Hazem Hajj, PhD Electrical and Computer Engineering Bechtel 507 Maroun Semaan Faculty of Engineering and Architecture American University of Beirut P. O. Box: 11-0236, Riad El Solh Beirut 1107 2020, Lebanon

Office: (01) 350000 ext 3535 Cell: (70) 125126 Hazem.Hajj@aub.edu.lb https://feaweb.aub.edu.lb/personalwebsites/hhajj/ Citations:https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=UnGTzOkAAAAJ

HIGHLIGHTS • My research focus has been focused on machine learning (ML) and data mining advances. Particular research

emphasis has been placed on enabling faster ML processing with energy aware solutions and designing new methods for applying ML to natural language processing (NLP) for opinion mining in Arabic and context aware sensing.

• Prior to my return to Academia (AUB) in 2008, I had 12 years industry R&D experience at Intel Corporation (1996-2008) with focus on Data Analytics and Data systems for yield analysis, process control, and Lithography image registration.

• A very productive research output since joining AUB, resulting in over 100 publications with consistently growing citations. Published 27 articles in top tier internationally refereed journal venues, including many in IEEE Transactions and ACM Transactions. Published over 85 conference papers, most in top tier internationally refereed venues sponsored by IEEE or ACM.

• A very productive funding portfolio as lead PI since joining AUB, attracting over $4.5 Million dollars funding as lead PI for most. The funding came from multiple sources, including international sources (Intel Corporation, QNRF, and KACST) and local resources (LNCSR, AUB URB, AUB Farook Jabre, AUB CRS).

• Inventor of 6 patents related to machine learning, data systems, and image processing. Patent based on PhD work already licensed to Intel Corporation.

• Recipient of the 2018 AUB Teaching Excellence Award and 5 Teaching Awards at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA.

• Co-founded and co-directed the Middle East Energy Efficiency Research (MER) program (2010-2014), possibly the biggest regional research initiative in the region spanning 5 countries with over 8 Million dollars in funding, and co-sponsored by Intel Corporation and King Abdel Aziz City for Science and Technology (KACST).

• I have chaired and helped organize international conferences. I have co-led the Industry Standards Task Force on IC FAB SEMI Process Control standards (SEMI E133).

• I have been an invited keynote speaker at multiple international conferences and have several invited talks and panel participations on machine learning, artificial intelligence, and opinion mining for Arabic.

• I have been a technical reviewer for many top international refereed journals. • I work well with people, enjoy seeing the growth and success of my mentees and students. • I have a proven record of managing large projects both in academia and industry. • I am an eager learner and results oriented. I enjoy continuous growth, and continuously being challenged with

bigger goals. EDUCATION • University of Wisconsin-Madison, May 1996

Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical and Computer Engineering Dissertation Title: Multiscale Feature Detection Using Filter Banks

• University of Wisconsin-Madison May 1989

Master of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering Thesis: Extraction of Fractal Dimension as a Classification Feature

• American University of Beirut July 1987

Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical Engineering with distinction Senior Project: Computer Graphics Package

ACADEMIC POSITIONS • Associate Professor, Dept of ECE, American University of Beirut Sep. 2013 – present

• Visiting Associate Professor, Dept of ECE, University of Texas-Austin Sep. 2015 – Sep. 2016 • Conducted research on:

• Designing machine learning algorithms and resources for: o Natural language processing (NLP) and opinion mining for Arabic (OMA) o Context aware sensing and design of efficient sensing strategies for IoT applications o Emotion recognition

• Designing systems and algorithms to enable faster processing and communication of data for Machine Learning: o Design of cloud architecture for accelerated machine learning o Design of accelerated convolutional networks o Design of energy efficient communication strategies in dense networks

• Published 20 journal papers in top international refereed journals such as IEEE Transactions and ACM Transaction. Also published 36 conference papers in top international refereed conferences, mostly sponsored by IEEE and ACM.

• Filed for 2 patent inventions on context aware sensing. • Supervising (co-supervising 3): 4 Post-docs, 6 PhD (3 completed and 3 in progress), and 12 Master students

(4 completed and 8 in progress). • Secured Funding for projects with over $2 Million dollars from international sources including: Qatar

National Research Foundation (QNRF), Intel Corporation, and King Abdul Aziz for Science and Technology (KACST). Additional funding obtained from local sources: AUB URB, AUB Farook Jabre, AUB CRS, AUB Masri Institute.

• Awarded 2018 American University of Beirut Teaching Excellence Award • Invited keynote presentations and invited talks at international conferences. Actively participated in

technical societies and reviews of academic publications. • Active service record for the department, faculty, and the university. Includes the introduction of a new

course to all of engineering students at AUB. • Current research focuses on:

• Advancing opinion mining techniques for Arabic • Designing algorithms to mimic human cognitive intelligence and human learning with little data.

• Assistant Professor, Dept of ECE, American University of Beirut Jan. 2008 – Sep. 2013

• Conducted research on: o Energy aware computing. o Machine learning algorithms for failure analysis in semiconductor manufacturing and security

intrusion. o Machine learning algorithms and end to end system for well being.

o Emotion recognition from multiple modalities. o Sentiment analysis for Arabic. o Efficient sensor operation for accurate machine learning.

• Published 7 journal papers and 34 conference papers. Most in top international refereed journal and conference venues mostly sponsored by IEEE and ACM.

• Secured Funding for projects with over $2.5 Million dollars from international sources including: Intel Corporation, Qatar National Research Foundation (QNRF), and King Abdul Aziz for Science and Technology (KACST). Additional funding obtained from local sources: LNCSR and AUB URB.

• Supervised: 3 PhD (3 completed while in Associate rank), and 8 Master students (8 completed while in rank).

• Active service record for the department and faculty including chairing and participating in multiple committees.

• Lecturer, Dept of ECE, University of Wisconsin Madison Sep 1989 - May 1993 • Was the instructor of record for non-major classes taken by junior/senior students, which included giving

lectures, holding office hours, preparing exams and evaluated an average of fifty students per semester. I turned an unpopular required class to one of the most popular classes, which led the students to vote me “Best Instructor in Engineering!”

• Won 7 teaching awards from 1989 to 1993: o University Teaching Assistant Mentor Award, UW-Madison 1992-1993, o University Excellence in Teaching Award, UW-Madison 1992*, o Department Excellence in Teaching Award, UW-Madison 1992, o Department Teaching Assistant Fellow, UW-Madison 1992, o Polygon Outstanding Teaching Award, UW-Madison 1992, o Polygon Outstanding Teaching Award, UW-Madison 1991 * Most prestigious award: University Excellence in Teaching Award, UW-Madison 1992.

• Instructor, American University of Beirut; Beirut-Lebanon July 1993 - Aug 1993

• Taught Numerical Methods for Engineers to a group of forty computer engineers, held office hours, prepared exams and project assignments

• Project Assistant, University of Wisconsin Hospital; Wisconsin-Madison May 1991 - Aug 1991 • Designed an oscilloscope simulator using LabVIEW.

INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE • R&D Lead for IT Software Automation of Integrated Circuit Manufacturing, Portland Technology

Development Automation, Intel Corporation, Portland, OR-USA Sep 1996 – Feb 2008 • Portland Technology Development) (PTD) is the leading research and development organization within

Intel. The organization has over 2000 PhDs. It is responsible for delivering the next generation IC manufacturing technology. Within PTD, the Automation department is tasked with delivering the next generation IT and automation systems for the IC factory.

• I was a member of the Automation department, and led several R&D programs. This includes automated material handling and data automation. My responsibilities have grown over the years. Here is a summary: • Program Lead for Next Generation 45 nm Factory Automation Sep 2004 - Mar 2007

• Directed the development of next generation 45 nm IT and automation technologies, which included the following targets: • New software framework for a unified user interface and a framework for developing

engineering analysis applications.

• Design and deployment of factory robotic (over $10 millions of dollars) equipment along with hundreds of clients and servers for factory automation.

• Lead for Engineering Systems Development Sep 2000 - Sep 2004 • Directed three first level managers and four staff engineers. The total group size varied between

twenty and forty senior software engineers. Many were holders of PhD degrees. • The group delivered software solutions to enable analysis and control of the manufacturing process.

This included analytical and visualization systems for statistical analysis, feedback control, feed-forward control, excursion detection, and pattern recognition.

• Lead for station controller software developers Feb 1998 – Sep 2000 Station controllers are the software packages that interface with IC equipment, such as Lithography, Etch, Diffusion and Metrology tools. • Directed and supervised a group of fifteen senior software engineers in PTD-Automation, including

decisions on budget, plan, finance, training, integration and assimilation plans. • Directed design and implementation of software solutions for three technology generations: 18

micron, 13 micron, and the first 200 mm wafer fab. • Influenced Virtual Factory directions and drove buy off from upper management on strategic

migration plans from Unix to NT station controllers. • Directed the group’s delivery of critical projects (clients, servers and DB applications) for the 18

micron process technology. These were implemented on different platforms (UNIX and NT), using several programming languages (C, C++, Perl and Java).

• Senior Software Engineer Sep 1996 – Feb 1998 • Owned the development of Lithography Link (Track and Stepper) station controller, taking the

project through requirement collection, development, testing and implementation in the factory.

• Staff Scientist – Computer Vision R&D, Innovision Corporation. Madison, Wisconsin-USA Mar 1994 – Aug 1996

• Researched latest imaging techniques with applications to computer vision problems. • Developed user friendly software for Imaging and Development Application Systems (IDAS). • Used high resolution area-scan and line-scan cameras to solve problems in pattern recognition and

product inspection for color and black and white imaging environments. • Provided customer support for on-site vision systems. • Represented the company in industrial shows for machine vision in industry. • Installed LAN network.

• Field Engineer, Cedarnet Company; Beirut, Lebanon Jun 1987 - Jan 1988 Installed and maintained various telecommunication equipment including microwave links and multiplexing equipment.

OTHER PROFESSIONAK EXPERIENCE

• Privileged Research Visitor at Intel Labs and Platforms Product Group, Portland, OR USA, one month,

Summer 2014. • Research Visitor at KAUST, Workshop on Intel Initiative for Middle East Research Center, April 2013. • ABET Workshop, Portland Oregon, April 2013. • Hadoop Development Workshop, Munich, Germany, April 2013. • Privileged Research Visitor at Intel Labs User Experience Group and Platforms Product Group, Santa Clara

and Portland, USA, one month, Summer 2012.

• Research Visit, Qatar Texas A&M, Research Collaboration Project for Distributed Computing, one week, January 2012.

• Privileged Research Visitor at Intel Labs Context Aware Sensing and Platforms Product Group, Portland, USA, Summer 2011.

• Privileged Research Visitor at Intel Platforms Product Group, Portland, USA, Summer 2010. • Tempus IV meeting in Hasselt Belgium in Feb 2008, and helped in drafting a proposal for a Masters in

Management of Information Systems.

HONORS and AWARDS • SCHOLARSHIP AWARDS

• Distinguished Scholar Award, Arab Fund Fellowship Program, 2015-2016. • University of Texas (UT) Austin Regional Initiative Faculty Fellowship 2015-2016 • B.E. Degree with Distinction, AUB 1987 • Dean's Honor List (Six Semesters), AUB 1983-87

• TEACHING AWARDS

• American University of Beirut Teaching Excellence Award 2018 • University Teaching Assistant Mentor Award, UW-Madison 1992-1993 • University Excellence in Teaching Award, UW-Madison 1992 • Department Excellence in Teaching Award, UW-Madison 1992 • Department Teaching Assistant Fellow, UW-Madison 1992 • Polygon Outstanding Teaching Award, UW-Madison 1992 • Polygon Outstanding Teaching Award, UW-Madison 1991

• INDUTSRY AWARDS

• Logic Technology Division Recognition Award in recognition of your outstanding contribution for delivery of SMART automated system, Intel Q4 2005

• TMG Excellence Award for successful delivery of first Industry IA-based Manufacturing Execution System, Intel Q1 2005

• TMG Excellence Award for establishing Industry Leadership in Advanced Process Control enabling Process Development and 200/300 mm manufacturing, Intel Q3 2003

• TMG Excellence Award for successful execution of Intel’s 300 mm program, Intel Q1 2002 • Logic Technology Development Team Quality Award in recognition of your leadership in introducing NT-

based Station Controllers into FAB and Sort, Intel Q1 2001 • Logic Technology Development Team Quality Award in recognition of your outstanding contribution to

improvement of Client Reliability, Intel Q1 2000 • TMG Cross-Organization Awards at Intel in July 1997 and January 2000.

• (SUPERVISED) PROJECT AWARDS

• 1st place in SemEval subtask (Affect Detection) competition on emotion recognition from text - 2018 • Murex Best Software Engineer for work on Mixed Reality project – 2018. • Travel Award to International ICAMES 2013 competition, in recognition of Mixed Reality project – 2018. • 1st place in SemEval subtask (Topic-based Sentiment Analysis) competition with 5-scale prediction - 2017 • 2nd place in SemEval subtask (Topic-based Sentiment Analysis) competition with 2-scale prediction - 2017 • 2nd place International ICAMES 2013 competition, in recognition of “Mobile Emotion Recognition

System,” Istanbul, Turkey 2013.

• Best Paper Award at AUB Student Conference, in recognition of research on “Energy-Aware Mobile Application for Heterogeneous 3G/Wi-Fi Networks,” Beirut, Lebanon, June 2012.

• 1st Place IEEE Communication Society Contest Award, in recognition of “Mobile text Recognizer and Arabic Translator”, Beirut, Lebanon, July 2010.

• Creative Achievement Award in recognition of senior project, “Vehicle to Vehicle System with Modular Development Framework,” Beirut, Lebanon, June 2009.

MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES

• Senior Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). • Member, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). • Member, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS). • Member, IEEE Big Data Community • Member, IEEE Brain Community. • Member, IEEE Signal Processing Society. • Member, IEEE Sensors Council. • Member, Order of Engineers, Beirut, Lebanon.

UNIVERSITY SERVICES • SERVICE TO UNIVERSITY

2016-Present Member, AUB High Performance Committee Steering Committee (Member): Represented MSFEA, and provided inputs on short term and long term needs. Also collected HPC usage within MSFEA.

2018 – Present Member, AUB Center of Teaching and Learning Advisory Board. 2017 – Present Member, AUB steering committee for AUB-CERN research collaboration.

Coordinated with different departments at AUB to drafted AUB’s Letter of Intent (LOI) for research collaboration. Planning for future activities and events.

2017 – 2018 Member, AUB Grant Workshop Initiative. Participated in drafting plan for a Grant writing workshop.

2017 – 2018 Participated in the formal ceremonies for AUB Opening Day. 2017 - 2018 Participated in the formal ceremonies for AUB Founder’s Day. 2015 University disciplinary committee, member. 2013-2015 Member, E-learning Task Force. 2011 - 2014 Member, FAS Computational Science Program Executive Committee 2013 Marshal, 2013 AUB Commencement Ceremony 2012 Lead PI on AUB-Intel Agreement for CENA student Scholarships 2008 – 2010 Coordinator for visitors events from Intel senior management 2009 Organizer, Workshop on Multicore and High Performance Computing. 2008 Organizer, Workshop on Parallel Programming 2008 Marshal, 2008 Commencement Ceremony

• SERVICE TO MAROUN SEMAAN FACULTY ENGINEERING AND ARCHITECTURE

2018-Present Member, MSFEA Design Thinking team 2018-Present Member, MSFEA Artificial Intelligence Task Force 2018 Member, MSFEA Committee for hiring External Liaison 2018 Member, MSFEA Committee for hiring Technical Writing Expert 2017-Present Chair, MSFEA Task Force to develop Action Plan for improving writing in

MSFEA.

2017-Present MSFEA Representative for inputs from into research collaboration plans with CERN-CMS

2017-2018 Chair, MSFEA Sub-Task Committee for driving “Writing in the Discipline” within MSFEA.

2010 - Present Reviewer, Papers submitted to Faculty of Engineering And Architecture Student Conference.

2013 - 2015 Chair, adhoc committee on “Education Synergy” between FEA departments. 2012 Reviewer, Grant Proposal, for Faculty Of Engineering And Architecture Masri

Institute Funding. 2010 - 2012 Chair, Student Affairs Committee. 2010 – 2013 Member, Faculty Of Engineering And Architecture Strategic Planning Committee 2008 - 2010 Member, Student Affairs Committee.

• SERVICE TO ECE Department

2017- Present Coordinator, ECE External Advisory Board 2017– Present Member, graduate student committee 2008 - Present Member, ad-hoc committee on Signal Processing 2008 - Present Member, ad-hoc committee on Machine Intelligence 2008 - Present Member, ad-hoc committee on Software 2008 - Present Coordinator, Multi-core Lab 2014 – 2015 Member, ABET committee, 2014 – 2015 Member, ECE faculty hiring committee 2012 - 2014 Coordinator, Software Incubator Program from Intel 2008 - 2014 Director, Low Power Lab 2008 – 2013 Course Coordinator, Data Structures 2013 Marshal, ECE representative for AUB 2013 commencement 2008 – 2012 Coordinator, Graduate Seminar 2008 – 2012 Member, graduate student committee 2008 – 2012 Course Coordinator, Analog Signal Processing

• SERVICE TO UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING • University research presentations Fall 1992, Fall 1993

• Helpful Tips in Graduate Studies, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Orientation, Fall 93.

• Survival Tips in Graduate School, University Graduate Student Orientation Program, Fall 92. • University teaching services Spring 91 – Fall 93

• Evaluating Teaching Performance, College of Engineering Teaching Assistant Workshop, Fall 93. • Improving Communication Between TAs and their Students: Expectations, College of Engineering

Teaching Assistant Workshop, Spring 93. • Meyers Briggs Type Indicator, College of Engineering Teaching Assistant Workshop, Fall 92. • Talking and Building Rapport: TAs and Students, College of Engineering Teaching Assistant

Workshop, Spring 92. • Cultural Diversity and First Day Delivery, College of Engineering Teaching Assistant Workshop,

Spring 91. PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

• Organizing Conferences:

• Helped in all stages of organization for the 4th IEEE International Conference on Energy Aware Computing, December 2013.

• Chair and organizer, Workshop on “High Performance and Energy-Aware Solutions for Data Mining and Wireless/Mobile Applications (IDMWM 2011),” co-located with 7th International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC 2011).

• Organized the summit on “Middle East Energy Efficiency Research – Next Generation Directions,” Beirut, Lebanon, July 2011.

• Conference Organizing Committees: • Member of Executive Committee, 5th IEEE International Conference on Energy Aware Computing, 2014-

2016. • Co-chair, Technical Program Committee, at the 4th IEEE International Conference on Energy Aware

Computing, December 2013. • Finance Chair, for the 4th IEEE International Conference on Energy Aware Computing, December 2013. • Publications Chair, at the 4th IEEE International Conference on Energy Aware Computing, December

2013. • Publications Co-chair, The 2nd Saudi International Electronics, Communications and Photonics

Conference, April 2013. • Chair, Keynote Committee, Energy Aware Platform Conference Session at the 3rd International Conference

on Energy Aware Computing, 2012. • Co-chair, Workshop of the Computing System's track - 6th International Conference on Innovations in

Information Technology December 15-17, 2009 Al Ain, United Arab Emirates.

• External Committees Assignments: • Member, Technical Program Committee, Cognitive Analytics Management 2018 Conference held at AUB • Member, Technical Program Committee, the 2018 Conference of the North American Chapter of the

Association for Computational Linguistics - Human Language Technologies in 2018 • Member, Technical Program Committee, International Conference on Pattern Recognition and Artificial

Intelligence (ICPRAI 2018). • Member, Technical Program Committee, International Conference on Arabic Computational Linguistics

(ACLing): o ACLing 2018: Dubai, UAE o ACLing 2017: Dubai, UAE

• Member, Technical Program Committee, Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop (WANLP): o WANLP’18: Florence, Italy o WANLP’17: Valencia, Spain o WANLP’15: Beijing, China o WANLP’14: Doha, Qatar

• Member, Technical Program Committee, Workshop on Arabic Corpora and Processing Tools on Social Media

o LREC OSACT’18: Miyazaki, Japan o LREC OSACT’16: Portorož, Slovenia.

• Member, Technical Program Committee, High Performance Computing and Simulation Conference (HPCS):

o HPCS’18: Orléans, France o HPCS’17: Genoa, Italy o HPCS’16: Innsbruck, Austria o HPCS’15: Amsterdam, The Netherlands o HPCS’14: Bologna, Italy o HPCS’13: Helsinki, Finland o HPCS’12: Madrid, Spain

• Member, Technical Program Committee, WiSNet Ultra low power systems and sub-systems for Wireless Sensor Networks, in conjunction with IEEE Radio and Wireless Week (RWW):

o RWW’19: Orlando, Florida. o RWW’18: Anaheim, California. o RWW’17: Phoenix, Arizona.

• Member, Technical Program Committee, the IEEE 59th IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS) (MWSCAS2016).

• Member, Technical Program Committee, Workshop for WiMAX technology Group, co-located with ICUMT-Workshop-1 (WiMAX Technology Workshop). 2009.

• Reviewer for the following journals • ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing (TALIP). • IEEE Transaction on Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSM). • IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (TVT). • Springer Language Resources and Evaluation (LREV). • Elsevier Journal Computer Speech & Language (CSL). • Elsevier Journal Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine (CMPB). • Elsevier Applied Computing and Informatics (ACI). • Elsevier Journal: Big Data Research (BDR). • IET Journal in Signal Processing. • TAL (French: Traitment Automatique des Langues) Journal Special Issue: NLP for Arabic and Related

Languages (TAL) • Imaging Science Journal (ISI). • Journal of Communications and Networks (JCN). • Biomedical Engineering: Applications, Basis and Communications (BME).

• Chaired the following conference sessions:

• Multiple sessions at the 4th IEEE International Conference on Energy Aware Computing, December 2013. • Digital Information Management & Security Conference Session at the 3rd International Conference on

Communications and Information Technology (ICCIT-2013), June 2013. • Energy Aware Platform Conference Session at the 3rd International Conference on Energy Aware

Computing, 2012. • Multiple sessions at the High Performance Computing and Simulation Conference, 2011.

• Other activities:

• Mentored IEEE Extreme 2018 International Competition at American University of Beirut • Mentored Semantic Evaluation (SemEval) 2017 competition. • Mentored Semantic Evaluation (SemEval) 2016 competition. • Coordinator, Intel Research Internships, 2010 • Grant Reviewer, Proposals in the fields of Data Mining, Software Engineering and Computer Architecture,

2012-Present; submitted to: the CEDRES joint France-Lebanon program; the Lebanese national Council for Scientific Research.

PUBLICATIONS AND PATENTS

PATENTS

Note that “***” indicates 1st author with my students or team, whose work I was directly supervising.

[1] *** System and Method for Multi-Device Continuum and Seamless Sensing Platform for Context

Aware Analytics, Inventors: H. Hajj, W. El-Hajj, S. Eid, (S) M. Ben Saleh, Abdul Fattah Obeid, Syed Mansoor Qazim, U.S. Provisional Patent Application Serial No.: 62/248,781. Filing Date: October 30, 2015.

[2] *** Context-Aware Mobile Personalization System and Methods of Use, Inventors: H. Hajj, W. El-Hajj, S. Eid, (S) M. Ben Saleh, Abdul Fattah Obeid, Syed Mansoor Qazim. U.S. Patent Application Serial No.: 62/115,399. Filing Date: February 12, 2015, Published: August 8, 2016.

[3] *** Automated Yield Analysis. Inventors: Y. Alqudah, H. Hajj, and M. Abdelmoneum. Sponsored by Intel Corporation. United States Patent 20090006436.

[4] *** Defect Analysis. Inventors: Y. Alqudah, H. Hajj, and M. Abdelmoneum. Sponsored by Intel Corporation. United States Patent 20090003684.

[5] *** Software Architecture for Engineering Analysis Framework for Semiconductor Manufacturing. Inventors: S. Bhattacharya and H. Hajj, sponsored by Intel Corp. United States Patent 20080082190.

[6] *** An Optimized Multiscale Feature Detection Framework using Filter Bank, Awarded April 1996, inventors: Hazem Hajj, Truong Nguyen and Roland Chin. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation. United States Patent 006064768.

REFEREED JOURNAL PAPERS Note that “***” indicates 1st author with my students. “(S)” stands for students or post-doc, whose research I was directly supervising or co-supervising. 1. *** A. Hussein (S), M. Djandji (S), R. Mahmoud (S), M. Dhabi (S), H. Hajj, “Augmenting Deep Learning

with Adversarial Training for Robust Prediction of Epilepsy Seizures” ACM Transactions on Computing for Healthcare (revised version submitted January 2020).

2. *** R. Mahmoud, H. Hajj, F. Karameh, “A Multitask Learning Framework for Time-series Data" Elsevier Appplied Soft Computing (revised version submitted Nov. 2019).

3. S. Taleb, A. Yeretzian, R. A. Jabr, and H. Hajj. "Optimization of building form to reduce incident solar radiation." Journal of Building Engineering 28 (2020): 101025.

4. *** R. Morcel (S), H. Hajj, M. Saghir, H. Akkary, H. Artail, R. Khanna, A. Keshavamurthy, “FeatherNet: An Accelerated Convolutional Neural Networks Design for Resource-Constrained FPGAs,” IEEE Transactions on Reconfigurable Technology and Systems (TRETS) accepted January 2019.

5. *** G. Badaro (S), R. Baly (S), H. Hajj, W. El-Hajj, K. B. Shaban, N. Habash, A. Al-Sallab, A. Hamdi, “A Survey of Opinion Mining in Arabic: A Comprehensive System Perspective Covering Challenges and Advances in Tools, Resources, Models, Applications and Visualizations,” ACM Transactions on Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing (TALLIP), accepted December 2018.

6. *** S. Taleb (S), H. Hajj, Z. Dawy “EGO: Optimized Sensor Selection for Multi-Context Aware Applications with an Ontology for Recognition Models,” IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), accepted November 2018.

7. *** N. Abbas (S), H. Hajj, S. Sharafeddine, Z. Dawy, “Traffic Offloading with Channel Allocation in Cache-Enabled Ultra-Dense Wireless Networks,” IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (1), 99 (2018).

8. *** S. Taleb (S), H. Hajj, Z. Dawy, “VCAMS: Viterbi-based Context Aware Mobile Sensing to Trade-off Energy and Delay,” IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing 17, no. 1 (2018):225-242.

9. M. Ben Saleh, Y. S. Dabagh (S), H. Hajj, M. Saghir, H. Akkary, H. Artail, A. Obdeid, S. Qasim, "Optimal Task Scheduling for Distributed Cluster with Active Storage Devices and Accelerated Nodes"

IEEE Access, Year: 2018, Volume: 6, Pages: 48195 - 48209. 10. *** R. Baly (S), R. Hobeika (S), H. Hajj, W. ElHajj, K. Shaban, A. Sallab, " A Meta-Framework for

Modeling Human Reading Process in Sentiment Analysis," ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS), Volume 35 Issue 1, August 2016.

Invited talk at ACM SIGIR 2018, Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, July 9, 2018. 11. M. Sharafeddin (S), H. Partamian (S), M. Awad, M. Saghir, H. Akkary, H. Artail, H. Hajj, "Towards

Distributed Acceleration of Seismic Data Analysis Using Reconfigurable Active SSD Clusters," International Journal of High Performance Computing and Networking (IJHPC) 11, no. 4 (2018): 261-278.

12. *** A. Sallab (S), R. Baly (S), H. Hajj, W. El Hajj, K. Shaban, G. Badaro “AROMA: A Recursive Deep Learning Model for Opinion Mining in Arabic as a Low Resource Language,” ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing (TALLIP), Volume 16 Issue 4, June 2017.

13. *** R. Baly (S), H. Hajj, N. Habash, K. Shaban. W. El Hajj, “A Sentiment Treebank and Morphologically Enriched Recursive Deep Models for Effective Sentiment Analysis in Arabic,” ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing (TALLIP), 16, no. 4 (2017): 23.

14. H. Artail, M. Saghir, M. Sharafeddine, H. Hajj, A. Kaitoua, R. Morcel, H. Akkary, “Speedy Cloud: Cloud Computing with Support for Hardware Acceleration Services,” IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing (TCC), 1 (2017): 1-1.

15. *** N. Abbas (S), H. Hajj, Z. Dawy, “An Optimized Approach to Video Traffic Splitting in Heterogeneous Wireless Networks with Energy and QoE Considerations,” Elsevier’s Journal of Networking and Computer Applications, 83 (2017): 72-88.

16. W. El-Hajj, G. Ben Brahim, H. Hajj, H. Safa, and R. Adaimy, “Security-by-Construction in Web Applications Development via Database Annotations,” Elsevier Computer and Security, Volume 59, June 2016, Pages 151–165.

17. M. Sharafeddin (S), M. Saghir, H. Akkary, H. Artail, H. Hajj "On the Effectiveness of Accelerating MapReduce Functions Using the Xilinx Vivado HLS Tool", International Journal of High Performance Systems Architecture (IJHSPA), Volume 6 Issue 1, April 2016, Pages 1-12.

18. K. Mershad (S), H. Artail, M. Saghir, H. Hajj, M. Awad, "A Study of the Performance of a Cloud Datacenter Server," IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing (TCC), April 2015, DOI: 10.1109/TCC.2015.2415803, ISSN: 2168-7161.

19. *** A. Kaitoua (S), H. Hajj, M. Saghir, H. Artail, H. Akkary, M. Awwad, “Hadoop Extensions for Distributed Computing on Reconfigurable Active SSD Clusters,” ACM Transactions on Computer Architecture and Code Optimization, 2014 (TACO), volume 11, 2 (June 2014) - 22.

20. K. Mershad (S), M. Sharafedddine (S), H. Artail, M. Saghir, H. Hajj, M. Awad, "A Mathematical Model to Analyze the Utilization of a Cloud Datacenter Middleware," Elsevier Journal of Networking and Computer Applications (JNCA), August 2014, Volume 59, January 2016, Pages 399–415.

21. *** H. Hajj, W. El-Hajj, M. Dabbagh (S), T. Arabi, “An Algorithm-Centric Energy Aware Design Methodology,” IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integrated Systems (IEEE TVLSI) Vol. 22, no. 11 (2014): 2431-2435.

22. *** C. Trad (S), H. Hajj, W. El-Hajj, F. Al-Jamil “Facial Action Unit and Emotion Recognition with Head Pose Variations,” Advanced Data Mining and Applications, Lecture Notes on Computer Science, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Volume 7713, 2012, pp. 383-394.

23. *** M. Dabbagh (S), H. Hajj, W. ElHajj, A. Chehab, A. Kayssi, M. Mansour, “An Energy-Aware Design Methodology Based on Kernel Optimizations,” selected 2012 from IWCMC conference for extension to the special issue International Journal of Autonomous and Adaptive Communications Systems (IJAACS), 7, no. 3 (2014): 271-294.

24. *** R. Baly (S), H. Hajj, “Wafer Classification using Nonlinear Support Vector Machines,” IEEE Transactions on Semiconductor Manufacturing, Volume: 25, Issue: 3, pp 373 – 383, August 2012.

25. *** N. Farra (S), B. El-Sayed (S), N. Moacdieh (S), H. Hajj, Z. Hajj, R. Haidar, “A Mobile Sensing and Imaging System for Real-Time Monitoring of Spine Health,” selected from conference for extension to the Journal of Medical Imaging and Health Informatics (JMIHI) 2011, Special Issues, Volume 1, Number 3, pp. 238-245(8), September 2011.

26. W El-Hajj, H. Hajj, Z. Trabelsi, and F. Aloul, “Updating Snort with a Customized Controller to Thwart Port Scanning”, Wiley’s Journal of Security and Communication Networks, Volume 4, Issue 8, pp. 807–814, January 2011.

27. *** H. Hajj, W. El-Hajj, K. Kabalan, M. M. El-Dana, M. Dakroub, and F. Fawaz, “An Efficient Vehicle Communication Network Topology with an Extensible Framework,” International Journal of Computing & Information Technology (IJCIT), International Sciences Press, Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 237 – 250, 2010.

28. W. El-Hajj, H. Hajj, E. Bakra, Z. Dawy, O. El-Hmaissy, D. Ghadar, Y. Aitour, “Optimal WiMAX Planning with Security Considerations,” Wiley’s Journal of Security and Communication Networks, SI on WiMax Security and Applications, Wiley InterScience, Vol. 2, Issue 5, pp. 401–412, July 2009.

29. J. Moyne, H. Hajj, K. Beatty and R. Lewandowski “SEMI E133—The Process Control System Standard: Deriving a Software Interoperability Standard for Advanced Process Control in Semiconductor Manufacturing”, IEEE Transactions on Semiconductor Manufacturing: Special Issue on Advanced Process Control, Volume 20, Issue 4, pp. 408-420, November 2007.

REFEREED CONFERENCE PAPERS Note that “***” indicates 1st author with my students. “(S)” stands for students or post-doc, whose research I was directly supervising or co-supervising. 1. *** A. Khaddaj (S), H. Hajj, "Representation Learning for Adversarial Domain Adaptation in Text

Classification," In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Informatics, IoT, and Enabling Technologies (ICIoT’20), Qatar, Feb 2-5, 2019.

• Winner of best paper award. 2. *** W. Antoun, F. Baly, R. Achour, A. Hussein, H. Hajj, "State of the Art Models for Fake News

Detection Tasks," In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Informatics, IoT, and Enabling Technologies (ICIoT’20), Qatar, Feb 2-5, 2019.

3. *** O. ElJundi, W. Antoun, N. El Droubi, H. Hajj, W. El-Hajj, and K. Shaban. "hULMonA: The Universal Language Model in Arabic." In Proceedings of the Fourth Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop, pp. 68-77. 2019.

4. *** A. Khaddaj, H. Hajj, and W. El-Hajj. "Improved Generalization of Arabic Text Classifiers." In Proceedings of the Fourth Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop, pp. 167-174. 2019.

5. *** H. Mozannar, K. Hajal, E. Maamary, and H. Hajj. "Neural Arabic Question Answering." In Proceedings of the Fourth Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop, pp. 98-108, 2019.

6. N. Abbas, S. Sharafeddine, H. Hajj, and Z. Dawy. "Cost and energy aware dynamic splitting of video traffic in heterogeneous networks." (2019).

7. T. Tobaili, M. Fernandez, H. Alani, S. Sharafeddine, H. Hajj, and G. Glavas. "SenZi: A Sentiment Analysis Lexicon for the Latinised Arabic (Arabizi)." In Proceedings of the International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP 2019), pp. 1203-1211. 2019.

8. R. Baly, A. Khaddaj, H. Hajj, W. El-Hajj, and K. Shaban. "ArSentD-LEV: A multi-topic corpus for target-based sentiment analysis in Arabic levantine tweets." arXiv preprint arXiv:1906.01830 (2019).

9. *** G. Badaro (S), H. Jundi (S), H. Hajj, and W. El-Hajj. "EmoWordNet: Automatic Expansion of Emotion Lexicon Using English WordNet." In Proceedings of the Seventh Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics, pp. 86-93. 2018.

10. *** G. Badaro (S), H. Jundi (S), H. Hajj, W. El-Hajj, and N. Habash. “ArSEL: A Large Scale Arabic Sentiment and Emotion Lexicon.” In Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Open-Source Arabic Corpora and Processing Tools (OSACT) held with the Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2018), Miyazaki, Japan. 2018.

11. M. Ezzedine (S), R. Morcel (S), H. Artail, H. Akkary, M. Saghir, H. Hajj, “RESTful Hardware Microservices using Reconfigurable Networked Accelerators in Cloud and Edge Datacenters” IEEE 7th International Conference on Cloud Networking (CloudNet), 2018.

12. *** G. Badaro (S), O. El Jundi (S), A. Khaddaj (S), A. Maarouf (S), R. Kain (S), H. Hajj, and W. El-Hajj. "EMA at SemEval-2018 Task 1: Emotion Mining for Arabic." In Proceedings of the 12th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation, pp. 236-244. 2018.

13. *** R. Baly (S), G. El-Khoury (S), R. Moukalled (S), R. Aoun (S), H. Hajj, K. Shaaban, W. El Hajj, “Comparative Evaluation of Sentiment Analysis Methods Across Arabic Dialects,” 3rd International Conference on Arabic Computational Linguistics, ACLing 2017, 5–6 November 2017, Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

14. C. Bampis (S), C. Rusu, H. Hajj, A. Bovik, “Robust Matrix Factorization for Collaborative Filtering in Recommender Systems,” 51st Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, Pacific Grove, California, October 2017.

15. *** M. Nassralla (S), Z. El Zein (S), H. Hajj, “Classification of Normal and Abnormal Heart Sounds,” Fourth International Conference on Advances In Biomedical Engineering (ICABME17), Lebanon, October 2017.

16. *** R. Baly (S), G. Badaro (S), A. Hamdi (S), R. Moukalled (S), R. Aoun (S), G. El-Khoury (S), A. Al-Sallab (S), H. Hajj, N. Habash, K. Shaban and W. El-Hajj, "OMAM at SemEval-2017 Task 4: Evaluation of English State-of-the-Art Sentiment Analysis Models for Arabic and a New Topic-based Model," in Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2017), Vancouver, 2017.

17. N. Abbas (S), Z. Dawy, H. Hajj, S. Sharaffedine, “Traffic Offloading in Dense Cache-Enabled D2D Networks,” First International Balkan Conference on Communications and Networking 2017 (BalkanCom'17), Tirana, Albania, May 30-June 2, 2017.

18. R. Morcel (S), H. Akkary, H. Hajj, M. Saghir, A. Keshavamurthy, R. Khanna, H. Artail, “FeatherNet: A Minimalist Design for Accelerating Convolutional Neural Networks for Low-end FPFA Platforms,” The 25th IEEE International Symposium on. Field-Programmable Custom Computing (FCCM) 2017, Napa, CA, USA.

19. W. El-Hajj, G. Ben Brahim, C. Hayek (S), H. Hajj “Feature Extraction and Large Activity-Set Recognition Using Mobile Phone Sensors,” International Data Science Conference, June 12-13, 2017, Salzburg, Austria.

20. *** R. Baly (S), R. Aoun (S), R. Moukalled (S), G. El Khoury (S), H. Hajj, W. El Hajj, N. Habash, K. Shaban, “A Characterization Study of Arabic Twitter Data with a Benchmarking for State-of-the-Art Opinion Mining Models,” the Third Annual Natural Language Processing for Arabic (WANLP) 2017, held in conjunction with EACL 2017, April 2-7, 2017, Valencia, Spain.

21. R. El Ballouli (S), A. Ghandour (S), W. El Hajj, S. El Bassuoni, H. Hajj, K. Shaban, “CAT: Credibility Analysis of Arabic Content on Twitter,” the Third Annual Natural Language Processing for Arabic (WANLP) 2017, held in conjunction with EACL 2017, April 2-7, 2017, Valencia, Spain.

22. N. Abbas (S), Z. Dawy, H. Hajj, S. Sharafeddine, F. Filali, “Traffic Offloading with Maximum User Capacity in Dense D2D Cooperative Networks,” IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2017 Mobile and Wireless Networking, 21-25 May 2017, Paris, France.

23. R. Mahmoud (S), F. Karameh, H. Hajj, “A System Identification Approach for Recognition of Personalized User Motion Patterns from Mobile Sensing Data”, 2016 3rd Middle East Conference on Biomedical Engineering (MECBME), Oct 6-7, 2016, Beirut-Lebanon.

24. *** L. Constantine (S), G. Badaro (S), H. Hajj, W. El Hajj, L. Nachman, M. BenSaleh, A. Obeid, “A Framework for Emotion Recognition from Human Computer Interaction in Natural Setting,” 22nd ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Workshop on Issues of Sentiment Discovery and Opinion Mining (WISDOM 2016), San Francisco 2016.

25. *** S. Taleb (S), A. Sallab (S), H. Hajj, Z. Dawy, “Deep Learning with Ensemble Classification Method for Sensor Sampling Decisions,” the 12th International Wireless Communication and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC) 2016, to be held September 5-9, 2016, Paphos, Cyprus.

26. A. Al-Zaatari (S), R. El-Ballouli (S), S. Elbassuoni, W. El-Hajj, H. Hajj, K. Shaban, N. Habash, “Arabic Corpora for Credibility Analysis,” 10th edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2016), 23-28 May 2016, Portoroz (Slovenia).

27. A. Alhamali (S), N. Salha (S), R. Morcel(S), M. Ezzeddine (S), O. Hamdan (S), H. Akkary, H. Hajj, “FPGA-Accelerated Hadoop Cluster for Deep Learning Computations,” In Proceedings of the IEEE ICDM Workshop on Data Science and Big Data Analytics (DSBDA-2015)), November 13-17, 2015, Atlantic City, USA.

28. F. Hamze, H. Hajj, N. Daher, C. Aramouny, K. Najjar, “A Multi-disciplinary Approach to Developing an Introductory Course in Engineering and Architecture,” The 10th World Congress in Engineering Education, Oct. 2015, Beirut, Lebanon.

29. *** G. Badaro (S), R. Baly (S), R. Akel (S), L. Fayad (S), J. Khairallah (S), H. Hajj, W. El-Hajj, K. Bashir Shaban, “A Light Lexicon-based Mobile Application for Sentiment Mining of Arabic Tweets,” In Proceedings of the Workshop on Arabic Natural Language Processing (WANLP), held at the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and The 7th International Joint Conference of the Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing (ACL-IJCNLP 2015) July, Beijing, China.

30. *** A. Sallab (S), R. Baly(S), G. Badaro (S), H. Hajj, W. El Hajj, K. B. Shaban, “Deep Learning Models for Sentiment Analysis in Arabic,” In Proceedings of the Workshop on Arabic Natural Language Processing (WANLP), held at the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 7th International Joint Conference of the Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing (ACL-IJCNLP 2015) July, Beijing, China.

31. El-Assaad, Atlal (S), Z. Dawy, G. Nemer, H. Hajj, F. Kobeissy, "Cleaved Fragments Prediction Algorithm (CFPA) application to calpain and caspase in apoptosis and necrotic cell death," 2015 IEEE International Conference on Electro/Information Technology (EIT), IEEE, IL, USA, 2015.

32. R. Adaimy, W. El-Hajj, G. Ben Brahim, H. Hajj, “A Framework for Secure Information Flow Analysis in Web Applications,” 2015 IEEE 29th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA), 24-27 March 2015, pp. 434 – 441, Gwangju, Korea.

33. *** G. Badaro, H. Hajj, A. Haddad, W. El-Hajj, and K. Shaban, “Recommender Systems Using Harmonic Analysis,” In Proceedings of the IEEE ICDM workshop on Social Multimedia Data Mining (SMDM 2014), December 14, 2014, Shenzhen, China.

34. S. Shaheen, W. El-Hajj, H. Hajj, and S. Elbassuoni, “Emotion Recognition from Text Based on Automatically Generated Rules,” In Proceedings of the 4th IEEE ICDM workshop on Sentiment Elicitation from Natural Text for Information Retrieval and Extraction (SENTIRE 2014), December 14, 2014, Shenzhen, China.

35. M. Sharafeddin, H. Harkous, S. Mansour, M. Saghir, H. Akkary, H. Artail, H. Hajj, “On the Efficiency of Automatically Generated Accelerators for Reconfigurable Active SSDs”, 26th International Conference on Microelectronics (ICM 2014), December 14-17, 2014, Doha, Qatar.

36. *** G. Badaro (S), R. Baly (S), H. Hajj, N. Habash, W. El-Hajj, “A Large Scale Arabic Sentiment Lexicon for Arabic Opinion Mining,” 18th International ACM SIGDAT and SIGNLL Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing 2014 (EMNLP 2014), Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop, October 25–29, 2014, Doha, Qatar.

37. *** G. Badaro (S), H. Hajj, A. Haddad, W. El-Hajj, K. Shaaban, “A Multiresolution Approach to Recommender Systems,” 20th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Social Network Analysis Workshop (SNAKDD 2014), New York, 2014.

38. N. Abbas (S), Z. Dawy, H. Hajj, S. Sharafeddine, “Energy-Throughput Tradeoffs in Cellular/WiFi Heterogeneous Networks with Traffic Splitting,” IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC) 2014, Istanbul, Turkey.

39. *** S. Taleb (S), H. Hajj, Z. Dawy, “Entropy-based Optimization to Trade-off Energy and Accuracy for Activity Mobile Sensing,” 4th IEEE International Conference on Energy Aware Computing Systems & Applications (ICEAC 2013), December 15-18, Istanbul, Turkey.

40. K. Mershad (S), A. Kaitoua (S), H. Artail, M. Saghir, H. Hajj, “A Framework for Multi-Cloud Cooperation with Hardware Reconfiguration support”, IEEE 9th World Congress on Services (SERVICES 2013), Santa Clara, CA, June 2013.

41. M. Jomaa (S), K. Mershad (S), N. Abbani (S), Y. Sharaf-Dabbagh (S), B. Romanous (S), H. Artail, M. Saghir, H. Hajj, H. Akkary, M. Awad, “A Mediation Layer for connecting Data-Intensive Applications to Reconfigurable Data Nodes”, 22nd International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN 2013), Nassau, Bahamas, July 2013.

42. *** G. Badaro (S), H. Hajj, W. El-Hajj, L. Nachman, “A Hybrid Approach with Collaborative Filtering for Recommender Systems,” The Ninth International Wireless Communication and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC) 2013, Mobile Computing Symposium, July 3-8, 2013.

43. J. Farjo (S), W. Masri, H. Hajj, “Isolating Failing Test Cases: A Comparative Experimental Study of Clustering Techniques,” The 3rd International Conference on Communications and Information Technology (ICCIT-2013): Digital Information Management & Security - Digital Information Management, Beirut, Lebanon, June 2013.

44. K. Mershad (S), A. Kaitoua (S), H. Artail, M. Saghir, H. Hajj, "Cloud Providers Collaboration for a Higher Service level in Cloud Computing" The 3rd International Conference on Communications and Information Technology (ICCIT-2013): Mobile and Cloud Computing - Mobile and Cloud Computing, Beirut, Lebanon, June 2013.

45. *** S. Taleb (S), N. Abbas (S), H. Hajj, Z. Dawy, "On Sensor Selection in Mobile Devices based on Energy, Application Accuracy, and Context Metrics" The 3rd International Conference on

Communications and Information Technology (ICCIT-2013): Digital Information Management & Security - Digital Information Management, Beirut, Lebanon, June 2013.

46. *** N. Abbas (S), S. Taleb (S), H. Hajj, Z. Dawy, “Learning-Based Approach for Network Selection in WLAN/3G Heterogeneous Network,” The 3rd International Conference on Communications and Information Technology (ICCIT-2013): Wireless Communications and Signal Processing, Beirut, Lebanon, June 2013.

47. S. Taleb (S), M. Dia (S), J. Farhat (S), Z. Dawy, H. Hajj, “On the Design of Energy-Aware 3G/WiFi Heterogeneous Networks Under Realistic Conditions,” The Ninth International Workshop on Heterogeneous Wireless Networks (HWISE 2013), to be held in conjunction with the 27th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA-2013), Barcelona, Spain, March 25-28, 2013.

48. R. Awwad (S), D. Ripan, T. Arabi, H. Hajj “A Fast Charging Multi-C Technique for Mobile Devices,” ICEAC 2012, the 3rd IEEE International Conference on Energy Aware Computing, Cyprus, Dec. 3-5, 2012.

49. *** A. Houjeij (S), L. Hamiyeh (S), N. Mehdi (S), H. Hajj, “A Novel Approach for Emotion Classification based on Fusion of Text and Speech,” 19th IEEE International Conference on Telecommunications (ICT), Jounieh, Lebanon, April 23-25, 2012.

50. A. Ali (S), M. Jomaa (S), B. Romanos (S), M. Sharafeddine (S), H. Akkary, M. Saghir, H. Artail, M. Awwad, H. Hajj, “An Operating System for a Reconfigurable Active SSD Processing Node,” 19th IEEE International Conference on Telecommunications (ICT), Jounieh, Lebanon, April 23-25, 2012.

51. *** L. Constantine (S), H. Hajj, “A Survey of Ground-truth in Emotion Data Annotation,” to 8th IEEE International Workshop on Pervasive Learning, Life and Leisure (PerEL 2012), part of the 10th IEEE Pervasive Computing and Communication (PerCom) conference, Lugano, Switzerland, March 19-23, 2012.

52. *** M. Dabbagh (S), H. Hajj, W. El Hajj, “An Approach to Measuring Kernel Energy in Software Applications,” the 2nd IEEE International Conference on Energy Aware Computing, Istanbul, Turkey, Nov. 30 - Dec. 2, 2011.

53. N. Farra (S), G. Raffa (S), L. Nachman, H. Hajj, “Energy-Efficient Mobile Gesture Recognition with Computation Offloading,” the 2nd IEEE International Conference on Energy Aware Computing, Istanbul, Turkey, Nov. 30 - Dec. 2, 2011.

54. M. Dabbagh (S), A. J. Ghandour (S), K. Fawaz (S), W. El Hajj, H. Hajj, “Slow Port Scanning Detection,” the Seventh International Conference on Information Assurance and Security (IAS 2011) , Malacca, Malaysia, pp. 228 – 233, December 05-08, 2011.

55. *** R. Hobeika (S), H. Hajj, W. Elhajj, “Machine Reading for Notion-Based Sentiment Mining,” 11th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2011) Workshops, December 11-14, Vancouver, Canada.

56. N. Abbani (S), A. Ali (S), D. Al Otoom (S), M. Jomaa (S), M. Sharafeddine (S), H. Artail, H. Akkary, M. Saghir, M. Awad, H. Hajj, “A Distributed Reconfigurable Active SSD Platform for Data Intensive Applications”, 13th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC-2011), Alberta, Canada, Sep 02-04, 2011.

57. *** N. Abbas (S), H. Hajj, A. Yassine, “Optimal WiMAX Frame Packing for Minimum Energy Consumption”, The Seventh International Wireless Communication and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC) 2011, July 3-8, 2011.

58. *** M. Dabbagh (S), H. Hajj, A. Chehab, W. Elhajj, A. Kayssi, M. Mansour, “A Design Methodology for Energy Aware Neural Networks,” The Seventh International Wireless Communication and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC) 2011, July 3-8, 2011.

59. *** B. El-Sayed (S), N. Farra (S), N. Moacdieh (S), H. Hajj, Z. Hajj, R. Haidar, “A Novel Mobile Wireless Sensing System for Real-time Monitoring of Posture and Spine Stress,” 1st Middle East Conference on Biomedical Engineering (MECBME’11), Feb 21- 24, 2011; Sharjah, UAE.

60. *** N. Abbas (S), H. Hajj, A. Borghol, “A Comprehensive Simulator,” 8th Annual International IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC 2011), January 9-12, Las Vegas, USA.

61. F. B. Yahya (S), M. Mansour, A. Kayssi, H. Hajj, “Using BIST Circuitry to Measure DRV of Large SRAM Arrays,” IEEE International Conference on Energy Aware Computing, December 16-18, 2010, Cairo, Egypt.

62. *** N. Abbas (S), H. Hajj, A. Yassine, “An Energy-Efficient Scheme for WiMAX Downlink Bursts Construction”, IEEE International Conference on Energy Aware Computing, December 16-18, 2010, Cairo, Egypt.

63. M. Fawaz (S), N. Kobrosli (S), J. Rizakallah (S), M. Mansour, A. Chehab, A. Kayssi, H. Hajj, “Energy Minimization Feedback Loop for Ripple Carry Adders,” IEEE International Conference on Energy Aware Computing, December 16-18, 2010, Cairo, Egypt.

64. *** M. Yassine (S), H. Hajj, “A Framework for Emotion Mining from Text in Online Social Networks" IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2010) Workshops, December 14-17, Sydney, Australia.

65. *** N. Farra (S), R. Abou Assi (S), E. Chalita (S), H. Hajj, “Sentence-level and Document-level Sentiment Mining for Arabic Texts,” IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2010) Workshops, December 14-17, Sydney, Australia.

66. *** F. Adib (S), H. Hajj, “VSpyware: Spyware in VANETs,” to the 35th IEEE Local Computer Network (LCN) on User MObility and VEhicular Networks (On-MOVE) conference, October 2010, Denver, Colorado, USA

67. *** N. Abbas (S), H. Hajj, A. Borghol, “A Comprehensive WiMAX Simulator,” the sixth international Conference on Wireless and Mobile Communications (ICWMC 2010), Spain, Europe but later withdrawn due to difficulty in attendance, and resubmitted to the 8th IEEE Consumer Communications and Network Conference (CCNC) 2011, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.

68. *** F. Adib (S), H. Hajj, “Efficient Time and Frequency Methods for Sampling Filter Functions”, the International Conference on Image and Signal Processing 2010 (ICISP 2010), Canada, June 28-July 2, 2010.

69. H. Hajj, W. El Hajj, M. M. El Dana, M. Dakroub, and F. Fawaz, “An Extensible Software Framework for Building Vehicle to Vehicle Applications”, the Sixth International Wireless Communication and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC) 2010, June 28-July 2, 2010. Conference Proceedings will be included in ACM and IEEE Digital Library.

70. W. El-Hajj, H. Hajj, “Fault Tolerant Ad Hoc Network Design with Fast Efficient Routing,” the fifth International Wireless Communication and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC 2009) Wireless LANs and Wireless PANs Symposium, Leipzig-Germany June 2009.

71. *** Y. A Alqudah, M. Abdelmoneum, H. Hajj, “An Efficient Electrical to Physical Failure Correlation Tool for Yield Analysis and Modeling,” Intel Design and Test Technology Conference, (Intel Confidential), March 2007.

72. J. Moyne, H. Hajj, "E133: The Process Control Systems (PCS) SEMI Standard: Fault Detection Extension and EDA integration", 8th European Advanced Equipment Control/ Advanced Process Control (AEC/APC) Conference in Dresden, Germany, April 2007.

73. *** H. Hajj, and E. Hamer, “Station Controller, A Vital Component of Technology Development”, the 8th International Conference on Flexible Automation and Intelligent Manufacturing Conference, 1998, Portland, Oregon, USA; Proceedings: Begell House, Inc. (U.K.), ISBN 1-56700-118-1.

74. *** H. Hajj, T. Nguyen, and R. Chin, “Multiscale feature detection for medical image enhancement”, the 18th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, May 1996.

75. *** H. Hajj, T. Nguyen, and R. Chin, “A 2D Multirate Bayesian Framework for Multiscale Feature Detection”, SPIE International Symposium on Optical Science, Engineering and Instrumentation, August 1996.

76. *** H. Hajj, T. Nguyen, and R. Chin, “On Multi-Scale Feature Detection using Filter Banks”, Proceedings of the Twenty Ninth Annual Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, vol. 29, 1996.

77. S. Nadabar, H. Hajj, and R. Anbalagan, “Machine Vision System for High Speed Discrete Parts Inspection”, Proceedings of the International Society for Optical Engineering, Optical Engineering Midwest '95, vol. 2622, November 1995.

BOOK CHAPTERS 1. *** R. Baly (S), G. El-Khoury (S), R. Moukalled (S), R. Aoun (S), H. Hajj, K. Shaaban, W. El Hajj,

“Comparative Evaluation of Sentiment Analysis Methods Across Arabic Dialects,” Elsevier Procedia Computer Science, vol. 117, pp. 266-273, 2017 (extract from 3rd International Conference on Arabic Computational Linguistics, ACLing 2017, 5–6 November 2017, Dubai, United Arab Emirates).

2. A. El Assad (S), G. Nemer, Z. Dawy, H. Hajj, F. Kobeissy, book chapter “Efficient and Accurate Algorithms for Cleaved Fragment Prediction (CFP) in Protein Sequence based on Consensus and its Variants: A Novel Degradomics Prediction Application”, Neuroproteomics, 2nd edition, Springer, Neuroproteomics: Methods and Protocols (2017): 329-352.

OTHER CONFERENCE PAPERS 1. *** A. Al Sallab (S), R. Baly (S), G. Badaro (S), H. Hajj, W. El Hajj, Khaled Bashir Shaban, “Towards

Deep Learning Models for Sentiment Analysis in Arabic”, 2nd Machine Learning and Data Analytics Symposium - MLDAS 2015, March 9-10 2015, Doha, Qatar.

2. *** R. El-ballouli (S), W. El Hajj, S. Elbassuoni, H. Hajj, N. Habash, and K. Shaban, “Credibility Models For Arabic Content On Twitter,” Qatar Foundation Annual Research Conference Proceedings: Vol., ITSP0773. DOI: 10.5339/qfarc.2014.ITSP0773. Published online: 13 Nov 2014.

3. *** R. Baly (S), G. Badaro (S), H. Hajj, N. Habash, W. El Hajj, K. Shaban, “Semantic Model Representation For Human's Pre-conceived Notions In Arabic Text With Applications To Sentiment Mining,” Qatar Foundation Annual Research Conference Proceedings: Vol., ITPP1075. DOI: 10.5339/qfarc.2014.ITPP1075. Published online: 13 Nov 2014.

4. *** G. Badaro (S), R. Baly (S), H. Hajj, N. Habash, W. El-hajj, and K. Shaban, “An Efficient Model For Sentiment Classification Of Arabic Tweets On Mobiles,” Qatar Foundation Annual Research Conference Proceedings: Vol., ITPP0631. DOI: 10.5339/qfarc.2014.ITPP0631. Published online: 13 Nov 2014.

5. *** R. Baly (S), J. Moyne, H. Hajj, “Comparison of Yield Prediction Techniques against Common Data Quality Issues in Yield Data,” the 11th European Advanced Equipment Control / Advanced Process Control Conference, Dresden - April 4-6, 2011.

6. *** R. Baly (S), H. Hajj, “Yield Analysis based on Data Mining with Support vector Machines,” 21st Advanced Equipment Control/ Advanced Process Control (AEC/APC) Conference, Ann Arbor Michigan-USA, September 2009.

7. *** H. Hajj, “Intel’s AMT enables rapid processing and Info-turn for Intel’s DFM Test Chip Vehicle”, published in the society of optics, photonics, and imaging engineering (SPIE) Photomask, Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 6730, October 30, 2007.

8. *** H. Hajj, J. Moyne, M. Pendleton, Toni Guckert, K. Edwards, and C. Young “E133: The Process Control Systems (PCS) SEMI Standard: Applying the Standard to Fault Detection Scenarios Incorporating Interface A Data Collection and other PCS Capabilities”, Advanced Equipment Control/ Advanced Process Control (AEC/APC) Symposium 2006.

9. *** J. Fenner, H. Hajj, “APC Application Selection: The Secret Ingredient to a Successful APC Program”, Advanced Equipment Control/ Advanced Process Control (AEC/APC) Europe Symposium 2005

10. *** Fayed, S. Sengupta, Y. Botros, H. Hajj, “Off-line Data Analysis for Advanced Process Control Systems”, Advanced Equipment Control/ Advanced Process Control (AEC/APC) Symposium September 2003

11. *** G. Zhuang, Y. Botros, K. P. Srirama, H. Hajj, “Integrated Process Control Systems: Benefits, Requirements, and Architecture,” Intel APC Summit 2003.

12. *** Y. Botros, H. Hajj, “Process Control Systems: Integrated for Future Process Technologies”, published in the society of optics, photonics, and imaging engineering (SPIE) Advanced Process Control and Automation Proceedings 2003, vol. 5044, pp. 121-129.

ORAL PRESENTATIONS • Invited talk, AUB Worldwide Alumni Conference on Artificial Intelligence held in Monreal, Canada

2018. • Invited talk, AUB Teaching Portfolio seminar explaining how to build a teaching portfolio 2018. • Invited talk, AUB New faculty Orientation 2018. • Invited talk, AUB Eighth International Conference on Teaching and Learning on Big Data 2018. • Invited talk, MSFEA AI Hackathon 2018. • Invited talk, Beirut Digital District on Artificial Intelligence 2018. • Invited talk, Business Opportunities BOIL 2018 on AI (Business Opportunities in Lebanon conference

on Artificial Intelligence) 2018. • Invited talk, “A Meta-Framework for Modeling Human Reading Process in Sentiment Analysis," at

ACM SIGIR 2018, Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, July 9, 2018. • Invited keynote, “Artificial Intelligence Models and Resources for Opinion Mining in Arabic” at the

3rd International Conference on Arabic Computational Linguistics (ACLing 2017), November 5-6, 2017, Dubai, UAE.

• Presentation, “Comparative Evaluation of Sentiment Analysis Methods Across at the 3rd International Conference on Arabic Computational Linguistics (ACLing 2017),” November 5-6, 2017, Dubai, UAE.

• Invited talk, Opinion Mining in Arabic (OMA), at the first international research Workshop On Arabic Dialect Technologies (WARDAT), New York University, Abu Dhabi, November 2016.

• Invited talk, “Accelerating Deep Learning Convolutional Neural Networks for Low Cost IoT Platforms”, Intel Corporation, January 2017.

• Invited talk, “Artificial Intelligence Achievements, Challenges, and Opportunities” at the IEEE 2017 Day, USEK, Beirut, Lebanon.

• Invited talk, “Open Data for Learning and Building Artificial Intelligence,” at the Panel for Open Data for teaching and learning, organized at American University of Beirut by the university Research Data Services.

• Invited keynote, “Advances and Challenges in Context Aware Sensing,” The 3rd Saudi International Electronics, Communications and Photonics Conference, March 2015.

• Invited talk, “Models for Emotion Recognition,” MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Labs (CSAIL Lab), Boston, Massachusetts, Summer 2014.

• Invited talk, “Models for Emotion Recognition and Energy Efficiency,” UT Austin, Summer 2014. • Invited talk, “Emotion Recognition Case Studies,” Intel Labs, Portland, Oregon Summer 2014. • Invited talk, “Context Aware Sensing,” Intel Product group, Portland, Oregon Summer 2014. • Invited keynote, “Advances in Emotion Recognition” The 2nd Saudi International Electronics,

Communications and Photonics Conference, April 2013. • Invited talk, “Report on Middle East Energy Efficiency Research,” Intel Research Labs, August 2012. • Invited talk, Report on Middle East Energy Efficiency Research Update from AUB,” presented to MER

Board of Advisors, Co-located with the ICEAC Conference, Istanbul, Turkey, 2011. • Presentation, “A Framework for Emotion Mining from Text in Online Social Networks" presented at

the IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2010), December 14-17, Sydney, Australia. • Presentation, “Sentence-level and Document-level Sentiment Mining for Arabic Texts,” presented at

IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2010), December 14-17, Sydney, Australia. • Presentation, “A Comprehensive Simulator,” presented at the 8th Annual International IEEE Consumer

Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC 2011), January 9-12, Las Vegas, USA. • Presentation, “Design Methodologies of Power Aware Software and Hardware Architectures for

Parallel Platforms,” presented to Intel’s Recognition, Mining, and Synthesis group in Intel research labs, Santa Clara, California, September 2010.

• Presentation, “An Extensible Software Framework for Building Vehicle to Vehicle Applications”, presented at The Sixth International Wireless Communication and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC) 2010, Caens, France, June 28-July 2, 2010.

• Presentation, “Research in Faculty of Engineering and Architecture-ECE and Intel-AUB MER Research Center,” presented to KAUST visitors at AUB, Beirut, Lebanon, February 2010.

• Presentation, “Intel Middle East Energy efficiency Research Proposal and Research Opportunities,” presented to faculty and students at Aleppo University, Aleppo, Syria, Apr.il 2010.

• Presentation, “Data Mining Overview”, presented to Intel’s yield group in Intel’s Logic Technology and Development organization, Portland, Oregon, USA, February 2010.

• Presentation, “Yield Analysis based on Data Mining with Support vector Machines,” presented at the 21st Advanced Equipment Control/ Advanced Process Control (AEC/APC) Conference, Ann Arbor Michigan-USA, September 2009.

RESEARCH GRANTS

Since February 2008, I have led and engaged with other colleagues in large scale ML projects with major funding from international corporations and funding sources totaling over $4.2 Million Dollars. Intel Project funding that has gone directly to research groups totaled over $2.3 Millions ($1.6 Millions going directly to projects at AUB, and an estimated $700,000 going directly to students to spend a year conducting research at Intel in the US). Two additional funded projects with other colleagues totaled $2.1 Million from QNRF.

• 2019-2020

• A Framework for the Design of Personalized Time-Series Prediction Models Using Multitask Machine Learning, funded by the American University of Beirut (Year 2 of 2: $12,500).

• Automated Emotion Recognition for Better Mental and Medical States of Being, funded by the American University of Beirut Farouk Jabre (Year 2 of $25,000 with two other PIs)

• A Machine Learning Approach to Reducing Field Irrigation Water and Energy Consumption (AUB WEFRAH funded year 1 of 2, $20 K total with other PIs)

• Optimized and Secured Demand Response Using Smart Meters and Blockchain for the Qatari Grid (Watar NPRP year 1 of 3, $600K total with other PIs)

• 2018-2019

• Equipment for Advanced AI Technologies, funded by Intel Corporation, estimated value $5,000. • A Framework for the Design of Personalized Time-Series Prediction Models Using Multitask Machine

Learning, funded by the American University of Beirut (Year 1 of 2: $12,500). • Automated Emotion Recognition for Better Mental and Medical States of Being, funded by the American

University of Beirut Farouk Jabre ($25,000 with two other PIs)

• 2017-2018 • Accelerating Deep Learning, funded by Intel Corporation, initially awarded 2016-2017. (Total: $132,000).

Year 2 of 2, received in 2017: $90,000. • An Optimized Approach to Mobile Sensor Selection for Context Recognition, funded by the American

University of Beirut. Year 2 of 2. Amount for year 2: $10,000. • Equipment for Mixed Reality project, funded by Intel Corporation, estimated value $4,000.

• 2016-2017

• Accelerating Deep Learning, funded by Intel Corporation, 2016-2017. (Total: $132,000). Year 1 of 2, received in 2016: $42,000.

• Extension to Opinion Mining in Arabic (OMA) Project 2016-2017, funded by Qatar National Research Foundation (QNRF). Amount: $35,000 (with 1 other professor).

• An Optimized Approach to Mobile Sensor Selection for Context Recognition, funded by the American University of Beirut (URB). Amount: $ 8,500.

• An Optimized Distributed Approach for Efficient Downstream Processing of Oil and Gas, funded by the Munib & Angela Masri Institute of Energy & Natural Resources at AUB. Amount: $6,400

• 2015-2016 • Qatar National Research Foundation (cont-d). An Opinion Mining for Arabic with Models of Semantics

and Credibility [$ 1,100,000 Dec. 2013-Dec. 2016], (with 3 other professors, and in collaboration with Columbia University and Qatar University).

• 2014-2015 • Qatar National Research Foundation (cont-d). An Opinion Mining for Arabic with Models of Semantics

and Credibility [$ 1,100,000 Dec. 2013-Dec. 2016], (with 3 other professors, and in collaboration with Columbia University and Qatar University).

• King Abdul Aziz Science and Technology (KCAST) Fund. [$60,000]. • The Munib & Angela Masri Institute Of Energy & Natural Resources Fund. Optimal Processing

Distribution for Big Data Analytics in a Cloud Environment Integrated with High-End Computing, [$7600 – one year].

• One Year Research Fund from the American University of Beirut University Research Board (URB) “An Optimization Approach To Trade Off Accuracy With Energy For Context Aware Sensing In Mobile Devices,” [$ 6300 - one year].

• 2013-2014

• Qatar National Research Foundation. An Opinion Mining for Arabic with Models of Semantics and Credibility [$ 1,100,000 Dec. 2013-Dec. 2016], (with 3 other professors, and in collaboration with Columbia University and Qatar University).

• Qatar National Research Foundation (cont-d). A Distributed Reconfigurable Active-Storage Platform for Data-Intensive Applications [4th year extension of $ 1,200,000 over 3 years], (with 4 other professors.) In collaboration with Qatar Texas A&M University.

• One Year Research Fund from the American University of Beirut University Research Board (URB) “An Optimization to Feature Selection for Text categorization,” [$ 6300 - one year].

• One year Research Fund from the American University of Beirut University Faculty of Engineering and Architecture (FEA) for equipment purchase towards advancing research. [$13,000.0 – one year].

• 2012-2013 • Qatar National Research Foundation (cont-d). A Distributed Reconfigurable Active-Storage Platform for

Data-Intensive Applications [2nd year of $ 1,200,000 over 3 years], (with 4 other professors.) In collaboration with Qatar Texas A&M University.

• One Year Research Fund from the American University of Beirut. A Robust Mining Framework to Automate Human Sentiment Extraction from Text [$ 6000 over 1 year]

• Intel Corporation. Design Methodologies of Power Aware Software and Context Aware Sensing [$140,000, 1 year] ((PI and Director, with 5 other professors.)

• Intel Corporation. Software Incubators Program. Equipment Loan for 5 years, in amount of ~ $10,000.

• 2011-2012 • Intel Corporation. Design Methodologies of Power Aware Software and Hardware Architectures for

Parallel Platforms [3rd year of $ 1,050,000 over 3 years. Includes research and internship funding], [$400K for 2nd year]. (PI and Director, with 4 other professors.)

• Qatar National Research Foundation. A Distributed Reconfigurable Active-Storage Platform for Data-Intensive Applications [2nd year of $ 1,200,000 over 3 years], (with 4 other professors.) In collaboration with Qatar Texas A&M University.

• National Council for Scientific Research. Conference Travel fund in support of presentation at ICDM 2011 [ $1500]

• One Year Research Fund from the American University of Beirut A Multilingual Sentiment Mining Platform [$ 6000 over 1 year]

• 2010-2011 • One Year Research Fund from the American University of Beirut. Efficient Data Mining Methods for

Yield Prediction and Root Cause Analysis in Semiconductor Manufacturing [$ 9600 over 1 year] • Intel Corporation. Design Methodologies of Power Aware Software and Hardware Architectures for

Parallel Platforms [$ 1,050,000 over 3 years. Includes research and internship funding], [$400K for 2nd year]. (PI and Director, with 5 other professors.)

• National Council for Scientific Research. Measuring Public Opinion using Datamining in English and Arabic [ 2nd year of grant: LL 16, 000,000 over 2 years]

• National Council for Scientific Research. Conference Travel fund in support of presentation at ICDM 2010 [ $1500]

• Qatar National Research Foundation. A Distributed Reconfigurable Active-Storage Platform for Data-Intensive Applications [$ 1,200,000 over 3 years], (with 4 other professors.) In collaboration with Qatar Texas A&M University.

• 2009-2010

• Intel Corporation. Design Methodologies of Power Aware Software and Hardware Architectures for Parallel Platforms [$ 1,050,000 over 3 years. Includes research and internship funding], [$350K for 1st year]. (PI and Director, with 5 other professors.)

• National Council for Scientific Research. Measuring Public Opinion using Datamining in English and Arabic [LL 16, 000,000 over 2 years]

• AUB University Research Board. Optimal WIMAX Radio and Core Network Planning using Lebanon as Case Study Circuits [$4,000]

• American University of Beirut Short Term faculty Development Grant. Presentation at the 6th International Wireless Communication and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC) 2010. [$ 2,700]

• 2008-2009 • AUB University Research Board. Multiscale Feature Detection Using Filter Banks [$ 6,100] • American University of Beirut Short Term faculty Development Grant. Presentation at the 21st AEC/APC

Conference Michigan-Ann Arbor. [$ 3,000]

GRADUATE STUDENT SUPERVISION • Postdoctoral Researchers:

1. Dr. Nadine Abbas. Pricing-Based Strategies for Traffic Splitting in HetNets. (co-supervision with other faculty). 2017 – present.

2. Dr. Sirine Taleb. An Optimization Approach to Designing Energy Efficient Buildings. (co-supervision with other faculty). 2017-present.

3. Dr. Manal Jalloul. Optimized scheduling for Machine Learning Tasks in the Cloud. 2017-2018. 4. Dr. Majeda Sharafeddine. Modular Design of Deep Learning Accelerators on FPGAs. 2016-2017.

• PhD Students: 1. Dr. Ramy Baly. Thesis: Semantic Models for Sentiment Analysis. Defended December 2016. Recipient

of top graduate honors with "The Abdul Hadi Debs Endowment Award for Academic Excellence.” Currently, postdoctoral researcher at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA-USA.

2. Dr. Nadine Abbas. Thesis: Energy Efficiency in Wireless Heterogeneous Environment. Defended May 2017. Currently, Post Doc Researcher and Lecturer at American University of Beirut and Lebanese American University. (co-supervision with Prof. Zaher Dawy)

3. Dr. Sirine Taleb. Thesis: Context Aware Sensing Strategies. Defended May 2017. 1st AUB student to complete PhD part of the accelerated graduate program. Currently, postdoctoral researcher at American University of Beirut. (co-supervision with Prof. Zaher Dawy)

4. Mr. Raghid Morcel. Thesis: FPGA-based Acceleration of Big Data Analytics (co-supervised with Prof. Haitham Akkary). (in progress, co-supervision with Prof. Haitham Akkary)

5. Mr. Gilbert Badaro. Thesis: Resources and Analytics for Opinion Mining. (in progress). 6. Ms. Reem Mahmood. Thesis directions: Optimal Personalized Models for Time Series Prediction. (in

progress) • MS Students:

1. Obeida El Jundi, Cognitive Models for Opinion Mining in Arabic (in progress) 2. Alaa Maarouf, Transfer Learning for Building Large Scale NLP Resources (in progress)

3. Raslan Kain, Optimal Sensing in IoT (in progress) 4. Dalia Jaber, Emotion Recognition in the Wild (in progress) 5. Nour Droubi, Scalable Acceleration of Convolutional Neural Networks (in progress) 6. Marc Djanji, Multi-task Learning Models for Time Series Regression (in progress) 7. Amir Hussein Nasser, Robust Models for Multi-task Time Series Predictions (in progress) 8. Wissam Antoun, Language Model for Arabic and Multi-task applications 9. Nataly Dallal, Lifelong learning Models 10. Rim Achour, Machine Learning Models for Hearing Aid (in progress) 11. Reem Mahmood, Multi-task Learning Models for Personalized Time Series Prediction (Dec 2017) 12. Chadi Trad, Emotion Recognition from Facial Expressions With Head Pose Variations (May 2015) 13. Yaman Sharaf Dabbagh, Distributed Application Architecture for on-board SSD Computing (Dec

2014) 14. Ramy Awwad, Machine Learning Methods for Arabic Text Mining (Mar 2014) 15. Noura Farra, Emotional Classification from Context (Sep 2013) 16. Ali Tarhini, Algorithm Design for Distributed Computing (Sep 2013) 17. Abdulrahman Kaitoua, Energy Efficient Distributed Computing with Hadoop and RASSD (Aug 2013) 18. Layale Constantine, Emotional Classification from Computer Activity (June 2013) 19. Roula Hobeika, Sentiment Mining Models, (Feb 2013) 20. Mehiar Dabbagh, Energy Aware Data Mining (Aug 2012) 21. Ramy Baly, Yield Prediction and Root Cause Analysis using Data Mining Techniques (June 2012) 22. Nadine Abbas, WiMAX Simulator and Energy Efficient Downlink Burst Construction (Feb 2011)

OTHER RESEARCH SUPERVISION • PhD Defense Committees for 7 PhD students: Raghid Morcel, Khalil Mershad, Walid Ghandour, Atlal El

Assad, Sutirtha Bhattacharya (UT Austin), Jinseok Choi (UT Austin).

• ME Defense Committees for 22 ME students: Mohammad Jomaa, Noor Abbani, Ralph Adaimy, Zakaria Mreish, Elie Daou, Gaby Elia, Fatima Hamdan, Shadi Shaheen, Zeina El Zein, Joan Farjo, Reem El Ballouli, Adel Ejjeh, Cynthia El Hayek, Ayman Zaatari, Taha Tobaili (LAU student), Ahmad El Bassiouni Masri, Zahraa Fawzi, Shadi Helwe, Shafiqul Islam, Mlk Kenaan, Student at Qatar University.

• Undergraduate Research Supervision (10): • Badr Eddine Itani, Sensing Samples for energy efficient IoT ML Applications, 2019 • Danny Abraham, Emotion Recognition Models, 2019 • Alaa Khaddaj, Domain Adaptation and Arabic NLP Models, 2018 and 2019 • Kareem Ayoub, Retrieval of Sentiment Relevant Arabic Documents, 2019 • Jad Abi Zaki, Retrieval of Sentiment Relevant Arabic Documents, 2018 • Ahmad Joudi, Deployability of End to End Sentiment Analysis System, 2018 • Ibrahim El Kawam, Mobile Implementation of Deep Convolutional Neural Network, 2017 • Jad Aboul Hosn, Comparative Analysis of Face Recognition Methods, 2016 • Zeina Sinno, Hierarchical Classification Techniques, 2013 • Mohammad Nour Eldine, Multithreading Techniques for Graphics Performance, 2010. • Fadel Adib, Design of Spyware-secure VANETs, 2010

• Undergraduate Final Year Capstone Project Supervision (3 students/group): • 2018-2019

o Arabic Open-domain Question Answering System - Team won Best Innovative Software Development Project

o Augmented Reality for Shipping and Logistics with Seamless Indoor/outdoor, vision recognition, and one to many destinations– Team nominated for Best Collaborative Software Project

o Next Generation PC • 2017-2018

o Intelligent framework for Smart Home Monitoring and Control o Augmented Reality for Shipping and Logistics – Team member winner of Best Software

Engineer • 2016-2017

o Drone Face Recognition with Acceleration on Cyclone V FPGA Platform. o Opinion Mining Models for Arabic Twitter . o Vehicle Pedestrian Detection with Acceleration on Arria-10 FPGA Platform. o Vision-based Fall Detection at Home with Acceleration on ZedBoard FPGA Platform.

• 2014-2015 o Personalized Arabic News Reader. o Accelerating Deep Learning Algorithms on a Hadoop Distributed Environment. Published.

• 2013-2014 o Mobile Application for Sentiment Mining in Arabic. Published. o Mobile Application for Context Aware Phone Management. Published.

• 2012-2013 o Mobile Stress Management Detection and Management. Finalist in ICAMES 2012 competition. o Mobile Emotion Recognition System. o Mobile Noise Detection and Classification.

• 2011-2012 o Isense: Intelligent Sensing System for Mobile Devices. o Whizsense: A Context-Aware Sensing Platform for Smart Personal Application with

Mylifeorganizer as a Case Study. o Energy-Aware Mobile Application for Heterogeneous 3G/Wi-Fi Networks. Best Presentation

Award at MSFEA Student Conference. • 2010-2011

o Mobile Text Recognizer and Arabic Translator. 1st Place Award in IEEE Communication Conference Lebanon.

o Person Identification in Video • 2009-2010

o Mobile Sensing System for Orthopedic Monitoring. Work Published. o Optimal LTE Deployment and Coexistence Scenarios With WIMAX – Case Study Lebanon$

• 2008-2009 o Optimal Wimax Deployment – Case Study Lebanon o Vehicle to Vehicle System with Modular Development Framework. Winner of Creative

Achievement Award.

COURSE TEACHING (since joining AUB- Feb 2008 – present)

• Newly Introduced Curriculum Programs at AUB:

• A new track in Artificial Intelligence for ECE students • A new minor in Artificial Intelligence for non-ECE students

• Newly Introduced Courses at AUB:

• EECE 693: A new syllabus course in Deep Learning which will be introduced in Spring 2019-2020. • EECE 490/690 (with another professor) course Introduction to Machine Learning (EECE490/690)

• EECE 633-1: Data Mining covering graduate introduction to data mining and machine learning techniques. • EECE 633-2: A new syllabus and content for the Data mining Course, which includes topics from advanced

data mining course. • EECE 639-1: Advanced Data Mining covering latest advances in data mining and machine learning. • EECE 639-2: A new syllabus and content for the Advanced Data mining course with focus on advanced

topics recently published • EECE 433-1: Database Systems covering DBMS and Database application concepts. • EECE 433-2: Revised syllabus and content for EECE 433 (Database course) covering: NoSQL databases

and Database Applications using Python. • EEC 433 Lab: Companion Lab to go along with EECE 433 Database Management Systems. • EECE 330 Lab: Companion Lab to go along with EECE 330 Data Structure. • EECE 798 Special Topics – Introduction to Natural Language Processing. • FEAA 200: Introduction to Engineering –Given to all new Engineering students from all disciplines.

• Additional Courses Taught at AUB:

• EECE 210 Electric Circuits. • EECE 230 Introduction to Programming. • EECE 231 Introduction to Programming Using C++ and MATLAB. • EECE 290 Analog Signal Processing. • EECE 330 Data Structures & Algorithms. • EECE 797 Graduate Seminars.

• Teaching Evaluations:

• Well regarded in the department, with a consistent instructor rating around 4.1. My undergraduate class sections are usually filled to capacity as soon as registration is open. For the graduate data mining courses, students often express their reaction as “love” it.

• Recipient of 2018 American University of Beirut Teaching Excellence Award.