Fayçal Bensaali

5.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
165 papers, 3.7k citations indexed

About

Fayçal Bensaali is a scholar working on Biomedical Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. According to data from OpenAlex, Fayçal Bensaali has authored 165 papers receiving a total of 3.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 59 papers in Biomedical Engineering, 49 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 48 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. Recurrent topics in Fayçal Bensaali's work include Smart Grid Energy Management (24 papers), Building Energy and Comfort Optimization (19 papers) and Vehicle License Plate Recognition (17 papers). Fayçal Bensaali is often cited by papers focused on Smart Grid Energy Management (24 papers), Building Energy and Comfort Optimization (19 papers) and Vehicle License Plate Recognition (17 papers). Fayçal Bensaali collaborates with scholars based in Qatar, United Kingdom and Greece. Fayçal Bensaali's co-authors include Abbes Amira, Yassine Himeur, Abdullah Alsalemi, Xiaojun Zhai, George Dimitrakopoulos, Khalida Ghanem, Hamza Djelouat, Iraklis Varlamis, Aya Nabil Sayed and Christos Sardianos and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews and Journal of Cleaner Production.

In The Last Decade

Fayçal Bensaali

158 papers receiving 3.5k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Artificial intelligence based anomaly detection of energy consumption in buildings: A review, current trends and new perspectives

2021 400 citations Yassine Himeur, Abdullah Alsalemi et al. Applied Energy profile →
AI-big data analytics for building automation and management systems: a survey, actual challenges and future perspectives

2022 247 citations Yassine Himeur, Fayçal Bensaali et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Fayçal Bensaali Qatar	34	1.2k	764	682	644	586	165	3.7k
Abbes Amira United Kingdom	39	1.6k 1.4×	1.2k 1.6×	1.7k 2.5×	583 0.9×	954 1.6×	328	5.9k
Musaed Alhussein Saudi Arabia	31	1.0k 0.9×	749 1.0×	587 0.9×	270 0.4×	214 0.4×	146	3.2k
Yassine Himeur United Arab Emirates	36	1.1k 0.9×	1.1k 1.4×	620 0.9×	659 1.0×	95 0.2×	178	3.9k
Giovanni Pau Italy	32	1.7k 1.4×	347 0.5×	479 0.7×	393 0.6×	205 0.3×	151	3.6k
Wolfgang Kästner Austria	28	908 0.8×	623 0.8×	477 0.7×	456 0.7×	169 0.3×	312	3.7k
Kevin I‐Kai Wang New Zealand	33	1.1k 0.9×	1.7k 2.2×	968 1.4×	312 0.5×	486 0.8×	168	5.4k
Leye Wang China	34	1.1k 0.9×	1.0k 1.3×	318 0.5×	876 1.4×	182 0.3×	98	4.0k
Amin Ullah South Korea	34	1.2k 1.0×	2.0k 2.6×	2.4k 3.5×	470 0.7×	361 0.6×	68	4.8k
Mohammad R. Khosravi Iran	34	872 0.7×	1.1k 1.4×	882 1.3×	234 0.4×	205 0.3×	163	4.0k
Fang Zhao China	42	1.8k 1.5×	508 0.7×	568 0.8×	885 1.4×	441 0.8×	275	5.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Fayçal Bensaali

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Fayçal Bensaali

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20 of 20 papers shown

Ouamane, Abdelmalik, Ammar Chouchane, Yassine Himeur, et al.. (2025). Tensor-driven face recognition: Integrating super-resolution and multilinear subspace learning for low-resolution images. Information Fusion. 120. 103075–103075.

Sayed, Aya Nabil, Yassine Himeur, Iraklis Varlamis, & Fayçal Bensaali. (2025). Continual learning for energy management systems: A review of methods and applications, and a case study. Applied Energy. 384. 125458–125458. 4 indexed citations

Faisal, Md. Ahasan Atick, Sakib Mahmud, Anas Tahir, et al.. (2025). Rapid wall shear stress prediction for aortic aneurysms using deep learning: a fast alternative to CFD. Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing. 63(7). 2173–2190. 1 indexed citations

Mahmud, Sakib, et al.. (2025). A comprehensive review of deep reinforcement learning applications from centralized power generation to modern energy internet frameworks. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews. 226. 116481–116481.

Sayed, Aya Nabil, et al.. (2024). From Traditional Recommender Systems to GPT-Based Chatbots: A Survey of Recent Developments and Future Directions. Big Data and Cognitive Computing. 8(4). 36–36. 15 indexed citations

Chronis, Christos, Iraklis Varlamis, Yassine Himeur, et al.. (2024). A Survey on the use of Federated Learning in Privacy-Preserving Recommender Systems. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 5. 227–247. 16 indexed citations

Kheddar, Hamza, Yassine Himeur, Somaya Al-Máadeed, Abbes Amira, & Fayçal Bensaali. (2023). Deep transfer learning for automatic speech recognition: Towards better generalization. Knowledge-Based Systems. 277. 110851–110851. 76 indexed citations

Himeur, Yassine, Aya Nabil Sayed, Abdullah Alsalemi, Fayçal Bensaali, & Abbes Amira. (2023). Edge AI for Internet of Energy: Challenges and perspectives. Internet of Things. 25. 101035–101035. 35 indexed citations

Himeur, Yassine, et al.. (2023). Neural Load Disaggregation: Meta-Analysis, Federated Learning and Beyond. Energies. 16(2). 991–991. 14 indexed citations

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Himeur, Yassine, Abdullah Alsalemi, Fayçal Bensaali, & Abbes Amira. (2021). Smart power consumption abnormality detection in buildings using micromoments and improved K‐nearest neighbors. International Journal of Intelligent Systems. 36(6). 2865–2894. 76 indexed citations

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Ali, Haider, Umair Ullah Tariq, James Hardy, et al.. (2021). A survey on system level energy optimisation for MPSoCs in IoT and consumer electronics. Computer Science Review. 41. 100416–100416. 30 indexed citations

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Alsalemi, Abdullah, Christos Sardianos, Fayçal Bensaali, et al.. (2019). The Role of Micro-Moments: A Survey of Habitual Behavior Change and Recommender Systems for Energy Saving. IEEE Systems Journal. 13(3). 3376–3387. 44 indexed citations

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Politi, Elena, Μάρα Νικολαϊδου, George Dimitrakopoulos, et al.. (2019). Evaluating Internet of Medical Things (IoMT)-Based Systems from a Human-Centric Perspective. Internet of Things. 8. 100125–100125. 30 indexed citations

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Zhai, Xiaojun, Abbes Amira, Fayçal Bensaali, et al.. (2019). Heterogeneous System-on-Chip-Based Lattice-Boltzmann Visual Simulation System. IEEE Systems Journal. 14(2). 1592–1601. 25 indexed citations

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Νικολαϊδου, Μάρα, et al.. (2018). A Model-based Approach for Managing Criticality Requirements in e-Health IoT Systems. Qatar University QSpace (Qatar University). 60–67. 12 indexed citations

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Djelouat, Hamza, et al.. (2018). System-on-Chip Solution for Patients Biometric: A Compressive Sensing-Based Approach. IEEE Sensors Journal. 18(23). 9629–9639. 48 indexed citations

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Ali, Amine Ait Si, et al.. (2018). Embedded Platform for Gas Applications Using Hardware/Software Co-Design and RFID. IEEE Sensors Journal. 18(11). 4633–4642. 15 indexed citations

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Djelouat, Hamza, et al.. (2017). Empowering Technology Enabled Care Using <italic>IoT</italic> and Smart Devices: A Review. IEEE Sensors Journal. 18(5). 1790–1809. 50 indexed citations

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Akbar, Muhammad Ali, Amine Ait Si Ali, Abbes Amira, et al.. (2015). Gas Identification Using Passive UHF RFID Sensor Platform. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 194(11). 42. 1 indexed citations

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Ali, Amine Ait Si, Abbes Amira, Fayçal Bensaali, et al.. (2015). Design and implementation of a gas identification system on Zynq SoC platform. ARPN Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences. 10(20). 9758–9764. 2 indexed citations

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