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Dr. AHMAD AL-OMARI

Associate Professor(with Tenure) since Jan., 2020 and Erasmus+ certified trainer. Became the first Jordanian nvidia Deep Learning Institute (DLI) Certified Instructor and DLI University Ambassador in April, 2020. He received the B.Sc. degree of electrical and computer engineering from Yarmouk university, Irbid, Jordan, in 2004. He was a teaching assistant and a lab engineer with the department of electrical and computer engineering, Yarmouk university, from 2004 to 2010. He was involved in more than 30 different projects on computers, communication, and electronic engineering. He received a grant of over $150,000 from Yarmouk university to pursue the Ph.D. degree of bioinformatics and in the same theme he received a Teaching Assistant grant of over $133,000 from The University of Georgia/USA, which is considered the oldest public university in the US and one of the biggest and the topmost ranked university as well. Dr. Al-Omari was a member of professor Jonathan Arnold's  research group with the university of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA, on systems biology and genetic networks.


He joined the Graduate Program at the University of Georgia in August 26th, 2010 and graduated on May 8th, 2015. In return, Dr. Al-Omari was a teaching assistant for graduate level courses in the Bioinformatics program. He also taught an advanced programming course, BINF 6003, titled “A Practical Advanced Programming Course/C++ Object Oriented Design and GPU/CUDA” during summer term of 2014. Moreover, was an instructor for the CUDA teaching center at the University of Georgia.


Dr. Al-Omari is a grant proposal writer and has many published papers and posters in the bioinformatics, numerical methods, and parallel algorithms on the GPGPUs. He attended 5 international conferences that are related to his field. Recently, he has gotten a grant from Nvidia company including that 1) Yarmouk University has been selected as a GPU Education Center around the world. 2) GPU teaching kit consisting of (10) books, one Tesla K40 {active} and two Titan X GPUs  3)  $2500.​With total amount of money $13000.

He is considered to be the first Bioinformatician getting Ph.D. of Bioinformatics in Jordan and might be in the Middle East.

He was an assistant professor and a researcher at Yarmouk university from 2015 to 2020. His current research interests include parallel computation, systems biology, finite elements method, machine learning and pattern recognition, biological circuits and gene networks, and numerical analysis.


Loves his parents, family, job, and country, in addition to books and nature.  



We will not give up, we win or die

نحن لن نستسلم، ننتصر او نموت :عمر المختار

 

 

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Al-Omari has been granted a second year of teaching assistantship at UGA.7/1/2014
Al-Omari Defended his Ph.D. Dissertation Successfully:   http://iob.uga.edu/news/ahmad-al-omari-successfully-defends-dissertation/  5/8/2015
Al-Omari has received a grant from Nvidia company to set up Yarmouk University as a CUDA Education center  1/1/2016
"اليرموك مركز عالمي لتعليم لغة البرمجة المتوازية CUDA" http://yunn.yu.edu.jo/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=6798:-cuda&catid=1:yu-news&Itemid=1142/1/2016
اليرموك تنفرد عربيا بطرح تخصص ذو مجالات وظيفية متعددة https://www.yu.edu.jo/index.php/news-ar/1491-2019-07-31-08-24-319/28/2016
Al-Omari has established a Parallel Computation Incubator uses GPGPUs k40 in the Al-Hijjawi College of Engineering with a staff of 8 Biomedical Informatics Engineers:https://eic.yu.edu.jo/index.php/depts/parallel-processing11/11/2016
Al-Omari has been granted a training for international project management by Erasmus +-EUnit (Spian, France, Italy) 5/21/2017
In page 41. The University of Georgia Magazine has selected Dr. Al-Omari to write about him from among the whole alumni graduate students: https://ugamagazine.uga.edu/issue/Winter-2017 12/13/2017
Al-Omari has received a grant of $4300 from the Scientific Research and Graduate Studies at YU to Simulate Genetic Toggle Switch using RLC Electrical Circuit 12/21/2017
Al-Omari is the Editor Member in the Gavin Publishers journal: https://gavinpublishers.com/journals/board_members/computer-science-and-systems-biology-an-open-access.html2/11/2018
Al-Omari has been mentioned on the institute of Bioinformatics website at the University of Georgia-USA: https://iob.uga.edu/2018/01/10/ahmad-al-omari-bioinformatics-phd-15-featured-in-georgia-magazine/2/11/2018
Dr. Al-Omari has been promoted to Associate Professor https://www.yu.edu.jo/index.php/news-ar/2157-2020-01-22-09-17-221/20/2020
Dr. Al-Omari has been granetd NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute (DLI) University Ambassadorship:https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/deep-learning-ai/education/4/1/2020
Dr. Al-Omari became NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute (DLI) Certified Instructor4/1/2020
Dr. Al-Omari selected as Assistant Dean for Research & Graduate Studies:https://www.yu.edu.jo/index.php/news-events/newscen-m/2842-2020-10-01-06-31-419/27/2020
Al-Omari has received a grant of $10000 from the Scientific Research and Graduate Studies at YU to Design a Novel Antifungal Peptides: exploiting Machine Learning (ML).12/20/2020
 

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