Engineer Software

TAMEEM ADEL HESHAM

Email: *******@*********.**, **************@*****.***

Tel:

+1-519-***-**** (permanent)

+41-787****** (until end of October 2013)

EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning: supervised, unsupervised and

Research

semi-supervised learning, graphical models, dimensionality reduction.

Interests

September PhD, Systems Design Eng. Dept. (SYDE), University of Waterloo

2011 – Supervisors:

Expected Prof. Dan Stashuk (Systems Design Eng. Dept.)

completion Prof. Ali Ghodsi (Department of Statistics)

date: April Research Topic: Statistical Machine Learning and its Applications in

2014 EMG Electrical Signal Classification

Courses/Grades:

Prob. Graphical Models (Prof. Ali Ghodsi): 98%

Data & Knowledge Modeling & Analysis (Prof. M. Kamel) : 95%

Applied Machine Learning (Prof. Dan Lizotte): 97%

Statistical Learning Theory (Prof. Shai Ben-David): Audit

2005–2009 MSc, Computer Science Dept., Faculty of Engineering, Alexandria

University (September 2009)

Title: New Techniques for the Acceleration of Convergence of Soft

Clustering Algorithms

Topic: Machine Learning (more specifically pattern recognition)

Supervisors: Prof. Mohamed A. Ismail & Dr. Hesham Swelam

Committee: Prof. Mohamed A. Ismail, Prof. Mohamed M. Elsherbiny

& Prof. Amin Shokry

Preliminary Courses/Grades:

Pattern Recognition: Excellent Simulation Techniques: Excellent

Computer Vision: Excellent Comp. Architecture: Very good

Fuzzy Logic: Excellent Neural Networks: Very good

The subject of the thesis is Pattern Recognition and Clustering.

Updates to unsupervised learning (clustering), particularly soft clustering,

have been proposed. The proposed algorithms accelerate the convergence

of soft clustering while keeping the accuracy of the final solution, measured

by validity indices, at the same levels.

1999–2004 BSc Computer Science Dept., Faculty of Engineering, Alexandria

University (July 2004)

GPA: 87.64 % (Excellent with Honors Degree) (Seventh on Computer

Science Department)

The degree covered many fields of study in computer science. In general,

courses were divided into four major fields.

o There were courses in subjects indirectly related to computer science,

like economy and mechanics.

o There were courses in Hardware. These included digital design,

computer architecture and others.

o The third, and biggest, part was about software. It included courses in

programming, algorithms and other fields of study like Artificial

Intelligence.

o Finally, there were courses about Automatic Control.

My final year research project wa s an application of using mobile agents

for locating documents in ad-hoc networks.

1988-1999 Primary and Secondary School, Saint Augustine

PUBLICATIONS

Generative Multiple-Instance Learning Models For Quantitative

Electromyography: UAI 2013: Oral [acceptance rate: 31%, ‘accepted for

oral’ rate: 11%]

Tameem Adel, Ruth Urner, Benn Smith, Daniel Stashuk and Dan Lizotte

Muscle Categorization Using PDF Estimation and Naive Bayes

Classification: EMBC 2012: Oral

Tameem Adel, Benn Smith and Daniel Stashuk

Decomposition of Intramuscular EMG Signals Using a Knowledge-based

Certainty Classifier Algorithm: EMBC 2012 : Oral

Hossein Parsaei, Daniel Stashuk and Tameem Adel

Tuning Graded Possibilistic Clustering by Visual Stability Analysis: WILF

2011 (9th International Conf. on Fuzzy Logic and Applications): Oral

Stefano Rovetta, Francesco Masulli and Tameem Adel

ASCM (An Accelerated Soft C-Means Clustering Algorithm): ISDA 2010

(10th International Conf. on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications): Oral

Tameem Adel and Mohamed Ismail

Clinical Quantitative Electromyography: Book chapter in the book

“Electrodiagnosis in New Frontiers of Clinical Research”, InTech, 2013.

Tameem Adel and Daniel Stashuk

UNDER REVIEW

Bayes Net-based Frequent Pattern Mining in Clickstream Data

Done while interning at IBM Research

WORKING PAPERS

A Novel Perspective on Spectral Clustering Similarity Graphs

Stability of Feature Selection Algorithms

On the Assumptions of Domain Adaptation

Sparse Principal Component Analysis-based Feature Selection [still at a preliminary

stage]

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

Reviewer in: Information Sciences Journal, Informatics and Computer Science

Intelligent Systems Applications, An International Journal.

Impact Factor: 3.643

5-Year Impact Factor: 3.676

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

University of Waterloo, SYDE (winter 2013): Teaching Assistant for Data

Structures & Algorithms undergrad course (SYDE 223)

University of Waterloo, MTE (spring 2012): Teaching Assistant for Algorithms

& Data Structures undergrad course (MTE 140)

University of Waterloo, SYDE (winter 2012): Teaching Assistant for Data

Structures & Algorithms undergrad course (SYDE 223)

WORK EXPERIENCE

May 2013 – 6-month internship (IBM Research Zurich) (Switzerland)

Working in the information analytics team in the Mathematical

October 2013

and Computational Sciences Department at IBM Research in

Zurich under the management of Abdel Labbi, the main goal is to

improve the performance of web mining algorithms applied on

Big Data and the main contribution is two-fold. On the one hand,

graph DBs are used rather than relational DBs as replacing some

of the relation database joins with graph traversal algorithms can

improve performance. On the other hand, a new approximate

pattern mining algorithm that is based on a Bayesian network is

introduced. This algorithm massively improves performance of

two typical pattern mining problems; obtaining the support of all

frequent patterns and finding a maximal-size frequent pattern.

September Research Engineer (Orange R&D Labs) (Egypt, France & England)

Working in research and innovation, I worked in a project

2010 –

referred to as “Dynamic Pricing” and was responsible for

September

2011 applying some data mining techniques to maximize revenue

coming from cellular phones and hence enhance Orange’s profit

at some countries that lie in Africa and the Middle East.

January 2009 J2EE Senior Developer (EDS [hp enterprise services]) (Egypt, Italy)

Working in the Vodafone-Germany team which has to provide

– September

2010 development for the front end of Vodafone-Germany system, I

have also participated in developing new units of the system and

shared in designing some parts and writing many design

documents and solution concepts.

Based on being the only Java developer in hp Egypt who spoke

Italian fluently, I have moved to the FSI (Financial Services in

Italy) project as most documents and code comments were in

Italian. The project was mainly based on automating the system

of Banca Fideuram in Rome.

January 2007 J2EE Senior Developer (NCS) (Kuwait)

I have worked in the BEA WebLogic team which is related to J2EE

- December

technology.

2008

May 2005 – Software Engineer (POET EGYPT) (Egypt)

POET EGYPT is a German company with a branch in Egypt and another

December

in Romania (for outsourcing). I worked as a full -time engineer, used

2006

mainly Java in Eclipse Environment, with other tools and languages like

XSL and other web application tools. I have dealt with both Oracle and

SQL servers in managing the database of the project.

July - Software Engineer (BIBLIOTHECA ALEXANDRINA) (Egypt)

I worked as a full-time engineer, used mainly VISUAL C# .Net, with

December

other programming languages like Java, C++.

2004

HONORS

uWaterloo International Doctoral Student Award (IDSA) 2011-

current

Chair of ISDA Data Mining Session

ISDA 2010 (10th International Conference on Intelligent Systems 2010

Design and Applications).

Session: (S10), Data Mining and Learning Techniques in Intelligent

Systems (Part 1)

Certificate of Achievement

Syndicate of Engineering 2004

For: Distinction of Bachelor degree in Faculty of Engineering

Distinguished Undergraduate Award

Alexandria University 2004

For: Coming one of the first 10 students (seventh) on Computer

Eng. Department, Faculty of Engineering

Certificate of Achievement

Ministry of Education 1999

For: Being one of the first 200 on the country in national

examination for higher education

AFFILIATIONS

Organizer of the Kitchener-Waterloo Babel bilingual group (since April

2012): This club is for people to come and mingle among others who are

gathered to practice different languages. The club has more than 200 members.

JAVA (J2EE, J2ME, BEA, Oracle WebLogic, Eclipse, JBuilder, Forte,

Tools

JDeveloper), Java concurrency (Fork/join, Executor) : 6 years

Matlab: 4 years

C++: 4 years

PL-SQL, XSLT, XML, HTML, JSP, JavaScript: 3 years

DB2, Neo4j, Python, Hadoop, Unix: 6 months

DB2RDF, SPARQL queries, CYPHER queries: 6 months

Oracle, SQL: 2 years

Designing MVC (Model-Viewer-Controller) architectures: 2 years

OTHER SKILLS

Fluent English: Toefl iBT score of 108 at Dec. 11 th, 2009

Languages

Fluent Italian: Certified by Dante Alighieri institution

Arabic: native

INTERESTS

A Beatles cover band member from 1999 to 2009.

Music

Professional footballer (goal keeper) from 199 1 until 2000. Still playing but

Sport

not professionally.

I like reading everything for Shakespeare, Charles Dickens and John

Drama

Milton. I participated in a play representing Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night at

school in 1998 and in another play representing June Francis’ (English

writer) famous novel, Going home to Liverpool, during the same year.

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