I am a tenure-track assistant professor of Software Engineering at the Department of Computer Science and Information Technology at St.Cloud State University. I received my Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of Alabama at Birmingham in 2023, and my M.S. degree in Scientific Computing from Birzeit University-Palestine. Before joining UAB in 2019, I worked in the industry for eight years building a cloud-based platform for supply chain management. My research interests include geospatial data management, graph mining, and transportation simulation.

Grants and Awards

  • ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2022 Travel Grant
  • Innovation Bowl 2022-2023 Winner ($25,000) Link

Conference Review:

  • AAAI 2024, 2025
  • CIKM 2022, 2023, 2024
  • ACM SIGMOD ARI 2023
  • LSGDA 2024
  • IEEE BigData 2024
  • BIOKDD 2024
  • AIGC 2023

Journal Review:

  • The Journal of Supercomputing
  • Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery

Conference External Review:

  • SIGMOD 2021
  • SIGKDD 2021, 2022
  • ICDE 2021, 2023
  • International Workshop on Big Data Tools, Methods, and Use Cases for Innovative Scientific Discovery (BTSD) 2020, 2021 with IEEE BigData
  • IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration for Data Science (IRI) 2020, 2021
  • CIKM 2021
  • International Workshop on Data Mining in Bioinformatics (BIOKDD) 2020

Journal External Review:

  • The VLDB Journal 2021

Internships

  • Engineering Intern (June 2022 - Aug. 2022)
    Shipt
    Search and Recommendation Team
    • Worked on a spelling correction project using Python.
    • Worked on a query understanding project using Go language.
    • Read papers about E-commerce product search and recommendations.
    • Hands-on tools and technologies such as Kafka, Docker, Snowflake, and others.

Experience

  • Cloud Engineer (2013 - 2018)
    Logitude
    Responsible for cloud infrastructure and deployments
    • Deploy the weekly hotfixes and monthly releases
    • Manage pre-production and test versions
    • Manage and monitor SQL database backups, alerts, indexes, and performance
    • Manage the releases workflow with quality assurance and customer care teams
    • Backup tools for Azure storage and databases
    • Create tools to automate repetitive tasks, evaluate implementations, and provide feedback for tool improvements
    • Troubleshoot and identify performance, connectivity and other issues for the applications hosted on the Azure platform
  • Software Engineer (2009 - 2013)
    Logitude
    As a startup, I have worked on the first prototypes to create Logitude Platform using C#, Silverlight, SQL, .Net, Microsoft Azure and more
    Some solo projects using C#:
    • XML to Silverlight conversion tool
    • SQL Azure database backup
    • Azure storage backup