Sami Abu Snaineh

Personal Info

Country of residence: Portugal

Gender: Male

Born in: 2026

Information

Education

Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science; University of Kentucky
Master of Science in Computer Science; Maharishi University of Management
Bachelor of Science in Computer Systems Engineering; PPU

Honors and Awards

Kentucky Graduate Scholarship (KGS), 2008-2013, University of Kentucky
Outstanding teaching award, 2012, University of Kentucky
Awarded membership of the Engineering Honor Society, 2012

Certificates

College Teaching and Learning certificate, 2012, University of Kentucky
Passport To Success (PTS) Trainer Certificate (Life Soft Skills), 2015

Industry Experience

Software R&D Consultant at American Psychological Association (APA)
05/11-7/14 Consultant Software Engineer at Lexmark International Inc./Aerotek
02/05-10//08 Consultant Software Engineer at IBM/CDI
09//04-02//05 Web Developer at Wells Fargo
Research
02/10-05/13 Center for Visualization and Virtual Environments (VIS), University of Kentucky

Teaching Experience

09/14-Present Assistant Professor at PPU
03/14-Present Online Instructor (part time) at MUM
01/09-05/12 Teaching Assistant at University of Kentucky

Graduate Level Courses

NoSQL
Ontology Engineering (Semantic Web)
Software Engineering
Web Engineering
Algorithms
Web Application Programming
Research Methods

Undergraduate Level Courses

Data Structure
Software Engineering
Computer Ethics

Publications

Sami Taha Abu Snaineh and Brent Seales, “Minimally invasive surgery skills assessment using multiple synchronized sensors,” in 2015 IEEE International Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology (ISSPIT) Abu Dhabi, UAE, Dec 2015, pp. 314–319.
Ju Shen, Jianjun Yang, Sami Taha-abusneineh, Bryson Payne, Markus Hitz, “Structure Preserving Large Imagery Reconstruction”, Journal of Cyber Security and Mobility, Vol. 3, 263–288, 2014
Sami Abu Snaineh and Brent W Seales, “Multiple Sensors System to Evaluate Minimally Invasive Surgery Trainees”, Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES), Sand Diego, USA 2012
Sami Abu snaineh and Brent W Seales, “EVALUATING MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY (MIS): ASSESSMENT METRICS”, Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES), Baltimore, USA 2013
Sami Abu snaineh and Brent W Seales, “MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY (MIS) ASSESSMENT DEVICE: VARIANCE ANALYSIS”, Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES), Baltimore, USA 2013
Sami Taha Abu Snaineh “The Effect of Problem Based Learning Method on the Cognitive Development of Computer Science Students”, Toward Creative Initiatives in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, CETL, PPU, Hebron, Palestine, 2014
Berat Kurar, Sami Abu Sneineh, Yaqoub Ashhab, “CRAN Package: Various Protein Descriptors for Machine Learning Algorithms” In The Comprehensive R Archive Network
Thesis: https://uknowledge.uky.edu/cs_etds/12/

Master Students

Berat Korrar, Protein Sequence Data: Laying the Mathematical Foundations to Derive Novel Descriptors
Yasmin Taamra, Automated Objective Assessment and Feedback for Minimally Invasive Surgery

Research Interest

Human Factors, Skills Assessment
Semantic Web, Ontology Engineering
Computer Science Pedagogy

Technical Skills

NoSQL: MarkLogic, XQuery, MongoDB, XML, JSON
Ontology/Semantic Web: Triples, RDF, TURTLE, SPARQL
Java: Java Applications, Eclipse, Eclipse Plug-ins, Socket Programming, Multi Threading, I/O Streams, JNI
Web Technologies: J2EE (JSP, Servlets), JavaScript , HTML, HTML 5.0, ASP, ADO, ASP.Net, VBScript, XML, Groovy, Grails
Web Servers: IIS, Tomcat
Programming Languages: Java, C++, C#,VB.Net, .Net, Embedded systems programming
XML Technologies: XML, DTD, XSL, XSLT, Schema, Parsing, Regular Expression
RDBMS: Oracle, SQL Server, MySql
IDE Tools: Eclipse, NetBeans, IntelliJ, Visual Studio, GGTS, oXygen
Software Engineering: Rational Rose, IBM Software Architect, RUP methodologies and UML, Visio, OOAD, Agile, Scrum, Web Engineering
OOAD: OOA, OOD, Design Patterns
Version Controls: CVS, SVN, GIT, MS Visual Source safe
Testing: JUnit, test case design

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