Curriculum Vitae

Assistant Professor in Computer Information Systems (Business Informatics), Department of Computer Information Systems, Gordon Ford College of Business, Werstern Kenutcky University (starting date: July 2013). In addition, I am an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Engineering and Computer Science (CECS) at University of Louisville. Weekends, I work on my research in the Knowledge Discovery and Webmining Lab at University of Louisville. [Author of HyperManyMedia Platform]

Latest News!

• Research and Teaching Interest in 2013-2014: Web Mining, Information Retrieval, Clustering, and Business Informatics (Business Intelligence & Predictive Analytics)
  
• Nominated as a speaker for the NSF-sponsored Cyberlearning Research Summit in Washington, D.C. January 18, 2012 [] page 34.
• Presented at LearnLab’s Pittsburgh Science of Learning Center, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, August 4-5, 2012. [ ]
• Advised WKU Graduate Research at Columbus State University, GA: " Transformative Technology Intervention," Oct 25, 2012.

Teaching 2010-2013!

• Spring 2013 : Introducation to Programming (CS245) at the Computer Science Department, WKU.
  

  F2F-Bi-term-section-1: Programming with Perl

  F2F-Bi-term-section-2: Programming with Ruby

• Spring 2011, 2012, 2013: Technology Support Admin (Designing Search Engines—CIT496) at the Computer Information Systems Department, WKU.
• Fall 2010, 2011, 2012: Knowledge Management (Data/Web Mining)—CIT486 at the Computer Information Systems Department, WKU.

Journal publications:

• 37- Leyla Zhuhadar, Rong Yang , Miltiadis D., Lytras, The Impact of Social Multimedia Systems on Cyberlearners, Special Issue in Computer-Human Interaction, Computers in Human Behavior Journal (Elsevier), 2012. Impact Factor 2.5
• 36- Leyla Zhuhadar, Olfa Nasraoui, Robert Wyatt, Rong Yang, Visual Knowledge Representation of Conceptual Semantic Networks, Social Network Analysis and Mining Journal (Springer), 2011. []
• 35- Leyla Zhuhadar, Olfa Nasraoui, A Hybrid Recommender System Guided by Semantic User Profiles for Search in the E-learning Domain, JETWI Special issue on Personalization, Reputation and Recommender systems, Journal of Emerging Technologies in Web Intelligence (JETWI), 2010. []
• 34- Leyla Zhuhadar, Olfa Nasraoui, Robert Wyatt, Metadata as Seeds for Building an Ontology Driven Information Retrieval System, International Journal of Hybrid Intelligent Systems (IOS Press), 2009. (available)

Book chapter publications:

• 33- Rong Yang, Leyla Zhuhadar, Olfa Nasraoui, "Structural Decompositions of Complex Networks", Computational Social Networks: Tools, Perspectives and Applications (Springer: Volume 1), 2012. (available)
  
• 32- Leyla Zhuhadar, Olfa Nasraoui, Robert Wyatt, "Knowledge Mining for Adaptive Multimedia Web-based Educational Platform”, Book: Technology Enhanced Learning: Best Practices, Idea Group, Editros: Miltiadis D. Lytras (The American College of Greece, Greece), Dragan Gasevic (Athabasca University, Canada), Patricia Ordóñez de Pablos (Universidad de Oviedo, Spain) and Weihong Huang (Kingston University, UK), 2008.
  
  

Peer Reviewed Conference Publications:

• 31- Leyla Zhuhadar, Rong Yang, "Toward the Design of a Recommender System: Visual Clustering and Detecting Community Structure in a Web Usage Network", The 2012 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conferences on Web Intelligence, Macau, China, 4-7 December, 2012.
• 30- IV12- the 16th International Conference on Information Visualisation: "Hybrid Appearance Based Disease Recognition of Human Brains", LIRMM CNRS University, Montpellier II, Montpellier, France, 10-13 July 2012. []
• 29- Leyla Zhuhadar, Rong Yang , Cyberlearners and Learning Resources, the Second International Conference on Learning Analytics and Knowledge (ACM): LAK12, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 29 April – 2 May, 2012.
• 28- "Appearance Based Disease Recognition of Human Brains", BIOINFORMATICS (BIOSTEC): The International Conference on Bioinformatics Models, Methods and Algorithms, Vilamoura, Algarve, Portugal, 1-4 February, 2012.
• 27- Rong Yang , Leyla Zhuhadar, Olfa Nasraoui, "Bow-tie decomposition in directed graphs", Information Fusion (FUSION), 2011 Proceedings of the 14th International Conference , Chicago, IL, 5-8 July 2011. []
• 26- Rong Yang , Leyla Zhuhadar, Extensions Of Closeness Centrality, 49th Annual ACM Southeast Conference, Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, GA, March 24-26, 2011.
• 25- Leyla Zhuhadar, Olfa Nasraoui, Robert Wyatt, Semantically Enriched Recommender Engine: A Novel Collaborative Filtering Approach Using "user-to-user fast XOR bit operation", IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC-10), Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA - September 22-24, 2010. [Best Paper Award][]
• 24- Leyla Zhuhadar, Olfa Nasraoui, "Personalized Search Based on a User-centered Recommender Engine", 2010 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conferences on Web Intelligence, Toronto, Canada, August 31-Sep 3. []
• 23- Leyla Zhuhadar, Sebastian Ryszard Kruk, "Intelligent Social Semantic Collaborative Filtering Tools in an E-learning Contexts", ICAI'10 - The 2010 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, 2010. []
• 22- Leyla Zhuhadar, Olfa Nasraoui, "Performance and Scalability Testing Methodology for Search Engine", IKE'10 - The 2010 International Conference on Information and Knowledge Engineering, Las Vegas, Nevada,USA, 2010.
• 21- Leyla Zhuhadar, Olfa Nasraoui, "Evaluating Usability and Precision of Visual Search", Spring Simulation (2010 SpringSim10), ACM/SIGSIM, April 11 - 15, 2010, Florida, Orlando, FL, USA.
• 20- Leyla Zhuhadar, Olfa Nasraoui, "Evaluating a Cross-Language Semantically Enriched Search Engine", 7th International Conference on Information Technology : New Generations (ITNG 2010), April 12-14, 2010, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. []
• 19- Leyla Zhuhadar, Olfa Nasraoui, "Augmented Ontology-based Information Retrieval System with External Open Source Resources", 7th International Conference on Information Technology : New Generations (ITNG 2010), April 12-14, 2010, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
• 18- Olfa Nasraoui, Leyla Zhuhadar, "Improving Recall and Precision of a Personalized Semantic Search Engine for E-learning",The Fourth IEEE International Conference on Digital Society (ICDS 2010, February 10-16, 2010 - St. Maarten, Netherlands Antilles.
• 17- Leyla Zhuhadar, Olfa Nasraoui, et al, "Multi-language Ontology-Based Search Engine", The Third IEEE International Third International Conference on Advances in Computer-Human Interactions (ACHI 2010), February 10-16, 2010 - St. Maarten, Netherlands Antilles. [ ]
• 16- Leyla Zhuhadar, Olfa Nasraoui, Robert Wyatt, "Automated Discovery, Categorization and Retrieval of Personalized Semantically Enriched E-learning Resources ", The Third IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC-09), Berkeley, CA, USA - September 14-16, 2009. [BibTex] []
• 15- Leyla Zhuhadar, Olfa Nasraoui, Robert Wyatt, "Multi-model Ontology-based Hybrid Recommender System in E-learning Domain", The 2009 IEEE /WIC/ACM International Conferences on Web Intelligence (WI'09), 15 – 18 September 2009 Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca, Milano, Italy. [BibTex] []
• 14- Leyla Zhuhadar, Olfa Nasraoui, Robert Wyatt, "Multi-model Ontology-based Hybrid Recommender System in E-learning Domain", The 2009 IEEE /WIC/ACM International Conferences on Web Intelligence (WI'09)",15 – 18 September 2009 Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca, Milano, Italy. [BibTex] []
• 13- Leyla Zhuhadar, Olfa Nasraoui, Robert Wyatt, "Model Driven Architecture: How to re-model an E-learning Web-based System to be ready for the Semantic Web?", AIED 2009 (IOS Press): The International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education, SWEL'09: Ontologies and Social Semantic Web for Intelligent Educational Systems, UK, 2009. [ BibTex ] []
• 12- Leyla Zhuhadar, "Cluster to User Profile Ontology Mapping", S3T 2009: International Conference on SOFTWARE, SERVICES & SEMANTIC TECHNOLOGIES, October 28-29, 2009, Sofia, Bulgaria. [ Recipient of S3T 2009 travel awards ]
• 11- Leyla Zhuhadar, Olfa Nasraoui, Robert Wyatt, "Visual Ontology-based Information Retrieval System", IV 2009 : The 13th IEEE International Conference on Information Visualisation: OSINT-WM - Open Source Intelligence and Web Mining, Pompeu Fabra University (UPF), Barcelona, Spain, 2009. [ BibTex ]
• 10- Leyla Zhuhadar, Olfa Nasraoui, Robert Wyatt, "Evaluating Multi-Model (Metadata - Semantic) Information Retrieval System", ICAI'09 - The 2009 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Las Vegas, Nevada,USA, 2009.
• 9- Leyla Zhuhadar, Olfa Nasraoui, Robert Wyatt, "How to Build an Ontology Driven Information Retrieval System in E-learning Domain", IKE'09 - The 2009 International Conference on Information and Knowledge Engineering, Las Vegas, Nevada,USA, 2009.
• 8- Leyla Zhuhadar, Olfa Nasraoui, Robert Wyatt, "Dual Representation of the Semantic User Profile for Personalized Web Search in an Evolving Domain", Proceedings of the AAAI 2009 Spring Symposium on Social Semantic Web: Where Web 2.0 meets Web 3.0, 2009, Stanford University, CA, USA, 2009.[ BibTex ] [] [ ]
• 7- Leyla Zhuhadar, et al, The Effectiveness of Personalization in Delivering E-learning Classes, Journal on Advances in Computer-Human Interactions, p 130-135, 1, 7, 2009.
  [BibTex]
• 6- Leyla Zhuhadar, Olfa Nasraoui, "Semantic Information Retrieval for Personalized E-learning", ICTAI 2008: 20th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence, Dayton, Ohio, USA, 2008. [BibTex ][]
• 5- Leyla Zhuhadar, Olfa Nasraoui, "Personalized Cluster-based Semantically Enriched Web Search for E-learning", CIKM'08: ACM 17th Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, ONISW The 2nd International workshop on Ontologies and Information Systems for the Semantic Web, Napa Valley, California, USA, 2008.[ BibTex]
• 4- Leyla Zhuhadar, Olfa Nasraoui, Robert Wyatt, "Metadata Domain-knowledge Driven Search Engine in "HyperManyMedia" E-learning Resources",CSTST-08: International Conference on Soft Computing as Transdisciplinary Science and Technology, IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society , EUSFLAT society, European Neural Network Society, IEEE France Section, and in Cooperation with ACM SIGAPP.fr, Gergy Pontoise, Paris, France, 2008. [ BibTex ] []
• 3- Leyla Zhuhadar, Olfa Nasraoui, Robert Wyatt , "A Comparison Study Between Generic and Metadata Search Engines in an E-learning Environment", IKE'08 - The 2008 International Conference on Information and Knowledge Engineering, Las Vegas, Nevada,USA, 2008. [ Bibtex ]
• 2- Carlos Rojas, Olfa Nasraoui, Nurcan Durak, Leyla Zhuhadar, Sofiane Sellah, Zhiyong Zhang, Basheer , "Knowledge Discovery in Data with Selected Java Open Source Software", CIML: Machine Learning Virtual Organizations, Computational Intelligence and Machine Learning, Fairfax, VA, USA, 2008. [ BibTex ] []
• 1- Leyla Zhuhadar, Olfa Nasraoui, Robert Wyatt,"Knowledge Mining for Adaptive Multimedia Web-based Educational Platform" AIED2007-Artificial Intelligence in Education, 13th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education, Conference Workshop: "Data mining in Education", Los Angeles, CA, USA, 2007. [ BibTex ] []

Book publications:

• Leyla Zhuhadar, Automated discovery, categorization and retrieval of personalized semantically enriched e-learning resources (Amazon/Barnes & Noble).

• PhD. Dissertation Research--defense presentation []

International Conference/Program Committee/Workshop Organizer/Chair:

• 13- Track Chair at WSKS (2012 World Summit on Knowledge Society: http://wsks.org/?page_id=40)
  
• 12- Tracks Co-Chair at WSKS (2012 World Summit on Knowledge Society: http://wsks.org/?page_id=40)
• 11- Track Chair at WSKS (2011 World Summit on Knowledge Society: http://wsks.org/?page_id=40)
• 10- Tracks Co-Chair at WSKS (2011 World Summit on Knowledge Society)
• 9- A Technical Track of the 25th Annual ACM SAC, The Semantic Web and Applications (SWA), The 25th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, 22 – 26 March 2010, Sierre, Switzerland [ program committee ] [Peer Reviewer]
• 8- The Third IEEE International Conference on Advances in Computer-Human Interactions (ACHI 2010), February 10-16, 2010 - St. Maarten, Netherlands Antilles [ program committee ] [Peer Reviewer]
• 7- The Second IEEE International Conference on Mobile, Hybrid, and On-line Learning (eL&mL 2010), February 10-16, 2010 - St. Maarten, Netherlands Antilles [ program committee ] [Peer Reviewer]
• 6- Joint International Workshop on Metamodels, Ontologies, Semantic Technologies, and Information Systems for the Semantic Web (MOST-ONISW 2009) at 28th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER 2009), Gramado, Brazil, November 9-12, 2009 [program committee] [Peer Reviewer]
• 5- First International Society, NGO (2009) [Members of Program & Organizing Committee]
• 4- International Conference on Semantic Web and Web Services (SWWS 2009) [Members of Program & Organizing Committee]
• 3- International Conference for the Web Science (2009) [Members of Program & Organizing Committee]
• 2- International Conference for Open Research (2009) [Members of Program & Organizing Committee]
• 1- International Conference on Information and Knowledge Engineering (IKE 2009) [Members of Program & Organizing Committee]

Memberships in professional societies

• Association for Information Systems (AIS)
• WIC Web Intelligence Consortium
• IEEE Computer Society, IEEE Information Theory Society, IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society
• ACM, ACM SIG Member, ACM Sigaccess
• ASEE American Society for Engineering Education
• AIED