Blog Posts

Insights on AI, technology, research, and academic perspectives from Kurdistan and beyond.

Inside Modern Front-End Engineering

A chapter-by-chapter tour of how the book moves from the browser to architectural decisions

A tour of the eighteen chapters of my book Modern Front-End Engineering, from browser internals to architectural decisions, with two diagrams of its key ideas.

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Inside From Data to Thesis

A chapter-by-chapter tour of my R book for non-technical researchers

A tour of the nineteen chapters of my book From Data to Thesis, with figures from the book showing the ideas that make a thesis defensible.

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Inside Static Site Generators in the Age of AI

How the nineteen chapters take a reader from a folder of notes to a site they can maintain

A chapter-by-chapter tour of my book Static Site Generators in the Age of AI: what each chapter teaches, and why the chapters come in this order.

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Meeting New Students: Learning Hugo and Static Site Generators

A practical introduction to content files, SEO, CI/CD, Git, and GitHub Pages

Notes from a meeting with new students about Hugo, static site generators, Markdown, XML, JSON, SEO, CI/CD, Git, and GitHub Pages.

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Socially-Weighted Distributed Graph Optimization (SW-DGO): Navigating Autonomous Fleets in Public Spaces

How proxemics-aware routing

Autonomous service fleets in supermarkets, hospitals, and airports face complex human crowds and narrow bottlenecks. SW-DGO framework enables socially compliant.

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Kurdistan Universities Chess Championship

Our team from Salahaddin University-Erbil wins first place

A personal account of the first Kurdistan Universities Chess Championship, where our team from Salahaddin University-Erbil came in first place among eight universities.

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Kurdistan Education Forum

Reflections on the third KEF and the intersection of artificial intelligence with Kurdish language preservation

A comprehensive account of my participation in the Kurdistan Education Forum, discussing AI's role in preserving Kurdish language and announcing the unified Kurdish dictionary project.

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A National Revolution: AI and the Future of Kurdish Language

UKH and Kurdish Academy Launch Groundbreaking AI Platform for Kurdish Language Technology

Announcing the launch of a comprehensive AI platform for Kurdish language processing, featuring OCR, TTS, ASR, corpus, dictionary, and more - a collaborative effort between UKH's AIIC and the Kurdish Academy.

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AI and the Future of Jobs in Kurdish Society

Panel Discussion at UKH on Employment, Education, and Societal Transformation in the AI Era

Exploring how artificial intelligence is reshaping employment opportunities, educational requirements, and societal dynamics in the Kurdistan Region through collaborative academic and industry perspectives.

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Preparing Students for an AI-Driven Job Market

Insights from My Presentation at Kurdistan Institute in Sulaimani on AI's Impact on Education and Employment

Exploring how universities can prepare students for a rapidly evolving job market shaped by artificial intelligence, based on my presentation at Kurdistan Institute in Sulaimani.

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