Office: Delta D-168       Email: Hisham@uhcl.edu

Tel: (281) 283-3802     Secretary: (281) 283-3860

 


                 

Research interests:  - Natural language processing: context-based spelling errors, text mining, text categorization, machine learning, data mining.   - Bioinformatics: Gene selection, Biomedical term classification and disambiguation, Biomedical concept similarity, gene and GO term similarity.

 

- Publications      

 

- short bio


      Intl. J. of Rapid Manufacturing Special issue on Data Mining and Knowledge Management


Teaching:

o Fall 2009

CSCI 3331 Computer Organization and Assembly Language

CSCI 4931 Advanced Software Development with Java

CSCI 5132 Internet Protocols


Selected Services

 

  - Program Chair (conferences):  SEDE-2008 ; SEDE-2009; BICoB-2010

                                             

  - Program Committee Member: (selected conferences)

      ACM SAC-2010 (DTTA); ACM SAC-2009 (DTTA); PAKDD-2009 (Thailand); KDIR-2009 (Portugal);

      SIAM SDM-2008; IEEE BIBE 2008; IEEE WCCI/CEC-2008 (Hong Kong); IEEE CDS-2007(Toronto, Canada);

       IEEE 2007 CEC (Singapore); ACIT-2003 (Egypt); ITNG-2007; IEEE BIBE 2007; BMEI-2008(China);

 


 MS Thesis Supervised:

 

- Noushin Ghaffari: Exploring Machine Learning and Text Mining in Information Extraction Using Gene Expression Profiles and Biomedical Literature. April 2006.

- Hoa A. Nguyen: New Semantic Similarity Techniques Applied in the Biomedical Domain and WordNet. November 2006 {implementation: http://search.cpan.org/~btmcinnes/UMLS-Similarity-0.17/lib/UMLS/Similarity/nam.pm }

- Duc Duong: Using Text Mining to Extract Gene and Protein Synonyms from Biomedical Texts. July 2007

- Elham Khabiri: Using Semantic Similarity Measures in the Biomedical Domain for Functional Similarity of Genes based on Gene Ontology. November 2007

- Anurag Nagar: Functional Analysis of Genes Using the Gene Ontology: Gene Similarity, Clustering,

                           and Classification. April 2008.

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Editor:

      - Proceedings of the 16th Intl. conference on Software Engineering and Data Engineering SEDE-2007, Las Vegas, NV, USA.

      - Proceedings of SEDE-2008, Los Angeles, CA, USA.

      - Proceedings of SEDE-2009, June 2009, Las Vegas, NV USA.

      - Intl J. of Rapid Manufacturing (IJRapidM), Special Issue on Data Mining and Knowledge Management. September 2010. http://www.inderscience.com/browse/callpaper.php?callID=1135

 

Conference Chair:

  Program co-chair of SEDE-2007: 16th Int’l conference on Software Engineering and Data Engineering, Las Vegas, USA, July 2007.

  Program co-chair of SEDE-2008, Los Angeles, USA, July 2008.

  Program co-chair of SEDE-2009, Las Vegas, USA, July 2009.

  Program chair: BICoB-2010 2nd International Conference on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, to be held in Hawaii, March 2010. http://sce.uhcl.edu/bicob10/ 


    Education

  B.Sc. Computer Science, University of Jordan.

  M.S., Computer Science, University of Texas at Dallas.

  Ph.D., Computer Science (Distinguished dissertation award),

                              University of Texas at Dallas, August 2000


Photos from SEDE-2007 in Las Vegas


 

UHCL Computing labs

UHCL Neumann Library

University computing and telecomm


                             

    Photos

     


Projects

 - UMLS-Similarity-0.17 > UMLS::Similarity::nam:

               http://search.cpan.org/~btmcinnes/UMLS-Similarity-0.17/lib/UMLS/Similarity/nam.pm

 - BioMiner

 - BioMedSim(semantic similarity of biomedical terms)

 - Ltest

 - TC

 - SemSim


Links

 

Top US Computing Programs (Comm. ACM June 2007)

The World's Computer Society (IEEE)

ACM

Top500.org: the top 500 supercomputer sites

Mozilla.org

The Largest Known Prime Numbers

Play Chess online

Chess

Play Chess

Wordplay: Fun with Words

Internet Faxing

sourceforge.net: open source development

Online Ethics for Engineering and Science

How to Get a Phd : A Handbook for Students and Their Supervisors

Activities for ESL students {Study English}

A Text Analysis Tool