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Research Interests

Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Information Extraction, Graphical Models, and Bayesian Networks

Education

PhD: University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI
CLAIR Group, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department
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

First position award in IEEE student paper contest, Egypt section
2003
Honors Award, Cairo University
2003
Scholarship for academic achievement, Cairo University
1998-2003

Publications

Relevance Estimation using a Search Satisfaction Metric, US Patent Pending. Filed by Microsoft in 2011.
System and Method of Geo-Based Prediction in Search Result Selection , US Patent Pending. Filed by Yahoo! in 2009.
Method and System for Access of Multilingual Textual Resources using Conceptual Representation Matching , US Patent Pending. Filed by IBM in 2007.
Ahmed Hassan, Amjad Abu-Jbara, Rahul Jha, and Dragomir Radev. 2011. of Participant Attitude in Multi-Party Online Discussions . The 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2011). to Appear.
Ahmed Hassan, Vahed Qazvinian, and Dragomir Radev. 2010. What's with the Attitude? A study of Participant Attitude in Multi-Party Online Discussions . The 2010 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2010). To Appear..
Ahmed Hassan, and Dragomir Radev. 2010. Identifying Text Polarity Using Random Walks . The 48th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2010).
Ahmed Hassan, Rosie Jones, and Kristina Klinkner. 2010. Beyond DCG: User Behaviour as a Predictor of a Successful Search. Proceedings of the 3rd ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM) 2010.
Ahmed Hassan, Rosie Jones, and Fernando Diaz. 2009. A Case Study of Using Geographic Cues to Predict Query News Intent. Proceedings of the 17th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM GIS 2009). To Appear.
Ahmed Hassan, Dragomir R. Radev, Junghoo Cho, Amruta Joshi. 2009. Content Based Recommendation and Summarization in the Blogosphere. The International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM 2009). To Appear.
Saif Mohammad, Bonnie Dorr, Melissa Egan, Ahmed Hassan, Pradeep Muthukrishan, Vahed Qazvinian, Dragomir Radev, and David Zajic. 2009. Generating Surveys of Scientific Paradigms. The North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics - Human Language Technologies (NAACL-HLT 2009).
Ahmed Hassan, Rosie Jones, and Fernando Diaz. 2008. Geographic Features in Web Search Retrieval. ACM 17th Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2008), The 5th Workshop on Geographic Information Retrieval (GIR 2008).
Ahmed Hassan, Anthony Fader, Michael Crespin, Kevin Quinn, Burt Monroe, Michael Colaresi and Dragomir Radev. 2008. Tracking the Dynamic Evolution of Participants Salience in a Discussion. Proceedings of the 1 22nd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2008).
Ahmed Hassan, Sara Noeman, and Hany Hassan. 2008. Language Independent Text Correction using Finite State Automata. Proceedings of the 2008 International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP). To Appear.
Ahmed Hassan, Haytham Fahmy, and Hany Hassan. 2007. Improving Named Entity Translation by Exploiting Comparable and Parallel Corpora. Proceedings of the 2007 Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP), AMML Workshop.
Amgad Madkour, Kareem Darwish, Hany Hassan, Ahmed Hassan, and Ossama Emam. 2006. BIONOCULARS: Extracting Protein-Protein Interactions from Biomedical Text. Proceedings of the 2007 Conference of the Association for the computational Linguistics (ACL), BioACL Workshop
Hany Hassan, Ahmed Hassan, and Ossama Emam. 2006. Unsupervised Information Extraction Approach Using Graph Mutual Reinforcement. Proceedings of the 2006 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2006)
Hany Hassan, Ahmed Hassan, and Sara Noeman. 2006. A Graph Based Semi-Supervised Approach for Information Extraction. Proceedings of the TexGraphs workshop, Human Language Technologies and North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (HLT-NAACL 2006)
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
Ahmed Hassan. A Probabilistic Framework for Learning Bayesian Network Structures from Data. M.Sc. Thesis, Computer Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt. April 2007

Work/Research Experience

Microsoft Research
Internet Services Research Center
Research Intern

Summer 2010
Yahoo! Labs
Query Intent Team, Search Sciences
Research Intern

Summer 2009
Yahoo! Research
Computational Advertising Group
Research Intern

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.
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.
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.
Summer 2002
IBM Cairo Technology Development Center
Electronic Media Department
Trainee
Involved in a project concerned with building an electronic media management system.
Summer 2001
Cairo University
Computer Engineering Department
Summer Training Program
Trainee
Summer 2000
Cairo University
Computer Engineering Department
Summer Training Program
Trainee
Summer 1991

Selected Services

Program Committee Member:
ACL 2011, WWW 2011, EMNLP 2010, COLING 2010, ACL Demo Session 2010.
Reviewer:
SIGIR 2011, WWW 2009, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, IEEE Intelligent Systems.

Other Computer Skills

Programming Languages
  • ANSI/Visual C/C++
  • Perl
  • Python
  • Visual Basic
  • Java
  • Pascal
  • ASP
  • PHP
Others
  • Matlab
  • Prolog
  • Embedded C
  • VHDL
  • Lex-Yacc
   
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