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Invited Speakers
Mark J. T. Smith
Purdue University
Fellow of the IEEE,
Past Chairman of the IEEE DSP Committee
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Biography
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B.S. degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the
M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the
Georgia Institute of Technology all in electrical engineering. He joined the electrical engineering faculty at
Georgia Tech in 1984 and later served as the Executive Assistant to the President of the Institute from 1997 until 2001. In
January, 2003, he joined the faculty at Purdue University as
Head of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He has authored many papers in the areas of speech and image processing, filter banks, and wavelets and is the co-author of two introductory books titled: "Introduction to Digital Signal Processing" and "Digital Filtering." He is also
co-editor of the book titled "Wavelets and Sub band Transforms: Design and Applications," and the co-author of the textbook titled "A Study Guide for Digital Image Processing." |
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Digital Models for Audio Signal Processing with Applications to Enhancement |
Dr. Arif Ghafoor
Purdue University
Fellow of the IEEE
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Biography
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Arif Ghafoor is currently a Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, at Purdue University,
West Lafayette, IN, and is the Director of Distributed Multimedia Systems Laboratory. He has published numerous
papers in these areas. Dr. Ghafoor has served on the editorial boards of various journals including ACM/Springer
Multimedia Systems Journal, the Journal of Parallel and Distributed Databases, and the International Journal on
Computer Networks. He has served as a Guest/Co-Guest Editor for various special issues of numerous journals including ACM/Springer Multimedia Systems Journal, the Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, International Journal on Multimedia Tools and Applications, IEEE Journal on the Selected Areas in Communications and IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering. He has co-edited a book entitled "Multimedia Document Systems in Perspectives" and has co-authored a book entitled "Semantic Models for Multimedia Database Searching and Browsing" (Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000). Dr. Ghafoor is a
Fellow of the IEEE. He has received the IEEE Computer Society 2000 Technical Achievement Award for his research contributions in the area of multimedia systems. In 2007 he has received an IEEE Technical Achievement Award in Bioinformtics. |
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Digital Models for Audio Signal Processing with Applications to Enhancement |
Peter Palensky
University of Pretoria, South Africa
Active member in IEEE, CEN, ISO, CENELEC
Co –chair TC BACM, Editor- IEEE transactions
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Biography
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Peter Palensky is associate Professor at the University of Pretoria, South Africa, Department of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering. Before that he was with the Vienna University of Technology, Austria, Envidatec Corp., Germany, and the
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, California. He is active in international standardization committees like ISO, IEEE and CEN. His main research fields are automation networks, distributed systems, embedded systems, home and building automation and energy management. |
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Joint endeavours of Engineers and psychoanalysts |
Reiko Heckel
University of Leicester, United Kingdom
Chair IFIP WP – Foundation of System Specification
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Biography
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Short CV: Reiko Heckel is a professor for software engineering at the University of Leicester, UK. He held positions at the Universities of Paderborn and Dortmund (Germany) after completing his PhD at TU Berlin in 1998. Reiko has been co-chair of FASE 2006, has been organizing and co-chairing ICGT (the Intl. Conference on Graph Transformation) this year, and is co-founder and organizer of the workshop series GT-VMT (on Graph Transformation and Visual Modelling Techniques) and SETra (on Software Evolution trough Transformations).
He is the chair of the Steering Committee of the ICGT and a member of the IFIP working group 1.3 Foundation of System Specification. |
| Topic |
Stochastic Analysis of P2P Network Architectures |
Dietmar Dietrich
Vienna University of Technology
Senior Member in IEEE
Co –chair TC BACM, Editor- IEEE transactions, VP OVE
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Biography
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Dietmar Dietrich became professor of Computer Technology at the Institute of Computer Technology in 1992. Prior to this he worked in the aerospace industry (computer architecture and bus systems) and later in the communication industry (mainly in ISDN development). In 1986 he was appointed professor of Computer Technology in Bielefeld (Germany). His research interests were mainly in communication systems (especially on fieldbus systems) and ASIC design, also including built-in test systems, boundary scan, smart card technology, architecture of process control and control units for communication systems. Since 1998 he is increasingly active in the field of Cognitive Systems as well. Dietmar Dietrich is a member (member of the advisory board, chair, convenor, ..) of various national and international organizations and also a delegate of the OVE and ON in CEN and CENELEC. In 1994 he founded the
Center of Excellence for Fieldbus Systems, and in 1995 the
international biannual fieldbus conference FeT, which will take place in Toulouse under the umbrella of IFAC. He has been in charge of the institute since 1999. |
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Sensor and Actuator Networks in intelligent Automation Systems |
Ashfaq A. Khokhar
University of Illinois at Chicago
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Biography
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Ashfaq A. Khokhar received his M.S. in computer engineering from Syracuse University, in 1989 and Ph.D. in computer engineering from University of Southern California, in 1993. In 1995, he joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Delaware. In Fall 2000, Dr. Khokhar joined UIC in the Department of Computer Science and Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Dr. Khokhar has published over
170 technical papers in refereed conferences and journals in the areas of wireless networks, multimedia systems, data mining, and high performance computing. He is a recipient of the NSF CAREER award in 1998.
He has served as the Program Chair of the 17th Parallel and Distributed Computing Conference (PDCS), 2004, Vice Program Chair for the 33rd International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP), 2004, and General Chair of the Workshop on Frontiers of Information Technology, 2004. |
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A Domain Decomposition Strategy for Alignment of Multiple Biological Sequences on Multiprocessor Platforms |
Dr. Imran Hayee
University of Minnesota Duluth
Member of the IEEE
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Biography
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Dr. Imran Hayee is an associate professor and director of graduate studies in the electrical and computer engineering department at the University of Minnesota Duluth. He completed his Ph. D. from University of Southern California, Los Angeles in Dec 1998. After completing his Ph. D.,
he worked in Forward Looking Work Group of Tyco Submarine Systems, formerly known as Bell Laboratories, in New Jersey for two years performing research on techniques to improve system performance of trans-oceanic optical fiber communications systems. He later joined a start up company (currently part of Level 3 Communications) working on research and development of the state-of-the-art telecommunications products. After spending about 4 years, in that start up company, he joined University of Minnesota Duluth in Fall 2004.
Dr. Hayee holds 12 US patents and has published more than three dozen research articles in distinguished journals and conferences. |
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Mining the Optical Fiber Bandwidth via Electrical Signal Processing |
Dr. Junaid Zubairi
State University of New York at Fredonia, USA
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Biography
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Junaid Ahmed Zubairi received his BE (Electrical Engineering) from NED University of Engineering, Pakistan and MS and Ph.D. (Computer Engineering) from Syracuse University, USA. He worked in Sir Syed University Pakistan and Intl' Islamic University Malaysia before joining State University of New York at Fredonia.
Dr. Zubairi is a recipient of many awards including Malaysian Government IRPA award, National Science Foundation MACS grant, SUNY Scholarly Incentive award and SUNY individual development award.
He has authored several chapters and scholarly articles in books, international journals and conference proceedings. His research interests include network traffic engineering, performance evaluation of networks and network applications in medicine. |
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Emergency Medical Data Transmission Over Cellular and Wireless Networks Systems |
Dr. Kamran Arshad
University of Surrey, Guildford
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Biography
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Dr. Arshad received his B.Eng. and M.Eng. degrees in Electrical Engineering with Distinction from NED University (2000) and King Fahd University (2003) respectively. After working with Industry and Academia in Pakistan and Saudi Arabia for about 3 years he moved to London, UK from where he completed his PhD research at Middlesex University, London in 2007. Dr Arshad completed his PhD in a record time of two and half year which is the minimum time. Dr Arshad received best student paper award at
6th International Conference on Telecommunications and Informatics (TELEINFO'07) held at Dallas, USA in 2007. He received another
best paper award at 5th International Conference on Applied Electromagnetic, Wireless and Optical Communications (ELECTROSCIENCE’05) held at Corfu Island, Greece in August 2005. |
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Opportunistic Spectrum Access (OSA) |
Dr. Syed Misbahuddin
University of Hail., Saudi Arabia
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Biography
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Dr. Syed Misbahuddin received BE in Electronics from Dawood College of Engineering & Technology, Karachi Pakistan in 1983, MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia in 1988 and Doctor of Engineering in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Detroit Mercy, Detroit, MI, USA in 1998. From 1988 to 1992, he was an Assistant Professor, NED University of Engineering and Technology, Karachi, Pakistan. From 2000 to 2005, he was serving as Faculty member in Computer Systems Department in King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Hail, Saudi Arabia. Presently, Dr Syed Misbahuddin is working as Assistant Professor in department of Computer Science and Software engineering, University of Hail., Saudi Arabia. |
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Efficient Communication Techniques for Embedded Communication Networks |
Dr. Usman Javaid
Vodafone, UK
Technical Expert with IEEE
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Biography
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Dr. Usman Javaid serves as a Technology Specialist in Strategy and Architecture group at Vodafone, UK. Prior to that, he worked as a
Research scientist with Orange Labs and France Telecom R&D, France. He is a
Technical Expert with IEEE Global Focus Group on Certification Programs and a Member of European Cluster on Mesh and Sensor Networks. Dr. Javaid holds worldwide
patents on seven inventions and several International publications. Dr. Usman Javaid obtained a Master's degree in Telecommunications research from the University of Paris, France and a Ph.D degree in wireless networks from the University of Bordeaux, France. He is widely known for his thought provoking talks on key technological issues at various International fronts. |
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Telecom Industry Today |
Dr. Zia Khan
Corporate Application Engineering Synopsys Inc. Mountain View, California, USA
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Biography
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Dr. Khan manages Corporate Application Engineering team for synthesis products at Synopsys Inc., in Mountain View, California, USA where he is responsible for supporting the industry leading flag ship EDA products for chip design.
He has worked in Chip design and EDA industry for over 19 years. Dr. Khan’s interests include logic and physical synthesis, datapath synthesis and placement, low power cell-based design and techniques for rapid timing closure.
He holds one patent and has published 29+ papers in various technical conferences and journals.
He has a Bachelor of Engineering from NED University of Engineering and Technology (Karachi, Pakistan), an MSEE from University of Kentucky (Lexington, KY) and a PhD from Virginia Tech (Blacksburg, VA), all in Electrical Engineering. |
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Role of EDA in Chip Design |
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