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Waleed E. Farag                         Jannah ELQawmeya Tower

                                                                     ElQawmeya St.

                                                                     Zagazig – Sharkeya - Egypt

                                                                     Home Tel: (055) 234-1760

                                                                     Work Tel: (055) 230-4987

                                                                     Email: farag@cs.odu.edu

                                                                     Webpage: http://www.cs.odu.edu/~farag

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Career Highlights

·        2004-   Assistant Professor, Department of Computers Engineering and Systems at Zagazig University Faculty of Engineering, Zagazig, Egypt.

·        2002- 2004: Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science at Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP), Indiana, PA, USA.

·        1998- 2002: Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Computer Science at Old Dominion University (ODU), Norfolk, VA, USA.

·        1997-1998: Assistant lecturer, Department of Computer Engineering and Control, Zagazig University, Egypt.

·        1993-1997: Teaching Assistant, Department of Electronics and Communications Engineering, Zagazig University, Egypt.

 

 

Expertise and Research Interests

·        Network Security & Information Hiding into Digital Video Data (Steganography)

·        Video & Image Indexing and Retrieval Techniques

·        Distance Learning Applications

·        Artificial Neural Networks

·        Optimization Techniques such as Genetic Algorithms

·        Multimedia Applications & Databases

·        Wireless & Mobile Computing

·        Parallel Computer Architecture

 

Publications

 

Education Background

·        Ph.D. in Computer Science 2002. Department of Computer Science at Old Dominion University, Norfolk VA. GPA is 4.00, Thesis Title, “Video Indexing and Retrieval Techniques Using Novel Approaches to Video Segmentation, Characterization, and Similarity Matching”.

·        MS in Computer Engineering 1997. Department of Electronics and Communications Engineering at Zagazig University, Egypt. Thesis Title, “Architecture of Neural Networks Using Genetic Algorithms”.

·        BS in Electrical Engineering 1993. Department of Electronics and Communications Engineering at Zagazig University, Egypt, 1993. Graduation grade: Excellence with honor and I was the top of all my colleagues.

 

 

Technical Skills

·        Programming Skills

Java, C/C++, Visual C++, Assembly languages of different processors, Basic, Fortran, CGI programming/web programming, HTML, PERL, SQL, PL/SQL, and UNIX scripts.

·        Operating Systems and Platforms

UNIX (Solaris and SunOS), MS-DOS and MS-Windows.

·        Technical knowledge

JPEG, MPEG, Signal, Image, & Video Processing, Database Systems, Multimedia Systems, Image/Video Compression, mobile computing and networking, parallel computer architecture.

 

Professional Activity

·        Member of the Technical Program Committee for the Multimedia Information Management Conference, IRMA 2004.

·        Member of the Technical Program Committee for the IASTED on Parellel & Distributed Computing & Systems.

·        Ad Hoc. reviewer for the Information Resources Management Journal (IRMJ).

·        Ad Hoc. reviewer for the Annals of Cases on Information Technology (ACIT) Journal.

·        Reviewer for the Hawaii International Conference on Computer Sciences, 2004.

·        Reviewer for IEEE Infocom, 2002.

·        Reviewer for the International Conference On Parallel Processing, 2002.

·        IEEE member.