Abdulhussain E. Mahdi

Personal Web Page: http://www.ece.ul.ie/index.php/contacts/academic.html
Affiliation: University of Limerick - Department of Electronic & Computer Engineering
Email: hussain.mahdi@ul.ie
Country: Ireland

Relevant Publications:

  • Joorabchi, A. and Mahdi A. E., Towards Linking Libraries and Wikipedia: Automatic Subject Indexing of Library Records with Wikipedia Concepts. Journal of Information Science, 40, 2 (2014), 211-221. DOI: 10.1177/0165551513514932
  • Joorabchi A. and Mahdi A. E., Classification of Scientific Publications According to Library Controlled Vocabularies: A New Concept Matching-based Approach. Library Hi Tech, 31, 4 (2013), 725-747. DOI: 10.1108/LHT-03-2013-0030
  • Joorabchi, A. and Mahdi A. E., Automatic keyphrase annotation of scientific documents using Wikipedia and genetic algorithms. Journal of Information Science, 39, 3 (2013), 410-426. DOI: 10.1177/0165551512472138

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Abdulhussain E. Mahdi is a senior lecturer at the Department of Electronic & Computer Engineering, University of Limerick (UL), Ireland. He is Director of the Regional Peer-Supported Learning Centre - UL and Joint Director of the ICT Learning Centre – UL. He is also Course Director of the Graduate Diploma/MEng in Computer Engineering programme, and the Higher Diploma in Mobile & Secure Cloud Computing programme offered by UL. He is a Chartered Engineer (CEng), Member of the Institution of Engineering and Technology - UK (IET), and Member of the Engineering Council - UK. Dr. Mahdi is a graduate in Electrical Engineering from University of Basrah (BSc 1st Class Hon. 1978) and earned his PhD in Electronic Engineering at University of Wales – Bangor, UK in 1990. He is also a SEDA Accredited Teacher of Higher Education (University of Plymouth, UK 1998). His current research focuses on signal, speech and natural language processing, data mining and machine learning and their applications in text analytics, information retrieval, organisation and processing, as well as in biomedical sensors and DSP-based controllers. His research interests also include peer-supported and collaborative learning, student-centred active learning, and teaching & learning innovation and practices in ICT education. Dr Mahdi is the Leader of the SSLP (Signal, Speech and Language Processing) research team at the Department of Electronic & Computer Engineering, and joint leader of the Research & Practice in ICT Teaching and Learning team, both at UL. He has authored and co-authored more than 128 peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters and conference papers, and has edited one book. 402 times / h-index/i10-index 11 (Source: Google /Scholar, April 2015) / 183 times (Source: Scopus, April 2015) / 132 times / h-index 7(Source: ISI–WoK, April 2015).

Papers By: Abdulhussain E. Mahdi