Zaher Salah received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of Liverpool, UK, in 2014, his MSc degree in Computer Science from Yarmouk University, Jordan, in 2004, and his B.Sc. degree in Computer Science from University of Jordan, Jordan, in 2001. He is currently an Associate Professor in the Artificial Intelligence Department of Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University, Khobar, KSA. His research interests include machine learning, cyber security, information retrieval, opinion mining, sentiment analysis, digital image and analysis, and pattern recognition.
2011-2014 University of Liverpool (ranked 165 based on the TIMES higher education ranking system 2025)/ Liverpool, UK, PhD. in Computer Science.
2002-2004 Yarmouk University (ranked 951-1000 based on the TIMES higher education ranking system 2025)/ Irbid, Jordan, MSc. in Computer and Information Sciences.
1997-2001 University of Jordan (ranked 368 based on the TIMES higher education ranking system 2025)/ Amman, Jordan, BSc. in Computer Science.
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Book Chapter
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Zaher Salah, Frans Coenen and Davide Grossi (2013). A Data Mining Approach to Extracting Debate Graphs. In Atkinson, K., Prakken, H. and Wyner, A. (Eds.), From Knowledge Representation to Argumentation in AI, Law and Policy Making: A Festschrift in Honour of Trevor Bench-Capon on the Occasion of his 60th Birthday, London: College Publications, 2013, pp. 79-96. http://www.collegepublications.co.uk/tributes/?00021
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Technical Report
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Zaher Salah, Frans Coenen and Davide Grossi (2014). Political sentiment analysis: Predicting speaker attitude in the UK House of Commons. Technical Report ULCS-14-002, Department of Computer Science, University of Liverpool, UK, 2014. https://intranet.csc.liv.ac.uk/research/techreports/?id=ULCS-14-002
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Conference Papers
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Salah Z, Coenen F, Grossi D (2013) Extracting debate graphs from parliamentary transcripts: A study directed at UK House of Commons debates. In: Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law (ICAIL 2013), Rome, Italy, ACM Press, pp. 121-130. http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2514615
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Salah Z, Coenen F, Grossi D (2013) Generating domain-specific sentiment lexicons for opinion mining. In: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Advanced Data Mining and Applications (ADMA 2013), Hangzhou, China, 2013, Springer, Part I, LNAI 8346, pp. 13-24. http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-642-53914-5_2
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Salah Z, Coenen F, Grossi D (2014) Network Analysis of Parliamentary Debates: A Pilot Study on Two UK House of Commons Debates. Presented at the First European Conference on Social Networks (EUSN), Barcelona, Spain. http://jornades.uab.cat/eusn/content/welcome-1st-european-conference-social-networks-eusn
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Abdel-Rahman Al-Ghuwairi, Hazem Eid, Mohammad Aloran, Zaher Salah, Aladdin Hussein Baarah, and Ahmad A. Al-oqaily. 2016. A mutation-based model to rank testing as a service (TaaS) Providers in cloud computing. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Internet of things and Cloud Computing (ICC '16), Djallel Eddine Boubiche, Faouzi Hidoussi, Lyamine Guezouli, Ahcène Bounceur, and Homero Toral Cruz (Eds.). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Article 18, 5 pages. DOI=http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2896387.2896403
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Abdel-Rahman Al-Ghuwairi, Mohammad N. Khalaf, Laith Al-Yasen, Zaher Salah, Ayoub Alsarhan, and Aladdin Hussein Baarah. 2016. A Dynamic Model for automatic Updating cloud computing SLA (DSLA). In Proceedings of the International Conference on Internet of things and Cloud Computing (ICC '16), ACM, New York, NY, USA, Article 57, 7 pages. DOI=http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2896387.2896442
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Hamza Abu Owida, Jamal Al Nabulsi, Nour Al Hawamdeh, Suhaila Abuowaida, Zaher Salah, Esraa Abu Elsoud. Deep Learning-Based Kidney Disease Classification Using ResNet50: Enhancing Diagnostic Accuracy. The Second Jordanian International Biomedical Engineering Conference, 27-28 NOV 2024, Amman – Jordan.
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Journal Papers
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Mohammed N. Al-Kabi, Ghassan G Kanan, Riyad Al-Shalabi, Noor Zaghal, Zaher Salah and Maen Hammad. 2009. Stem-Based Query Expansion for Arabic Corpus. ABHATH ALYARMOUK: Basic Science & Engineering, 18(2), 227-246.
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Abdel-Rahman Al-Ghuwairi, Zaher Salah, Ayoub Alsarhan, Shatha Al Qudah, Ghadeer Al Qahmous, Aladdin Baarah and Ahmad Aloqaily. 2017. Monitoring and Modeling Service Level Agreement of Multiple Virtual Machines in Cloud Computing. International Journal of Business Information Systems, Volume 27, issue 4, pp. 538 – 553.
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Zaher Salah, Abdel-Rahman Al-Ghuwairi, Ahmad Aloqaily, Aladdin Baarah, Bar'a Qadoumi, Momen Alhayek and Bushra Alhijawi. 2017. A Systematic Review on Opinion Mining and Sentiment Analysis in Social Media. International Journal of Business Information Systems.
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Zaher Salah, Abdel-rahman Al-ghuwairi, Ahmad Aloqaily, Aladdin Baarah and Ayoub Alsarhan. 2017. A Comparative Investigation of Approaches for Web Search Results Clustering. International Journal of Advanced Intelligence Paradigms.
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Abdel-rahman Al-ghuwairi, Mohammad Khalaf, Zaher Salah and Ayoub Alsarhan. 2017. Dynamic Changes of QoS Parameters in Cloud Computing Service Level Agreement. International Journal of Business Information Systems.
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Ahmad Aloqaily, Mohammad K. Al-Nawayseh, Aladdin H. Baarah, Zaher Salah, Malak Al-Hassan and Abdel-Rahman Al-Ghuwairi. 2018. A Neural Network Analytical Model for Predicting Determinants of Mobile Learning Acceptance. International Journal of Computer Applications in Technology.
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Zaher Salah, Ahmad Aloqaily, Malak Al-Hassan and Abdel-Rahman Al-Ghuwairi. 2018. A Methodology to Refine Labels in Web Search Results Clustering. International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems (IJCIS), 12 (1), 299 - 310.
https://www.atlantis-press.com/journals/ijcis/125905647
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Aladdin Baarah, Ahmad Aloqaily, Zaher Salah, Mannam Zamzeer and Mohammad Sallam, “Machine Learning Approaches for Predicting the Severity Level of Software Bug Reports in Closed Source Projects” International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications(IJACSA), 10(8), 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2019.0100836
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Zaher Salah, Waleed T. Al-Sit, Hala Hani and Kamal Salah, 2020. Intelligent Framework for Long-text Political Speeches Summarization and Visualization Using Sentiment Lexicons: A Study Directed at King Abdullah II Discussion Papers. International Journal of Advanced Trends in Computer Science and Engineering. http://www.warse.org/IJATCSE/static/pdf/file/ijatcse225922020.pdf
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A Baarah, A Aloqaily, Z Salah, EA Alshdaifat, 2021. Sentiment-based machine learning and lexicon-based approaches for predicting the severity of bug reports. Journal of Theoretical and Applied Information Technology 99 (6). http://www.jatit.org/volumes/Vol99No6/13Vol99No6.pdf
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Salah, Z.; Abu Elsoud, E. Enhancing Network Security: A Machine Learning-Based Approach for Detecting and Mitigating Krack and Kr00k Attacks in IEEE 802.11. Future Internet 2023, 15, 269. https://doi.org/10.3390/fi15080269
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Zaher Salah, Esraa Elsoud, Kamal Salah, Waleed T. Al-Sit, Manal Maaya'a, Ahmad Al Khawaldeh. Patient-Patient Interactions Visualization for Drug Side Effects in Patients’ Reviews. Indonesian Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Vol.34, No.3, June 2024, pp. 2007~2020. http://doi.org/10.11591/ijeecs.v34.i3.pp2007-2020
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Zaher Salah, Waleed T. Al-Sit, Kamal Salah, Esraa Elsoud. Spatial Domain Noise Removal Filtering for Low-Resolution Digital Images. Indonesian Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Vol.34, No.3, June 2024, pp. 1627~1642 http://doi.org/10.11591/ijeecs.v34.i3.pp1627-1642
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Zaher Salah, Esraa Elsoud, Waleed Al-Sit, Esraa Alhenawi, Fuad Alshraiedeh, Nawaf Alshdaifat. Optimizing Intrusion Detection in 5G Networks: Dimensionality Reduction Techniques. International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Vol.14, No.5, October 2024, pp. 5652~5671. http://doi.org/10.11591/ijece.v14i5.pp5652-5671
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Zaher Salah; Hamza Abu Owida; Esraa Abu Elsoud; Esraa Alhenawi; Suhaila Abuowaida; Nawaf Alshdaifat. An Effective Ensemble Approach in Preventing and Detecting Phishing Attacks for Textual Form. Journal of Future Internet. https://doi.org/10.3390/fi16110414
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Thesis
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“Machine Learning and Sentiment Analysis Approaches for the Analysis of Parliamentary Debates”, PhD thesis, University of Liverpool, United Kingdome, 2014. https://cgi.csc.liv.ac.uk/~frans/CurrentResearch/Thessi/zaherDebateGraphs2014-9-22.pdf
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Journal Papers Accepted and will be published soon:
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Zaher Salah, Esraa Elsoud Kamal Salah. Exploring Patient-Patient Interactions Graphs by Network Analysi. International Journal of Artificial Intelligence (IJ-AI).
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Journal Papers Under Publishing:
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Ayat Mahmoud Al-Hinawi, Esra’a Alhenawi, Zaher Salah, Omar Alidmat, Esraa Abu Elsoud, Raed Alazaidah, Bashar Rizik AlSayyed. Enhancing Concrete Sustainability: A Neural Networks Hybrid Optimization Approach to Predicting Compressive Strength Using Supplementary Cementitious Materials. Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
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Ahmad Aburomman, Suhaila Abuowaida , Zaher Salah, Hamza Abu Owida , Zahid Iqbal, Nawaf Alshdaifat. Advanced Brain Tumor Segmentation via Multi-Stream Hybrid Deep Learning with Integrated Cross-Attention Mechanisms. Journal of Data and Metadata.
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Conference Papers Under Publishing:
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Ahmad Aburomman, Suhaila Abuowaida, Adai Al-Momani, Esraa Al Henawi, Esraa Abu Elsoud, Zaher Salah, Haneen Alzoubi, Huah Yong Chan. Automated Detection of Alzheimer’s Disease Using EfficientNet-B3 Architecture with Transfer Learning. 25th International Arab Conference on Information Technology (ACIT'2024), December 10-12, 2024 -Zarqa, Jordan.
2025-present Associate Professor / Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University, Khobar, KSA..
2020-2025 Associate Professor / The Hashemite University, Jordan.
2015-2020 Assistant Professor / The Hashemite University, Jordan.
2014-2015 Full Time Lecturer- Assistant Professor / The Hashemite University, Jordan.
2011-2014 Teaching and Research Assistant / University of Liverpool, UK.
2008-2011 Full Time Lecturer- Assistant Instructor / The Hashemite University, Jordan.
2004-2008 Teaching and Research Assistant / The Hashemite University, Jordan.
2001-2002 Teaching and Research Assistant / The Hashemite University, Jordan.
2025-present Associate Professor / Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University, Khobar, KSA..
2020-2025 Associate Professor / The Hashemite University, Jordan.
2015-2020 Assistant Professor / The Hashemite University, Jordan.
2014-2015 Full Time Lecturer- Assistant Professor / The Hashemite University, Jordan.
2011-2014 Teaching and Research Assistant / University of Liverpool, UK.
2008-2011 Full Time Lecturer- Assistant Instructor / The Hashemite University, Jordan.
2004-2008 Teaching and Research Assistant / The Hashemite University, Jordan.
2001-2002 Teaching and Research Assistant / The Hashemite University, Jordan.
Visual programming (VB, VB.Net)
Fundamentals of Computer Science
Object Oriented Programming 1 (visual C++, Java Language)
Discrete Mathematics
Algorithms
Information Systems Security
Digital Image Processing
Data Structures
Database Management Systems
eCommerce
Fundamentals of Data Science
Data Mining
Information Retrieval
Data Warehousing Technology
Natural Languages Processing and Text Mining
Machine Learning
Internet of Things (IoT)
Software Engineering
Math Reasoning and Algorithms
Machine Learning, Cyber Security, Information Retrieval, Opinion Mining, Sentiment Analysis, Text Mining, Text Summarization, Text Visualisation, Digital Image Processing and Natural Language Processing.