Dr.
Fouzi Harrag was born on May 26,
1977 in Setif, Algeria. He received the Bachelor, Magister “Master Level” and
Doctorate degrees in Computer Science from Ferhat Abbas University, Setif
(UFAS) in Algeria in 2001, 2005 and 2011, respectively. He joined the computer
science department of Ferhat Abbas University, Setif in 2005. He is now Associate
Professor "A" at the same department. Dr. Fouzi Harrag has taught
several License and Master Courses, as well as supervising a number of
classical system engineers and students of the new LMD system. His main
research focuses in text mining and its applications to corpora in Arabic
Language, in particular the topic classification and segmentation of Arabic
texts. Currently he is interested in several applications of Big Data Mining in
the areas of social networks, healthcare, smart cities, as well as the
application of data mining techniques in the field of software engineering.