Prof. Amlan Chakrabarti, is presently Professor and Director of A. K. Choudhury School of Information Technology (AKCSIT), University of Calcutta and additionally he is also Heading the IT and Technology Innovation Cell, Dept. of Higher Education Govt. of West Bengal.

Prior to this, he completed his Post-Doctoral research at Princeton University after completing his Ph.D. from the University of Calcutta in association with ISI, Kolkata. He has almost 20 years of experience in Engineering Education and Research.

He is the Fellow of the West Bengal Academy of Science and Technology and the recipient of prestigious DST BOYSCAST fellowship award in Engineering Science (2011), Indian National Science Academy (INSA) Visiting Faculty Fellowship (2014), JSPS Invitation Research Award (2016) from Japan, Erasmus Mundus Leaders Award from European Union (2017), Hamied Visiting Professorship from University of Cambridge, UK (2018), Siksha Ratna Award by Dept. of Higher Education Govt. of West Bengal (2018) and IBM Quantum Researchers Program Access Award 2021.

He has also served in various capacities in various higher education organizations both at national and international levels.

 

He has received multiple project grants in the areas of Security in Cyber-physical Systems, IoT, Embedded System Design, VLSI Design, Quantum Computing, Computer Vision and Data Science from various national and international agencies (DST, DRDO, MietY, UGC, DAE, Ministry of Social Empowerment, WB-DST, Intel India, TCS etc.).

He has contributed immensely in the development of intelligent algorithms and systems to support real-time applications, cybersecurity, quantum computing, healthcare, environment and water quality etc. He was the Principal Investigator of the Centre of Excellence in Systems Biology and Biomedical Engineering, University of Calcutta funded by MHRD under TEQIP-III funding during 2013-2017.

Till date he has graduated 16 Ph.D. students. He has published around 200+ research papers in referred journals and conferences and 5 patents.

 

He is a Sr. Member of IEEE and ACM, IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Visitor (2020-2022), Distinguished Speaker of ACM (2017-2020), Vice-Chair of IEEE CEDA India Chapter, Vice President of Society for Data Science and Life Member of CSI India.

He is the Series Editor of Springer Transactions on Computer Systems and Networks, Associate Editor of Elsevier Journal of Computers and Electrical Engineering and Guest Editor of Springer Journal of Applied Sciences.

His areas of interest are Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Cyber-physical Systems, Quantum Computing and VLSI CAD.

Personal Webpage: https://sites.google.com/caluniv.ac.in/amlanc-org/

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=LTSiNggAAAAJ&hl=en

ACM DBLP: https://dblp.org/pid/33/3570.html

IEEE Computer Society: https://www.computer.org/profiles/amlan-chakrabarti

 

His Webinar is under the title of “Water informatics: introduction and case studies”

Date & Time: Monday 23rd of May, 2022; 7:30 PM To 8:30 PM. Via Zoom.

 

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Prof. Raed Shubair Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

New York University (NYU) Abu Dhabi

Abu Dhabi, 129188 UAE

Prof. Raed Shubair, (Senior Member, IEEE) received the B.Sc. (with Distinction and First-Class Hons.) degree in electrical engineering from Kuwait University, Kuwait, in June 1989, and the Ph.D. (with Distinction) degree in electrical engineering from the University of Waterloo, Canada, in February 1993, for which he received the University of Waterloo Distinguished Doctorate Dissertation Award.

He is a Full Professor of Electrical Engineering affiliated to New York University (NYU) Abu Dhabi.

His current and past academic and research appointments also include Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Harvard University, and University of Waterloo. He has been a Full Professor of Electrical Engineering with Khalifa University (formerly, Etisalat University College), UAE, which he joined in 1993 up to 2017, during which he received several times the Excellence in Teaching Award and Distinguished Service Award.

He has over 380 publications in the form of articles in peer-reviewed journals, papers in referred conference proceedings, book chapters, and US patents. His publication spans several research areas, including 6G and terahertz communications, modern antennas and applied electromagnetics, signal and array processing, machine learning, IoT and sensor localization, medical sensing and nano-biomedicine.

He is recipient of several international awards, including the Distinguished Service Award from ACES Society, USA and from MIT Electromagnetics Academy, USA.

He organized and chaired numerous technical special sessions and tutorials in IEEE flagship conferences.

He delivered more than 60 invited speaker seminars and technical talks in world-class universities and flagship conferences.

He served as an invited speaker with the U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Frontiers Symposium.

He is a standing member of the editorial boards of several international journals and serves regularly on the steering, organizing, and technical committees of IEEE flagship conferences in Antennas, Communications, and Signal Processing, including several editions of IEEE AP-S/URSI, EuCAP, IEEE GloablSIP, IEEE WCNC, and IEEE ICASSP.

He has served as the TPC Chair of IEEE MMS2016 and TPC Chair of IEEE GlobalSIP 2018 Symposium on 5G Satellite Networks. He holds several leading roles in the international professional engineering community.

He holds several leading roles in the international professional engineering community. He is a Board Member of the European School of Antennas, Regional Director for the IEEE Signal Processing Society in IEEE Region 8 Middle East and served as the founding chair of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society Educational Initiatives Program.

He is a Fellow of MIT Electromagnetics Academy and a Founding Member of MIT Scholars of the Emirates. He is Editor for the IEEE Journal of Electromagnetics, RF, and Microwaves in Medicine and Biology, and Editor for the IEEE Ooen Journal of Antennas and Propagation. He is a Founding Member of five IEEE society chapters in UAE, which are IEEE Communication Society Chapter, IEEE Signal Processing Society Chapter, IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society Chapter, IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society Chapter, and IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society Chapter. He is the Founder and Chair of IEEE at New York University Abu Dhabi.

He is an officer for IEEE ComSoc emerging technical initiative (ETI) on Machine Learning for Communications.

He is the founding director of IEEE UAE Distinguished Seminar Series Program for which he was selected to receive, along with Mohamed AlHajri of MIT, the 2020 IEEE UAE Award of the Year.

 

His Webinar is under the title of “Personalized Medicine: Future Healthcare via Modern Communication Technologies”

Date & Time: Thursday 26th of May, 2022 at 7 PM Cairo Time. Via Zoom.

 

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Eng. Shadi Hijab Projects manager | Smart solutions and lighting Design Department

Eng. Shadi Hijab, CEO and founder of ISH CO. The whole story began at the university when he joined MSA in 2008, and immediately noticed a huge passion for engineering from the practical side. Through the years of studies, he learnt online and built up his skills practically through small projects until he presented a very complicated automation system in his graduation project. The full system was purely designed and programmed by him, which covered the most desired home automation services such as lighting control, AC control, multiple sensors, hydraulic parking and many more.

 

The name of this project was ISH, and that day, his passion for automation became a hundred times stronger. He came back to Kuwait and built up his own company and started from scratch. Since 2012, he fought to provide clients with quality and science that no one else has, and this has been and continues to be our strength. Today, ISH Kuwait covers more than 73% of the Kuwaiti market with the most advanced systems for both residential and commercial sectors. We design, supply, install, and maintain everything under one roof, with no subcontractors.

 

In 2020, ISH opened a branch in Egypt as well, to deliver this excellent service and quality further and further. Today, ISH has done more than 734 residential villas, 38 restaurants and 13 towers.

 

The passion never stops and, as he always says, you waste your day only when you sleep without learning something new.

 

 

His Webinar is under the title of “Home automation and BMS system at ISH Kuwait”

Date & Time: Thursday 26th of May, 2022 at 8 PM Cairo Time. Via Zoom.

 

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Dr. Basel Barakat is a lecturer at the University of Sunderland, teaching MSc and BSc students in networking and data science modules, supervising a PhD student, and developing new modules. He received several awards, such as the highest cited paper for his work on 6G, and champion of champions from the Royal Academy of Engineering, and best MSc project.

 

He received his MSc and PhD from the University of Greenwich in 2014 and 2019. During his PhD, he was a visiting researcher at the University of Cambridge. He recently finished his post-graduate certificate in Learning, Teaching & Assessment Practice in Higher Education from Edinburgh Napier University, which will award him a Fellowship from the Higher Education Academy.

 

Dr. Basel Barakat worked at the School of Engineering and Built Environment at Edinburgh Napier University as a lecturer. Before that, he worked as a research assistant at the University of Greenwich working on machine learning algorithms for non-destructive flaw detection in pipes. In 2018, Dr. Basel was a visiting scholar at the University of Cambridge. In 2014, he was a Research Fellow at the University of Greenwich working on a project titled "Towards 5G: Air Interface Techniques" which was a collaboration with British Telecom (BT).

 

His background is in communication engineering and his research interests include data science, wireless communication, real-time systems, information freshness, Internet of things, mathematical modeling, and applying machine learning solutions to real world problems such as sustainability and healthcare applications.

 

Throughout his research career, he has published seventeen papers in top journals and conferences. The papers are a result of several collaborations he has developed with scholars from world-leading institutes from the UK and internationally: the University of Cambridge, the University of Oxford, the University of Glasgow, and Ajman University UAE.

 

 

 

His Webinar is under the title of “Communicating Fresh Information for Real Time Internet of Things Systems”

Date & Time: Sunday 29th of May, 2022 at 8 PM Cairo Time. Via Zoom.

 

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Prof. Farouk El-Baz (Director, CRS at Boston University)

Prof. Farouk El-Baz, is an Egyptian-American scientist who worked with NASA in planning a geological exploration of the Moon, such as choosing lunar landing sites for the Apollo missions and training astronauts to select suitable samples of lunar soil and bring them to Earth for analysis and study.

 

Prof. Farouk El-Baz, has 12 books, including Apollo over the Moon, Desert and Arid Lands, Gulf War and Environment, and The Geology of Egypt.

 

Prof. Farouk El-Baz, has received nearly 31 awards including the Apollo Achievement Award, the Distinguished Medal of Science, the Scientific and Technological Excellence Award from NASA, the Lunar Science Team Award, the US-Soviet Apollo Project Team Award, and the Merritt Award of First Class from President Anwar Sadat.

 

 

His Webinar is under the title of “Reasons Behind the success of NASA and Apollo project”

Date & Time: Thursday 2nd of June, 2022 at 7 PM Cairo Time. Via Zoom.

 

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Joulia garbaya (Optical Transmission Engineer in GSC Huawei Romania)

 

Joulia garbaya, An Optical Transmission Engineer in GSC Huawei Romania. The whole story started at the university when she joined the Polytechnic University of Bucharest in the Faculty of Industrial Engineering and robotics in November 2020. She majored in her master's degree in integrated technological system design with an average of 9.83 /10. In the first semester, the university recommended her to Huawei if she has a telecommunications engineering degree. And she immediately noticed a huge passion for engineering on the practical side.

 

Over the years of study, she learned online and developed her skills practically through small projects and internships in her home country Tunisia during the engineering cycle.

 

Until she presented an application study in her thesis project: ACCESS METRO SOLUTION AND WDM ENGINEERING (OSN 1800 SERIES) as she did it at the same time with her work at Huawei. The complete system has been purely designed and programmed to have a WDM solution thanks to the NCE, in order to manage an optical network and perform operations and configurations remotely, it is necessary to have a manager such as NCE (Huawei Network Cloud Engine).

 

From that day, her passion for transmission became a hundred times stronger.

 

She is the technical support engineer and she manages the following tasks:

- Provide Technical support and troubleshooting on Customer Live Network.

- Remote integration and configuration of transmissions network elements.

- Huawei WDM equipment delivery, including OSN1800/OSN6800/OSN8800/OSN9800. WDM and SDH service creation.

- Services testing with field engineer. Communication with customers.

- WDM equipment Troubleshooting.

- WDM Equipment software upgrade.

 

Her Webinar is under the title of “Remote technical support on Communication products and networks to a global customer base”

Date & Time: Thursday 2nd of June, 2022 at 8 PM Cairo Time. Via Zoom.

 

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