CAREER SUMMARY
An experienced and qualified Research Scientist with a specialty in Computing and with extensive 10+
years experience in research in Image & Video Processing, Video Retrieval Evaluation, Image
Segmentation, Object Tracking, Object Detection & Recognition, Gesture Recognition, Action & Activity
Recognition, and Pattern Recognition. In addition to the research work, experience in teaching,
analyzing, designing, tutoring, presenting ideas and technical experience using modern programming
languages are gained during work history.
EDUCATION
2010: Graduate of Leader’s Dallas Fort Worth (TX)
2004 – 2007: Doctor (Ph.D.) in Computing,Ireland
2000 2004: Master of Science (M.Sc.) in Computer Engineering , Egypt, G.P.A.: 4.0 (EXCELLENT)
1995 2000: Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) in Computer Engineering, Egypt, G.P.A.: 3.92 (EXCELLENT WITH HONOR)
PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATIONS
2005: Confidential, Bonn, Germany
2004: CISCO certified network administrator (CCNA) training course
2003: International Computer Driving License (ICDL)
1999: Training in labs for installing local area network
1998: A Hardware training summer
HONOURS & AWARDS
2010: Sigma Xi (Scientific Research Society) NIST chapter nominee
2004: Award of School of Computing (full Ph.D. Scholarship), Ireland
2000: Postgraduate Scholarship for M.Sc.,Egypt
1995 – 2000: Undergraduate Scholarship, Egypt
SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

• graduate of an Egyptian Academy that is approved by SCEU and the British Engineering Professionals
• Institutes
• PhD from Ireland’s most innovative university that is recognized both nationally & internationally
• professional certifications
• 7 + years experience in Teaching
• 10 + years experience in Research
• possess technical hands on as well as scholarly experience
• author of peer reviewed, non
• peer reviewed papers, and journal publications
• reviewer for international journals
• produced interactive demos
• presented scholarly papers at international conferences

WORK HISTORY
2007 – Present: Guest Computer Scientist (Video Retrieval Group)
Confidential
Confidential, MD, USA
Responsibilities
Supports organizing the worldwide video retrieval (TRECVID) workshop

• Prepares development and testing datasets for TRECVID tasks
• Develops evaluation software for assessing system runs
• Develops assessment software for human judging
• Supports human judging for creating ground truth data
• Supports designing new video retrieval tasks
• Performs research in video processing
• Acts as project leader backup
• writing and reviewing academic paper publications

2004 – 2007: Ph.D. Student
Dublin, Ireland
Responsibilities

• Ph.D. research and paper publications
• Tutors undergraduate computer science courses
• Invigilates exams

2000 – 2008: Lecturer Assistant
Computer Engineering Department
Confidential Egypt
Responsibilities

• Tutors undergraduate courses
• Prepares quizzes for undergraduate students
• Invigilates exams
• Prepares course materials and notes
• Helps with academic advising and registering students
• Prepares timetables for lecturers, tutors, students, and labs

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
2007 – Present: Computer vision, Image & video processing, video retrieval task design and evaluation, USA
2004 – 2007: Image & Video Processing, Pattern Recognition, Gesture Recognition, Sign
Language Recognition, Object Tracking, Object Recognition, Image Segmentation
Dublin, Ireland
2002 – 2004: Medical Image Compression
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2000 – 2009: Lecturer Assistant in Computer Engineering Department, Arab Academy for Science &
Technology, Alexandria, Egypt
Courses delivered: Introduction to computers, Structured Programming, Programming
Applications, Digital Logic Design, Data Structure, Advanced Programming, Discrete
Mathematics, Data Acquisition, Assembly Language, Introduction to software
engineering, Introduction to microprocessors, Prolog
COMMUNITY EXPERIENCE
2009 Present: Coordinator for Married Couples Ministry
St. Mary’s Coptic Orthodox Church, Savage, MD
2009: Individual walker and fundraiser for March for Babies
King Farm Park, Rockville MD, USA
2004 – 2007: Sunday School Teacher
St. Mary and St. Demiana Coptic Orthodox Church, Dublin, Ireland
1993 1995: Sunday School Teacher
St. George & St. Anthony Coptic Orthodox Church, Alexandria, Egypt
CONFERENCE PUBLICATIONS: (PEER REVIEWED)

• George, H. Junwei, S. Alistair, “Novel boosting framework for subunitbased sign language
• recognition”, Proc. 16th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP2009), Cairo, Egypt,
• Nov. 711, 2009.
• O. Paul, A. George, S. Alan, F. Colum and L. James, “Creating a webscale video collection for research”,
• Proc. 1st International Workshop on WebScale Multimedia Corpus, WSMC09, in conjunction with ACM
• International Conference on Multimedia, Beijing, China , Oct. 23, 2009.
• O. Paul, S. Alan, A. George, “The Trecvid 2008 BBC Rushes Summarization Evaluation”, Proc. Trecvid BBC
• Rushes Summarization Workshop TVS2008, Vancouver, BC, Canada, Oct. 2731, 2008.
• H. Junwei, A. George, S. Alistair, “Subunit Boundary Detection for Sign Language Recognition Using
• Spatio temporal Modelling”, Proc. 5th International Conference on Computer Vision systems ICVS2007,
• Germany, 2124 March, 2007.
• Thommas, A. George, H. Junwei, S. Alistair, “Real Time Hand Gesture Recognition Including Hand
• Segmentation and Tracking”, Proc. 2nd International Symposium on Visual Computing, ISVC06,
• Nevada,USA, Nov. 68, 2006.
• George, H. Junwei, S. Alistair, “A unified system for segmentation and tracking of face and hands in
• sign language recognition”, Proc. 18th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, ICPR2006,
• HongKong, August 2024, 2006.
• H. Junwei, A. George, S. Alistair, “Automatic Skin Segmentation for Gesture Recognition Combining
• Region and Support Vector Machine Active Learning”, Proc. 7th International Conference on Automatic
• Face and Gesture Recognition, FG2006, Southampton, UK, April 1012, 2006.
• E. Yasser, H. Meer, B. George, “QuadtreeBased Centroid Technique for Compressing Sets of Similar
• Medical Images”, Proc. 4th International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and
• Applications,ISDA 2004, Budapest, Hungary,2004.
• E. Yasser, H. Meer, B. George, “Enhanced Centroid Technique for Compressing Sets of Similar Medical
• Images”, Proc. 46th IEEE Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Dec. 2730, Cairo, Egypt, 2003.
• E. Yasser, H. Meer, B. George ,“Compressing Sets of Similar Medical Images Using Multilevel Centroid
• Technique”, Proc. VIIth International Conference on Digital Image Computing: Techniques and
• Applications, pp. 791800, DICTA2003, Sydney, Australia,2003.
• H. Meer, B. George, A. Iman, “Enhancing Mobile Agent Communication Performance ”, Proc. ISCA 3rd
• International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration, Nevada, USA,2001.

JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS
H. Junwei, A. George, S. Alistair, “Boosted Subunits: A Framework for Recognizing Sign Language from
Videos”, International Journal of Computer Systems Science and Engineering, under review
H. Junwei, A. George, S. Alistair, “Modelling and Segmenting Subunits for Sign Language Recognition
Based on Hand Motion Analysis”, Pattern Recognition Letters, 30(6), 623633, 2009
H. Junwei, A. George, S. Alistair, “Automatic Skin Segmentation and Tracking in Sign Language
Recognition”, Computer Vision, IET. Volume 3, 2435, 2009
H. Meer, A. George, A. Iman, “Enhancing Mobil Agent Communication Performance”, International
Journal of Computers and Applications, volume 27, 1276 – 1283, 2005.
NONPEER REVIEWED PAPERS
O. Paul, A. George, F. Jonathan, A. Brian, M. Martial, S. Alan, K. Wessel, and Q. Georges, TRECVID
2010 An Overview of the Goals, Tasks, Data, Evaluation Mechanisms, and Metrics. In Proceedings of
TRECVID 2010, 2010, Maryland, USA.
O. Paul, A. George, R. Travis, F. Jonathan, K. Wessel, and S. Alan, TRECVID 2009 Goals, Tasks, Data,
Evaluation Mechanisms and Metrics. In Proceedings of TRECVID 2009, 2009, Maryland, USA.
O. Paul, A. George, R. Travis, F. Jonathan, K. Wessel, and S. Alan, TRECVID 2008 Goals, Tasks, Data,
Evaluation Mechanisms and Metrics. In Proceedings of TRECVID 2008, 2008. Maryland, USA.
O.Paul, A.George, K.Wessel, S.Alan, Trecvid 2007 Overview, Proc. TRECVID 2007, 2007, Maryland, USA.
DEMOS PRESENTED
A. George, C. Tommy, H. Junwei, S. Alistair, “RealTime Hand Gesture Segmentation, Tracking and
Recognition”, 9th European Conference on Computer Vision, ECCV2006, Graz, Austria, May 7 13, 2006.

REVIEWER FOR JOURNALS
1 Pattern Recognition Letters
PRESENTATIONS
A. George, “Sign Language Recognition from RealTime Video”, BellLabs, Ireland, Jan. 26, 2007
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Image & Video Processing, Video Retrieval Evaluation, Image Segmentation, Object Tracking, Object
Detection & Recognition, Gesture Recognition, Action & Activity Recognition, Face Recognition, Pattern
Recognition
TECHNICAL EXPERTISE

• Programming Languages: Perl, C/C++, Matlab, Visual Basic, MQL
• Video libraries & tools: VirtualDub, ffmpeg, AVISynth, mencoder, mplayer, OpenCV
• Internet Tools: HTML
• Database Engines: MS access
• Operating Systems: Linux/ Windows