CURRICULUM VITEA
SAMIR TARTIR
ADDRESS
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Department of Computer Science 415 Boyd GSRC Athens, GA 30602-7404 USA |
Email: samir.tartir@gmail.com URL: http://www.cs.uga.edu/~tartir Phone: (706) 461-3572 |
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January/2004 – May/2009 |
Ph.D. in Computer Science University of Georgia Athens, Georgia, USA Advisor: Dr. I. Budak Arpinar |
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September/1999 – August/2002 |
M.S. in Computer Science University of Jordan Amman, Jordan Thesis: "Data Migration from Relational Databases into Multidimensional Databases". Advisors: Dr. Riad Jabri and Dr. Munib Qutaishat |
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September/1994 – June/1998 |
B.Sc. in Computer Science University of Jordan Amman, Jordan |
WORKEXPERIENCE:
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August/2004 – May/2009 |
Research Assistant / Instructor LSDIS Lab, Computer Science Department, UGA – Athens, GA, USA Member of SEMDIS, an NSF-ITR funded project "Semantic Discovery: Discovering Complex Relationships in the Semantic Web". Research focus on defining and representing meaningful and interesting relationships (called: semantic associations) between entities in RDF graphs. It includes creation of algorithms for discovering informative paths, indexing and querying of complex semantic relationships, as well as ranking association results in terms of relevance to the context of the query. As a part of the SEMDIS project, I am working on the following: · Conducting research on the problem of interpreting natural language questions using ontologies and extracting their answers from web documents and local relational and semantic databases. · I designed the OntoQA framework that focuses on the analysis and summarization of ontologies to be able to understand their contents without the need to view complex RDF or OWL files. To date, our original OntoQA publication (published in November 2005) has been cited more than 22 times. The OntoQA framework was enhanced to include the capabilities to rank ontologies based on keywords and ontology features that the user specifies. · I have also designed the SemanticQA framework that utilizes ontological knowledge to answer user questions presented in natural English by extracting these answers from web documents and ranking them using different measures. · I have also taught the CSCI-1302: “Software Development” class that serves as an intensive introduction to the design and implementation of significant software projects, as well as an introduction to OOP, recursion, exceptions, searching, sorting, algorithm analysis and other in Java. |
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May/2006 – August/2006 |
Database Programmer Padgett Business Services, Athens, GA, USA Padgett Business Services is a leading provider of financial reporting and tax consulting services to small business owners throughout North America. In the 2007 issue of 'Top 100' in Accounting Today's annual ranking of tax and accounting firms, Padgett ranked 56th. As part of this summer internship, I worked with other team members on the implementation of unemployment and income tax applications for the different US states. Programming was done using the Sybase Application Server. |
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August/2005 – May/2006 |
Research Assistant Forestry Department, UGA – Athens, GA, USA Member of the Spatial Analysis Lab working on EDM (Entity Distribution Modeling) project, a NatureServe-funded project for modeling mechanisms that influence the spatial patterns of animal distribution on the landscape and how these models can be integrated into GIS-based tools to help manage ecosystems. My main tasks were in designing and building the different components in the system. Programming was made with VB.Net employing different components of the ArcGIS platform. |
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June/2004 – August/2004 |
Analyst / Database Developer SIMTIX - Amman, Jordan Mainly worked on the Aqar Holding Real Estate Sales web project. It is a 3-tier project that involved Java as a front-end and an Oracle database as a back-end. My main responsibility was providing the Java team with the database objects and procedures they required. |
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April/2003 – December/2003 |
Full-Time Instructor Philadelphia University - Amman, Jordan A private sector university with a number of students of about 7,000. I have taught courses in Advanced Database, Oracle, Visual Basic, and Management Support systems, with class size of an average of 25. |
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March/2003 – December/2003 |
Technical Team Leader Dar Al-Handasa Group - Amman, Jordan I lead a team of programmers build a new application for an English sister company of Dar. The application was a Visual Basic application in the front-end, with MS SQL Server in the backend. Before starting the development, the team needed to be trained on Visual Basic. |
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April/2000 – March/2003 |
Sr. Database Developer/Analyst Integrant Inc. - Amman, Jordan, San Diego, CA, USA An American company whose management and projects are based in San Diego, CA, and its development is conducted in Amman, Jordan. I have worked there as a senior database developer specializing in building forms and complex PL/SQL scripts. I was also the Oracle DBA for Integrant. I have conducted some analysis for some systems. I also have led some projects for Integrant. And, I spent six months in the American branch doing systems analysis and meeting with clients, mainly, a company called "NAGS" (National Auto Glass Specifications). |
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June/1998 – April/2000 |
Banking Applications Developer Computer & Communications Systems, CCS - Amman, Jordan http://www.icslondon.com/banks/intro.htm CCS is the Jordanian division of ICS-London, a British company that has several branches and departments, and has projects in several countries. Worked there as an Oracle banking applications developer, specializing in the Trade Finance System applications. |
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July/1999 – September/1999 |
Database Developer Al-Awa'el Computer Systems - Amman, Jordan I was helped the company employees in moving their development of several database application from Microsoft Access to Oracle. |
PUBLICATIONS:
· Samir Tartir, Bobby McKnight, and I. Budak Arpinar. SemanticQA: Exploiting Semantic Associations for Cross-Document Question Answering. 20th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA). Linz, Austria. 31 August - 4 September 2009 (submitted).
· Samir Tartir, Bobby McKnight, and I. Budak Arpinar. SemanticQA: Web-Based Ontology-Driven Question Answering. In the 24th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, Waikiki Beach, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, March 8-12, 2009.
· Samir Tartir, I. Budak Arpinar and Amit P. Sheth. Ontological Evaluation and Validation. In R. Poli (Editor): Theory and Applications of Ontology (TAO), volume II: Ontology: The Information-science Stance (forthcoming volume by Springer, 2008) (To appear)
· Samir Tartir and I. Budak Arpinar. Ontology Evaluation and Ranking using OntoQA. Proceedings of the First IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing, September 17-19, 2007, Irvine, California, USA
· Satya S. Sahoo, Christopher Thomas, Amit P. Sheth, William S. York, and Samir Tartir. Knowledge modeling and its applications in life sciences: A case study of GlycO and ProPreO. The 2006 World Wide Web Conference. May 22-26, 2006, Edinburgh, Scotland. (Acceptance rate: 11%)
· Samir Tartir and Ayman Issa. SQLFlow: PL/SQL Multi-Diagrammatic Source Code Visualization. International Arab Conference on Information Technology ACIT'2005. Al-Isra Private University, Jordan. December 6-8, 2005.
· Samir Tartir, I. Budak Arpinar, Michael Moore, Amit P. Sheth, Boanerges Aleman-Meza. OntoQA: Metric-Based Ontology Quality Analysis. IEEE ICDM 2005 Workshop on Knowledge Acquisition from Distributed, Autonomous, Semantically Heterogeneous Data and Knowledge Sources. Houston, Texas, November 27, 2005
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
I have taught several classes during my teaching experience at Philadelphia University including the following classes:
· Advanced Database
· Oracle
· Visual Basic
· Management Support systems
· Introduction to Computer Science
I have also taught the following class at The University of Georgia:
· CSCI-1302: “Software Development”
In addition I have been the teaching assistant in classes at The University of Georgia:
· CSCI-1703: “Systems Programming”
· CSCI-6150: “Numerical Simulations in Science and Engineering”
Finally, I have served as and as a guest lecturer in several lectures at The University of Georgia including:
· Special Topics in Computer Science
· Enterprise Information Systems
· Databases
MENTORING EXPERIENCE
I also participate actively in the advising and day-to-day activities of the following Master's degree students (Advisor: Dr. Arpinar):
· Bobby McKnight
· Bijaya Rath
PRESENTATIONS IN CONFERENCES
I have presented my work in the following meetings:
SIGNIFICANT ASSISTANCE IN PROPOSAL WRITING (with intellectual contributions)
- “Ontology-Driven Natural Language Search for Web Documents”. P.I . I. Budak Arpinar. Source Microsoft’s “Beyond Search - Semantic Computing and Internet Economics (Track 1: Semantic Computing)”. Not Funded.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:
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- Journal of Data & Knowledge Engineering 2005, Intelligent Agent Technology 2005, Indian International Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2005, International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences 2005 and 2006, Web Information Systems 2006, International Conference on Data Engineering 2006, IEEE Internet Computing 2007, Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2007
Other Activities
- Student member of the ACM.
- Member of the ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing.
- Student member of the IEEE Computer Society.
PROGRAMMING AND TECHNOLOGY SKILLS
Languages: VB 6.0, VB.NET, Java, C/C++, PROLOG, CoBOL,
Web technologies: XML, XSLT, Servlets, JSP
Databases: Oracle, MS SQL Server, SYBASE, MS Access, PL/SQL, MySQL, ERWIN
Semantic Web: RDF/S, OWL
GIS: ARCGIS
REFERENCES
- Available upon request