Name: Nasser Tairan
Education: Ph.D., Computer Science, University of Essex, United Kingdom, 2012.
Academic experience:
 Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, College of Computer Science,
King Khalid University, Science 2012 to Till date.
 Lab Assistant (LA), School of Computer Science & Electronic Engineering, University of
Essex, 2010-2011.
 Teaching Assistant (TA), College of Computer Science, King Khalid University, 20012003.
Non-academic experience:
 System Programmer in Saudi Electrical Company from 1999-2001.
Certifications or professional registrations: None
Current membership in professional organizations: None
Honors and awards:
 M.Sc. Artificial Intelligence with Merit, University of Essex, U.K., 2007.
 M.Sc. Software Engineering with Distinction, University of Bradford, U.K., 2005.
 B.Sc. Computer Science withDistinction, King Abdul-Aziz University, 1999.
Service activities:
 Head, Department of Computer Science, College of Computer Science, King Khalid
University
 Vice Dean of Quality and Academic Development, College of Computer Science, King
Khalid University.
 Chairman,Curriculum Committee, College of Computer Science.
 Member,Quality Committee, King Khalid University.
 Member,International Collaboration Committee, King Khalid University.
Most important publications and presentations from the past five years:
 Tairan, Nasser, and Qingdu Zhang. “Population-based guided local search: Some
preliminary experimental results”. IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC),
2010.
 Tairan, Nasser, and Qingdu Zhang. “P-GLS-II:an enhanced version of
the
populationbased guided local search”, GECCO 2011.
 Jan, Muhammed, Tairan, Nasser and Khanum, Rashida. “Threshold Based Dynamic and
Adaptive Penalty Functions for Constrained Multiobjective Optimization”, IEEE First
Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Simulation and Modeling, 2013.
 Tairan, Nasser , Jan, Muhammed and Khanum, Rashida. “Parallel Guided Local Search
and Some Preliminary Experimental Results for Continuous Optimization ”, Second
International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Soft Computing (AISC), 2014.
 Algarni, Abdulmohsen and Tairan, Nasser “Documents Clustering for Noise Removal”,
European Conference on Data Mining (ECDM’14), 2014.
 Algarni, Abdulmohsen and Tairan, Nasser “Feature Selection and Term Weighting”, 2014
IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence , WIC 2014.
Most recent professional development activities: None