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Greater Pittsburgh Area

Prototyped and developed a scheme for fine grain multi-threading for processing input within our NLP framework, which in turn revealed weaknesses and limitation in libraries we utilized.Developed a wrapper around the NLP package that allowed for coarse grain multi-threading for batch processing large amounts of input documents within reasonable time.

Pittsburgh, PA

Development and testing of an in house clinically oriented Natural Language Processing package. This includes refactoring code, creating new analysis engines, integration and continuous deployment testing. Developed special purpose projects and prototypes, such as an NLP based protected health information de-identification pipeline to use on clinical.

Morgantown, WV

Development in support of research in NLP, which included scripting in Awk, Bash, writing SQL queries, and programming in Java and Scala.Set up and maintained different servers, including:- Set up local data shares on local server (Samba)- Set up secure remote data shares on local servers (SFTP/SSH)- Deployed and updated the NLP engine and middleware.

Morgantown, WV

Worked at the Lane Dept. of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering.Taught two Sections of CS101. The course involves teaching students about introductory and advanced topics involving Microsoft Office, including working with Excel and Access.Taught two sections of the EE222: Electric Circuits Lab course.Helped with grading and recording homeworks and.

Morgantown, WV

Worked for Dr. Tim Menzies, Lane Dept. of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering.Researched software engineering models (mainly Cocomo II, Coqualmo).Conducted research in subjects relating to machine learning.Maintained a previous baseline relating tomy research, including adding a Java based GUI frontend.Developed and maintained a package called STAR.

Morgantown, WV

Worked for Dr. Hany Ammar, Lane Dept. of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering.Assigned to the WebADIS project (Web-based Automated Dental Identification System).Assisted in maintaining the project server, and implemented a JSP module for graphing test results within a web browser.

Morgantown, WV

Worked for Dr. Satid Thammasitboon.Implemented, debugged and maintained an online survey using Javascript. The survey was used for the assessment of medical students in the pediatrics dept.

Khobar, KSA

Provided support for in house and off the shelf software.Provided installation and maintenance support for on site workstations and servers.Administrating and managing on site project server (Hawiya NGL Recovery Plant) and network. Supervised several Junior IT technicians on site.

Beirut, Lebanon

Worked for Dr. Mazen Saghir, Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering.Researched methods and issues concerning porting the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) to a new VLIW processor architecture (ACP-100).Produced a report discussing these issues and strategies for tackling them, as well as the feasibility of undergoing such a task.

Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Worked for Dr. Otman Basir, in the Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence research labs, Dept. of Systems Design.Did research about various machine learning methods.Implemented a Q-learning reinforcement learning algorithm for clustering points in multi-dimensional space in C++.

Master'S Degree, Electrical/Software Engineering, Gpa: 3.87/4.0

Thesis Topic: Software Process Control Without Calibration

Bachelor'S Degree, Computer Engineering, 81.94% ~ Gpa 3.45/4.0 (According To Official Faculty Chart)

Final Year Project: Java Based Utility for Monitoring Website Changes. (Note: This institution is accredited by the Middle States.