Office: Room 335E, Essex Hall

Email: eraheem@uwindsor.ca

Telephone: (519) 253-3000 extension 4795

Fax:  (519) 971-3695

Education:
PhD (Victoria, 1995), MSc (Ain Shams, Egypt, 1989), BSc (Ain Shams, Egypt, 1984), all in Electrical Engineering

Teaching:
85-214 Circuit Analysis II: Fall 2003 to present
88-444 Analog Integrated Circuit Design: Winter 2004
88-226 Electronics I: Winter 2005 to present
88-419 Digital Communications: Winter 2005 to present
88-590-27: Adaptive Filtering: Fall 2004
88-562: VLSI Implementations of DSP Systems: Fall 2005 to present
88-590-24: CMOS Analog Integrated Circuits: Winter 2004

Courses Taught at Other Universities:
Digital Circuits
Electric Circuits
Electronic Components
Signals & Systems
Signal Processing
Communication Systems
Digital Communications
Telecommunication Networks
Digital Signal Processing

Graduate Supervision:
Completed: 3 M.Sc. & 1 Ph.D. (at Ain Shams Univ.)
Completed: 4 M.A.Sc. (at U. of Windsor)
In Progress: 3 M.A.Sc. & 1 Ph.D. (at U. of Windsor)

Research Interests:
1. Digital Signal Processing
3. Signal processing for Communications
4. VLSI Implementations of Signal Processing Algorithms and Communication Circuits

Professional Activities:

• Associate Editor, Canadian J. Elec. & Comp. Eng. (CJECE) since Dec. 31st, 2006.
• General Co-Chair, IEEE Int. Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology (ISSPIT), Cairo, Egypt, 15-18 Dec. 2007.
• Session moderator, The Founding Conference of Expatriate Arab Scientists (IQ2006), Doha, Qatar, 24-26 April, 2006.
• Tutorial Chair, IEEE Int. Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology (ISSPIT), Athens, Greece, 18-21 Dec. 2005.
• Technical Program Co-Chair, IEEE Int. Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology (ISSPIT), Athens, Greece, 18-21 Dec. 2005.
• Technical Program Co-Chair, IEEE Int. Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology (ISSPIT), Rome, Italy, 18-21 Dec. 2004.
• Founder of IEEE Int. Symp. On Signal Processing and Information Technology (ISSPIT).
• Member, IEEE Signal processing Society TC on Education (Since 2001).
• Member, IEEE Circuit & Systems Society TC on VLSI Appl. & Syst (Since 2003).
• Member of the IASTED Technical Committee on Signal Processing (Since 2001).
• Member, Tech. Program Committee, ICICT 2006 in Egypt, Eusipco 2006 in Italy, ICM 2006 in Saudi Arabia, IEEE ISSPIT’02, Morocco, Dec. 2002 & IEEE ISSPIT’03, Germany, Dec. 2003, and IEEE ISSPA 2003, France, July 2003.
• Member, Organizing Committee, IEEE Midwest Symp. on Circuits and Syst., Dec. 2003, Cairo, Egypt.
• Local Arrangements & Publicity Chair, ISSPIT’2001, 28-30 Dec. 2001, Cairo, Egypt.
• Member, Steering Committee, IEEE Int’l Symp. on Sig. Process. & Information Technology (ISSPIT).
• Member, Steering Committee, IEEE Midwest Symp. on Circuits and Systems.
• Served as a reviewer for journals: IEEE Transactions on Circuits & Systems, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, IEEE Transaction of Parallel & Dist. Syst., IEE Proc. On Comp. & Dig. Tech., IEE Electronics Letters, SPIE, and J. of Circuits, Systems, and Comp., J. of Comp. & EE.
• Served as a book reviewer for John Wiley and Sons.
• Served as a reviewer for several IASTED int. conferences, ISSPIT’02, ISSPIT’03, ICASSP’03, ICASSP’05, and IEEE MELCON 2002.
• Served as a Review Committee Member (RCM) for IEEE ISCAS 2003, and ISCAS 2006.
• Founder and Chair of the IEEE Egypt Signal Processing Chapter (2000-2002).
• Founding Counselor, IEEE student branch, Ain Shams University (Aug. 2001-Aug 2002).
• Coordinator, Wireless SoC Mini Workshop (sponsored by IEEE SPS and Mentor Graphics Egypt), Cairo, May 2001.

Professional Memberships:

• Senior Member of the IEEE (since 2000).
• Licensed as a P.Eng. with Professional Engineers Ontario

Publications:
1 published patent (US/World/Euro), 16 published journals, 2 submitted journals, 38 conference papers.

Recent Selected Journal Papers:
Harb Abdulhamid, Kemal Tepe, and Esam Abdel-Raheem, 5.9 GHz DSRC Receiver for Wireless Access Vehicular Environments, To appear inIET Communications (formerly IEE Proc. on Comm.).

Kevin Banovic, Esam Abdel-Raheem, and Mohammed A. S. Khalid, Computationally-Efficient Methods for Blind Decision Feedback Equalization for QAM Signals, AEU – Int. Journal. of Electronics & Communications, Elsevier, (2007), doi: 10.1016/j.aeue.2007.05.008.

Raymond Lee, Esam Abdel-Raheem, and Mohammed A. S. Khalid, Improved NLMS-Based Adaptive Algorithms for Echo Cancellation Applications, Journal of Communications, Academy Publisher, vol. 1, No. 7, pp. 1-8, Nov./Dec. 2006.

Kevin Banovic, Mohammed A. S. Khalid, and Esam Abdel-Raheem, A Configurable Fractionally-Spaced Blind Adaptive Equalizer for QAM Demodulators, Digital Signal Processing,. doi:10.1016/j.dsp.2006.10.009, 2006, In Press, Available online 27 Nov. 2006 via www.sciencedirect.com.

Harb Abdulhamid, Kemal Tepe, and Esam Abdel-Raheem, Performance of DSRC Systems using Conventional Channel Estimation at High Velocities, AEU – Int. Journal. of Electronics & Communications, Elsevier, 2006, doi:10.1016/j.aeue.2006.10.005, 2006, In Press, available online 6 Dec. 2006 via www.sciencedirect.com.

Kevin Banovic, Esam Abdel-Raheem, and Mohammed A. S. Khalid, A Novel Radius-Adjusted Approach for Blind Adaptive Equalization, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, pp. 37-40, vol. 13, Jan. 2006.

M. Mohajerin, E. Abdel-Raheem, C. Chen, A Novel 12-b 40 MSamples/s, Low-Power, Low-Area Pipeline Analog-To-Digital Converter, Canadian Journal on Elec. Comp. Eng., pp. 25-29, vol. 31, No. 1, Winter 2006.

Recent Selected Conference Publications:
Kevin Banovic, Mohammed A. S. Khalid, and Esam Abdel-Raheem, FPGA Implementation of Fractionally-Spaced Complex Blind Adaptive Equalizer, submitted to IEEE Int. Symp. On Signal Processing & Information Technology (ISSPIT), Cairo, Egypt, Dec. 2007.

Harb Abdulhamid, Esam Abdel-Raheem, and Kemal Tepe, Channel Tracking Techniques for OFDM Systems in Wireless Access Vehicular Environment, Int. Symp. On Signal processing and its Applications (ISSPA), Sharjah, UAE, Feb. 2007.

E. Abdel-Raheem, Blind Adaptive Equalization with Variable Step Size, Proc. ITI - Int. Conf. on Information & Communication Technologies, Cairo, Egypt, pp. 91-100, Dec. 2006.

Harb Abdulhamid, Raymond Lee, and Esam Abdel-Raheem, FPGA Implementations of FIR Nyquist Filters, Proc. ITI - Int. Conf. on Information & Communication Technologies, Cairo, Egypt, pp. 123-133, Dec. 2006.

Esam Abdel-Raheem, On Computationally-Efficient Adaptive Algorithms for Echo-Cancellation Applications, Proc. IEEE Int. Symp. On Signal processing and Information Tech. (ISSPIT), Athens, Greece, pp. 680-684, Dec. 2005.

Kevin Banovic, Mohammed A. S. Khalid, and Esam Abdel-Raheem, Rapid Prototyping of Digital Signal Processing Systems, Proc. IEEE Int. Midwest Symp. On Circuits and Systems, Cincinnati, USA, pp. 647-650, Aug. 2005.

Kevin Banovic, Raymond Lee, Esam Abdel-Raheem, and Mohammed A. S. Khalid, Computationally-Efficient Methods for Blind Equalization, Proc. IEEE Int. Midwest Symp. On Circuits and Systems, Cincinnati, USA, pp. 341-344, Aug. 2005.

Kevin Banovic, Esam Abdel-Raheem, and Mohammed A. S. Khalid, Hybrid Blind Adaptive Equalization: New Results and Comparisons, Proc. IEEE Symp. On Computers and Communications, Cartagena, Spain, pp. 275-279, June 2005.

M. Mohajerin, C. Chen, and E. Abdel-Raheem, A Novel 12-b 40 MS/s, Low-Power, Low-Area Pipeline ADC for Video Analog Front Ends, Proc. IEEE Pacific Rim Conference on Communications, Computers, and Signal processing, Victoria, Canada, pp. 579-600, Aug. 2005.

M. Nofal, E. Abdel-Raheem, H. El-Henawy, and N. S. Abdel-Kader, Acoustic Training System for Speaker Independent Continuous Arabic Speech Recognition System, Proc. IEEE Int. Symp. Signal Processing and Information Tech., Rome, Italy, pp. 200-203, Dec. 2004.

C. Kang, C. Chen, and E. Abdel-Raheem, A High-Level Optimization Scheme
for Low Power Clock Design, Proc. IEEE Midwest Symp. Circuits & Systems, Cairo, Egypt, pp. 1492-1495, Dec. 2003.

M. Nofal, E. Abdel-Raheem, H. El-Henawy, and N. S. Abdel-Kader, Arabic Automatic Segmentation System and its Application for Arabic Speech Recognition System, Proc. IEEE Midwest Symp. Circuits and Systems, Cairo, Egypt, pp. 697-700, Dec. 2003.

E. Abdel-Raheem, On the Design of FIR Nyquist Filters, Proc. IEEE Int. Symp. Signal Processing and Information Tech., Cairo, Egypt, pp. 191-195, Dec. 2001.

F. Elguibaly and E. Abdel-Raheem, A Queuing Model for Self-Similar Traffic, Proc. IEEE Int. Symp. Signal Processing and Information Tech., Cairo, Egypt, pp. 356-359, Dec. 2001.