Sami Taha

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Sami Taha Abu Snaineh attended Palestine Polytechnic University (PPU) from 1996 to 2001 to earn a B.Sc. in Computer Systems Engineering. From 2001 to 2003 he worked at PPU as Teaching Assistant. In the summer of 2003 he joined Maharishi University of Management (MUM) in professional master program in Computer Science. He earned M.Sc. in Computer Science from MUM in spring 2006. From 2005 to 2008 he worked at IBM/CDI as senior Software Engineer. He joined the University of Kentucky (UK) in 2009 to start graduate studies in Computer Science. While in UK Sami was awarded Kentucky Graduate Scholarship from 2009 to spring 2013. From 2009-2011 Sami worked as Teaching Assistant and Research Assistant for the Computer Science department at UK. He earned the award of the Teacher of the year in 2012. Sami also received a certificate in college teaching and learning from the Graduate School of UK.  In 2011 he joined Lexmark International/Aerotek as a senior Software Engineer for embedded systems. In 2014, Sami started Assistant Professor role at Palestine Polytechnic University in Palestine. In February 2016 Sami started a consultation job for the American Psychological Association as a team lead for publication solutions. Sami has strong experience in software development and optimization, Algorithms design and optimization, software development leadership, ontology design, Machine learning, data modeling, and NoSQL. Also Sami is very interested in research and development and innovation.