Mohammad Ali H. Eljinini, Ph.D.

( ajinini at gmail dot com )

Amman - Jordan

PERSONAL DETAILS

Date of Birth: 19 January 1961

Place of Birth: Amman, Jordan

Nationality: Jordanian

Marital Status: Married (w/4 children)

EDUCATION:

11/01-01/07 Ph.D. in Health Informatics

City University, London, UK.

"Towards the Semantic Web: The Automation of Knowledge Acquisition from the Medical Web"

01/91-08/92 M.S. in Computer Science. GPA: 3.6

Jackson State University, Jackson, MS.

"Windows Programming Tutorial using Turbo C++ for Windows"

09/88-12/90 B.S. in Computer Science. GPA: 3.1, Major: 3.3

Jackson State University, Jackson, MS.

Programmed in C, PASCAL, FORTRAN, and dBase.

Systems used: DOS, WINDOWS, VAX, and UNIX.

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

E-Health, E-Learning, Ontologies and Knowledge Management, Information Extraction, Web/Text/Data Mining, Web Technologies and the Semantic Web.

PUBLICATIONS:

Eljinini MA, Hadi WM, Mohammad AH, Ghatasheh MS. 2010. “Performance of NB and SVM Classifiers in Arabic Text Data”, in: Proceedings of the International Business Information Management Conference (14^th IBIMA), June 23, 2010, Istanbul, Turkey. ISBN: 978-0-9821489-3-8.

Eljinini MA, 2010. “The Role of Ontology in the Process of Extracting Information from Online Resources”, in: Proceedings of the 2010’ Joint Scientific Symposium of Faculty of Science and Information Technology and Baghdad Economic University college, May 9, 2010, Isra University, Amman-Jordan.

Eljinini MA, Sarhan NA, Carson ER, 2010. “Ontological Approach for Extracting and Structuring Information on the Web”, in the International Journal of ACM Jordan, Vol. 1, No. 1, March 2010, ISSN: 2078-7952, 28-40.

"Mohammad Ali" H. Eljinini, Nazar A.S. Sarhan, Ewart R. Carson, 2010. “Ontological Approach for Extracting and Structuring Information on the Web”, in the International Journal of ACM Jordan, Vol. 1, No. 1, March 2010, ISSN: 2078-7952, 28-40.

Robert H. Henderson, Zheng Li, Mai M. Abd El Aziz, Donna S. Mackay, Mohammad A. Eljinini, Marwan Zeidan, Anthony T. Moore, Shomi S. Bhattacharya, Andrew R. Webster, 2010. “Biallelic mutation of Protocadherin-21 (PCDH21) causes retinal degeneration in humans”, in: Molecular Vision 2010; 16:46-52.

Thabtah F, Eljinini MA, Zamzeer M, Hadi W, 2008. "Naïve Bayesian based on Chi Square to Categorize Arabic Data", in: Communications of the IBIMA, Vol. 10, 2009, ISSN: 1943-7765.

Eljinini MA, Sarhan NA, 2007. “An Ontology for extracting information from the World Wide Web”, in: Proceedings of the Second Scientific Conference, (Administrative and Strategic Thinking in changing world), Faculty of Administrative & Financial Sciences, AL-Isra Private University, Amman-Jordan.

Eljinini MA, Sarhan NA, Carson ER, 2006. “Towards the semantic web: extracting common concepts from chronic disease - related websites”, in: Proceedings of the International Medical Informatics and Biomedical Engineering Conf. (IMIBE'06), Amman-Jordan, 118-123.

Eljinini MA, Carson ER, Sarhan NA, 2003. “Internet technologies for healthcare and patient management: opportunities and issues”, in: Proceedings of the 5^th Jordanian International Electrical & Electronic Engineering Conf. (JIEEEC 2003), Amman- Jordan, 61-65.

EXPERIENCE:

09/2007-NOW Head of Computer Science Department

Alisra Private University, Amman-Jordan. Telephone: 962 6 4711710

Duties: To insure that students are getting high quality education by providing them with:

- Theoretical and practical knowledge to meet local and regional industry needs,

- Basic knowledge to continue scientific research and post-graduate studies

- Basic skills to communicate with others individually or as team members with good ethics and strong commitment.

This is done by monitoring the following aspects:

- Curriculum design, content, and organization

- Teaching, learning, and assessment

- Students progression and achievements

- Students support and guidance

- Learning resources

02/2007-NOW Assistant Professor

Alisra Private University, Amman-Jordan. Telephone: 962 6 4711710

Duties: Teaching Data Structures and Object Oriented Paradigms, The implementation in both courses is done in Java.

06/1996-02/2007 Lecturer of Computer Science

Alisra Private University, Amman-Jordan. Telephone: 962 6 4711710

Duties: Have taught the following Computer Courses: Introduction to Computer Science, Computer Skills (1), Computer Skills (2), Introduction to the Internet, Software Lab I &II, Programming Languages, PASCAL Programming Language, Data Structures and Algorithms (1), Data Structures and Algorithms (2), C Programming Language, Object Oriented Programming / C++, Object Oriented Programming / Java, Object Oriented Paradigms, Web Programming, Special Topics in Computer Science (Data Mining), Systems Analysis, Computer Graphics, Networks Programming (in java), and Graduation Project.

An active member of several academic committees in the faculty of Science and IT and the department of Computer Science, like:

- Chairman of the Library Committee (2000 - Now)

- Chairman of the Scientific Day Organizing Committee (2004-2005)

- Member of the Quality Assurance committee (2002-2005)

Also, planned and organized the Annual Programming Contests ,which takes place during the University Open Day, every year since 1998 until now.

06/1995-05/1996 Systems Manager/Programmer

UNITEL Corporation; 3895 Metro Drive, Jackson, MS 39219. (601) 948-2800

Duties: Design and Setup a Wide Area Network (WAN), Using NOVELL Netware, to Connect the Corporate Systems and Networks of all three Branches to a central Server. Upgraded the company's Software and Hardware. Provided user training and support. Setup and Fine Tuned the Company's Paging Systems from Glenayre.

12/1993-05/1995 Network Administrator

Phoenix Communications Inc., A Sub-division of UNITEL Corporation;

953 Bailey Avenue, Jackson, MS 39203. (601) 353-5622.

Duties: Installed, Setup, and fine tuned a Local Area Network for PC's, using Lantastic from ARTISOFT. Installed and setup applications software, for the company's daily operations, on the Network. Designed and implemented a payroll system with a time clock, and a Pager Repair Tracking System, using Clipper 5.2. Also, Programmed BRAVO Digital Display Pagers, from Motorola.

01/1994-05/1995 Instructor of Computer Science

Tougaloo College; Tougaloo, MS 39174. (601) 977-7777.

Duties: teaching Computer Courses: CSC-107 (Computer Literacy), CSC-321 (Assembly Language), CSC-201 (COBOL), as an Adjunct Faculty.

06/1990-09/1991 Computer Technician/Programmer

Jackson State University; Chemistry Department; 1400 Lynch St., Jackson, MS 39209. (601) 986-2121.

Duties: Developed and maintained Hardware and software at several research Labs in the Chemistry Department. Provided Computer Training for the Graduate Students.

The following is a summary for some of the work I did:

- Immigrated FORTRAN Programs (used for Chemistry Researches) from the VAX Mainframe to PC's. Did some modifications and development in the Process, such as rewriting Plotting routines to work on the TRS-80 and HP-7475A Graphics Plotters.

- Installed and setup variety of software (mostly for communications) for use in the Research Labs.

- Installed, setup, and diagnosed Hardware, such as internal Modems, Diskette Drives, Hard Drives, Laser and Dot-Matrix Printers, and Memory Chips.

- Designed and Implemented a User Interface, Menu Driven system in PASCAL for a DNMR (Dynamic Nuclear Magnetic Resonance) line shape computer program, a program for interactive analysis of exchange broadened NMR spectra, written in FORTRAN.

- Provided training and support for the graduate students.

- Used Lotus 123, WordPerfect, and Harvard Graphics to produce presentations and publications done by the research team.

- Assembled a Complete system with a 486DX2 / 66 MHz, a SCSI 1.2 GB Hard Drive, an Ethernet card, a SCSI CD-ROM Drive, a Sound Card with voice command Interface, a Flat Bed Scanner, an Internal 14,400 Modem/Fax with Voice recognition used as an electronic mail box.

- Transferred raw data from PC's to a Silicon Graphics Workstation through the Internet, and implemented procedures to transform the raw data into pictures of Molecular Structures plotted for researches.

09/1992-01/1993 Analyst/Programmer

American Abrasive supply Co.;5395 Methodist Farm Rd., Jackson, MS 39213. (601) 982-0028.

Duties: Designed and Implemented a database application to handle Invoices, Purchase orders, and Inventory. Provided user training.

HONORS:

Dean's List 1988.

CUM LAUDE 1990.

MBRS GRANT 1990 - 1993

Distinguished Teacher Award 2000 - 2001

MEMBERSHIPS:

ACM Association for Computing Machinery

IEE Institution of Engineering and Technology

Jordan Computer Society