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<h2 style="text-align: justify; line-height: 1.3; margin: -5px 0;">Basel Shbita <span style="font-size: 0.8em">(<span dir="rtl">باسل شبيطة</span>; <span dir="rtl">באסל שביטה</span>; Басель Шбита)</span> is a scientist, multidisciplinary artist, and engineer. Based in LA, Basel is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the Computer Science Department at the <a href="https://www.cs.usc.edu/" target="_blank">University of Southern California (USC)</a>. Basel serves as a research assistant at the <a href="http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/home/" target="_blank">Center on Knowledge Graphs</a> at USC's <a href="https://www.isi.edu/" target="_blank">Information Sciences Institute (ISI)</a> where <a href="http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/knoblock/" target="_blank">Prof. Craig Knoblock</a> advises him.
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Basel's research focuses on techniques for describing, acquiring, and exploiting <b>data semantics</b> and combining all of these techniques to build <b>knowledge graphs</b>, as a means to solve complex <b>information integration</b> problems. At ISI, Basel is currently partaking in the <a href="http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/linked-maps/" target="_blank">Linked Maps</a> project. His past projects include <a href="http://mint-project.info/" target="_blank">Model Integration (MINT)</a>, <a href="http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/Timeseries/" target="_blank">Table Understanding</a> and the <a href="https://www.amazon.science/alexa-prize/socialbot-grand-challenge/2020" target="_blank">Alexa Prize Socialbot Grand Challenge 4</a>. If you're interested to read more about Basel's academic research work, please visit <a href="projects.html"><b>this page</b></a>.
Basel's research focuses on techniques for describing, acquiring, and exploiting <b>data semantics</b> and combining all of these techniques to build <b>knowledge graphs</b>, as a means to solve complex <b>information integration</b> problems. At ISI, Basel is currently partaking in the <a href="http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/linked-maps/" target="_blank">Linked Maps</a> and <a href="https://knowledge-computing.github.io/criticalmaas-web/" target="_blank">Critical-MAAS</a> projects. His past projects include <a href="http://mint-project.info/" target="_blank">Model Integration (MINT)</a>, <a href="http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/Timeseries/" target="_blank">Table Understanding</a> and the <a href="https://www.amazon.science/alexa-prize/socialbot-grand-challenge/2020" target="_blank">Alexa Prize Socialbot Grand Challenge 4</a>. If you're interested to read more about Basel's academic research work, please visit <a href="projects.html"><b>this page</b></a>.
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Basel has a proven 10+ years of experience in software engineering, programming, and debugging in various languages and has assumed several tech lead roles in the past. Before joining USC, Basel worked for <a href="http://www.mellanox.com/" target="_blank">Mellanox Technologies</a> (acquired by <a href="https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/" target="_blank">Nvidia</a>) between 2011-2017 as a Senior Firmware Engineer and Team Leader in the Switch Silicon Core Department; and for <a href="https://www.apple.com/" target="_blank">Apple</a> in 2018 as an Embedded Software Engineer in the Flash Storage Software Department. Basel received his B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from <a href="https://en-engineering.tau.ac.il/School-of-Electrical-Engineering/main" target="_blank">Tel Aviv University</a> in 2015.
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<div style="text-align: right"><span class="badge" style="background-color: #f9da4a; color: #000000">Ongoing</span></div><h5 class="card-title"><b>CriticalMAAS MinMod</b></h5>
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<p class="card-text" style="text-align: left">Critical minerals underpin modern tech and the global economy. MinMod uses AI to process diverse datasets, automating grade and tonnage model creation, expediting mineral site data updates, and aiding mine deposit location.</p>
<p class="card-text" style="text-align: right; margin: 0px;"><a target="_blank" href="https://knowledge-computing.github.io/criticalmaas-web/" class="card-link" style="background-color: #E6FFFE;">Project Website</a> · <a target="_blank" href="https://minmod.isi.edu" class="card-link" style="background-color: #E6FFFE;">Explorer</a></p></li>
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<p class="card-text" style="text-align: left">Exploiting Context in Cartographic Evolutionary Documents to Extract and Build Linked Open Spatio-Temporal Data.</p>
<p class="card-text" style="text-align: left">Framework for extracting and semantically linking content from vast historical map archives. The initiative unlocks rich insights from maps, promoting interdisciplinary research in socio-geographic processes.</p>
<p class="card-text" style="text-align: right; margin: 0px;"><a target="_blank" href="https://usc-isi-i2.github.io/linked-maps/" class="card-link" style="background-color: #E6FFFE;">Project Website</a></p><u><p class="card-text" style="text-align: left;font-size: 1em;color: #000000;">Publications</p></u>
<p class="card-text" style="text-align: left"><b>Shbita, B.</b>, Knoblock, C.A., Duan, W., Chiang, Y.Y., Uhl, J.H. & Leyk, S. (2023, April). Building Spatio-Temporal Knowledge Graphs from Vectorized Topographic Historical Maps. <i>Semantic Web</i>, 14(3), (pp. 527–549). IOS Press</p>
<p class="card-text" style="text-align: right; margin: 0px;"><a target="_blank" href="https://content.iospress.com/articles/semantic-web/sw222918" class="card-link" style="background-color: #E6FFFE;">Link</a> · <a target="_blank" href="http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/shbita23-swj.pdf" class="card-link" style="background-color: #E6FFFE;">Paper</a> · <a target="_blank" href="http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/slides/shbita23-swj-slides.pdf" class="card-link" style="background-color: #E6FFFE;">Slides</a> · <a target="_blank" href="https://github.com/usc-isi-i2/linked-maps" class="card-link" style="background-color: #E6FFFE;">Code</a> · <a target="_blank" href="https://linked-maps.isi.edu" class="card-link" style="background-color: #E6FFFE;">Explorer</a></p><p class="card-text" style="text-align: left">Li, Z., Chiang, Y. Y., Tavakkol, S., <b>Shbita, B.</b>, Uhl, J. H., Leyk, S., & Knoblock, C. A. (2020, August). An Automatic Approach for Generating Rich, Linked Geo-Metadata from Historical Map Images. In <i>Proceedings of the 26th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining</i> (pp. 3290-3298)</p>
<p class="card-text" style="text-align: right; margin: 0px;"><a target="_blank" href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3394486.3403381" class="card-link" style="background-color: #E6FFFE;">Link</a> · <a target="_blank" href="http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/li20-kdd.pdf" class="card-link" style="background-color: #E6FFFE;">Paper</a> · <a target="_blank" href="http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/slides/li-kdd20-slides.pdf" class="card-link" style="background-color: #E6FFFE;">Slides</a></p><p class="card-text" style="text-align: left"><b>Shbita, B.</b>, Knoblock, C. A., Duan, W., Chiang, Y. Y., Uhl, J. H., & Leyk, S. (2020, May). Building Linked Spatio-Temporal Data from Vectorized Historical Maps. In <i>European Semantic Web Conference</i> (pp. 409-426). Springer, Cham</p>
<p class="card-text" style="text-align: right; margin: 0px;"><a target="_blank" href="https://content.iospress.com/articles/semantic-web/sw222918" class="card-link" style="background-color: #E6FFFE;">Link</a> · <a target="_blank" href="http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/shbita23-swj.pdf" class="card-link" style="background-color: #E6FFFE;">Paper</a> · <a target="_blank" href="http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/slides/shbita23-swj-slides.pdf" class="card-link" style="background-color: #E6FFFE;">Slides</a> · <a target="_blank" href="https://github.com/usc-isi-i2/linked-maps" class="card-link" style="background-color: #E6FFFE;">Code</a> · <a target="_blank" href="https://linked-maps.isi.edu" class="card-link" style="background-color: #E6FFFE;">Explorer</a></p><p class="card-text" style="text-align: left"><b>Shbita, B.</b>, Knoblock, C. A., Duan, W., Chiang, Y. Y., Uhl, J. H., & Leyk, S. (2020, May). Building Linked Spatio-Temporal Data from Vectorized Historical Maps. In <i>European Semantic Web Conference</i> (pp. 409-426). Springer, Cham</p>
<p class="card-text" style="text-align: right; margin: 0px;"><a target="_blank" href="https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-49461-2_24" class="card-link" style="background-color: #E6FFFE;">Link</a> · <a target="_blank" href="http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/shbita20-eswc.pdf" class="card-link" style="background-color: #E6FFFE;">Paper</a> · <a target="_blank" href="http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/slides/shbita20-eswc-slides.pdf" class="card-link" style="background-color: #E6FFFE;">Slides</a></p></li>
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