Research Summary

I am a doctoral candidate in the Department of Computer Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Louisville under the supervision of Professor. Olfa Nasraoui. For the past four years, I have been working as a Web-Mining Analyst at the Distance Learning Office at Western Kentucky University under the guidance of Professor. Robert Wyatt.
My research project "HyperManyMedia" focuses on tracking online students' behaviors and developing recommendation systems for online lectures with many different formats (html, ppt, audio, video, podcast, vodcast).
Recently, I have been working on ADA compliance and converting learning objects to accessible objects by adding automated transcripts.

Scientific Committee Member and Reviewer

- ONISW: The 3nd International workshop on Ontologies and Information Systems for the Semantic Web
- First International Conference for the Web Science
- Open Research Society, NGO
- International Conference on Information and Knowledge Engineering (IKE'09)

New publications (2008)

Conference Proceedings

Zhuhadar Leyla, Nasraoui Olfa, "Semantic Information Retrieval for Personalized E-learning", ICTAI 2008: 20th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence, November 3-5, 2008, Dayton, Ohio, USA. ICTAI Conference ranking is Top 20 over 620 considered top conferences in Computer Science under Topic II: Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning (more details about Computer Science Conferences ranking can be found here)
Zhuhadar Leyla, Nasraoui Olfa, "Personalized Cluster-based Semantically Enriched Web Search for E-learning", CIKM'08: ACM 17th Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, October 26-30, 2008, Napa Valley, California, USA. ONISW The 2nd International workshop on Ontologies and Information Systems for the Semantic Web. CIKM is part of an ACM SIGIR Conferneces on Information Retrieval, with ranking of Top 6 over 488, and with rate 0.94. It is considered top conference in Computer Science under Topic I: Databases/Knowledge and Data Management/Data Security/Web/Mining (more details about Computer Science Conferences ranking can be found here)

Zhuhadar Leyla, Nasraoui Olfa, Robert Wyatt, "Metadata Domain-knowledge Driven Search Engine in "HyperManyMedia" E-learning Resources",CSTST-08: International Conference on Soft Computing as Transdisciplinary Science and Technology, IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society , EUSFLAT society, European Neural Network Society, IEEE France Section, and in Cooperation with ACM SIGAPP.fr, October 27-31, 2008, Gergy Pontoise, Paris, France.

Zhuhadar Leyla, Nasraoui Olfa, Wyatt Robert, "A Comparison Study Between Generic and Metadata Search Engines in an E-learning Environment", IKE'08 - The 2008 International Conference on Information and Knowledge Engineering, July, 2008, Las Vegas, Nevada. IKE Conference ranking is Top 37 over 488 considered top conference in Computer Science under Topic I: Databases/Knowledge and Data Management/Data Security/Web/Mining (more details about Computer Science Conferences ranking can be found here)

Co-author

Carlos Rojas, Olfa Nasraoui, Nurcan Durak, Leyla Zhuhadar, Sofiane Sellah, Zhiyong Zhang, Basheer Hawwash, Knowledge Discovery in Date with Selected Java Open Source Software, CIML: Machine Learning Virtual Organizations, Computational Intelligence and Machine Learning, October 24, 2008 in Fairfax, VA.

Book Chapter

Zhuhadar Leyla, Nasraoui Olfa, Wyatt Robert, “Knowledge Mining for Adaptive Multimedia Web-based Educational Platform”,
Book Chapter: Technology Enhanced Learning: Best Practices, April, 2008, Idea Group, 2008.

Organizations

Emerging Technologies and Information Systems for the Knowledge Society: First World Summit on the Knowledge Society, WSKS 2008, Athens, Greece, September ... / Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence) by Miltiadis D. Lytras, John M. Carroll, Ernesto Damiani, and Robert D. Tennyson (Paperback - Oct 24, 2008)

The Open Knowledge Society: A Computer Science and Information Systems Manifesto: First World Summit on the Knowledge Society, WSKS 2008, Athens, Greece, ... in Computer and Information Science) by Miltiadis D. Lytras, John M. Carroll, Ernesto Damiani, and Robert D. Tennyson (Paperback - Oct 24, 2008)

Research Interests

- Knowledge Acquisition from the web
- Search Engines, Crawling and Indexing
- Ontologies, Domain Ontologies
- Semantic Annotation
- Metadata for Accessibile Learning Objects

70+ Apps, Search Engines and Resources for Free Learning

- Search engine rank #24 (between Cambridge University Podcasts and Harvard Business Online)

Memberships in professional societies

- IEEE Member
- IEEE Women in Engineering Member
- IEEE Computer Society Member
- IEEE Education Society Member
- AAAI Member
- ACM Member
- ACM SIG Memberr
- ACM Sigaccess Member
- SIAM Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
- ASEE American Society for Engineeing Education Member
- AIED Member
- EDUCAUSE Member
- Membre d' Alliance Française de Louisville


Contact Me	Contact My Advisors
leyla.zhuhadar@wku.edu	Main Advisor: Prof. Olfa Nasraoui: olfa.nasraoui@louisville.edu
leyla.zhuhadar@wku.edu	Advisor: Prof. Robert Wyatt: robert.wyatt@wku.edu