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Faizan Javed

Senior Software Engineer,

Birmingham, AL, USA.

Last updated: 17^th January, 2012

Short Bio

I am currently with Pixsys Technologies, a portfolio company of McKinney Capital http://www.mckinneycapital.net/

Before Pixsys I was with the Commercial team at Intermark Group, a leading southeastern media advertising and software development company.

Before Intermark Group, I spent nearly 2.5 years with the Mortgage Shared Systems group at Regions Financial Corporation.

I earned a PhD in Computer and Information Sciences (Summer 2003 - Spring 2008), an MS in Computer Science (with Specialization in Bioinformatics)

and a Certificate in Technology Entrepreneurship all from UAB.

Ph.D. advisor: Dr. B. Bryant

Current interests:

Big Data (NoSQL/NewSQL systems, Lucene/Solr Search, Recommendation engines, Large scale distributed computing tools and techniques), Software Architecture and Design, Scalable Web architectures, Grammar Inference applications in software engineering and bioinformatics, Programming and Domain-Specific Languages, Model-Driven Transformation and Reverse Engineering, Programming Languages, (Agile) Project management methodologies.

Email: faizan.javed at gmail.com

Research work at UAB

* The GenParse project

The aim of this research collaboration between UAB and the University of Maribor, Slovenia is to come up with novel ways to induce context-free grammars from

examples. We are currently comparing and contrasting the Genetic Programming as well as the incremental approach to grammar induction. We expect that the

results of this research effort will find application in many different application domains ranging from renovation problems to making domain-specific language

development easier for domain-experts not well versed in programming language design.

For more details, access the GenParse project website by clicking here.

Past Projects

*Marketing plan for a 21 Ventures LLC portfolio company, UAB ILSE School of Business, Fall 2006

Created a marketing plan for a NYC-based bioremediation startup and drew resources from the course material which covered topics such as technology

venture business planning, negotiating technology ventures, entrepreneurial marketing, as well as the texts Crossing the Chasm and Inside the Tornado

by Geoffrey Moore.

I developed a comprehensive plan for the startup with a thorough analysis of potential markets, evaluation of the technology, identifying potential customers

across the technology lifecycle, strategies to cross the chasm, and identified market and product alternatives.

*Undergraduate Senior Project, Eastern Mediterranean University, TRNC, Turkey , 9/2000 - 6/2001

Title: On the effect of the stimulus on the Synchronization of Coupled Rose-Hindmarsh Neurons

Developed a C program under X-windows environment to study the effects of external stimuli on neuron assembly synchronization. It was an

extension of the work done by Dr. Marifi Guler in his paper titled On the effect of the stimulus on the Synchronization of Coupled Rose-Hindmarsh Neurons,

IEEE-INNN-ENNS International Joint conference on Neural Networks, IJCNN 2000 July 2000.

Publications

Peer-reviewed Journal and Book chapters:

*[Journal] D. Hrncic, M. Mernik, B. R. Bryant and F. Javed, A Memetic Grammar Inference Algorithm for Language Learning, Applied Soft Computing, 12 (2012) pgs. 1006 - 1020

*[Book Chapter] M. Mernik, D. Hrncic, B.R. Bryant and F. Javed, Applications of GI in Software Engineering: Domain Specific Language Development,

Mathematics, Computing, Language, and Life: Frontiers in Mathematical Linguistics and Language Theory - Vol. 2, SCIENTIFIC APPLICATIONS OF LANGUAGE METHODS,

Nov 2010, pgs 421-453, http://www.worldscibooks.com/compsci/p707.html

*[Journal] Faizan Javed, Marjan Mernik, Jeff Gray and Barrett Bryant, MARS: A MetaModel Recovery System Using Grammar Inference, Information and Software Technology,

Vol. 50, nos. 9-10, August 2008, pp. 948-968, Elsevier, doi:10.1016/j.infsof.2007.08.003. [2008 Journal impact factor: 1.200]

*[Journal] Faizan Javed, Marjan Mernik, Barrett Bryant and Alan Sprague, An Unsupervised Incremental Learning Algorithm for Domain-Specific Language Development,

Applied Artificial Intelligence, vol. 22, no. 7, pp. 707-729, 2008. [2008 Journal Impact Factor: 0.795]

*Faizan Javed, Marjan Mernik, Jeff Gray,Jing Zhang, Barrett R. Bryant, Suman Roychoudhury, Using a Program Transformation Engine to Infer Types in a Metamodel Recovery System,

Acta Eletrotechnica et Informatica, Vol. 8, No. 1, 2008, pp. 3-10.

Peer-reviewed Conference:

*[Short paper] Barrett R. Bryant, Marjan Mernik, Dejan Hrncic, Faizan Javed, Qichao Liu, Alan P. Sprague, Grammar Inference Technology Applications in Software Engineering,

International Colloquium on Grammar Inference (ICGI 2010), pgs 276-279

* MERNIK, Marjan, HRNCIC, Dejan, BRYANT, Barrett Richard, SPRAGUE, Alan, GRAY, Jeffrey G., LIU, Qichao, JAVED, Faizan, Grammar inference algorithms and applications in software engineering,V: ICAT 2009, IEEE Bosnia and Herzegovina Section, 2009, 7 pages.

* Qichao Liu, Faizan Javed, Marjan Mernik, Barrett R. Bryant, Jeff Gray, Alan Sprague, Dejan Hrncic, MARS: Metamodel Recovery from Multi-tiered Models Using Grammar Inference,

pp.325-326, 2009 Third IEEE International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Software Engineering (TASE 09), 2009.

* Faizan Javed, Marjan Mernik, Barrett Bryant and Alan Sprague, GenInc: An Incremental Context-Free Grammar Learning Algorithm for Domain-Specific

Language Development, Proceedings of the 2007 International Conference on Machine Learning: Models, Technologies & Applications (MLMTA 07), pgs 118-124, Las Vegas, NV, 2007.

* Faizan Javed, Marjan Mernik, Alan Sprague, and Barrett Bryant, "Incrementally Inferring Context-Free Grammars for Domain-Specific Languages, Proceedings

of The Eighteenth International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE'06), July 5^th -July 7^th, pgs 363 - 368, San Francisco, CA, 2006.

* Matej Crepinsek, Marjan Mernik, Barrett Bryant, Faizan Javed, Alan Sprague, Inferring Context-Free Grammars for Domain-Specific Languages,

Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science (ENTCS), Vol. 144, Issue 4, pp. 99 - 116, 2005.

* Faizan Javed, Barrett Bryant, Matej Crepinsek, Marjan Mernik, Alan Sprague, Context-Free Grammar Induction using Genetic Programming,

Proceedings of the 42^nd Annual ACM Southeast Conference '04, pgs 404-405, Huntsville, AL

Peer-reviewed Workshop:

* Faizan Javed, Marjan Mernik, Barrett Bryant, Jeff Gray, A Grammar-Based Approach to Class Diagram Validation, Proceedings of the

4th International Workshop on Scenarios and State Machines: Models, Algorithms and Tools (SCESM'05), ICSE 2005, pp. 45 - 51St. Louis, MO, USA.

* Matej Crepinsek, Marjan Mernik, Barrett Bryant, Faizan Javed, and Alan Sprague, Inferring Context-Free Grammars for Domain-Specific Languages,

In Proceedings of Fifth Workshop on Language Description, Tools and Applications, J. Boyland, G. Hedin (Eds.), pp. 64 - 81, 2005, [paper [ps

], presentation [ppt] ]

* Shairaj Shaik, Raymond Corvin, Rajesh Sudarsan, Faizan Javed, Qasim Ijaz, Suman RoyChoudury, Jeff Gray, Barrett Bryant, SpeechClipse - An Eclipse Speech