Kamal Al-Sabahi

Kamal Al-Sabahi

  • Kamal Al-Sabahi
  • Ibra,Oman

ABOUT ME

 Work: Al Yahmadi, Ibra, Al Sharqiya North Sultanate of Oman., 00968 Ibra (Oman)

A seasoned AI researcher, passionate educator, and driven entrepreneur. bridging the gap between academia and industry. With a solid foundation in AI, NLP, and database administration, I’m a leader who turns visionary ideas into tangible solutions. In search of transformative collaborations, let’s script the future of tech, together.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Head of Multimedia Section

University of Technology and Applied Sciences [ 29/03/2023 – Current ]

City: Ibra

Country: Oman

  • Resource management
  • Team building and staff morale
  • Collaboration with other departments
  • Head of Staff development committee
  • Responsible for overseeing the observation of classes
  • Academic Staff workload management
  • Member of AI and Data Science Course outcome review (UTAS level)
  • Member of Digital Transformation Master Degree Program Development (UTAS level)

Senior Lecturer

University of Technology and Applied Sciences [ 17/05/2022 – Current ]

City: Ibra

Country: Oman

Head of Course Development Committee for Master In Digital Transformation at UTAS Level

UTAS [ 03/09/2023 – Current ]

City: Muscat

Country: Oman

  • Strategic Oversight & Team Leadership: Lead the course development team, setting program direction aligned with industry trends, academic standards, and ensuring a comprehensive digital transformation
  • Stakeholder Engagement: Collaborate with industry experts, faculty, and students for feedback and resource alignment, ensuring curriculum relevance and effective
  • Accreditation and Evaluation: Maintain program standards to meet accreditation benchmarks and

implement regular assessments for continuous improvement.

  • Technological and Resource Integration: Advocate for advanced e-learning platforms and coordinate with academic departments for necessary program

Event Lead for NASA Space App Challenge 2023 Ibra,Oman

UTAS [ 04/07/2023 – 10/10/2023 ]

City: Ibra

Country: Oman

  • Strategic Planning: Directed planning and execution in line with NASA’s goals, ensuring event
  • Team Coordination: Led a diverse team, emphasizing collaboration and clear
  • Training: Prepared focal points, judges, and mentors for their
  • Mentorship: Oversaw mentorship, guiding teams to align projects with hackathon and space
  • Event Promotion: Collaboratively drove marketing via social media, bootcamps, and outreach, significantly boosting community engagement year-over-year.
  • Feedback: Established a feedback system, yielding insights and actionable improvements for future

Senior AI Researcher and NLP Expert

CVTE [ 29/06/2019 – 28/06/2022 ]

City: Guangzhou

Country: China

Website: http://www.cvte.com

  • Work extensively with generative AI and Language
  • Lead a team of
  • Undertaking data collection, pre-processing and
  • Building models to address business
  • Analysing large amounts of data to discover trends and
  • Proposing solutions and strategies to business
  • Collaborating with engineering and product development

Assistant Professor

University of Science & Technology [ 01/09/2020 – 31/03/2022 ]

City: Sana’a

Country: Yemen

Website: https://ust.edu/usty/

Database Administrator and Data Mining Specialist

Saba Bank [ 07/07/2010 – 31/08/2016 ]

City: Sana’a

Country: Yemen

Website: www.sababank.com

  • Led numerous tuning
  • Established Oracle database standards and recovery
  • Managed 2013 Data Center relocation for Saba
  • Developed data algorithms for digital banking

Intern

CVTE [ 22/12/2018 – 19/03/2019 ]

City: Guangzhou

Country: China

Website: http://www.cvte.com

Co-Founder

MetaGate Technology Co., Limited. (AI company) [ 02/02/2022 – Current ]

City: Guangzhou

Country: China

Website: https://www.metagatetech.com/

Business or sector: Professional, scientific and technical activities

  • Several courses and workshops ranging from IT topics to personal productivity and
  • Course development from
  • Taught an AI Course for PhD students at Sultan Qaboos University
  • Taught an AI Course for Lecturers at University of Technology and Applied Sciences 2022 (Ongoing).

Database Administration Consultant

Digital Lines [ 01/09/2009 – 01/09/2012 ]

City: Sana’a

Country: Yemen

Website: www.diglines.com

EDUCATION AND TRAINING                                                 

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

Central South University [ 31/08/2016 – 13/06/2019 ]

Address: No.932 South Lushan Road, 410083 , Changsha (China)

Website: http://en.csu.edu.cn/

Field(s) of study: Computer Science | Generative Artificial Intelligence

Final grade: 3.83

Thesis: Document Summarization Models Based on LSA, Word Embedding, and Deep Learning

Master of Information Technology

Open University Malaysia [ 31/12/2011 – 02/07/2015 ]

Address: Jalan Tun Ismail, Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia)

Website: http://www.oum.edu.my/

Field(s) of study: Information Technology | Data Mining

Final grade: 3.93

Bachelor of Science

Sana’a University [ 01/09/2004 – 30/07/2008 ]

City: Sana’a

Country: Yemen

Field(s) of study: Computer Science

Final grade: 77.04%

Bachelor of Science

Sana’a University [ 01/09/2002 – 30/07/2006 ]

City: Sana’a

Country: Yemen

Field(s) of study: Chemistry and Biology Sciences

Final grade: 80%

IFC’s Business Edge

IFC, CMT house [ 01/02/2006 – 30/10/2007 ]

City: Sana’a

Country: Yemen

Field(s) of study: Personal Productivity Skills Diploma | Human Resources Management Diploma | Marketing Diploma | Accounting for non-Accountant Diploma

City: Sana’a

Country: Yemen

LANGUAGE SKILLS                                                 

Mother tongue(s): Arabic Other language(s):

English

LISTENING C2 READING C2 WRITING C2

SPOKEN PRODUCTION C2 SPOKEN INTERACTION C2

Chinese

LISTENING A1 READING A1 WRITING A1

SPOKEN PRODUCTION A1 SPOKEN INTERACTION A1

Levels: A1 and A2: Basic user; B1 and B2: Independent user; C1 and C2: Proficient user

DIGITAL SKILLS                                                 

Python / Deep learning / Machine learning / C# / Java / Linux / MySQL / HTML / Github / Machine Learning and Deep Learning frameworks: Tensorflow, Keras, PyTorch, mlr3, caret / Python Library: NumPy, Pandas, Scikit-learn, Matplotlib, NLTK, NetworkX, SciPy, TensorFlow; / JSON / Git / Oracle Database, Oracle Forms, Oracle Report, Oracle HTMLDB / Apache Spark, Apache Hive

PUBLICATIONS                                                 

A Hierarchical Structured Self-Attentive Model for Extractive Document Summarization

[2018]

IEEE ACCESS, IF 3.9, SCI(2022).

A Novel Integrated Approach for Companion Vehicle Discovery Based on Frequent Itemset Mining on Spark

[2019]

Springer, Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering, IF 2.9, SCI(2022).

Deep Learning Approach Combining Sparse Autoencoder With SVM for Network Intrusion Detection

[2018]

IEEE ACCESS, IF 3.9, SCI(2022).

An Enhanced Latent Semantic Analysis Approach for Arabic Document Summarization

[2018]

Springer, Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering, IF 2.9, SCI(2022).

Cooperative Hierarchical Framework for Group Activity Recognition: From Group Detection to Multi-activity Recognition

[2019]

ICSCA 2019 Conference Proceedings, Penang, Malaysia, Feb, 19-22,2019, (Ei Compendex)

Latent Semantic Analysis Approach for Document Summarization Based on Word Embeddings

[2019]

KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems, IF 1.5, SCI(2022).

Document Summarization Using Sentence-Level Semantic Based on Word Embeddings

[2019]

International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, IF 0.9, SCI(2022).

EcForest: Extractive Document Summarization through Enhanced Sentence Embedding and Cascade Forest

[2019]

Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, IF 2.0, SCI(2022).

An Integrated Graph Model for Document Summarization

[2018]

MDPI, Information, Ei Compendex

A hierarchical self-attentive neural extractive summarizer via reinforcement learning (HSASRL)

[2020]

Springer, Applied Intelligence, IF 5.3, SCI(2022).

Bidirectional Attentional Encoder-Decoder Model and Bidirectional Beam Search for Abstractive Summarization

[2021]

Multi-head Sequence Tagging Model for Grammatical Error Correction

[2023]

Under Review

Supervised copy mechanism for Grammatical Error Correction

[2023]

IEEE, IEEE Access, IF 3.9, SCI(2022)

An Extensive Study of the Structure Features in Transformer-based Code Semantic Summarization

[2023]

2023 IEEE/ACM 31st International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC)

PROJECTS                                                 

Automatic Grammatical Error Correction for CVTE

A deep learning based Model that has been developed from scratch. It is now used online for the EasyNote application of wildely used SeeWo brand from CVTE.

Automatic Document Summarization

A deep learning based Model that has been developed from scratch. It is now being used online for the educational application of Widely used SeeWo brand from CVTE.

Automatic English Spelling Error Correction for CVTE

It is now used online for the EasyNote application of wildely used SeeWo brand from CVTE.

Planning and Implementing a Data Disaster Recovery Site

[ 01/09/2015 – 19/12/2015 ]

Saba Bank

Central South University, China [ 20/06/2018 ]

Award of Graduate with honor

Central South University, China [ 22/06/2019 ]

Chinese Government Scholarship

China Scholarship Council, China [ 09/07/2016 ]

CONFERENCES AND SEMINARS                                                 

The Next Generation of Artificial Intelligence

[ Scientific Webinar organized by IEEE Yemen Subsection., 17/05/2023 – 17/05/2023 ]

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoikVzYkkWY

Exploring the Future: Generative AI and its Transformative Role in Business [ Webinar Organized by Arab Bussinessmen Forum in China, 02/07/2023 – 02/07/2023 ] Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtHddmmDkck

Boosting Productivity with Generative AI: A Practical Approach with Prompt Engineering & Extensions/Plugins

[ Scientific Webinar organized by IEEE Yemen Subsection., 31/07/2023 – 31/07/2023 ]

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3qolGJVuCw

Utilizing AI tools for Scientific Research

[ Scientific Webinar organized by YSUC China., 04/10/2023 – 04/10/2023 ] Write here the description…

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tcr0ti9vsdM

RESEARCH INTERESTS AND GRANTS                                                 

UTAS Internal Fund Grant (RSRP)

[ 03/09/2022 – Current ]

A research Grant at UTAS Level under the Research Support Project

Research Interest

Generative AI and Language Models AI in Education

Natural Language Processing Software Engineering Automation

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