Dr. Ahmad B. A. Hassanat

Department of Information Technology, Faculty of Science, University of Mutah, P.O.Box 7, Karak 61710, Jordan.

Marital Status: Married.  Nationality: Jordanian.  DOB: 20/03/73

  Emailhasanat@mutah.edu.jo, abuhasanat@yahoo.com       

  Tel.      :  +962-(0)-32372380 ext-4321

  Mobile:  +962-775-179-066

         Research Interests

Visual speech recognition

Behavioral Biometrics

Face recognition

Image processing

Object and pattern recognition 

              Education

2007-2010: PhD. in Computer Science, University of Buckingham, UK. Thesis Title “visual words for automatic lip-reading”

2002-2004: MSc. in Computer Science, Al al-Bayt University, Jordan, Thesis Title “Fast String Searching Algorithms”.

1991-1995: B.Sc. in Computer Science, Mutah University, Jordan. Undergraduate project: a database system for the royal Jordanian air forces computer stores.

1990-1991: Scientific Stream High School, Petra, Jordan.

           Teaching

Course name

Level

Computer Algorithms

Undergrad

Database

Undergrad

Data structure

Undergrad

Artificial intelligence 

Undergrad

E-commerce

Postgraduate

Final year projects

Undergrad

              Professional Work Experience

Jul. 2010-now:  Assistant Professor in IT dept., Mutah University, Jordan.

Jan. 2008- Jul. 2010: Part time Lecturer in the applied computing dept., the University of Buckingham, UK.

Jun. 2004- Nov. 2006: Part time Lecturer in the Military wing, Mutah University, Mutah, Jordan.

Jun. 2004- Nov. 2006: Computer Center manager and System Analyst in the Military wing, Mutah University, Mutah, Jordan.

Jun. 1998- Jun. 2004: Computer Programmer and System Analyst, computer directorate, Jordan armed forces, Amman, Jordan.

Jun. 1995- Jun. 1998: Communication officer in the Royal Corps of Signals, Jordan armed forces, Amman, Jordan. 

           Languages

L1: Arabic, L2 English.

           Some career achievements

I was a member/leader of teams that designed and implemented the following systems:

1.  Jordan armed forces (JAF) Man Power system.

2.  Drafts system.  

3.  JAF Housing system.

4.  JAF stores & Warehouse system, using Oracle DBMS.

5.  www.jaf.mil.jo web site development, using ASP, Java scripts.

6.  Passports system in the Royal Jordanian Airport special Security Unit.

7.  File conversion system to convert Arabic text from Unisys EBCDIC to ASCII.

8. JAF telephone #No & Lines maintenance.

9. JAF planning system using Oracle DBMS.

10. Chat system for www.jaf.mil.jo

11. JAF General inspector system and database using SQL2000 server.

12. Some systems in JAF security directorate.

13. Mutah university/military branch library system (Barcode), using MS SQL2000 server.

          Professional training Courses.

Jul 2003 to Jul 2003: USA signal corps, Augusta, Georgia, USA.

Computer network.

Jun 2001 to Jun 2001: Compubase Amman, Microsoft certified training center.

2072-Administering a Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Database.

May 2001 to May 2001: united business machines UBM Jordan.

AS/400 operator workshop.

Apr 2001 to Apr 2001: Unisys international management center (IMC) in France.

Windiws2000 in the data center.

Mar 2000 to Mar 2000: STS company, Microsoft certified training center.

983:Accelerated training for Microsoft(R) windows NT(R).

Sep, 1999 to Sep, 1999: AL-Ghanem Computer Systems & Solutions.

Windows NT(R) Administrator.

Aug 1999 to Aug 1999: AL-Ghanem Computer Systems & Solutions.

Windows NT(R) support.

Dec 1998 to Dec 1998: International Training Consulting Center (ITCC). Oracle certified training center ORACLE Developer 2000 (forms 4.5 part B).

Nov 1998 to Dec 1998: ITCC. ORACLE Developer 2000 (forms 4.5 part A).

Nov 1998 to Nov 1998: ITCC. Introduction to ORACLE8 RDBMS.

Sep, 1997 to Oct 1997: JAF/Naser Bin Jameel College for military communication. Officers course for electronic warfare.

Sep, 1995 to Apr 1996: JAF/Naser Bin Jameel College for military communication. Basic signal course.

             Publications

[1] Hassanat, A.B.A. (2004) “Fast String Matching Algorithms”. Master thesis, Al-albayt University, Jordan.

[2] Hassanat, A.B.A. and Jassim, S. (2008) “A special purpose knowledge-based face localization method”, Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 6982, pp. 69820M-69820M-9.

[3] Hassanat A.B.A. (2009). Visual Words for Automatic Lip- Reading . PhD thesis, the University of Buckingham, Buckingham, England.

 [4] Hassanat, A.B.A and Jassim, S. (2010) “Visual words for lip-reading” Proc. SPIE, Vol. 7708, pp. 77080B.

 [5] Hassanat, A.B.A. and Jassim, S. (2010) “Color-based Lip Localization Method”, Proceedings of the SPIE, Vol. 7708, pp. 77080Y.

 [6] Hassanat A.B.A. (2011). Automatic Lip-Reading System: Using Visual Words. Saarbrucken, Germany: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing. ISBN: 3844310797. Link: http://www.amazon.com/Automatic-Lip-Reading-System-Using-Visual/dp/3844310797/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1301312893&sr=8-1

[7] Hassant A.B.A.. (2011). “Visual Speech Recognition. In: Ivo Ipsic Speech Technologies / Book 2. Rijeka: InTech - Open Access Publisher. ISBN: 978-953-307-322-4

[8] Hassanat, A.B.A. (2011) “Visual passwords using automatic lip-reading”, waiting for publication.