Resume

Mahdi Washha
Curriculum Vitae
Education
2013–now Masters of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, The University of Sapienza di
Roma, Rome, GPA – 28.65 out of 30 .
2007–2012 Bachelor of Computer Systems Engineering, The University of Birzeit, Palestine,
GPA – 90% with High Distinction.
Master Thesis
Title
Supervisor
Contact
Research Lab
Query Difficulty Prediction in Information Retrieval Systems
Professor Josiane Mothe
josiane.mothe@irit.fr
Institut de Recherche en Informatique (IRIT) de Toulouse
Description This thesis studies the possibility of having hand designed features and deep features
to be used in predicting the difficulty of the user query with respect to a particular
measurement (e.g Average Precision) and then find out the most suited information
retrieval configuration that can response perfectly to the query based on its difficulty.
Bachelor Thesis
Title Identifying Spam E-mail based on Statistical Header Features and Sender Behavior
Supervisor Professor Azziz Qaroush
Contact aqaroush@birzeit.edu
Description This thesis aims at finding new hand designed features extracted from the email
header session to classify the new coming emails as Spam or Ham. The classification
spam model was built using machine learning algorithms such as Support Vector
Machine and Random Forest where the obtained accuracy was more than 99% with
very low false positive rate. Beside the proposed new features, we investigated
a new feature associated with the sender of email termed as Trust feature. This
important feature traces the behaviour of email sender maintained on the server
side since such feature has been inspired by the hypothesise which states that the
sender whose emails are classified as spam, the probability of being spam for the
coming spam is very high as well as for the ham emails.
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Experience
Educational
2012–2013 Teaching Assistant, Computer Systems Engineering Department, Birzeit
University.
The main activities and responsibilities fall in the area of developing new experiments from
scratch for labs (i.e Real Time Systems, Micro-controller labs) to be carried out then by
students in their lab time, and supervising on the graduation projects of the department
students.
Development
20011–2012 Software Developer, EXALT Technologies Company.
This year of working was dedicated in developing .NET software’s for HP Indigo company.
Publications
2015 Mahdi Washha, Josiane Mothe. "Predicting the Best System Parameter Configuration", submitted to SIGIR’15 conference (Under Review)
2015 Khader Mohammad , Mahdi Washha. "Low Power Content Addressable Memory
(CAM) Array for Mobile Devices", submitted to IEEE Journal on Emerging and
Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems (Under Review).
2014 Aziz Qaroush, Mahdi Washaha, Ismail M. Khater: Efficient spam filtering based on
informative features extracted from the header fields and the URLs in the message.
Comput. Syst. Sci. Eng. 29(1).
2012 Aziz Qaroush, Ismail M. Khater, Mahdi Washaha. "Identifying spam e-mail basedon statistical header features and sender behavior", In Proceedings of the CUBE
International Information Technology Conference (CUBE ’12). ACM, New York,
NY, USA, 771-778.
Covered Courses
Master Level Robotics, Artificial Neural Networks, Micro-controller Systems, Advanced Artificial
Intelligence, Computer Graphics, Network Infrastructures, Machine Learning, Vision
and Perception, Mobile Robotics, Advanced Robotics, Automated Reasoning, Visual
Learning, and Robot Programming.
Bachelor Artificial Intelligence, Computer Networks, Digital Image Processing, Database
Level Design, Digital Systems Design, Real Time Systems, Software Engineering, Programming Language (C and Java), Numerical Methods, Digital Signal Processing,
Signals and Systems, Circuits Design, Computer Architecture and Organization,
Compiler.
Achieved Projects
2014 Neural Network Course Project: Online Nonlinear System Identification using
Different Architectures of Cooperative Learning Machines. (Implemented on Matlab)
2014 Vision Course Project: Dense Metric Reconstruction for Fontana Object. (Implemented on Matlab)
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2014 Medical Robotics Course Project: Aorta Segmentation using Kass Algorithm. (Implemented on Matlab)
2014 Machine Learning Course Project: Web-spam Classification Based on Web of Trust
Features. (Implemented on Java and VB.net)
2014 Autonomous Mobile Robotics Course Project: Path Planning among Movable
Obstacles using a probabilistic complete approach. (Implemented on Matlab)
2014 Visual Learning Course Project: On Feature On feature combination for multiclass
object classification . (Implemented on Octave)
2014 Advanced Robotics Course Project: Identification of KUKA LWR IV Dynamic
Parameters. (Implemented on Matlab)
2014 Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM): Multi 3D Points Alignment(Implemented using Matlab).
2014 Robot Programming: Eight homework in various topics (Robot Operating System
(ROS), Robot Navigation and Localization, Planning, Robot and Human User
Interaction, Robot Vision).
2013 Supervised Graduation Project: Arabic Noun Key-Phrases Extraction System based
on Nominal Sentence Structure.
Technical skills and competence
Programming Java (Very Good), C (Very Good), C#.Net (Good), VB.Net (Very Good) , ASP.NET
Languages (Good), SQL (Very Good), Linux Scripting (Very Good), Matlab (Very Good)
Mobile Android Applications (Very Good).
Development
Micro- PIC micro-controller (Very Good), and Arduino (Very Good) .
controllers
Communication Skills
2012 Oral Presentation at the CUBE International Information Technology Conference
(CUBE ’12)
Languages
Arabic Mothertongue
English Upper-Intermediate
Conversationally and writing fluent
Research Area
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Visual Learning and Applied Machine Learning Algorithms
Query Difficulty Predication in Information Retrieval Systems.
Solving Optimization Problems in the Artificial Intelligence Field.
Email and Web Spam Filtering.
Knowledge Extraction and Mining Social Networks.
Arabic Optical Character Recognition Systems.
47 rue Pierre de Ronsard – Toulouse, France
H +33753371567 • B mahdi.washaha@gmail.com
Í http://mahdiwashha.me/