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Xhemal Zenuni

Faculty : Contemporary Sciences and Technologies
Position : Full Professor
Engagement type : Full time
Personal data
E-mail : xh.zenuni@seeu.edu.mk
Address : Bul. Ilindenska nn, 1200, Tetovo, Macedonia
Telephone : 00389 44 356 185
Fax : 00389 44 356 001
Languages ( Self-evaluated )
Albanian
Native
Macedonian
C2 - Proficient
English
C2 - Proficient
Bulgarian
B2 - Upper Intermediate
French
B1 - Intermediate

Education

  • Sep 2006 - Sep 2012: Doctor of Computer Sciences
    Faculty: French Language Faculty of Electrical Engineeering
    Technical University of Sofia, Sofia, R. of Bulgaria
    Specialty: Computer Systems, Complexes and Networks
    Thesis: "QoS Aware Semantic Service Composition via AND/OR Graphs"

  • Sep 2004 - Dec 2005: Master of Sciences in Informatics
    New Bulgarian University, Sofia, Bulgaria
    Specialty: Internet Software Technologies
    Thesis: "Developmet of a Web Based Virtual Educational System"

  • Sep 2001 - Nov 2003: Bachelor od Sciences in Computer Sciences
    Faculty: Faculty of Communication Sciences and Technologies
    South East European University, Tetovo, Macedonia

Publications

  • Hoti, Arbër; Zenuni, Xhemal; Ajdari, Jaumin; Ismaili, Florije Predictive Modeling of Student Success Using Machine Learning. In International Journal on Information Technologies & Security, pp. 37-46. 2025. (Link)

  • Hoti, Arber; Zenuni, Xhemal; Hamiti, Mentor; Ajdari, Jaumin User Evaluation of a Machine Learning-Based Student Performance Prediction Platform. In Organizacija - Journal of Management, Informatics and Human Resources, pp. 296-310. 2025. (Link)

  • Ajvazi, Grela; Ajdari, Jaumin; Zenuni, Xhemal AWS and Cloud Data Center Security: Challenges and Mitigation Strategies. IEEE, Opatija, Croatia, 2025. (Link)

  • Tata, Elton; Ajdari, Jaumin; Zenuni, Xhemal; Hamiti, Mentor Hybrid Deep Learning Models Based on Transformers for Fake News Detection in Albanian and English News. 2025. (Link)

  • Asani, Florina; Ajdari, Jaumin; Zenuni, Xhemal Agentic AI for Dynamic Cloud Resource Management: A Conceptual Framework for Dynamic Cloud Resource Management. IEEE, Opatija, Croatia, 2025. (Link)

  • Besimi, Benjamin; Ajdari, Jaumin; Zenuni, Xhemal Metadata-Driven Cloud-Agnostic Data Integration Framework. IEEE, Opatija, Croatia, 2024. (Link)

  • Fetahi, Endrit; Hamiti, Mentor; Susuri, Arsim; Ajdari, Jaumin; Zenuni, Xhemal AI-Based Hate Speech Detection in Albanian Social Media: New Dataset and Mobile Web Application Integration. In International Journal of Interactive Mobile Technologies (iJIM), Vol. 18 No. 24, eISSN: 1865-7923, pp. 190-208. 2024. (Link)

  • Fetahi, Endrit; Hamiti, Mentor; Susuri, Arsim; Zenuni, Xhemal; Ajdari, Jaumin Integrating Handcrafted Features with Machine Learning for Hate Speech Detection in Albanian Social Media. In SEEU Review, Volume 19, Issue 2, eISSN: 1857-8462, pp. 80-92. 2024. (Link)

  • Fondaj, Jakup; Hamiti, Mentor; Krrabaj, Samedin; Zenuni, Xhemal; Ajdari, Jaumin Proposal of model for prediction of grape processing and spraying time by using IoT smart agriculture sensor data. In International Journal on Information Technologies and Security, Web of Science, Journal Impact Factor JIF2022 = 0.9, vol. 16, no. 1. , pp. 03-14. 2024. (Link)

  • Besimi, Adrian; Besimi, Nuhi; Zenuni, Xhemal Automatic Literature Review based on AI (OpenAI). ICITEE 23 | ISBN 978-9928-805-28-7, Enti Botues "Gjergj Fishta", Tirana, 2023. (Link)

  • Shehu, Visar; Besimi, Adrian; Zenuni, Xhemal TË KUPTUARIT E TË DHËNAVE . SEEU, Tetovo, 2023.

  • Fondaj, Jakup; Hamiti, Mentor; Krrabaj, Samedin; Zenuni, Xhemal; Ajdari, Jaumin Comparison of Predictive Algorithms for IoT Smart Agriculture Sensor Data. 2023. (Link)

  • Hoti, Mërgim; Ajdari, Jaumin; Zenuni, Xhemal; Hamiti, Mentor Spectral Analysis, Agglomerative, Mean Shift and Affinity Propagation Algorithms, Use on the Content from Social Media for Low-Resource Languages. IEEE, Opatia, Croatia, 2023. (Link)

  • Salii, Shqipe; Ajdari, Jaumin; Zenuni, Xhemal Migrating to a microservice architecture: benefits and challenges. IEEE, Opatia, Croatia, 2023. (Link)

  • Hoti, Arbër; Zenuni, Xhemal; Hamiti, Mentor; Ajdari, Jaumin Student Performance Prediction Using AI and ML: State of the Art. IEEE, Budva, Montenegro, 2023. (Link)

  • Fondaj, Jakup; Hamiti, Mentor; Krrabaj, Samedin; Ajdari, Jaumin; Zenuni, Xhemal A Prediction Model of Smart Agriculture Based on IoT Sensor Data: A Systematic Literature Review. IEEE, Budva, Montenegro, 2023. (Link)

  • Hoti, Mërgim; Ajdari, Jaumin; Hamiti, Mentor; Zenuni, Xhemal Text Mining, Clustering and Sentiment analysis: A systematic Literature Review. IEEE, Budva, Montenegro, 2022. (Link)

  • Sinanaj, Luan ; Ajdari, Jaumin; Hamiti, Mentor; Zenuni, Xhemal A comparison between online compilers: A Case Study. IEEE, Budva, Montenegro, 2022. (Link)

  • Fetahi, Endrit ; Ajdari, Jaumin; Zenuni, Xhemal; Hamiti, Mentor A Cloud Centric Smart City Construction with an IoT Enabled Traffic Prediction mechanism. IEEE, Budva, Montenegro, 2022. (Link)

  • Shehu, Visar; Salii, Shqipe; Kadriu, Arbana; Abazi-Bexheti, Lejla; Zenuni, Xhemal Selected chapters in VR/AR. SEEU, Tetovo, 2022. (Link)

  • Zenuni, Xhemal; Abazi-Bexheti, Lejla; Shehu, Visar; Kadriu, Arbana; Salii, Shqipe Introduction to VR development with Unity. SEEU, Tetovo, 2022. (Link)

  • Hyrmete, Myditi; Ajdari, Jaumin; Zenuni, Xhemal; Cloud-based Services Approach as Accelerator in Empowering Digital Transformation. IEEE, Opatija, 2020. (Link)

  • Rista, Amarildo; Ajdar, Jaumin; Zenuni, Xhemal; Cloud Computing Virtualization: A Comprehensive Survey. IEEE, Opatija, 2020. (Link)

  • Rista, Amarildo; Ajdari, Jaumin; Zenuni, Xhemal; Predicting and Analyzing Absenteeism at Workplace Using Machine Learning Algorithms. IEEE, Opatija, 2020. (Link)

  • Luma-Osmani, Shkurte; Ismaili, Florije; Raufi, Bujar; Zeuni, Xhemal; Causal Reasoning Application in Smart Farming and Ethics: A Systematic Review . In Annals of Emerging Technologies in Computing, pp. 11-19. 2020. (Link)

  • Luma-Osmani, Shkurte; Ismaili, Florije; Zenuni, Xhemal; Raufi, Bujar; A Systematic Literature Review in Causal Association Rules Mining. IEEE, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 2020. (Link)

  • Raufi, Bujar; Ismaili, Florije; Ajdari, Jaumin; Zenuni, Xhemal; Web personalization issues in big data and Semantic Web: challenges and opportunities. In TURKISH JOURNAL OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING & COMPUTER SCIENCES, pp. 2379-2394. 2019. (Link)

  • Huseini, Besar; Ajdari, Jaumin; Raufi, Bujar; Zenuni, Xhemal; Ismaili, Florije; TRANSFORMATION FROM RELATIONAL DATABASE TO NOSQL DATABASE: MIGRATION AND INTEGRATION. Skopje, 2019. (Link)

  • Kryeziu, Nertla; Ismaili, Florije; Ajdari, Jaumin; Raufi, Bujar; Zenuni, Xhemal; Energy Provider Data Warehouse Design and Implementation - Case Study. IEEE, 2019. (Link)

  • Haxhijaha, Blerta; Ajdari, Jaumin; Raufi, Bujar; Zenuni, Xhemal; Ismaili, Florie; Query Optimization in SQL Server. In International Journal on Information Technologies and Security, No.2, vol 10, pp. 13-22. 2018. (Link)

  • Sahatqija, Kosovare; Ajdari, Jaumin; Zenuni, Xhemal; Raufi, Bujar; ismaili, Florie; Comparison Between Relational and NoSQL Databases. IEEE, Opatija, 2018. (Link)

  • Deari, Raif; Zenuni, Xhemal; Ajdari, Jaumin; Ismaili, Florie; Raufi, Bujar; Analysis And Comparison Of Document-Based Databases With SQL Relational Databases: Mongodb Vs MySQL. Infotech Conference Proceedings, Varna, Bulgaria, 2018. (Link)

  • Raufi, Bujar; Xhaferri, Ildi; Ismaili, Florije; Ajdari, Jaumin; Zenuni, Xhemal; EVALUATION OF MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES FOR HATE SPEECH DETECTION IN MOBILE PLATFORMS. In Journal Communication and Cognition, pp. 73-90. 2018. (Link)

  • Zenuni, Xhemal; Ajdari, Jaumin; Ismaili, Florije; Raufi, Bujar; Automatic Hate Speech Detection in Online Contents for Albanian Language. Proceeding of 2nd World Conference On Technology, Innovation And Entrepreneurship, Istanbul, 2017. (Link)

  • Ismaili, Florije; Shabani, Lulzana; Raufi, Bujar; Ajdari, Jaumin; Zenuni, Xhemal; Enhancing Breast Cancer Detection Using Data Mining Classification Techniques. Proceeding of 2nd World Conference On Technology, Innovation And Entrepreneurship, Istanbul, 2017. (Link)

  • Raufi, Bujar; Ismaili, Florije; Ajdari, Jaumin; Zenuni, Xhemal; Modelling A Context-Aware Friend-of-A-Friend (FOAF) Applications For Mobile Platforms. Proceeding of 2nd World Conference On Technology, Innovation And Entrepreneurship, Istanbul, 2017. (Link)

  • Ajdari, Jaumin; Abdullai, Ahmed; Zenuni, Xhemal; Raufi, Bujar; Ismaili, Florije; Definition and implementation of procedures for IT assets managing. Proceeding of 2nd World Conference On Technology, Innovation And Entrepreneurship, Istanbul, 2017. (Link)

  • Raufi,Bujar; Ismaili, Florije; Ajadari,Jaumin; Zenuni, Xhemal; Knowledgebase Harvesting for User-Adaptive Systems Through Focused Crawling and Semantic Web. ACM, New York., Palermo, Italy, 2016. (Link)

  • Ajdari, Jaumin; Mustafa, Nehat; Zenuni,Xhemal;Raufi,Bujar;Ismaili,Florije; Impact of table partitioning on the query execution performance. In International Journal of Computer Science Issues. 2016. (Link)

  • Ismaili, Florije; Ukalli, Kaltrina; Zenuni, Xhemal; Raufi, Bujar; Ajdari, Jaumin; SEEU Study Programs Curricula in Linked Open Data. Institute of Research Engineers and Doctors, Rome, Italy, 2016. (Link)

  • Caushi, Blerta; Ismaili, Florije; Caushi, Agron; Zenuni, Xhemal; Raufi, Bujar; Institutional Effectiveness Prediction Using Data Mining Techniques. Institute of Research Engineers and Doctors, Rome, Italy, 2016. (Link)

Work Experience

  • Sep 2023 - Present : Full Professor
    South East European University, Tetovo, North Macedonia
    Type of business or sector: Education
    Main responsibilities: Professor in the field of Software Development and Databases, Web Programming and related courses.

  • Oct 2023 - Present : Dean
    South East European University, Tetovo, North Macedonia
    Type of business or sector: Education
    Main responsibilities: Provide academic planning leadership and administrative duties at the Faculty of Contemporary Sciences and Technologies.

  • Feb 2023 - Oct 2023: Acting Dean
    South East European University, Tetovo, North Macedonia
    Type of business or sector: Education
    Main responsibilities: Provide academic planning leadership and administrative duties at the Faculty of Contemporary Sciences and Technologies.

  • Sep 2018 - Aug 2023: Associate Professor
    South East European University, Tetovo, Macedonia
    Type of business or sector: Education and Research
    Main responsibilities: Professor in courses (CCS602) Distributed Systems, (CCS-501) Web Programming, (ECS-403)Game Programming.

  • Sep 2016 - Aug 2021: Vice - Dean
    South East European University, Tetovo, Macedonia
    Type of business or sector: Education and Research
    Main responsibilities: - Enforcing university and faculty regulations and policies - Helping with staff engagements and academic planning - Curriculum development - Helping with creation of study regulations and academic policies - Quality of Teaching

  • Sep 2013 - Aug 2018: Assistant Professor
    South East European University, Tetovo, Macedonia
    Type of business or sector: Education and Research
    Main responsibilities: Lecturer: - Web Programming - Structural Programming - Service Oriented Architectures - Game Programming - Distributed Computing

  • Nov 2006 - Aug 2013: Assistant
    South East European University, Tetovo, Macedonia
    Type of business or sector: Education and Research
    Main responsibilities: Lecturer/Assistant: - System Analysis and Design - Distributed Computing - Web Services - Web Programming - Game Programming - Client – Side Web Programming - Client/Server Programming - Internet Application Development

  • Mar 2007 - Sep 2008: Pro - Dean for Academic Issues at CST Faculty
    South East European University, Tetovo, Macedonia
    Type of business or sector: Education and Research
    Main responsibilities: - Enforcing university and faculty regulations and policies - Helping with staff engagements and academic planning - Curriculum development - Helping with creation of study regulations and academic policies - Observation of teaching and assertion of h

  • Mar 2004 - Nov 2006: Young Assistant
    South East European University, Tetovo, Macedonia
    Type of business or sector: Education and Research
    Main responsibilities: Responsible for practical hours in: - Client/Server Programming - Data Mining - Game Programming - Programming II - Computer Application in Communication - Web and Multimedia Design

  • Sep 2003 - Feb 2004: IT Administration Assistant
    South East European University, Tetovo, Macedonia
    Type of business or sector: Education and Research
    Main responsibilities: - Assisting in administration of the I.T. Skills program - Lecturing Basic I.T. Skills - Assisting in administrating the human resources in Computer Center - Training and material development

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