Wassim El Hajj

Here is a list of MS students who graduated under my supervision or are in the process of graduation.

1. Optimized and Secured Demand Response Using Smart Meters and Blockchain for the Qatari Grid (PI):
   grant offered by Qatar Foundation to enhance Smart Grid infrastructure and aims to develop an
   optimized demand side and demand response strategy while
   incorporating smart meter data and transformer loading condition. The project also aims to develop a secured 2-way
   communication between smart meters and utilities using Blockchain technology and optimized outlier
   detection algorithms. Amount: $600,000. Accepted in December 2018 till 2021.
2. Automated Emotion Recognition for Better Mental and Medical States of
   Being (PI): grant offered by Farouk Jabre Interfaculty Grants at
   the American University of Beirut to build a large collection of resources
   for research and applications on emotion recognition, and to develop
   automated deep learning neural network models for emotion recognition.
   Amount: $25,000; Duration: 2018-19.
3. ILO software/toolkit on Labour Force Surveys sampling designs (PI):
   grant offered by the International Labour Organization (ILO) to create a
   new state-of-the-art software/toolkit for Labour statistician for the
   objective of maximizing their productivity and reducing the labour survey
   errors. The software will include appropriate UI and UX on the front end
   and algorithms’ optimization on the backend. Amount: $15,000; Duration: 2018-19.
4. Mining for Credible Opinions in Arabic Blog Posts (PI): grant offered by
   the American University of Beirut Research Board (URB) to build a tool that
   automatically rates the credibility of Arabic blog posts in real-time. Amount: $8,500; Duration 2016-17.
5. White Space Management in Plants Industry 2D Piping Drawing (PI): grant
   offered by Computers & Communication Technology SAL – Offshore (CCT), to build a
   tool for Oil/Gas Plants Industry that accepts as input, a 2D piping isometrics
   (extracted from 3D model representation) and produces a new cleanly annotated
   drawing with all annotations occupying the available white space without having
   any intersection. Amount: $20,000; Duration: 2015-16.
6. Efficient Detection of Information Leaks in Web Applications (PI): grant offered by the American University of Beirut Research Board to propose a framework that enforces security-by-construction in web applications, where any violation in the data’s confidentiality or integrity policies is reported at its source. Amount: $6,000; Duration: 2014-2015.
7. Opinion Mining for Arabic with Models of Semantics and Credibility (PI): A 1 million dollars
   grant offered by Qatar Foundation to develop resources and tools, and study new problems relating
   to the extraction of opinions from primarily Arabic text. Amount: $1,050,000; Duration: 2013-2016.
8. Optimizing OLSR using Mobile Agents (PI): grant offered by the American University of Beirut Research Board to
   propose an approach that uses mobile agents (MA) to maintain MANET topology information. Amount: $6,000; Duration: 2013-2014.
9. Slow-Distributed Port Scanning Detection (PI): grant offered by the American University of
   Beirut Research Board to provide a mechanism to detect and consequently prevent port scans that
   are both, slow and distributed. Amount: $5,200; Duration: 2012-2013.
10. Google CS4HS 2012 (PI): grant offered by Google to promote Computer Science and Computational
    Thinking in high school and middle school curriculum (CS Blossoms). Amount: $8,000; Duration: 2012-2013.
11. Google’s 2011 EMEA AndroidEDU grant (PI): grant offered by Google in the form of Samsung
    Galaxy S Plus phones to be used by Computer Science students and faculty for research and development.
12. Arabic Semantic Analysis as a novel way to predict protein interaction (co-PI): grant funded
    by Emirates Foundation to develop a novel method to predict protein-protein interaction based on
    Arabic semantic analysis model. Amount: $55,000; Duration: 2010-2012.
13. Protecting Communication Networks from Dangerous Subliminal Channels (PI): grant funded by
    Emirates Foundation to design and implement a system (Hardware and Software) that detects covert
    channels that carry secret messages within network traffic. Amount: $55,000; Duration: 2009-2011.
14. Protecting UAE University Network from Port Scanning (PI): grant funded by UAE University
    to detect port scanning attacks on university servers. Amount: $6,000; Duration: 2008-2009.
15. Securing Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) through Usage Control Model (co-PI): grant
    funded by UAE University to introduce new architecture that implements a new type of
    access control, called Usage Access control (U-Con), to control the access to the SNMP-based environment. Amount: $5,500; Duration: 2008-2009.
16. An Efficient Hierarchical Scheme for MANETs that can Potentially Cover the whole UAE (co-PI):
    grant funded by UAE University to design an efficient large scale network, composed of
    cell phones, laptops, sensors, and other wireless devices, spanning a country like UAE. Amount: $8,000; Duration: 2007-2008
17. Using Fuzzy-Logic to Detect and Prevent Data Link Layer Attacks on UAEU Networks (PI): grant funded by
    UAE University to propose a solution to the ARP poisoning problem based on extending the ARP protocol. Amount: $8,000; Duration: 2007-2008
18. Biometrics Fingerprint Time Attendance Recorders for UAEU Students (co-PI): grant funded by UAE University
    to design and implement a friendly GUI tool, an AntiSniffer, for detecting malicious sniffing hosts in the UAE
    University Wireless networks. Amount: $5,500; Duration: 2007-2008