Hamed Alhoori

 

Assistant Professor
Director of DATA lab
Department of Computer Science
Northern Illinois University

Email: alhoori (at) niu.edu  LinkedIn    Twitter   
Office: PM 459

News

• I am looking for highly motivated and hard-working undergraduate and graduate (MS/PhD) students to work on exciting projects in Data Science, Text Analytics, and Social Media Mining. If you are interested, please send me your CV, transcripts, TOEFL and GRE scores (if applicable), and all other supporting documents. Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions.
• Invited seminar speaker Northwestern University
• Program Committee member: 12th ACM Web Science Conference 2020
• Program Committee member: ACM/IEEE JCDL 2020
• I joined the Editorial Board of IJDL
• Congratulations to Akhil Pandey for successfully defending his MS thesis and starting his PhD!
• Program Committee member: The 13th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM-19)
• Program Committee member: ACM/IEEE JCDL 2019
• Program Committee member: Social Informatics 2019
• Program Committee member: TPDL 2019
• Invited seminar speaker University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
• Publication accepted at IJDL 2018
• Program Committee member: The ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), 2018
• Program Committee member: The 12th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM-18)
• Program Committee member: TPDL 2018
• Harish Siravuri successfully defended his thesis. Congratulations!
• Publication accepted at JCDL 2018
• Program Committee member: ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (CHIIR) 2018 Doctoral Consortium
• Program Committee member: ACM/IEEE JCDL 2018
• Program Committee member: Workshop on Altmetrics for Research Outputs Measurement and Scholarly Information Management (AROSIM 2018)
• 2 publications accepted in WebSci 2017
• Reviewer: Social Network Analysis and Mining (SNAM)
• Reviewer: Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (JASIST)
• Program Committee member: ACM/IEEE JCDL 2017
• Reviewer: PLOS One
• Reviewer: International Journal on Digital Libraries(IJDL)
• Reviewer: iConference 2015,2017, 2018
• Program Committee member: TPDL 2017
• Session Chair: CIKM 2016
• Program Committee member: The IJCAI-16 Workshop on Scholarly Big Data
• Program Committee member: ACM/IEEE JCDL 2016
• Travel WebSci 2017, ASIST 2017, KDD 2016, IC2S2 2016, JCDL 2016, Symposium on Frontiers in Big Data, IEEE Big Data 2015, ASIST 2015

Research

Data Science, Applied Machine Learning, Text Mining, Science of Science, Computational Social Science, Social Computing

Teaching

• Spring 2019, 2020: CSCI 642 Information Storage and Retrieval
• Fall 2018, 2019: CSCI 490/641 - Big Data Analytics
• Fall 2019: CSCI 630 - Computer Networks
• Spring 2018: CSCI 490/680 - Big Data Analytics
• Spring 2017: CSCI 490/680 - Data Science and Analytics
• Fall 2016: CSCI 630 - Computer Networks
• Spring 2016: CSCI 490/680 - Big Data Analytics
• Fall 2015, 2017, 2018: CSCI 340 - Data Structures and Algorithm Analysis

Students

• Graduate
  • Abdul Rahman Shaikh
  • Akhil Pandey
  • Ashiqur Rahman
  • Christian Bailey
  • Cole Freeman, "The Emotions of Science: Using Social Media to Gauge Public Emotions Toward Research Topics", Northern Illinois University, 2020
  • Murtuza Shahzad
• Undergraduate
  • Enrique Nueve
• Previous students:
  • Pavan Kondamudi
  • Jonathon Gaff
  • Wesam Alruwaili
  • Bradley Protano
  • Jamieson Walker
  • Brian Homerding
  • James Bonasera
  • Harish Siravuri
  • Olsi Shehu
  •  Srikar Akula
  • Aleena Ahmed
  • Sahithi Challapalli

Education

• Ph.D., Computer Science, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas
• M.C.S, Computer Science, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas
• B.Sc., Computer Science, University of Bahrain

Grants and Awards

• 2019-2020: "Predicting Scientific Fields using Machine Learning and Text Mining Techniques", Argonne National Laboratory.
• 2013, 2015 - Graduate Student Travel Grant Award, Texas A&M University.
• 2013 - Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations bursary award.
• 2012 - Key participant in Qatar Digital Library project proposal. NPRP 4-029-1-007. Project "Establishing a Qatari Arabic-English Library Institute".
• 2011 - Industrial Affiliate Program (IAP) scholarship from Reynolds & Reynolds.
• 2009 - Student scholarship from the European Conference on Digital Libraries.
• 2009 - Student conference award, University of Bahrain.
•  Scholarship for a Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science from University of Bahrain.
•  Scholarship for a Master in Computer Science from University of Bahrain.
•  Scholarship for a Bachelor in Computer Science from Ministry of Education in Bahrain.

Publications

Refereed Conference Publications

• H. Siravuri, A. Akella, C. Bailey, and H. Alhoori, “Using Social Media and Scholarly Text to Predict Public Understanding of Science,” in Proceedings of 2018 ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL).
• P. Kondamudi, B. Protano, and Hamed Alhoori, “Pokémon Go: Impact on Yelp Restaurant Reviews,” in Proceedings of the 2017 ACM conference on Web Science.
• Bharat Kale, Harish Varma Siravuri, Hamed Alhoori, and Michael E. Papka, “Predicting Research that will be Cited in Policy Documents,” in Proceedings of the 2017 ACM conference on Web Science.
• C. Bailey, B. Kale, J. Walker, H. Siravuri, H.Alhoori, and Michael E. Papka, “Exploring Features for Predicting Policy Citations,” in Proceedings of 2017 ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL).
• H. Alhoori “How to Identify Specialized Research Communities Related to a Researcher’s Changing Interests,” in Proceedings of 2016 ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL).
• H. Alhoori, S. Choudhury, T. Kanan, R. Furuta, E. Fox, and C.L. Giles “On the Relationship between Open Access and Altmetrics,” in Proceedings of the iConference 2015.
• H. Alhoori and R. Furuta, “ Do Altmetrics Follow the Crowd or Does the Crowd Follow Altmetrics? ,” in Proceedings of 2014 IEEE/ACM Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL), London, UK.
• H. Alhoori, R. Furuta, M. Tabet, M. Samaka, and E. Fox, “ Altmetrics for Country-Level Research Assessment ,” in the 16th International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries, 2014.
• H. Alhoori, C. Thompson, R. Furuta, J. Impagliazzo, E. Fox, M. Samaka, and S. Al-Maadeed, “ The Evolution of Scholarly Digital Library Needs in an International Environment: Social Reference Management Systems and Qatar ,” in The 15th International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries, 2013.
• H. Alhoori and R. Furuta, “Can Social Reference Management Systems Predict a Ranking of Scholarly Venues?,” in Proceedings of the 17th international conference on theory and practice of digital libraries, 2013. Acceptance rate 10%.
• H. Alhoori and R. Furuta, “Identifying the Real-time impact of the Digital Humanities using Social Media Measures,” in Digital Humanities Conference, 2013. Shortlisted for young scholar award.
• H. Alhoori and R. Furuta, “Understanding the Dynamic Scholarly Research Needs and Behavior as Applied to Social Reference Management,” in Proceedings of the 15th international conference on theory and practice of digital libraries, 2011. Acceptance rate 9%.
• H. Alhoori, O. Alvarez, R. Furuta, N. Miguel Mu, and E. Urbina, “Supporting the Creation of Scholarly Bibliographies by Communities through Online Reputation Based Social Collaboration,” in Proceedings of the 13th European conference on Research and advanced technology for digital libraries, 2009.
• H. Alhoori, O. Alvarez, M. Muñiz, R. Furuta, and E. Urbina, “Supporting the Creation of Scholarly Bibliographies by Communities through Social Collaboration,” in Digital Humanities Conference, 2009.
• J. M. Apresa, E. Urbina, R. Furuta, H. Alhoori, and O. Alvarez, “Evaluating Digital Libraries through Pedagogical and Technological Concepts: The Case of Cibo /Cervantes International Bibliography from Cervantes Project,” in Proceedings of the International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation, 2009.
• H. Alhoori, O. Alvarez, R. Furuta, D. Li, and E. Urbina, “Building Digital Communities and Supporting Collaboration in a Humanities Digital Library,” in Proceedings of the International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation, 2008.

Refereed Journal and Magazine Articles

• H. Alhoori M. Samaka, R.Furuta, E.Fox, “Anatomy of Scholarly Information Behavior Patterns in the Wake of Academic Social Media Platforms,” International Journal on Digital Libraries 2018
• H. Alhoori and R. Furuta, “Recommendation of scholarly venues based on dynamic user interests,” Journal of Informetrics 2017
• A. Tawfik, H. Alhoori, C. W. Keene, C. Bailey, and M. Hogan, “Using a Recommendation System to Supports Students Problem Solving and Case-Based Reasoning Retrieval,” Journal of Technology, Knowledge and Learning 2017.
• M. Tabet, T. Kanan, H. Alhoori, S. S. Lukesh, C. Thompson, E. Fox, and M. Samaka, “Digital library initiative: a project for educators in Qatar,” ACM Inroads, ACM, 2013.
• E. Urbina, R. Furuta, H. Alhoori, J. Deng, and A. C. Hernández, “El texto como hipertexto: la edición variorum del Quijote,” Artifara: Revista de lenguas y literaturas ibéricas y latinoamericanas, 2009.

Poster Presentations

• H. Siravuri and H. Alhoori, “Exploring Features for Predicting Mentions in News,” 4:AM Altmetrics Conference, Toronto, Canada, 2017.
• H. Alhoori, R. Furuta , S. Choudhury, T. Kanan, M. Tabet, M. Samaka, E. Fox, and C.L. Giles “Mining Altmetrics at Different Levels,” in Metrics 2015: Workshop on Informetric and Scientometric Research, 2015 Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technology.
• E. Fox, H. Alhoori, T. Kanan, S. Raychoudhury, M. Samaka, R. Furuta, L. Giles, K. Roychowdhury, S. Al-maadeed, J. Impagliazzo, S. Lukesh, M. Tabet, and A. Nafees. Electronic Library Institute-SeerQ (ELISQ), Qatar Foundation Annual Research Conference Proceedings, 2014.
• H. Alhoori, O. Alvarez, M. Muñiz, R. Furuta, and E. Urbina, “Supporting the Creation of Scholarly Bibliographies by Communities through Social Collaboration,” Industrial Affiliates Program (IAP), CSE, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, Spring 2009.
•  H. Alhoori, R. Furuta, and E. Urbina, “Electronic Variorum Edition of the Quixote“, Digital Textual Studies Symposium, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, Fall 2006

Experience

• Visiting Scientist, Argonne National Laboratory , Summer 2016
• Research Assistant, Texas A&M University 2011 - 2015
• Research Associate, Qatar University, Summer 2013