ABDULRAHMAN ALTAHHAN Ph.D.

 

ABDULRAHMAN ALTAHHAN - Professional Summary: 

 

An enthusiastic and dedicated machine learning, robotics and informatics Assistant Professor with over 10 years experience at academic institutions in UAE, Syria and UK.  A highly analytical and effective researcher with a variety of publications and qualifications.  Thrives in a challenging environment and has the proven ability to develop innovative solutions to problems.  Possesses excellent interpersonal skills and communicates well at all levels.

ABDULRAHMAN ALTAHHAN - Professional Experience:

2011 –	ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, COORDINATOR OF IT & MANAGEMENT PROGRAM
	American University in Emirates, Dubai, UAE

• Planning and designing a variety of courses, devising practical and creative teaching methods using high tech means to engage students and develop skills
• In Addition I oversee the program of Information Technology and Management which is an interdisciplinary program that merges Management and IT in some new and innovative ways
   I teach the following courses:
  • Software Engineering and UML
  • IT and Enterprise Architecture
  • Data Structure in C++
  • Management Information Systems
  • Human Recourse Information Systems
    
    

2009 – 2011	LECTURER
	Yarmouk Private University, Damascus

• Planning and designing a variety of courses, devising practical and creative teaching methods using high tech means to engage students and develop skills in large classes
  • Automata, Languages and Computational Theory
  • Artificial Intelligence Application
  • Introduction to Algorithms and Programming using C++
  • Introduction to Computers for general students

 

2005 – 2008	VISITING LECTURER
	University of Sunderland, UK

• Assisting with the teaching of the Computer Vision course and providing support and assistance during laboratory sessions utilising a Webots robotics simulation
• Marking course work for Java programming, Web Design, Parallel programming and Logic Circuits

 

2004 – 2006	RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT CONSULTANT
	ISS Group, University of Sunderland, UK

• Collaborating with members of the group to develop various systems such as a hand held device, PCB industrial software and educational aids including:
  • MCE: A communication interface between a handheld device and the MCE software to read RFID tags using VC++
  • XACT: Monitoring and predicting errors in the manufacturing process of PCBs
  • DLS: Software to assist lecturers by automatically producing formulae and step-by-step solutions

 

2001 – 2002	PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES TEACHER
	Khawarezmi Training Centre, Damascus

• Teaching a comprehensive C++ and C++ Builder course to fifth year engineering students, introductory and advance Visual Basic courses and an intermediate course in Prolog

 

2000 – 2001	LABORATORY FACILITATOR
	Damascus University, Damascus

• Planning, designing and delivering Pascal language courses to more than 40 students within the Mathematics department

 

ABDULRAHMAN ALTAHHAN - Education: 

 

PhD:                 Machine Learning – Robotics & Vision, University of Sunderland, UK (2009)

                        Thesis: Conjugate Gradient Temporal Difference Learning for Visual Robot Homing

• A novel reinforcement learning method that uses neural networks
  • A novel software and model for Khepera robot homing using C++ and Matlab

 

Master:             Informatics – Artificial Intelligence – A+, Damascus University (2003)

                        Thesis: Building a Medical Expert System using Fuzzy Logic

 

Diploma:          Informatics – A, Damascus University (1999)

 

BSc:                 Mathematics and Informatics – B, B+, Damascus University (1998)

 

ABDULRAHMAN ALTAHHAN - Interests: 

Programming and Technology: C++, STL, OOP    Visual C++, C++ Builder  Java, JBuilder Web development, JavaScript Case Tools Pascal, Turbo Pascal, Delphi Database Design, SQL, MS Access   Oracle E-Business Suite RFID Matlab, Mathcad

Machine Learning, Robotics and AI: Intelligent Algorithms Mathematical Modeling Reinforcement Learning Artificial Neural Networks Radial Basis Networks Robot Navigation and Homing Probabilistic Robotics Fuzzy logic Expert systems  Prolog

 

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