DR. SAMIR TARTIR CURRICULUM VITEA CONTACT INFORMATION PO Bx 303 Amman, 19392 Jrdan Email: startir@philadelphia.edu.j, samir.tartir@gmail.cm URL: http://www.philadelphia.edu.j/academics/startir/ Phne: +962-79-809-3052 EDUCATION May/2009 August/2002 June/1998 Ph.D. in Cmputer Science University f Gergia Athens, Gergia, USA Thesis: "Ontlgy-Driven Questin Answering And Ontlgy Quality Evaluatin". Advisr: Dr. I. Budak Arpinar M.Sc. in Cmputer Science University f Jrdan Amman, Jrdan Thesis: "Data Migratin frm Relatinal Databases int Multidimensinal Databases". Advisrs: Dr. Riad Jabri and Dr. Munib Qutaishat B.Sc. in Cmputer Science University f Jrdan Amman, Jrdan WORK EXPERIENCE September/2009 Present Assistant Prfessr Department f Cmputer Science Department f Graduate Studies Philadelphia University - Amman, Jrdan http://www.philadelphia.edu.j Respnsible fr teaching a number f classes at the bachelr s and master s degree levels mainly n data and infrmatin manipulatin. Supervisr f Master s degree students. Organizing chair f the 2011 and 2014 Internatinal Sympsium n Innvatins in Infrmatin and Cmmunicatins Technlgy (ISIICT). Funder f the STAP research lab n Semantic Technlgies and Arabic language prcessing. Member f: Faculty Cuncil (Representing the CS Department) University Cuncil (Representing the IT Faculty) University Research Cuncil (Representing the IT Faculty) Faculty f Infrmatin Technlgy Research Cuncil. And ther cuncils and cmmittees P a g e 1
Prepared e-curse fr Database Fundamentals Representative f Philadelphia University with: Internatinal Finance Crpratin (Member f Wrld Bank Grup) Crdinating effrts in a Memrandum f Understanding with the MICT t imprve syllabi t better prepare students fr the market. Ministry f Infrmatin and Cmmunicatins Technlgy (MICT) Oracle Micrsft July/2012 Sep/2012 Instructr Department f CIS University f Jrdan http://www.ju.edu.j Taught intrductry IT curses as a university curse. August/2004 August/2009 Research Assistant / Instructr LSDIS Lab, Cmputer Science Department, UGA Athens, GA, USA http://lsdis.cs.uga.edu Member f SEMDIS, an NSF-ITR funded prject "Semantic Discvery: Discvering Cmplex Relatinships in the Semantic Web". Research fcus n defining and representing meaningful and interesting relatinships (called: semantic assciatins) between entities in RDF graphs. It includes creatin f algrithms fr discvering infrmative paths, indexing and querying f cmplex semantic relatinships, as well as ranking assciatin results in terms f relevance t the cntext f the query. As a part f the SEMDIS prject, I am wrking n the fllwing: Cnducting research n the prblem f interpreting natural language questins using ntlgies and extracting their answers frm web dcuments and lcal relatinal and semantic databases. I designed the OntQA framewrk that fcuses n the analysis and summarizatin f ntlgies t be able t understand their cntents withut the need t view cmplex RDF r OWL files. T date, ur riginal OntQA publicatin (published in Nvember 2005) has been cited mre than 22 times. The OntQA framewrk was enhanced t include the capabilities t rank ntlgies based n keywrds and ntlgy features that the user specifies. I have als designed the SemanticQA framewrk that utilizes ntlgical knwledge t answer user questins presented in natural English by extracting these answers frm web dcuments and ranking them using different measures. I have als taught the CSCI-1302: Sftware Develpment class that serves as an intensive intrductin t the design and implementatin f significant sftware prjects, as well as an intrductin t OOP, recursin, exceptins, searching, srting, algrithm analysis and ther in Java. May/2006 August/2006 Database Prgrammer Padgett Business Services, Athens, GA, USA http://smallbizprs.cm/ Padgett Business Services is a leading prvider f financial reprting and tax cnsulting services t small business wners thrughut Nrth America. In the 2007 issue f 'Tp 100' in Accunting Tday's annual ranking f tax and accunting firms, Padgett ranked 56 th. As part f this summer internship, I wrked with ther team members n the implementatin f unemplyment and incme tax applicatins fr the different US states. Prgramming was dne using the Sybase Applicatin Server. August/2005 Research Assistant Dr. Samir Tartir P a g e 2
May/2006 Frestry Department, UGA Athens, GA, USA http://nate2.myweb.uga.edu/ Member f the Spatial Analysis Lab wrking n EDM (Entity Distributin Mdeling) prject, a NatureServe-funded prject fr mdeling mechanisms that influence the spatial patterns f animal distributin n the landscape and hw these mdels can be integrated int GIS-based tls t help manage ecsystems. My main tasks were in designing and building the different cmpnents in the system. Prgramming was made with VB.Net emplying different cmpnents f the ArcGIS platfrm. June/2004 August/2004 Analyst / Database Develper SIMTIX - Amman, Jrdan http://www.simtix.cm Mainly wrked n the Aqar Hlding Real Estate Sales web prject. It is a 3-tier prject that invlved Java as a frnt-end and an Oracle database as a back-end. My main respnsibility was prviding the Java team with the database bjects and prcedures they required. April/2003 December/2003 Instructr Department f Cmputer Science Philadelphia University - Amman, Jrdan http://www.philadelphia.edu.j A private sectr university with a number f students f abut 7,000. I have taught curses in Advanced Database, Oracle, Visual Basic, and Management Supprt systems, with class size f an average f 25. March/2003 December/2003 Technical Team Leader Dar Al-Handasa Grup - Amman, Jrdan http://www.dar.cm I lead a team f prgrammers build a new applicatin fr an English sister cmpany f Dar. The applicatin was a Visual Basic applicatin in the frnt-end, with MS SQL Server in the backend. Befre starting the develpment, the team needed t be trained n Visual Basic. April/2000 March/2003 Sr. Database Develper/Analyst Integrant Inc. - Amman, Jrdan & San Dieg, CA, USA http://www.integrant.cm An American cmpany whse management and prjects are based in San Dieg, CA, and its develpment is cnducted in Amman, Jrdan. I have wrked there as a senir database develper specializing in building frms and cmplex PL/SQL scripts. I was als the Oracle DBA fr Integrant. I have cnducted sme analysis fr sme systems. I als have led sme prjects fr Integrant. And, I spent six mnths in the American branch ding systems analysis and meeting with clients, mainly, a cmpany called "NAGS" (Natinal Aut Glass Specificatins). June/1998 April/2000 Banking Applicatins Develper Cmputer & Cmmunicatins Systems, CCS - Amman, Jrdan http://www.icslndn.cm/banks CCS is the Jrdanian divisin f ICS-Lndn, a British cmpany with several branches and departments, and has prjects in several cuntries. Wrked there as an Oracle banking applicatins develper, specializing in the Trade Finance System applicatins. Dr. Samir Tartir P a g e 3
July/1999 September/1999 Database Develper Al-Awa'el Cmputer Systems - Amman, Jrdan http://www.awael.cm.j I was helped the cmpany emplyees in mving their develpment f several database applicatin frm Micrsft Access t Oracle. June/1996 July 1996 Banking Applicatins Trainee Arab Land Bank Amman, Jrdan https://www.aqaribank.j Training n different cmpnents f the bank system that was mainly built in Cbl. PUBLICATIONS Semantically Answering Questins frm the Hly Quran. Hashem Shmeisani, Samir Tartir, Ammar Al-Na'ssaan, Math Naji. 2 nd Internatinal Cnference n Islamic Applicatins in Cmputer Science and Technlgies (IMAN 2014). 12 th -13 th Octber 2014. Jrdan. SemanticQA: Expliting Semantic Assciatins fr Crss-Dcument Questin Answering. Samir Tartir, I. Budak Arpinar and Bbby McKnight. The Furth IEEE Internatinal Sympsium n Innvatins in Infrmatin & Cmmunicatins Technlgy (ISIICT 2011). Amman, Jrdan. Nvember 2011. Anntatin f Hyperlinks with Semantic Meaning. Bilal Gnen and Samir Tartir. The Int l Cnference n Semantic Web and Web Services, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, July 2011 Ontlgical Evaluatin and Validatin. Samir Tartir, I. Budak Arpinar and Amit P. Sheth. In R. Pli (Editr): Thery and Applicatins f Ontlgy (TAO), vlume II: Ontlgy: The Infrmatin-science Stance. Springer, June-2010. Questin Answering in Linked Data fr Scientific Explratin. Samir Tartir, I. Budak Arpinar and Mustafa Nural. In the 2nd Annual Web Science Cnference, Raleigh, Nrth Carlina, USA, April 26-27, 2010. SemanticQA: Web-Based Ontlgy-Driven Questin Answering. Samir Tartir, Bbby McKnight, and I. Budak Arpinar. In the 24th Annual ACM Sympsium n Applied Cmputing, Waikiki Beach, Hnlulu, Hawaii, USA, March 8-12, 2009. Ontlgy Evaluatin and Ranking using OntQA. Samir Tartir and I. Budak Arpinar. Prceedings f the First IEEE Internatinal Cnference n Semantic Cmputing, September 17-19, 2007, Irvine, Califrnia, USA. (On the recmmended reading list fr the Semantic Web) Knwledge mdeling and its applicatin in life sciences: a tale f tw ntlgies. Satya S. Sah, Christpher Thmas, Amit P. Sheth, William S. Yrk and Samir Tartir. The 2006 Wrld Wide Web Cnference. May 22-26, 2006, Edinburgh, Sctland. SQLFlw: PL/SQL Multi-Diagrammatic Surce Cde Visualizatin. Samir Tartir and Ayman Issa. Internatinal Arab Cnference n Infrmatin Technlgy ACIT'2005. Al-Isra Private University, Jrdan. December 6-8, 2005. OntQA: Metric-Based Ontlgy Quality Analysis. Samir Tartir, I. Budak Arpinar, Michael Mre, Amit P. Sheth, Banerges Aleman-Meza. IEEE ICDM 2005 Wrkshp n Knwledge Acquisitin frm Distributed, Autnmus, Semantically Hetergeneus Data and Knwledge Surces. Hustn, Texas, Nvember 27, 2005. Dr. Samir Tartir P a g e 4
PRESENTATIONS IN CONFERENCES The 2 nd Internatinal Cnference n Islamic Applicatins in Cmputer Science and Technlgies (IMAN 2014). 12 th -13 th Octber 2014. Amman, Jrdan. Ontlgy Summit 2013 Track A: Intrinsic Aspects f Ontlgy Evaluatin. March 2013. The Furth IEEE Internatinal Sympsium n Innvatin in Infrmatin & Cmmunicatin Technlgy (ISIICT 2011). Amman, Jrdan. Nvember 2011. The 24 th Annual ACM Sympsium n Applied Cmputing, Waikiki Beach, Hnlulu, Hawaii, USA, March 8-12, 2009. The First IEEE Internatinal Cnference n Semantic Cmputing, September 17-19, 2007, Irvine, Califrnia, USA IEEE ICDM 2005 Wrkshp n Knwledge Acquisitin frm Distributed, Autnmus, Semantically Hetergeneus Data and Knwledge Surces. Hustn, Texas, Nvember 27, 2005 TRAINING COURSES I have participated in the fllwing prfessinal training curses: Oracle DBA and Oracle SQL 11g. September 2010. Supervised by Oracle and the Ministry f Infrmatin and Cmmunicatins Technlgies. Java Prgramming Language, Java SE7. Nvember 2012. Supervised by Oracle and the Ministry f Infrmatin and Cmmunicatins Technlgies. MENTORING EXPERIENCE I supervised the research f the fllwing students: Hashim Al-Shmaisani: M.Sc. in Cmputer Science, Graduated Jan/2014. Thesis title Using Semantic Appraches t Answer Questins frm Arabic Text Ibrahim Abd Al-Nabi: M.Sc. in Cmputer Science, Graduated in Jan/2014. Thesis title: Discvering User Attitudes f Businesses in Arabic Twitter Feed I als participate actively in the advising and day-t-day activities f the fllwing Master's degree students (Advisr: Dr. Arpinar): Bbby McKnight Bijaya Rath SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES Organizing Chair IEEE Internatinal Sympsium n Innvatins in Infrmatin and Cmmunicatins Technlgy (2011) IEEE Internatinal Sympsium n Innvatins in Infrmatin and Cmmunicatins Technlgy (2014) Prgram Cmmittee Member 2012 Internatinal Arab Cnference f e-technlgy 2011 Transactins n Knwledge and Data Engineering 2011 IEEE Internatinal Sympsium n Innvatins in Infrmatin and Cmmunicatins Technlgy 2009 Internatinal Sympsium n Innvatins in Infrmatin and Cmmunicatins Technlgy 2007 IEEE Internet Cmputing 2007 Cnference n Artificial Intelligence 2006 Internatinal Cnference n Web Infrmatin Systems Engineering Dr. Samir Tartir P a g e 5
2006 Internatinal Cnference n Data Engineering 2006 Internatinal Sympsium n Cmputer and Infrmatin Sciences 2005 Jurnal f Data & Knwledge Engineering 2005 IEEE/WIC/ACM Internatinal Cnference n Intelligent Agent Technlgy 2005 Indian Internatinal Cnference n Artificial Intelligence 2005 Internatinal Sympsium n Cmputer and Infrmatin Sciences Prjects Participatin Alice Arabizatin Prject: (Mar/2013-Feb/2014) A prject that was dne in cllabratin with Carnegie-Meln University in the USA and crdinated by Oracle Middle-East I supervised a grup f students t Arabize keywrds in the Alice 3D prgramming envirnment that will be adpted by schls in the regin. Ggle Vice Arabic Search (Aug/2011 September/2015) I supervised vice sample cllectin and transcriptin services in Jrdan and the Gulf regins FUNDING PROPOSALS WRITTEN Building a Knwledgebase frm Arabic Text Utilizing Arabic Grammar Rules. P.I. Samir Tartir. Funding Surce Jrdan s Scientific Research Fund. 2015. Under review. Ontlgy-Driven Natural Language Search fr Web Dcuments. P.I. I. Budak Arpinar. Funding Surce Micrsft s Beynd Search - Semantic Cmputing and Internet Ecnmics (Track 1: Semantic Cmputing). 2008. Nt Funded. TEACHING EXPERIENCE I have taught several classes during my teaching experience at Philadelphia University including the fllwing classes: Scientific Research (Master s degree) Infrmatin Retrieval Advanced Databases Sftware Engineering Sftware Requirements Data Structures Object Oriented Prgramming Management Supprt systems I have als taught the fllwing class at The University f Gergia: CSCI-1302: Sftware Develpment In additin I have been the teaching assistant in classes at The University f Gergia: CSCI-1703: Systems Prgramming CSCI-6150: Numerical Simulatins in Science and Engineering Finally, I have served as and as a guest lecturer in several lectures at The University f Gergia including: Special Tpics in Cmputer Science Enterprise Infrmatin Systems Databases Dr. Samir Tartir P a g e 6
PROGRAMMING AND TECHNOLOGY SKILLS Languages: VB 6.0, VB.NET, Java, J#, C, C++, C#, PROLOG, CBOL, Pascal Web technlgies: XML, XSLT, Servlets, JSP Smartphnes: Andrid SDK Databases: Oracle, MS SQL Server, SYBASE, MS Access, PL/SQL, MySQL, ERWIN Semantic Web: RDF/S, OWL GIS: ARCGIS Dr. Samir Tartir P a g e 7