DR. MOATAZ M. ABDELWAHAB

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1 DR. MOATAZ M. ABDELWAHAB Assistant Professor, ECE Program. School of Electronics, Communications and Computing. EJUST, Alexandria, Egypt EDUCATION Ph.D. ( ) Electrical Engineering, University of Central Florida, USA. Novel Facial Image Recognition Techniques Employing Principal Component Analysis. M.S.E.E ( ), Alexandria University, Egypt, Wide band wire antennas. B.S.E.E. ( ), Alexandria University, Egypt. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE July present, Assistant Professor, School of Electronics, Communications and Computing, Egypt Japan University for Science and Technology. Feb 2009 June 2013, Assistant Professor, School of Communications and Information Technology / Center of Informatics Science, Nile University, Egypt Jan 2008 to Jan. 2009, Adjunct Faculty / Post Doc., School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science/ Computer Vision Research Center, University of Central, Florida. Jan 2003 to Dec. 2007, Research Assistant, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Central, Florida. Jan 2003 to Dec. 2007, Teaching Assistant, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Central, Florida. Sept to Dec. 2002, Teaching Assistant, Alexandria Institute of Engineering and Technology,/ Research Assistant, Alexandria University, Egypt FUNDED RESEARCH & GRANTS 1) (PI) Vehicle detection and tracking in very crowded scenes employing quadrotors, ITIDA, ITAC, 130,000, July July ) (PI) Human Activity Recognition in images and challenging Videos, Microsoft, Egypt (CMIC), 120,000, July July ) (PI) Human Activity Recognition in Videos, Microsoft, Egypt (CMIC), 100,000, July July ) (Co-PI) TraffiSense: An Integrated Visual Sensing System for Advanced Traffic Management, ITIDA, ITAC, Advanced Research Projects (ARP), 1000,000, October October 2012.

2 HONORS AND AWARDS 1) Best paper award in 13th IAPR MVA, Japan, ) Best student paper award (2ND place) in the 49th IEEE MWSCAS (2006) 3) Graduate Research Fellowship, UCF. (2006) 4) Best paper award (Signal processing track) ICENCO. (2006) 5) Electrical Engineering Department PhD Fellowship, UCF. (2003) PATENT Wasfy B. Mikhael, and Moataz Abdelwahab, Recognition and Classification Based on Principal Component Analysis in the Transform Domain, US Patent- 7,724,960 May BOOK CHAPTER Issa Batarseh and Moataz M. Abdelwahab. Ebook++ / Quizme: An Interactive Learning Tool for Circuit Analysis, PUBLICATIONS 1) Ehab H. El-Shazly, Moataz M. Abdelwahab, Ahmed Medhat and Mohammed S. Sayed, A Novel Algorithm with FPGA Implementation for Action and Gesture Recognition Employing Spatiotemporal Gradient in the Transform Domain, 2014 IEEE International Conference on Imaging Systems and Techniques, October ) Mohamed A. Abdelwahab, Moataz M. Abdelwahab, Human action recognition based on two-view optical flow in the transformed domain The 57th IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS 14),Texas A&M, Texas, August ) Omnia Samy, Moataz M. Abdelwahab, Real-Time 2DHoG-2DPCA Algorithm for Hand Gesture Recognition The 17th ICIAP2013, Naples, Italy, September 2013 (oral acceptance rate 8%). 4) Fadwa Fawzy, Moataz M. Abdelwahab, and Wasfy B. Mikhael, Human Activity Recognition in videos using 2DHOOF-2DPCA Contour Based Optical flow The 56th IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS 13), Ohio State University USA, August ) Sara Atito, Ahmed Mamdouh, and Moataz M. Abdelwahab, Vehicles detection and tracking in videos for very crowded scenes The 13th IAPR Conference on Machine Vision Applications (MVA 2013), Kyoto, Japan, May (Best paper award) 6) Islam. Yousry,, Moataz M. Abdelwahab, and Wasfy B. Mikhael, Simultaneous Face Detection and Recognition System The 55th IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS 12), Idaho, USA, August ) Ramy Chehata, Wasfy B. Mikhael, and Moataz M. Abdelwahab Performance Evaluation of the Transform Domain Diagonal Principal Component Analysis for Facial Recognition under different pre-

3 processing conditions " The 55th IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS 12), Idaho, USA, August ) M. A. Naiel,, Moataz M. Abdelwahab, M. El-Saban and Wasfy B. Mikhael, Simultaneous Human Detection and Action Recognition Employing 2DPCA-HOG The 54th IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS 11), Seoul, Korea, August ) M. A. Naiel,, Moataz M. Abdelwahab, M. El-Saban and Wasfy B. Mikhael, Highly Efficient Human Action Recognition using compact 2DPCA-based descriptors in the Spatial and Transform domains" The 54th IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS 11), Seoul, Korea, August ) M. A. Naiel,, Moataz M. Abdelwahab, and M. El-Saban. Multi-view human action recognition system employing 2DPCA, IEEE WACV 2011, Kona, Hawaii, pp , Jan ) M. Naiel, Moataz M. Abdelwahab, and Wasfy B. Mikhael, Human Action recognition employing TD2DPCA and VQ The 53th IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS 10), Seattle, USA, August ) M. Naiel, Moataz M. Abdelwahab, and Wasfy B. Mikhael, Human Action recognition employing PCA and VQ in the spatio-temporal domain The 8th International IEEE-NEWCAS Conference, Montreal, Canada, June ) Mohamed Azzam, Tarek Khalil, Mahmoud Allam, Moataz M. Abdelwahab, ICT and Education Towards an effective context of Technology utilization The 19th International conference on management of technology, Cairo, Egypt, March ) Moataz M. Abdelwahab and M. Naiel, Parallel Structure system employing PCA and VQ for Human Action and target recognition Work shop on Ubiquitous computing technologies and applications, Nile University, Egypt, October ) Feras Batarseh, Moataz M. Abdelwahab and Issa Batarseh. QuizMe- An Interactive Learning Tool with Application to Electrical Circuits, American Society for Engineering Education Southeastern Section Annual Conference, Georgia, April 5-7, ) Moataz M. Abdelwahab, and Wasfy B. Mikhael, Parallel Structure System Employing PCA and VQ in the Transform Domain for Facial Recognition, The 51th IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS 08), Knoxville, Tennessee, August ) Wasfy B. Mikhael, Pradeep Ragothaman and Moataz M. Abdelwahab Nontraditional Signal Processing Techniques Employing Linear Transforms, The 50th IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS 07), Montreal, Canada, August 2007.

4 18) Moataz M. Abdelwahab, and Wasfy B. Mikhael, Efficient Feature Representation Employing PCA and VQ in the Transform Domain for Facial Recognition, The 50th IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS 07), Montreal, Canada, August ) Wasfy B. Mikhael, Moataz M. Abdelwahab, and Pradeep Ragothaman Novel Transform Domain Principal Component Analysis (PCA) Techniques and Some Applications: Facial and Automatic Target Recognition, 11th WSEAS International Conference on Computer, Nikolaos, Crete Island, Greece, July 26-28, ) Moataz M. Abdelwahab, and Wasfy B. Mikhael, Computationally Efficient Transform Domain Two- Dimensional Principal Component Analysis Algorithm for Facial Recognition, The 2nd International Computer Engineering Conference (ICENCO 06), Cairo, Egypt, December (Best paper award (Signal processing track)). 21) Moataz M. Abdelwahab, and Wasfy B. Mikhael, Recognition of Noisy Facial Images Employing Transform Domain Two- Dimensional Principal Component Analysis, The 49th IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS 06), San Juan, Puerto Rico, August (2nd Best Student paper award (302 papers)) 22) Wasfy B. Mikhael, Moataz M. Abdelwahab, and Manal M. Abdelwahab, Intelligent Signal Processing Applied to Recognition and Classification of One and Multidimensional Signals, 10th WSEAS International Conference on Circuits, pp , July 2006, Vouliagmeni, Athens, Greece. 23) Moataz M. Abdelwahab, and Wasfy B. Mikhael, A Novel Facial Recognition Technique Employing Karhunen-Loeve Transform, The 12th International Conference on Information Systems Analysis and Synthesis, (ISAS 06), Vol.5, pp , Orlando, Florida, USA, July 16-19, ) Moataz M. Abdelwahab, Manal M. Abdelwahab, and Wasfy B. Mikhael, Several Structures and Techniques for the Accurate Classification and Recognition of Signals, WSEAS Transactions on Signal Processing, Vol. 2, Issue 7, pp , July ) Moataz M. Abdelwahab, and Wasfy B. Mikhael, A New Fast Facial Recognition Algorithm Applicable to Large Databases, The 4th International IEEE-NEWCAS Conference, pp , June 18-21, 2006, Gatineau, Canada 26) Wasfy B. Mikhael, and Moataz M. Abdelwahab, A Recognition and Classification Algorithm with Improved Accuracy, Storage, and Computational Properties with Application to Face Recognition, WSEAS Transactions on Signal Processing, Vol.1, Issue 3, pp , December ) Moataz M. Abdelwahab, and Wasfy B. Mikhael, An Efficient Frequency Domain Algorithm For Face Recognition Based On Two-Dimensional Principal Component Analysis, 4th WSEAS International Conference on Electronics, Control, and Signal Processing (ICECS 05), pp , Miami, Florida, USA, November 17-19, 2005.

5 28) Kamchouchi, H.M.; Abdel Wahab, M.M., Cross-element log-periodic dipole fed planar reflector antenna, Proceedings of the Nineteenth National Radio Science Conference, (NRSC 2002), March 2002, Alexandria, Egypt Page(s): ) Kamchouchi, H.M.; Abdel Wahab, M.M., log-periodic Corner reflector antenna, Proceedings of the International Conference in Electromagnetics in Advanced Applications, (ICEAA 2001), pp ,torino, Italy. PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES IEEE MWSCAS Steering Committee Member. Graduate Faculty Scholar, College of Graduate Studies at UCF Technical Reviewer for 1. IEEE MWSCAS, 2. IEEE NEWCAS, 3. Journal of Circuits, Systems, and Computers 4. WSEAS Journal of signal processing, 5. International Journal of Circuit Theory and Applications 6. IEEE ICIP, 7. IIITEC, 8. IAMOT Conference Session Chairman: 1. IEEE MWSCAS 2014, 2. IEEE MWSCAS 2013, 3. IEEE MWSCAS 2010, 4. IAMOT 2010 STUDENTS SUPERVISIONS Master Theses Supervised 1) Mohamed Naiel, Human Activity Recognition in Videos, Graduation date: August (Obtained PhD Fellowship at Concordia University). 2) Fadwa Mohamed, "Human Activity recognition in Images and Challenging Videos" ) Sara Atito, Novel Algorithm for sensitivity analysis and object detection and tracking, 2014 (Obtained PhD Fellowship at TUB, Germany). 4) Islam Yousry, "Facial detection and Recognition in Images " Member Ph.D. Committees Waleed Rahid Highly Efficient Facial Recognition Systems", University of Central Florida,2014.

6 Member MSc.. Committees 1. Waleed Mohmed AbdelMoula,"Automatic Segmentation of Choroidal Neuvascularization in Fundus Fluoresein Angiograms ", MSc., Graduation, Fall Mohamed Elsayed, "Body And Visual Sensor Fusion for GAIT Impairment Analysis in Ubiquitous Healthcare Systems", MSc.,Graduation, Fall Mohamed Samir Elbaz, Right Ventricle Segmentation using Active Shape Model with Inter-profile modelling ", MSc.,Graduation, Fall Reda Elhakim,"Sensor Explorer: 3D Monitoring and Visualization Framework for wireless sensor network ", MSc., Graduation, Spring Mohamed M. Elzahar,"A GPU-Accelerated Semi-Supervised Learning Based Framework for improved shadow removal in vision based monitoring systems ", MSc., Graduation, Fall Yarah Ismail,"A Bi-Level Traffic Survey method based on cellular phones networks ", MSc., Graduation, Spring TEACHING ACTIVITIES Have taught 7 different courses at the graduate and undergraduate level at EJUST, NU and UCF, Introduced new Courses for Image Processing, Computer vision and signals and systems I. Graduate Level: 1) Digital Image processing (@ EJUST) 2) Computer Vision (@NU) 3) Operational Amplifiers (@UCF) II. Undergraduate Level: 1) Digital Signal Processing Fundamentals (@UCF) 2) Signals and Systems (@NU) 3) Electric Circuits (@UCF) 4) Electric Circuits Fundamentals for Engineering (@UCF) LABORATORY DEVELOPMENT 1) Image and video Processing Research Lab (@EJUST) 2) Computer Vision Research Lab (@NU) 3) Undergraduate Physics Lab (@NU)