Hela Masri

Hi, my name is Hela Masri;

I’m the author of DataGeek.

Committed lifelong learner. I am passionate about machine learning, data engineering, artificial intelligence. I have worked as a data science consultant for the last 7 years.

I also have over 12 years of professional CS tutoring experience. I have worked with students of all levels of experience, from undergrad to grad level.

I have a comprehensive knowledge in various programming languages (Java, Python, C, C++, PHP), and some data science tools and frameworks: Scikit-learn, numpy, pandas, tensor flow, Keras, Apache Hadoop, Spark, Kafka.

You can find more about my background on my resume page.

What I Do

Research

My research interests span both data mining and operational research fields. I have many refereed journal and conference papers and my current interests include the area of decision support systems, data mining, recommender systems, big data and deep learning

Project Management

I have been taking the role of project manager and product owner in a Drupal web agency for more than 6 years. I was responsible for monitoring the projects progress throughout software development life cycle.

Teaching

I consider teaching as a very enjoyable academic duty. To see students making progress and learning, to see them understanding new concepts and spark their interest, is one of the most gratifying activities. I am also available for panels, presentations, meetups, and debates around IT subjects.

Data science

I'm data enthusiast with good knowledge of analytics tools and machine learning techniques.

Resume

12 Years of Experience

Education

2015
Institut Supérieur de Gestion de Tunis, University of Tunis

Ph.D. in Business computing

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2009
Institut Supérieur de Gestion de Tunis, University of Tunis

Master of Science in Business computing

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Professional certifications

Jul 2020
ISPMA/iSQI

Software Product Manager (SPM)

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Oct 2019
Scrum.org

Professional Scrum Master Certified (PSM)

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Nov 2019
IBM

Artificial Intelligence Analyst

Experience

2014 - 2020
Orbit Dev web Agency

Project manager (and co-founder)

- Preparing detailed and accurate status reports on ongoing projects, and escalating client complaints to the appropriate team leaders
- Tracking major client-specific deliverable and assisting team in identifying bugs
- Serving as a communicator for various departments to ensure the team is working as per clients' guidelines, and adhering to the agreement requirement
- Working closely with the development team to understand glitches in products, and suggesting solutions
- Monitoring progress throughout software development life cycle, and giving suggestive recommendations as needed - Taking the responsibility for the product owner in several projects
- Prioritizing the different tasks in a project Helping the company to implement the agile methodology (scrum)

2016 - current
Tunis Business School

Assistant professor

- Undergraduate courses: Data mining, Python, Object Oriented Programming, Web Development, UML, Database Management Systems, Introduction to programming.
- Graduate courses: Big Data Analytics. - Supervising several graduate students

2013 - 2015
La Faculté des Sciences Economiques et de Gestion de Tunis –University of Tunis el Manar

Lecturer

- Undergraduate courses: Programming with C, Graph theory
- Graduate courses: Mobile Programming (Android)

2009- 2013
Institut Supérieur de Gestion de Tunis, Université de Tunis

Teaching Assistant

- Undergraduate courses: Algorithms and data structures I and II
- Graduate courses: supply chain management

Publication

Journal papers

- Hela Masri, Saoussen Krichen, Adel Guitouni, Metaheuristics for solving the biobjective single-path multicommodity communication flow problem. International Transactions in Operational Research, Vol 26(2), pp 589-614, 2019.

- Hela Masri, Saoussen Krichen, Exact and approximate approaches for the Pareto front generation of the single pathmulticommodity flow problem. Annals of Operations Research, Vol 267(1-2), pp 353-377, 2018.

- Hela Masri, Saoussen Krichen, Adel Guitouni, A multi-start variable neighborhoodsearch for solving the single pathmulticommodity flow problem. Applied Mathematics and Computation, Vol 251, pp 132-142, 2015.

- Hela Masri, Saoussen Krichen, Adel Guitouni, A metaheuristic for solving the unsplittablemulticommodity flow problem: the maritime surveillance case. International Journal of Business Intelligence and Data Mining, Vol 9, Issue 3, pp 254-269, 2014.

- Saoussen Krichen, Hela Masri, Adel Guitouni, Adjacency based method for generating maximal efficient faces in multiobjective linear programming. Applied Mathematical Modelling, Vol 36, Issue 12, pp 6301–6311, 2012.

- Hela Masri, Saoussen Krichen, Adel Guitouni, Generating efficient faces for multiobjective linear programming problems. International Journal of Operational Research, Vol 15, pp 1-15, 2012.

Refereed Proceedings of international conferences

- Malika Becha, Oumayma Riabi, Yasmine Benmessaoud and Hela Masri, Applications of Big Data in Tourism: A Survey, The 16th International Conference on Advanced Data Mining and Applications (ADMA), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol(12447), 533–546, 2020 (core rank B)

- Syrine El feki, Balkiss Tekaya, Tasnim Tekaya, Hela Masri: A survey of big data in finance: recent applications and challenges, 2nd ACM International Conference on Digital Tools & Uses Congress, 1-6, 2020

- Mohamed Elyes Ben Haj Kbaier, Hela Masri, Saoussen Krichen: A Personalized Hybrid Tourism Recommender System. The ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications, 244-250, 2017. (core rank C)

- Chaima Boufaied, Raja Trabelsi, Hela Masri, Saoussen Krichen: A construction of rotations-based rosters with a Genetic Algorithm. IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, 2389-2394, 2016. (core rank B)

- Raja Trabelsi, Saoussen Krichen, Hela Masri:A cooperative game theoretic approach for the ordering problem in supply chain. IEEE 2019 International Conference on Control, Decision and Information Technologies, 246-251, 2016.

- Ons Abdelkhalek, Hela Masri, SaoussenKrichen: An adaptive variable neighborhood search for solving the multi-objective node placement problem. 3rd International Conference on Variable Neighborhood Search, Electronic Notes in Discrete Mathematics (Elsevier), Vol 47, pp 189-196, 2015.

- Hela Masri, Saoussen Krichen, Adel Guitouni: A Multi-start Tabu Search Approach for Solving the Information Routing Problem. The 15th International Conference on Computational Science and Applications, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Springer), Vol 8580, pp 267-277, 2014. (core rank C)

- Hela Masri, Saoussen Krichen, Adel Guitouni: A Hybrid Genetic Algorithm for Solving the Unsplittable Multicommodity Flow Problem: The Maritime Surveillance Case. International conference of Algorithmic Aspects in Information and Management. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Springer), Vol 8546, pp 137-148, 2014. (core rank C)

- Hela Masri, Ons Abdelkhalek, Saoussen Krichen, A comparison of multiple objective evolutionaryalgorithms for solving the multi-objective node placement problem. International Conference on Control, Decision and Information Technologies, (IEEE), pp 152-157, 2014.

- H. Masri, A. Guitouni , S. Krichen, Towards efficient information Exchange in Fusion Networks, 12th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Springer), Volume 7895, pp 535-546, 2013. (core rank C)

- H. Masri, S. Krichen, A. Guitouni, Generating maximal efficient faces for the multiobjectivemulticommodity flow problem, 5th International Conference On Modeling, Simulation And Applied Optimization (IEEE), pp 1-5, 2013.

- H. Masri, S. Krichen, A. Guitouni, An ant colony optimization metaheuristic for solving bi-objective multi-sources multicommodity communication flow problem, Wireless and Mobile Networking Conference (IEEE), pp 1-8, 2011.

- H. Masri, S.Krichen, A.Guitouni, A Genetic Algorithm for a Joint Routing and Scheduling Problem in Heterogeneous Networks. Bio-Inspired Models of Networks, Information, and Computing Systems, Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, (Springer) Volume 10, pp 16-28, 2012.

Tools & Technologies

Python

90%

Python libraries (Scikit-Learn, Pandas, Numpy, Keras, Tensorflow)

80%

Java

80%

Hadoop

60%

Spark

65%

C

90%

HTML / CSS

80%

JavaScript

50%

PHP

70%

Drupal

50%

Wordpress

60%

Database management systems

Oracle

80%

MySql

90%

Project Management

MSProject

80%

Scrum

90%

Mathematical modeling

Cplex

80%

Contact

Get in Touch

+216 97 810 478

Tunisia

hela.masri@gmail.com

Freelance Available

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