| Name |
Akrem El-Ghazal |
| School | School of Applied Computer Science & Information Technology
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| Program | - Bachelor of Computer Science (Honours)
- Software Engineering Technology
- Mobile Solutions Development
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| Academic and professional designations | - PhD in Pattern Analysis & Machine Intelligence (Excellent AGPA), University of Waterloo
- MS in Digital Image Processing/Computer Vision (with Honors: 3.89/4), University of Benghazi
- Bachelor of Science (BSc) (with Honours), University of Benghazi
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| Title | Professor |
| Courses taught | - CSCN72040 - Software Design Techniques
- PROG1350 - Software Engineering Fundamentals
- PROG3230 - Mobile Application Development II
- PROG71020 - Object Oriented Programming
- PROG8225 - Mobile Solutions Capstone Project
- PROG8470 - Mobile Application Development - iOS
- SENG2020 - Software Quality
- SENG71000 - Systems Analysis and Design
- CSCN71000 - Software Engineering Fundamentals
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| Areas of expertise & interest | - Machine Learning
- Big Data Engineering
- Software Engineering
- Mobile Application Development
- Team and Project Management
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| Industry Experience, Professional Currency Activities | - 10+ years of hands-on industrial software experience (Big Data, Machine Learning and Mobile Development)
- Strong leadership skills through managing several innovative projects
- Proven success record in developing innovative solutions and transferring concepts into practical solutions
- Hold several issued and pending patents/publications
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| Major research projects, scholarly activities, and/or publications | Samples of my patents, book chapters and journal publications:
Patents: - El-Ghazal, Akrem, et al. "Opportunistic calibration of a smartphone orientation in a vehicle." U.S. Patent No. 10,876,859.
- El-Ghazal, Akrem, et al. "Context-based mobility analysis and recognition." U.S. Patent No. 10,349,355
Book chapters: - A. El-Ghazal, O. Basir and S. Belkasim, "Shape-Based Image Retrieval using Pair-wise Candidate Co-ranking", Image Analysis and Recognition, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 650-661, 2007
Journal publications:
- A. El-Ghazal, O.Basir and S. Belkasim, "Invariant Curvature-based Fourier Shape Descriptors" Journal of Visual Comm. and Image Representation, Vol. 23, Issue-4, pp. 622-633, 2012
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| Additional information | Akrem enjoys finding and creating practical solutions to solve challenging problems that require the use of advanced software engineering, machine learning, and pattern recognition. Throughout his career, he has a proven success record in developing innovative solutions and transferring concepts into practical solutions. During his 10+ years of industrial experience in Software Engineering, Big Data Engineering, Machine Learning, Mobile Development domains, and working at several software tech companies, he built several new products and improved existing ones.
What Akrem enjoys most is utilizing his industrial experience to teach software courses and pass on his industrial knowledge to his students. |
