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Resume:
Ahmed Hassan
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Ann Arbor, MI 48109
Cell: 734-***-**** - Of ce: 734-***-****
E-mail: abqgct@r.postjobfree.com
URL: www.umich.edu/~hassanam
EDUCATION
MI, USA
University of Michigan Ann Arbor
2007 Expected May 2011
Ph.D., Computer Science and Engineering
Cumulative Rackham GPA: 8.136 (4.0)
Cairo, Egypt
Cairo University
2004 2007
M.Sc., Computer Engineering
Cumulative GPA: 3.91/4.00
Thesis : A Probabilistic Framework for Learning Bayesian Net-
workStructures from Data.
Cairo, Egypt
Cairo University
1998 2003
B.Sc., Computer Engineering
Distinction with honor degree, GPA 3.95/4.00
Graduation Project : A Vision System for Chess Playing Robots.
Graduation Project Grade : Distinction.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
My research focuses on Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval, with applications
to the Web, social media, and scienti c literature. I also have a strong interest in Machine Learning,
Text Mining, Data Mining, Information Extraction, and Social Network Analysis.
WORK/RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
MI, USA
University of Michigan Ann Arbor
2007 Present
CLAIR Research Group
Research Assistant
Working with Prof. Dragomir Radev in the Computational Lin-
guistics And Information Retrieval (CLAIR) group.
USA
Microsoft Research
Summer 2010
Search Quality Team, Internet Services Research Center
Research Intern
Project: A session level satisfaction metric and its application on
improving Bing s Relevance Estimation.
USA
Yahoo! Labs
Summer 2009
Query Intent Team, Search Sciences
Research Intern
Project: Predicting search success using user behavior.
USA
Yahoo! Research
Summer 2008
Search Technologies and Computational Advertising Group
Research Intern
Project: Improving Web search and vertical integeration in
search results using geographic information.
Cairo, Egypt
IBM Cairo Technology Development Center
2004 2007
Human Language Technologies Group
Research Engineer
Worked in several Natural Language Processing including su-
pervised / semi-supervised relation and event extraction from
unstructured text, relation extraction from biomedical data, se-
mantic word clustering, named entity translation, extracting par-
allel documents from comparable corpora, automatic detection
and correction of text, and others. We worked closely with the
IKM group at the IBM Watson research center and participated
in several NIST Automatic Content Extraction (ACE) evaluations.
Cairo, Egypt
Cairo University
2004 2007
Computer Engineering Dept.
Teaching/Research Assistant
Cairo, Egypt
IBM Cairo Technology Development Center
Summer 2002
Human Language Technologies Group
Research Intern
Project: Building a multilingual parallel text collector from comparable corpora.
Cairo, Egypt
Mentor Graphics
Summer 2001
Custom Engineering Services (CES) Group
Intern
Project: Building GTK GUI for a design and simulation tool.
Cairo, Egypt
IBM Cairo Technology Development Center
Summer 2000
Human Language Technologies Group
Intern
Project: Building an electronic media management system.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
MI, USA
University of Michigan Ann Arbor
Winter 2009
EECS 498 / SI 650 - Information Retrieval
Graduate Student Instructor
MI, USA
University of Michigan Ann Arbor
Fall 2010
EECS 492 - Introduction to Arti cial Intelligence
Graduate Student Instructor
Cairo, Egypt
Cairo University
Teaching Assistant 2004 - 2007
Led discussion and lab sessions for Data Structures and Algo-
rithms, Introduction to Logic Design, Programming Techniques,
Design and Analysis of Algorithms, Operating Systems, Neural
Networks, Programming Lab, and Operating Systems Lab.
PATENTS
Method and System for Access of Multilingual Textual Resources using Conceptual Representation
Matching. US Patent Pending. Filed by IBM.
System and Method of GEO-Based Prediction in Search Result Selection. US Patent Pending. Filed
by Yahoo!.
Relevance Estimation using a Search Satisfaction Metric. US Patent Pending. Filed by Microsoft.
PAPERS
Ahmed Hassan and Dragomir R. Radev. Automatic Extraction of Signed Social Networks from Text.
SUBMITTED.
Ahmed Hassan, Yang Song, and Li-wei He. A Session Level User Satisfaction Model and its Appli-
cation on Improving Relevance Estimation. SUBMITTED.
Ahmed Hassan and Dragomir Radev. Using Dynamic Graph Methods for Assigning Salience to
Participants in a Discussion. SUBMITTED.
Ahmed Hassan, Vahed Qazvinian, and Dragomir Radev. 2010. What s with the Attitude? A study
of Participant Attitude in Multi-Party Online Discussions . The 2010 Conference on Empirical
Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2010).
Ahmed Hassan, and Dragomir Radev. 2010. Identifying Text Polarity Using Random Walks . The
48th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2010).
Ahmed Hassan, Rosie Jones, and Kristina Klinkner. 2010. Beyond DCG: User Behaviour as a Pre-
dictor of a Successful Search. Proceedings of the 3rd ACM International Conference on Web Search
and Data Mining (WSDM) 2010.
Ahmed Hassan, Rosie Jones, and Fernando Diaz. 2009. A Case Study of Using Geographic Cues to
Predict Query News Intent. Proceedings of the 17th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference
on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM GIS 2009).
Ahmed Hassan, Dragomir R. Radev, Junghoo Cho, Amruta Joshi. 2009. Content Based Recom-
mendation and Summarization in the Blogosphere. The International Conference on Weblogs
and Social Media (ICWSM 2009).
Saif Mohammad, Bonnie Dorr, Melissa Egan, Ahmed Hassan, Pradeep Muthukrishan, Vahed
Qazvinian, Dragomir Radev, and David Zajic. 2009. Generating Surveys of Scienti c Paradigms.
The North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics - Human Lan-
guage Technologies (NAACL-HLT 2009).
Ahmed Hassan, Rosie Jones, and Fernando Diaz. 2008. Geographic Features in Web Search Re-
trieval. The 5th Workshop on Geographic Information Retrieval (GIR 2008), ACM 17th Confer-
ence on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2008).
Gunes Erkan, Ahmed Hassan, Qin Diao, and Dragomir Radev. 2008. Improved Nearest Neighbor
Methods For Text Classi cation With Language Modeling andHarmonic Functions. Accepted with
revisions.
Ahmed Hassan, Anthony Fader, Michael Crespin, Kevin Quinn, Burt Monroe, Michael Colaresi
and Dragomir Radev. 2008. Tracking the Dynamic Evolution of Participants Salience in a Discus-
sion. The 22nd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2008).
Ahmed Hassan, Sara Noeman, and Hany Hassan. 2008. Language Independent Text Correction
using Finite State Automata. Proceedings of the 2008 International Joint Conference on Natural
Language Processing (IJCNLP).
Ahmed Hassan, Haytham Fahmy, and Hany Hassan. 2007. Improving Named Entity Translation
by Exploiting Comparable and Parallel Corpora. Proceedings of the AMML Workshop, the 2007
Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP).
Hany Hassan, Ahmed Hassan, and Ossama Emam. 2006. Unsupervised Information Extraction
Approach Using Graph Mutual Reinforcement. Proceedings of the 2006 Conference on Empirical
Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2006).
Hany Hassan, Ahmed Hassan, and Sara Noeman. 2006. A Graph Based Semi-Supervised Approach
for Information Extraction. Proceedings of the TexGraphs workshop, Human Language Technolo-
gies and North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (HLT-NAACL
2006).
Amgad Madkour, Kareem Darwish, Hany Hassan, Ahmed Hassan, and Ossama Emam. 2006.
BIONOCULARS: Extracting Protein-Protein Interactions from Biomedical Text. Proceedings of
the BioACL Workshop, the 2007 Conference of the Association for the computational Linguistics
(ACL).
Ahmed Hassan, Ahmed Khairy, and Mohammed Elnagar. 2003. A Vision System for Chess Playing
Robots. Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems.
THESES
Ahmed Hassan. Computational Sociolinguistics: Identifying Roles in Social Networks using Lin-
guistic Analysis. Ph.D. Thesis, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department, Univer-
sity of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA. Expected May 2011.
Ahmed Hassan. A Probabilistic Framework for Learning Bayesian Network Structures from Data.
M.Sc. Thesis, Computer Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University, Giza,
Egypt. April 2007.
Ahmed Hassan. A Vision System for Chess Playing Robots. B.Sc. Thesis, Computer Engineering
Department, Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt. June 2003.
SELECTED SERVICES
Program Committee Member: EMNLP 2010, COLING 2010, ACL Demo Session 2010, ACL 2011,
WWW 2011.
Reviewer: WWW2009, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, IEEE Intelligent
Systems.
Session Chair: EMNLP 2010, University of Michigan Engineering Graduate Symposium 2010.
ACADEMIC HONORS & AWARDS
Honorable mention in the CSE Grad Students Honors Competition, University of Michigan 2009
First position award in IEEE student paper contest, Egypt section 2003
Honors Award, Cairo University 2003
Scholarship for academic achievement, Cairo University 1998-2003
AFFILIATIONS
Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (IEEE)
The Association for Computational Linguistics
SELECTED COURSEWORK
EECS492 Introduction to Arti cial Intelligence
SI508 Network Analysis
EECS595 Natural Language Processing
EECS792 Advanced AI Techniques
EECS574 Computational Complexity
EECS767 Advanced Natural Language Processing
COMPUTER SKILLS
Computer languages
C/C++, C#,JAVA, Perl, Python, Pascal, Delphi, Microsoft Visual Basic, Assembly, Prolog, ASP, and PHP.
Environments
Linux, Unix, and Microsoft Windows.
Database Management Systems
Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, IBM DB2, and Mysql.
Hardware description languages
VHDL and Verilog
Other
Latex, Object Oriented Design using UML, Matlab, R, Lex, Yacc, and Parallel programming using MPI &
Pthreads.
REFERENCES
Prof. Dragomir Radev abqgct@r.postjobfree.com
Prof. Kathy McKeown abqgct@r.postjobfree.com
Dr. Rosie Jones abqgct@r.postjobfree.com
Prof. Lada Adamic abqgct@r.postjobfree.com
Dr. Li-wei He abqgct@r.postjobfree.com
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