Name                     

Mohamed Hesham Farouk El-Sayed

Affiliate Address  

Engineering Math. & Physics Dept., Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University,  Giza 12613, Egypt

E-Mail                  

mhesham@eng.cu.edu.eg

Home Page

http://eng.cu.edu.eg/users/mhesham 

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Date of Birth

2 / 6 / 1960 Cairo

Fax : 202  357 23 486             

Tel :      202 3 567 8023

 

Education     

- B.Sc. of Electronics Engineering,  Faculty of Engineering, Cairo Univ. May  1982 with general grade Very Good with Honor degree.

- B.Sc. of Physics,  Faculty of Science,   Cairo Univ.  May 1985

- M. Sc. of Engineering Physics, Faculty of Engineering,   Cairo Univ.  Sept.1988

 Thesis title: " ECG Diagnosis Using Advanced Analytical Techniques"

- Ph.D. in Engineering Physics, Faculty of Engineering,     Cairo Univ., Jan. 1994

  Thesis title: " Vocal Tract Modeling"

 

Positions Held : 

-Teaching Assistant  of Engineering  Math.,   Military Technical College 1982-1983 (Military Service). 

- Teaching Assistant & Lecturer of  both theoretical & experimental Engineering  Physics,  Faculty of Engineering,  Cairo  Univ.         1984-1993

-Assistant Professor, Engineering Math. & Physics Dept.,  Faculty of Engineering,  Cairo  Univ.    1994-2001

-Visiting Professor, Basic Sciences Dept., Faculty of Info. Systems  & Comp. Sciences,  October 6 Univ.    1999-2006.

- Associate Professor, Engineering Math. & Physics Dept.,  Faculty of Engineering,  Cairo  Univ.    2001-2007

 

Current Position:

·        Full Professor, Engineering Math. & Physics Dept.,  Faculty of Engineering,  Cairo  Univ.    2007-Till Now

 

Research Interests  

       ·   Hyperspectral image analysis

       ·   Numerical analysis of acoustic scattering integral equations using Neural networks and wavelets.

       ·   Speech processing and Vocal Tract Modeling.

       ·   Genetic Algorithms for  Ultrasonic Parameters estimation.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Teaching  Courses:

   ·   physics for Telecommunication and biomedical engineering students, Level 200 undergraduate, at Fac. Of Engineering, Cairo university, since 1985.

   ·   Physics for Computer science students, Level 100 undergraduate, Fac. Of computer science, October 6 University, Egypt, since 1996.

   ·   Introduction on Electronics, for Computer science students, Level 200 undergraduate, Fac. Of computer science, October 6 University, Egypt, since 1996.

   ·   Introduction on Microprocessors, for Computer science students, Level 200 undergraduate, Fac. Of computer science, October 6 University, Egypt, since 1996.

   ·   Introduction on Multimedia, for Computer science students, Level 400 undergraduate, Fac. Of computer science, October 6 University, Egypt, since 2006.

   ·   Digital signal processing in physics, for Engineering Physics students, Level 600 postgraduate, at Fac. Of Engineering, Cairo university, since 2007.

   ·   Digital  processing of speech signal, for Engineering Physics students, Level 600 postgraduate, at Fac. Of Engineering, Cairo university, since 2007.

 

Technical Experiences:

   ·   Principal investigator of a research project on searching and indexing of speech data in educational videos (Audio Indexing & Searching through an Instructional video), funded by IT Industry Development Agency (ITIDA), 2007-2009.

   ·   Participating in the review process of  the technical specifications of Ground-Station SCADA of DSERT-SAT (Egyptian satellite for remote sensing) -  Agency of Remote Sensing 2004. 

   ·   Development of computer-based process control for the coke calciner at the Aluminum Company of Egypt, 1991-93, and its upgrade in 2002 using RS-view and upgraded PCs to cope with Y2K problem.

   ·    Design and implementation of an Arabic  Speech  Recognition System for Handicapped Assistance, Project 8021, FRCU,   Cairo Univ.  1983-1985

   ·   Designing and supervising the installation of many SCADA systems at  the Aluminum Company of Egypt (EGYPTALUM), the Arab Ceramic Company  (ARACEMCO), North Cairo mills and International-Electronics company.

   ·   Design and  implementation  of  many  Data  Acquisition and Analysis  Systems (DAS), both software and hardware, in different labs at the faculties of Science  and  Engineering,  Cairo, Ain-Shams, AL-Azhar universities  and   Military    Factory-18, Abou-Zaabal.

 

Attended Training Courses and Workshops:

   ·   A condensed  training  course  on  PC-software  for  SCADA (PARAGON from  INTEC) at  Boston, U.S.A, August 1991.

   ·   A condensed   training   course   on  Programmable Controllers  (PLC-5)   of  Allen-Bradely at Cleveland,  Ohio, U.S.A., August 1991.

   ·   A workshop on TELEMATICS, International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste, Italy, October, 1995.

   ·    A workshop on  Stochastic Processes, presenting a review on stochastic processes in speech processing, Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University, April, 1998.

   ·   A workshop on Air Quality Modeling, Fac. of Engineering, Cairo University in the cooperation with North Carolina Supercomputing Center, May, 1999. 

 

Professional Membership and Conferences:

   ·   A founder of IEEE-signal processing chapter.

   ·   Member of IEEE, and IEEE signal processing society 1996-present.

   ·   The 4th International Conference on Electronics, Circuits, and Systems (ICECS’97), Cairo, Egypt, Dec., 1997.

   ·   The 3rd International Conference on Engineering Math. And Physics, Faculty of Engineering, Cairo Univ., Giza, Egypt, Dec. 1997.

   ·   The 8th Conference on Computer Theory and Applications (ICCTA’98), Alexandria, Egypt, Sept., 1998.

   ·   The 16th National Conference on Radio Science, NRSC’99, Cairo, Egypt, Feb., 1999.

   ·   The Conferences on Language Engineering,  Ain-Shams University, Cairo Egypt, March 1998, 2008, and 2009.

 

Supervised Works:

 

   ·   Mohamed Ezz El Din Hassan El Gohary, “Landmine detection through hyperspectral images”, M. Sc. Thesis, Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University, 2016.

   ·     PhD thesis in “Visual Object tracking”, Electronics Engineering Dept., Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University, 2011-till Now.

   ·     Ahmed El-Sheikh, “ Fully Unsupervised Hyperspectral Image Analysis”, M. Sc. Thesis, Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University, 2014.

   ·    Adel Abo-Nema, “Moving Object Tracking and Range Detection using Image Processing Techniques”, M. Sc. Thesis, Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University, 2014.

   ·      Adel Kassem, “Reverse-Time-Migration Source Side Speed Up By Solving In Riemannian Coordinates” M. Sc. Thesis, Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University, 2012.

   ·   Haidy Fathy, “Improving Arabic Phonemes Recognition Using Nonlinear Features”, M. Sc. Thesis, Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University, 2013.

   ·   Ahmed Toulan, Phoneme-based units for Arabic spoken term detection compared with HMM keyword Spotting,    M. Sc. Thesis, Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University, 2010.

   ·   Yasser Yousif, Numerical Analysis of Acoustic Scattering Integral Equation for Axisymmetirc Multibodies, M. Sc. Thesis, Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University, 2009.

   ·     Mohamed Osama,  Developing a Hidden Markov Model for Keyword Spotting of Arabic Speech with investigation of IP based network effect, M. Sc. Thesis, Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University, 2009.

   ·   Amr Nabil,  Spectral Analysis of Coders Effect on Speech, M. Sc. Thesis, Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University, 2009.

   ·   A. M. Nour El-Din, Attenuation And Dispersion Of Ultrasonic Waves in Metals, M. Sc. Thesis, Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University, 1997.

 

 

 

 

 

Refereeing:

   ·     Egyptian Promotion Committee, since 2009.

   ·     International Journal of Speech Technology,  IJIST, since 2008.

   ·   Ain Shams  Journal of  Electrical Engineering,  A S J E E, since 2007. 

   ·   Radwa Tewfik, “ Fault Tolerance Computing Architectures : Application to Memory System Organizations”, Banha Institute of Technology, 2007.

   ·    Mai Salah, “Implementation of digital water marking techniques using field programmable gate array”, Banha Institute of Technology, 2009 

 

 

List of Publications    

I-                   Books:

1.      Ahmed Abdelaziz Jafar,  Mohamed Waleed Fakhr and  M. Hesham Farouk,  Clustering-Based Topic Identification of Transcribed Arabic Broadcast News, Book-chapter, New Trends in Networking, Computing, E-learning, Systems Sciences, and Engineering,  Volume 312 of the series Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, Springer, pp 253-260, 2015.

2.      M. Hesham, Application of Genetic Algorithms for the Estimation of Ultrasonic Parameters, ch. 3, Computational Intelligence Applications in Modeling and Control, edited by A. Azar and  S. Vaidyanathan, Series: Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol. 575, Springer –Verlag, Germany, 2015, pp. 55-72.

3.      M. Hesham, Application of Wavelets in Speech Processing, SpringerBriefs in Electrical and Computer Engineering, SpringerBriefs in Speech Technology, Springer, 2014

II-                International Periodicals:

1.        Somaia Mohamed, Abo-Elmagd Noureldin, M. Hesham, and M. Ragaey, Localization based on vision using Stereo System and SIFT features, Artificial Intelligence Research, Vol. 5, No. 1,  pp. 95-102, 2016.

2.        M. Hesham, “Wavelet-scalogram based study of non-periodicity in speech signals as a complementary measure of chaotic content”,  International Journal of Speech Technology. vol. 16, issue 3 , 2013, pp 353-361.

3.         Khalil, Adel; Hesham, Mohamed; El-Beltagy, Mohamed,  “Domain-limited solution of the wave equation in Riemannian coordinates”, GEOPHYSICS, vol. 78, issue 1, 2013, pp. T21-T27

4.         Hatem A. Darwish, Mohammad Hesham, Abdel-Maksoud I. Taalab, and Naema M. Mansour, “Close accord on DWT performance and real-time implementation for protection applications”, IEEE Transactions On Power Delivery, Vol. 25, No. 4, October 2010, pp.2174-2183.

5.         Maha Hassanein and M. Hesham, "On the use of discrete wavelet transform for solving integral equations of acoustic scattering"  Acoustical Physics, Vol. 56, No. 4, 2010, pp. 560–567

6.         Maha Hassanein and M. Hesham, "A comparison study on wavelet sparsification for solving acoustic scattering problems over a wide frequency range",  International Journal of Computational Methods in Engineering Science and Mechanics, vol. 10, Issue 1, Jan. 2009, pp. 91–101.

7.         M. Hesham, and  M. A. El-Gamal,  “Neural-network solution of the nonuniqueness problem in acoustic scattering using wavelets”, International Journal of Computational Methods in Engineering Science and Mechanics, volume 9, Issue 4, July 2008, pp. 217-222  

8.         M. Hesham, and  M. A. El-Gamal,  “Neural-network solution of the nonuniqueness  problem in acoustic scattering using wavelets” International Journal for Computational Methods in Engineering Science and Mechanics, 9:217–222, 2008

9.         M. Hesham, and  M. A. El-Gamal, “Neural network  model  for solving  integral equation of acoustic scattering  using wavelet basis”,  Comm. Num. Methods in Engineering, vol. 24, pp. 183-194, 2008.

10.     M. Hesham,  “Wavelet-based treatment for nonuniqueness problem of acoustic scattering using integral equations”,  Canadian Acoustics Journal, vol. 34, no. 1, pp. 29-37, Mar. 2006.

11.     A. Mohsen and M. Hesham, “An efficient method for solving the nonuniqueness problem in acoustic scattering" Comm. Num. Methods in Engineering, vol. 22, Issue 11, pp. 1067-1076 , Nov. 2006.

12.     M. Hesham,  “Wavelet-based solution of integral equations for acoustic scattering”,  Canadian Acoustics Journal, vol. 34, no. 1, pp. 19-27, Mar. 2006.

13.     M. Hesham, “A predefined wavelet packet for speech quality assessment”, Journal of Engineering and applied science,  vol. 53, no. 5, Oct. 2006, pp. 637-652.

14.     A. Mohsen and M. Hesham, “A formal method for selecting chief points in acoustic scattering”, Canadian Acoustics Journal, vol. 32, No. 1, pp. Mar. 2004.

15.     M. Hesham and M. H. Kamel, “A unified mathematical analysis for acoustic wave propagation inside the vocal tract”, Journal of Engineering and applied science, December 2001, pp. 1099-1114.

16.      A. A. Hassanien, M. Hesham, , and A. M. Nour El-Din  “Grain size effect on the attenuation and dispersion of ultrasonic waves”, Journal of Engineering and applied science,   vol. 46, No. 3, June. 1999.

17.     M. Hesham, ,   “Acoustic model of the vocal tract including curvature effects”, Journal of Engineering and applied science,   vol. 44, No. 5, Oct. 1997, pp.909-917.

18.     Hesham, M., “A PC-based SCADA system using multi-layered finite state machines” Advances in Modeling & Simulation-D; Mathematical Tools and General Computer Tools, A.M.S.E., vol. 4, No 1,2, 1999, pp. 9 -28.

 

III- National Periodicals

-  M. Hesham, “On the use of wavelet multiresolution analysis in the solution  of integral equations”, Scientific Bulletin, Fac. of Engineering, Ain-Shams University, Part-III, vol.38, No.4, Dec., 2003.

- M.  Hesham, “Efficient evolution operators for estimating ultrasonic propagation parameters using genetic algorithms ”, Ain Shams Engineering Journal, vol.36, No. 2, June 30, 2001, pp.517-532.

- M. Hesham, and A. Hassanien, “A genetic algorithm for polycrystalline material identification using ultrasonics”,  Egyptian Journal of Physics, July, 1999.

 

 

IV- International Conferences

- Amr Nabil and M. Hesham, ”Formant distortion after codecs for Arabic”, 4th International Symposium on Communications, Control & Signal   Processing (ISCCSP2010), Le Méridien Limassol Spa and resort, Limassol, Cyprus, March 3-5, 2010.

- Amr Nabil and M. Hesham, ”Distortion of voicing  and vocal tract parameters after Codecs”, in 8th WSEAS International Conference on Circuits, Systems, Electronics, Control and Signal Processing, Tenerife, Spain, 2009

- Amr Nabil and M. Hesham. 2009. Distortion of voicing and vocal tract parameters after codecs. In Proceedings of the 8th WSEAS International Conference on Circuits, systems, electronics, control \& signal processing (CSECS'09), Cornelia A. Bulucea, Valeri Mladenov, Emil Pop, Monica Leba, and Nikos Mastorakis (Eds.). World Scientific and Engineering Academy and Society (WSEAS), Stevens Point, Wisconsin, USA, 82-86

- Hesham, M. and Salama, A.E. “A  VLSI implementation of a low bit-rate VOCODER for Arabic language” , International Conference On Signal Processing Applications & Technology, ICSPAT2000, DSP World, 16-18 October2000, Dallas, TX, USA.

-Hesham, M., “On the separation of air flow during phonation” NRSC’99, The 16th National Radio Science Conference, Feb. 23-25, 1999, Cairo.

- Hesham, M., “Digital signal processing of X-ray  diffraction”, The 4th IEEE  Conference on Electronics and Systems (ICECS’97), Region 8 IEEE CAS society, Cairo, Egypt, Dec., 1997.

- Mohsen, A., El-Mistikawy, T. and Hesham, M., " Acoustic model of the vocal tract with Boundary-Layer corrections",  IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP’93, Minneapolis,  Minnesota, USA, 27-30 April, 1993.

 

V- National Conferences

-  M. Hesham, M. F. Abu-EL-Yazeed and A. Toulan, On the modeling of non-keyword intervals for spoken-term detection in Arabic, The 10th   Conference on Language Engineering,  The Egyptian Society of Language Engineering, Ain-Shams University, Cairo, Egypt, 15-16 Dec., 2010.

-M. Hesham and M. Osama, “Arabic speech keyword spotting through IP-based networks with packet loss”, The  9th  Conference on Language Engineering,  The Egyptian Society of Language Engineering, Ain-Shams University, Cairo, Egypt, 23-24 Dec., 2009, pp. 194-201.

-  M. Hesham and M. F. Abu-EL-Yazeed, Spoken term detection for Arabic educational media, The 8th  Conference on Language Engineering,  The Egyptian Society of Language Engineering, Ain-Shams University, Cairo, Egypt, 17-19 Dec., 2008, pp. 177-188.

- M. Hesham,  “A genetic algorithm for ultrasonic parameter estimation”, 8th International Conf. on Computer Theory &Applications, ICCTA98, Alexandria, Egypt, 14-16Sept., 1998.

- M. Hesham,  “Vocal tract measurements for speech synthesis”, 1st Conference on Language Engineering, The Egyptian Society of Language Engineering, Ain-Shams University, Cairo, Egypt, 14-15 March, 1998.

- M. Hesham, "An optimal nonlinear one-mass glottal  model", The 3rd International Conference on Eng. Math. And Physics, Faculty of Engineering, Cairo Univ., Dec. 1997.