Ahmed Barnawi is a professor of information and communications technologies at Faculty of Computing and IT in King Abdulaziz University. He is the managing director of the KAU Cloud computing and Big Data Research group.
He acquired his Phd from the University of Bradford, UK, in 2006 and his MSC from the University of Manchester, UK, in 2002. Prof. Barnawi acted as a visiting Professors in Canada, Germany and Slovakia.
Prof. Barnawi is an active researcher with good research awards track. His research interests include applications of Artificial intelligence in medicine, military and environment, advanced mobile robotic systems, future generation mobile systems, Big data, cloud computing, and IT infrastructure architecture.
Prof. Barnawi has registered more than 10 patents and published about 150 papers in peer reviewed impact factor journals.