Dr. Fahad Algarni Professor, Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence University of Bisha, CCIT, Building 18, Room: 11, Email: fahad.alqarni@ub.edu.sa Education: Ph.D. Information Technology, Monash University, Australia, 2016 M.Sc. Computer Networks, LT Melbourne University, Australia, 2010 B.Sc. Computer Science, King Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia, 2005 Academic experience: University of Bisha, Saudi Arabia, College of Computing and Information Technology Dean, 2019– present Saudi Arabia, College of Computing and Information Technology Vice-Dean, 2017– 2018 University of Bisha, Saudi Arabia, Professor, 2024 – present University of Bisha, Saudi Arabia, Associate Professor, 2021 – 2024 University of Bisha, Saudi Arabia, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, 2017– 2021 Warwick University, UK, Practical Training, “System design and implementation”, November 2012 – February 2013 King Khaled University, Saudi Arabia, Lecturer, Faculty of Science and Arts, Department of Computer Science, Oct 2012 – Aug 2015 King Khaled University, Saudi Arabia, Teaching assistant, Faculty of Science and Arts, Department of Computer Science, Jun 2005 – Oct 2012 Non-Academic Experience: WMG Center, UK, Visiting PhD Student, Oct 2012 – Feb 2013 WMG Center, UK, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, 2016 – 2017 Chamber of Commerce, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, IT Support, Oct 2003 – June 2004 Certifications or Professional Registrations Azure AI Fundamentals CISSP Effective Leadership in High Education Current Membership in Professional Organizations 1. IEEE, 2021 -present 2. Editorial Board Member, CMC Journal, 2020- present 3. Saudi IT Association 4. Saudi Society of Data Science, 2019- present 5. Reviewer of the HPC conference. 6. Reviewer of the future technology conference FTC. Honors and Awards 1. First Class Honor, Bachelor of Computer Science, King Abdulaziz University, 2005 2. Teaching Excellence Award, King Khaled University, (2006). 3. Scholarship for PhD degree (Information Technology) at Monash University, Australia, granted by King Khaled University (2010-2016). 4. Scholarship for MSc degree (Computer Networks) at LT Melbourne University, Australia, granted by King Khaled University (2006-2009). 5. Awarded the distinguished student for 2nd out of 71 students, King Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia, 2005. Service activities (within and outside of the institution) Member in many councils, units and committees Most Important Publications and presentations (Past five years) 1. Aqeel, S., Khan, A.S., Abbasi, I.A., Algarni, F et al. Enhancing IoT security with a DNA-based lightweight cryptography system. Sci Rep 15, 13367 (2025). 2. Fahad Algarni, A lightweight and secure authentication protocol for visually impaired and handicapped people in the telehealth system, Alexandria Engineering Journal, Volume 106, 2024, Pages 793-808, ISSN 1110-0168, 3. Amina Salhi, Manel Ayadi, F.M. Aldosari, Fahad Algarni, Atef Ismail, Marwa M. Emam, Multilevel thresholding segmentation of medical images using the Crested Porcupine Optimizer with Enhanced Solution Quality and Gaussian distribution: Applications to liver, COVID-19, and brain diseases, Biomedical Signal Processing and Control, Volume 113, Part A, 2026, 108847, ISSN 1746-8094, 4. H. Aouabed, M. Elloumi, *F. Algarni* , Biclustering Results Visualization of Gene Expression Data: A Review, Journal of Engineering Research and Sciences (JENRS), Vol. 3, Issue 10, Sheridan, Wyoming, USA: (November 2024), p55-68. 5. Khan, Mohammad Ayoub, and Fahad Algarni. "A healthcare monitoring system for the diagnosis of heart disease in the IoMT cloud environment using MSSO-ANFIS." IEEE Access 8 (2020): 122259-122269. 6. Ghaleb M., Almurtadha Y., Algarni F., Abdullah M., et. el. (2022). Mining the Chatbot Brain to Improve COVID-19 Bot Response Accuracy, Journal of Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol. 70, No. 2, pp. 2619-2638. (ISI Cited Publication/2021, Q2, IF:3.86). 7. Khan, Muhammad Asghar, Fahad Algarni., et al. "A provable and privacy-preserving authentication scheme for UAV-enabled intelligent transportation systems." IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics 18.5 (2021): 3416-3425. 8. Khan, M. A., Khan, R., Algarni, F., Kumar, I., Choudhary, A., & Srivastava, A. (2022). Performance evaluation of regression models for COVID-19: A statistical and predictive perspective. Ain Shams Engineering Journal, 13(2), 101574. Quasim, M. T., Khan, M. A., Algarni, F., Alharthy, A., & Alshmrani, G. M. M. (2020). Blockchain frameworks. In Decentralised internet of things (pp. 75-89). Springer, Cham. 9. Khalifa, M., Algarni, F., Khan, M. A., Ullah, A., & Aloufi, K. (2021). A lightweight cryptography (LWC) framework to secure memory heap in Internet of Things. Alexandria Engineering Journal, 60(1), 1489-1497. 10. Karar, M. E., Abdel-Aty, A. H., Algarni, F., Hassan, M. F., Abdou, M. A., & Reyad, O. (2022). Smart IoT-based system for detecting RPW larvae in date palms using mixed depthwise convolutional networks. Alexandria Engineering Journal, 61(7), 5309-5319. 11. Jan, S. U., Abbasi, I. A., & Algarni, F. (2021). A key agreement scheme for IoD deployment civilian drone. IEEE Access, 9, 149311-149321. 12. Elsedimy, E. I., & Algarni, F. (2021). Toward enhancing the energy efficiency and minimizing the SLA violations in cloud data centers. Applied Computational Intelligence and Soft Computing, 2021. 13. Algarni, F., Ullah, A., & Aloufi, K. (2019). Enhancing the Linguistic Landscape with the Proper Deployment of the Internet of Things Technologies: A Case Study of Smart Malls. In Proceedings of the Future Technologies Conference (pp. 13-39). Springer, Cham. 14. Algarni, F., (2023). A novel quality-based computation offloading framework for edge cloud-supported internet of things. Alexandria Engineering Journal. 2023. Research Areas of Interest ● Wireless Networks, Artificial Intelligence, Cloud Computing, Cyber Security, IoT, Digital Transformation, Big Data, Machine Learning, Bioinformatics and Medical Informatics. Professional development activities (most recent) ● Trainer – Cyber Security Strategies, University of Bisha, KSA, 2022. ● Trainer – Cloud Computing, University of Bisha, KSA, 2022. ● Trainer – Academic Writing and Citation, 3 workshops, University of Bisha, KSA, 2021. ● Trainee- Accreditation Reviewer for Institutions and Programs, 4-days workshop, Education and Training Evaluation Commission, KSA, 2022. ● Trainee- Cyber Security Teaching, 4-days workshop, the Saudi Commission of Cyber Security, KSA, 2021. ● Using Stata for Data Science, UTS, Australia, 2015. ● Trainee- WMG system analysis and design, Warwick University, UK, 2013. ● Trainee -Effective Leadership in High Education workshop, La Trobe University, Australia, 2007.

1. Aqeel, S., Khan, A.S., Abbasi, I.A., Algarni, F et al. Enhancing IoT security with a DNA-based lightweight cryptography system. Sci Rep 15, 13367 (2025). 2. Fahad Algarni, A lightweight and secure authentication protocol for visually impaired and handicapped people in the telehealth system, Alexandria Engineering Journal, Volume 106, 2024, Pages 793-808, ISSN 1110-0168, 3. Amina Salhi, Manel Ayadi, F.M. Aldosari, Fahad Algarni, Atef Ismail, Marwa M. Emam, Multilevel thresholding segmentation of medical images using the Crested Porcupine Optimizer with Enhanced Solution Quality and Gaussian distribution: Applications to liver, COVID-19, and brain diseases, Biomedical Signal Processing and Control, Volume 113, Part A, 2026, 108847, ISSN 1746-8094, 4. H. Aouabed, M. Elloumi, *F. Algarni* , Biclustering Results Visualization of Gene Expression Data: A Review, Journal of Engineering Research and Sciences (JENRS), Vol. 3, Issue 10, Sheridan, Wyoming, USA: (November 2024), p55-68. 5. Khan, Mohammad Ayoub, and Fahad Algarni. "A healthcare monitoring system for the diagnosis of heart disease in the IoMT cloud environment using MSSO-ANFIS." IEEE Access 8 (2020): 122259-122269. 6. Ghaleb M., Almurtadha Y., Algarni F., Abdullah M., et. el. (2022). Mining the Chatbot Brain to Improve COVID-19 Bot Response Accuracy, Journal of Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol. 70, No. 2, pp. 2619-2638. (ISI Cited Publication/2021, Q2, IF:3.86). 7. Khan, Muhammad Asghar, Fahad Algarni., et al. "A provable and privacy-preserving authentication scheme for UAV-enabled intelligent transportation systems." IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics 18.5 (2021): 3416-3425. 8. Khan, M. A., Khan, R., Algarni, F., Kumar, I., Choudhary, A., & Srivastava, A. (2022). Performance evaluation of regression models for COVID-19: A statistical and predictive perspective. Ain Shams Engineering Journal, 13(2), 101574. Quasim, M. T., Khan, M. A., Algarni, F., Alharthy, A., & Alshmrani, G. M. M. (2020). Blockchain frameworks. In Decentralised internet of things (pp. 75-89). Springer, Cham. 9. Khalifa, M., Algarni, F., Khan, M. A., Ullah, A., & Aloufi, K. (2021). A lightweight cryptography (LWC) framework to secure memory heap in Internet of Things. Alexandria Engineering Journal, 60(1), 1489-1497. 10. Karar, M. E., Abdel-Aty, A. H., Algarni, F., Hassan, M. F., Abdou, M. A., & Reyad, O. (2022). Smart IoT-based system for detecting RPW larvae in date palms using mixed depthwise convolutional networks. Alexandria Engineering Journal, 61(7), 5309-5319. 11. Jan, S. U., Abbasi, I. A., & Algarni, F. (2021). A key agreement scheme for IoD deployment civilian drone. IEEE Access, 9, 149311-149321. 12. Elsedimy, E. I., & Algarni, F. (2021). Toward enhancing the energy efficiency and minimizing the SLA violations in cloud data centers. Applied Computational Intelligence and Soft Computing, 2021. 13. Algarni, F., Ullah, A., & Aloufi, K. (2019). Enhancing the Linguistic Landscape with the Proper Deployment of the Internet of Things Technologies: A Case Study of Smart Malls. In Proceedings of the Future Technologies Conference (pp. 13-39). Springer, Cham. 14. Algarni, F., (2023). A novel quality-based computation offloading framework for edge cloud-supported internet of things. Alexandria Engineering Journal. 2023.