The Arab American University and the Palestine Public Finance Institute conducted a training course on public finance and the mechanism of financial reporting. The course, in which the Director General of Accounts at the Ministry of Finance Mr. Ahmad Thuminat gave lectures, targeted students of Accounting, Finance and Data Science, at the Faculty...

An MA student in the field of data science and business analysis at the Faculty of Postgraduate Studies at the Arab American University, Abdulhakeem Ahmed Al-Ardah, passed the defence of his thesis for obtaining the M.A degree. The thesis is entitled “ Heart Disease Prediction & Disease Type Classification Using Machine Learning” The thesis relied...

The student Hilal Abdel Raouf Assaf, a student of data science and business analysis at the Faculty of Postgraduate Studies at the Arab American University, passed the discussion of his MA Thesis. The thesis is entitled: “Skin Cancer Classification Using Deep Learning Techniques”. In his thesis, the researcher dealt with skin cancer through a...

The Hague University of Applied Sciences hosted Dr. Majdi Owda, Dean of the Faculty of Data Science at the Arab American University and holder of the “UNESCO Chair in Data Science for Development” to give a lecture on the positive and negative effects of governments adopting an open data policy. Dr. Owda tackled the positive effects. He indicated...

The Arab American University participated in the international conference to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Twinning of University and Chairs Program of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization "UNESCO", which was held at the organization's headquarters in the French capital, Paris. It was entitled "Transforming...

The Head of the Data Science Department at the Arab American University, Dr. Ahmad Hasasneh, made a two-month scientific research visit to the Higher School of Technology (ETS) at the University of Quebec in Canada, funded by the Palestinian-Quebec Science Bridge, which is supervised by the Palestine Academy of Science and Technology (PALAST)...

The Arab American University announced that it received the “UNESCO chair for data sciences” and chose Dr. Majdi Owda, the head of the natural, engineering, and technology sciences department, as the chair holder. Prof. Ali Zedan Abu Zuhri, the President of The Arab American University, said that AAUP is very proud about this unique achievement...

Arab American University announced the establishing of the Faculty of Data Sciences that is considered the first of its kind in the Arab World and among the first ten faculties globally. The Data Sciences is one of the most important modern sciences in the world today and it is called “the science of the new century”. Many countries started opening...

Under joint supervision with Julich Institute (Forschungszentrum Jülich) in Germany Student Farah Mohammad Abdullatif, who is a student in the Master in Data Sciences and Business Analytics in the Faculty of Graduate Studies, defended her thesis entitled: “AConvolutional Neural Network Framework for the Identification ofIndividual Neuronal...

Ramzi Assaf, Nizar Shanaa and Helmi Darwish Haji are three students in the Master in Data Sciences and Business Analytics defended their thesis in Artificial Intelligence related fields. Researcher Ramzi Assaf built a system that can predict the loans’ default in Bank of Palestine Ltd, as he collected many algorithms of supervised machine learning...

Students of the Master in Data Sciences in Arab American University developed some research projects in different fields as part of their Data Analysis and Implementation course projects. The first group of students leaded by Abdelrahman Salameh analyzed the public opinion poll data about the upcoming elections done by the Palestinian Center for...

Under the Auspices of the Minister of the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research Prof. Ali Zeidan Abu Zuhri- the University President and Dr. Ola Awad- the President of the PCBS signed a collaboration agreement to start the first of its kind bachelor degree program in Palestine, the “Statistics and Data Sciences” program. The Signing...

Prof. Waleed Deeb- the Academic Advisor of the Board of Directors and the Founding President announced the signing of academic relations agreement with the University of L'Aquila to start new partnership. This agreement_ that was during Prof. Deeb’s visit to the University of L'Aquila_ included the teaching of some professors of University of L...

Data Matters Festival organized by AAUP & PCBS with the occasion of the World Statistics Day, on the 20th of October each year, the festival was held at the Culture Palace in Ramallah sponsored by the Prime Minister Dr. Mohammad Shtayih . The Festival was attended by AAUP President Prof. Ali Zaidan Abu Zuhri, PCBS President Dr. Ola Awad, GM of Bank...

Data Matters Festival Prime Minister Dr. Mohammad Shtayih declared that the launching of Data Matters Projects is a milestone to the future. As he added that without data there is no planning which in return there will be no development, as he pointed out that “Cluster” plan presented by the government relies on data offered by the PCBS.

from the Data Matters Festival : AAUP & PCBS sign a collaboration & partnership agreement sponsored by the Prime Minister Dr. Mohammad Ashtiyeh.

From Data Matters Festival AAUP President Prof. Ali Zidan Abu Zuhri: AAUP philosophy in education focuses on all what’s new and virtual, as it aims to meets with the need of the Palestinian sociality with creative solutions and cutting edge technologies. AAUP continuously develops new modern academic programs to provide the Palestinian market with...

President of PCBS Dr. Ola Awa: Data Science Festival is being held in celebration of the World Statistics Day and to lead up with global developments in light of the information revolution and technological development. Data Science Initiative on the Palestine level, is considered to be part of many related projects that will be performed in...

The start of the Data Matters Festival organized by the University and the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) with the occasion of the World Statistics Day, on the 20th of October each year, the festival was held at the Culture Palace in Ramallah.