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I'm a forth year PhD student in the Computer Science Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara . My research interests lies in similarity search algorithms, parallel system performance and its applications. I'm currently using the distributed framework, Hadoop, (hence my logo is the yellow elephant). My advisor is Dr.Yang and I joined the CSE lab (5110) in Fall 2010.

Prior to comming to UCSB, I earned my CS Bachelor degree from Kuwait University, Kuwait in 2005. Then I earned my Masters at Yale University, New Haven, CT in 2008.

Research Interests

• Parallel Performance
• Similarity Search Algorithms
• Distributed Information Retrieval

Publications

• M. Alabduljalil, S. Xu, W.Miranker."Introducing Affect into Competitive Game Play", IEEE2008.
• S.Zhu,A.Potapova,M.Alabduljalil,X.Liu,T.Yang. "Clustering and Load Balancing Optimization for Redundant Content Removal",WWW2012.

Courses at UCSB

• 220: Theory of Computation and Complexity
• 263: Modern Programming Languages and Their Implementation
• 270: Advanced Operating Systems
• 272: Software Engineering
• 273: Data and Knowledge Bases
• 274: Advanced Topics in Database Systems
• CMPSC 8. Introduction to Computer Science - TA.
• CMPSC 16. Problem Solving with Computers I - TA.
• CMPSC 170. Operating Systems - TA.