Name:
Email:
Muhammad K. Ghanbari, Computer Science dept.
Muhammad.ghanbari@aamu.edu
Dr. Ghanbari has more than 34 years of programming and teaching experiences in
Computer Science. He has taught all courses in computer science in BS and MS level and
some in PhD level somewhere else.
He also has more than 20 years of experience with RDBMS, Oracle, including system
design, implementation, test, and maintenance on large systems. He has worked four
years at Colsa and NAS(1989-1993); He was a system programmer for NASA
(System programmer for CLOSA and head of image processing and graphic on AHCS,
Advance Helicopter Control System, NAS 1990-1992).
Since 1977, he has taught in computer science departments as Instructor, Assistant
Professor, and Associate Professor: including hardware and software technical course
work. Has taught Ada, FORTRAN, C, C++, Snowball, COBOL, Python, Assembly, Java,
Visual Basic, Compilers, Web Design (with different packages, special software for robot
and DBMS design, Data Mining, and Visualization.
1998-2001
Associate Dean of School of Computer Science and Engineering &
Technology for two years, prior to moving to Alabama. (Ajman University of Science &
Technology, 1998-1999 )
Education
Ph.D.
University of Alabama in Huntsville
Computer Engineering
Signal processing, spectral analysis, image processing. 1993
M.S. (1977), Central Michigan University.
Computer Science
B.S. (1970), University of Tabriz,
Mathematics
Had special Training at Oak-Ridge National Lab on Designing special purpose processor
for application in nuclear physics. (One year). Motorola 6800, and later 68000 series.
I was a Member of a group with the assignment of investigating applicability of
macrocode control of computer, design, and implementation for use in nuclear plan
environments. Supervisor: Clyde B. Fulmer My 1978-Jan 1979.
Experience (teaching & research)
1985-1990 & 2001 – Present. Alabama A&M University, Computer Science Dept.
Assistant Professor of Computer Science, with responsibility for computer hardware and
software courses at both the graduate and undergraduate level.
1998-2001 Ajman University of Science & Technology, UAE.
Responsible for Computer Science courses and also design and implementing their
DBMS System on Oracle.
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1997-1998
University of Tehran, Responsible for Computer Science courses and
development and design of new DBMS system for Communication Center of Ministry of
Energy & Power, Tehran, Iran.
1995-1997
Taught graduate courses, OS, software Engineering at Industrial and
Technology University of Iran, Tehran; and Consultant for municipality of Tehran in
computer networking project.
1993-1995
EPRC (Energy and power Research Center) of Iran,
Design, Implementation and Maintenance of Oracle DBMS System.
Taught graduate courses in computer architecture and software Engineering for
University of Tehran, Iran.
1991-1993
COLSA Corp. Supported MICOM RDEC G&C with signal processing
and other radar tasks for support to MLRS TGW program. (Missile Command Research
and Development Center, AHCS, Advance Helicopter Control System).
September 1989- July 1991: NAS Inc. as a Senior Software Engineer was responsible for
the image processing hardware/software design and integration for the advanced
helicopter control system (AHCS).
September 1985 – September 1989 Alabama A&M University, Assistant Professor.
Teaching graduate and undergraduate courses in Computer Science Dept.
September 1983 – September 1985 Tuskegee University, Assistant Professor.
Responsible for software and hardware courses in Computer Science Dept.
September 1978- September 1983 University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Lab Instructor
,Image Processing, Computer Vision and Graphics.
Educational Membership:
 IEEE Computer Society, Image Processing, Data Mining, Database
 ACM Database, Data mining
 ASEE
 AAUP member
 Faculty participation in MANET ( helping students and professional with
Wireless network questions).
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HUNTUG (local chapter’s member of Microsoft for Advancement of Visual
Programming)& teaching two of their OCP courses, as volunteer work for
community and city.
Faculty senate and member of the following subcommittees:
- Evaluation Instruments committee
- Faculty staff Handbook
- Program reviews of senate.
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Publications and Awards:
 Numerous LAB manual for C++, C, DBMS, Networking and recently working on
LAB manual and Implementation of Data Mining LAB for A&M.
o Create a package of 16 programs that was used for data Mining lab.
o Manual for C++
 Help McGraw-Hill company on editing Object-oriented Book (Object Oriented
analysis and Design, by Stephen R. Schach with ISBN: 0-07-121510-7 .Mc GrawHill 2004 )
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Winner of best published paper in DBMS (IRAN) (Ministry of power and energy,
IRAN June 22, 1996)
Wrote 6 papers in area of communication and computer for MATN (center for
energy & power research)
Teaching Microsoft .NET (certification) as A&M helps of community through
HUNTUG group (local chapter of advancement of programming).
Published Papers:
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Parallel programming and associative rule in data mining, submitted March 3rd
2006, IEEE conference in Cookeville, TN. (Published and copy is attached)
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Lightening produced NOx over the Southern United States, submitted Sep 27-29,
Casa Science Symposium on Nitrogen. Canada, 2006. (Published and copy is
attached)
 Overview of Visualization in data mining, 39th Southeast Symposium on
System Theory, SSST 39, IEEE March 24, 2007. Mercer University, Georgia.
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The 20th consortium for computing Science in Colleges, Nashville, TN, session
preside and member of evaluating paper in data mining, database, and Image
processing. 2008.
Deploying DBMS issues on Cloud Computing platform, Mid-Southeast ACM,
Nov. 11-12, Gatlinburg, TN 2010.
Accepted paper for publication on ITA 2011: International Conference on
Information Theory and Application, Singapore. (Cloud and DBMS, copy is
attached )
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Published Book:
 A pragmatic Approach to Object Oriented Programming in C++,
ISBN #: 1-60797-190-9. Copyright by Linus Publisher, Inc. Deer Park NY
11729, 2011.
Mentoring Activities or Retention Activities:
 Introducing different classes in weekend to help students with programming(free)
 Introducing several short courses in weekend preparing our student for taking
OCP in ORACLE database system
 Member of Changing Lanes First Year Mentoring program
Member of Different Committee in Department and University
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Graduate Coordinator (2004-2008)
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Served as Graduate advisors for CS majors.
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Member of Faculty Senate (2002-2008)
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Served as member of mentoring program
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Head of committee for supervising the maintenance of labs (past and present)
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Head of committee to revise curriculum, text books, update programming LABs.
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Supervised 12 M. S. graduate students.
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Introducing graduate and undergraduate courses for department.
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Data mining which replaced cmp513
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CMP381, which is combination of CMP380 and CMP303 with new syllabus
(Willie Bossie & Muhammad Ghanbari)
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CMP221, which is combination of CMP208 and CMP220 with new
syllabus(Willie Bossie & Muhammad Ghanbari)
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Working on lab materials for CMP208, CMP220. (Willie Bossie & Muhammad
Ghanbari)
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Update syllabus for CMP384, espacially modified for ABET & SACS
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Member of graduate Council of University (2005-2007)
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Member of Committee for appointing graduate’s courses faculty.
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Member of Search committee for Dean of Engineering & Technology, 2006.
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Recruiting new students from Calhoun College and working on their syllabus and
courses to be accepted here at A&M.
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STEM participation and working with student on presenting a paper that won the
first prize.
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Served as the Department’s SPOL Coordinator.
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Working with health and wellness center and writing and implementing a
program for calculation of extra weight and fat, and Calories needed.
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Donation of text books and IEEE and ACM magazine in networking, Data
Mining, to our school’s Library.
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Defending Cyber Borders – Beyond the Virtual Maginot Line, OCT 25,
2012. Interactivecast presented by 1105 Media and Cisco GovEDUTV.
Review paper for ACTA PRESS, journals@actapress.com
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 Review paper: 202-3694
 Journal: International Journal of Computers and Applications
AN EFFICIENT APPROACH FOR MINING OF CUSTOMER WALKING PATH
SEQUENCE FROM RFID DATA
Review paper: 202-3549
Journal: International Journal of Computers and Applications
SELECTIVE VALUE DIFFERENCE METRIC
 Version 0: OCT 04 2012
 Author: Chaoqun Li and Hongwei Li
 Version 1: April 30, 2012
 Author: Mr. Srinivas Rao, K. And Mr. K R Chandran
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Review paper: 202-3699
Journal: International Journal of Computers and Applications
A METHOD FOR DUPLICATION DETECTION BY EXPLORATION AND
EXPLOITATION OF OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHM
Version 0, Oct 08 2012
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