Khalifa Mansouri

Work place: Laboratory of Modelling and Simulation of Intelligent Industrial Systems, ENSET of Mohammedia, Hassan II University of Casablanca, Morocco

E-mail: khalifa.mansouri@enset-media.ac.ma

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Biography

Khalifa Mansouri was born in 1968 in Azilal, Morocco. He is currently a researcher-professor in computer science, Training Director and Director of the M2S2I Research Laboratory at ENSET of Mohammedia, Hassan II University of Casablanca. His research interests include information systems, e-learning systems, real time systems, artificial intelligence and industrial systems (modeling, optimization, numerical computation). Graduated from ENSET of Mohammedia in 1991, CEA in 1992 and PhD (Computation and Optimization of Structures) in 1994, HDR in 2010 and National PhD (in computer science - distributed systems) in 2016. He is the author of 10 books in computer science, a scientific book with the publisher Springer, 425 research papers including 236 in the Scopus library and supervised 35 defended doctoral theses.

Author Articles
Patterns and Predictors of Student Technological Proficiency in Heis: A Validated Instrument and Machine Learning Analysis

By Abdelilah Chahid Youssef El Marzak Ossama Aouane Khalifa Mansouri

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijmecs.2026.03.06, Pub. Date: 8 Jun. 2026

This study examines AI-related technological proficiency among undergraduate students at the University of Casablanca and identifies the most informative indicators for prediction. Using a validated 30-item instrument covering AI applications, AI-related skills, and improvement strategies, data were collected from 600 students drawn from science and humanities programs. Overall proficiency was moderate: 63.3% of respondents met the predefined threshold, and significant group differences were observed by gender and academic specialization. For predictive modeling, correlation-based feature selection retained 17 high-value items. Two classifiers were then trained and evaluated using a 75/25 hold-out split, complemented by repeated stratified 10-fold cross-validation to assess stability. The Support Vector Classifier achieved 96.7% test accuracy with AUROC = 0.9666, while Gaussian Naïve Bayes reached 94.7% accuracy with AUROC = 0.9560; cross-validated estimates remained consistent with these results, supporting robustness. These findings indicate that a reduced set of questionnaire items can provide reliable estimates of students’ AI-related technological proficiency and can support scalable assessment and targeted interventions in higher education.

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