About

Assistant lecturer at the University of Mosul. I work on empirical software engineering analytics and I use ML on software repositories to answer engineering questions. I have grown an interest in the application of IR to empirical software engineering. At the moment I am applying for a Fall PhD in Canada with HCED funding.

Education

• M.Sc. Software Engineering, University of Mosul, 2023. Thesis: ML for software effort and cost estimation on the ISBSG dataset; advisor Dr. Jamal S. Alneamy.
• B.Sc. Software Engineering, University of Mosul, 2012. Graduated first in class.

Awards

• Full PhD Scholarship, Higher Committee for Education Development in Iraq (HCED), Office of the Prime Minister — fully-funded international doctoral study.
• First-Class Honours, B.Sc. Software Engineering, University of Mosul, 2012.

Research Interests

• Retrieval-augmented tools for software engineers.
• Effort and cost prediction using historical software data.
• Mining software repositories.

Publications

• An Ensemble Model for Software Development Cost Estimation . ISRITI, 2022. Cited by 13.
• An Overview of Machine Learning Approaches to Software Development Cost Estimation . ICCITM, 2022. Cited by 6.

Open-source Contributions

• Contributed onboarding reproduction logs to Castorini's IR toolkits — merged into Anserini (#3118) on 2026-02-01 and Pyserini (#2409) on 2026-02-07.

Selected Projects

• Coviru — COVID-19 case-tracking and PCR-testing platform deployed across test centers in Mosul, Kirkuk, and Tel Afar. Bull/Redis jobs stream records in 10k-row batches into styled RTL Arabic Excel reports. NestJS, MongoDB, Angular.
• Falaq POS — Cross-platform Electron/React point-of-sale client for pharmacies covering invoicing, warehousing, stocktaking, currency, and reporting across 40+ feature modules. Electron, React, TypeScript, MUI, RxJS.
• Falaq Dashboard — Admin web dashboard built on a custom RxJS-first state architecture (per-module Subject/Observable stores, no Redux); Storybook stories double as browser-mode Vitest + Playwright tests. React, TypeScript, Vite, Tailwind, RxJS.

Teaching

• Object-Oriented Programming with Python — second-year undergraduates.