Associate Professor of Computer Science
434.544.8840
kurdi_m@lynchburg.edu
Hobbs-Sigler Hall 105
Dr. Kurdi joined the University of Lynchburg in 2016.
Experience
- June 2022-now, Associate Professor, University of Lynchburg, Virginia, USA
- June 2016-2022, Assistant Professor, University of Lynchburg, Virginia, USA
- 2014-2016, Visiting Professor, University of Delaware, DE, USA
- 2010-2013, Tenured Assistant Professor, Higher Institute of Languages, Baath University, Homs, Syria
- 2009, Visiting Professor, TAMALE lab, University of Ottawa, Canada
- 2007-2010, Assistant Professor at MUST, Aleppo
- 2006-2011, Lecturer, University of Aleppo
- 2001-2003, Research Assistant, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
Education
- PhD in Computer Science – Joseph Fourier University, France
- MS in Software Engineering – Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint Etienne, France
- MS in Cognitive Science – Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble, France
- BA in Linguistics – Université Lumière, France
Additional Training
- CSTA Conference, Nebraska, Omaha, 2018.
- European Summer School in Language Logic and Information (ESSLLI99) – Utrecht University, Netherlands
- ESSLLI00 – University of Birmingham, UK
- Summer School on Language and Speech Communication (ELSNET02) – University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
Courses Taught
- CS 141 Introduction to Structured Programming I (C++)
- CS 142 Introduction to Structured Programming II (C++)
- CS 370 Database Management Systems
- CS 373 Machine Learning
- CS 390 Data Mining
Honors and Awards
- 2022 – Best paper award International Conference MLDM 2022
- 2019 – Nominated to best paper award International FLAIRS-32 conference, Sarasota, Florida.
- 2018 – DuPont Summer Innovative Teaching Grant
- 2017 – Best paper award ICISDN conference, Charleston, SC.
- 2014 – Fellowship from the Institute of International Education (IIE)
- 2006 – Postdoctoral fellowship from the Association of French Speaking Universities (AUF) for a research project about Intelligent Tutoring Systems.
Organization Membership
- The Association of Computing Machinery (ACM)
- The Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA)
Research Interests
- Text & Data Mining
- Intelligent Tutoring Systems
- Social Network Analysis
- Cognitive modeling of spoken language
- Spoken language disfluencies
Books
- M.Z. Kurdi, (2016), Natural Language Processing and Computational Linguistics 1: Speech, Morphology, and Syntax, ISTE-Wiley, ISBN 1848218486.
- M.Z. Kurdi, (2017), Natural Language Processing and Computational Linguistics 2: semantics, discourse, and applications, ISTE-Wiley, ISBN 9781848212.
- M.Z. Kurdi, (2017), Traitement Automatique des Langues et Linguistique Informatique 1: Parole, Morphologie et Syntaxe, ISTE, ISBN 9781784051846.
- M.Z. Kurdi, (2018), Traitement Automatique des Langues et Linguistique Informatique 2: Sémantique, Discours et Applications, ISTE, ISBN 1784051853.
Selected Papers
- KURDI, MZ, (2022), Identifying and Analyzing Communities within a Social Network using Automatic Topic Labelling: Application to the Enron Dataset, 18th International Conference on Machine Learning and Data Mining, July 16 – 21, New York, USA
- KURDI, MZ, (2020), Text Complexity Classification Based on Phonological, Morphological, Lexical, Syntactic, and Discursive Information: application to intelligent tutoring of ESL, Journal of Data Mining and Digital Humanity 2020 (1), 1-40.
- KALINOWSKY, Casey, KURDI, MZ, (2019), A Topic-based Forensic Analysis and Visualization of an Email network: Application to the Enron Dataset, Journal of Engineering, Science, and Computing (JESC) 1 (2), 1-22, October.
- KURDI, MZ, (2019), Measuring content complexity of technical texts: machine learning experiments, in Seiji Isotani, Eva Millán, Amy Ogan, Peter Hastings, Bruce McLaren, Rose Luckin (editors), Artificial Intelligence in Education, Part I, Springer, PP. 148-152.
- HALABI, Ammar, ISLIM, Derar, KURDI, MZ, (2010), A Hybrid Approach for Indexing and Retrieval of Archaeological Textual Information, in Rossitza Setchi, Ivan Jordanov, Robert J. Howlett, Lakhmi C. Jain, Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems Lecture Notes in Computer Science Volume 6279, 2010, pp 527-535.
- KURDI, MZ, (2000), A semantic based approach to spoken dialogue understanding, in D-N Christodoulakis (editor), Natural Language Processing – NLP’00, Lecture notes in Artificial Intelligence 1835, Berlin: Springer.