Mohamed Abouelenien, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Computer and Information Science
Mohamed Abouelenien
College of Engineering and Computer Science
Computer and Information Science
DAIR
[email protected]
313-593-3963
213 Computer and Information Science Building | 4901 Evergreen Road | Dearborn, MI 48128
schedule By appointment on Zoom on Wednesdays 2:30 鈥 4:45 pm
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Teaching Areas:

Computer and Information Science, Data Science, Economics and Computation

Research Areas:

Data Science, Machine Learning, Optimization, and Intelligent Systems, Operations Research and Decision Science, Wearable Sensors

Biography and Education

Education

  • Ph.D., University of North Texas
  • M.S., Arab Academy for Science and Technology
  • B.S., Arab Academy for Science and Technology

Teaching and Research

Courses Taught

Selected Publications

  1. K. Das, M. Papakostas, K. Riani, A. Gasiorowski, M. Abouelenien, M. Burzo, and R. Mihalcea, 鈥淒etection and Recognition of Driver Distraction Using Multimodal Signals鈥 in ACM Transaction on Interactive Intelligent Systems. Accepted, 2022.
  2. U. M. Sen, V. Perez-Rosas, B. Yanikoglu, M. Abouelenien, M. Burzo and R. Mihalcea, 鈥淢ultimodal Deception Detection using Real-Life Trial Data鈥 in IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, 13(1): 306-319, 2022.
  3. 1. S. Sharak, K. Das, K. Riani, M. Abouelenien, M. Burzo, R. Mihalcea, 鈥淐ontact Versus Noncontact Detection of Driver's Drowsiness鈥 in the 26th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, ICPR, Canada, August 2022.
  4. M. Papakostas, K. Das, M. Abouelenien, R. Mihalcea, M. Burzo, 鈥淒istracted and Drowsy Driving Modeling Using Deep Physiological Representations and Multitask Learning鈥 in Applied Sciences, 11(1):88, 2021.
  5. M. Kamboj, C. Hessler, P. Asnani, K. Riani and M. Abouelenien, "Multimodal Political Deception Detection," in IEEE MultiMedia, vol. 28, no. 1, pp. 94-102, 2021.
  6. M. Abouelenien and M. Burzo, 鈥淒etecting Thermal Discomfort of Drivers Using Physiological Sensors and Thermal Imaging,鈥 in IEEE Intelligent Systems, Vol. 34, No. 5, pp. 3-13, 2019.
  7. M. Abouelenien, M. Burzo, V. P茅rez-Rosas, R. Mihalcea, H. Sun and B. Zhao, 鈥淕ender Differences in Multimodal Contact-Free Deception Detection,鈥 in IEEE MultiMedia Journal, Vol. 26, No. 3, pp. 19-30, 2019.
  8. A. Kumbhar, M. Savargaonkar, A. Nalwaya, C. Bian and M. Abouelenien, 鈥淜eyword Extraction Performance Analysis,鈥 in MPRAG in 2019 IEEE Conference on Multimedia Information Processing and Retrieval (MIPR), San Jose, CA, USA, March 2019.
  9. X. Yuan, L. Xie, and M. Abouelenien 鈥淎 Regularized Ensemble Framework of Deep Learning for Cancer Detection from Multi-class, Imbalanced Training Data鈥, Pattern Recognition, 77:160鈥172, 2018.
  10. M. Abouelenien, V. Perez-Rosas, R. Mihalcea, and M. Burzo, 鈥淒etecting Deceptive Behavior Via Integration of Discriminative Features from Multiple Modalities鈥, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, vol. 12, no. 5, pp. 1042-1055, 2017.
  11. M. Abouelenien, V. Perez-Rosas, R. Mihalcea, and M. Burzo, 鈥淢ultimodal Gender Detection鈥, 19th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, ICMI 2017, Glasgow, Scotland, November 13-17th, 2017.
  12. M. Abouelenien, V. Perez-Rosas, B. Zhao, R. Mihalcea, and M. Burzo, 鈥淕ender-based Multimodal Deception Detection鈥, 32nd ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, ACM SAC 2017, Marrakesh, Morocco, April 2017. 
  13. M. Abouelenien, M. Burzo, R. Mihalcea, "Human Acute Stress Detection via Integration of Physiological Signals and Thermal Imaging", 9th ACM Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments, PETRA 2016, Corfu, Greece, July 2016. 
  14. M. Abouelenien, and M. Burzo, and R. Mihalcea  鈥淐ascaded Multimodal Analysis of Alertness Related Features for Drivers Safety Applications鈥 ACM 8th international conference on Pervasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments, PETRA 2015, Corfu, Greece, July 1-3, 2015.
  15. M. Abouelenien and X. Yuan 鈥淪ampleBoost: Improving Boosting Performance by Destabilizing Weak Learners Based on Weighted Error Analysis鈥 In Proceedings of 21st IEEE International Conference on Pattern Recognition, IEEE ICPR 2012, Tsukuba, Japan, November 11-15, 2012.

Awards and Recognition

  • 2019  Toyota Research Institute research grant
  • 2019  Procter & Gamble research grant
  • 2019  ETS research grant
  • 2019  Ford-UM Research Alliance research grant
  • 2016  Best Paper Award, ACM PETRA 2016
  • 2009-2013  Academic Achievement Scholarship (AAS) - University of North Texas UNT
  • 2013颅  Ranked number one for the Thesis/Dissertation fellowship in the college of engineering at UNT
  • 2012 Nominated for the best paper/poster award in the ICMLA鈥2012 conference
  • 2006-2008  Academic Scholarship of the Arab Academy - AAS
  • 2005 Degree of honor, Arab Academy for Science and Technology - AAST