Specialties: Machine learning, Data mining, Evolutionary Computation

Hossam Faris is a professor at Information Technology department/King Abdullah II School for Information Technology/ The University of Jordan (Jordan). Hossam Faris received his BA, M.Sc. degrees (with excellent rates) in Computer Science from Yarmouk University and Al-Balqa` Applied University in 2004 and 2008 respectively in Jordan. Since then, he has been awarded a full-time competition-based PhD scholarship from the Italian Ministry of Education and Research to peruse his PhD degrees in e-Business at University of Salento, Italy, where he obtained his PhD degree in 2011.

In 2016, he worked as a Postdoctoral researcher with GeNeura team at the Information and Communication Technologies Research Center (CITIC), University of Granada (Spain).

His research interests include: Applied Computational Intelligence, Evolutionary Computation, Knowledge Systems, Data mining, Semantic Web, and Ontologies.