• sensor networks