Computer Science Engineering

Sahar Jambi

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Website: www.saharjambi.com

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I am a PhD graduate in computer science that is very passionate in the field of software engineering. I am an independent learner, problem solver, and an analytic thinker, who enjoys working as part of a team, and is also capable of working independently. Pursuing my career at a prestigious software company has been my dream. I am very eager to apply what I learned through my research years in the real world and be part of a collaborative body.

Education

University of Colorado Boulder

Department of Computer Science

College of Engineering and Applied Science

Boulder, CO. USA

Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science, Fall 2016 Doctoral Dissertation: Engineering Scalable Distributed Services for Real-Time Big Data Analytics. The dissertation’s goal is to solve some of the software development challenges for big data analytics of large-scale real- time streaming and historical data. In support of the crisis informatics research field, I built a lightweight service-based framework that can efficiently be used to create scalable, fault-tolerant and extensible data-intensive web applications for running a wide range of real-time and batch-oriented queries generated by end-user analysts on Twitter data. Advisor: Professor Ken Anderson (http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~kena) University of Colorado Boulder

Department of Computer Science

College of Engineering and Applied Science

Boulder, CO. USA

Master of Science in Computer Science, 2013

King Abdulaziz University

College of Computing and Information Technology

Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Master of Science in Computer Science, 2008

Master's Thesis: Pattern Classification for Land Cover Analysis in Satellite Images. The thesis proposed a classification system to classify and analyze the Earth’s surface into several land cover types such as water, plants, rocks, and desserts with the aim of studying the natural resources and understanding many environmental phenomena. With the use of the machine learning algorithm Support Vector Machines (SVM) and the non-parametric Ranklet transform as a multi-resolution feature extraction from the satellite images, the system showed promising results in land cover classification problems.

Advisor: Professor Reda El-Khoribi

King Abdulaziz University

College of Science

Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, 1995

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Experience

Assistant Software Engineer

2012 - 2015

Project EPIC (Empowering the Public with Information in Crisis) http://epic.cs.colorado.edu

Department of Computer Science

College of Engineering and Applied Science

University of Colorado Boulder

Boulder, CO. USA

I joined the development team that's responsible for creating and maintaining the required software infrastructure and platforms, in which the researchers and analysts at EPIC lab use to study the socio-technical behaviors of the public during times of crisis and mass emergencies by applying different techniques of human-centered computation. Teaching Assistant

January 2015 – May 2015

Department of Computer Science

College of Engineering & Applied Science

University of Colorado Boulder

Boulder, CO. USA

Teaching C++ and Python Programming Languages.

Web Developer and System Administrator

2010 - 2012

Physics Learning Laboratories

Department of Physics

College of Arts and Sciences

University of Colorado Boulder

Boulder, CO. USA

- Managed and updated different existing software systems built in PHP, ASP, HTML and JavaScript.

- Added more web pages with data searching and filtering tools requested by the lab's admins and technicians.

- Upgraded the online services to connect the physics staff and instructors to the lab's demonstration materials and facilities.

- Managed the web and database servers using MS Windows Server and Apache Friend's XAMPP. Teaching Assistant

2008 - 2009

Deanship of Information Technology

King Abdulaziz University

Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

I was part of the deanship's faculty members who are responsible for providing IT solutions to promote the university's academic database management systems and e-services. Head of Statistical Analysis and Information Management Department 1996 - 2008

King Fahd Medical Research Center

King Abdulaziz University

Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

- Applied statistical data analysis of medical research projects of different laboratories in the center or individual faculty researchers.

- Built software applications to manage information related to different research laboratories, online research application forms, and administration and human resources.

- Managed the LAN network of the whole center's building.

- Provided technical support for researchers, technicians and staff. 2

Skills

- Programming languages: C/C++, JAVA, Javascript, HTML, ASP, PHP, Python, Ruby, Scala.

- Web frameworks: Microsoft.Net, Django, Ruby on Rails, Play Framework, Akka.

- Search engines: Lucene/Solr.

- Machine learning and statistic tools: Matlab, SPSS, Weka.

- Database engines: MySql, SqlServer, PostgresSQL, MongoDB, Cassandra.

- Big Data stack technology: Hadoop Ecosystem, Apache Storm, Apache Spark, Kafka. Projects

I’ve been involved in different projects at

Project EPIC (Empowering the Public with Information in Crisis) http://epic.cs.colorado.edu

Department of Computer Science

College of Engineering and Applied Science

University of Colorado Boulder

EPIC Analyze

September 2013 - 2015

Creating a platform used by the researchers and analysts at EPIC to study users' behavior during times of mass emergencies using big data related to many disaster events, retrieved from the social media such as Twitter. The web framework is being built using Ruby on Rails web framework, connected to Apache Cassandra file management systems using DataStax platform.

EPIC's Website

November 2013 - 2014

Upgrading the EPIC's website that's targeted to all EPIC researchers, current and prospective students, collaborators, and partners. The website is being built by leveraging Jekyll, a web generator tool in Ruby, and applying many web developing tools such as Twitter Bootstrap and Stellar.js for Parallax scrolling. Emergency Pet Matcher

September 2012 - 2014

Applying Agile methodology techniques to build a web framework that targets the public volunteers to submit lost and found pet reports and work collaboratively to match and verify them during and after disaster events.

- The framework is built using the Django Framework, an MVC architectural pattern written in Python.

- jQuery, a JavaScript Library, is used to simplify the client-side scripting of HTML.

- AJAX carries out data exchange between the client's web pages and the server.

- OAuth protocol is used as an authorization tool for Facebook and Twitter users.

- Rally Software is used for managing the project's development life cycle and iteration planning meetings. Courses

University of Colorado Boulder (2010-2012)

- Foundations of Software Engineering

- Object-Oriented Analysis and Design

- Information Retrieval Systems

- Natural Language Processing

- Network Systems

- User-Centered Design

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- Software Project Management

- Inference, Models and Simulation for Complex Systems Independent Coursework

- SaaS-Engineering Long Lasting Software: 2012

University of California, Berkeley, through Coursera website. King Abdulaziz University (2003-2006)

- Advanced Software Engineering

- Advanced Analysis of Algorithms

- Pattern Recognition

- Advanced Topics in Computer Networks

- Computer Vision

- Advanced Database Systems

- Advanced Operating Systems

- Mathematical Tools

Publications

• Engineering Scalable Distributed Services for Real-Time Big Data Analytics. Sahar Jambi and Ken Anderson. IEEE BigDataService 2017 (To be presented).

• Getting the Query Right for Crisis Informatics Design Issues for Web-Based Analysis Environments. Mario Barrenechea, Sahar Jambi, Ahmet Arif-Aydin, Mazin Hakeem, Ken Anderson. 2016 Journal of Web Engineering (under revision).

• Design Challenges/Solutions for Environments Supporting the Analysis of Social Media Data in Crisis Informatics Research. Ken Anderson, Ahmet Arif-Aydin, Mario Barrenechea, Adam Cardenas, Mazin Hakeem, Sahar Jambi. 2015 48th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS).

• Getting the Query Right: User Interface Design of Analysis Platforms for Crisis Research. Mario Barrenechea, Ken Anderson, Ahmet Arif-Aydin, Mazin Hakeem, Sahar Jambi. 2015 15th International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE).

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