User talk:Western kentucky university

Leyla Zhuhadar was born in Sofia, Bulgaria on november 1th, 1968. She spent her childhood in Sofia then she moved to Damascus, Syria, where she studied at lycee-francais "Franciscan" and obtained her Bachelor in Electrical Engineering in 1990. In 1993, she got her Master degree in Electrical & Control Engineering. After graduation, she worked at the Ministry of Higher Education for ten years, teaching and directing Information Technology Institute.

In 2003, she came to United States, she finished her second Master in Computer Science in 2004, Western Kentucky University, USA.

In 2004, she started her doctoral program in Computer Engineering & Computer Science at the University of Louisville, USA, under the supervision of Professor. Olfa Nasraoui. For the past four years, she has been working as a Web-Mining Analyst at the Distance Learning Office at Western Kentucky University under the guidance of Professor. Robert Wyatt. Her research focuses on tracking online students' behaviors and developing recommendation systems for online lectures with many different formats (html, ppt, audio, video, podcast, vodcast). Recently she has been working on ADA compliance and converting learning objects to accessible objects by adding automated transcripts.

Her research interests:

- Knowledge Acquisition from the web - Search Engines, Crawling and Indexing - Ontologies, Domain Ontologies - Semantic Annotation - Metadata for Accessibile Learning Objects