Name: Email: Muhammad K. Ghanbari, Computer Science dept. Muhammad.ghanbari@aamu.edu Dr. Ghanbari has more than 34 years of programming and teaching experiences in Computer Science. He has taught all courses in computer science in BS and MS level and some in PhD level somewhere else. He also has more than 20 years of experience with RDBMS, Oracle, including system design, implementation, test, and maintenance on large systems. He has worked four years at Colsa and NAS(1989-1993); He was a system programmer for NASA (System programmer for CLOSA and head of image processing and graphic on AHCS, Advance Helicopter Control System, NAS 1990-1992). Since 1977, he has taught in computer science departments as Instructor, Assistant Professor, and Associate Professor: including hardware and software technical course work. Has taught Ada, FORTRAN, C, C++, Snowball, COBOL, Python, Assembly, Java, Visual Basic, Compilers, Web Design (with different packages, special software for robot and DBMS design, Data Mining, and Visualization. 1998-2001 Associate Dean of School of Computer Science and Engineering & Technology for two years, prior to moving to Alabama. (Ajman University of Science & Technology, 1998-1999 ) Education Ph.D. University of Alabama in Huntsville Computer Engineering Signal processing, spectral analysis, image processing. 1993 M.S. (1977), Central Michigan University. Computer Science B.S. (1970), University of Tabriz, Mathematics Had special Training at Oak-Ridge National Lab on Designing special purpose processor for application in nuclear physics. (One year). Motorola 6800, and later 68000 series. I was a Member of a group with the assignment of investigating applicability of macrocode control of computer, design, and implementation for use in nuclear plan environments. Supervisor: Clyde B. Fulmer My 1978-Jan 1979. Experience (teaching & research) 1985-1990 & 2001 Present. Alabama A&M University, Computer Science Dept. Assistant Professor of Computer Science, with responsibility for computer hardware and software courses at both the graduate and undergraduate level. 1998-2001 Ajman University of Science & Technology, UAE. Responsible for Computer Science courses and also design and implementing their DBMS System on Oracle.
2 1997-1998 University of Tehran, Responsible for Computer Science courses and development and design of new DBMS system for Communication Center of Ministry of Energy & Power, Tehran, Iran. 1995-1997 Taught graduate courses, OS, software Engineering at Industrial and Technology University of Iran, Tehran; and Consultant for municipality of Tehran in computer networking project. 1993-1995 EPRC (Energy and power Research Center) of Iran, Design, Implementation and Maintenance of Oracle DBMS System. Taught graduate courses in computer architecture and software Engineering for University of Tehran, Iran. 1991-1993 COLSA Corp. Supported MICOM RDEC G&C with signal processing and other radar tasks for support to MLRS TGW program. (Missile Command Research and Development Center, AHCS, Advance Helicopter Control System). September 1989- July 1991: NAS Inc. as a Senior Software Engineer was responsible for the image processing hardware/software design and integration for the advanced helicopter control system (AHCS). September 1985 September 1989 Alabama A&M University, Assistant Professor. Teaching graduate and undergraduate courses in Computer Science Dept. September 1983 September 1985 Tuskegee University, Assistant Professor. Responsible for software and hardware courses in Computer Science Dept. September 1978- September 1983 University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Lab Instructor,Image Processing, Computer Vision and Graphics. Educational Membership: IEEE Computer Society, Image Processing, Data Mining, Database ACM Database, Data mining ASEE AAUP member Faculty participation in MANET ( helping students and professional with Wireless network questions). HUNTUG (local chapter s member of Microsoft for Advancement of Visual Programming)& teaching two of their OCP courses, as volunteer work for community and city. Faculty senate and member of the following subcommittees: - Evaluation Instruments committee - Faculty staff Handbook - Program reviews of senate. 2
3 Publications and Awards: Numerous LAB manual for C++, C, DBMS, Networking and recently working on LAB manual and Implementation of Data Mining LAB for A&M. o Create a package of 16 programs that was used for data Mining lab. o Manual for C++ Help McGraw-Hill company on editing Object-oriented Book (Object Oriented analysis and Design, by Stephen R. Schach with ISBN: 0-07-121510-7.Mc Graw- Hill 2004 ) Winner of best published paper in DBMS (IRAN) (Ministry of power and energy, IRAN June 22, 1996) Wrote 6 papers in area of communication and computer for MATN (center for energy & power research) Teaching Microsoft.NET (certification) as A&M helps of community through HUNTUG group (local chapter of advancement of programming). Published Papers: Parallel programming and associative rule in data mining, submitted March 3 rd 2006, IEEE conference in Cookeville, TN. (Published and copy is attached) Lightening produced NO x over the Southern United States, submitted Sep 27-29, Casa Science Symposium on Nitrogen. Canada, 2006. (Published and copy is attached) Overview of Visualization in data mining, 39 th Southeast Symposium on System Theory, SSST 39, IEEE March 24, 2007. Mercer University, Georgia. The 20 th consortium for computing Science in Colleges, Nashville, TN, session preside and member of evaluating paper in data mining, database, and Image processing. 2008. Deploying DBMS issues on Cloud Computing platform, Mid-Southeast ACM, Nov. 11-12, Gatlinburg, TN 2010. Accepted paper for publication on ITA 2011: International Conference on Information Theory and Application, Singapore. (Cloud and DBMS, copy is attached ) 3
4 Published Book: A pragmatic Approach to Object Oriented Programming in C++, ISBN #: 1-60797-190-9. Copyright by Linus Publisher, Inc. Deer Park NY 11729, 2011. Mentoring Activities or Retention Activities: Introducing different classes in weekend to help students with programming(free) Introducing several short courses in weekend preparing our student for taking OCP in ORACLE database system Member of Changing Lanes First Year Mentoring program Member of Different Committee in Department and University Graduate Coordinator (2004-2008) Served as Graduate advisors for CS majors. Member of Faculty Senate (2002-2008) Served as member of mentoring program Head of committee for supervising the maintenance of labs (past and present) Head of committee to revise curriculum, text books, update programming LABs. Supervised 12 M. S. graduate students. Introducing graduate and undergraduate courses for department. Data mining which replaced cmp513 CMP381, which is combination of CMP380 and CMP303 with new syllabus (Willie Bossie & Muhammad Ghanbari) CMP221, which is combination of CMP208 and CMP220 with new syllabus(willie Bossie & Muhammad Ghanbari) Working on lab materials for CMP208, CMP220. (Willie Bossie & Muhammad Ghanbari) Update syllabus for CMP384, espacially modified for ABET & SACS Member of graduate Council of University (2005-2007) Member of Committee for appointing graduate s courses faculty. Member of Search committee for Dean of Engineering & Technology, 2006. 4
5 Recruiting new students from Calhoun College and working on their syllabus and courses to be accepted here at A&M. STEM participation and working with student on presenting a paper that won the first prize. Served as the Department s SPOL Coordinator. Working with health and wellness center and writing and implementing a program for calculation of extra weight and fat, and Calories needed. Donation of text books and IEEE and ACM magazine in networking, Data Mining, to our school s Library. Defending Cyber Borders Beyond the Virtual Maginot Line, OCT 25, 2012. Interactivecast presented by 1105 Media and Cisco GovEDUTV. Review paper for ACTA PRESS, journals@actapress.com [journals@actapress.com] ACTA Press / IASTED Building B6, Suite #101, 2509 Dieppe Avenue SW, Calgary, AB T3E 7J9 Canada phone: (403) 288-1195 fax: (403) 247-6851 e-mail: journals@actapress.com Website: http://www.actapress.com/ Peer-review portal: http://www.actapress.com/review/ Review paper: 202-3694 Journal: International Journal of Computers and Applications AN EFFICIENT APPROACH FOR MINING OF CUSTOMER WALKING PATH SEQUENCE FROM RFID DATA Review paper: 202-3549 Journal: International Journal of Computers and Applications SELECTIVE VALUE DIFFERENCE METRIC Version 0: OCT 04 2012 Author: Chaoqun Li and Hongwei Li Version 1: April 30, 2012 Author: Mr. Srinivas Rao, K. And Mr. K R Chandran 5
6 Review paper: 202-3699 Journal: International Journal of Computers and Applications A METHOD FOR DUPLICATION DETECTION BY EXPLORATION AND EXPLOITATION OF OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHM Version 0, Oct 08 2012 6