Mina Farmanbar | University of Stavanger

Contact

Telephone: 51834507

Department

Faculty of Science and Technology

Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

About me

Dr. Mina Farmanbar holds the position of Associate Professor in Computer Science at the University of Stavanger (UiS), Norway. She received a bachelor’s degree in software engineering and M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science in 2012 and 2016 respectively. She has been an active researcher at UiS and Akershus University Hospital since 2017.

Notably, she is recognized among Norway's top 100 women in the AI field, a testament to her impactful contributions, and is currently a deputy leader of the Applied Intelligence and Emerging Technologies (AIxTech) research group. More information about the research group can be found at https://www.uis.no/en/applied-intelligence-and-emerging-technologies.

Additionally, she has been an integral part of the program committee for NORA – Norwegian Artificial Intelligence Research Consortium since 2021, showcasing her dedication to shaping the research landscape in Norway. She has served as the Springer Proceeding Co-Chair/ Editor for the 1st International Conference on Frontiers of Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, and Multidisciplinary Applications.

Keywords: data science, natural language processing, and machine learning applications.

Awards

2024: Best poster award at NORA Annual Conference
2023: Best paper award at FAIEMA
2023: Best paper award at NORA Annual Conference

Currently taught courses:

DAT200 - Algorithms and Data Structures (Bachelor Level)

DAT550 – Data Mining and Deep Learning (Master Level)

Publications

Vitenskapelige publikasjoner

Sulaiman, Muhammad; Farmanbar, Mina; Belbachir, Ahmed Nabil; Rong, Chunming

(2024)

Precision in Building Extraction: Comparing Shallow and Deep Models Using LiDAR Data. I: Frontiers of Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, and Multidisciplinary Applications : 1st International Conference on Frontiers of AI, Ethics, and Multidisciplinary Applications (FAIEMA), Greece, 2023.

Springer Publishing Company.

ISBN 978-981-99-9836-4.

s.431-444.

DOI: 10.1007/978-981-99-9836-4_32

Sulaiman, Muhammad; Finnesand, Erik; Farmanbar, Mina; Belbachir, Nabil; Rong, Chunming

(2024)

Building Precision: Efficient Encoder-Decoder Networks for Remote Sensing Based on Aerial RGB and LiDAR Data.

IEEE Access.

ISSN 2169-3536.

Volum 12.

s.60329-60346.

DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2024.3391416

Shakeri, Arezo; Ahmad Freja, Shaima; Hallaj, yeganeh; Farmanbar, Mina

(2024)

Uncovering linguistic patterns : A machine learning exploration for early dementia detection in speech transcripts . I: 2024 4th International Conference on Applied Artificial Intelligence (ICAPAI).

IEEE conference proceedings.

ISBN 979-8-3503-4976-4.

DOI: 10.1109/ICAPAI61893.2024.10541296

Sulaiman, Muhammad; Farmanbar, Mina; Belbachir, Nabil; Chunming, Rong

(2024)

Genetic Algorithm Empowering Unsupervised Learning for Optimizing Building Segmentation from Light Detection and Ranging Point Clouds.

Remote Sensing.

ISSN 2072-4292.

Volum 16.

Hefte 19.

DOI: 10.3390/rs16193603

Amber, Khuram Pervez; Ahmad, Rizwan; Farmanbar, Mina; Bashir, Muhammad Anser; Mehmood, Sajid; Khan, Muhammad Sajid; Saeed, Muhammad Umer

(2021)

Unlocking Household Electricity Consumption in Pakistan.

Buildings.

ISSN 2075-5309.

Volum 11.

Hefte 11.

DOI: 10.3390/buildings11110566

Farmanbar, Mina; Chunming, Rong

(2020)

Triangulum City Dashboard: An Interactive Data Analytic Platform for Visualizing Smart City Performance.

Processes.

ISSN 2227-9717.

Volum 8.

Hefte 2.

DOI: 10.3390/pr8020250

Mehdipourpirbazari, Aida; Farmanbar, Mina; Chakravorty, Antorweep; Chunming, Rong

(2020)

Short-Term Load Forecasting Using Smart Meter Data: A Generalization Analysis.

Processes.

ISSN 2227-9717.

Volum 8.

Hefte 4.

DOI: 10.3390/pr8040484

Mehdipourpirbazari, Aida; Farmanbar, Mina; Chakravorty, Antorweep; Chunming, Rong

(2020)

Improving Load Forecast Accuracy of Households Using Load Disaggregation Techniques. I: 2020 International Conferences on Internet of Things (iThings) and IEEE Green Computing and Communications (GreenCom) and IEEE Cyber, Physical and Social Computing (CPSCom) and IEEE Smart Data (SmartData) and IEEE Congress on Cybermatics (Cybermatics).

IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers).

ISBN 978-1-7281-7647-5.

s.843-851.

DOI: 10.1109/iThings-GreenCom-CPSCom-SmartData-Cybermatics50389.2020.00140

Farmanbar, Mina; Parham, Kiyan; Arild, Øystein; Chunming, Rong

(2019)

A widespread review of smart grids towards smart cities.

Energies.

ISSN 1996-1073.

Volum 12:4484.

Hefte 23.

s.1-18.

DOI: 10.3390/en12234484

Farmanbar, Mina; Palanisamy, Anandhakumar; Høydal, Anne Britt; Keprate, Arvind; Haug, Gjermund

(2019)

A web based solution to track trawl vessel activities over pipelines in Norwegian Continental Shelf.

IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering.

ISSN 1757-8981.

Volum 700.

Hefte 1.

DOI: 10.1088/1757-899X/700/1/012037

Farmanbar, Mina; Toygar, Onsen

(2017)

Spoof Detection on Face and Palmprint Biometrics.

Signal, Image and Video Processing.

ISSN 1863-1703.

Volum 11.

Hefte 7.

s.1253-1260.

DOI: 10.1007/s11760-017-1082-y

Farmanbar, Mina; Toygar, Onsen

(2016)

Feature Selection for the Fusion of Face and Palmprint Biometrics.

Signal, Image and Video Processing.

ISSN 1863-1703.

Volum 10.

Hefte 5.

s.951-958.

DOI: 10.1007/s11760-015-0845-6

Farmanbar, Mina; Toygar, Onsen

(2015)

A Hybrid Approach for Person Identification Using Palmprint and Face Biometrics.

International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence.

ISSN 0218-0014.

Volum 29.

Hefte 6.

DOI: 10.1142/S0218001415560091

Lotfi, Nasser; Tamouk, Jamshid; Farmanbar, Mina

(2013)

3-SAT Problem A New Memetic-PSO Algorithm.

International Journal of Computer Science and Information Security.

ISSN 1947-5500.

Volum 11.

Hefte 6.

s.1-6.

Tamouk, Jamshid; Lotfi, Nasser; Farmanbar, Mina

(2013)

Satellite image classification methods and Landsat 5TM Bands.

International Journal of Computer Science and Information Security.

ISSN 1947-5500.

Volum 11.

Hefte 6.

s.99-103.

Farmanbar, Mina; Chefranov, Alexander G

(2012)

Investigation of Hill cipher modifications based on permutation and iteration.

International Journal of Computer Science and Information Security.

ISSN 1947-5500.

Volum 10.

Hefte 9.

s.18-24.

Bøker og kapitler

Farmanbar, Mina; Tzamtzi, Maria P.; Verma, Ajit Kumar; Chakravorty, Antorweep

(2024)

Frontiers of Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, and Multidisciplinary Applications : 1st International Conference on Frontiers of AI, Ethics, and Multidisciplinary Applications (FAIEMA), Greece, 2023.

Springer Publishing Company.

ISBN 978-981-99-9836-4.

Hefte ..

Farmanbar, Mina; Tzamtzi, Maria P.; Verma, Ajit Kumar; Chakravorty, Antorweep

(2024)

Frontiers of Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, and Multidisciplinary Applications. FAIEMA 2023.

Springer.

ISBN 978-981-99-9835-7.

Formidling

Shakeri, Arezo; Ahmad Freja, Shaima; Hallaj, yeganeh; Farmanbar, Mina

(2024)

Diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease through Speech: A Comparative Study of GPT Embedding Models and a Traditional NLP Feature Extraction Method .

NORA Annual Conference 2024;

2024-06-03 - 2024-06-04.

Mohammad Haider Ali Bis, Nourin; Farmanbar, Mina; Mehidpour Pirbazari, Aida

(2024)

Exploring Fashion Recommendation System: A Multimodal Clip Approach.

NORA Annual Conference 2024;

2024-06-03 - 2024-06-04.

Erik, Finnesand; Sulaiman, Muhammad; Farmanbar, Mina

(2023)

An Efficient Machine Learning Approach for Building Segmentation Using Aerial Images and LiDAR Data.

NORA Annual Conference 2023;

2023-06-05 - 2023-06-06.

Farmanbar, Mina; Kolstrup, Per Johan

(2020)

Publishing with Open Journal Systems (OJS): the engaged university and library support at the University of Stavanger.

The 15th Munin Conference on Scholarly Publishing 2020;

2020-11-17 - 2020-11-19.

Parham, Kiyan; Farmanbar, Mina; Chunming, Rong; Arild, Øystein

(2019)

Assessing the importance of energy management in smart homes.

4th International Conference on Viable Energy Trends (InVEnT2019);

2019-04-26 - .