ZEYAD AL MOTHAFAR

Jamaica, NY ***** 518-***-**** ac7vpm@r.postjobfree.com

Education

ST. JOHN’S UNIVERSITY QUEENS, NY

Major: Master of Science in Data mining and Predictive Analytics. December 2018 Related coursework: Web Data Mining, Big data, Forecasting. GPA: 3.8.

JORDAN UNIVERSITY OF SCEINCE AND TECHNOLOGY IRBID, JORDAN Major: Bachelor’s Degree in Computer engineering. January 2017 Related coursework: C++, C#, Android, Electrical circuits, Probabilities, Control systems. GPA: 3.08.

Skills

Python, SQL, R, Hadoop, Excel, Weka, Android, C++, C# Experience

GRADUATE RESEARCH ASSISTANT • ST. JOHN’S UNIVERSITY JANUARY 2018-PRESENT

Research assistant at the College of Professional Studies in St. John’s university; helping with projects and papers related to Data mining and machine learning.

WORK AND TRAVEL CULTURAL EXCHANGE PROGRAM SUMMER 2015 AND 2016

Worked as a ride operator at Six Flags in Lake George, NY which improved my English and communication skills.

Projects

PYTHON CHATBOT JULY 2018

Building a chatbot based on a dataset from a focus group and different python methods including POS (Part of speech), collocations, Term Frequency and Inverse Document Frequency (TFIDF) and Latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA).

MEDICAL FOCUS GROUP DATA SET ANALYSIS USING NLP MAY 2018

Analyzing the data set corpus using LDA, WORD2VEC and sentiment analysis in python after preprocessing. Also discovering similarities between the different documents in the data set using cosine similarity. TWITTER BIG DATA ANALYTICS MAY 2018

Retrieving big number of tweets and analyzing them using MapReduce and Hive on Hadoop to get the name of the most active user, most used word and most frequent Bigram. RATING SYSTEMS, CLUSTERING AND CLASSIFICATION OF FIFA PLAYERS MAY 2018

A predictive model for the rating and position of soccer players using Neural networks, Support vector machine

(SVM), Naïve Bayes and K-Nearest neighbors for classification and K-means for clustering using python. DIAMOND PRICE PREDICTIVE MODEL MAY 2018

A Descriptive and predictive model for the price of diamonds using R and different methods including Linear and GAM regression, correlation and various descriptive graphs. ONLINE BASED CONTROL SYSTEM OF ELECTRICITY PANEL MAY 2016

An online system that provides full control over the electricity panel using an android app or using a website that are connected to an SQL database.

Hobbies

Bodybuilding, jogging, video games, traveling around the world.