Alaa.Al-feef

AlA' AL-AFEEF

Welcome to my website. I am

Doctoral Researcher at the School of Computing Science of the

University of Glasgow
, Scotland, United Kind.

Seeking a challenging Position where I can demonstrate outstanding skills, knowledge and attributes to meet organizational as well as individual goals.

CONTACT INFO: .

E-mail: alaa.afeef@gmail.com

E-mail:
a.al-afeef.1@research.gla.ac.uk

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ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS AND DEGREES

Ph.D, Computing Science, School of Computing Science, University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK, (Expected 2014).
M.Sc., Computer Science, Prince Abdullah Bin Ghazi Faculty of Science and Info, Al-Balqa Applied University, Salt, Jordan, 2010. (GPA 3.81/4.0).
B.Sc., Computer & Computer Information Systems, Philadelphia University, Faculty of Science, Jordan, 2005. (GPA 89.4/100).

RESEARCH INTEREST

Electron Tomography
Evolutionary Computation, Genetic Programming

Software Cost Estimation, Electrical Capacitance Tomography

Image Processing, Modeling, Simulation and Identification.

SCHOLARSHIP

Lord Kelvin / Adam Smith PhD Scholarship, University of Glasgow, UK (2011-2014).

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Oct/ 2011 – Current:

University of Glasgow-School of Computing Science, Scotland, UK

Job Title: Doctoral Researcher

Supervisors Prof. Joachim Loos (Department of Physics and Astronomy) , Dr. Paul Cockshott (School of Computing Science).

Feb /2009 – Oct /20011:

Image Technologies .Inc, Amman, Jordan

Job Title: SATO - Software Assurance Training Officer reporting to Managing Director.

Tasks Include:

·    To ensure that customers’ users of implemented applications are achieving a high level of utilization of the software functionalities,

   and obtain feedback from customers to help the company implement enhancements to the applications.

·     Conduct on-the-job training and classroom training.

·     Designing training courses and set up the training team.

·     Preparing training plans and reports.

·     Write "User Manuals" for software applications.

·     Participate in meetings of the Customer Satisfaction Committee.
Dec/ 2005 – Dec/ 2008:

Philadelphia University-Faculty of Information Technology, Amman, Jordan

Job Title: Teaching Assistant – TA

Dec/ 2007 – Dec/ 2008: UNIX Lab Instructor,

Dec/ 2006 – Dec/ 2007: Software Engineering Lab Instructor,
Dec/ 2005 – Dec/ 2006: Multimedia Lab Instructor.

PART-TIME JOBS:

Sept/2010 – Feb/2011

Part-Time Instructor

Philadelphia University - Amman, Jordan

A private sector university with a number of students of about 7,000. I have taught Courses in Artificial Intelligence, C++, and Data structures, with class size of an average of 25.

Dec /2007 – Dec /2008

     Part-Time junior System Analyst

   Computer Center at Philadelphia University – Amman, Jordan

Dec /2006 – Dec /2007

Part-Time E-learning courses editor/ Technician

Avicenna Knowledge Center at Philadelphia University (UNESCO Project) – Amman, Jordan

Spring/2004 – Spring/2005

     Part-Time Instructor

   Drop-In Center at Philadelphia University – Amman, Jordan

PROFESSIONAL AWARDS & HONORS

AIIM Enterprise Content Management (ECM^M) Master Certificate, (2011).
AIIM Enterprise Content Management (ECM^S) Specialist Certificate, (2010).
Certified Financial Technician -Level-1, (2009).
Al-Balqa Applied University 1^st honor place, (GPA = 3.8 /4), Salt, Jordan (2009).
Philadelphia University 4^th honor place, (GPA = 89.4%), Amman, Jordan (2005).
16 supremacy certificate in primary and high school.
Honored by the Saudi Minister of Education for becoming in second place in the national High School Science Competition, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (1997). This keeps me smile till today as I was not expecting it or even looking forward to it.

MASTER THESIS

Thesis title:”Image Reconstructing in Electrical Capacitance Tomography of Manufacturing Processes Using Genetic Programming”, M.Sc. of Computer Science, Summer 2010. [PDF][PPT][Video]

Thesis Director: Prof. Alaa Sheta.

ORGANIZATIONAL PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Workshops:

1. Title: PRACE/LinkSCEEM-2 2011 Winter School Advanced Training Workshop, Cyprus Institute, Nicosia - Cyprus.

Description: Advanced High Performance Computing (HPC) Training on advanced topics such as programming models and optimization techniques, specifics on MPI/OpenMP and hybrid programming, optimization and profiling.

Duration: 24-27 January 2011.

2. Title: Joint HP-SEE, LinkSCEEM-2 and PRACE HPC Summer Training 2011, Hellenic Telecommunications Organization(OTE Academy), Athens, Greece.

Description: The content consists of lectures and hands-on sessions in the field of HPC usage for multi-disciplinary scientific research communities with the focus on parallel programming methods, performance analysis tools and code optimization. The lectures will be given by accredited PRACE, HP-SEE and LinkSCEEM trainers and experts in the HPC field.

Duration: 13-15 July 2011.

3. Title: Joint SESAME-LinkSCEEM2 Summer School, SESAME, Amman, Jordan.

Description: Synchrotron-light for Experimental Science and Applications in the Middle East (SESAME), European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) and the Computation-based Science and Technology Research Center (CaSToRC) of the Cyprus Institute (CyI) are organizing jointly the first Joint Summer School within the LinkSCEEM-2 project, that will be held at SESAME in Amman - Jordan. The school aims to enhance the knowledge of current HPC users, and to engage new user communities in the use of HPC infrastructure in synchrotron related research..

Duration: 17-19 July, 2011.

Projects:

1. Title: AVICENNA virtual campus project for E-Learning, Philadelphia University, Amman, Jordan.

Description: AVICENNA is a UNESCO Project, funded from the European Commission through its Euro-Mediterranean Information Society (EUMEDIS) programme.

Job: E-learning courses editor (Dec 2006 – Dec 2007).

Other Activities:

- Professional Member of the Association for Information and Image Management (AIIM).

- Student member of the IEEE Computer Society.

- Student member of the ACM.

- Member of the Jordan Technical Analysis Society (JTAS).

PROGRAMMING SKILLS

Software Packages:

Matlab, C/C++,C#, MPI, OpenMP, OpenCL and Visual Basic, Latex, Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook & Visio), DocuWare.

Platforms:

Windows (7/vista/XP/NT/98/95/3.1), Linux mandrake, Sun Solaris 10.

LANGUAGE SKILLS

ENGLISH: Excellent (reading, speaking), Very-good (writing).

ARABIC: Mother Tongue.

PUBLICATIONS

BOOKs

Alaa Al-Afeef, Alaa Sheta, Adnan Rabea,

Image Reconstruction of a Manufacturing Process: A Genetic Programming Approach,

LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, April 2011. [mb!][amazon]

SELECTED ARTICLES (Journals)

Alaa Sheta, Alaa Al-Afeef,

Software Effort Estimation for NASA Projects Using Genetic Programming,

Journal of Intelligent Computing, Volume 1. Number. 3, pp. 146-156, April 2010. [link]

Alaa Al-Afeef, Alaa Sheta, Adnan Rabea,

Image Reconstructing in Electrical Capacitance Tomography of Manufacturing Processes Using Genetic Programming,

Submitted to the Measurement Science and Technology,

Journal (MST), IOP Publishing (United Kingdom), October 10, 2010.
Alaa Al-Afeef, Basem Al-Hadidi, Malik Brik,

Symbolic Regression of Crop Pest Forecasting Using Genetic Programming, A

ccepted for publication in the

Turkish journal of electrical engineering & computer sciences,
July 21, 2011 [Link]

SELECTED ARTICLES (Conferences)

Alaa Sheta, Peter Rausch and Alaa Al-Afeef,
Quality Management of Manufacturing Processes Using Electrical Capacitance Tomography and Genetic Programming:
A new Framework,
Accepted for publication at the SGAI International conference on Artificial Intelligence, Cambridge, UK, December 2011
Alaa Al-Afeef, Alaa Sheta, Adnan Rabea,Image Reconstruction of a Metal Fill Industrial Process Using Genetic Programming.,In the Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications (ISDA 2010), Special Session on Intelligent Systems for Industrial Processes, pp.12-17, vol. 1, November 29 - December 1, 2010, Cairo, Egypt. [PDF]

Alaa Sheta, Alaa Al-Afeef, A GP Effort Estimation Model Utilizing Line of Code and Methodology for NASA Software Projects., In the Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications (ISDA 2010), Special Session on Software Cost Estimation Using Soft Computing Techniques (SCE-SCT 2010), pp. 284-289, vol. 1, November 29 - December 1, 2010, Cairo, Egypt. [PDF]

PROFESSIONAL PUBLICATIONS (WEB)

Alaa Al-Afeef, Web-Based Document Management is an insurance policy against your Organization’s business risks, Image Technologies Blog, July 2011. [Link]