Dina Mohamed Hafez

Department of Computer Science

N005 North Building

Duke University

Durham, NC, 27708-0129

Tel: +1 (919) 660-4005

Mobile: +1 (617) 817-6308

E-mail: dina.hafez@duke.edu

EDUCATION

PhD, Computer Science, Duke University, North Carolina, USA, 2015 (expected).

• Major : Computer Science

• GPA : 3.875 / 4.0.

• Coursework included : Advance Artificial Intelligence, Data Mining, Knowledge Engineering, Cluster and Grid Computing, Web Mining, Knowledge Engineering, Algorithm and Complexity Theory, Contemporary Computer Design, Distributed Systems.

• Graduate Thesis : Augmenting QoS Support in the Context Oriented Architecture.

Bachelor of Sciences, The American University in Cairo (AUC), Cairo, Egypt. February 2006.

• Major : Computer Science

• Minor : Business Administration

• GPA : 3.923 / 4.0 Summa Cum Laude (Highest Honors), 4^th highest GPA in CS Department

• Coursework included : Software Engineering, Development of Web-Based Systems, Object Oriented Programming with C++, Java Programming Language, Analysis and Design of Algorithms, Concepts of programming Languages, Theory of Computing.

• Thesis Senior Project : Digital Image Processing using Matlab: Recognizing alphabet of the Arabic Sign Language and interpreting them into Arabic words.

Published Work

• Dina Hafez, Ahmed Sameh, and Sherif G. Aly, "Augmenting QoS Support in the Context Oriented Architecture," in The 2009 International Conference on Semantic Web and Web Services (SWWS'09) Las Vegas, USA, 2009.

• Sherif G. Aly, Dina Hafez, Ahmed Sameh, "A Context and Service-Oriented Architecture with Adaptive Quality of Service Support". International Journal of Computers and their Applications (In Progress)

WORK EXPERIENCE

Lecturer Assistant, Ahram Canadian University (ACU), Giza, Egypt, October 2009 – Present.

• Teach advanced software engineering course and its supporting lab.

• Assist in teaching object oriented programming and data structures using Java.

Teaching Assistant, the American University in Cairo (AUC), Cairo, Egypt, September 2006 – July 2009.

• Assisted in teaching Object oriented programming, data structures, and algorithms and design courses.

Employee, ITWorx, Alexandria, Egypt, February 2006 - January 2007.

• Created web application projects in C#, connecting to Oracle databases, and utilizing data warehousing and OLAP for reporting.

Trainee, ITWorx, Alexandria, Egypt, Summer 2005.

• Developed a web application using ASP.Net and MS SQL Server.

Trainee, Egyptian Bank of Export Development, Summer 2001

• Reported import and export transactions.
  

CAREER-RELATED PROJECTS

• Developed a dynamic web application for a Student Counseling Center, and the new AUC campus using JSP and ASP frameworks.

• Simulated the N-Queen problem on a computing grid (14 cluster nodes).

• Simulated a train station through a simulation-software package (SimScript).

• Designed and implemented a compiler for C minus Language.

EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITES

• Supervisor, Kaizen Committee, Ahram Canadian University.
• Member, Quality Assurance & Control Center, Ahram Canadian University.
• Organizing Committee Member, The 3rd ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications, American University in Cairo.
• Reception Committee Head, Help Club, AUC.
• Booth Committee Head, Help Club, AUC.
• Delegate, 12^th Model Arab League, AUC
• Member, Handball Team under 18 years, Alexandria Sporting Club.

HONORS AND AWARDS

• Laboratory Instruction Graduate Fellowship Award: Fall 2006, till Spring 2008.

• High academic achievement, Computer Science: 2003 , 2004 and 2005.

• Certificate of Merit, hard working member, Help Club, June 2003.

• Egyptian Government Scholarship for studying at the American University in Cairo (AUC). 2000-2005

• Handball cup, for winning the third position in the Egyptian handball championship, 1998.

• Certificates of Merit, for scoring high grades at school.