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Haya A. G. El-Ghalayini
Curriculum Vitae
Current Address:
P.O.Box 613
Amman 11831- Jordan
E-mail: [email protected]
Academic and Professional Qualifications:
2007
PhD Computer Science
University of the West of England, Bristol-UK
Faculty of Computing, Engineering and Mathematical Sciences.
1989
MSc Computer Science
Kuwait University -Kuwait
Faculty of Science-Computer Department.
1986
BSc Computer Science
Kuwait University -Kuwait
Computer Department.
Minor in Accounting.
GPA in Computer- 3.43.
GPA in Accounting - 3.59 (A = 4.00).
Career Outline:
1994 – Present
Duties include
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Assistant Professor
Faculty of Information Technology
University of Petra-Amman
Development and teaching of various courses in the area of computer science, software
engineering and information systems, including e-courses.
Conducting applied and fundamental research in the conceptual modeling, ontology
development and evaluation, developing e-courses areas.
2003- 2007
PhD. Researcher, the West of England, Bristol, UK.
PhD Scholarship at University of the West of England, Bristol, UK, sponsored by Petra
University.
Duties includes
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Presenting lectures relating to requirements engineering and parallel and distributed
databases.
Conducting applied and fundamental research in software engineering.
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1994- 2003
Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Science, Petra University, Amman-Jordan
Duties includes
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Development and teaching of various courses in the area of computer science such as
Computer skills, Programming languages: Pascal, FORTRAN, COBOL, C, C++, and File
organization.
Supervising student graduation projects in web development in database management
systems.
1991- 1994
Duties include
Lecturer,
Faculty of Science –Computer Department
Philadelphia University-Amman
Development and teaching of various courses such as computer skills and programming
languages: Pascal, FORTRAN, COBOL, C, C++
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1990-1991
Private work
Duties include
Teaching computer skills classes (e.g. Windows, and MS Office).
1989-1990
Systems Support Engineer
UNISYS Computer Division
Mohammed Abdul Rahman Al-Bahar Group, Kuwait.
Duties include
 System support, application support, program development at different sites in such as
Kuwait airways.
 A close supervision and monitoring of general ledger programs and shipping system at
shipping division-Mohammed Abdul Rahman Al-Bahar.
1986-1989
Duties include
Teaching Assistant
Faculty of Science-Computer Science Department
Kuwait University
Assist instructors in marking assignment and assist the students in different classes such as
system programming, data structure.
Teaching Activities:
Designed and taught the following courses:
 Computer skills
 Programming languages: Pascal, FORTRAN, COBOL, C, C++
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Data structures
Algorithms design and analysis
File organization
Computing Theory
Visual Basic 6.0
Software Engineering
E-commerce
System Analysis and Design: includes implementation of SDLC phases including
designing interview, questionnaire, JAD, functional requirements, DFD and Data
dictionary.
Tools included: SmartDraw or MS Visio, MS Project management.
Human Computer Interaction-includes designing, evaluating and implementing an
interface.
Tools included: MS Visio, Mockups, Storyboard
Computer Languages:
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COBOL, FORTRAN, Pascal, Java, Jena API, DAML, OWL, HTML.
Application Software:
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Protégé, Rational Rose, Oracle, UMLGraph, Graphviz, Winks, Lectora, Camtushia, Moodle,
BlackBoard, Exam View, MS Office.
Operating System Software:
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Windows, Unix.
Computer Hardware:
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Personal Computers connected to Petra University network.
Academic Services:
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Coordinator of the IT faculty exams committee.
Member of the IT faculty e-learning management committee.
Coordinator of human computer interaction committee course.
Coordinator of e-commerce committee course.
Member of system analysis and design committee course.
Member of algorithms design and analysis committee course.
Member of data mining committee course.
Member of complex cooperative systems center at UWE Bristol, UK.
Other Professional Activities:
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Designing brief manual guides about how to use blackboard for teachers as well as
students.
Designing e-courses for BlackBoard system.
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Designing HCI e-course using Moodle System.
Conferences, Training Courses, and Workshops Attended:
1986
Accounting Training Course at Kuwait National Petroleum Company.
1990
Database Administration for ORACLE V.6 at UNISYS Educational Training, Unix
Administration at UNISYS Educational Training Center, Milton Keynes, UK.
1995
Introduction to ORACLE RDBMS Ver.7, ORACLE Advanced Application Building (Forms
3) -Amman.
1999
ORACLE Web Server Ver. 3.0, Introduction to ORACLE RDBMS Ver. 8, ORACLE
Developer/2000(Forms 5 Part A), ORACLE Developer/2000(Forms 5 Part B), ORACLE
Developer/2000(Reports 3), ORACLE Ver. 7 Database Administration.
2003
Workshop about “Metadata Management in Grid and P2P systems” at the University of
London.
2004
Training workshops organized by the Centre for Research, Innovation and Graduate
Studies (CRIGS) at UWE, Bristol, UK.
2005
UWE-3rd international students’ conference, Bristol-UK.
2006
4th International Conference on Computer Science and Information Technology
(CSIT'06). Amman Jordan, April 2006.
2007
IBM Rational Unified Process (14th January- 28th January).
2007
13th Annual Science Week, Science and Technology Parks - Building a Knowledge
based Economy, Amman- Jordan (28/Ocyober- 1/Nivember/ 2007).
2008
Embedding e-learning in Higher Education Workshop, Amman, Jordan (May/ 2008).
2008
Training of Trainers on Virtual Learning Environment, University of LeidenNetherlands (2/ February – 25/ June /2008).
This course includes the following modules:
Module 1A: Introduction to Virtual Learning Environment (5 days)
Module 1B: IT-Enabled Course Redesign (4 days)
Module 1C: Advanced IT-Enabled Course Redesign (2 days)
Module 2: Introduction to VLE (1ST Workshop; Task I)
Module 3A: E-learning Instructional Design and Strategies (4 days)
Module 3B: Learning Management Systems (3 days)
Module 3C: Social computing (4 days)
Module 4: Advanced VLE (2nd Workshop, Task II and III)
Module 5A: Advanced Learning Management Systems (3 days)
Module 5B: Introduction to Authoring Tools (5 days)
Module 5C: Feedback/reinforcement/evaluation (3 days)
Dissertations:
1. H. El Ghalayini. Reverse Engineering Domain Ontologies to Conceptual Data Models. PhD thesis,
University of the West of England, Bristol. Faculty of Environment and Technology, 2007.
2. H. El-Ghalayini. Document Preparation System and Database for Images. Master’s project, Kuwait
University, 1989.
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Publications:
1. El-Ghalayini, H., Odeh, M., McClatchey, R. (2010). Developing Ontology-Driven Conceptual
Data Models. In: proceeding of The International Conference on Intelligent Semantic Web – Services
and Applications, June 14–16, 2010, Amman, Jordan.
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3. El-Ghalayini, H. and Kharbat, F. (2009). Building Ontology from Knowledge Base Systems:
An Evaluation Study. In: proceeding of ACIT 2009, Yemen.
4. El-Ghalayini, H. and Kharbat, F. (2009). Evaluating the Approach of Developing Ontology
from Knowledge Base System. In: proceeding of Mosharaka international Conference on
Communications, Computers and Applications, October, 2009, Amman, Jordan..
5. Kharbat, F. and El-Ghalayini, H. (2009). New Algorithm for Building Ontology from
Existing Rules: A Case Study. In: proceeding of International Conference on Information
Management and Engineering, April 3-5, 2009, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
6. El-Ghalayini, H. and Kharbat, F. (2008). New Approach for Developing Ontologies form
Existing Ruleset. In: proceeding of ACIT 2008, Tunisia, Tunisia.
7. Kharbat, F. and El-Ghalayini, H. (2008). Building Ontology from Knowledge Base Systems, in
Eugenia G. Giannopoulou (Ed.), Data Mining in Medical and Biological Research, Vienna,
Austria: IN-TECH.
8. El-Ghalayini, H., Odeh, M., and McClatchey, R. (2007). Engineering conceptual data models
from domain ontologies: Critical evaluation. International Journal of Information Technology and
Web Engineering, 2(1), pp. 57-70.
9. El-Ghalayini, H., Odeh, M., McClatchey, R., and Arnold, D. (2006). Deriving conceptual data
models from domain ontologies for bioinformatics. In: Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE International
Conference for Information and Communication: From Theory to Application (ICTTA06), Damascus,
Syria. pp. 1011-1012.
El-Ghalayini, H., Odeh, M., McClatchey, R., and Solomonides, T. (2005). Reverse
engineering domain ontologies to conceptual data models. In: Hamza, MH, ed. Proceedings of
the 23rd IASTED International Conference on Databases and Applications (DBA), Innsbruck,
Austria. pp. 222-227.
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Reverse Engineering Ontology to Conceptual Data Models. CEMS Research Poster Event,
November 2004. University of the West of England, Bristol, UK. Available from:
www.uwe.ac.uk/cems/graduateschool/news/posters/10-11-04/06_h.el.ghalayini.pdf
Deriving Conceptual Data Models from Domain Ontologies for Bioinformatics. CEMS
Research Poster Event, June 2006. University of the West of England, Bristol, UK. Available
from: http://www.uwe.ac.uk/cems/graduateschool/news/posters/06summer.html
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12. El-Ghalayini, H. (1994). Desktop Publishing, in Office Automation, Al-Qudas Open
University.
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