Ahmed Abdalaal, PhD

Ahmed Abdalaal, PhD.

23 years of experience working in ICT sector in collaboration with international organizations، NGOs and UN agencies. This includes proposal writing, needs assessment, planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation as well as experience in community development and building donor relations.

Abdalaal  is the coordinator of BITPAL project, co-funded with support from the European Commission under the ERASMUS+ European program. He is the Founder of UCAS Oracle Academy. He was the manager of Python4HS project, funded by Google’s CS4HS grant program. Also He works as a consultant and a reviewer for the Quality Improvement Fund project and the Accreditation and Quality Assurance Commission in Palestine. He is a member of the steering committee of Open Book Project, the Arab League Educational, Cultural and Scientific (ALECSO), Tunisia. Also a member of the PAC at the TVET/ Enhancing Youth Employability Project. Islamic Relief, Palestine. As well as a member of the steering committee of Ibhath Project, Qatar Charity. He was a local coordinator of Erasmus Mundus University II project, European mobility program leaded by VUB, Brussels, Belgium. He is a faculty member in University College of Applied Sciences – Gaza.  

Abdalaal received the PhD degree in Computer Engineering from Sabanci University, Istanbul in 2012, MA degree in Computer Science from VUB, Brussels in 2006 and the BS degree in Computer Engineering from IUG, Gaza in 2001. 

Projects 

• 2020 - 2023 :  Team member of Palib project, co-funded with support from the European Commission under the ERASMUS+ European program.

• 2016 - 2019 :  Coordinator of BITPAL project, co-funded with support from the European Commission under the ERASMUS+ European program.

• 2017 - 2018  :  Founder and coordinator of UCAS Oracle Academy.

• 2017 - 2018 :  Manager of Python4HS project, funded by Google’s CS4HS grant program.

Affiliation 

• 2001 - Now: Faculty Member, University College of Applied Sciences, Gaza, Palestine.  

• 2019 - 2021 : Vice rector for academic affairs at the University College of Applied Sciences, Gaza, Palestine. 

Education 

• PhD in Computer Science and Engineering, Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey. 

• MS in Computer Science, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium. 

• BS in Computer Engineering, Islamic University of Gaza, Palestine.   

Research Interests 

Databases, Location-based services, Personalization, Data privacy, Data mining and web engineering, Opinion mining. 

Membership in Professional Societies

• Reviewer for new academic programs accreditation, Accreditation and Quality Assurance Commission (AQAC), Palestine. 

• Reviewer for Quality Improvement Fund (QIF) projects,MoEHE Palestine. 

• Member of the Palestine Network of Mentors at the Palestine Information and Communications Technology Incubator (PICTI) 

• Member of the steering committee of Open Book Project, the Arab League Educational, Cultural and Scientific (ALECSO), Tunisia.

• Member of the PAC at the TVET/ Enhancing Youth Employability Project. Islamic Relief, Palestine. 

• Member of the steering committee of Ibhath Project.

• Reviewer for Information Sciences Journal (Information Sciences) 

• Registered professional engineer in the Association of Engineers

Publications

• A. Abdalaal, M.E. Nergiz, and Y. Saygin, Privacy-preserving publishing of opinion polls. Computers & Security Journal, March 2013. 

• H. Qunoo, A. Abu-Samra , W. Shbair and A. Abdalaal, Research Priorities in Information and Computer Networks Security in Palestine, the 2nd Science Research Conference, IUG, March 2013. 

• Ph.D. Dissertation “Privacy Preserving Data Publishing with Multiple Sensitive Attributes"

• Master Thesis title “Techniques for Personalization in E-learning"

• Bachelor graduation project “Distributed Banking System” that solves the bank access problem.

• Paper for the WIS course: AJAX Benefits and drawback, June 2006.

• Position Paper : SWI-Prolog Programming Environment and its support for XML and RDF.

• Position Paper : SMIL (Synchronized Media Integration Language)disability features 

• Position Paper : The Personal Reader framework and personalized e-Learning in the Semantic Web