Curriculum Vitae. May 10, 1975 (Born in Alexandria, Egypt)

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1 Curriculum Vitae NAME: BIRTH DATE: ADDRESS: Islam Tharwat Elkabani May 10, 1975 (Born in Alexandria, Egypt) Beirut Arab University, Faculty of Science, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Beirut, Lebanon s: Mobile in Lebanon (current): (+961) Phone in Egypt: (002) (Home) Mobile in Egypt: (002) EDUCATION: Ph.D. in Computer Science, New Mexico State University, USA, 2006 Diploma in Information Technology, Information Technology Institute (ITI), Alexandria, Egypt, 1998 B. Sc., Computer Science, Alexandria University, Egypt, 1997 High School, Lycee Liberty School, English Division, Alexandria, Egypt, 1993 Employment History (academic and administrative experience): Teaching assistant, Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Science, Alexandria Uinversity, Alexandria, Egypt. Teaching and Research assistant, Department of Computer Science, College of Arts & Sciences, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico, USA 1

2 2007- March 2009 March June 2009 September Now Technical Skills Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Faculty of Science, Alexandria University, Egypt Visiting Professor, College of Computer Science and Information Technology, Arab Academy for Science and Technology, Alexandria, Egypt. Executive Director of the Computer Center, Faculty of Science, Alexandria University, Egypt. Visiting Professor, Faculty of Science, Mathematics and Computer Science Department, Beirut Arab University, Beirut, Lebanon Assistant Professor, Faculty of Science, Mathematics and Computer Science Department, Beirut Arab University, Lebanon Hands-on experience in the following: Operating Systems: Windows/UNIX platforms, Unix Shell Programming, Unix System Administration, Novell NetWare Database: Microsoft SQL, MySQL, Oracle. Programming Languages: C, C++, Java, Prolog, Lisp, JavaScript and PHP Others: Object Oriented Programming, Fundamentals of Computer Networking, Technical Writing & Presentation Skills, Management Fundamentals, Software Project Management, and Problem Solving Techniques. Previous Teaching Experience (courses and institutes): Teaching assistant (Computer Applications, C++, Assembly, Database Management Systems, AI, Computer Organization & Design), Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Science, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt Teaching assistant (Data Structures using Java, Advanced Programming Languages Structures, Theory of Computation, Algorithm Analysis and Design), Department of Computer 2

3 Science, College of Arts & Sciences, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico, USA 2007-Now Assistant Professor (Theory of computation, Programming Languages Structures, Operating Systems, Advanced programming using C++, Internet Programming, Data Structures and Algorithms, Discrete Structures, File Structures, Denotational Semantics, Compilers Construction, Object Oriented Programming using Java, Logic Programming and Non-monotonic Reasoning, Decision Support Systems, Human- Computer Interaction, Multi Agents Systems) Alexandria University Egypt, Arab Academy for Science and Technology Egypt, Information Technology Institute (ITI) Egypt, Beirut Arab University Lebanon Publications: Enrico Pontelli, Tran Cao Son, and Islam Elkabani, A Treatment of Aggregates in ASP (System Description), in Proceedings of LPNMR 7th: Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA, 2003 Islam Elkabani, Enrico Pontelli, Son Cao Tran, Smodels with CLP and its Applications: A simple and Effective Approach to Aggregates in ASP, in Proceedings of ICLP 2004: Saint Malo, France, 2004 Islam Elkabani, Smodels with CLP and its Applications: A simple and Effective Approach to Aggregates in ASP, Graduate Research and Arts Symposium, Las Cruces, NM, USA, 2004 Islam Elkabani, Enrico Pontelli, Son Cao Tran, SmodelsA - A System for Computing Answer Sets of Logic Programs with Aggregates in Proceedings of LPNMR 2005: Diamante, Italy, 2005 Tran C. Son, Enrico Pontelli, Islam Elkabani, An Unfolding-Based Semantics for Logic Programming with Aggregates, CoRR abs/cs/ : 2006 Sanaa Kaddoura, Islam Elkabani, ASP-SSN: An Effective Approach for Linking Semantic Social Networks, International Journal of Computer Science & Information Technology (IJCSIT), Vol. 4, No. 5, October 2012 Layal Abu Daher, Islam Elkabani, Usability Evaluation of Some Lebanese Universities Web Portals, in Proceedings of the 13 th International Arab Conference on Information Technology ACIT

4 Maher Itani, Lama Hamandi, Rached Zantout, Islam Elkabani, Classifying Sentiments in Arabic Social Networks: Naïve Search versus Naïve Bayes, in Proceedings of 2 nd International Conference on Advances in Computational Tools of Engineering Applications (IEEE ACTEA 2012) Roaa Aboo Khashfeh, Islam Elkabani, Using Rough Sets in Homophily Based Link Prediction in Online Social Networks, in Proceedings of 2014 World Congress on Computer Applications and Information Systems - International Conference on Advances on Social Networks Analysis and Mining (IEEE ICASNAM 2014) Bassam Elmasri, Islam Elkabani, Rached Zantout, An Interactive Workspace for Helping the Visually Impaired Learn Linear Algebra. ICCHP(1)2014: Wafaa Houri, Islam Elkabani, Lama Hamandi, Analyzing the Websites of Some Lebanese Universities using Webometrics, in the Proceedings of 21 st Century Academic Forum Conference at Berkeley 2014, Vol. 2, No. 1, Islam Elkabani, Roaa Aboo Khashfeh, Homophily Based Link Prediction in The Facebook Online Social Network: A Rough Sets Approach, Journal of Intelligent Systems, Vol. 24, No. 4, , 2015 Suhad A. Yousif, Venus W. Samawi, Islam Elkabani and Rached Zantout, Enhancement of Arabic Text Classification Using Semantic Relations with Part of Speech Tagger, in the Proceedings of 14th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Knowledge Engineering and Data Bases (AIKED '15), Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain, January 2015 Suhad A. Yousif, Venus W. Samawi, Islam Elkabani and Rached Zantout, The Effect of Combining Different Semantic Relations on Arabic Text Classification, World of Computer Science and Information Technology Journal (WCSIT), Vol. 5, No. 6, , 2015 Suhad A. Yousif, Venus W. Samawi, Islam Elkabani and Rached Zantout, Enhancement of Arabic Text Classification Using Semantic Relations of Arabic WordNet, Journal of Computer Science and Information Technology Journal, Vol. 11, No. 3, , 2015 Ph.D Dissertation Aggregates and Multisets in Logic Programming, Thesis (Ph.D.) -- New Mexico State University, USA, November

5 Areas of Interest Programming Languages, Logic Programming, Knowledge representation and Non- Monotonic reasoning, Natural Languages Processing, Semantic Web, Social Networks Analysis and Mining, Human Computer Interaction, Web Accessibility. Membership of labs, professional organizations and associations: - Association for Logic Programming (an ALP member since 2003) - Knowledge Representation, Logic, and Advanced Programming Laboratory (KLAP)(a KLAP member since 2002) - The Egyptian Association for Science, Innovation and Robotics (EASIR). Other Activities - Instructor of Information Technology in the Health Career Opportunity Program (HCOP), New Mexico State University, USA, Summer Instructor of Robotics Programming in the Young Women in Computing Program, Department of Computer Science, New Mexico State University, USA, Summer Participated in revising the new curriculums for the Computer Science and Information Technology programs at Beirut Arab University (Fall 2009) - Member of the Strategic Planning Committee for the Faculty of Science, Beirut Arab University. Beirut, Lebanon Coaching the Beirut Arab University programming teams participating in the annual ACM Lebanese Collegiate Programming Contests (2010 Now) - Member of the organizing committee of the 3 rd EMUNI Research Souk 2011 (ReSouk 2011), the Euro-Mediterranean Student Research Multi-conference. Beirut, Lebanon Member of the organizing committee of Beirut Arab University Research Day Member of the organizing committee of Beirut Arab University Research Day Coordinator of the organizing committee of the VEX Robotics Competition workshop, Beirut Arab University (Fall 2012). - Member of the Quality Assurance Unit of the Faculty of Science, Beirut Arab University (2010 Now) - Coordinator of the Computer Science Program ABET Accreditation Committee, Beirut Arab University (2010 Now) - Selected by the Arab Robotics Association to be the Chair of the Judiciary Committee for the 6 th Annual Arab Robotics Competition (Spring 2013). Recognition and Merit Awards: - A scholarship from the Egyptian Government, A teaching & research assistantship from New Mexico State University, New Mexico, USA,

6 - Winner of the NM-AGEP Best Poster in Math, Science and Engineering, Las Cruces, NM, USA, Winner of the best Science Poster in the Graduate Research and Arts Symposium (GRAS), Las Cruces, NM, USA, Winner of the merit-based enhancement award from the New Mexico State University Graduate School for academic year The coach of the Egyptian Team winning the best programming award at the International Robotics Contest (FLL), Atlanta, Georgia, USA, Supervisor of the Senior Year Project MORSHID the winner of the 3 rd place prize in the Global Startup Battle organized by Google Entrepreneurship, USA,