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Dina Said
Email: [email protected]
Tel: +1-403-220-3326
Homepage: http://people.ucalgary.ca/~dasaid/
Ph.D. Candidate at the Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary, Canada; specialized in Data Mining and
Image Processing.
Computer Skills:
• Environments: Linux (11 years), Solaris (1 year), and Windows (15 years).
• Design Skills: Object Oriented design (14 years), UML (2 years), Database design (2 years), and parallel computing
design (3 months).
• Programming: C++ (14 years), Java (2 years), C# (3 months).
• Other programming tools: OpenCV (3 years), Matlab and Octave (1 year), MPI (3 months), Hadoop (3 months),
WEKA (3 months), Embedded C (3 months), and ASP.Net (3 months).
• Database Tools: MS SQL server (1 year), Oracle and developer 6i (1 year), and ADO.NET (3 months).
Research Experience:
• May 2010 - Present: Research Assistant, GALFACTS project, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB,
Canada.
Build the rst toolbox for quality inspection of Radio Astronomical Images.
Apply image processing and machine learning techniques to discover artifacts in Radio Astronomical Images.
Programming tools used: C++ and OpenCV on Linux.
• Jun 2009 - Aug 2009: Intern, Cairo Microsoft Innovation Center, Cairo, Egypt.
Designed and implemented techniques for mining user collaborative texts in online discussion board.
Designed and implemented two functional demonstrations for clustering online posts and discovering outliers.
Programming tools used: C# and ADO.Net on Windows.
• Mar 2006 - Dec 2008: Assistant Researcher, Center of Excellences for Data Mining and Computer
Modeling, MCIT, Cairo, Egypt
Conducted a comparative study for dierent methodologies for outlier detection techniques.
Designed and implemented techniques for outlier detection in various datasets.
Programming tools used: C++ on Linux.
• Sept 2004 - Dec 2008: Assistant Researcher, Electronics Research Institute, Cairo, Egypt
Designed and implemented new techniques for feature selection in Text Categorization.
Programming tools used: C++ on Linux and Solaris.
Teaching Experience:
• Jan 2009 - Present: Teaching Assistant, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Calgary, Calgary,
AB, Canada for the following courses:
Deliver tutorials for the following courses: Information Structure III (CPSC 461), Introduction to Computer
Science for Computer Science Majors II- Object Oriented Programming using Java (CPSC 233) for 3 semesters,
Image Processing and Computer Vision (CPSC 535), Introduction to Computers (CPSC 203) for 2 semesters.
• Sept 2004 - Dec 2008: Trainer, Electronics Research Institute, Cairo, Egypt
Developed and delivered short courses on SQL Server 2000 and C#.NET.
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• Sept 2003 - Sept 2004: Teaching Assistant, Faculty of Computer Science, October University for
Modern Science and Arts (MSA) University, Cairo, Egypt
Delivered tutorials for the following courses: Human Computer Interaction, Software Engineering Methodolo-
gies, Computer Architecture, Object Oriented Programming (I, II), Digital Logic Design, Calculus (I, II), and
Introduction to IT.
Honors and Awards:
• May 2013: Queen Elizabeth II Graduate Scholarship, Government of the Province of Alberta, Canada.
• Dec 2012: Graduate Citizenship Award, Government of the Province of Alberta, Canada.
• Sept 2012: Department Research Award, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Calgary, Canada.
• Jan 2009: Department Research Award, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Calgary, Canada.
Volunteering and Extracurricular Activities:
• Professional Services:
Reviewer, Journal of Knowledge and Information Systems.
Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering.
• Students' Government at University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada:
May 2011 - Nov 2011: Vice-President Academic, Graduate Students' Association (GSA)
∗ Represented graduate Students in the majority of academic committees.
∗ Managed the following programs: the GSA Awards Committee, the Employee Relationships and Transition
Program, and the Ombudsperson.
∗ Initiated a sustainable project for GSA to transfer all manual forms to electronic ones.
∗ Initiated a new feedback and reporting model for the Ombudsperson.
May 2010-Apr 2011: President, Computer Science Graduate Society (CSGS).
• Social Volunteering:
Feb 2012 - Present: Community Helper, Wellness Center, University of Calgary, Canada.
∗ Attended 20 hours professional training for Community Helpers.
∗ Mental-Health rst aid and Suicidal First aid Certied.
∗ Provide on-going informal help to friends and colleagues as a community helper.
Sept 1999-Jan 2009: Member of Resala Charitable Society, Egypt; responsible for the following activities:
∗ Carried out the big sister role for orphan girls.
∗ Organized blood donation campaigns.
Selected Publications:
• Dina Said, Jeroen Stil, Russ Taylor, and Ken Barker. Automatic Identication of Hexagonal Pattern Artifacts
in Radio Astronomical Surveys. To appear in the AstroInformatics Workshop, International Conference on Data
Mining IEEE (ICDM), Dallas, Texas, USA, Dec 7, 2013.
• Dina Said, Lisa Stirling, Peter Federolf, and Ken Barker. Data Preprocessing for Distance-based Unsupervised
Intrusion Detection. Ninth Annual Conference on Privacy, Security and Trust (PST2011), Pages: 181-188, Montreal,
Canada, Jul 19-22, 2011.
• Dina Said, and Nayer Wanas. Clustering Posts in Online Discussion Forum Threads. International Journal of
Computer Science and Information Technology (IJCSIT), 3(2), pages 1-14, 2011.
• Dina Said, and Nayer Wanas. Clustering of Thread Posts in Online Discussion Forums. International Conference
on Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval (KDIR 2010), Pages: 314 - 319, Valencia, Spain, Oct 24-27,
2010.
Personal Information:
• Citizenship: Permanent Resident of Canada, Egyptian
• Languages: Arabic (Native), English (Excellent), French (Basic)
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