Omar Qawasmeh

PhD | Artificial intelligence (Semantic web and Natural language processing)
In September 2020, I got my Ph.D. degree in computer science, in artificial intelligence from Université de Lyon-France (thesis domain : AI, semantic web).
Currently, I'm a Data Scientist at Hybrid Intelligence- Capgemini Engineering group at Lyon, France.

Publications can be found at: Google scholar , and Researchgate
Detailed CV: in English , or in French (upon request)
Research statment: in English (upon request)

September 26, 1991 BIRTH
French- Jordanian NATIONALITY
Arabic (NATIVE), English (FULL PROFESSIONAL PROFICIENCY), and French (DELF B1) LANGUAGES

Education

Dec 2016 - Sep 2020

PhD in computer science

Thesis title: Towards A Collaborative Framework for Ontology Engineering: Impact on Ontology Evolution and Pitfalls in Ontology Networks and Versioned Ontologies

Defended successfully on 25/09/2020.

University of Lyon

France

Thesis supervisors: Prof. Pierre Maret , Dr. Maxime Lefrançois , and Dr. Antoine Zimmermann .

Feb 2014 - Sep 2016

MSc in computer science

Thesis title: Hybrid approach for event extraction from arabic tweets

Defended successfully on 24/05/2016

Jordan University of Science and Technology

Jordan

Thesis supervisor: Dr. Mohammad AL-Smadi

Sep 2009 - Feb 2014

BSc in computer science

Thesis title: Optical character recognition: a mobile application for capturing and managing medicines

Defended successfully on 13/01/2014

Jordan University of Science and Technology

Jordan

Thesis supervisor: Dr. Mahmoud ALshbool

Work Experience

March 2021- now

Data Scientist

Hybrid Intelligence-Capgemini Engineering

Lyon, France

January 2021 - March 2021

Data Scientist

Nextra Partners Advanced Technologies

Marseille, France

Feb 2020 - December 2020

Research and development engineer (Semantic web technologies)

École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint-Étienne

Saint-Etienne, France

Dec 2016- Dec 2019

Doctoral reseacher in semantic web technologies

Laboratoire Hubert Curien

Saint-Etienne, France

Oct 2017 - Nov 2017

Invited visitor

Fraunhofer-Institut für Intelligente Analyse- und Informationssysteme Fraunhofer IAIS | Schloss Birlinghoven

Sankt Augustin, Germany

2014- 2015

RESEARCHER IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING DOMAIN

Jordan University of Science and Technology

Irbid, Jordan

Other Experience

12 Feb 2018

Invited speaker at the ontology group at IRSTEA -Centre de Clermont-Ferrand

Presentation title: Collaborative ontology Development: focus on bootstrapping capabilities

Clermont-Ferrand, France

2016

SemEval-2016: International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation

Multilingual dataset support for aspect based sentiment analysis for arabic task

2016

SemEval-2016: International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation

Serve as a reviewer

2016

SNAMS 2016: The 3rd International Symposium on Social Networks Analysis, Management and Security

Serve as technical program committee (TPC)

2016

BDSN 2016: 4th International workshop on Big Data and Social Networking Management and Security

Serve as a reviewer

2017

ICICS2017: The 8th International Conference on Information and Communication Systems

Serve as PC member

Awards and activities

5 - 7 April 2017

Statlearn 2017 workshop

Lyon, France

3 - 7 June 2018

Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2018)

Demo paper: Computer-assisted Ontology Construction System: Focus on Bootstrapping Capabilities

Heraklion, Greece

14 June 2018

The price of ASEC association in the poster session at the day of research

Université Jean Monnet – Université de Lyon-France

1 - 7 July 2018

The International Semantic Web Research School (ISWS 2018)

Participated with a full scholarship to attend the summer school event

Bertinoro, Italy

15 - 18 OCT 2018

The Fifth International Conference on Social Networks Analysis, Management and Security (SNAMS 2018)

Valencia, Spain

12 - 16 NOV 2018

21st International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (EKAW-2018)

Doctoral Consortium paper: A Collaborative Framework for Ontology and Instance Data Co-Evolution and Extraction

Nancy, France

20 - 23 May 2019

LDK 2019 – 2nd Conference on Language, Data and Knowledge

Leipzig, Germany

17 - 19 SEP 2019

11th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development (KEOD 2019)

Conference paper: Observing the Impact and Adaptation to the Evolution of an Imported Ontology (candidate for best paper award)

Vienna, Austria