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\bioitem{Name:}{M. A. Saleh Elmohammed}
\bioitem{Date of Birth:}{February 5, 1958}
\bioitem{Place of Birth:}{Dhahran, Saudi Arabia}
\mbioitem{Education:}
        {M.Sc., Computer Science, \\
	 Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, USA 1995 \\
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         B.Sc., Computer Science and Mathematics , Michigan, USA 1982}
\mbioitem{Awards and Honors:}
        {Research Fellowships: 1983-84 Oregon State University, 1986-89 and 1992-94
         government fellowship award, 1994-2000 Northeast Parallel Architectures 
         Center at Syracuse University, Best Student Scholar Award, EMU, 1981}
\mbioitem{Experience:}
	{Research Scientist, NPAC, Syracuse University, 1994-2000 \\
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	 Teaching Assistant, ECE Department, Syracuse University, 1996-98 \\
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	 Software Engineer/Information Scientist, ARAMCO, London, UK, Dhahran, 
         SA 1982-83, 1984-85 \\
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	 Visiting Scholar, Computer Science, Oregon State University, OR 1983-84 \\}
\mbioitem{Professional Affiliations:}
	{IEEE \& IEEE Computer Society \\
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	 Association for Computer Machinery (ACM)}
\mbioitem{Related Publications:}
{ * {\em ``Synchronization Methods for Collaborative Scientific Applications,''}
	   NPAC Technical Report, submitted for publication, September 2000. \\
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 * {\em ``Integration of Java-based Educational Scientific Tools with 
          Collaboratory System (Tango): Case Study of Fluid Flow and Monte Carlo 
          Simulation,''}
	  NPAC Technical Report, submitted for publication, October 2000. \\
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 * {\em ``Computational Methods for Scientists and Engineers - 
          CEWES Computational Science Tools,''}
          US Army Corps of Engineers, CD-ROM volume I and II, 1998-99. \\
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 * {\em ``Some Issues of Reducibility and Equivalence in Feedforward 
          Neural Networks,''}
          NPAC Tech Report SCCS-770, Syracuse University, 1997. 
          (revised Feb 2000, to appear in IEEE Trans. on Neural Networks 2001)\\
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 * {\em ``A Comparison of Annealing Techniques for Academic Course Scheduling,''}
          Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 1408, 1998.
          (revised version to appear in Journal of Heuristics, also NPAC Tech Report SCCS-777, 1997)\\
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 * {\em ``Optimization Networks and Annealing for Scheduling on Clusters of Workstations,''}
          NPAC Technical Report SCCS-1030, Syracuse University. 
          (Revised 12/1999, to appear in
          Concurrency: Practice and Experience 2001)\\
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 * {\em ``Academic Scheduling using Simulated Annealing with a Rule-based Preprocessor,''}
          NPAC Technical Report SCCS-781, Syracuse University, Feb 1997.\\
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 * {\em ``Mean Field Annealing and non-Euclidean Combinatorial Optimization Problems: The case             of academic course scheduling, (Part I: Algorithms, Part II: Implementations)''}
          NPAC Technical Report SCCS-782, Syracuse University, Feb 1997.\\
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 * {\em ``Annealing-based heuristics for large scale academic scheduling and resource allocation''}
          CORS/INFORMS conference, Montreal, CA , April 26-29, 1998.}
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%% * {\em `` An evaluative study of an alternative to back-propagation algorithm for neural networks
%%            training''} Tech. report, Institute of Sensory Research, Syracuse 
%% University 1994.}



