Mahmoud Abu Nasser Email & Phone Number

Rockville, Md

- Developing data mining modules that enable coding information that doctors describe in text as discrete data elements- Developing data analytics tools to associate patients with relevant specialists based on encounters frequency, recency, and type- Performing configuration, maintenance, and troubleshooting of medical group technology solutions including Epic HyperSpaceSelected Accomplishments:► Developed an Implementation for the “Adenoma detection rate” report; measurement that reflects how carefully colonoscopies are performed. The report consists of tools that help compare the results cross providers in addition to plots that show the changes in the rate in the last two years. I was able to summarize extensive amounts in data and present it in a way that is easy to understand and utilize

Washington D.C. Metro Area

- Develop language modules that involve creating dictionaries, morphological rules, sentiment analysis, named entity recognition, part of speech tagging and other modules to analyze text in a variety of natural languages such as Arabic, French Farsi, Pashto, Urdu, Kurdish.- Create and improve language understanding and lemmatization capabilities to enable search enhancements.- Research, develop, evaluate, and enhance Natural language processing tools.Selected Accomplishments:► Developed technology that enabled selecting training and testing datasets that represent the Part Of Speech (POS) sequences from various topics in the in big corpora. The technology is run on a parallel computing infrastructure and continuously finds under-represented POS sequences and finds best fitting examples from big corpora to suggest their addition to existing datasets.► Developed and maintained language support for Arabic script languages.

- Built a solid linguistic knowledge based on in-depth study of the theories of linguistics.- Conducted research on Linguistics that incorporated my academic background in computer science, my industrial knowledge in software development and my theoretical linguistic knowledge.- Developed C++, and Python programs to process and analyze linguistic corpora.Selected Accomplishments:► Co-authored a series of research papers on the similarities and differences of Arabic Syntax and morphology.► Developed software programs and conducted research required to secure a grant that funds a group of students for three years and it helped establish a research group.

Worked for 2 years as part time developerDesign, development, bug fixing and feature enhancement of many embedded applications designed for Pocket PC, and Windows Mobile OS.Used Messaging APIs on Windows Mobile 2005 to develop LMS (Long Messaging System). LMS uses GSM to send Messages between clients. A message can contain text, Images, video recordings, users can scratch in a drawing area, and it can handle files of any type and size.Developed a Soft Input Panel (SIP) that uses Arabic in the Pocket PC (PPC). The SIP name is “Fee Jeibi Qalam”. The developed SIP was exactly similar to the Block Recognizer that comes with Windows Mobile except that it is used for the Arabic letters. Two versions were released: the first one used single stroke to draw Arabic characters and the second one used multi strokes to draw Arabic characters.Bug fixing and feature enhancement of many products of the company.

Lecturer in the department of computer science. Courses taught:1. Introduction to Computer and information systems2. Discrete Mathematics3. Computer and Learning4. Systems Analysis5. Algorithms

Developed desktop applications and software tools using C, C++ and Visual C++.Selected Accomplishments:► Worked as the major developer in the Off-line Arabic OCR project. In this project some of the basic OCR tools were developed for simulation, testing, prototyping, or finally released. Segmentation thinning and smoothing were some of these tools.► Prepared a file filter that converts SCP-ECG (Standard Communication Protocol for computerized ElectroCardioGraphy) files from binary format to text format.► Created a viewer for the DICOM (Digital Imaging and COmmunication in Medicine) files, which provided an electronic solution for dealing with medical equipments that translates patients’ information as images and texts, giving the opportunity to have a full centralized solution for hospitals and medical centers. ► Collaborated with the Daal search engine team that provides indexing and search facilities with support of Arabic language morphology. Responsibilities included:• Managing different encoding schemes• Preparing a manual about the index file structure• Providing some file filters, and• Developing CGIs to highlight the search results► Developed a DLL that has APIs for compressing, encrypting, and searching through a pre-defined content. This tool was developed to meet sufficient compression rate, a reliable encryption mechanism and fast search through the compressed and encrypted data; the search was handled without uncompressing and unencrypting the data.

Phd, Computational Linguistics

Developed a mathematical representation of sound that captures phonetic similarity, and measured pronunciation variation between various.

Master'S Degree, Linguistics

Ma, Computer Science

Graduation project : “A comparison study of Arabic morphological analyzers”

Bs, Computer Science

Graduation project : “Remote Control for PC (Client/Server)”