I received a PhD in Computer Science from Carleton University in 2010 and a Master of Science and Information System Science from Carleton University in 2003. Prior to joining Laurier, I was a full-time analyst/developer at the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) for 10 years, a partial professor at Algonquin College for three years and an instructor at Carleton University.

At CRA, I worked as a:

• senior business intelligence developer – DataStage, Control-M, ADW
• senior software developer – Java/J2EE, Weblogic, Struts/Tiles, JSP, Derby Database, Swing, Webstart
• software developer – SAP Security, ABAP

My research interest spans multiple computer science fields. These include software engineering, mobile and smart TV apps, semantic web, software fault-tolerance, natural language processing (NLP) and text mining, peer-to-peer systems, distributed computing and business intelligent.

Below are summaries of the three prime projects that I am currently working on:

• Building a Generic Framework for Live-streaming Apps
  • I have published three Android and two Samsung Smart TV Apps. The apps enable live streaming of more than 50 televisions and radio stations. I continue maintain and evolving these apps and work on building a generic architecture or a framework for building live streaming audio and video content delivery apps.
• NLP and Language Applications
  • I am establishing a novel research work to build a comprehensive application-programming interface (API) for resource constraints languages, e.g., Arabic, Kurdish and Farsi languages. The API can be used to build applications such as thesauri, spell-checker and word-bank applications and identifying the most frequent words used in theses languages.
• Agent-oriented Mobile Development
  • The novel features found in mobile devices present new challenges to application developers that are not found in traditional software applications. I am working on agent-oriented mobile development research where an application can sense and react to its surrounding environment to achieve its desired functional requirements.

I have research opportunities for undergraduate and gradate students interested in mobile applications, NLP and text mining. I am willing to supervise undergrad/graduate students in the area of software engineering, mobile application and NLP.

• Mawlood-Yunis, A.-R., A Live Streaming App for Android devices, 2019 International Conference on Computational Science and Computational Intelligence (CSCI).
• P. J. Muhammad Ali, N. M. Shafiq Surameery, A.-R. Mawlood-Yunis and L. S. Abdulrahman, Gender Prediction of Journalists from Writing Style. ARO, the Scientific Journal of Koya University Volume I, No 1(2013).
• Mawlood-Yunis, A.-R., Weiss, M., and Santoro, N., Reference Model for Semantic Peer-to-Peer Networks, S. Spaccapietra (Ed.) Journal on Data Semantics, XV, LNCS 6720, pp. 37-65, 2011.
• Mawlood-Yunis, A.-R., Weiss M., and Santoro, N. From P2P to Reliable Semantic P2P Systems, Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications Journal, (3): 363-381, 2010.
• Mawlood-Yunis, A.-R., Weiss, M., and Santoro, N., A Reference Model for Semantic Peer-to-Peer Networks, In Proceedings of 4th International MCETECH Conference on E-Technologies, LNBIP, pp: 313-394, 2009.
• Mawlood-Yunis, A.-R., Weiss, M., and Santoro, N., Fault-Tolerant Emergent Semantics in P2P Networks, In Cardoso, J., and Lytras, M. (eds.), Semantic Web Engineering in the Knowledge Society, 161-187, IGI Global, 2008.
• Mawlood-Yunis Abdul-Rahman. Reliable Peer-to-Peer Semantic Knowledge Sharing System. In Proceedings of 3rd International Workshop on Reliability in Decentralized Distributed Systems (RDDS), LNCS 5333, P: 894-0-903, 2008.
• Mawlood-Yunis Abdul-Rahman. Fault-tolerant Semantic Mappings Among Heterogeneous and Distributed Local Ontologies. In Proceedings of 2nd International workshop on Ontologies and Information Systems for the Semantic Web (ONISW), pp: 31-38, 2008.
• Mawlood-Yunis, A.-R., Weiss, M., and Santoro, N., Fault Classification in P2P Semantic Mapping. Workshop on Semantic Web for Collaborative Knowledge Acquisition (SWeCKa) at International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 2007.
• Mawlood-Yunis, A.-R., Weiss, M., and Santoro, N., Issues for Robust Consensus Building in P2P Networks. In International Workshop on Ontology Content and Evaluation in Enterprise (OnToContent), LNCS 4278, pp. 1020-1028, 2006.

• CP680 Capstone Project
• CP470 Android Programming
• CP670 Android Application Programming
• CP317 Software Engineering
• Object-Oriented Programming and Game Development

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