Lama-Afara

Dr. Lama Affara is currently an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Beirut Arab University and a board member at the Syndicate of Computer Science in Lebanon.She began her studies at Rafik Hariri University from which she holds a BSc in Computer Science. She finished an MSc in Computer Sciences from American University of Beirut where she also held a graduate assistant position at the Dean’s Office in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. She completed a PhD in Computer Science from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in 2018.During her PhD studies, she was a graduate research assistant at the Image and Video Understanding Lab at the Visual Computer Center. Her PhD work focused on urban image analysis with convolutional sparse coding. Her current research interests are broadly in image processing and computer vision, and specifically in image features and understanding.

Research Interests

• Image Processing
• Computer Vision

Selected Publications

• Affara, Lama, Ali El-Zaart, and Rabih Damaj. "WATER BODY SATELLITE IMAGES SEGMENTATION USING MAXWELL BOLTZMANN DISTRIBUTION." BAU Journal-Science and Technology 5.2 (2024): 9.
• AFFARA, LAMA A., and BILAL E. NAKHAL. "COMPUTER VISION AIDED HOTSPOT CREATION IN VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS." Architecture and Planning Journal (APJ)28.3 (2023): 5.
• Shaheen, Sara, Lama Affara, and Bernard Ghanem. "Constrained convolutional sparse coding for parametric based reconstruction of line drawings." Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision. 2017.
• Affara, Lama, et al. "Large scale asset extraction for urban images." Computer Vision–ECCV 2016: 14th European Conference, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, October 11-14, 2016, Proceedings, Part III 14. Springer International Publishing, 2016.

Fall 2024-2025

• CMPS345: Discrete Sructures II
• CMPS445: Concepts of Programming Laguages
• CMPS452: Introduction to Data Mining
• BMIS303: Programming for Business Applications

Spring 2023-2024

• CMPS345: Discrete Sructures II
• CMPS342: Database Systems
• CMPS344: Software Engineering

Fall 2023-2024

• CMPS345: Discrete Sructures II
• CMPS327: Image Processing
• MDPH613: Qualitative Analysis of Medical Images

Spring 2022-2023

• CMPS248: Discrete Sructures
• CMPS342: Database Systems
• CMPS344: Software Engineering

Fall 2022-2023

• CMPS445: Concepts of Programming Laguages
• CMPS327: Image Processing
• MDPH613: Qualitative Analysis of Medical Images
• MATH111: Introduction to Calculus and Analytic Geometry 

Spring 2021-2022

• CMPS248: Discrete Sructures
• CMPS342: Database Systems
• CMPS344: Software Engineering
• CMPS642: Advanced Theory of Computation

Fall 2021-2022

• CMPS445: Concepts of Programming Laguages
• CMPS327: Image Processing
• CMPS441: Fundamentals of Algorithms
• GRAD403: Interactive Design
• CMPS643: Advanced Programming
• MDPH613: Qualitative Analysis of Medical Images

Spring 2020-2021

• CMPS248: Discrete Sructures
• CMPS242: Object Oriented Programming
• CMPS246: Web Programming
• CMPS441: Fundamentals of Algorithms
• CMPS347: Data Structures
• CMPS647: Advanced Image Processing