Abdulwahab Alkharashi, PhD
Assistant Professor at Saudi Electronic University
Assistant Professor in AI and Cybersecurity
Targeting research projects related to applied machine learning in social systems. In particular, I design effective approaches to cope/capture abusive behaviour in social networking sites. The research interests include:
• Social Computing / Computational Social Science
• Cyber Security
• Machine Learning
• Big Data
Saudi Electronic University
https://sa.linkedin.com/company/saudi-electronic-university
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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Assistant Professor
Saudi Electronic University
https://sa.linkedin.com/company/saudi-electronic-university
-Prepare lectures for undergraduate and graduate students. 
-Develop and supervised various laboratory activities for computer science courses. 
-Assist students in recruitment and outreach activities. 
-Evaluate department programs and participated in committees. 
-Administer research programs and obtained funding for it. 
-Monitor department programs and associated activities. 
-Determine appropriate research programs for computer science students.
Saudi Arabia
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Lecturer in Computer Science
University of Glasgow
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Teach and mark computer science courses include: 
• Postgraduate level: Big Data Systems (H, M and SIT), Recommender Systems
(H and M) Human-Centred Security (H and M), Machine Learning for Data
Scientists (M), Advanced Programming (IT)
• Undergraduate level 3 and 4: Algorithms and Data Structures (H), Programming Languages (H), Interactive Systems (H)
• Undergraduate level 2: Java Programming, Algorithmic Foundations, Networks and Operating Systems
•Undergraduate level 1: Computing Fundamentals, Computer Systems, Computational Thinking, Programming in Python
Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Academic Tutor
University of Glasgow
https://sa.linkedin.com/company/university-of-glasgow
The aim of the project is to investigate user’s trust in and legibility comprehension of online content moderation and its impacts on public discourse and influences on user decision-making behaviour in online settings in online of content moderation caused shaped by human, technology-assisted human and fully automated moderation
Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Research Assistant
University of Glasgow
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Mark final exams and assessment for undergraduate and postgraduate students at school of computing.
Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Teaching Assistant
University of Glasgow
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The described project is a collaboration between Social Sciences and Computing Science. The purpose of this project is to construct a dataset of images of war taken from social media platforms, along with their context (descriptions and metadata). The dataset is used to investigate how representations of war on social media changes over time. The dataset is also used to interpret the relationships between representations of different wars over time. For example, we investigate how representations of older wars are related to contemporary conflicts.
Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Computational Scientist
Indiana University Bloomington
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Provide online tutorials of Python and R for data science students.
Bloomington, Indiana, United States
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Instructor
Indiana University Bloomington
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Bloomington, Indiana Area
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Graduate Research Associate
Riyadh Oxygen Plant
- Configure and installs different operating systems in response to the demands of a complex network  design.
- Train end-users on the use and features of the various operating systems and applications on the various platforms.
-  Writes scripts and batch files as needed to enhance the function of the operating system.
-  Enforces the District’s network security and installation procedures. 
-  Identifies, troubleshoots and resolves hardware-, software- and network-related problems encountered by end-users of the District network, the Internet, the mainframe, PCs and Macintoshes and new computer technology.
Saudi Arabia
Network Support Technician
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD
Computer Science
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University of Glasgow
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Master's degree
Data Science
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Indiana University Bloomington
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Master's Degree
Computer Science
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DePaul University
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Bachelor's degree
-President of Saudi Students Organization at Ohio State university  (Autumn 2011- Spring 2012) 
- A member in Aerial Robotics project team at the Ohio State University. Each group of us has an opportunity to participate in different tasks to win the international Aerial Robotics competition. My group is responsible for designing the Arial object.(Autumn 2009-Summer 2011) 
- A member in IEEE organization. Participated in engineering career services event at OSU (Autumn 2009)
Computer Science and Engineering
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The Ohio State University
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Associate's degree
Network and System Administration/Administrator
Alkhaleej Institute for Applied Science
Online abusive behaviour can impact interaction amongst contributors and moderators. It may lead to physical harm or threats. Existing research has not addressed the perception of moderation activity, discussion and disagreement can cause contributors to react aggressively.  The findings have conceptualised the development of moderation systems to combat online abusive behaviour, based on analysis of the type of disagreement a contribution embodies and other linguistic and behavioural characteristics.
Exploring the Characteristics of Abusive Behaviour in Online Social Media settings
University of Glasgow
https://theses.gla.ac.uk/82389/
Online discussion platforms can face multiple challenges of abusive behaviour. In order to understand the reasons for persisting such behaviour, we need to understand how users behave inside and outside a community. In this paper, we propose a novel methodology to generate a dataset from offline and online group discussion conversations. We advocate an empirical-based approach to explore the space of abusive behaviour. We conducted a user-study (N = 15) to understand what factors facilitate or amplify forms of behaviour in cases of online conversation that are less likely to be tolerated in face-to-face. The preliminary analysis validates our approach to analyse large-scale conversation dataset.
Understanding Abusive Behaviour Between Online and Offline Group Discussions
Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI'19)
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3290607.3299042
The advent of crowdsourcing has brought with it multiple privacy challenges. For example, essential monitoring activities, while necessary and unavoidable, also potentially compromise contributor privacy. We conducted an extensive literature review of the research related to the privacy aspects of crowdsourcing. Our investigation revealed interesting gender differences and also differences in terms of individual perceptions. We conclude by suggesting a number of future research directions.
Privacy in Crowdsourcing: A Systematic Review
21st International Conference, ISC 2018, Guildford, UK, September 9–12, 2018, Proceedings
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-99136-8_21
Modern online discussion communities allow people to contribute, sometimes anonymously. Such flexibility sometimes threatens the reputation and reliability of community-owned resources. Such flexibility is understandable, however, they engender threats to the reputation and reliability in collective goods. Since not a lot of previous work addressed these issues it is important to study the aforementioned issues to build an innate understanding of recent ongoing vandalism of Wikipedia pages and ways to preventing those.

In this study, we consider the type of activity that the anonymous users carry out on Wikipedia and also contemplate how others react to their activities. In particular, we want to study vandalism of Wikipedia pages and ways of preventing this kind of activity. Our preliminary analysis reveals (~ 90%) of the vandalism or foul edits are done by unregistered users in Wikipedia due to nature of openness. The community reaction seemed to be immediate: most vandalisms were reverted within five minutes on an average. Further analysis shed light on the tolerance of Wikipedia community, reliability of anonymous users revisions and feasibility of early prediction of vandalism.
Vandalism on Collaborative Web Communities: An Exploration of Editorial Behaviour in Wikipedia
ACM Conference on Information Retrieval
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3230599.3230608
Quipper is the most recently developed quantum programming language. In this work, we provide brief background information about Quipper and use its framework to demonstrate the implementation of five non-trivial reversible gates. Each gate works as a full adder gate. We will use a Quipper simulator to run a simulation for each gate on a classical computer.
Five reversible quantum gates in Quipper
IEEE Conference: 2016 Future Technologies Conference (FTC)
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7821746
The next big entrant into the interconnected family of the Internet of Things (IoT) is the smartwatch, which brings together a range of functionalities hitherto provided separately by traditional watch and the smartphone. While a lot of studies have focused on the technical/security aspects of the smartwatch, not much attention has been given to the user and privacy aspects of the smartwatch. In this work, we begin an exploratory user study aimed at assessing the privacy-awareness of American College students, their attitude towards privacy, and how that level of awareness and their privacy attitudes factor into their smartwatch-related privacy-enhancing behavior. For this study, we focus on the IUB student community as a starting point. This study has far-reaching implications for the evaluation of smartwatch-related privacy issues, as it highlights the importance and significance of the role of the user. The user perspectives highlighted will also better serve the needs of the smartwatch design community.
Privacy risk awareness and the behavior of smartwatch users: A case study of Indiana University students
IEEE Conference: 2016 Future Technologies Conference (FTC)
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7821714
Awarded research grant (£7,257.00) for interdisciplinary research project.
Human Data Interaction: EPSRC Network Plus
Public Trust and Understanding of Online Content Moderation, and its Impacts on Public Discourse
Awarded Travel Award to present the paper in CHI’ 19 (Spring 2019).
University of Glasgow
Travel Award
Awarded Travel Award to present two papers in FTC’ 16 (Fall 2016).
Indiana University-Bloomington
Travel Award
Awarded Graduate Assistantships (Fall 2015 - Spring 2017)
Indiana University-Bloomington
Graduate Assistantships
Dean’s List (Spring 2009).
Ohio State University
Dean’s List
Before I joined OSU, I started my first year of undergraduate study at IUSB and received an offer of the William J. Knight Scholarship during  (Spring 2008).
Indiana University-South Bend
Awarded William J. Knight Scholarship
Awarded the King Abdullah Scholarship Program in 2006.
Ministry of Higher Education, KSA
King Abdullah Scholarship Program Award
Predict users' rating behavior and business labels from text reviews.
Yelp Dataset Challenge
https://github.com/aalkharashi/YelpDatasetChallenge
In the event that your phone is lost or stolen, this application package will assist in physically 
locating it. The application can retrieve GPS coordinates of the phone's location , emit an audible, beep to assist in physically locating the phone and hides application icon to hide the application
Find and Monitor my Phone for android OS
- Develop Friendly user interface in Android based application to conduct research  experiments for chemistry students.
- Extract and input experiment data to interact between server and sensor motes.
- Develop all possible application functionalities including graphing.
Portable MiniArry Kit web server and mobile application for android OS
IGS needs a centralized data store to capture offers from its competitors, track them over time, and compare them to its own offers. An offer is the way in which IGS sells gas and electricity to its customers.
Development of computer information system for IGS
The College of Engineering at The Ohio State University
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