• 1982 Ph.D. w/HONOR, McGill University, Canada,
• 1979 M.Eng., McGill University.
• 1975 B.Sc w/Honor in Electrical and Communications Eng.,Cairo University, A.R. Egypt.

Department of Systems Engineering, King Fahd University, Dhahran , Saudi Arabia

Associate Professor

• Teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in Instrumentation, Automation, and Digital Signal Processing.
• Teaching professional training short courses for engineers and performing industrial consulting in the area of instrumentation, process control, and machine retrofitting.
• Conducting research and supervising graduate students thesis work in the area of speech coding, Neural networks, fuzzy logic., and pattern recognition.

HOSTEK, House of Systems Technology (an Engineering and Consulting Office), City of 6 October, A.R. Egypt.

General Manager

Directed a number of industrial consulting projects, e.g., retrofitting of PVC pipe production machines and other production machines, automatic testing equipment in a TV production plant, design and manufacturing of security systems, PC based industrial data acquisition and control, development of multimedia training software, development of a speech enhancing software.

Department of Systems Engineering, King Fahd University, Dhahran , Saudi Arabia

Assistant, then Associate professor

• Teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in Instrumentation, Automation, and Digital Signal Processing.
• Principal Investigator of funded research projects exceeding 1,800,000 SR. in the areas of secure speech coding and digital signal processing.

TechMan International Corp., Brookfield, Mass., USA.

Director of R & D

Directed the company R & D team in developing Wireless LANs.

Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, Mass., USA

Assistant Professor

• Teaching undergradute and Graduate Courses
• Industrial consulting, e.g., Cambridge Instruments, DEC, TechMan, HiMed, and others.

Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada.

Research Associate

• Conducted research for the Canadian Institute of Guided Ground Transport.
• Proposed techniques for automatic control of long freight trains.

• DEAN LIST of McGill University,1982.
• Award of DISTINGUISHED SERVICES from the City of Worcester, U.S.A., 1987.

• IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, the Acoustic, Speech and Signal Processing Society, Communication Society.
• ISA Instrument Society of America.
• Society of Computer Simulation SCS.

Nationality: Egyptian, W/Canadian Immigration Visa.