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Dr. Eesa M. Bastaki, Chairman

Dr. Eesa Bastaki
Eesa M. Bastaki received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, San Diego in 1981 and 1982, and the Ph.D. degree in Frame Synchronization in Communication Systems from the University of California, Irvine in 1989.
He is currently an assistant professor of Electrical Engineering (Communications) in the UAE University, and the Director of Computer Center at UAE University.
He was the Assistant Dean for Students Affairs in the Faculty of Engineering from 1992 to 1996. He was the Head of Energy Section at the Technology and Energy Research Center (TERC) from 1990-1991, and from 1991-1992 he was the Head of Technology Section at TERC.
His research interests are Digital Communications and Spread Spectrum Communications. He was the Chairman of an international conference on "Intelligent Applications on Communication and Power Systems (IACPS'97)" which was held in Al-Ain, UAE from April 6-8, 1997, and organized by UAE University and IEEE, UAE Section.
He was a student member of IEEE from 1982 until 1989. From 1989 he became a full member of IEEE. He is currently a Senior Member of IEEE and the Chairman of IEEE, U.A.E. Section. He is a member of Society of Engineers at UAE and a member of New York Academy of Sciences.

Dr. Hassan Hejase

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Prof. Adel Shaltout

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Mr. Roy

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Dr. Saeed Al-Dhaheri

Dr. Saeed has earned his B.Sc in Electrical Engineering from UAE university in 1987, MSc in Electrical Engineering from George Washington university in 1990, and the Ph.D in Biomedical engineering from Drexel University in USA in 1994. Dr. Saeed is an assistant professor in the Electrical engineering Dept. of the UAE University.
He is currently seconded to the Ministry of Interior where he works as an IT Consultant in the National ID Card project. His career for the past seven years included providing IT consultation services in e-government and financial services industry to several government organizations in Abu Dhabi and Dubai including Public Works Department, Department of Tourism and Commerce Marketing and Abu Dhabi Investment Authority.
He is a member of the IEEE engineering in Medicine and Biology society and a member of the science and technology committee of the aerospace medical association.

Dr. Altaf A. Khan

Dr. Altaf A. Khan has done his Ph.D. from Barkatullah University in Life Science on Environmental Pollution Studies. His case study was for Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan.
He has published 12 research papers in International Journals of Environment and Pollution Studies and has vast experience in environment field in the Gulf.
He taught Environment in King Abdul Aziz University at Jeddah, Saudi Arabia in the Department of Environmental Studies and also worked for Department of Environmental Control, Royal Commission, Yanbu, Saudi Arabia.
Presently, he is working for a German organisation as a Managing Director for 3 companies i.e., Flow Waste, RPP and FlowTex Technologies. These companies provide solutions in construction and waste management by non-destructive technologies.

Dr. Sameer Bataineh

Dr. Sameer M. Bataineh received his B.S degree in Electrical Engineering from Syracuse University, New York in 1985, the M.S and the Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1990 and 1992 respectively.
He was a teaching and research assistant at SUNY/Stony Brook. Since 1992-1997, he was an assistant professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering at Jordan University of Science and Technology/Jordan.
He is currently an associate professor in theElectrical Engineering Department at the United Arab Emirates University/UAE.
His research interests include: Performance evaluation of fault tolerant parallel and network systems; in addition to scheduling of paradigm of divisible jobs in Parallel systems. Fuzzy logic control and Neural network is another are of interest.

Dr. Hamid Aghvami

Dr. Hamid Aghvami obtained his MSc and PhD degrees from King's College, The University of London, in 1978 and 1981, respectively. In April 1981 he joined the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering at King's as a postdoctoral research associate and worked on Digital Communications and Microwave techniques projects sponsored by EPSRC.
He joined the academic staff at King's in 1984. In 1989 he was promoted to Reader and Professor in Telecommunications Engineering in 1992. He is presently the Director of the Centre for Telecommunications Research at King's. Professor Aghvami carries out consulting work on Digital Radio Communications Systems for both British and International companies. He has published over 200 technical papers and given invited talks all over the world on various aspects of Personal and Mobile Radio Communications as well as giving courses on the subject world-wide. He is currently Senior Research Fellow at BT Laboratories and Executive Advisor to Wireless Facilities Inc., USA and Managing Director of Wireless Multimedia Communications LTD (his own consultancy company).
He leads an active research team working on numerous mobile and personal communications projects for third generation systems. These projects are supported both by the government and industry. He is a distinguished lecturer of the IEEE Communications Society. He has been member, Chairman, Vice-Chairman of the technical programme and organising committees of a large number of international conferences. He is also the founder of International Conference on Personal Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC). He is a fellow member of the IEE and senior member of the IEEE.

Mr Fahem Salem Al Bugham

Education : BSc Electrical Engineering, UAE University 1990
Experience : 10 years in ETISALAT. Current position : Principle Chief Engineer (PCE)
Training: Attended several traing courses arround the world in Engineering and Management to enhance technical skills.
Recently studying MBA in Southern Queen University - Australia.
Extra activities: He conducts several technical and educational activities in areas of Electrical & Electronics Engineering in UAE University and other different institutions and enterprises.
E-mail: futures@emirates.net.ae

Dr Ra'a S. Said

Profile to be provided soon.

Dr Rolf Remshardt

  1. Degrees:
    • Dr. Rolf received his Master's degree in Semiconductors from University of Stuttgart, Germany.
    • He received his PH.D. from University of Stuttgart in Semiconductors, Germany.
  2. Experience:
    • He joined IBM Research and Developmenmt Labs in Germany in 1964.
    • He was with IBM USA for 2 years.
    • He retired from IBM in 1994.
    • He was the Treasurer for IEEE Region 8 for 15 years since 1983.
    • He is currently the Director of IEEE Region 8.

Mr. Abderrafi Belfakih

Abderrafi Belfakih holds a BSEE, Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from University of Massachusetts in Lowell USA and holds a Computer Science minor from the same University. Abderrafi received his MBA, Master in Business Administration degree from Western New England College in Massachusetts, USA.
Abderrafi Worked with leading Networking companies in the United States and the Middle East. He was a Software developer at Cabletron Systems in new Hampshire state and as a Senior Development Engineer with Wellfleet Communications/ Bay Networks in Billerica USA.
He held a Systems Engineer Manager position at Nortel Networks where he worked for a total of 5 years and he is presently a Systems Engineer Team Leader for Cisco Systems based in the Middle East.

Prof. Chem Nayar

Professor Nayar is the Director of the Centre for Renewable Energy and Sustainable Technologies Australia (CRESTA), Curtin University, Perth. CRESTA is well known for applied research and training in the area of power conditioning and control systems for remote area power supply systems and weak electricity grids.
He worked as a consultant for United Nations agencies, government aid agencies and industries in Australia, India, Thailand, Indonesia and Philippines.
He has supervised 6 PhD students and 7 Research Masters students in this area. Professor Nayar has published over 80 conference papers, 57 journal articles and 2 book chapters.
Professor Nayar has been a Senior Member for IEEE for the past 10 years. Currently Professor Nayar is a Visiting Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering, UAE University

Dr. Khaled Kamel

Dr. Khaled Kamel is the founding dean of the new College of Information Technology at the United Arab Emirates University.
Dean Kamel obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from the University of Cincinnati in 1982. He also completed a Master degree in Computer Science from Waterloo University and a Master degree in Electrical Engineering from McMaster University in Canada. Dr. Kamel graduated from the College of Engineering at Cairo University and completed another Bachelor in Mathematics from Ain-Shamas University.
Dr. Kamel is a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). He served as the chairman of the Computer Engineering and Computer Science Department at the University of Louisville for the past 14 years prior to joining the UAEU in January 2001. He also worked as a consultant to many companies and government agencies including IBM, Vermont America, NASA Kennedy Space Center, GE, USA Naval Ordinance Station Louisville, USA Army NY, Ministry of Irrigation Egypt, and PLC Automation.
As a Professor of Computer Engineering and Computer Science, he had over 100 refereed publications, several IT technical manuals, and supervised and directed more than 50 graduate students research.
In his current job as the Dean of the College of Information Technology (CIT) at the UAEU, Dr. Kamel worked with the top IT experts in the USA to establish the new college. This included the design and implementation of a very unique and challenging curriculum and state of the art IT facility.
The college started admitting students in Spring 2001 and is expected to be in full operation in fall 2001. The CIT offers seven specialized IT bachelor degree programs in Computer Science, Computer Systems Engineering, Information Systems, Software Engineering, Network Engineering, Information Security, and Electronic Commerce. Also a Certificate program in Educational Technology is offered.

Dr. Abdulla Ismail Abdulla

Dr. Abdulla, a UAE national, was born in Sharjah, UAE, on February 12th, 1957. He obtained his B.Sc.(’80), Ms.(’83), and Ph.D.('86), all in Electrical Engineering, from the University of Arizona, USA. Currently, he is an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at UAE University, Al-Ain, UAE.
He is a senior member of the IEEE and the Counselor of the IEEE Student Branch at UAE University. He is also a member of the IEEE Control Society, and the IEEE Education Society. He is a recipient of the IEEE Millennium Medal, the Fullbright Scholarship, and the College of Engineering Distinguished University & Community Service Awards for 1998 and 1999. His main interests are in Applied Control Systems, Intelligent Systems, Desalination Plants Control, and Power Systems Control. He teaches courses in all areas of Control Engineering, Intelligent Systems, and Applications of Information Technology in Engineering and Business.
He held several administrative positions at UAE University, among which was the Vice-Dean of the College of Engineering and the Advisor to the Deputy Vice Chancellor for Computer Affairs. Also, he held the chairmanship and membership of several planning as well as executive committees and boards in the university and the ministry of higher education and scientific research.

Prof. Hussain Al-Ahmad

Prof. Hussain received his PH.D. from Leeds University in 1984. He is the Head of the Electronic Engineering Department at Etisalat College of Engineering. Prof. Al-Ahmad published over 40 papers in international conferences and journals and he holds a UK patent.
He is a professional engineer with hobbies in digital art. He is a senior member of the IEEE, Member of the IEE, Member of the British Computer Society, Fellow of the British Royal Photographic Society and Member of the British Royal Television Society.

Engr. Duraid H. Ali

B.Sc. in Electrical & Electronics Engineering, Baghdad University, College of Engineering 1987.
Diploma in Power Electronics - Danfisik - Denmark, Diploma in Technical Management - NCFE - Newcastle - UK.
15 years of valuable experience in the UPS & power electronics field, working with ABB, Chloride & Best Power UPS`s.
Attend a lot of training courses in the related fields.
Currently working as Head of Maintenance in United Arab Shipping Co - Dubai

Dr. Mohammed Samaka

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Stanislas De Boisset

After preparing mathematics and physics preparatory school, he graduated from one of the most famous telecommunication schools of France (Paris): ISEP Institute Supérieur d’Electronique de Paris.
After being graduated, he worked as Independent Consultant for many different industries in Digital transmissions, mobile phones coverage....
After being employed by 3Com France for a year as presales, he moved to UAE and handled Gulf and Levant countries.
He is presently the technical manager for 3Com UAE. Part of his responsibilities are:

Dr. Richard John Perry

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Dr. Hassan A. Al-Nashash

Hassan A. Al-Nashash (IEEE Senior member) received the B.Sc. Degree in Electronic Engineering with Medical Electronics and Ph.D. Degree in Electronic Engineering from the University of Kent, U.K. in 1984 and 1988 respectively. He served on the faculty of engineering at Mutah and Yarmouk Universities, Jordan between 1988 and 1998, and since then he has been with the American University of Sharjah, UAE where he is currently serving as an Associate Professor and Program Head of Electrical and Electronic Engineering.
His teaching and research interests are in the areas of electronics, medical instrumentation and signal and image processing. He developed several algorithms for ECG data classification and compression and currently is working on EEG signal analysis recorded during injury and recovery following global cerebral ischemia.
He also developed an explosive anaerobic leg power meter and a pedobargraph for the detection of choreography feet position. He worked closely with several biomedical engineering departments and hospitals at John Hopkins University (USA), The American Hospital in Dubai (UAE), and Jordan University Hospital (Jordan).

Prof. GANTI PRASADA RAO

GANTI PRASADA RAO took M.Tech. (Control Systems Engineering) and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering in 1965 and 1970 respectively, both from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, India. He has authored/coauthored four books and over 150 research papers.
He was Scientific Advisor to the Directorate of Power and Desalination Plants, Water and Electricity Department, Government of Abu Dhabi and the International Foundation for Water Science and Technology. He is presently an Advisor to the UNESCO-EOLSS Joint Committee.
Over the last several years, Prof. Rao has devoted himself to the development, from concept to completion, of the Encyclopedia of Desalination and Water Resources (DESWARE) and Encyclopedia of Life support Systems (EOLSS), two major publications of EOLSS Publishers, Oxford, UK.
He received several academic awards. He was elected to the Fellowship of the IEEE with the citation 'FOR DEVELOPMENT OF CONTINUOUS TIME IDENTIFICATION TECHNIQUES'. Prof. Rao is a Life Fellow of The Institution of Engineers (India), Fellow of The Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers (India) and a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering.

C. G. Ganesh

Mr C.G.Ganesh is the Head of Plant Instrument Engineering –DUBAL. He had his B.Sc. (Engg.) in Electronics and Communications and M.Tech. in Industrial Electronics. He is a Chartered Engineer (C.Eng), UK and Project Management Professional (PMP), USA. He is a BSI Certified Internal Auditor for ISO 9000 & LRQA Certified Internal Auditor for ISO 14001. He is the Area Governor- Toastmasters International for Sharjah & Northern Emirates. He is a member of Instrument Society of America (ISA), Project Management Institute, and Society of Engineers- UAE

Dr Habib Ur Rehman

Habib Ur Rehman received his B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Engineering and Technology Lahore, Pakistan, in 1990. He received M.S. and Ph.D. degrees both in Electrical Engineering from Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, in 1995 and 2001. He has published about 4 journals and 15 conference papers. He worked in the Ecostar Electric Drives and Ford Research Laboratory as a design engineer from July 1998 to December 1999. He was involved in the Electric, Hybrid and Fuel Cell vehicles development programs. He joined the Department of Electrical Engineering at the United Arab Emirates University, Al-Ain, U.A.E., in 2001 as an Assistant Professor. His primary research interests are in the areas of microprocessor/digital signal processor based adjustable-speed drives, fuzzy logic and sliding mode control applications to drives. Presently, he is working on the observer’s development for Direct/Indirect Field Oriented motor drives with /without sensor. He has introduced the embedded systems using Microcontrollers, FPGAs/EPLDs and DSPs in the UAE University.

Dr. Mohammed Al-Mualla

Dr. Mohammed Al-Mualla received the B. Eng. (Honors) degree in Communications from Etisalat College of Engineering, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates in 1995, and the M.Sc. degree in Communications and Signal Processing from the University of Bristol, Bristol, U.K. in 1997. In 2000, he received the Ph.D. degree from the University of Bristol with a thesis titled “Video Coding for Mobile Communications: a Motion-Based Approach”. Dr. Al-Mualla is currently with Etisalat College of Engineering, where he is the deputy head of the Electronic Engineering Department. He also leads the Multimedia Communication and Signal Processing (MCSP) research group within the College. His research interests include smart antennas and adaptive array processing, and multimedia communication over networks. Dr. Al-Mualla has published widely in refereed technical journals and international conferences. He is also the first author of the book “Video Coding for Mobile Communications”, Signal Processing and Its Application Series, Academic Press, March 2002. Dr. Al-Mualla is a member of both the IEEE and the IEE and the founding Chair of the IEEE Signal Processing/Communication Joint Societies Chapter in the UAE. He was a member of the organizing and technical program committees of the 10th IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems (ICECS2003), 14-17 December, 2003, Sharjah, UAE. He is a regular reviewer for many IEE/IEEE journals and conferences. In particular, the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, the IEE Proceedings on Vision, Image and Signal Processing, and the IEE Electronics Letter. He is currently a guest editor for the KLUWER ALOG Journal (Analogue Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing) for their special issue on ICECS03.

Eng. Rami T. Mushcab

Eng. Rami has over 17 years of experience in mobile radio, satellite and backbone transmission networks. He has held many management and technical positions in this area and recently he has been assigned as the company senior architect for radio, satellite and transmission infrastructure. He has published and presented several technical papers in local and international conferences in adaptive antennas, mobile radio, ATM and fiber optics transmission. For the past 10 years, he was the secretary of Communications Society Chapter of IEEE Saudi Arabia Section. Recently, he has been designated as the Industrial Relation Officer for IEEE Section in Saudi Arabia.

Dr. Nidhal Abdulaziz

Nidhal Abdulaziz received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from University of Basrah, Iraq, in 1980 and 1986, and the Ph.D. degree in Watermarking and Data Hiding in Multimedia from Monash University, Australia, in 2001. She is currently an assistant professor of Information Technology in the University of Wollongong in Dubai. She also worked as: Associate Lecturer, University of Basrah, Iraq, 1980-86; Research Associate, Aston University, UK, 1987-88; Lecturer, University of Basrah, 1990-91; Lecturer, Altahadi University, Libya, 1992-95; Research Associate, University of Western Sydney, Australia, 1996-98; Research Associate, Monash University, Australia, 1998-2002. She is a holder of: ATCRC Scholarship, Monash University, Australia; Dept of E&CSE Scholarship, Monash University, Australia; University of Basrah Scholarship, Iraq; Lampard Prize Winner 2003, Monash University, Australia; Invited Speaker at WITID2004, Kish, Iran; Review Board of the Journal of SPIE; Library Committee Chair, UOW in Dubai, UAE; and Member, IEEE, Member, Women in Engineering (WIE).

Amani Moh'd Bin Sewaif

Amani Mohammed Bin Sewaif received a Higher National Diploma (HND) in Business Information Technology from the Business and Technology Education Council (BTEC), UK, in 1998, and a Bachelor of Applied Science with distinction in Business Information Technology from the Higher Colleges of Technology, Dubai, UAE, in 2002.
Since 1999, she has been with Etisalat Internet & e-Solutions (I&eS) as a Network Services and Operation Engineer, operating and maintaining carrier grade Internet services and software solutions. She has a broad experience in the field of Information Technology, Internet protocols, and large scale distributed systems. As part of her responsibilities, she is administering core country infrastructure for providing Internet Domain Name resolution services for all .AE Internet domains. She has experience with the distributed Storage Area Network solutions from EMC2 and controls the backup and recovery operations. She participates in implementation of the latest Internet Standards in DNS such as DNSSEC, ENUM, and multilingual DNS. In addition, she is a member of Etisalat IPv6 working group, focusing on successful deployment of IPv6 applications. She is certified as an Internal Quality System Auditor by ByWater Inc.
She is a student member of the IEEE and an active member of the IEEE Women in Engineering (WIE), UAE. Currently, she is pursuing her M.Sc. by Research studies at Etisalat College of Engineering, Sharjah, UAE, in the field of Digital Image Watermarking.

Mr. Ahmed Bin Taiba

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Dr. Ali Assi

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Prof. Rob Milne

Prof. Rob Milne received his B.Sc. in Physics from Edinburgh University in1977 and Ph.D. in Physics from the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge University in 1981. He has worked at UBC (Canada), Strathclyde University, Sussex University and Cambridge University where he was awarded an Oppenheimer Fellowship. Currently he is Academic Director of Etisalat College of Engineering. Most time is now spent on administrative duties but previous research interests have included: properties of semiconductor surfaces including diffusion and growth on these surfaces, oxidation of metals, nano-engineering and the development of high spatial resolution analyses of materials e.g. electron microscopy, electron diffraction and electron spectroscopy.

Dr. Arif Sultan Al-Hammadi

Dr. Arif Sultan Al-Hammadi received the B. Eng. (Honors) degree in Communications from Etisalat College of Engineering, Sharjah, U.A.E. in 1994 and Ph.D. degree in Telecommunication, from Queen Mary and Westfield college, University of London, U.K. in 2000. Dr. Al-Hammadi is currently with Etisalat College of Engineering, where he teaches computer networks and artificial intelligence courses. His research is focused on communications, with particular emphasis on network performance engineering, network simulation and modeling, qualities of service (QoS) control, congestion control mechanisms and artificial intelligence applications. Dr. Al-Hammadi is also the chairman of the IEEE computer society chapter in UAE.

Werner Fleischmann

Mr. Werner Fleischmann started his career at Maschinenfabrik Reinhausen GmbH at the technical service department in August 1989 as Service Engineer. In 1993 Mr. Werner Fleischmann became "Area Field Service Manager". His area of responsibility is all countries in the near and Middle East including Pakistan and Egypt. Mr. Werner Fleischmann is responsible for all technical and after sales matters. He is the responsible contact for OLTC users (final customers) and for consultants which are active in his area of responsibility.

Dr. Raed Shubair

Dr. Raed Shubair received his B.Sc. degree from Kuwait University, Kuwait, in June 1989 and his Ph.D. degree from the University of Waterloo, Canada, in February 1993, both in Electrical Engineering. From March 1993 to August 1993 he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, Canada. In September 1993 he joined Etisalat College of Engineering, United Arab Emirates (UAE), where he is currently an Associate Professor at the Communication Engineering Department. His current research interests include smart antennas and adaptive array processing, applied and computational electromagnetics, guided-wave optoelectronics, as well as electromagnetic modeling of RF and microwave circuits for wireless communications. Dr. Shubair has authored over 60 papers in refereed technical journals and international conferences. His journal publications have appeared in IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, IEEE journal of Lightwave Technology, and IEE Electronics Letters. He organized and chaired a number of technical sessions in international conferences including IEEE Symposium on Antenna and Propagation, Progress in Electromagnetics Research Symposium, and Applied Computational Electromagnetics Symposium. He is a co-author of “Space-Time Coding and Signal Processing for Next-Generation Wireless Communications”, a conference tutorial first presented at the IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems (ICECS2003). He is a Senior Member of the IEEE, Member of the Applied Computational Society, Member of the Electromagnetics Academy. He is also a Member of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society, IEEE Communications Society, IEEE Signal Processing Society, and a Life Member of IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society. He is a regular reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, and IEEE Signal Processing Letters. Dr. Shubair is listed in Who’s Who in Electromagnetics.

Professor Mohsen Guizani

Professor Mohsen Guizani
Mohsen Guizani is currently a Full-time Professor and the Chair of the Computer Science Department at Western Michigan University and the Chair of the Computer Science Department at the University of West Florida from 1999 to 2003. He was an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the director of graduate studies at the University of Missouri-Columbia from 1997 to 1999 and he held academic positions at the Computer Engineering Department at the University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. He received his B.S. (with distinction) and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering; M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Engineering in 1984, 1986, 1987, and 1990, respectively, all from Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York.
His research interests include Computer Networks, Design and Analysis of Computer Systems, Wireless Communications and Computing, and Optical Networking. He currently serves on the editorial boards of many national and international journals, such as the IEEE Communications Magazine, the Optical Network Magazine, the Journal of Parallel and Distributed Systems and Networks, and the International Journal of Computer Research. He served as a guest editor in the IEEE Communication Magazine, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Journal of Communications and Networks, The Simulation Transaction, Informatica Journal, International Journal of Computer Systems and Networks, International Journal of Communication Systems, International Journal of Computing Research, and Journal of Cluster Computing. Dr. Guizani is the founder and Editor-In-Chief of “Wireless Communications and Mobile computing,” .He is the author of four books. Dr. Guizani is designated by the IEEE Computer Society as Distinguished National Speaker until 2005. He gave many tutorial and workshop around the world. Prof. Guizani is also ABET Accreditation Evaluator for Computer Science and Information Technology Programs.
He served as the program chair for many IEEE international conferences. He gave many seminars, tutorials and workshops a round the world. Please visit Prof Guizani URL at: https://www.cs.wmich.edu/~mguizani

Nabil Khalid Al-Dabal

Nabil Khalid Al-Dabal
Nabil Al-Dabal is currently the Manager of Communications Engineering & Technical Support Department, which is part of Saudi Aramco's Information Technology Business Line. He is also the Chairman of the IEEE Saudi Arabia Section and a member of the Project Management Institute. Prior to moving to Saudi Aramco in 1991 he worked with SCECO’s Project Management Department.
Nabil is actively involved in IT Change Management, Shared Values Concepts, Quality of Service Management, Communications & Data Network Infrastructure Management. Prior to being assigned to the current position, Nabil handled various responsible positions in Saudi Aramco: Assistant to the Vice President, Information Technology, General Supervisor, Communications Engineering Division, and Superintendent, Repair & Logistics Division.
Nabil holds a B.S. in Electronics Engineering with honors from Northrop University, U.S.A, and MBA with overall Distinction from Hull University, U.K. He obtained his MBA while on the job and also received the best thesis award from the University. He has completed an intensive Executive Development Program from IMD, Geneva, Switzerland.
Nabil was recently honored by the Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers (the IEEE) with the Regional Activities Board Achievement Award in recognition of his excellent contribution to the Institute’s activities in the GCC Region. Nabil has widely traveled and interacted with leaders from many industries and regions thus gaining a global understanding of management principles and techniques. He is well known in Saudi Aramco for his technical knowledge and management skills.

Prof. Fernando Pereira

Fernando Pereira was born in Vermelha, Portugal in October 1962. He graduated in Electrical and Computer Engineering by Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal, in 1985. He received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from IST, in 1988 and 1991, respectively.
He is currently Professor at the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of IST. He is responsible for the participation of IST in many national and international research projects. He acts often as project evaluator and auditor for various organizations.
He is a member of the Editorial Board and Area Editor on Image/Video Compression of the Signal Processing: Image Communication Journal, a member of the IEEE Press Board, and an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions of Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, and IEEE Transactions on Multimedia. He is an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer and member of the Scientific and Program Committees of tens of international conferences and workshops. He has contributed more than 150 papers to journals and international conferences.
He won the 1990 Portuguese IBM Award and an ISO Award for Outstanding Technical Contribution for his participation in the development of the MPEG-4 Visual standard. He has been participating in the work of ISO/MPEG for many years, notably as the head of the Portuguese delegation, chairman of the MPEG Requirements group, and chairing many Ad Hoc Groups related to the MPEG-4 and MPEG-7 standards. His current areas of interest are video analysis, processing, coding and description, and multimedia interactive services.

Prof. Hugh Rudnick

Professor Rudnick received the B. Sc. degree from the Universidad de Chile in 1970, M. Sc. degree in 1977, and the PhD degree in 1982 from the Victoria University of Manchester, UK, all in Electrical Engineering.
Dr. Rudnick has covered consulting work in the following areas of the energy (electricity and gas) sector: restructuring policies and bylaws, planning policies, power sector investment (generation, transmission and distribution), technical development, generation expansion, transmission planning, reliability, information systems, operation of electrical systems, electricity costs and tariffs, development of the regulatory market, etc.
He has contributed, as researcher and consultant, to the deregulation processes of the Latin America electrical sector, mainly in transmission and distribution regulation and tariffs, and organization of the generation wholesale market. He has done consulting with companies and governments in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Central America, Chile, Colombia, Dominican Republic, England, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Spain, Tasmania, United States and Venezuela, as well as with the World Bank. His contributions have served as reference for deregulation processes taking place in other parts of the world.
Dr. Rudnick is a Professor at Universidad Catolica de Chile. He joined the university in 1974. He has held different positions at the university, among those are: School of Engineering Academic Director 1978-1979; Chairman of Electrical Engineering Department 1984-1988; Member of the Council of the Faculty of Engineering 1991-2004; Editorial Board of the School Research Periodical 1984-1999; Member of the Planning Board, Faculty of Engineering 1998-2002; Member of the Academic Evaluation Council 2002-03.
His research activities and publications focus in the deregulation of the electrical sector, power system dynamics and other power-engineering subjects, with more than a hundred articles in indexed publications and international technical conferences.

Prof. Eweda Eweda

Professor Eweda Eweda received the B.Sc. degree with honor in 1973, the M.Sc. degree from the Military Technical College, Cairo, Egypt, in 1977, and Ph.D. and Doctor of Science degrees from Paris XI University, Paris, France, in 1980 and 1983, respectively, all in Electrical Engineering.
He is the author of a rich sequence of journal papers on adaptive filtering algorithms. His papers are well recognized and widely referenced by the international community. He supervised a significant number of Ph.D. and M.Sc. theses in the areas of adaptive signal processing and communications. He has a long teaching experience of both graduate and undergraduate courses in communications and signal processing.
He has been session organizer/chairman and/or technical committee member of several conferences. He provided a lot of technical consultations to various entities dealing with signal processing and communications.
Currently, he is the head of Electrical Engineering Department, Ajman University, UAE. Professor Eweda received the State Award of Engineering Sciences, a highly outstanding Egyptian scientific award, in 1992 and 1999. He is also the recipient of The First Degree Medal of Excellence from the president of Egypt. In January 2002, he was elected to the IEEE Fellow Grade for his contributions to the theory of adaptive filtering.

Dr. Mustafa A.G. Abushagur

Dr. Mustafa A.G. Abushagur received his Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from California Institute of Technology. He is the founding director and professor of Microsystems Engineering at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT). Before joining RIT he was professor of electrical and computer engineering and a professor of optical science and engineering at the University of Alabama, Huntsville.
His current research interests include optical communication, photonic crystals, optical fiber sensors, optical MEMS, optical signal processing and computing. He is a co-founder of two start-up companies in the field of fiber optics communications and has published over one hundred papers and several book chapters and patents. Dr. Abu Shagur is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America and a Fellow of the International Society of Optical Engineering and senior member of IEEE.

Dr. Roger Brooks

Dr Roger Brooks read chemical engineering at Leeds University and graduated with first class honours. He obtained his doctorate three years later with a thesis on the optimisation of batch reactor systems.
He worked as a computer applications engineer at Haldor Topsøe for two years, designing and maintaining on-line refinery and petrochemical computer systems in Kuwait. He returned to Leeds University, lecturing in chemical and control engineering for eight years.
During this time he successfully directed the research of four PhD students. He then joined Caltex Petroleum and worked for twelve years in Bahrain at the Bahrain Petroleum Company Refinery as the Process Control Specialist. During this time he was responsible for all the on-line computer control systems on the refinery and headed two modernisation projects. He then joined Cegelec as an Engineering / Project Manager.
During that time he has worked on several projects in Abu Dhabi, including the PACS project for ADN! OC at Ruwais, the MOSAICS Front End Engineering & Design study for ZADCO, the GASCO HICS project and currently the GASCO ABICS project. The latter project concerns the modernisation and revamping of the instrumentation and control systems at GASCO’s ASAB and BAB gas plants, including the main control buildings. Mostly the control systems are being changed with the plants operational (on-the-run).

Celia Desmond

Celia Desmond is President of World Class – Telecommunications, which provides training in management skills in business and telecommunications engineering environments. At Stentor Resource Centre Inc. she was instrumental in establishing the Stentor culture and processes, and in obtaining buy-in from the employees to adopt and grow the new organization. Celia has also held various positions at Bell Canada. She is author of Project management for Telecommunications Managers, published by Kluwer Academic Publishers (now Springer).
Celia is the 2006 IEEE Vice President – Technical Activities. She is also Vice President Membership for IEEE Engineering Management Society. She was 2002-2003 President of IEEE Communications Society. In 2000-2001 Celia was President of IEEE Canada, and she served her second term on the Board of Directors of IEEE as Region 7 Director. She was 1997-1998 Division III Director.
She has twice served in the IEEE Audit Committee, including serving as Chair, and actively participated in numerous other TAB, RAB, IEEE and Society committees. She was 2004 Chair of the IEEE Transnational Committee. Celia was awarded the Donald J. McLellan Award for meritorious service to IEEE Communications Society, the Engineering Institute of Canada John B. Sterling Medal in May 2000, and the IEEE Millennium award. She is a Senior Member of IEEE.
Celia holds a Masters in Electrical Engineering from Carleton University, a B.Sc. in Mathematics & Psychology from Queens University, an Ontario Teaching Certificate and a Project Management Professional (PMP) certification. Celia has taught kindergarten, high school, and at three universities, Ryerson School of Business, Stevens Institute of Technology, and University of Toronto.

Dr. Adnan Harb

Profile to be provided soon.

Adnan Rafik

Mr. Adnan Rafik works as Network/System Engineer for MicroData, Dubai. He is a professional computer engineer. He did his engineering from Sir Syed University of Engineering and Technology Karachi Pakistan in the year of 2000. Mr. Rafik has worked for both corporate organization and I.T. solution providers. He is in the I.T. industry since 1997.
Mr. Rafik has previously been invited as a guest speaker at PAF-KIET College Karachi to have a session on computer/network security. A number of his recommendations have been published in online security digests, e.g. Remediator Security Digest.
Currently, his job is related to both technical and managerial work. Technically he is working towards critical business operations and on the other side getting experience with clients with his direct involvement with them.
Mr. Rafik is Microsoft and Cisco Certified. He is running his online Blog 7Layers. Lately he has got the approval to run his community i.e. Techies from Culminis. Culminis is powered by Microsoft and serving to I.T. Pros around the world.
To find out more about Mr. Adnan, you can search his full name Adnan Rafik on any search engine.

Sangeetha Thomas

Sangeetha Thomas is the regional director for EC-Council EMEA. She has done her Masters in Business Administration specializing in Finance and Information Technology.
She manages the Indian operations for EC-Council and has created competency domains in the areas of information security and e-business technology. She is a security evangelist and her personal interests include conducting computer security workshops, publishing information security related content and speaking at security events.
Her professional interests include conducting penetration testing and aiding computer forensic investigations. Previously she had worked as Project Research Associate at IDRBT, Hyderabad.

Dr. Mohamed Ibnkahla

Dr. Ibnkahla is an Associate Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada. Currently, he is visiting Sharjah University, UAE.
Dr. Ibnkahla obtained the Ph.D. degree from the National Polytechnic Institute of Toulouse (INP), Toulouse, France in 1996. He has been an Assistant Professor at Queen's University (2000-2003) and at INP (1996-1999).
From 1996 to 1999, Dr. Ibnkahla was the Technical Manager of the European Union ACTS ­ NEWTEST program. He is currently leading projects with the Canadian Space Agency and the Canadian Institute for Telecommunications Research, the Ontario Ministry of Energy, Science and Technology, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), Communications Information Technology Ontario (CITO) and ALTERA Corporation (San Jose, California).
Dr. Ibnkahla is the Editor of the Signal Processing for Mobile Communications Handbook, CRC Press, July 2004, and Adaptive Processing for Wireless Communications, CRC Press (expected in 2007). He has published more than 80 papers in international journals, conferences and book chapters. Dr. Ibnkahla received the Research Excellence Award (Toulouse, France, 1997), the Prime Minister's Research Excellence Award (Ontario, Canada, 2000) and the Favorite Professor Award, Queen's University (Queen’s University, 2004).

Dr B. Narayanan Nair

Dr. B. Narayanan Nair did his graduation at IIT Madras in Electrical Engineering in 1975. He completed his M.Tech and Ph.D. also from IIT Madras in 1979 and 1985 respectively in the area of Industrial Management.
He has wide experience in R&D, Engineering and Marketing of Power Electronics Equipments and Corporate Planning.
He pioneered research and development activities at the then Electronics Research and Development Centre in Trivandrum in the area of Artificial Intelligence and headed the activities for more than 15 years. During this period he guided the development of about half a dozen AI Tools and about 25 expert system applications in Industry, Health Care, Agriculture and Education. He has also experience in Commercial Software development and is currently heading the Departments of Computer Science and Information Technology at Lordes Matha College of Science and Technology, Trivandrum.

Professor David Bull

David Bull is Professor of Signal Processing and Head of the Electrical and Electronic Engineering Department at the University of Bristol. He is also co-founder and Chairman of ProVision Communication Technologies Ltd., a company which specialises in wireless video transmission and which was spun out of the University in 2001. Prior to his current appointments he has been a Systems Engineer at Rolls Royce and subsequently a Lecturer at Cardiff University. He has also acted as an independent consultant to numerous organisations in the fields of video coding and signal analysis. He leads the Signal Processing activities within the Centre for Communications Research where he is Deputy Director.
A past director of the DTI Virtual Centre of Excellence in Digital Broadcasting and Multimedia Technology, he is now a member of the Steering Committee for the DTI funded Centre for Communications Computing and Content (3CRL). Since 2003 he has also sat on the Science and Technology Board of the UK Defence Technology Centre in Data and Information Fusion and is an independent member of UK DSAC. He is a past member of the UK Foresight Panel and also contributed to the Steering Group for the DTI/EPSRC LINK programme in Broadcast Technology.
David Bull has worked widely in the fields of 1 and 2-D signal processing. He has won two IEE Premium awards for this work and has published numerous patents. His current activities are focused on the problems of image and video communications for both low bit rate wireless, internet and broadcast applications. In particular he has developed novel error resilient video coding and transport methods for wireless H.264. He has contributed to EU projects WINHOME, TRUST, SCOUT, MEDIANET and WCAM. He has published approximately 300 papers, various articles and 2 books.

Prof. Wael Adi

Prof. Wael Adi is currently a professor at the Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany. Prof. Wael obtained his PhD in Computer Engineering from the Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany, in 1979. From 1980 to 1986 he was a postdoctoral researcher on database machines and an industrial consultant in VLSI for error correction coding for SIEMENS memory systems.
In 1988 he obtained the Habilitation degree in Computer Engineering from the Technical University of Braunschweig. From 1986 to 1996 he was at the Institute for Applied Microelectronics (IAM) as director of the applied research. From 1996 he was back to the Technical University of Braunschweig where in 2002 he was awarded Extraordinary professorship.
Prof. Wael has also spent the period from 2002 to 2005 at Etisalat University College. His main areas of teaching are Cryptography and Systems Security, digital design, Wireless Communication, Digital Networks, Coding Theory, and VLSI Design. He has about 16 European and US patents/applications.
He has published more than 45 journal and conference publications. He was a technical consultant and conducted applied research in the last 25 years for leading companies such as Siemens, Bosch Telecom, German Telecom, Phlips/Valvo, Volkswagen and others. His current research interests are mobile commerce and e-money, IPR protection mechanisms for VLSI design cores, Robot genetics and security, and VLSI for error correction coding.

Mr. K. Jeyaraman

Mr. K. Jeyaraman has 22 years experience as senior electrical engineer in power companies and consultancy organizations.
He has a Master Degree in Power Systems and is a first rank holder in B.E (Electrical). His main fields of interest are EHV and HV substations and power generation besides testing and commissioning of protection systems for EHV and HV systems. He has been closely involved in the design and execution of major 400 kV projects in Abu Dhabi.

Dr. M. H. Shwehdi

M. H. Shwehdi (S'74, M'85, SM 90) received the B.Sc. degree from University of Tripoli, Libya in 1972. He obtained the M.Sc. Degree from the University of Southern California and Ph.D. degree from Mississippi State University in electrical engineering in 1975 and 1985 respectively.
He was a consultant to A.B. Chance Company and Flood Engineering. Dr. Shwehdi held teaching positions with the University of Missouri-Columbia, University of Florida and Penn. State University.
At present he is a professor with the King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals (KFUPM), Saudi Arabia. Beside research on high voltage phenomena applications, testing and technology, his research interest includes power system transmission, distribution and analysis, power quality & harmonics, restructuring and deregulation of interconnected systems, operation and maintenance of power systems.
Prof. Shwehdi is consultant with London International Economics, Boston, USA and Azzouni’s Consulting at AL-Khobar, KSA. He is active in IEEE activities both locally and internationally. He is listed as a Distinguished Lecturer with the DLP of the IEEE/PES; won the first runner up nominee of the 2002 Outstanding Large IEEE-PES Chapter Award and KFUPM College of Engineering Best Short Courses Award 2004 -2006. He was named and awarded the 2001 IEEE/PES outstanding chapter engineer; he was named and awarded the 1999 IEEE WG for standard award. He is the IEEE/PES Saudi Arabia Chapter Chairman since 1999 and IEEE-PES Region-8 representative of Middle East, Zone # 4.

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