• 2020 – 2022, Director of the university-industry linkage.
• 2018 – 2021, Member of the university entrepreneurship committee
• 2017 – 2019, Director of the computer engineering group.
• 2015 – Present, Faculty member (lecturer), Department of Engineering.
• 2014 – 2019, Head judge of the annual ACM programming contest.
• 2012 – 2015, Contractual lecturer.

• Medical informatics
• Deep & Machine Learning
• Interpretable and explainable AI
• Innovation and Entrepreneurship

RESEARCH PROJECTS:

• 2021 – Present, Development of rule extraction models from medical data using data mining methods, in collaboration with Shahroud University of Medical Sciences, Shahroud, Iran.

BOOK:

• Michael Dawson (2019). Beginning C++ through game programming (fourth edition).  Translated (in Farsi) by F. Ahouz, and S. Taherifar. Iran: Hootran.

JOURNAL PAPERS:

• § Ahouz, F., Bastani, A. and Golabpour, A., A Decision Support System Based on Neural Network and Genetic Algorithm: Case Study of Breast Cancer. Frontiers in Health Informatics, 2022, 11(1), p.126, https://doi.org/10.30699/fhi.v11i1.375.
• § Ahouz F, Shakibaeenia A, Golabpour A. A rule extractor for diagnosing the type 2 diabetes using a self-organizing genetic algorithm, Journal of Modern Medical Information Sciences. 2022. 8(2): p. 168-183. https://doi.org/10.32598/JMIS.8.2.1 
• Almasinejad P, Golabpour A, Ahouz F, Mollakhalili M, Mirzaie K, Khosravi A, Rohani-Rasaf M., Golabpour A. Predicting the status of COVID-19 active cases using a neural network time series. International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE), 2022. 12(3): p. 3104-3117. http://doi.org/10.11591/ijece.v12i3.pp3104-3117.
• Ahouz F, Golabpour A., Predicting the incidence of COVID-19 using data mining. BMC Public Health. 2021;21(1):1087. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-021-11058-3
• Ahouz F, Golabpour A., A novel structure of highly interpretable fuzzy rules extraction, Frontiers in Health Informatics, 2021. 10(1): p.53, http://dx.doi.org/10.30699/fhi.v10i1.253
• Bastani A, Ahouz F., High capacity and secure watermarking for medical images using Tchebichef Moments. Radioengineering, 2020. 29(4): p. 636-643, doi: 10.13164/re.2020.063.
• Ahouz F, Golabpour A., A novel diagnostic rule for Parkinson's disease based on a hybrid extraction method. Journal of Knowledge & Health in Basic Medical Sciences 2020. 15(2):41-49, http://dx.doi.org/10.22100/jkh.v15i2.2411.
• Ahouz F, Sadehvand M, Golabpour A., Extracting rules for diagnosis of diabetes using genetic programming. International Journal of Health Studies, 2019. 5(3): p. 23-32. http://dx.doi.org/10.22100/ijhs.v5i3.691.

CONFERENCE PAPERS:

• Ahouz F, Motaghed S., Estimation of the elastic modulus of self-compacting concrete using decision tree, 8^th Conference of Modern Materials and Structures in Civil Engineering, Kerman, Iran, 2021 (Farsi), https://civilica.com/doc/1366212
• Ahouz F, Sayahi E., Predicting the Recovery Rate of COVID-19 Using a Novel Hybrid. 11^th International Conference on Computer and Knowledge Engineering (ICCKE), Mashhad, Iran, IEEE, 2021, pp. 157-162, doi: https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCKE54056.2021.9721491
• Ahouz F, Golabpour A., A novel compact rule extractor based on Genetic-Fuzzy algorithm. 10^th International Conference on Computer and Knowledge Engineering (ICCKE), Mashhad, Iran, IEEE, 2020, pp. 163-168, doi: 10.1109/ICCKE50421.2020.9303613.
• Ahouz F, Sadehvand M, Golabpour A., Application of genetic programming in diagnosis of diabetes. 3^rd International Conference on Soft Computing (CSC2019), 2019 (Farsi), https://www.civilica.com/Paper-CSCG03-CSCG03_223.html.
• Ahouz F, Golabpour A., An Eta-based approach to discriminating benign and malignant tumors in breast cancer. 12^th International Conference of Iranian Operations Research Society, 2019 (Farsi), https://www.civilica.com/Paper-ICIORS12-ICIORS12_295.html.
• Ahouz F, Osareh A., Face detection in pictures using new Multi-Block Local Binary Pattern and the Viola-Jones improvement framework. 4^th International Conference on Knowledge Based Research in Computer Engineering and Information Technology, 2017 (Farsi), https://www.civilica.com/Paper-COMCO04-COMCO04_044.html.

• 2021 – 2022, Member of the organizing committee for the first call to attract technological ideas and new business models in Behbahan, Iran.
• 2021, The third top researcher of the Faculty of Engineering and among the top 8 researchers of the university.
• 2021, Responsible for setting up innovation, and career counseling/specialized employment centers of the university.
• 2018, Referee of "Harkat & Royesh (Movement and Growth)" competition of the university stage
• 2017 – 2018, Member of the five-member committee for compiling the comprehensive entrepreneurship plan of Behbahan University of Technology, one of the first university entrepreneurship plans in the country.
• 2016 & 2018, The best advisor of the university's student scientific associations.