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Co-Supervised with Prof. Mohamed Ibn kahla.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Biography<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Ali Farhat received his BSc. (2016) and MSc. (2018) degrees in Electrical Engineering from Qatar University, Qatar. Ali was ranked first on the engineering batch graduated in 2016. His graduation project entitled \u201cHD ANPR on Heterogeneous SoC Platform\u201d which won the second place at the Electrical Engineering Senior Design Project contest. His master thesis was \u201cPedestrian Detection Using Motion Saliency Aided Convolutional Neural Network\u201d. Ali worked as a Graduate Assistant (GA) at the KINDI Research Center (2016-2017) and the Electrical Engineering Department (2017-2018) at Qatar University. Currently, Ali is a Ph.D. candidate at the Systems and Computer Engineering Department at Carleton University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Research Interests<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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His research interests include computer security, internet of things, artificial intelligence, resource management for security services of IoT systems, image processing and video processing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Publications<\/b><\/h2>\n

Journal Papers<\/b><\/h3>\n

A. Farhat, O. Hommos, A. Al-Zawqari, A. Al-Qahtani, F. Bensaali, A. Amira and X. Zhai, \u201cOptical character recognition on heterogeneous SoC for HD automatic number plate recognition system,\u201d EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing, vol. 2018, p. 58, 2018\/07\/11 2018.<\/p>\n

A. A. S. Ali, A. Farhat, S. Mohamad, A. Amira, F. Bensaali, M. Benammar and A. Bermak, \u201cEmbedded Platform for Gas Applications Using Hardware\/Software Co-Design and RFID,\u201d IEEE Sensors Journal, vol. 18, pp. 4633-4642, 2018.<\/p>\n

A. Al-Zawqari, O. Hommos, A. Al-Qahtani, A. A. H. Farhat, F. Bensaali, A. Amira and X. Zhai, \u201cHD number plate localization and character segmentation on the Zynq heterogeneous SoC\u201d. Journal of Real-Time Image Processing, 2018.<\/p>\n

Conference Papers<\/b><\/p>\n

A. A. H. Farhat, A. Al-Zawqari, O. Hommos, A. Al-Qahtani, F. Bensaali, A. Amira and X. Zhai, \u201cOCR-Based Hardware Implementation for Qatari Number Plate on the Zynq SoC\u201d, 2017 9th IEEE-GCC Conference and Exhibition (GCCCE), Manama, 2017, pp. 1-9.<\/p>\n

A. Farhat, A. Al-Zawqari, A. Al-Qahtani, O. Hommos, F. Bensaali, A. Amira and X. Zhai, \u201cOCR based feature extraction and template matching algorithms for Qatari number plate\u201d, 2016 International Conference on Industrial Informatics and Computer Systems (CIICS), Sharjah, 2016, pp. 1-5.<\/p>\n

O. Hommos, A. Al-Qahtani, A. Farhat, A. Al-Zawqari, F. Bensaali, A. Amira and X. Zhai, \u201cHD Qatari ANPR system,\u201d 2016 International Conference on Industrial Informatics and Computer Systems (CIICS), Sharjah, 2016, pp. 1-5.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cu_people_first_name":"Ali","cu_people_last_name":"Farhat","cu_people_initials":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_people_type":[37],"cu_people_expertise":[],"class_list":["post-147","cu_people","type-cu_people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cu_people_type-phd-alumni"],"acf":{"cu_people_job_title":"Ph.D. Alumni","cu_people_degree":"Master of Science in Electrical Engineering, 2018","cu_building":false,"cu_people_office_num":"","cu_people_pronoun":"none","cu_people_designation":"","cu_people_email":"Alifarhat3@cmail.carleton.ca","cu_people_phone":"+1-289-439-6234","cu_people_phone_ext":"","cu_people_linkedin":"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/eealifarhat\/","cu_people_bluesky":"","cu_people_twitter":"","cu_people_instagram":"","cu_people_facebook":"","cu_people_website":"","cu_people_orcid":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/ngn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/ngn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/ngn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_people"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/ngn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/ngn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":939,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/ngn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/147\/revisions\/939"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/ngn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/ngn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_people_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/ngn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_type?post=147"},{"taxonomy":"cu_people_expertise","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/ngn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_expertise?post=147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}