Dr. Motaz Saad
Data Scientist
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£ Gaza, Palestine
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Education- Doctor of Philosophy, (Computer Science) University of Lorraine, France.
Thesis: Mining Documents and Sentiments in Cross-lingual Context.
Supervisors: Kamel Smaili and David Langlois
- Master of Science, (Computer Engineering) The Islamic University of Gaza, Palestine.
Thesis: The Impact of Text Pre-processing and Term Weighting on Arabic Text Classification.
Supervisor: Wesam Ashour
- Bachelor of Science, (Computer Science) The Islamic University of Gaza, Palestine.
Project: Class Outliers Mining: Distance-based Approach.
Supervisor: Nabil Hewahi
Research interests
Computational Linguistics, Natural Language Processing, Information Retrieval, Corpus Linguistics, Data
Mining, Data Science, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence
Experience
Sept 2015 Part-time Assistant Professor of Computer Science, The Islamic University of Gaza, Faculty of IT,
Present Palestine.
{ Teach courses: (E-Commerce, database management systems, operating systems, software project management,
advanced programming tools (python), English Language for information technology, Object Oriented Programming
(JAVA), research methods, software security.
{ Conduct research and writing articles.
{ Manage research
{ Training students of faculty of commerce on freelancing skills, October–November 2016.
{ Member of organizing and scientific committees in “Palestinian International Conference on Information and Communication Technology 2017 PICICT2017".
Oct 2016 Data Scientist, iDiscovery Solutions, 3000 K Street, NW, Suite 220, Washington, DC 20007, USA (remotely).
Present { Work as Data scientist and computational linguist.
{ Build language identification system.
{ Build speech recognition service.
Apr 2016 Data Scientist, Upwork, remotely.
Present { Work as Data scientist and computational linguist.
{ Build classification / prediction models.
{ Build machine learning systems.
{ Build and develop NLP applications.
{ Develop sentiment analysis systems.
{ Consultancy in Data Science.
Nov 2014 Researcher in Computational Linguistics, University of Lorraine, Nancy, France (3 months).
Jan 2015 { Building and studying parallel corpus for Arabic Dialects
{ Conducting scientific research writing research articles
{ Programming (python)
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Nov 2011 Researcher in Computational Linguistics, INRIA – Grand Est, Villers-Les-Nancy, France (3 years).
Oct 2014 { Collecting and processing Corpora
{ Building Statistical Language models
{ Retrieving cross-lingual information (English, French, and Arabic)
{ Annotating cross-lingual documents with sentiment labels
{ Conducting experiments on large data using Grid’5000 environment www.grid5000.fr and OAR resource and task
manager oar.imag.fr
{ Conducting scientific research writing research articles
{ Programming (python, perl, bash)
Sept 2010 Lecturer, The Islamic University of Gaza, Faculty of IT, Palestine (1 year 2 months).
Oct 2011 { Teach theory courses (Intelligent Business Systems, e-Commerce, Operating Systems, Computer Organization)
{ Conduct scientific research and writing scientific articles.
{ Prepare e-learning materials
{ Member of Training and external affairs committee in the Faculty of IT
{ Member of faculty of IT website committee
{ Member of organizing committee of the First Software Engineering Workshop, held in May 2011 at the faculty of IT
Sept 2006 Teaching Assistant, The Islamic University of Gaza, Faculty of IT, Palestine (4 years).
Aug 2010 { Teach lab courses (Expert Systems – CLIPS, Data Mining, Intelligent Business Systems, Operating Systems, Assembly
Programming, Software Engineering, Software Projects Management, Web Services, Parallel Programming, Introduction
to Computer Science)
{ Supervise student projects
{ Conduct scientific research and writing scientific articles.
{ Train university’s employees of the IT department on UML modeling
{ Member of organizing committee of the Linux Tech Day, held in May 2007
{ Member of organizing committee of the 3rd IT Forum, Faculty of IT, Islamic University of Gaza, Palestine, May 2009
{ Mentor of the Palestinian team for Imagine Cup 2009 competition, organized by Microsoft Corporation, and held in
Cairo–Egypt in 2009
Mar 2010 IT Trainer, The Islamic University of Gaza, Palestine (3 months).
May 2010 { Training the staff of IT Unit at The Islamic University of Gaza on UML Modeling
Jun 2010 Technical Consultant, Palestine ICT Incubator (PICTI), Gaza, Palestine (3 month).
Aug 2010 { Provides technical consultancy services to Palestine ICT Incubator (PICTI) during business plans competition in 2010.
My job was to evaluate, judge and rank business plans. The evaluation process includes: (1) Evaluate business plans.
(2) Make a shortlist of the applied business plans. (3) Give a final judgment for business plans.
Volunteer work
Mar 2007 IT Trainer, The Islamic University of Gaza, Palestine (1 months).
{ Training students of Faculty of IT at The Islamic University of Gaza on Linux operating system
Jun 2006 Technician, University College of Applied Sciences, Gaza, Palestine (3 months).
Aug 2006 { Supervising computer network.
{ Administering network infrastructure (Windows and Linux Servers): user accounts, mail, DNS, and DHCP servers.
{ Configuring CISCO routers and switches.
{ Training computer lab technicians.
Awards
Hisham Hijjawi Award for Applied Science (Telecommunications and Information Technology), Jordan, 2010.
Languages
Arabic: Native, English: Working proficiency, French: Intermediate
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Higher education & research: University teaching, scientific researching, peer reviews
Programming: Python, JAVA, C++, Perl, Bash
Data Mining & NLP Tools: NLTK, scikit-learn, Weka, RapidMiner
Typography: LATEX, Beamer and TikZ
Other: large data processing using grid environment
Management: Team Management, projects management
Memberships in conference’s Scientific Committees
{ The first International Conference on Natural Language and Speech Processing – ICNLSP 2015, 18–19
October, Algiers, Algeria.
{ International Conference on Information and Communication Technology – ICICT2013, College of Information
Technology, University of Bahrain, 5-7 Nov 2013.
{ DMIN’11, the 7th International Conference on Data Mining, Las Vegas, USA, 17-18 Jul 2011.
Memberships in conferences and workshops organizing committees
{ First Software Engineering Workshop, Faculty of IT, The Islamic University of Gaza, Palestine, May 2011.
{ 3rd IT Forum, Faculty of IT, Islamic University of Gaza, Palestine, 13 May 2009.
{ Linux Tech Day, Faculty of IT, The Islamic University of Gaza, Palestine, May 2007.
Talks
{ Mining Documents and Opinions in Cross-lingual Context, Saarland University, Saarbrucken, Germany, 9 Jan
2015.
{ Business Models for Open Source Software, 3rd IT Forum, Faculty of IT, Islamic University of Gaza, Palestine,
13 May 2009.
{ Data Mining and Business Intelligence Tools, Faculty of IT, Islamic, University of Gaza, Palestine, Oct 2008.
{ Browsing Linux Kernel and software, Linux Tech Day, Faculty of IT, Islamic University of Gaza, Palestine,
May 2007.
Training
{ A+, Network+ and CISCO Certified network associate (CCNA), 330 training hours, National Institute for
Information Technology (NIIT), PECDAR, 3/12/2005 – 25/12/2006.
{ Oracle 9i & Developer 6i, 50 training hours, Community center & continuing education center (CSCE), The
Islamic University of Gaza, 7/6/2003 – 19/8/2003.
{ Computer Maintenance, 40 training hours, Community center & continuing education center (CSCE), The
Islamic University of Gaza, 29/3/2001 – 27/5/2001.
{ Web Design, 30 training hours, Community center & continuing education center (CSCE), The Islamic
University of Gaza, 23/7/2001 – 16/8/2001.
Certificates
{ Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP)
Hobbies
Reading, walking, playing chess, playing ping-pong, biking and swimming
Publications
{ http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=KR1lIXUAAAAJ
{ Publications 16; Citations 280; (last updated: January 21, 2017)
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Contributions to the open source community
{ Projects on GitHib: Cross-lingual text processing, tagging, morphological analysis, feature
extraction, text annotation, translations: https://github.com/motazsaad/
{ Data analysis tools
- Developing and implementing an outlier detection algorithm in RapidMiner, one of the leading data mining tools https://goo.gl/8WpmLr
{ Natural language processing tools
- Arabic morphological analysis
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Weka
one of the leading
http://goo.gl/1Yj23h
- Language resources (text corpora) sites.google.com/site/motazsite/corpora
· I built OSAC Arabic corpus, 2010. Useful for Arabic text mining.
· I built Arabic, English, and French comparable corpora, 2011. Useful for cross-lingual
text analysis.
References
Available upon request
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