Eyad Said, Assistant Professor at Math and CS Department

Eyad Said

Assistant Professor at Math and CS Department

Beloit College

Location
United States
Education
Doctorate, Computer Engineering
Experience
21 years, 7 Months

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Total years of experience :21 years, 7 Months

Assistant Professor at Math and CS Department at Beloit College
  • United States - Wisconsin - Milwaukee
  • My current job since August 2016

Teaching Data Structure, Object Oriented Programming using Java, Computer Architecture, Threads and Operating Systems, Computer Networks, and Introduction to Hardware courses.

Publications:
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=FrNGt1AAAAAJ&hl=en

SUMMARY
Assistant Professor at CS Department in Beloit College, WI, Developing algorithms in image segmentation, data fusion, data mining, classification, enhancement, feature extraction and recognition used in biometric technology for Human Identification, climate change prediction, satellite data and medical imaging. Team member for writing Self Report Study of Majmaah University (SSRI) for NCAAA accreditation - Responsible for ABET/ NCAAA Accreditation Files in the CCIS College at Majmaah University- Curriculum Development and Planning based on ABET requirements. Developing Digital Forensics track in IT program. Director of Academic Advisor Unit at CCIS College - Working on SSR for ABET . D2L system trainer. Submitting full proposal and preproposal to National Science Foundation and other agencies

PUBLICATIONS
Journal Papers:

• Sameh S. Ahmed, Yousef H. Okour, Eyad Haj Said, “A Methodology Based on Advanced Modeling Techniques for Groundwater Monitoring and Management-Part A, International Journal for Research and Development in Technology, Volume-3, Issue-1, Jan 2015, ISSN (O) :- 2349-3585

• Mohamed Gebril, Eric Kihn, Eyad Haj Said, and Abdollah Homaifar, “Detecting Environmental Change Using Self-Organizing Map Techniques Applied to the ERA-40 Database” Data Science Journal, vol. 10 (2011) pp.1-12

• Eyad Haj Said, Diaa Nassar, Gamal Fahmy, and Hany Ammar, “ Teeth Segmentation in Digitized Dental X-Rays Films using Mathematical Morphology” IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, Vol. 1, No. 2, June 2006.

• G. Fahmy, D. Nassar, E. Haj Said, H. Ammar, M. Abdel-Mottaleb, H. Chen, and A. Jain, “Toward an Automated Dental Identification System”, Journal of Electronic Imaging, Vol. 14, No. 4, 2005.

Conference Papers:
• Eyad Haj Said, Homaifar, A., Grossberg, M., “Creating Virtual Sensors Using Learning Based Super Resolution and Data Fusion”, IEEE Aerospace Conference, March 7-14, 2009, Big Sky, Montana.

• Eyad Haj Said, Ayman Abaza, and Hany Ammar, "Ear Segmentation in Color Facial Images Using Mathematical Morphology, " 6th IEEE on Biometrics Symposium, pp. 29-34 Tampa, FL, 23-25 Sept. 2008.

• Eyad Haj Said, Ayman Abaza, Gamal Fahmy, and Hany Ammar, "Accurate Segmentation of Digitized Dental X-Ray Records, ” 6th IEEE on Biometrics Symposium, pp. 77-82, Tampa, FL, 23-25 Sept. 2008.

• Ayman Abaza, Usman Qureshi, Ali Bahu, Eyad Haj-Said, DiaaEldin Nassar, and Hany H. Ammar, “Automated dental identification system (ADIS) in testing mode”, Proceedings of the 8th annual international conference on Digital government research: bridging disciplines & domains, pp 250 - 251, Philadelphia, PA 2007.

• Eyad Haj Said, Diaa Eldin M. Nassar, and Hany H. Ammar, “Image Segmentation for Automated Dental Identification”, Proc. of SPIE-IS&T Electronic Imaging, SPIE Vol. 6064, pp. 290-299, Jan Jose, CA Jan 2006.

• Satyasrinivas Chekuri, Diaa Eldin M. Nassar, Ayman Abaza, Eyad Haj-Said, Ali Bahu, UthmanQurashi, Gamal Fahmy, Hany H. Ammar, ” webADIS, ”A flexible web-based environment for the Automated Dental Identification System”, Proc. of the 2006 international conference on Digital government research, pp.348 - 349, San Diego, CA.

• Eyad Haj Said, Diaa Nassar, Gamal Fahmy, and Hany Ammar, "Dental X-ray Image Segmentation", SPIE Technologies for Homeland Security and Law Enforcement conference, the Biometric Technology for Human Identification conference, pp. 409-417, Orlando, FL, 12-16 April 2004.

• G. Fahmy, D. Nassar, E. Haj Said, H. Chen, O. Nomir, J. Zhou, R. Howell, H. Ammar, M. Abdel-Mottaleb and A. Jain, “Automated Dental Identification System (ADIS)”, Proc. of the 2004 annual national conference on Digital government research, pp.1-2, Seattle, WA 2004

Assistant Professor at IT Department at Majmaah University
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • February 2013 to August 2016

• Teaching Fuzzy Logic and Neural Network, Logic Design, Probability and statistics, Multimedia Systems, Discrete Mathematics, Data Structure, and Programming1, courses to students at IT, CS and CE departments.
• Submitting proposal titled: Developing a Virtual Instrument based on Data Fusion to Predict Trace Elements in Drinking Water Sources.
• Submitting proposal titled "Advanced Techniques of Monitoring, Prediction and Nanotechnology Treatment of Groundwater in Northern Riyadh Region"
• Member of Computer and Information Sciences College Council.
• Team leader for developing Digital Forensic” Track in IT program
• Director of Networking Technology Program ( 2 years programs)
• Director of Quality and Accreditation Center for Computer $ Information Sciences College in 2015
• Management of Academic Advising Unit and participating in developing the academic advising strategy plan for the college between 2013 and 2014.
• Member of Curriculum Development and Planning Committee.
• Developing the curriculum for ABET accreditation purposes.
• Preparing Self Study Report SSR for Abet Accreditation for and IT and CS programs.
• Preparing Self Study Report SSR for NCAAA Accreditation.
• Team member for writing SSRI of Majmaah University based on NCAAA Accreditation.
• Presenting workshop "Course Assessment Metrics For Measuring Course Learning Outcomes Against Program Learning Outcomes" based on ABET requirements.
• Trainer of Desire2Learn system (D2L) to support eLearning process.
• Writing the Academic Advising Guidance for instructors and students.
• Designing ecourse ( Logic Design) for E-learning-center in Majmaah University

Dean of Engineering - Assistant Professor at Kalamoon University
  • Syria - Damascus
  • January 2009 to February 2013

• Managing the Engineering faculty scientifically, financially, and administratively
• Developing the study plans for communication and electronics, information technology, and computer engineering departments
• Developing and organizing the academic advising
• Managing the accreditation file of the Engineering Faculty
• Developing coordination with industrial companies to provide training for UOK students
• Teaching Data Mining, Artificial Intelligence, Pattern Recognition, Multimedia Systems, Computer Organization and Assembly Language and System Programming courses to third, forth, and fifth year students at engineering departments.
• Advising Students for their graduation and semester projects.
• Supervising students in their academic carrier.
• Coordinator between University of Kalamoon and Telecom Bretagne in France for faculty exchange, student exchange, support Kalamoon students to continue graduate study in France, and research collaboration.
• Committee member for evaluating graduation projects

Postdoctoral Research Associate at North Carolina A&T state University
  • United States - North Carolina - Greensboro
  • November 2007 to January 2009

• Development of prediction based methods of high resolution satellite data from low resolution data using Bayesian network, neural network, and fuzzy logic. The data used in analyzing is Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MODIS) level 1B data.
• Integrating data-fusion techniques from different kinds of data sources from satellites, historical data, and data sets created by data fusion to understand the climate change and to predict the future hurricanes, droughts, and forest fires.
• Interaction with the NOAA scientists and other PI’s in the NOAA-ISET Center.
• Writing and preparing performance reports to NOAA.
• Writing full proposal -“Vision - Ubiquitous CyberAnalytics (U-CAN) for Exabyte Scientific Data Sets “- for NSF after receiving positive panel review for NSF Expeditions preliminary proposal. The proposal is collaboration work of many universities and leading companies.
• Writing preliminary proposal -“A Novel Computational Approach for High Level Climate Prediction”- for CDI-NSF. The proposal is a collaboration work with NCSU and UMN.
• Writing Full Proposal - “Fusion of Voice and Lip Motion for a Reliable Behavioral Biometric System”.
• Training and guiding graduate and undergraduate students in the research labs including PhD students.

Research Assistant at West Virginia University
  • United States - Virginia
  • May 2002 to May 2007

• Development an Automated Dental Identification System (ADIS) for identifying persons through searching for matches from digitized dental X-ray image databases, Including requirement analysis, design phase, and implementation using UML, Visio, Rational Rose, Visual C++, and MATLAB.
• Development of adaptive algorithms for enhancement, segmentation, film type classification and feature extraction to be applied on different types of dental images using MATLAB, Image Processing Toolbox used with MATLAB, and SDC Morphology Toolbox used with MATLAB.
• Testing the software life cycle of ADIS system including the requirements and design review, code review and inspection, and product integration.
• Preparing test plans, test data, and test scenarios
• Development of a web-based test bed environment - to be made available to other research groups - to facilitate the process of conducting testing experiments using the image databases.
• Development an Automated Ear Identification System (AEIS) for identifying persons from 2D and 3D ear features.
• Development of adaptive algorithms for Ear detection and 2D feature extraction for Identification process.
• Development of automated evaluation of teeth segmentation and ear detection without human interaction in order to increase system efficiency and decrease time wasting.
• Team leader of ADIS and AEIS projects.

Education

Doctorate, Computer Engineering
  • at West Virginia University
  • May 2007

Thesis Title: Image Segmentation for Biometric Identification Systems

Master's degree, Computer Engineering
  • at Stevens Institute of Technology
  • December 2001

Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ Master of Engineering in Computer Engineering. Date of Graduation, DEC 2001 GPA 4.0

Bachelor's degree, Electrical Engineering
  • at Damascus University
  • June 1995

Damascus University Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical Engineering Date of Graduation, June 1995

Specialties & Skills

Biometrics
Software Development
Education
Data Mining
Machine Learning
Curriculum Development and Planning based on ABET requirements
Technical Writing
NCAAA Accreditation
Publications : https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=FrNGt1AAAAAJ&hl=en
D2L elearning System
Moodle elearning System
ABET Accreditation
Team working
Leadership
presentation skills

Languages

English
Expert
Arabic
Native Speaker