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Research Interests
Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Information Extraction, Graphical Models, and Bayesian Networks
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Education
PhD: University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI
CLAIR Group, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department
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2007-Present |
MSc: Cairo University, Giza, Egypt
Computer Engineering Department
Preliminary Courses: Distinction, GPA 3.91/4.0
Thesis Title: A Probabilistic Framework for Learning Bayesian Networks Structures from Data |
2003-2007 |
BSc: Cairo University, Giza, Egypt
Computer Engineering Department, Distinction, GPA: 3.95/4.0
Graduation Project: A Vision system for Chess Playing Robots |
1998-2003 |
Honors and Awards
Offered Admission to Waterloo University Ph.D. program in ECE
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2007 |
Offered Admission to Purdue University Ph.D. program in ECE
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2007 |
Offered Admission to Carnegie Melon University M.Sc. program in Language Technologies
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2007 |
First position award in IEEE student paper contest, Egypt section
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2003 |
Honors Award, Cairo University
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2003 |
Scholarship for academic achievement, Cairo University
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1998-2003 |
Publications
Method and System for Access of Multilingual Textual Resources using Conceptual Representation Matching , US Patent Pending. Filed by IBM in 2007.
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System and Method of Geo-Based Prediction in Search Result Selection , US Patent Pending. Filed by Yahoo! in 2009.
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Ahmed Hassan, Rosie Jones, and Kristina Klinkner. 2010. . Proceedings of the 3rd ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM) 2010. To Appear.
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Ahmed Hassan, Rosie Jones, and Fernando Diaz. 2009. . Proceedings of the 17th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM GIS 2009). To Appear.
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Ahmed Hassan, Dragomir R. Radev, Junghoo Cho, Amruta Joshi. 2009. . The International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM 2009). To Appear.
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Saif Mohammad, Bonnie Dorr, Melissa Egan, Ahmed Hassan, Pradeep Muthukrishan, Vahed Qazvinian, Dragomir Radev, and David Zajic. 2009. . The North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics - Human Language Technologies (NAACL-HLT 2009).
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Ahmed Hassan, Rosie Jones, and Fernando Diaz. 2008. . ACM 17th Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2008), The 5th Workshop on Geographic Information Retrieval (GIR 2008).
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Ahmed Hassan, Anthony Fader, Michael Crespin, Kevin Quinn, Burt Monroe, Michael Colaresi and Dragomir Radev. 2008. . Proceedings of the 1 22nd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2008).
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Ahmed Hassan, Sara Noeman, and Hany Hassan. 2008. . Proceedings of the 2008 International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP). To Appear.
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Ahmed Hassan, Haytham Fahmy, and Hany Hassan. 2007. . Proceedings of the 2007 Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP), AMML Workshop.
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Amgad Madkour, Kareem Darwish, Hany Hassan, Ahmed Hassan, and Ossama Emam. 2006. . Proceedings of the 2007 Conference of the Association for the computational Linguistics (ACL), BioACL Workshop
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Hany Hassan, Ahmed Hassan, and Ossama Emam. 2006. . Proceedings of the 2006 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2006)
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Hany Hassan, Ahmed Hassan, and Sara Noeman. 2006. . Proceedings of the TexGraphs workshop, Human Language Technologies and North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (HLT-NAACL 2006)
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Ahmed Hassan, Ahmed Khairy, and Mohammed Elnagar. 2003. A Vision System for Chess Playing Robots. Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems
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Ahmed Hassan. . M.Sc. Thesis, Computer Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt. April 2007
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Work/Research Experience
Yahoo! Labs
Query Intent Team, Search Sciences
Research Intern
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Summer 2009 |
Yahoo! Research
Computational Advertising Group
Research Intern
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Summer 2008 |
IBM Cairo Technology Development Center
Human Language Technologies Group
Staff Research Engineer
Worked in several Information Extraction projects including supervised / semi-supervised relation and event extraction from unstructured text, relation extraction from biomedical data, semantic word clustering, named entity translation, extracting parallel documents from comparable corpora, spelling checking and correction, and others.We worked closely with the IKM group at the IBM Watson research center in several projects. Some of these projects participated in several NIST Automatic Content Extraction (ACE) evaluations.
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2003-2007 |
Cairo University
Computer Engineering Department
Teaching Assistant
Led discussion sessions and lab. experiments for Data Structures and Algorithms, Introduction to Logic Design, Programming Techniques, Design and Analysis of Algorithms, Operating Systems, Neural Networks, Programming Lab, and Operating Systems Lab. |
2003-2007 |
IBM Cairo Technology Development Center
Human Language Technologies Group
Research Trainee
Involved in a project concerned with building a multilingual parallel text collector from a comparable corpora.
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Summer 2002 |
Mentor Graphics
Custom Engineering Services (CES) Department
Trainee
Involved in a project concerned with changing the GUI of a hardware design and simulation tool from X windows to GTK.
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Summer 2002 |
IBM Cairo Technology Development Center
Electronic Media Department
Trainee
Involved in a project concerned with building an electronic media management system.
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Summer 2001 |
Cairo University
Computer Engineering Department
Summer Training Program
Trainee
| Summer 2000 |
Cairo University
Computer Engineering Department
Summer Training Program
Trainee
| Summer 1991 |
Standard Test Scores
General GRE CBT
800/800 Quantitative, 400/800 Verbal, 5.5/6 Analytical Writing
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Oct'06 |
TOEFL CBT
287/300: 28/30 Reading, 30/30 Listening,
28/30 Structure and Writing, 5/6 Writing
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Mar'06 |
Other Computer Skills
| Programming Languages |
- ANSI/Visual C/C++
- Perl
- Python
- Visual Basic
- Java
- Pascal
- ASP
- PHP
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| Others |
- Matlab
- Prolog
- Embedded C
- VHDL
- Lex-Yacc
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