Alaa Jalal Tamimi

Alaa Jalal Tamimi

Alaa Jalal Tamimi

Personal Information: 

  • Alaa Jalal Al Tamimi
  • E-mail: ajtamimi@ppu.edu
  • Mobile: +972 599 728 123
  • Born in Hebron, Palestine on 25.8.1980

Academic Qualifications:

  • Master Degree in Intelligent Systems - AI and Data Science, Palestine Polytechnic University (PPU), 2023, GPA: 87.7 (Graded with Very good).
  • Bachelor Degree in Computer Systems Engineer, PPU, 2004, GPA: 87.4 (Graded with excellent).
  • General Secondary Exam Certificate, Hebron – Palestine, 1998, GPA: 95.3 (The first rank in the Hebron governorate, and the second rank in the State of Palestine).

Experience:

  • 2023 – Present, Lecturer, College of Applied Professions, PPU.
  • 2021 – Present, Administrative Assistant, E-PAL Project, “Equip Palestine with E-learning”, funded by NORHED - Norway, PPU.
  • 2019 - 2024, Administrative Assistant, Quality Enhancement and Accreditation Department, PPU.
  • 2017 - Present, Head of NI LabVIEW Academy, PPU.
  • 2017 - 2020, Chairman of the Field Training Committee, PPU.
  • 2017 - 2018, Member of the design and implement team of the vegetable sorting machine (my responsibility is about control part using LabVIEW SW via Single-Board RIO controller), PPU.
  • 2015 - 2016 Building Training Modules for Can Bus System, using CNC and PCB machines, PPU and IUT Cachan.
  • 2012 - 2017, General Engineering Coordinator, PPU.
  • 2008 - 2017, Field Training Coordinator, PPU.
  • 2006 - 2023, PC Applications Lab Supervisor, PPU.
  • 2004 -2006, Teacher Assistant, PPU.
  • 2002 -2003, Electron Trading, Computer Maintenance.

Areas of Interest:

  • Artificial Intelligence and Machine learning.
  • Digital Logic Design, FPGA and CPLD Implementations.
  • Data Acquisitions Systems.
  • PCB Fabrication.
  • Control Systems and BMS.
  • CAN Bus Protocol for Vehicles.
  • Design and Implementation of Agricultural Machines.

Specialized Training courses:

  • 2023 In progress: Moodle Educator Certificate (MEC), Online training.
  • 2019 - 2021: Palestine's "Think Data Science" program, Joint cooperation between: Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, Arab American University and Harvard University, Online training.
  • 2018: Vision and Embedded Control and Monitoring Training, National Instruments (NI) office, Istanbul, Turkey.
  • 2017: Business Model Canvas (BMC), JADARA and PPU, Hebron, Palestine.
  • 2016: Customized Data Acquisition and Embedded Training, NI office, Amman, Jordan.
  • 2016: Controller Area Network Bus system (CAN), le cnam, Paris, France.
  • 2015: CAN, IUT Cachan - Université Paris-Sud, Paris, France.
  • 2014: Building Management Systems (BMS), Schneider Electric, PPU, Hebron, Palestine.
  • 2010: LabVIEW Core 1,2,3 & LabVIEW Connectivity, (NI) office, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
  • 2009: PIC Programming, Royal Scientific Society, Amman, Jordan.
  • 2008: International to e-Learning and Moodle system, PPU, Hebron, Palestine.
  • 2008: Teaching Methods Improvements Course, PPU, Hebron, Palestine.
  • 2006: TOEFL Course, PPU, Hebron, Palestine.
  • 2005: Field Programmable Gate Arrays Course (FPGA), Birzeit University, Palestine.
  • 2005: Teaching Methods Improvements Course, PPU, Hebron, Palestine.

International Certifications: 

  • 2020 – 2021 Professional Certificate Program in Data Science - Harvard University - DataCamp, Online training.
    • 2020: Data Science - R Basics and Visualization.
    • 2021: Data Science – Probability, Inference and Modeling, Productivity Tools, Wrangling, Harvard, Linear Regression, Machine Learning, Capstone.
  • 2021 MarkLogic University Learning Assessments - Online training.
  • 2019: Microsoft Innovative Educator (MIE).
  • 2017: Certified LabVIEW Associate Developer (CLAD), NI.

Programming language and tools:

  • C, C++, C#, VB.net, Java, LabVIEW, MATLAB, Verilog, VHDL.
  • Python, R, JSON, XQuey, Xpath, XSLT.
  • Marklogic, Elastic search, Kibana, Anaconda (Spyder, Jupyter notbook), RStudio, Google Colab and Google teachable machine.

Community Contribution:

  • Judgment in many technology projects with corporation with:
    • Ministry of Education.
    • Ministry of Telecommunication.
    • Ministry of Higher Education.
    • Al-Naizak educational and scientific organization.

Abroad Academic/Administration Contribution:

  • 2023: Turkey - Istanbul: E-PAL core group meeting.
  • 2022: Norway - Oslo: E-PAL core group meeting.
  • 2021: Turkey - Istanbul: E-PAL core group meeting.
  • 2019: Romania - Galati: Teaching LabVIEW training course.
  • 2017: Turkey – Izmir: Turkish-Arab Economic Cooperation Summit for Food & Food Technology, Agriculture & Agriculture Technology.

Publications:

  • 2023 - Master thesis: Arabic sign language recognition using CNN methodology (Dataset improvements and Feature Map adaptations), Supervisor: Dr. Iyad Hashlamon, iyad@ppu.edu.
  • 2023 - A. J. Tamimi and I. Hashlamon, "Arabic Sign Language Datasets: Review and Improvements," 2023 International Symposium on Networks, Computers and Communications (ISNCC), Doha, Qatar, 2023, pp. 1-6, doi:10.1109/ISNCC58260.2023.10323881.
  • 2024 - Arabic sign language recognition using CNN methodology, A Roadmap to E-Learning in Palestine: Challenges and Opportunities (REPCO-I), hybrid (PPU-Hebron, UCAS- Gaza), In progress.
  • 2004 - B.Sc. Project: Digital Signal Processing Center, Supervisor: Dr. Murad Abu Sbeih, murads@ppu.edu.

Scholarships:

  • Mr. President’s scholarship for outstanding students for the Bachelor degree studies.

Awards:

  • University student researcher competition - for a master’s degree.