Summary Statment ملخص مهني
Dr. Mamoun Abu Helou is Assistant Professor at Management Information System Department, at Al-Istiqlal University. He currently holds the position of Dean of Faculty of Information Technology , and he was the Vice President for Planning, Development and Quality at Al-Istiqlal University.
Abu Helou earned his PhD in Computer Science from University of Milan-Biccoca (2016). He has Master's Degree in Computing Systems Engineering from Politecnico di Milano, Italy 2008, and his Bachelor's Degree; in Computer Engineering from Al-Quds University.
Abu Helou research interests are in the area of semantic Web technologies with special attention to data linking and data quality. He also interested in Smart Grid Applications and Technologies. He is author of several papers including top-level journals and conferences such as JAIR, ICWE, NLDB, SEMANTiCS. He is also PC of several International conference including KEOD, ICIW, ISWC.
Abu Helou is a lecturer in Databases, Algorithm, Software Engineering. He involved in several EU funded projects with a focus on data oriented topics; Erasmus+: sGAT; FP7: SIERA, MOSIAC, COMSODE; and ERC : Search Computing.
Education التعليم
- Doctorate of Philosophy in Computer Science, Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca, Italy, 2016
- Master of Science in Computing Systems Engineering,Politecnico di Milano University, Milano, Italy. ,2008
- Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering, Al-Quds University, Jerusalem, Palestine. 2005
- Secondary School (Tawjihi) Certificate, Scientific Stream, 2005.
Employment History الخبرات العملية
Sept. 2021- to present
Dean, Faculty of Information Technology
Sept. 2019- to 2021
Vice President for Planning, Development and Quality
Sept. 2016- to present
Assistant Professor, Department of Management Information systems, Al-Istiqlal University
March-Aug 2016
ITC Consultant, Continuing Education and Community Service Center, Al-Quds Open University
Fall 2014
Lecturer, Department of Computer Science, Birzeit University, Palestine.
2012 - 2014
Academic Researcher, Birzeit University, Palestine.
2011-2012
Software Engineer
Bancor S.r.l. – via Luigi Vanvitelli 44, Milano
2009-2011
Research Assistant,Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione, Politecnico di Milano University, Italy.
2005-2006
Teacher Assistant, Computer Engineering Department, Al-Quds University. Palestine.
Teaching التدريس
- Data Management : Databases and MIS
- Software Engineering (Outline 2018/2019)
- Programming Languages : OOP, C/C++
- Semantic Web: Information Retrieval, Data Mining, Computational Linguistic and NLP
- Data Structure (Outline 2018/2019)
- Algorithm Design and Analysis (Outline 2018/2019)
- Web Application (Outline 2019/2020)
- Computer Skills (Outline 2018/2019)
- eGoverment (Bachelor and Master level)
Publications / Books المنشورات / مؤلفات
2022
Muhammad Ishaq, Adnan Abid, Muhammad Shoaib Farooq, Muhammad Faraz Manzoor, Uzma Farooq, Kamran Abid, Mamoun Abu Helou, Advances in database systems education: Methods, tools, curricula, and way forward. Educ Inf Technol (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10639-022-11293-0
M. S. Farooq, S. Riaz, M. A. Helou, F. S. Khan, A. Abid and A. Alvi, "Internet of Things in Greenhouse Agriculture: A Survey on Enabling Technologies, Applications, and Protocols," in IEEE Access, vol. 10, pp. 53374-53397, 2022, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2022.3166634 .
Khasawneh, Ahmad M., Mamoun A. Helou, Aanchal Khatri, Geetika Aggarwal, Omprakash Kaiwartya, Maryam Altalhi, Waheeb Abu-ulbeh, and Rabah AlShboul. 2022. "Service-Centric Heterogeneous Vehicular Network Modeling for Connected Traffic Environments" Sensors 22, no. 3: 1247. https://doi.org/10.3390/s22031247
2021
Eman-Yaser Daraghmi, Mamoun Abu Helou, Yousef-Awwad Daraghmi, "A Blockchain-Based Editorial Management System", Security and Communication Networks, vol. 2021, Article ID 9927640, 17 pages, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1155/2021/9927640
2020
Abu Helou, M., Evaluating the Impact of Semantic Gaps on Estimating the Similarity using Arabic Wordnet", Advances in Science, Technology and Engineering Systems Journal, vol. 5, no. 5, pp. 1315-1328 (2020). DOI: 10.25046/aj0505158
(Download: dataset, semantic Gaps List)2019
Abu Helou, M., Effects of Semantic Gaps on Arabic WordNet-Based Similarity Measures. The 3rd International Conference on Innovative Computing, IEEE, Lahore, Pakistan (Nov, 2019). https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8966672
2017
Abu Helou, M., Palmonari, M. Multi-user Feedback for Large-scale Cross-lingual Ontology Matching. The 9th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development KEOD, Madeira, Portugal (2017). https://www.scitepress.org/Papers/2017/65032/65032.pdf
2016
Abu Helou, M., Palmonari, M., and Jarrar, M. Effectiveness of automatic translations for cross-lingual ontology mapping. Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, Special Track on Cross-language Algorithms and Applications (2016). https://doi.org/10.1613/jair.4789
2015
Abu Helou, M., and Palmonari, M. Cross-lingual lexical matching with word translation
and local similarity optimization. In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Semantic Systems, SEMANTiCS 2015, Vienna, Austria (2015). https://doi.org/10.1145/2814864.2814888Abu Helou, M., Palmonari, M. (2015). Upper Bound for Cross-Lingual Concept Mapping with External Translation Resources. In: Biemann, C., Handschuh, S., Freitas, A., Meziane, F., Métais, E. (eds) Natural Language Processing and Information Systems. NLDB 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9103. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19581-0_41
2014
Abu Helou, M. Towards constructing linguistic ontologies: Mapping framework and preliminary experimental analysis. In Proceedings of the Second Doctoral Workshop in Artificial Intelligence (DWAI 2014) An official workshop of the 13th Symposium of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AI*IA 2014), Pisa, Italy. (2014).
Abu Helou, M., Palmonari, M., Jarrar, M., and Fellbaum, C. Towards building linguistic ontology via cross-language matching. In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Global WordNet , in Tartu (Estonia. (2014).
2013
Abu Helou, M., Jarrar, M., Palmonari, M., Salhi, A., Hicks, A., Bortoli, S., Roche, C., Fellbaum, C., Bouquet, P., and Yahya, A. Arabization and multilingual knowledge sharing. In SIERA Project 2.1 Deliverable (2013).
2012
Abid A., Tagliasacchi, M., and Abu Helou, M. Probabilistic Reporting for Top-K Queries. In Proc. of the 3rd Italian Information retrieval Workshop (IIR-2012), Bari, Italy (2012).
2011
Abu Helou, M., Ontology Based Segmentation of Geo-Referenced Queries, First International Workshop on Search, Exploration and Navigation of Web Data Sources. ICWE, Cyprus. (2011). Abu Helou, M., Segmentation of Geo-Referenced Queries.19th Italian Symposium on Advance Database Systems – SEBD, Maratea, Italy. (2011)
2010
Abu Helou, M. Abid, A. Semantic Measures Based on WordNet using Multiple Information Sources. 2nd Int. joint conference on Knowledge Discovery, knowledge Engineering, and Knowledge Management IC3K/KDIR 2010, Valencia.
Activities أنشطة
PC/Chairing
(KEOD 2017 ) The 9th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development
(7th GWC’14 Panel Discussion) Cross-language mapping semantics, at 7th Global Wordnet Conference. January 25, 2014.
(iArabic’ 2014) the 3nd Palestinian Symposium on Computational Linguistics and Arabic Content . Birzeit University, Palestine. April 12, 2014
(OnToContent 2013) the 9th International Workshop on Ontology Content
Part of the OnTheMove Conferences & Workshops. Graz, Austria Sep 2013
(iArabic’ 2013) the 2nd Palestinian Symposium on Computational Linguistics and Arabic Content . Birzeit University, Palestine. April 20, 2013Sub/reviewer
(KEOD 2017-2020 )
(ICIW 2017-2020)
(KEOD 2017 ) The 9th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development
(ICIW 2017) The 12th International Conference on Internet and Web Applications and Services
(KEOD 2016 ) The 8th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development
(ICIW 2016) The 11th International Conference on Internet and Web Applications and Services
(ISWC-PD 2015) The 14th International Semantic Web Conference.
(AIIA-DC 2014) The 13th Symposium of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence /Doctoral Consortium
(MTSR2014) The 8th Metadata and Semantics Research Conference.
(EKAW 2014) The 19th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management.
(SITIS 2013) The 10th International Conference on Signal Image Technology and Internet Based Systems.
(ISWC 2013) The 12th International Semantic Web Conference.
(WI 2013) The IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence.
(COLING 2013) The 24th International Conference on Computational Linguistics.Projects المشاريع
- sGAT (Erasmus+)
- PASS-DSS (PASS & MHE fund)
- EW-Shopp project
- COMSODE Project
- SIERA project (FP7)
Honors and Awards جوائز و مرتبة الشرف
- The Politecnico di Milano scholarship for MS.c degree.
- The Palestinian Ministry of Higher Education scholarship for BS.c Degree.
- Second place graduate, at Computer Engineering Dept. in BS.c degree.