Raghda Alqurashi
Currently, I am a CSIS PhD candidate at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, college of Engineering and Applied Science at University of Colorado Denver.

Email: raghda.alqurashi@ucdenver.edu


My research advisor is professor Tom Altman


Education 

2013 – Now     
PhD in computer science and information systems  

                               University of Colorado Denver
                               Denver, USA

2013                   Master of science in Computer Science 
                               University of Colorado Denver
                              Denver, USA

2006                  Bachelors of Computer Science

                               Umm Al-Qura University
                               Makkah, KSA

Teaching Experience 

2008 – now      Lecturer 
                             Umm Al-Qura University, Makkah, Saudi Arabia
Fall 2015            Teaching Assistant
                             University of Colorado Denver, Denver, USA
Spring 2016       Teaching Assistant

                             University of Colorado Denver, Denver, USA

Selected Refereed Conference Proceedings
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  • Anh Nguyen, Raghda Alqurashi, Zohreh Raghebi, Farnoush Banaei-kashani, Ann C. Halbower, and Tam Vu. 2016. A Lightweight and Inexpensive In-ear Sensing System For Automatic Whole-night Sleep Stage Monitoring. In Proceedings of the 14th ACM Conference on Embedded Network Sensor Systems (SenSys '16). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 230-244. Best Paper Award (21 out of 119 submissions, acceptance ratio: 17.6%). PDF
  • Anh Nguyen, Raghda Alqurashi, Zohreh Raghebi, Farnoush Banaei-kashani, Ann C. Halbower, Thang Dinh, and Tam Vu. 2016. In-ear Biosignal Recording System: A Wearable For Automatic Whole-night Sleep Staging. In Proceedings of the 2016 Workshop on Wearable Systems and Applications (WearSys '16). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 19-24. PDF
  • Michael Mannino, Joel Fredrickson, Iris Linck, Raghda Alqurashi and Farnoush Banaei-Kashani. 2015. Development and Evaluation of Similarity Measures for Medical Event Sequences. In Proceedings of the 25th Annual Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems (WITS) 2015, Dallas, Texas, 45-59. 
  • Raghda Alqurashi and Tom Altman. 2015. Finding and Displaying the Shortest Paths in Hyper-Rings. In Proceedings of 2015 International Conference on Image Processing, Production and Computer Science (ICIPCS'2015), Istanbul, Turkey, 89-96. PDF
  • Anh Nguyen, Raghda Alqurashi, Ann C. Halbower, and Tam Vu. 2015. MSleepWatcher: Why didn't i sleep well? In Proceedings of ISSAT International Conference on Modeling of Complex Systems and Environments (MCSE) 2015, Danang, Viet Nam, 96-103. PDF

Awards

  • Best Paper Award, Conference on Embedded Network Sensor Systems (SenSys '16), November 2016.
  • NSF Student Travel Grant from ACM Sigcomm 2014 , Chicago, Illinois, August 17-22, 2014.
  • NSF Student Travel Grant from ACM Ubicomp 2014, Seattle, Washington, September 13-17, 2014.

Presentations

Fall 2015 Seminar Series, College of Engineering and Applied Science, Finding and Displaying the Shortest Paths in Hyper-Rings, November 17, 2015.
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