Ali Rafea

[1] Rafea continued his studies at Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France, where he received another graduate diploma in Computer Science (D.E.A.)

[1] In 1993, Rafea was the Chair of Computer Science Department, Institute of Statistical Studies and Research, Cairo University.

[1] His research interests include data, text and web mining, natural language processing, and machine translation, and knowledge engineering and knowledge-based system development.

In 2008, the Egyptian Society for Spiritual and Cultural Research (ESSCR), under the leadership of Ali Rafea organized Peace Responsibility Symposium with the International Association of Sufism (IAS).

Rafea has led many projects, using artificial intelligence and expert systems technologies for the development of the agriculture sector in Egypt.

[1] Rafea was also the principal investigator of several projects for developing intelligent systems and machine translation in collaboration with European and American Universities.

He was a member of the Center of Excellence on Data Mining and Computer Modeling, sponsored by the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology.