EDUCATION

PhD .Computer Science.
2002-2006 New Mexico Tech. Socorro, NM
Dissertation: Improving Arabic Information Retrieval Using Local Variations in Modern Standard Arabic.

M.S .Computer Science.
1998-1999 New Mexico Tech. Socorro, NM
Course work:

• Includes Fuzzy system, Neural Networks, Advanced data communications, Advanced operating systems, Databases and information systems, Programming languages -SmallTalk, Ada, Lisp, Modula 2-

B.S. Computer Science -Ingenieur d'�tat en Informatique-.
1990-1995 University of Oran ES-Senia Oran, Algeria
Course work:

• Including Data communications, Operating system, Operational research, Data analysis, Computer algorithms.

EXPERIENCE
 

Senior System Analyst,
Jul. 2007- Present Research Administration NMSU Las Cruces, New Mexico

• Related skills: C,C++ , Perl, .NET, MS/MySQL, LDAP, ColdFusion.

Analyst III,
Feb. 2004- 2007 Physical Science Laboratory NMSU Las Cruces, New Mexico

• Related skills: C++, C, Java, .NET, Perl, Lex, Tcl/Tk.

Computer Specialist II,
Mar 2000-Feb 2004 Computing Research Laboratory NMSU Las Cruces, New Mexico

• Related skills: C++, C, Java, Perl, Lex, Tcl/Tk.

Research Assistant,
1998–1999 New Mexico Tech Socorro, New Mexico Master student of Computer Science at New Mexico Tech.

• Related skills: SQL, MS Access, VBA, Oracle DB, and Crystal reporter. IDEAS, Lawson.

Materials Administrator,
1996–1997 DEUTAG ENTP Drilling Company Hassi Messaoud, Algeria

• Drilling Supervisor assistant with the duties of supporting the drilling operation and managing the supplying of the materials with the subcontractors.
• Developed an MS Access application "Warehouse Manager" to automate the reporting process.

Computer Technician,
1996 Bechtel International Hassi Messaoud/R'Mel, Algeria

• Computer programmer and operator for the material tracking system for the GME, GR-2 pipeline projects using MS Access.

ACADEMIC PROJECTS

Ph.D Student 02-06.

• Building and assessing corpus
• Variants identification and recognition using Statistical Language Modeling.
• Improving Arabic Information Retrieval via morphology and query expansion using Latent Semantics.

MS Student 98-99.

• Developed a relational database in Sybase -Design, Implementation, Embedded C, Cursors, Triggers, etc.-
• Rewrote the Linux kernel to introduce new scheduling policies and loaded them as external modules.
• Implemented the concurrent threads under Linux/Alpha.
• Implemented system calls on Linux kernel and managed them from user mode.
• Developed and improved the Image Compression with Neural Nets using C.
• Developed a Fuzzy controller for motion of a robot in a dynamic environment. The implementation was on C++ using Qt lib, Cross platforms -Linux, Win95-.

BS Student 90-95

• Graduation Thesis titled "Optimization of the intermediate code using neural nets" implementing the algorithms of optimizing the intermediate code and replacing it with a  neural networks based program.
• Developed Back propagation simulator using C++.