Hisham Al-Mubaid, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Computer Science
& Computer Information
Systems Program Chair, Computer Information
Systems
Office: Delta
D-168
Email: Hisham@uhcl.edu
Tel: (281) 283-3802 Secretary: (281) 283-3860
Research
interests: Data mining, Machine learning, Bioinformatics:
Gene selection, Biomedical term classification and disambiguation, Biomedical concept similarity, cross-ontology similarity,
gene functional similarity and GO similarity & relatedness. Natural
language processing: context-based spelling errors, text mining, text
categorization.
- Publications
- short bio
Teaching:
o
Spring 2012
§ CSCI 4838 Senior Project in
Computer Science
§ CSCI 5132 Internet Protocols
Selected Services
- Program Chair (conferences): BICoB-2011; SEDE-2009; BICoB-2010; SEDE-2008
- Conference Chair: BICoB-2012
- Program Committee Member: (selected conferences)
IEEE BIBM 2012;
ACM SAC 2012 (database track);
IEEE CEC 2011;
ACM SAC 2011 ;
ACM SAC-2010
(DTTA);
ACM
SAC-2009 (DTTA); PAKDD-2010; ISIICT-2011; ICCBALI 2011; ICCA-2011;
ICIT-2011;
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);
IJEI;
IAJIT
Awards:
§
Distinguished Dissertation Award, for
distinguished PhD dissertation. University of Texas at Dallas, August 2000.
§
Presidential Research Fellowship,
State University of New York (SUNY) at Geneseo, NY,
March 2001.
§
CASTL’04 Scholar. CASTL’04 Institute,
June 2004.
§
Piper award for Teaching Excellence
Finalist, UHCL, 2007.
§
CASTL’07 Scholar. CASTL’07 Institute, June 2007.
§
Piper award finalist, UHCL, 2010.
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.
- Proceedings of BICoB-2010, March 2010,
Honolulu, HI 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
- Proceedings of BICoB-2011, March 2011,
New Orleans, LA USA.
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.
University computing and telecomm
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
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 Int’l Conf on Bioinformatics and
Computational Biology, March 2010. http://sce.uhcl.edu/bicob10/
§
Program chair: BICoB-2011; 3nd Int’l Conf on Bioinformatics and
Computational Biology, New Orleans LA, USA; March 2011. http://sce.uhcl.edu/bicob11/
Links
Top US Computing Programs
(Comm. ACM June 2007)
The World's Computer Society
(IEEE)
Top500.org: the top
500 supercomputer sites
The Largest Known Prime
Numbers
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
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