Adnan Masood
Ph.D. Student
Graduate School of Computer & Information Sciences
Nova Souteastern University

Ft. Lauderdale, FL.
Email: adnan{at}nova.edu
Phone: (626) 775-3473

Advisor: Dr. Wei Li

Adnan Masood received the B.S. in Computer Science from Dept. Of Computer Science, University of Karachi in 2000, and the M.S. degree in computer science from Nova Southeastern University, FL) in 2007. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate from Graduate School of Computer Science, Nova Southeastern University, FL. His research interests include knowledge discovery in database, machine learning, data mining and automated reasoning. Pattern analsyis in the financial systems is his main research focus. He is currently working on recommendation systems using bayesian collaborative filtering algorthms.

Professionally, Adnan Masood works as a senior software engineer and technical lead in a Monrovia-based financial institution where he develops middle-tier architectures, distributed systems, and Web-applications using the Microsoft .NET framework. He holds various professional memberships (ACM, ACM-SIGKDD, BCS, and ACS) and several technical certifications, including MCT (Microsoft Certified Trainer) MCPD, MCSD .NET, and SCJP-II. Adnan is attributed and published in print media and on the Web; he also teaches Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) courses at the University of California at San Diego and regularly presents at local code camps and user groups. He is actively involved in the .NET community as cofounder and president of the of San Gabriel Valley .NET Developers group. Adnan is a recent recipient of an INETA Community Champion Award for his contributions to the developer community in Southern California.

My research interests involve collaborative filtering and it's applications on large scale datasets, especially financial transactional data. My active work is on large scale outlier analysis performing discriminative collaborative filtering on transactional data clusters.

• Bibliography of Outlier Analysis in Financial Data Fraud Detection
• Researchers in Outlier / Fraud Detection Genre

• YABE - An MVC based blogging engine
• Web Service Studio - A Web Serviec Invocation and Testing Tool
• WADL - Web Application Description Language Proxy Utility.
• NRecommend / Recommender.NET
• NCollaborate / Collaborate.NET
• Monet
• Avicenna (XML based RDBMS)

• IASA 2008 - Architecture Conference - Session on Aspect Oriented Design
• MSDN GeekSpeak - Talk on REST and WCF 3.5
• KDD 2008 - Attendee & Blogger
• Technical Reviewer for Microsoft Solutions Framework for Agile Software Development by Addison Wesley
• IASA Journal – WCF Microsoft’s infrastructure to SaaS (Software as a service)
• Naïve Bayesian Classifications using C# and ASP.NET (Cover Article on ASP.NET Pro)
• Presented WCF Software Factory Development in Southern California Code Camp, San Diego, CA.
• Presented Research paper in Translating & Computers 25th Annual Conference, Commonwealth institute, KensingtonLondon in November 2003. Topic was “Detailed contemporary analysis & implementation of SOAP-RPC based web ervice architecture for Real-time translation services. Manifesting the scenario of working collaboration & automated seamless integration to utilize the services of any translation vendor.
• Excerpt published in IUC 26th Annual Conference “Service Oriented Architecture & Web Services Globalization Support in Software Platforms: a Technical Overview”
• The Evolution of Web Services
• Interactive Mapping Using SVG & ASP.NET
• The Evolution of Web Services
• Web Services at PDC
• Fighting Spambots with .NET and AI
• Intellectual Property Protection and Code Obfuscation
• DevDays 2004 Round-Up
• How RJS Networks handles CRM?
• BlueJ, not yet another IDE.

  Teaching

• UCSD Extension - Programming Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)