Education

PhD in Computer Science\ Artificial Intelligence, University of the West of England, UK

MSc in Computer Science, University of Jordan, Jordan

BSc in Computer Science, University of Jordan, Jordan

Research Interests

• Health Informatics
• Data Mining & Knowledge Discovery
• Marketing Intelligence
• Quality of Higher Education
• Ontology
• Applied Data Mining
• Decision Support Systems
• Cancer Informatics
• UNSDGs

Selected Publications

• Kharbat, F.F., Kannan, Y., Gleason, K., Qasim, A., (2024). Corporate communication during the COVID-19 crisis in a multicultural environment: culture and tweet impact, Electronic Commerce Research, 2024, 24(1), pp. 675–709.

• Odeh, Y.,Tbaishat, D., Kharbat, F., Shamieh, O., Odeh, M., (2023). Linking Palliative Homecare to the Universal Health Coverage Principles and the United Nations. International Arab Journal of Information Technology (IAJIT), 20(3A). 
• Kharbat, F. F., & Daabes, A. S. A. (2021). E-proctored exams during the COVID-19 pandemic: A close understanding. Education and Information Technologies, 1-17.
• Odeh, M., Kharbat, F. F., Yousef, R., Odeh, Y., Tbaishat, D., Hakooz, N., ... & Mansour, A. H. (2021). iOntoBioethics: A Framework for the Agile Development of Bioethics Ontologies in Pandemics, Applied to COVID-19. Frontiers in Medicine, 8, 530.
• Alshawabkeh, A. A., Woolsey, M. L., & Kharbat, F. F. (2021). Using online information technology for deaf students during COVID-19: A closer look from experience. Heliyon, 7(5), e06915.
• Kharbat, F.F., Alshawabkeh, A. and Woolsey, M.L. (2020), "Identifying gaps in using artificial intelligence to support students with intellectual disabilities from education and health perspectives", Aslib Journal of Information Management, Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print. https://doi.org/10.1108/AJIM-02-2020-0054
• Qasim, A., & Kharbat, F. F. (2020). Blockchain technology, business data analytics, and artificial intelligence: Use in the accounting profession and ideas for inclusion into the accounting curriculum. Journal of Emerging Technologies in Accounting, 17 (1): 107–117. https://doi.org/10.2308/jeta-52649.
• Al-Qerem, A., Kharbat, F., Nashwan, S., Ashraf, S., & Blaou, K. (2020). General model for best feature extraction of EEG using discrete wavelet transform wavelet family and differential evolution. International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks, 16(3), 1550147720911009.
• Abu Daabes, A. & Kharbat F. (2019). A Content Analysis of Arabic YouTube Videos for Cancer Treatment. International Journal of Health Governance, 24(4). Emerald Publishing Limited.
• Kharbat, F., Bull, L. & Odeh, M. (2007) Mining Breast Cancer Data with XCS. In D. Thierens et al. (eds) GECOO-2007: Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference. ACM Press, pp2066-2073.
• Kharbat, F., Bull, L. & Odeh, M. (2005) Revisiting Genetic Selection in the XCS Learning Classifier System. In Proceedings of the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation. IEEE, pp2061-2068.

Teaching Courses

• Computer Organization
• Database Systems
• Artificial Intelligence
• Computer Graphics
• Discrete Structure
• Data mining and knowledge discovery

 

 

 

 

Memberships

IEEE 

 

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all.

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