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Calgary, AB, CA

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

- Designed and developed a backend architecture using webservice in python to replace legacy architecture- Designed and developed an airport suitability module using Flask and Angular

- Designed and developed a novel early warning system capable of highlighting potential or attacks leading to disasters by terrorists using different sources of data (images and text).- Trained deep learning models to improve the performance of face detection and recognition- Performed a study on applying face clustering with different clustering methods..

Teaching and Graduate Asistant

- TAiR: TA in Residence, University of Calgary. Help TAs in the Department of Computer Science improve their teaching skills- CPSC 359: Computing Machinery II:taught tutorials on digital logic, use of ARM assembly to code in raspberry pi, design games using assembly, microprocessor design, mark assignments (Fall 2015, Winter 2015)- CPSC 359 TA Leader: In.

- Designed and developed a web application to maintain aircraft related data. Applied image analysis techniques to extract data from pdf documents.- Designed and implemented database structure to maintain aircraft related data.

Nice, France

Study and develop an application that predicts the perceived quality of experience (QOE) of mobile VOIP applications by users using active measurements. The work consisted of:- Defining Network parameters that affect the quality of VOIP applications- Creation of controlled network with the ability of manipulating the network parameters using DummyNet..

Nice, France

• Conceptual and technical analysis of data stream processing systems using MapReduce approach. The work consisted of:
• Contribution in state of the art work of data stream processing systems
• Configuring Storm stream system used by Twitter
• Develop application for stream processing systems in Java using MapReduce approach to analyze and processbig data
• Deploy the created application on Grid5000 infrastructure with multiple master and worker nodes
• Study the performance of the Storm system by configuring the number of worker nodes in the Grid and manipulating the speed of the stream of data flowed to the system to be processed.- Developing an Android mobile.

Lebanon

- Designed and developed Android mobile application that is a book reader. This application allows users to import a library of books and also to create their own book and import it to the application with its audio files. The technology used is: JAVA and SQLite.- Designed and developed a web application for IT Support ticketing system. The application.

Lebanon

Designed and developed a stock control system that:- Manage and locate objects inside warehouses- Buy and sell items from and into the stock- Provide reports for the administration about available items in stock- Alert the administration if items number are fewI developed this application using:- SQL server- Net windows Application using C#

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Computer Science

Master'S Degree, Computer Science

Bachelor'S Degree, Computer Science