Taysir Soliman
Taysir Hassan A. Soliman was born in Assiut, Egypt in 1970. She obtained her B.Sc. in Computer Science from Marymount University, USA in 1990. She got her M.Sc. in computational sciences from Faculty of Science, Cairo University in 1996 and her Ph.D. in Bioinformatics in 2004 from Faculty of Computers & Information Science, Ain Shams University, Egypt on a Joint Supervision with University of Connecticut, USA. She is currently working as an Associate Professor and Head of Information Systems Department, Faculty of Computers & Information, Assiut University, Egypt. Research interests are big data analytics, data mining, semantic data integration, biodiversity, bioinformatics, and spatial data mining. A visiting scientist at IBM, CAS Center, Cairo Division, May 2005-2007. A member at IEEE, ACM SIGKDD, and ACM SIGBIO. A supervisor of, biodiversity informatics, bioinformatics, big data, and GIS Research groups and labs at the Faculty. She published 35 papers in national/international conferences and journals and supervised 25 M.Sc. and Ph.D. thesis. She is Assiut University PI for Biodialog project under the DAAD framework "Hochschuldialog mit der islamischen Welt", a joint project with Friedrich-Schiller University, Jena, Germany, Faculty of Computer and Information Sciences, AinShams University, and Sfax University, Tunisia.