2019-06-18: It is time to go back home!
On May 11, 2019 I officially obtained my PhD in Computer Science from Old Dominion University. My graduate studies journey started when I received a full scholarship from the University of Hail in Saudi Arabia, where I worked there two years as a teacher assistant. I came to the USA and specifically to San Francisco in 2010 with my husband and my three-months old daughter. I attended Kaplan Institute where I took English classes and a GRE course for almost a year. After that I got accepted in ODU as a CS Masters student in 2011. In July 2013 I welcomed my second baby girl Jenna, and in August I graduated from the Master program and joined the PhD program to work with the wsdl (Web Science and Digital Libraries) research group there. On April 4, 2019, I defended my dissertation research, “ Expanding the usage of web archives by recommending archived webpages using only the URI ” ( slides , video ) . The goal of my work was to build a model for selecting and ranking poss
