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Leyla Zhuhadar
Western Kentucky University & University of Louisville, BOWLING GREEN
Regular Member
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Short Biography
Currently, I hold a position of Instructor of Informatics in the Department of Computer Information Systems, Gordon Ford College of Business; a Research Scientist/Sr. Instructional Technologist in the Office of Distance Learning at WKU. In addition, I am an Adjunct Assistant Professor (gratis) in the Department of Computer Engineering and Computer Science (CECS) at University of Louisville. Fridays, I work on my research in the Knowledge Discovery and Webmining Lab at University of Louisville.
List of top 5 publications in the last 5 years
Leyla Zhuhadar, Olfa Nasraoui, Robert Wyatt, Rong Yang, Visual Knowledge Representation of Conceptual Semantic Networks, Social Network Analysis and Mining Journal (Springer), 2011. (available) [scribd] Rong Yang , Leyla Zhuhadar, "Structural Decompositions of Complex Networks", Computational Social Networks: Tools, Perspectives and Applications (Springer: Volume 1), 2012. (available) 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. 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]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] Leyla Zhuhadar, Olfa Nasraoui, "Personalized Search Based on a User-centered Recommender Engine", 2010 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conferences in Web Intelligence, Toronto, Canada, August 31-Sep 3.
List of top 5 academic activities during the last 5 years
Track Chair at WSKS (2012 World Summit on Knowledge Society: http://wsks.org/?page_id=40) TRACK 7. Service Science, Management, Engineering, and Technology TRACK 8. Intellectual and Human Capital Development in the Knowledge Society Tracks Co-Chair at WSKS (2012 World Summit on Knowledge Society: http://wsks.org/?page_id=40) TRACK 4. Culture & Cultural Heritage – Technology for Culture Management – Management of Tourism and Entertainment – Tourism Networks in the Knowledge Society TRACK 5. Government and Democracy in the Knowledge Society TRACK 6. Innovation, Sustainable Development and Strategic Management for the Knowledge Society 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] 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] 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]