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Hazem Hajj, PhD
Electrical and Computer Engineering; American University of Beirut
P. O. Box: 11-0236, Riad El Solh; Beirut 1107 2020, Lebanon
Home: (01) 350000 ext 2716, Cell: (70) 125126
[email protected]
RESUME HIGHLIGHTS
Educational Background:
• PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1996. First major:
Communications, with emphasis on Image Processing. Second major: Computer Engineering. Minor:
Computer Science, with emphasis on Computer Vision.
• MS Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Wisconsin Madison, 1989.
• BE Electrical Engineering, American University of Beirut, 1987.
Professional Background:
• Associate Professor in Electrical & Computer Engineering at the American University of Beirut. (Joined
AUB in February 2008 as Assistant Professor).
• Lead Principal Investigator for Research Project on Opinion Mining from Arabic with $1 Million
funding from Qatar National Research Funding (QNRF). Started in Sep. 2013.
• Principal Investigator for AUB-Intel Middle East Energy Efficiency Research Center, part of a regional
center with $3 Million annual funding in partnership with regional universities. Nov. 2009 – Dec. 2014.
• 14 years Industry R&D Experience: 12 years (1996-2008) at Intel Corporation; R&D in semiconductor
IT applications for Yield Analysis, Process Control, and Pattern Recognition & Classification. 2 years
(1994-1996) in Computer Vision R&D.
• 9.5 years Academic Experience: 5.5 years (Feb 2008-present) associate professor and assistant professor
at AUB, and 4 years (1989-1993) teaching instructor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Summary of Publications and Intellectual Accomplishments:
• Recipient of 4 Patents in data systems and image processing. Patent based on PhD already licensed.
• Published/Accepted 11 journal papers (1st or 2nd author in all): 3 in IEEE Transactions, 1 in ACM
Transactions. 10 since joining AUB. Additional papers in the pipeline.
• Published/Accepted 40 conference papers (1st or 2nd author in almost all): 27 after joining AUB. Several
others in pipeline.
• Recipient of a major Research Fund from Intel Corporation [$ 1,050,000 for AUB alone over 3 years]
with five other professors. Lead Investigator for attracting the fund.
• Recipient of two major Research Funds from QNRF [over $ 1,000,000 for 3 years]: The first with four
other professors and in collaboration with Qatar Texas A&M University, and the second with three other
professors in collaboration with Columbia and Qatar Universities.
• Recipient of 6 other research funds from Lebanese National Research Council and American University
of Beirut URB.
• Industry Task Force Lead for defining industry standards in IC FAB Advanced Process Control Systems.
• Chaired technical conference, multiple conference sessions, and reviewed many conference and journal
papers.
Teaching Awards:
• Recipient of 5 Teaching Awards at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
• Recipient of highest distinction for teaching awards at the University Wisconsin Madison for 3 years.
Industry Awards:
• Recipient of 7 Industry Awards for distinguished quality and accomplishments during tenure at Intel
Education Awards:
• Dean’s Honor List and Graduate with distinction (Ranked 2nd ) at the American University of Beirut.
• High School Graduate on Honor List - Mission Laïque Française
Professional Society Honor:
• IEEE Senior Member
RESUME DETAILS
EDUCATION
Ph.D. Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Wisconsin-Madison, May 1996
GPA: 3.95/4.0
Dissertation: Multiscale Feature Detection Using Filter Banks Design and Corresponding Multiscale Maximum Aposteriori Classifier for Optimal Detection
Advisors: Professor Roland Chin and Professor Truong Nguyen
First major: Communications, with emphasis on Image Processing
Second major: Computer Engineering
Minor: Computer Science, with emphasis on Computer Vision
Courses: Image Processing, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision, VLSI Array Processors, Introduction to
Computer Architecture, Computer Methods-Large Sparse Systems, Multirate Systems and Filter Banks
M.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Wisconsin-Madison, May 1989
GPA: 3.96/4.0
Thesis: Extraction of Fractal Dimension as a Classification Feature
Advisor: Professor Roland Chin
Courses: Introduction to Digital Signal Processing, Advanced Digital Signal Processing, Pattern Recognition, Data
Communication
B.E. Electrical Engineering
American University of Beirut, July 1987
GPA: 3.5/4.0 (equivalent to 4.0 in US system), Rank: Second in a class of fifty students
Graduated with distinction, and was placed on dean’s honor list six semesters.
Senior Project: Computer Graphics Package
Courses: Computer Peripherals, Computer Graphics, Communication Systems
PUBLICATIONS AND PATENTS
PATENTS
[1] Automated Yield Analysis. Inventors: Y. Alqudah, H. Hajj, and M. Abdelmoneum. Sponsored by
Intel Corporation. United States Patent 20090006436.
[2] Defect Analysis. Inventors: Y. Alqudah, H. Hajj, and M. Abdelmoneum. Sponsored by Intel
Corporation. United States Patent 20090003684.
[3] Software Architecture for Engineering Analysis Framework for Semiconductor Manufacturing.
Inventors: S. Bhattacharya and H. Hajj, sponsored by Intel Corp. United States Patent 20080082190.
[4] An Optimized Multiscale Feature Detection Framework using Filter Bank, Awarded April 1996,
inventors: Hazem Hajj, Truong Nguyen and Roland Chin. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Alumni
Research Foundation. United States Patent 006064768.
PEER- REVIEWED JOURNAL PAPERS
Note that “(S)” stands for student in the list below.
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A. Kaitoua (S), H. Hajj, M. Saghir, H. Artail, H. Akkary, M. Awwad, “Hadoop Extensions for
Distributed Computing on Reconfigurable Active SSD Clusters,” ACM Transactions on Computer
Architecture and Code Optimization, 2014, volume 11, 2 (June 2014).
K. Mershad, M. Sharafedddine, H. Artail, M. Saghir, H. Hajj, M. Awad, "A Mathematical Model to
Analyze the Utilization of a Cloud Datacenter Middleware," accepted to Elsevier Journal of
Networking and Computer Applications (JNCA), August 2014, volume and pp. TBD.
H. Hajj, W. El-Hajj, M. Dabbagh, T. Arabi, “An Algorithm-Centric Energy Aware Design
Methodology,” IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integrated Systems (IEEE TVLSI), Digital
Object Identifier: 10.1109/TVLSI.2013.2289906, Publication Year: 2013, in processing for general
accessibility.
4. C. Trad (S), H. Hajj, W. El-Hajj, F. Al-Jamil “Facial Action Unit and Emotion Recognition with
Head Pose Variations,” Advanced Data Mining and Applications, Lecture Notes on Computer Science,
Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Volume 7713, 2012, pp. 383-394.
5. M. Dabbagh (S), H. Hajj, W. ElHajj, A. Chehab, A. Kayssi, M. Mansour, “An Energy-Aware Design
Methodology Based on Kernel Optimizations,” selected 2012 from IWCMC conference for extension
to the special issue International Journal of Autonomous and Adaptive Communications Systems
(IJAACS), accepted July 2012.
6. R. Baly (S), H. Hajj, “Wafer Classification using Nonlinear Support Vector Machines,” IEEE
Transactions on Semiconductor Manufacturing, Volume: 25, Issue: 3, pp 373 – 383, August 2012.
7. N. Farra (S), B. El-Sayed (S), N. Moacdieh (S), H. Hajj, Z. Hajj, R. Haidar, “A Mobile Sensing and
Imaging System for Real-Time Monitoring of Spine Health,” selected from conference for extension to
the Journal of Medical Imaging and Health Informatics (JMIHI) 2011, Special Issues, Volume
1, Number 3, pp. 238-245(8), September 2011.
8. W El-Hajj, H. Hajj, Z. Trabelsi, and F. Aloul, “Updating Snort with a Customized Controller to
Thwart Port Scanning”, Wiley’s Journal of Security and Communication Networks, Volume 4, Issue 8,
pp. 807–814, January 2010.
9. H. Hajj, W. El-Hajj, K. Kabalan, M. M. El-Dana, M. Dakroub, and F. Fawaz, “An Efficient Vehicle
Communication Network Topology with an Extensible Framework,” International Journal of
Computing & Information Technology (IJCIT), International Sciences Press, Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 237 –
250, 2010.
10. W. El-Hajj, H. Hajj, E. Bakra, Z. Dawy, O. El-Hmaissy, D. Ghadar, Y. Aitour, “Optimal WiMAX
Planning with Security Considerations,” Wiley’s Journal of Security and Communication Networks,
SI on WiMax Security and Applications, Wiley InterScience, Vol. 2, Issue 5, pp. 401–412, July 2009.
11. J. Moyne, H. Hajj, K. Beatty and R. Lewandowski “SEMI E133—The Process Control System
Standard: Deriving a Software Interoperability Standard for Advanced Process Control in
Semiconductor Manufacturing”, IEEE Transactions on Semiconductor Manufacturing: Special Issue
on Advanced Process Control, Volume 20, Issue 4, pp. 408-420, November 2007.
PEER-REVIEWED CONFERENCE PAPERS
Note that “(S)” stands for student in the list below.
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M. Sharafeddin, H. Harkous, S. Mansour, M. Saghir, H. Akkary, H. Artail, H. Hajj, “On the
Efficiency of Automatically Generated Accelerators for Reconfigurable Active SSDs”, accepted to
26th International Conference on Microelectronics (ICM 2014), December 14-17, 2014, Doha, Qatar.
S. Shaheen, W. El-Hajj, H. Hajj, and S. Elbassuoni, “Emotion Recognition from Text Based on
Automatically Generated Rules,” In Proceedings of the 4th IEEE ICDM workshop on Sentiment
Elicitation from Natural Text for Information Retrieval and Extraction (SENTIRE 2014), December
14, 2014, Shenzhen, China.
G. Badaro, H. Hajj, A. Haddad, W. El-Hajj, and K. Shaban, “Recommender Systems Using Harmonic
Analysis,” In Proceedings of the IEEE ICDM workshop on Social Multimedia Data Mining (SMDM
2014), December 14, 2014, Shenzhen, China.
G. Badaro (S), R. Baly (S), H. Hajj, N. Habash, W. El-Hajj, “A Large Scale Arabic Sentiment
Lexicon for Arabic Opinion Mining,” 18th International ACM SIGDAT and SIGNLL Conference on
Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing 2014 (EMNLP 2014), Arabic Natural Language
Processing Workshop, October 25–29, 2014, Doha, Qatar.
G. Badaro, H. Hajj, A. Haddad, W. El-Hajj, K. Shaaban, “A Multiresolution Approach to
Recommender Systems,” 20th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining,
Social Network Analysis Workshop (SNAKDD 2014), New York, 2014.
N. Abbas (S), Z. Dawy, H. Hajj, S. Sharafeddine, “Energy-Throughput Tradeoffs in Cellular/WiFi
Heterogeneous Networks with Traffic Splitting,” IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking
Conference (WCNC) 2014, Istanbul, Turkey.
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S. Taleb (S), H. Hajj, Z. Dawy, “Entropy-based Optimization to Trade-off Energy and Accuracy for
Activity Mobile Sensing,” 4th IEEE International Conference on Energy Aware Computing Systems &
Applications (ICEAC 2013), December 15-18, Istanbul, Turkey.
K. Mershad (S), A. Kaitoua (S), H. Artail, M. Saghir, H. Hajj, “A Framework for Multi-Cloud
Cooperation with Hardware Reconfiguration support”, IEEE 9th World Congress on
Services (SERVICES 2013), Santa Clara, CA, June 2013.
M. Jomaa (S), K. Mershad (S), N. Abbani (S), Y. Sharaf-Dabbagh (S), B. Romanous (S), H. Artail, M.
Saghir, H. Hajj, H. Akkary, M. Awad, “A Mediation Layer for connecting Data-Intensive
Applications to Reconfigurable Data Nodes”, 22nd International Conference on Computer
Communications and Networks (ICCCN 2013), Nassau, Bahamas, July 2013.
G. Badaro (S), H. Hajj, W. El-Hajj, L. Nachman, “A Hybrid Approach with Collaborative Filtering
for Recommender Systems,” The Ninth International Wireless Communication and Mobile Computing
Conference (IWCMC) 2013, Mobile Computing Symposium, July 3-8, 2013.
J. Farjo (S), W. Masri, H. Hajj, “Isolating Failing Test Cases: A Comparative Experimental Study of
Clustering Techniques,” The 3rd International Conference on Communications and Information
Technology (ICCIT-2013): Digital Information Management & Security - Digital Information
Management, Beirut, Lebanon, June 2013.
K. Mershad (S), A. Kaitoua (S), H. Artail, M. Saghir, H. Hajj, "Cloud Providers Collaboration for a
Higher Service level in Cloud Computing" The 3rd International Conference on Communications and
Information Technology (ICCIT-2013): Mobile and Cloud Computing - Mobile and Cloud Computing,
Beirut, Lebanon, June 2013.
S. Taleb (S), N. Abbas (S), H. Hajj, Z. Dawy, "On Sensor Selection in Mobile Devices based on
Energy, Application Accuracy, and Context Metrics" The 3rd International Conference on
Communications and Information Technology (ICCIT-2013): Digital Information Management &
Security - Digital Information Management, Beirut, Lebanon, June 2013.
N. Abbas (S), S. Taleb (S), H. Hajj, Z. Dawy, “Learning-Based Approach for Network Selection in
WLAN/3G Heterogeneous Network,” The 3rd International Conference on Communications and
Information Technology (ICCIT-2013): Wireless Communications and Signal Processing, Beirut,
Lebanon, June 2013.
S. Taleb (S), M. Dia (S), J. Farhat (S), Z. Dawy, H. Hajj, “On the Design of Energy-Aware 3G/WiFi
Heterogeneous Networks Under Realistic Conditions,” The Ninth International Workshop on
Heterogeneous Wireless Networks (HWISE 2013), to be held in conjunction with the 27th IEEE
International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA-2013),
Barcelona, Spain, March 25-28, 2013.
R. Awwad (S), D. Ripan, T. Arabi, H. Hajj “A Fast Charging Multi-C Technique for Mobile
Devices,” ICEAC 2012, the 3rd IEEE International Conference on Energy Aware Computing, Cyprus,
Dec. 3-5, 2012.
A. Houjeij (S), L. Hamiyeh (S), N. Mehdi (S), H. Hajj, “A Novel Approach for Emotion Classification
based on Fusion of Text and Speech,” 19th IEEE International Conference on Telecommunications
(ICT), Jounieh, Lebanon, April 23-25, 2012.
A. Ali (S), M. Jomaa (S), B. Romanos( S), M. Sharafeddine (S), H. Akkary, M. Saghir, H. Artail, M.
Awwad, H. Hajj, “An Operating System for a Reconfigurable Active SSD Processing Node,” 19th
IEEE International Conference on Telecommunications (ICT), Jounieh, Lebanon, April 23-25, 2012.
L. Constantine (S), H. Hajj, “'A Survey of Ground-truth in Emotion Data Annotation,” to 8th IEEE
International Workshop on Pervasive Learning, Life and Leisure (PerEL 2012), part of the 10th IEEE
Pervasive Computing and Communication (PerCom) conference, Lugano, Switzerland, March 19-23,
2012.
20. M. Dabbagh (S), H. Hajj, W. El Hajj, “An Approach to Measuring Kernel Energy in Software
Applications,” the 2nd IEEE International Conference on Energy Aware Computing, Istanbul, Turkey,
Nov. 30 - Dec. 2, 2011.
21. N. Farra (S), G. Raffa (S), L. Nachman, H. Hajj, “Energy-Efficient Mobile Gesture Recognition with
Computation Offloading,” the 2nd IEEE International Conference on Energy Aware Computing,
Istanbul, Turkey, Nov. 30 - Dec. 2, 2011.
22. M. Dabbagh (S), A. J. Ghandour (S), K. Fawaz (S), W. El Hajj, H. Hajj, “Slow Port Scanning
Detection,” the Seventh International Conference on Information Assurance and Security (IAS 2011) ,
Malacca, Malaysia, pp. 228 – 233, December 05-08, 2011.
23. R. Hobeika (S), H. Hajj, W. Elhajj, “Machine Reading for Notion-Based Sentiment Mining,” 11th
IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2011) Workshops, December 11-14,
Vancouver, Canada.
24. N. Abbani (S), A. Ali (S), D. Al Otoom (S), M. Jomaa (S), M. Sharafeddine (S), H. Artail, H. Akkary,
M. Saghir, M. Awad, H. Hajj, “A Distributed Reconfigurable Active SSD Platform for Data Intensive
Applications”, 13th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and
Communications (HPCC-2011), Alberta, Canada, Sep 02-04, 2011.
25. N. Abbas (S), H. Hajj, A. Yassine, “Optimal WiMAX Frame Packing for Minimum Energy
Consumption”, The Seventh International Wireless Communication and Mobile Computing
Conference (IWCMC) 2011, July 3-8, 2011.
26. M. Dabbagh (S), H. Hajj, A. Chehab, W. Elhajj, A. Kayssi, M. Mansour, “A Design Methodology for
Energy Aware Neural Networks,” The Seventh International Wireless Communication and Mobile
Computing Conference (IWCMC) 2011, July 3-8, 2011.
27. B. El-Sayed (S), N. Farra, N. Moacdieh, H. Hajj, Z. Hajj, R. Haidar, “A Novel Mobile Wireless
Sensing System for Real-time Monitoring of Posture and Spine Stress,” 1st Middle East Conference on
Biomedical Engineering (MECBME’11), Feb 21- 24, 2011; Sharjah, UAE.
28. F. B. Yahya (S), M. Mansour, A. Kayssi, H. Hajj, “Using BIST Circuitry to Measure DRV of Large
SRAM Arrays,” IEEE International Conference on Energy Aware Computing, December 16-18, 2010,
Cairo, Egypt.
29. N. Abbas (S), H. Hajj, A. Yassine, “An Energy-Efficient Scheme for WiMAX Downlink Bursts
Construction”, IEEE International Conference on Energy Aware Computing, December 16-18, 2010,
Cairo, Egypt.
30. M. Fawaz (S), N. Kobrosli (S), J. Rizakallah (S), M. Mansour, A. Chehab, A. Kayssi, H. Hajj,
“Energy Minimization Feedback Loop for Ripple Carry Adders,” IEEE International Conference on
Energy Aware Computing, December 16-18, 2010, Cairo, Egypt.
31. M. Yassine (S), H. Hajj, “A Framework for Emotion Mining from Text in Online Social Networks"
IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2010) Workshops, December 14-17, Sydney,
Australia.
32. N. Farra (S), R. Abou Assi (S), E. Chalita (S), H. Hajj, “Sentence-level and Document-level
Sentiment Mining for Arabic Texts,” IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2010)
Workshops, December 14-17, Sydney, Australia.
33. N. Abbas (S), H. Hajj, A. Borghol, “A Comprehensive Simulator,” 8th Annual International IEEE
Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC 2011), January 9-12, Las Vegas,
USA.
34. F. Adib (S), H. Hajj, “VSpyware: Spyware in VANETs,” to the 35th IEEE Local Computer Network
(LCN) on User MObility and VEhicular Networks (On-MOVE) conference, October 2010, Denver,
Colorado, USA
35. N. Abbas (S), H. Hajj, A. Borghol, “A Comprehensive Simulator,” the sixth international Conference
on Wireless and Mobile Communications (ICWMC 2010), Spain, Europe but later withdrawn due to
difficulty in attendance, and resubmitted to the 8th IEEE Consumer Communications and Network
Conference (CCNC) 2011, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
36. F. Adib (S), H. Hajj, “Efficient Time and Frequency Methods for Sampling Filter Functions”, the
International Conference on Image and Signal Processing 2010 (ICISP 2010), Canada, June 28-July 2,
2010.
37. H. Hajj, W. El Hajj, M. M. El Dana, M. Dakroub, and F. Fawaz, “An Extensible Software Framework
for Building Vehicle to Vehicle Applications”, The Sixth International Wireless Communication and
Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC) 2010, June 28-July 2, 2010. Conference Proceedings will
be included in ACM and IEEE Digital Library.
38. W. El-Hajj, H. Hajj, “Fault Tolerant Ad Hoc Network Design with Fast Efficient Routing,” the fifth
International Wireless Communication and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC 2009) Wireless
LANs and Wireless PANs Symposium, Leipzig-Germany June 2009.
39. Y. A Alqudah, M. Abdelmoneum, H. Hajj, “An Efficient Electrical to Physical Failure Correlation
Tool for Yield Analysis and Modeling,” Intel Design and Test Technology Conference, (Intel
Confidential), March 2007.
40. J. Moyne, H. Hajj, "E133: The Process Control Systems (PCS) SEMI Standard: Fault Detection
Extension and EDA integration", 8th European Advanced Equipment Control/ Advanced Process
Control (AEC/APC) Conference in Dresden, Germany, April 2007.
41. H. Hajj, and E. Hamer, “Station Controller, A Vital Component of Technology Development”, the 8th
International Conference on Flexible Automation and Intelligent Manufacturing Conference, 1998,
Portland, Oregon, USA; Proceedings: Begell House, Inc. (U.K.), ISBN 1-56700-118-1.
42. H. Hajj, T. Nguyen, and R. Chin, “Multiscale feature detection for medical image enhancement”,
submitted to the 18th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and
Biology Society, May 1996.
43. H. Hajj, T. Nguyen, and R. Chin, “A 2D Multirate Bayesian Framework for Multiscale Feature
Detection”, SPIE International Symposium on Optical Science, Engineering and Instrumentation,
August 1996.
44. H. Hajj, T. Nguyen, and R. Chin, “On Multi-Scale Feature Detection using Filter Banks”, Proceedings
of the Twenty Ninth Annual Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, vol. 29, 1996.
45. S. Nadabar, H. Hajj, and R. Anbalagan, “Machine Vision System for High Speed Discrete Parts
Inspection”, Proceedings of the International Society for Optical Engineering, Optical Engineering
Midwest '95, vol. 2622, November 1995.
OTHER CONFERENCE PAPERS
46. R. Baly (S), J. Moyne, H. Hajj, “Comparison of Yield Prediction Techniques against Common Data
Quality Issues in Yield Data,” the 11th European Advanced Equipment Control / Advanced Process
Control Conference, Dresden - April 4-6, 2011.
47. R. Baly (S), H. Hajj, “Yield Analysis based on Data Mining with Support vector Machines,” 21st
Advanced Equipment Control/ Advanced Process Control (AEC/APC) Conference, Ann Arbor
Michigan-USA, September 2009.
48. H. Hajj, “Intel’s AMT enables rapid processing and Info-turn for Intel’s DFM Test Chip Vehicle”,
published in the society of optics, photonics, and imaging engineering (SPIE) Photomask,
Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 6730, October 30, 2007.
49. H. Hajj, J. Moyne, M. Pendleton, Toni Guckert, K. Edwards, and C. Young “E133: The Process
Control Systems (PCS) SEMI Standard: Applying the Standard to Fault Detection Scenarios
Incorporating Interface A Data Collection and other PCS Capabilities”, Advanced Equipment Control/
Advanced Process Control (AEC/APC) Symposium 2006.
50. J. Fenner, H. Hajj, “APC Application Selection: The Secret Ingredient to a Successful APC
Program”, Advanced Equipment Control/ Advanced Process Control (AEC/APC) Europe Symposium
2005
51. Fayed, S. Sengupta, Y. Botros, H. Hajj, “Off-line Data Analysis for Advanced Process Control
Systems”, Advanced Equipment Control/ Advanced Process Control (AEC/APC) Symposium
September 2003
52. G. Zhuang, Y. Botros, K. P. Srirama, H. Hajj, “Integrated Process Control Systems: Benefits,
Requirements, and Architecture,” Intel APC Summit 2003.
53. Y. Botros, H. Hajj, “Process Control Systems: Integrated for Future Process Technologies”, published
in the society of optics, photonics, and imaging engineering (SPIE) Advanced Process Control and
Automation Proceedings 2003, vol. 5044, pp. 121-129.
EDUCATION AWARDS
B.E. Degree with Distinction, AUB 1987
Dean's Honor List (Six Semesters), AUB 1983-87
TEACHING AWARDS
University Teaching Assistant Mentor Award, UW-Madison 1992-1993
University Excellence in Teaching Award, UW-Madison 1992
Department Excellence in Teaching Award, UW-Madison 1992
Department Teaching Assistant Fellow, UW-Madison 1992
Polygon Outstanding Teaching Award, UW-Madison 1992
Polygon Outstanding Teaching Award, UW-Madison 1991
INDSUTRY AWARDS
Logic Technology Division Recognition Award in recognition of your outstanding contribution for delivery of
SMART automated system, Intel Q4 2005
TMG Excellence Award for successful delivery of first Industry IA-based Manufacturing Execution System, Intel
Q1 2005
TMG Excellence Award for establishing Industry Leadership in Advanced Process Control enabling Process
Development and 200/300 mm manufacturing, Intel Q3 2003
TMG Excellence Award for successful execution of Intel’s 300 mm program, Intel Q1 2002
Logic Technology Development Team Quality Award in recognition of your leadership in introducing NT-based
Station Controllers into FAB and Sort, Intel Q1 2001
Logic Technology Development Team Quality Award in recognition of your outstanding contribution to
improvement of Client Reliability, Intel Q1 2000
TMG Cross-Organization Awards at Intel in July 1997 and January 2000.
PROJECT AWARDS
2nd place International ICAMES 2013 competition, in recognition of “Mobile Emotion Recognition
System,” Istanbul, Turkey 2013.
Best Paper Award at AUB Student Conference, in recognition of research on “Energy-Aware Mobile
Application for Heterogeneous 3G/Wi-Fi Networks,” Beirut, Lebanon, June 2012.
1st Place IEEE Communication Society Contest Award, in recognition of “Mobile text Recognizer and
Arabic Translator”, Beirut, Lebanon, July 2010.
Creative Achievement Award in recognition of senior project, ”Vehicle to Vehicle System with Modular
Development Framework,” Beirut, Lebanon, June 2009.
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY AWARDS
Senior Member, IEEE
Member, ACM
Member, Computational Intelligence Society
RESEARCH GRANTS
Since February 2008, my funded projects have totaled over $8 Million Dollars (Estimated $4,000,000
going to other countries within these funds) with $8,678,700 from external and $30,200 from internal
sources. Project funding that has gone directly to my research group totaled $1,100,000 ($530,000 going
directly to projects at AUB, and estimated $700,000 going directly to students to spend a year conducting
research at Intel in the US).
2013-2014
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Qatar National Research Foundation. An Opinion Mining for Arabic with Models of Semantics
and Credibility [$ 1,100,000 Dec. 2013-Dec. 2016], (with 3 other professors, and in collaboration
with Columbia University and Qatar University).
Qatar National Research Foundation (cont-d). A Distributed Reconfigurable Active-Storage
Platform for Data-Intensive Applications [4th year extension of $ 1,200,000 over 3 years], (with 4
other professors.) In collaboration with Qatar Texas A&M University.
One Year Research Fund from the American University of Beirut University Research Board
(URB) “An Optimization to Feature Selection for Text categorization,” [$ 6300 - one year].
One year Research Fund from the American University of Beirut University Faculty of
Engineering and Architecture (FEA) for equipment purchase towards advancing research.
[$13,000.0 – one year].
2012-2013
• Qatar National Research Foundation (cont-d). A Distributed Reconfigurable Active-Storage
Platform for Data-Intensive Applications [2nd year of $ 1,200,000 over 3 years], (with 4 other
professors.) In collaboration with Qatar Texas A&M University.
• One Year Research Fund from the American University of Beirut. A Robust Mining Framework
to Automate Human Sentiment Extraction from Text [$ 6000 over 1 year]
• Intel Corporation. Design Methodologies of Power Aware Software and Context Aware Sensing
[$140,000, 1 year] ((PI and Director, with 5 other professors.)
• Intel Corporation. Software Incubators Program. Equipment Loan for 5 years, in amount of ~
$10,000.
2011-2012
• Intel Corporation. Design Methodologies of Power Aware Software and Hardware Architectures
for Parallel Platforms [3rd year of $ 1,050,000 over 3 years. Includes research and internship
funding], [$400K for 2nd year]. (PI and Director, with 4 other professors.)
• Qatar National Research Foundation. A Distributed Reconfigurable Active-Storage Platform for
Data-Intensive Applications [2nd year of $ 1,200,000 over 3 years], (with 4 other professors.) In
collaboration with Qatar Texas A&M University.
• National Council for Scientific Research. Conference Travel fund in support of presentation at
ICDM 2011 [ $1500]
• One Year Research Fund from the American University of Beirut A Multilingual Sentiment
Mining Platform [$ 6000 over 1 year]
2010-2011
• One Year Research Fund from the American University of Beirut. Efficient Data Mining Methods
for Yield Prediction and Root Cause Analysis in Semiconductor Manufacturing [$ 9600 over 1
year]
• Intel Corporation. Design Methodologies of Power Aware Software and Hardware Architectures
for Parallel Platforms [$ 1,050,000 over 3 years. Includes research and internship funding],
[$400K for 2nd year]. (PI and Director, with 4 other professors.)
• National Council for Scientific Research. Measuring Public Opinion using Datamining in English
and Arabic [ 2nd year of grant: LL 16, 000,000 over 2 years]
• National Council for Scientific Research. Conference Travel fund in support of presentation at
ICDM 2010 [ $1500]
• Qatar National Research Foundation. A Distributed Reconfigurable Active-Storage Platform for
Data-Intensive Applications [$ 1,200,000 over 3 years], (with 4 other professors.) In collaboration
with Qatar Texas A&M University.
2009-2010
• Intel Corporation. Design Methodologies of Power Aware Software and Hardware Architectures
for Parallel Platforms [$ 1,050,000 over 3 years. Includes research and internship funding],
[$350K for 1st year]. (PI and Director, with 5 other professors.)
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National Council for Scientific Research. Measuring Public Opinion using Datamining in English
and Arabic [LL 16, 000,000 over 2 years]
AUB University Research Board. Optimal WIMAX Radio and Core Network Planning using
Lebanon as Case Study Circuits [$4,000]
American University of Beirut Short Term faculty Development Grant. Presentation at the 6th
International Wireless Communication and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC) 2010. [$
2,700]
2008-2009
• AUB University Research Board. Multiscale Feature Detection Using Filter Banks [$ 6,100]
• American University of Beirut Short Term faculty Development Grant. Presentation at the 21st
AEC/APC Conference Michigan-Ann Arbor. [$ 3,000]
TEACHING (since joining AUB- Feb 2008 – present)
Newly Introduced Courses at AUB:
• Data Mining (EECE 633)
• Advanced Data Mining (EECE 639)
• Database Management Systems (EECE 433)
• Lab Manual for (EECE 433) Database Management Systems
• Lab Manual for (EECE 330) Data Structure
• EECE 798 Special Topics – Introduction to Natural Language Processing
Courses Taught at AUB:
• EECE 210 Electric Circuits
• EECE 230 Introduction to Programming
• EECE 290 Analog Signal Processing
• EECE 330 Data Structures & Algorithms
• EECE 433 Database Systems
• EECE 633 Data Mining
• EECE 639 Advanced Data Mining
• EECE 797 Graduate Seminars
• EECE 798 Special Topics on Natural Language Processing
Teaching Evaluations:
Well regarded in the department, with an average instructor rating of 4.1 compared to department
average of 3.9. My undergraduate class sections are usually filled to capacity as soon as registration
is open. Many students end up on wait lists to join the class. Most recent Instructor evaluations:
Summer 2013
Spring 2012-13
Fall 2012-13
EECE 290 Analog Signal Processing, 57 students, Instructor rating: 4.1/5.0
EECE 433 Database Systems, 48 students, Instructor rating: 4.2/5.0
EECE 639 Advanced Data Mining, 10 students, Instructor rating: 4.8/5.0
EECE 798 Special Topics - Introduction to NLP, 1 student
EECE 330 Data Structures & Algorithms, 36 students, Instructor Rating: 2.9/5.0
EECE 633 Data Mining, 7 students, Instructor rating: 4.5/5.0
EECE 798 Special Topics - Introduction to NLP, 3 students
INDUSTRIAL EXPERIENCE
R&D Lead for IT Software Automation of Integrated Circuit Manufacturing
Intel Corporation. Portland Technology Development
Sep 96 – Feb 08
PTD (Portland Technology Development) is the leading research and development organization within
Intel. The organization has over 2000 PhDs. It is responsible for delivering the next generation IC
manufacturing technology. From September 1996 to 2008, I was a member of the Automation department,
and led several key R&D programs. Automation is tasked with delivering the next generation IT and
automation systems for the IC factory. This includes automated material handling and data automation.
My responsibilities have grown over the years. Here is a summary:
• Program Lead for Next Generation 45 nm Factory Automation
Sep 2004-Mar 2007
• Directed the development of next generation for latest 45 nm IT and automation technologies.
• 45 nm automation targets included:
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New software development framework for a unified user interface and a framework for
developing engineering analysis applications.
• Implementation of hardware worth tens of millions of dollars in robotic equipment along with
hundreds of clients and servers for factory automation.
• Lead for Engineering Systems Development
Sep 2000-Sep 2004
• Directed three first level managers and four staff engineers. The total group size varied between
twenty and forty senior software engineers.
• The group delivered software solutions to enable analysis and control of the manufacturing
process. This included analytical and visualization systems for statistical analysis, feedback
control, feed-forward control, excursion detection, and pattern recognition.
• Lead for station controller software developers
Feb 98 – Sep 2000
Station controllers are the software packages that interface with IC equipment, such as Lithography,
Etch, Diffusion and Metrology tools.
• Directed and supervised a group of fifteen senior software engineers in PTD-Automation,
including budget, plan, finance, training, integration and assimilation plans
• Directed software solutions for three technology generations: 18 micron, 13 micron, and the first
200 mm wafer fab.
• Influenced Virtual Factory and drove Upper Management buy off on strategic Migration plans
from Unix to NT station controllers.
• Directed the group’s delivery of critical projects (clients, servers and DB applications) for the 18
micron process technology. These were implemented on different platforms (UNIX and NT),
using several programming languages (C, C++, Perl and Java).
• Senior Software Engineer
Sep 96 – Feb 98
• Owned the development of Lithography Link (Track and Stepper) station controller, taking the
project through requirement collection, development, testing and implementation in the factory.
Staff Scientist – Computer Vision R&D
Innovision Corporation. Madison; Wisconsin-USA
Mar 94 – Aug 96
• Researched latest imaging techniques with applications to computer vision problems.
• Developed user friendly software for Imaging and Development Application Systems (IDAS).
• Used high resolution area-scan and line-scan cameras to solve problems in pattern recognition and
product inspection for color and black and white imaging environments.
• Provided customer support for on-site vision systems.
• Represented the company in industrial shows for machine vision in industry.
• Installed LAN network.
Lecturer
University of Wisconsin Madison; Wisconsin-USA
Sep 89- May 93
Was the instructor of record for non-major classes taken by junior/senior students, which included giving
lectures, holding office hours, preparing exams and evaluated an average of fifty students per semester. I
turned an unpopular required class to one of the most popular classes, which led the students to vote me
“Best Instructor in Engineering!”
Won 7 teaching awards from 1989 to 1993: University Teaching Assistant Mentor Award, UW-Madison
1992-1993, University Excellence in Teaching Award, UW-Madison 1992, Department Excellence in
Teaching Award, UW-Madison 1992, Department Teaching Assistant Fellow, UW-Madison 1992, Polygon
Outstanding Teaching Award, UW-Madison 1992, Polygon Outstanding Teaching Award, UW-Madison
1991
Most prestigious award: University Excellence in Teaching Award, UW-Madison 1992.
Instructor
American University of Beirut; Beirut-Lebanon
Jul 93 - Aug 93
Taught Numerical Methods for Engineers to a group of forty computer engineers, held office hours,
prepared exams and project assignments
Project Assistant
University of Wisconsin Hospital; Wisconsin-USA
Designed an oscilloscope simulator using LabVIEW.
May 91 - Aug 91
Field Engineer
Cedarnet Company Beirut, Lebanon
Jun 87 - Jan 88
Installed and maintained various telecommunication equipment including microwave links and
multiplexing equipment.
PHD SUPERVISION
Faculty Advisor for four PhD students.
Graduation
June 2016
June 2016
June 2017
June 2017
Name
Nadine Abbas
Ramy Baly
Sireen Abi Taleb
Gilbert Badaro
Dissertation Area
Energy Efficiency in Wireless Heterogeneous Environment
Optimal Models for Yield Classification and Root Cause Analysis
Context Aware Sensing
Recommender Systems
Member of PhD committee for three other PhD students: Two at AUB (Khalil Mershad and Walid
Ghandour), and one at UT Austin. All three completed their PhDs.
ME SUPERVISION
Faculty Advisor for 11 ME students to date:
Graduation
February 2011
June 2012
August 2012
February 2013
August 2013
June 2013
September 2013
September 2013
March 2014
Expected June 2014
Expected September 2014
Name
Nadine Abbas
Ramy Baly
Mehiar Dabbagh
Roula Hobeika
Abdulrahman
Kaitoua
Layale
Constantine
Noura Farra
Ali Tarhini
Ramy Awwad
Yaman Sharaf
Dabbagh
Chadi Trad
Thesis Title
WiMAX Simulator and Energy Efficient Downlink
Burst Construction
Yield Prediction and Root Cause Analysis using Data
Mining Techniques
Energy Aware Data Mining
Sentiment Mining
Energy Efficient Distributed Computing with Hadoop
and RASSD
Emotional Classification from Computer Activity
Emotional Classification from Context
Distributed Computing
New Methods for Arabic Text Mining
Distributed Application architecture for on-board SSD
computing
Facial Recognition for Emotion
Additionally: Member of MS committee for 12 other students:
Mohammad Jomaa, Noor Abbani, Ralph Adaimy, Zakaria Mreish, Elie Daou, Gaby Elia, Fatima
Hamdan, Cynthia El Hayek, Shadi Shaheen, Zeina El Zein, Joan Farjo, Reem El Ballouli, Adel
Ejjeh, Ayman Zaatari
FINAL YEAR PROJECT SUPERVISION
2008–Present
Supervision of 14 Final Year Projects (FYPs):
2013-2014
Mobile Application for sentiment mining in Arabic
Mobile Application for context aware phone management
2012-2013
Mobile Stress Management Detection and Management “
Mobile Emotion Recognition System4
Mobile Noise Detection and Classification
2011-2012
iSENSE: Intelligent Sensing System for Mobile Devices with Application
whizSense: A Context-Aware Sensing Platform for Smart Personal Application
with MyLifeOrganizer as a Case Study “
Energy-Aware Mobile Application for Heterogeneous 3G/Wi-Fi Networks *+
2010-2011
Mobile text Recognizer and Arabic Translator ^
Person Identification in Video
2009-2010
Mobile Sensing System for Orthopedic Monitoring*
Optimal LTE deployment and Coexistence Scenarios with WIMAX – Case Study
Lebanon
2008-2009
Optimal WiMAX Deployment – Case Study Lebanon
Vehicle to Vehicle System with Modular Development Framework* #
* Recipient of highest FYP grade
# Recipient of Creative Achievement Award
+ Recipient of Faculty Of Engineering And Architecture Student Conference Best Presentation Award
^ Recipient of IEEE Comm 1st Place Award
“ Placed on top list of the International ICAMES 2012 competition in Turkey
4 Winner of ICAMES award participation in Turkey, Istanbul
SERVICE TO ECE
2013
2012 - Present
2008 - Present
2008 – 2012
ECE representative as Marshal for AUB 2013 commencement
Software Incubator Program from Intel, Coordinator
Member, ad-hoc committee on Signal Processing
Member, ad-hoc committee on Software
Course Coordinator, Data Structures
Multi-core Lab Coordinator
Low Power Lab Coordinator
Graduate Seminar Coordinator
Member, graduate student committee
Course Coordinator, Analog Signal Processing
SERVICE TO FACULTY OF ENGINEERING AND ARCHITECTURE
2013 - Present
Chair, Adhoc committee on Education Synergy between FEA departments.
2012
Reviewer, Grant Proposal, for Faculty Of Engineering And Architecture Masri
Institute Funding
2010 - 2012
Chair, Student Affairs Committee
2010 - Present
Reviewer, Papers submitted to Faculty Of Engineering And Architecture
Student Conference
2010 – 2013
Member, Faculty Of Engineering And Architecture Strategic Planning
Committee
2008 - 2010
Member, Student Affairs Committee
1989 – 1993
Before joining AUB, service to University of Wisconsin-Madison Faculty Of
Engineering
University research presentations
Helpful Tips in Graduate Studies
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Orientation
Survival Tips in Graduate School
University Graduate Student Orientation Program
Fall 93
Fall 92
University teaching services
Evaluating Teaching Performance
College of Engineering Teaching Assistant Workshop
Improving Communication Between TAs and their Students: Expectations
College of Engineering Teaching Assistant Workshop Spring
Meyers Briggs Type Indicator
College of Engineering Teaching Assistant Workshop
Talking and Building Rapport: TAs and Students
College of Engineering Teaching Assistant Workshop
Cultural Diversity and First Day Delivery
College of Engineering Teaching Assistant Workshop
SERVICE TO UNIVERSITY
2013
2013-2014
2012
2011 - Present
2008 – 2010
2009
2008
2008
Fall 93
Spring 93
Fall 92
Spring 92
Spring 91
Marshal, 2013 AUB Commencement Ceremony
E-learning Task Force, member
Lead PI on AUB-Intel Agreement for CENA student Scholarships
Member, FAS Computational Science Program Executive Committee
Coordinator for visitors from Intel senior management
Organizer, Workshop on Multicore and High Performance Computing.
Organizer, Workshop on Parallel Programming
Marshal, 2008 Commencement Ceremony
SERVICE TO PROFESSION
• Technical Program Committee Co-chair, at the 4th IEEE International Conference on Energy
Aware Computing, December 2013.
• Finance Chair, for the 4th IEEE International Conference on Energy Aware Computing, December
2013.
• Publications Chair, at the 4th IEEE International Conference on Energy Aware Computing,
December 2013.
• Multiple Sessions Chair, chaired multiple sessions at the 4th IEEE International Conference on
Energy Aware Computing, December 2013.
• Track Chair, Digital Information Management & Security Conference Session at the 3rd International
Conference on Communications and Information Technology (ICCIT-2013), June 2013.
• Publications Co-chair, The 2nd Saudi International Electronics, Communications and Photonics
Conference, April 2013.
• Session Chair, Energy Aware Platform Conference Session at the 3rd International Conference on
Energy Aware Computing, 2012.
• Chair, Keynote Committee, Energy Aware Platform Conference Session at the 3rd International
Conference on Energy Aware Computing, 2012.
• Grant Reviewer, Proposals in the fields of Software Engineering and Computer Architecture,
submitted to the CEDRES joint France-Lebanon program, 2012.
• Grant Reviewer, Proposals in the field of Data Mining, submitted to the Lebanese national Council
for Scientific Research, 2012.
• TPC Member, High Performance Computing and Simulation Conference, 2012.
• Reviewer, Paper submitted to Journal of Communications and Networks (JCN), 2012.
• Reviewer, Paper submitted to Biomedical Engineering: Applications, Basis and Communications
(BME), 2012.
• Reviewer, Paper submitted to the 19th International Conference on Telecommunications (ICT), 2012.
• Chair, conference sessions at the High Performance Computing and Simulation Conference, 2011.
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Grant Reviewer, Proposals in the field of Data Mining, submitted to the Lebanese national Council
for Scientific Research, 2011.
Reviewer, Papers submitted to The IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits, and
Systems (ICECS) 2011.
Reviewer, Papers submitted to The 10th Faculty of Engineering and Architecture Student Conference,
2011.
Chair, Workshop on “High Performance and Energy-Aware Solutions for Data Mining and
Wireless/Mobile Applications (IDMWM 2011),” co-located with 7th International Wireless
Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC 2011).
Chair, Summit on “Middle East Energy Efficiency Research – Next Generation Directions,” Beirut,
Lebanon, July 2011.
Director, Created the new Low Power Lab for energy measurements, June 2011.
Coordinator, Intel Internship Interviews in Lebanon, 2010
Reviewer, IEEE Transaction on Semiconductor Manufacturing. 2010.
Reviewer, LNCSR Grant Proposals for Arabic Text Mining. 2009 and 2010.
Reviewer, Papers submitted to IET Journal.Signal Processing, 2010.
TPC Member, HPCS 2010, 5 papers reviewed. 2010.
Co-chair, Workshop of the Computing System's track - 6th International Conference on Innovations in
Information Technology December 15-17, 2009 Al Ain, United Arab Emirates.
TPC Member, Workshop for WiMAX technology Group, co-located with ICUMT-Workshop-1
(WiMAX Technology Workshop). 2009.
TPC Reviewer, 6th International Conference on Innovations in Information Technology, 5 papers
reviewed. 2009.
Coordinator, AUB representation at Tempus meeting in Belgium for project in management in
information systems. 2008.
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ABET Workshop, Portland Oregon, April 2013.
Hadoop Development Workshop, Munich, Germany, April 2013.
Privileged Research Visitor at Intel Labs User Experience Group and Platforms Product Group, Santa
Clara and Portland, USA, one month, Summer 2012.
Research Visit, Research Collaboration Project for Distributed Computing, Qatar Texas A&M, one
week, January 2012.
Attendance at the 3rd IEEE International Conference on Energy Aware Computing, Cyprus, Dec. 3-5,
2012.
Attendance at the 10th IEEE Pervasive Computing and Communication (PerCom) conference, Lugano,
Switzerland, March 19-23, 2012.
Privileged Research Visitor at Intel Labs Context Aware Sensing and Platforms Product Group,
Portland, USA, Summer 2011.
Privileged Research Visitor at Intel Platforms Product Group, Portland, USA, Summer 2010.
Coordinated the graduate seminar series for the ECE department during the Fall 2008-2009 semester.
More than 15 international and local speakers were invited and presented on campus.
Tempus IV meeting in Hasselt Belgium in Feb 2008, and helped in drafting a proposal for a Masters in
Management of Information Systems.
Meeting with Intel USA to initiate Intel research lab in Lebanon. Meetings through out 2008. Project
proposal still progressing.
Meeting in Egypt Feb 2008with Intel managers and Nile University Faculty to discuss collaboration
potentials and help in drafting a potential program for Intel research lab collaboration with Egypt.
Led the inauguration of Intel’s Multicore lab at the American University of Beirut Fall 2008, and
coordinated Intel’s multicore training class for faculty.
Presented at the AUB-ECE graduate seminar in Fall 2008 on Multiresolution Analysis, and at the ECE
200 Introductory course on Software Engineering challenges and prospects.
EXTERNAL (OUSTIDE UNIVERSITY) PRESENTATIONS
After joining AUB:
• Keynote Speaker at KACST, The 2nd Saudi International Electronics, Communications and Photonics
Conference, April 2013.
• Research Visitor at KAUST, Workshop on Intel Initiative for Middle East Research Center, April
2013.
• Presented AUB MER Research Progress at Intel Research Labs, August 2012.
• Presented AUB-Intel MER Research Update to MER Board of Advisors, Co-located with the ICEAC
Conference, Istanbul, Turkey, 2011.
• “A Framework for Emotion Mining from Text in Online Social Networks" presented at the IEEE
International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2010), December 14-17, Sydney, Australia.
• “Sentence-level and Document-level Sentiment Mining for Arabic Texts,” presented at IEEE
International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2010), December 14-17, Sydney, Australia.
• “A Comprehensive Simulator,” presented at the 8th Annual International IEEE Consumer
Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC 2011), January 9-12, Las Vegas, USA.
• “Design Methodologies of Power Aware Software and Hardware Architectures for Parallel Platforms,”
presented to Intel’s Recognition, Mining, and Synthesis group in Intel research labs, Santa Clara,
California, September 2010.
• “An Extensible Software Framework for Building Vehicle to Vehicle Applications”, presented at The
Sixth International Wireless Communication and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC) 2010,
Caens, France, June 28-July 2, 2010.
• “Research in Faculty Of Engineering And Architecture-ECE and Intel-AUB MER Research Center,”
presented to KAUST visitors at AUB, Beirut, Lebanon, February 2010.
• “Intel Middle East Energy efficiency Research Proposal and Research Opportunities,” presented to
faculty and students at Aleppo University, Aleppo, Syria, Apr.il 2010.
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“Data Mining Overview”, presented to Intel’s yield group in Intel’s Logic Technology and
Development organization, Portland, Oregon, USA, February 2010.
• “Yield Analysis based on Data Mining with Support vector Machines,” presented at the 21st Advanced
Equipment Control/ Advanced Process Control (AEC/APC) Conference, Ann Arbor Michigan-USA,
September 2009.
Before joining AUB:
• Many presentations at Intel corporation before joining AUB
PERSONAL
Fluent in Arabic, English, French, and familiar with Italian
Enjoy Basketball, Swimming, Wind Surfing, Skiing and Sailing