Mohammed Abo-Zahhad

Abo-Zeid
mohammed.zahhad@ejust.edu.eg

Personal Info

School of Electronics, Communications and Computer Engineering, Egypt-Japan University of Science and Technology, E-Just, New Borg Al Arab, Alexandria 21934, Egypt.

0020-10100-55584 / 0020-122-7305182

Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department

Academic Qualifications1974-1979 B.Sc. in Electronics and Communications, University of Assiut, Assiut, Egypt.1981-1983 M. Sc. in Electronic Engineering, University of Assiut, Assiut, Egypt.Title of the Thesis: Improving the Characteristics of Floating Gyrators.1985-1988 Ph.D. in Electronics and Communications, University of Assiut, Egypt and University of Kent, Canterbury, UK, Oct. 1988 (under the joint system between the two universities, where the candidate carries out his research in both countries with a supervisor in each).Title of the Dissertation: Computer Aided Design of Switched-Capacitor Networks.Positions Occupied and Professional ExperienceJan. 2017 – PresentDean of School of Electronics, Communications and Computer Engineering. Egypt-Japan University of Science and Technology (E-Just).Nov. 2013 –Dec. 2016Chair of Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, University of Assiut, Assiut, Egypt.March 2011–PresentCertified Reviewer by National Authority for Quality Assurance and Accreditation in Education, NAQAAE; Egypt.Jan. 2009–July 2011Vice President of Faculty of Engineering Information Center, University of Assiut, Assiut, Egypt.Jan. 2008– July 2011Chief, Division of Information and Communication Technology, Education Development Center, Assiut University, Assiut, EgyptAug. 2006– July 2011Chairman of the Coordination Committee between the Technical Institute for the Aluminum Company and Faculty of Engineering, University of Assiut, Assiut, Egypt.Sept.2006– July 2011Vice Dean for Graduate Studies, Faculty of Engineering, University of Assiut, Assiut, Egypt.Jan. 1999 –Dec. 2016Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Assiut, Assiut, Egypt.Jan. 1999 -Jan. 2004Professor at the Department of Electronics, Hijjawi Faculty for Engineering Technology, Yarmouk University, Iribd, Jordan.Sept. 1996-Dec. 1998Associate Professor in the Department of Electronics, Hijjawi Faculty for Engineering Technology, Yarmouk University, Iribd, Jordan.Jan.1994–Aug. 1996Associate Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Assiut, Assiut, Egypt.Jan. 1990–Sept.1992Research Fellow, Department of Telecommunications and Telematics, Technical University of Budapest, H-1111 Bp., Stoczek U.2, Hungary.Oct.1988- Dec. 1993Assistant Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Assiut, Assiut, Egypt.Oct.1987-Sept.1988Research Assistant, Electronics Laboratories, University of Kent, AtCanterbury, UK.Dec. 1983-Sept. 1987Assistant Lecturer, Faculty of Engineering, University of Assiut, Egypt.Oct. 1979-Nov. 1983Demonstrator (teaching and research assistant), Faculty of Engineering, University of Assiut, Assiut, Egypt.Managerial Positions1- Dean of School of Electronics, Communications and Computer Engineering. Egypt-Japan University of Science and Technology (E-Just).2- Chair of Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, University of Assiut, Assiut, Egypt (since 15th Nov. 2013 until now).3- Consultant on the development of Egyptian Universities' management information systems (MIS) project - the supreme council of universities, ministry of higher education and research since March 1, 2014 until now.4- Editorial board member of Studies in Higher Education Journal, Assiut University Development Center, from July 2009 till now.5- Vice Dean for Graduate Studies, Faculty of Engineering, University of Assiut, Assiut, Egypt (Sept.2006– July 2011).6- Editor of Journal of Engineering Sciences, Faculty of Engineering, University of Assiut, Assiut, Egypt from August 2006 till August 2012.7- Member of the executive teams for several projects to develop systems of higher education at Egyptian universities, carried out in Assiut University, these include: 1) The project of developing the capacity of faculty members and leaders, 2) Quality Assurance and Accreditation Project at Faculty of Engineering; Electronic Publishing Project, and Establishing a Resource Center of Scientific Tools and Multimedia at Faculty of Science, and The Equipments and Training Technicians at the University of Assiut Project.8- Member of the management team of restructure the study plane of the Sugar Technology Institute for Studies and Research at the University of Assiut, one of the developed projects for higher education in Egyptian universities.9- Project Manager of communication and information technology training project at Assiut10- Principal investigator of the Management Information System (MIS) Project (One of the Ministry of Higher Education ICT Projects).11- Project Manager of the Communication and Information Technology Training Project at Assiut University, Egypt; supported by the supreme council of universities, ministry of higher education and research since March 1, 2006 till June 2010.12- Management Information System (MIS) Project at Assiut University, Egypt; supported by the supreme council of universities, ministry of higher education and research since March 1, 2006 till now.13- Supervisor of Engineering Division at the Institute of Sugar Technology Research and Studies, University of Assiut, Assiut, Egypt, (for two years), 2004.14- Supervisor of the maintenance center for scientific instruments, University of Assiut, Assiut, Egypt, (for one year), 2005.15- Director of the University of Assiut Computer Center (Main Frame and Vax Mini-Computers) from Oct.1988 till Sept. 1989.

Impacted Journal

International Journals

1) IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems, (IF=2.403).

2) International Journal of Circuit Theory and Applications, (IF=1.254).

3) Periodica Polytechnica, Electrical Engineering.

4) Journal on Communications.

5) Electronics Letters, (IF=0.93).

6) Medical Engineering and Physics. (IF=1.825).

7) Jordanian Journal of Applied Sciences.

8) Physical Review. (IF=2.808).

9) Dirasat, International. Journal of Pure and Applied Sciences.

10) Electric Power Components and Systems. (IF=0.664).

11) Digital Signal Processing. (IF=1.256).

12) Electrical Engineering. (IF=0.367).

13) International Journal of Engineering Simulation (IJES).

14) Journal of Medical Engineering and Technology. (IF= 1.67).

15) Signal Processing – An International Journal (SPIJ).

16) Int. J. of Signal and Imaging Systems Engineering.

17) Int. J. of Innovation and Learning.

18) J. of Signal and Information Processing.

19) International Journal of Communications, Network and System Sciences.

20) I. J. of Information Technology and Computer Science. (IF=1.850).

21) Modelling and Simulation in Engineering.

22) Int. J. Communications, Network and System Sciences.

23) International Journal of Engineering and Innovative Technology.

24) Signal, Image, and Video Processing. (IF=1.430).

25) International Journal of Energy, Information and Communications.

26) I.J. Information Technology and Computer Science. (IF=1.850).

27) International Journal of Telemedicine and Applications.

28) Journal of Signal and Information Processing.

29) International Journal of Engineering Innovations and Research.

30) Open Transactions on Wireless Sensor Network.

31) International Journal of Energy, Information and Communications.

32) IEEE Signal Processing Letters. (IF=1.751).

33) IET Biometrics. (IF=0.857).

34) SOP Transactions on Signal Processing.

35) International Journal of Engineering Trends and Technology IJETT.

36) Journal of Signal and Information Processing.

37) International Journal of Intelligent Systems and Applications (IJISA).

38) International Journal of Signal Processing, Image Processing and Pattern Recognition.

39) IET Wireless Sensor Systems. (IF=1.67).

40) International Journal of Computers & Electrical Engineering, (IF=0.99).

41) IEEE Sensors Journal, (IF=4.335).

42) International Journal of Grid and Distributed Computing.

43) Pattern Recognition Letters. (IF=1.551).

44) An International Journal on Multi-Sensor, Multi-Source Information Fusion. (IF=4.335).

45) Applied Soft Computing Journal. (IF=2.81).

46) Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory. (IF=1.482).

47) International Journal of Computer Networks and Communications Security (IJCNCS).

48) Computers & Electrical Engineering. (IF=1.084).

49) Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing. (IF=1.899)

50) Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering. (IF=0.865).

51) Wireless Personal Communications. (IF=0.951)

52) Journal of Signal and Information Processing.

53) Pervasive and Mobile Computing. (IF=2.349)

54) IEEE Trans. Circuits System II, Express Briefs. (IF=1.660)

55) IEEE Access. (IF=3.45)

56) IEEE Internet of Things Journal. (IF= 5.863).

Papers Published in International Journals

1) M. F. Fahmy, M. Abo-Zahhad and M. I. Sobhy, "Design of Selective Linear Phase Bandpass Switched-Capacitor Filters with Equiripple Passband Amplitude Response" IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems, vol. 35, no. 10, pp. 1220-1229 Oct. 1988. (IF=2.403).
2) M. F. Fahmy, M. Abo-Zahhad and M. I. Sobhy, "Design of Odd Degree Linear Phase Sampled-Data Bandpass Filters With Equiripple Amplitude Response" International Journal of Circuit Theory and Applications, vol.17, pp. 87-101, Jan. 1989. (IF=1.254).
3) M. Abo-Zahhad, "Odd-Degree Selective Bandpass Digital Filters Interpolating Linear Phase and Constant Group Delay" International Journal of Circuit Theory and Applications vol.19, pp.375-387, 1991. (IF=1.254).
4) M. Abo-Zahhad, "Switched-Capacitor Circuits with Reduced influences on Parasitic Capacitances, Switch Resistances and Amplifier Non-idealities" Periodica Polytechnica, Elec. Eng., vol. 36, No. 1, pp. 19-37, Budapest, Hungary, 1992.
5) M. Abo-Zahhad and M.F. Fahmy, "Computerized Method for the Time and Frequency Domain Analysis of Non-ideal Switched-Capacitor Circuits" Journal on Communications, vol. XLIV, pp. 27-33, Jan. 1993.
6) T. Henk and M. Abo-Zahhad, "Comments on: Simultaneous Amplitude and Phase Approximations for Lumped and Sampled Filters" International Journal of Circuit Theory and Applications, vol. 21, pp. 558-561, 1993. (IF=1.254).
7) M.F. Fahmy, M. Abo-Zahhad and G. M. Abdel-Raheem "Design of Two-Dimensional Scaled State Space Filters with Fixed Point Arithmetic" International Journal of Circuit Theory a Applications, vol. 22, pp. 467 - 477, 1994. (IF=1.254).
8) M. Abo-Zahhad and T. Henk, "Design of Selective Low-pass Sampled-Data and Digital Filters Exhibiting Equiripple Amplitude and Phase Error Characteristics" International Journal of Circuit Theory and Applications, vol. 23, pp. 59 - 74, 1995. (IF=1.254).
9) M. F. Fahmy, G. M. Abdel-Raheem and M. Abo-Zahhad, "Synthesis of Fixed Point Limit-Cycle Free Digital Filters with Low Roundoff Noise" International Journal of Circuit Theory and Applications, vol. 23, pp. 253-255, May-June 1995. (IF=1.254).
10) M. Abo-Zahhad and T. Henk, "On the Optimal Filters with Maximum Number of Constraints on Amplitude and Phase Characteristics" International Journal of Circuit Theory and Applications, vol. 24, pp. 165-181, 1996. (IF=1.254).
11) M. Abo-Zahhad, M. Yaseen and T. Henk, "Arbitrary Amplitude and Linear Phase Approximations for Non-prototype Ladder and Lattice Wave-Digital Filters" International Journal of Circuit Theory and Applications, vol. 24, pp. 605-620, Dec. 1996. (IF=1.254).
12) M. Abo-Zahhad, G .M. Abdel-Raheem and M. F. Fahmy, "Synthesis of IIR Digital Filters Exhibiting Simultaneous Amplitude and Phase Responses for VLSI Implementations" Inter. Journal of Circuit Theory and Applications, vol. 25, pp. 1-14, Jan. 1997. (IF=1.254).
13) M. Abo-Zahhad and M. F. Fahmy, "Synthesis of Low Sensitivity Orthogonal Digital Filters" International Journal of Circuit Theory and Applications, vol.25, pp.503-520, Dec.1997. (IF=1.254).
14) M. Abo-Zahhad, "Simultaneous Amplitude and Phase Approximation Methods for Non-recursive Half-Band Filters Using Weighted Least Squares and Generalized Decomposition Techniques" Dirasat, Inter. J. Pure and Applied Sciences, University of Jordan, pp. 104-112, April 1999.
15) Sabah, M.A., and M. Abo-Zahhad,"FIR Half-Band Filters Satisfying Prescribed Amplitude and Phase Specifications in Weighted Least Squares Sense" Mu'tah Journal for Research and Studies (Natural and Applied Sciences Series), Mu'tah University, 1999.
16) M. Abo-Zahhad and Sabah, M. A., “Design of Selective M-Channel Perfect Reconstruction FIR Filter Banks” Electronics Letters, vol. 35, no. 15, pp. 1223-1225, July 1999. (IF=0.93).
17) Sabah, M. A., A. Al-Shrouf and M. Abo-Zahhad, "ECG Data Compression Using Optimum Non-Orthogonal Wavelet Transform" Medical Engineering and Physics, vol. 22, no. 1, pp. 39-46, May 2000. (IF=1.825).
18) Sabah, M. A., A. Al-Shrouf and M. Abo-Zahhad, "Compression of Electrocardiogram Signal Using Wavelets" "Jordanian Journal of Applied Sciences, vol. 2, no.3, pp. 23-45, 2000.
19) M. Bataineh and M.Abo-Zahhad, "Chebyshev Response of Thin Film Optical Filters" Physical Review, vol. 7, no.4, pp. 341-347, July/Aug., 2000. (IF=2.808).
20) M. Abo-Zahhad and M. Bataineh, "A Unified Approach for Suppressing Sidelobes Arising in the Spectral Response of Rugate Filters" Dirasat, International. Journal of Pure and Applied Sciences, University of Jordan, vol. 27, no. 2, pp. 328-338, Oct. 2000.
21) Sabah, M. A. and M. Abo-Zahhad, " A new hybrid algorithm for ECG signal compression based on the wavelet transformation " Medical Engineering and Physics, vol. 24, no. 3, pp. 50-66, 2001. (IF=1.825).
22) M. Abo-Zahhad and B. A. Rajoub, "An Effective Coding Technique for the Compression of One-Dimensional Signals using Wavelet Transforms” Medical Engineering and Physics, 2002, vol. 24, no. 3, pp. 185-199, May 2002. (IF=1.825).
23) K. Al-Talaq, A. Dahab, and M. Abo-Zahhad, "Impedance-Based Algorithm for the Discrimination between Inrush and Short-Circuit Currents in Single-Phase Transformers", Electric Power Components and Systems, vol. 31, no. 6, pp. 593-604, June 2003. (IF=0.664).
24) M. Abo-Zahhad, "Current State and Future Directions of Multi rate Filter Banks And Their Applications” Digital Signal Processing, vol. 13, no. 3, pp. 495-518, July 2003. (IF=1.256).
25) A. Al-Shrouf, M. Abo-Zahhad and Sabah, M. A., "A Novel Compression Algorithm For Electrocardiogram Signals Based On The Linear Prediction Of The Wavelet Coefficients” Digital Signal Processing, vol. 13, no. 4, pp. 604-622, October 2003. (IF=1.256).
26) M. Abo-Zahhad, A. Al-Smadi and Sabah, M. A., "High-Quality Low-Complexity Wavelet-Based Compression Algorithm For Audio Signals” Electrical Engineering, vol. 86, no. 4, pp. 219-227, July 2004. (IF=0.367).
27) Q. Al-Zoubi and M. Abo-Zahhad, "A New Technique for the Design of selective FIR Filters with Non-linear Phase, and Arbitrary amplitude Characteristics" International Journal of Engineering Simulation (IJES), vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 17-25, Jan. 2004.
28) A. Al-Smadi, M. Abo-Zahhad, and S. M. Ahmed, “A New Order Determination Technique Based On the Determination of Singularity Of Principal Submatrices” International Journal of Engineering Simulation (IJES), vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 81-89, April 2004.
29) M. Abo-Zahhad, and Q. Al-Zoubi, "A Novel Algorithm for The Design Of Selective FIR Filters With Arbitrary Amplitude And Phase Characteristics" Digital Signal Processing, pp. 211-224, Vol. 16, Jan. 2006. (IF=1.256).
30) S. M. Ahmed, Q. Al-Zoubi, and M. Abo-Zahhad, “A hybrid ECG compression algorithm based on singular value decomposition and discrete wavelet transform” Journal of Medical Engineering and Technology, vol. 31, no. 1, pp. 54 - 61, Jan. 2007. (IF= 1.67).
31) A. F. Al-Ajlouni, M. Abo-Zahhad, S. M. Ahmed, and R. J. Schilling, "An ECG Signal Compressor Based On The Selection Of Optimal Threshold Levels Of Discrete Wavelet Transform Coefficients," Journal of Medical Engineering & Technology, Vol. 32, No. 6, pp. 425-433, 2008. (IF= 1.67).
32) S. M. Ahmed, A. F. Al-Ajlouni, M. Abo-Zahhad, and B. Harb, "ECG Signal Compression Using Combined Modified Discrete-Cosine and Discrete Wavelet Transforms," Journal of Medical Engineering & Technology, Vol. 33, No. 1, pp. 1-8, 2009. (IF= 1.67).
33) M. Abo-Zahhad, Sabah M. A. and A. Zakaria, "ECG Signal Compression Technique Based on Discrete Wavelet Transform and QRS-Complex Estimation," Signal Processing – An International Journal (SPIJ), vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 138-160, 2010..
34) M. Abo-Zahhad, S. M. Ahmed, N. Sabor and A. F. Al-Ajlouni, "Design of Two-Dimensional Recursive Digital Filters with Specified Magnitude and Group Delay Characteristics using Taguchi-based Immune Algorithm", Int. J. of Signal and Imaging Systems Engineering, vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 222-235, 2010.
35) M. Abo-Zahhad, S. M. Ahmed, N. Sabor and A. F. Al-Ajlouni, " The Convergence Speed of Single-And Multi-Objective Immune Algorithm Based Optimization Problems", Signal Processing – An International Journal (SPIJ), vol. 4, no. 5, pp. 247-266, 2010.
36) M. Abo-Zahhad, S. M. Ahmed, N. Sabor and A. F. Al-Ajlouni, "Digital Filters Design Educational Software Based on Immune, Genetic and Quasi-Newton Line Search Algorithms", Int. J. of Innovation and Learning , vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 35-62, 2011.
37) M. Abo-Zahhad, S. M. Ahmed, N. Sabor and A. F. Al-Ajlouni, "An Adaptive Mutation Approach for Fastening the Convergence of Immune Algorithms", J. of Signal and Information Processing, 2011.
38) M. Abo-Zahhad, Sabah M. Ahmed and M. Mourad, “Hybrid Uplink-Time Difference of Arrival and Assisted-GPS Positioning Technique,” International Journal of Communications, Network and System Sciences, pp. 303-312, vol. 5, 2012.
39) M. Abo-Zahhad, Sabah M. Ahmed and Shimaa A. Abd-Elrahman, “Genomic Analysis and Classification of Exon and Intron Sequences Using DNA Numerical Mapping Techniques, ” I. J. of Information Technology and Computer Science, 2012. (IF=1.850).
40) M. Abo-Zahhad, Sabah M. A. and A. Zakaria, "An Efficient Technique for Compressing ECG Signals Using QRS Detection, Estimation and 2-D DWT Coefficients Thresholding," Modelling and Simulation in Engineering, vol. 2012, Article ID 742786, pp. 1-10, 2012.
41) M. Abo-Zahhad, A. F. Al-Ajlouni, S. M. Ahmed, and R. J. Schilling, "A New Algorithm For The Compression Of ECG Signals Based-On Mother Wavelet Parameterization And
Best-Threshold Levels Selection," Digital Signal Processing, vol. 23, no. 3, pp. 1002-1011 May 2013. (IF=1.256).
42) M. Abo-Zahhad, Sabah M. Ahmed and M. Mourad, “Services and Applications Based on Mobile User’s Location Detection and Prediction," Int. J. Communications, Network and System Sciences, vol. 6, pp. 167-175, April 2013.
43) M. Abo-Zahhad, Sabah M. Ahmed and M. Mourad, "New Technique for Mobile User's Location Detection, Future Prediction and Their Applications,” International Journal of Engineering and Innovative Technology, pp. 1-15, Nov. 2013.
44) M. Abo-Zahhad, Sabah M. Ahmed and Sherif N. Abbas, “Biometric Authentication Based On PCG and ECG Signals: Present Status and Future Directions," Signal, Image, and Video Processing, vol. 8, no. 4, pp 739-751, 2014. (IF=1.430)
45) M. Abo-Zahhad, Sabah M. Ahmed, Nabil Sabor and S. Sasaki, "A New Energy-Efficient Adaptive Clustering Protocol Based on Genetic Algorithm for Improving the Lifetime and the Stable Period of Wireless Sensor Networks," International Journal of Energy, Information and Communications, vol. 5, no. 3, pp.47-72, 2014.
46) M. Abo-Zahhad, Sabah M. Ahmed and Shimaa A. Abd-Elrahman, “A Novel Circular Mapping Technique for Spectral Classification of Exons and Introns in DNA Sequences," I.J. Information Technology and Computer Science, Vol. 04, pp. 19-29, 2014. (IF=1.850).
47) M. Abo-Zahhad, Sabah M. . Ahmed and S. A. Abd-Elrahman , “Integrated Model of DNA Sequence Numerical Representation and Artificial Neural Network for Human Donor and Acceptor Sites Prediction” I.J. Information Technology and Computer Science, vol. 6, no. 6, May 2014. (IF=1.850).
48) M. Abo-Zahhad, Sabah M. Ahmed and O. Elnahas, “A Wireless Emergency Telemedicine System for Patients Monitoring and Diagnosis," International Journal of Telemedicine and Applications, Vol.2014, Article ID 380787, pp. 1-11, 2014.
49) M. Abo-Zahhad, R.R. Gharieb, Sabah M. Ahmed and A. A. Donkol "Edge Detection with a Preprocessing Approach," Journal of Signal and Information Processing, vol. 5, no. 4, pp. 123-134, Nov. 2014.
50) M. Abo-Zahhad, R. R. Gharieb, Sabah M. Ahmed and A. A. Donkol "Enhancement of Gabor Directional Wavelet Edge Detection Method," International Journal of Engineering Innovations and Research, vol. 3, no. 6, pp. 839-849, Nov. 2014.
51) M. Abo-Zahhad, Osama Amin, Mohammed Farrag, and Abdelhay Ali, “Survey on Energy Consumption Models in Wireless Sensor Networks”, Open Transactions on Wireless Sensor Network, Scientific Online Publishing, pp. 63-79, Dec. 2014.
52) M. Abo-Zahhad, Osama Amin, Mohammed Farrag, and Abdelhay Ali, “A Survey on Protocols, Platforms and Simulation Tools for Wireless Sensor Networks”, International Journal of Energy, Information and Communications, Vol.5, Issue 6, pp.17-34, 2014.
53) M. Abo-Zahhad, Sabah M. Ahmed, and Sherif N. Abbas, “A Novel Biometric Approach for Human Identification and Verification Using Eye Blinking Signal,” IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 22, no. 7, pp 876-880, 2015. (IF=1.751).
54) M. Abo-Zahhad, Sabah M. Ahmed, and Sherif N. Abbas, “The State of the Art Methods and Future Perspectives for Personal Recognition Based on Electroencephalogram Signals,” IET Biometrics, vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 179-190, March 2015. (IF=0.857).
55) M. Abo-Zahhad, Sabah M. Ahmed and O. Elnahas, “Remote Online Vital Signs Processing For Patient Monitoring and Diagnosis", SOP Transactions on Signal Processing, pp. 1-16, Jan. 2015.
56) M. Abo-Zahhad, R.R. Gharieb, Sabah M. Ahmed and Mahmoud Khaled, "Brain Image Compression Techniques," International Journal of Engineering Trends and Technology IJETT, vol.9, pp. 1-13, Jan. 2015.
57) M. Abo-Zahhad, R.R. Gharieb, Sabah M. Ahmed and Mahmoud Khaled "Huffman Image Compression Incorporating DPCM and DWT," Journal of Signal and Information Processing, vol. 6, pp. 123-135, 2015.
58) M. Abo-Zahhad, Sabah M. Ahmed, and Sherif N. Abbas, “A New EEG Acquisition Protocol for Biometric Identification Using Eye Blinking Signals,” International Journal of Intelligent Systems and Applications (IJISA), vol. 7, no. 6, pp. 48-54, 2015.
59) M. Abo-Zahhad, Sabah M. Ahmed, N. Sabor and A. F. Al-Ajlouni, "Wavelet Threshold-Based ECG Data Compression Technique Using Immune Optimization Algorithm," International Journal of Signal Processing, Image Processing and Pattern Recognition, Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 347-360, 2015.
60) M. Abo-Zahhad, S. M. Ahmed, N. Sabor and S. Sasaki, "Utilization of Multi-Objective Immune Deployment Algorithm for Coverage Area Maximization with Limit Mobility in Wireless Sensors Networks," IET Wireless Sensor Systems, vol. 5, no. 5, pp. 250-261, 2015. (IF=1.67).
61) M. Abo-Zahhad, S. M. Ahmed, N. Sabor and S. Sasaki, "Rearrangement of Mobile Wireless Sensor Nodes for Coverage Maximization Based on Immune Node Deployment Algorithm", International Journal of Computers & Electrical Engineering, vol. 43, pp. 76–89, April 2015, (IF=0.99).
62) M. Abo-Zahhad, Sabah M. Ahmed, N. Sabor and S. Sasaki, "Mobile Sink based Adaptive Immune Energy-Efficient Clustering Protocol for Improving the Lifetime and Stability Period of Wireless Sensor Network," IEEE Sensors Journal, vol. 15, no. 8, pp. 4576-4586, 2015, (IF=4.335).
63) M. Abo-Zahhad, Mohammed Farrag and Abdelhay Ali , “A Comparative Study of Energy Consumption Sources for Wireless Sensor Networks”, International Journal of Grid and Distributed Com puting, vol. 8, no. 6, pp. 65-76, 2015.
64) M. Abo-Zahhad, Sabah M. Ahmed, and Sherif N. Abbas, “A new multi-level approach to EEG based human authentication using eye blinking,” Pattern Recognition Letters, DOI: 10.1016/j.patrec.2015.07.034, 2015. (IF=1.551).
65) M. Abo-Zahhad, Sabah M. Ahmed, N. Sabor and S. Sasaki, "A Centralized Immune-Voronoi Deployment Algorithm for Coverage Maximization and Energy Conservation in Mobile Wireless Sensor Networks" An International Journal on Multi-Sensor, Multi-Source Information Fusion, vol. 30, pp. 36-51, 2015. (IF=4.335).
66) N. Sabor, M. Abo-Zahhad, S. Sasaki, and S. M. Ahmed, " An Unequal Multi-hop Balanced Immune Clustering protocol for wireless sensor networks," Applied Soft Computing Journal, vol. 43, 372-389, 2016. (IF=2.81).
67) N. Sabor, S. Sasaki, M. Abo-Zahhad and S. M. Ahmed, "A Graphical-based educational simulation tool for Wireless Sensor Networks," Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory, vol. 69, pp. 55–79, 2016. (IF=1.482).
68) M. Abo-Zahhad, Sabah M. Ahmed, Mohammed Farrag and Sherif N. Abbas, “A Comparative Approach between Cepstral Features for Human Authentication Using Heart Sounds," Signal, Image, and Video Processing, 10(5), pp. 843-851, 2016. (IF=1.430).
69) Sherif N. Abbas, Abo–Zahhad, M., Ahmed, S.M. and Farrag, M., “Heart-ID: human identity recognition using heart sounds based on modifying mel-frequency cepstral features.,” IET Biometrics, 5(4), pp.284-296, 2016. (IF=0.857).
70) Mohammed Farrag, M. Abo-Zahhad, Magdy M. Doss and Joseph V. Fayez,” Different Aspects of Localization Problem for Wireless Sensor Networks: A Review," International
Journal of Computer Networks and Communications Security (IJCNCS), Vol. 4, Issue 5, May 2016.
71) M. Abo-Zahhad, Sabah M. Ahmed, and Sherif N. Abbas, “Biometrics from heart sounds: Evaluation of a new approach based on wavelet packet cepstral features using HSCT-11 database,” Computers & Electrical Engineering, Volume 53, July 2016, (IF=1.084), Qu2.
72) N Sabor, S Sasaki, M Abo-Zahhad, Sabah M Ahmed, “A Comprehensive Survey on Hierarchical-Based Routing Protocols for Mobile Wireless Sensor Networks: Review, Taxonomy, and Future Directions,” Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, pp. 1-23, Wiley, Jan. 2017. (IF=1.899), Q2.
73) Mohammed Farrag, M Abo-Zahhad, M. M. Doss, and J. V. Fayez, “A New Localization Technique for Wireless Sensor Networks Using Social Network Analysis,” Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 42(7), pp.2817-2827, April. 2017. (IF=0.865), Qu2.
74) S. N. Abbas, M Abo-Zahhad, “Eye Blinking EOG Signals as Biometrics,” Biometric Security and Privacy, Springer International Publishing, Book Chapter, pp. 121-140, 2017.
75) M Abo-Zahhad, Mohammed Farrag and Abdelhay Ali, “Optimization of Transmitted Power and Modulation Level for Minimizing Energy Consumption in Wireless Sensor Networks,” Wireless Personal Communications, 96(3), pp.4047-4062, 2017. (IF=0.951), Qu2.
76) Abdelhay Ali, M Abo-Zahhad, Mohammed Farrag, “Modeling of Wireless Sensor Networks with Minimum Energy Consumption,” Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering, 42(7), pp.2631-2639, 2017. (IF=0.865), Qu2.
77) M Abo-Zahhad, Ahmed, S.M., Farrag, M.A. and BaAli, K.A., “Wideband Cognitive Radio Networks Based Compressed Spectrum Sensing: A Survey,” Journal of Signal and Information Processing, 9(02), 2018.
78) N. Sabor, S. M. Ahmed, M Abo-Zahhad and S. Sasaki, “ARABIC: An Adjustable Range Based Immune hierarchy Clustering protocol supporting mobility of Wireless Sensor Networks,” Pervasive and Mobile Computing, 43, 27-48, 2018. (IF=2.349), Qu1.
79) Islam Mansour, M. Aboualalaa, A. Allam, A. B. Abdel-Rahman, M Abo-Zahhad, and R. K. Pokharel, “Dual Band VCO based on High Quality factor Switched Interdigital Resonator for Ku band using 180 nm CMOS Technology,” IEEE Trans. Circuits System II, Express Briefs, pp. 1-5, Mar. 2018. (IF=1.660), Qu1
80) Manal M. Mohamed, Ghazal A. Fahmy, Adel B. Abdel-Rahman, Ahmed Allam, Adel Barakat, M Abo-Zahhad, Hongting Jia, and Ramesh K. Pokharel, “High-Efficiency
CMOS RF-to-DC Rectifier Based on Dynamic Threshold Reduction Technique for Wireless Charging Applications,” IEEE Access, Vol. 6, Aug. 2018. (IF=3.45), Qu1
81) Tonny Ssettumba, Ahmed H. Abd El-Malek, Maha Elsabrouty, M Abo-Zahhad, "Physical Layer Security Enhancement for Internet of Things in the Presence of Co-channel Interference and Multiple Eavesdroppers,” IEEE Internet of Things Journal, April 2019, (IF= 5.863), Qu1.

 

International Conference

International Conferences

1) 9th European Conf. on Circuit Theory and Design, ECCTD'87, Paris
2) IEEE International Conf. on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), Portland, USA, May 1989.

3) 10th European Conf. on Circuit Theory and Design, ECCTD'89, England.
4) IEEE International Conf. on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), Orleans, USA, 1990.
5) PCH Workshop on Circuit Theory and Applications, Budapest, Hungary, 1991.
6) Sixth European Conference on Signal Processing, EUSIPCO-92, Brussels, Belgium, 1992.
7) 1992 URSI, International Symposium on Signals, Systems and Electronics, ISSSE'92, Paris, France, 1992.
8) PCH Workshop on Circuit Theory and Applications, Kiry, Poland, 1992.
9) European Conference on Circuit Theory and Design, ECCTD'95, Istanbul, Turkey, 1995.
10) Inter. Conf. On Computational Aspects and Their Applications in Electrical Engineering, 2nd CATAEE’97, Amman, Jordan, 1997.
11) European Conference on Circuit Theory and Design, ECCTD'97, Budapest, Hungary, 1997.
12) 1998 IEEE AP-S International Symposium and USNC/URSI National Radio Science Meeting, Atlanta, 1998.
13) Inter. Conf. On Computational Aspects and Their Applications in Electrical Engineering, 3rd CATAEE’99, Amman, Jordan, 1999.
14) The 3rd Jordanian Conference on Electrical Engineering, Karak, Jordan, 1999.
15) International Energy Conference (IEC 2000), UAE, 2000.
16) The 7th IEEE International conf. on Electronics, Circuits & Systems, Beirut, Lebanon, 2000.
17) The 8th IEEE International Conf. On Electronics, Circuits and Systems, Malta, 2001.
18) The 4th CATAEE’01, pp. 308-308, Amman, Jordan, March 2002.
19) The 2nd IEEE Conference on Signal Processing and Information Technology, Marrakech, Morocco, 2002.
20) European Conference on Circuit Theory and Design, ECCTD’03, Poland, 2003.
21) The 10th IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems, ICECS’03, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, 2003.
22) The 1st Taibah University International Conference on Computing and Information Technology, Al-Madinah Al-Munawwarah, Saudi Arabia, 2012.
23) International Conference on Communications, Signal Processing, and Their Applications, Sharjah, 2012.
24) The 27th Annual IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE 2014), Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 2014.
25) International Conference on Microelectronic, Beirut, Lebanon, 2017.
26) The 12th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, London, UK, 2018

27) The 2018 Asia-Pacific Microwave Conference (APMC), 2018.
28) The MTT-S Wireless Power Transfer Conference, Montreal, Canada, 2018.
29) The 61st International Midwest Symposium of Circuits and Systems (IEEE MWSCAS 2018), Windsor, Ontario, Canada, 2018.
30) European Microwave Conference (EUMC2018), 2018.
31) The 14th IEEE International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob), Limassol, Cyprus, 2018.
32) The IEEE IFIP Wireless Days(WD'19), Manchester, UK, 2019.

 

Papers Published in International Conferences

1) M. F. Fahmy, M. Abo-Zahhad and M. I. Sobhy, "Selective Linear phase Bandpass Digital Filters with Equiripple Passband Loss" Proceeding of 9th European Conf. on Circuit Theory and Design, ECCTD'87, Paris, pp. 145-150, Sept. 1987.
2) M. F. Fahmy, M. Abo-Zahhad and M. I. Sobhy, "Selective Linear Phase Bandpass Distributed Filters with Controlled Group Delay and Equiripple Passband Loss", Proceedings of IEEE International Conf. on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), Portland, USA, pp.1648-1651, May 1989.
3) M.F. Fahmy, M. Abo-Zahhad and M.I. Sobhy, "Low Sensitivity Selective Linear Phase Switched-Capacitor Filters With Controlled Group Delay" Proceedings of 10th European Conf. on Circuit Theory and Design, ECCTD'89, England, pp. 280-283, 1989.
4) M. I. Sobhy, Y. A. R. El-Sawy, M. F. Fahmy, G. Abdel-Raheem and M. Abo-Zahhad, "A Parallel Algorithm for Solving Non-linear Networks" Proceeding of IEEE International Conf. on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), Orleans, USA, pp. 931-933 May 1990.
5) M. F. Fahmy, M. Abo-Zahhad and M. I. Sobhy, "Linear Phase Multi-rate IIR Filters" Proceedings of IEEE International Conf. on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), Orleans, USA, pp. 2077-2080, May 1990.
6) M. Yaseen, T. Henk and M. Abo-Zahhad, " Wave-Digital Filters with Specified Amplitude at All Frequencies " Proceedings of the PCH Workshop on Circuit Theory and Applications, Budapest, Hungary, pp. 12-17, Sept. 1991.
7) T. Henk and M. Abo-Zahhad,"Lumped, Sampled-Data and Digital Filters with Maximum Number of Constraints on Amplitude and Phase Characteristics" Proceedings of Sixth European Conference on Signal Processing, EUSIPCO-92, pp. 1033-1036, Brussels, Belgium, 1992.
8) T. Henk and M. Abo-Zahhad, "On Stability and Monotonicity of Filters Exhibiting Maximum Number of Constraints on Amplitude and Phase Characteristics" Proceedings of 1992 URSI, International Symposium on Signals, Systems and Electronics, ISSSE'92, pp. 478-481, Paris, France, Sept. 1992.
9) M. Abo-Zahhad, T. Henk and M. Yaseen, "IIR Digital Filters With Simultaneous Conditions on Amplitude and Phase Characteristics" Proceedings of the PCH Workshop on Circuit Theory and Applications, Kiry, Poland, pp. 35-39, Sept. 1992.
10) M. Yaseen, T. Henk and M. Abo-Zahhad, "Approximation Methods for High-pass and Band-pass Wave-Digital Lattice Filters", Proceedings of the PCH Workshop on Circuit Theory and Applications, Kiry, Poland, pp. 30-34, Sept. 1992.
11) M. Abo-Zahhad, M.Yaseen and T.Henk, "Design of Lattice Wave Digital Filters with Prescribed Loss and Phase Specifications", Proc. of European Conference on Circuit Theory and Design, ECCTD'95, pp. 761-764, Istanbul, Turkey, Aug. 1995.
12) M. Abo-Zahhad and M. Yaseen, "Phase Equalization of Wave-Digital Filters Exhibiting Non-prototype Amplitude Characteristics" Proc. of European Conference on Circuit Theory and Design, ECCTD'95, pp. 367-370, Istanbul, Turkey, Aug. 1995.
13) M. Abo-Zahhad, "A New Approach to the Design of Orthogonal M-Channel Perfect-Reconstruction FIR Quadrature Mirror Filter Banks” Proc. of Inter. Conf. On Computational Aspects and Their Applications in Electrical Engineering, 2nd CATAEE’97, Amman, Jordan, pp. 131-141, July 1997.
14) M.Abo-Zahhad and Sabah M. A., “Design Of FIR Half-Band Filters Satisfying Prescribed Amplitude And Phase Specifications In Weighted Least Squares Sense” Proc. of Inter. Conf. On Computational Aspects and Their Applications in Electrical Engineering, 2nd CATAEE’97, Amman, Jordan, pp. 122-130, July 1997.
15) M. F. Fahmy, M. Abo-Zahhad and M. A. A. Rahman, “A Fast Least Squares IIR Approximations of FIR Filters” Proc. of European Conference on Circuit Theory and Design, ECCTD'97, pp. 521-524, Budapest, Hungary, Aug. 1997.
16) M. Bataineh, and M. Abo-Zahhad, "A Fast Algorithm for Calculating the Reflectance of Non-absorbing Multi-Layer Dielectric Films" 1998 IEEE AP-S International Symposium and USNC/URSI National Radio Science Meeting, Atlanta, June 21-26, 1998.
17) M. Abo-Zahhad, "Multi-rate Filter Banks, Wavelet Transforms and Their Applications: A Tutorial Review" Proc. of Inter. Conf. On Computational Aspects and Their Applications in Electrical Engineering, 3rd CATAEE’99, Amman, Jordan, pp. 216-230, Oct. 1999.
18) M. Abo-Zahhad, A. Al-Shrouf and Sabah, M. A., "ECG Data Compression Using Optimum Non-Orthogonal Wavelet Transform "Proc. of the 3rd Jordanian Conference on Electrical Engineering, Karak, Jordan, pp. 7-13, April 1999.
19) M. Abo-Zahhad and M. Bataineh, "A Unified Approach for Suppressing Rugate Filter Sidelobes Using Quintic Matching Layers" Proc. of the 3rd Jordanian Conference on Electrical Engineering, Karak, Jordan, pp. 131-135, April 1999.
20) K. Al-Talaq, A. Dahab, and M. Abo-Zahhad, "Discrimination between Magnetizing Inrush and Fault Currents in Single phase transformers Using Impedance Method", International Energy Conference (IEC 2000), UAE, 2000.
21) M. Abo-Zahhad, Sabah, M. A., and A. Al-Shrouf," Electrocardiogram Data Compression Based On Wavelet Transform Of Linear Predicted Error Signal” Proceedings of the 7th IEEE International Conf. On Electronics, Circuits and Systems, Beirut, Lebanon, pp. 599-603, Dec. 2000.
22) M. Abo-Zahhad, and B. A. Rajoub, “ECG Compression Algorithm Based on Coding and Energy Compaction of the Wavelet Coefficients “ Proceedings of the 8th IEEE International Conf. On Electronics, Circuits and Systems, Malta, pp. 441-444, Sept. 2001.
23) M. Abo-Zahhad and Sabah M.A., “Limited Vocabulary Microprocessor Based Biomedical Talking System” Proc. of Inter. Conf. On Computational Aspects and Their Applications in Electrical Engineering, 4th CATAEE’01, pp. 308-308, Amman, Jordan, March 2002.
24) M. Abo-Zahhad and Sabah M.A., “High Performance Compression Algorithm or Audio Signals Based On Wavelet Transforms” 2nd IEEE Conference on Signal Processing and Information Technology, pp. 518-522, Marrakech, Morocco, Dec. 2002.
25) A. Al-Smadi, M. Abo-Zahhad, and S. M. Ahmed, “ARMA Model Order Estimation Based on the Determinant of Submatrices of the Covariance Matrix”, European Conference on Circuit Theory and Design, ECCTD’03, pp. 325-328, Poland, Sept. 2003.
26) M. Abo-Zahhad and Sabah M.A., “Design Of IIR Filters With Simultaneous Amplitude And Group-Delay Characteristics Using Genetic Algorithm” 10th IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems, ICECS’03, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, pp. 518-522, Dec. 2003.
27) M. Abo-Zahhad, Sabah M. A. and A. Zakaria, "Electrocardiogram Signals Compression Technique Based on QRS-Complex Estimation and 2-Dimensional Discrete-Wavelet Transform," The 1st Taibah University International Conference on Computing and Information Technology, Al-Madinah Al-Munawwarah, Saudi Arabia, March 2012.
27) M. Abo-Zahhad, Sabah M. Ahmed and M. Mourad, "Future Location Prediction of Mobile Subscriber over Mobile Network Using Intra Cell Movement Pattern Algorithm,” International Conference on Communications, Signal Processing, and Their Applications, Sharjah, pp. 1-6, December 2012.
28) M. Abo-Zahhad, S. M. Ahmed, N. Sabor and S. Sasaki, "Coverage Maximization in Mobile Wireless Sensor Networks Utilizing Immune Node Deployment Algorithm", 27th Annual IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE 2014), Toronto, Ontario, Canada, vol. 27, pp. 1 – 6, 2014.
29) M. Abo-Zahhad, Sabah M. Ahmed and Sherif N. Abbas, "PCG Biometric Identification System Based on Feature Level Fusion Using Canonical Correlation Analysis," IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE 2014), Toronto, Ontario, Canada, pp. 899-904, 2014.
30) A. Ali, A. Shalaby, M. S. Sayed and M. Abo-Zahhad, “Low Power HBC PHY Baseband Transceiver for IEEE 802.15.6 WBAN,” International Conference on Microelectronic, Beirut, Lebanon, 2017. Level A.
31) Maha R. Abdel-Haleem, Tamer Abou-elnaga, Sabah M. Ahmed, M. Abo-Zahhad, “Convex Lenses Horn Antenna Microwave Hyperthermia Scheme,” 12th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, London, UK, 9-13 April 2018. Level A.
32) Islam Mansour, A. Allam, A. B. Abdel-Rahman, M. Abo-Zahhad, and R. K. Pokharel, “70 % Improvement in Q-factor of spiral inductor and its application in switched K-band VCO using 0.18 μm CMOS Technology,” 2018 Asia-Pacific Microwave Conference (APMC), 2018. Level A.
33) M. Aboualalaa, Adel B. Abdel-Rahman, Ahmed Allam, M. Abo-Zahhad, H. Elsadek, K. Yoshitomi, and Ramesh K. Pokharel, “Dual-band Rectenna Using Voltage Doubler Rectifier and Four-Section Matching Network ,” MTT-S Wireless Power Transfer Conference, Montreal, Canada, June 3rd-7th, 2018. Level B.
34) Ahmed Gomaa, Moataz Abdelwahab, and M. Abo-Zahhad, “Real-Time Algorithm for Simultaneous Vehicle Detection and Tracking in Aerial View Videos,” 61st International Midwest Symposium of Circuits and Systems (IEEE MWSCAS 2018), Windsor, Ontario, Canada, August 5th-8th, 2018. Level A.
35) Islam Mansour, M. Aboualalaa, N. Jahan, A. Barakat, A. Allam, A. B. Abdel-Rahman, M. Abo-Zahhad, and R. K. Pokharel, “Design of Multi-Layers DGS Resonator for Phase Noise Improvement of K-Band VCOs in 0.18 μm CMOS Technology,” 61st International
Midwest Symposium of Circuits and Systems (IEEE MWSCAS 2018), Windsor, Ontario, Canada, August 5th-8th, 2018. Level A.
36) A. Abdalrazik, Adel B. Abdelrahman, A. Allam, M. Abo-Zahhad. “A Wideband Dielectric Resonator Antenna with Truncated Ground for 5G Applications,” European Microwave Conference (EUMC2018), September 23–28, 2018. Level A.
37) Tonny Ssettumba, Ahmed H. Abd El-Malek, Maha Elsabrouty, M. Abo-Zahhad, “PHY Security Enhancement of Threshold-Based User Selection in Co-Channel Interference Environment,” 2018 IEEE 14th International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob), Limassol, Cyprus, 15th -17th October, 2018. Level A.
38) Abdelsalam Sayed Ahmed, Maha Elsabrouty, Ahmed Hassan Abd El-Malek and M. Abo-Zahhad, “Energy Efficient Framework for Multiuser Downlink MIMO-NOMA System,” 2018 IEEE 14th International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob), Limassol, Cyprus, 15th -17th October, 2018. Level A.
39) K. Okello, Ahmed H. Abd El-Malek, M. Elsabrouty, and M. Abo-Zahhad,“Spectrum Sensing Performance Analysis for Mobile Primary and Secondary Users in Cognitive Radio Networks,” Accepted in IEEE IFIP Wireless Days(WD'19), Manchester, UK, 24-26 April 2019. Rank: A.

Funded Research Grants

Funded Research Projects to Serve the University and Community

1) Principal Investigator (PI) of the Following Projects

Project Budget Donor Execution Place Project Name No
1714984
Egyptian Pounds		 ICTP project, Management Unit at the Ministry of Higher Education, Egypt Colleges and institutes of Assiut University Development of management information systems at the University of Assiut ( March 1, 2006 - June 30 , 2010 ) 1
412278
Egyptian Pounds		 ICTP project, Management Unit at the Ministry of Higher Education, Egypt Colleges and institutes of Assiut University Communications and Information Technology Training at the University of Assiut project (March 1, 2006 - June 30 , 2010( 2
2992000
Egyptian Pounds		 ICTP project, Management Unit at the Ministry of Higher Education, Egypt Colleges and institutes of Assiut University Integration and connectivity between the Management Information Systems Applications (1 July 2010-30 June 2016 ) 3
1000000
Egyptian Pounds		 The Ministry of Communications and Information Technology in coordination with the Institute of Information Technology (ITI) Department of Electrical Engineering - Faculty of Engineering, Assiut University Construction of embedded systems and design of integrated electronic circuits specialized Labs for the preparation of the trainers, students and graduates to the Labor market (December 24, 2014 – 23 December 2016) 4

2) Team Member of the Following Projects

 

Project Budget Donor Execution Place Project Name No
150000
Egyptian Pounds		 Quality Assurance and Accreditation Project QAAP 1), Project Management Unit at the Ministry of Higher Education, Egypt Faculty of Engineering, Assiut University Establishment of Quality Assurance and Accreditation Centre, Faculty of Engineering QAAP 1 (1 July 2008 – 30 June 2009) 1
75000
Egyptian Pounds		 Continuous Development and Rehabilitation Project (PCIQA), Project Management Unit at the Ministry of Higher Education, Egypt Faculty of Engineering, Assiut University A System for Automating Questionnaires (Project Period is 10 months starts on 1 July 2011) 2
7200000
Egyptian Pounds		 Development of Egyptian Universities Project, Council of Ministers Education Development Fund Faculty of Engineering, Assiut University Development of the Faculty of Engineering for the Adoption of Accreditation ( 1 July 2010 – 30 June 2012) 3
350000
Egyptian Pounds		 HEEPF, Project Management Unit at the Ministry of Higher Education, Egypt Colleges and institutes of Assiut University Maintenance of Equipments and the Training of Technicians ( 1 July 2005 – 30 June 2006) 4
         

3) Supervisor of the Following Students Project

 

Project Budget Donor Execution Place Project Name No
10000
Egyptian Pounds		 Financially supported by NTRA (awarded the best student Egyptian project award by the Made in Egypt authority and the IEEE) Faculty of Engineering, Assiut University Emergency Biomedical Telecommunication System. 2008 1
10000
Egyptian Pounds		 Financially supported by NTRA Faculty of Engineering, Assiut University System for Blind: Braille Printer and Scanner, 2011 2
10000
Egyptian Pounds		 Financially supported by NTRA (awarded the best student Egyptian project award by the Made in Egypt authority and the IEEE) Faculty of Engineering, Assiut University Building Smart Private Mobile, 2013 3
10000
Egyptian Pounds		 Financially supported by NTRA Faculty of Engineering, Assiut University Smart Home Automation Control Unit, 2014. 4
10000
Egyptian Pounds		 Financially supported by NTRA Faculty of Engineering, Assiut University Applications of Wireless Sensor Networks in Energy Management, 2015. 5
30000
Egyptian Pounds		 Financially supported by Itida, NTRA and Cemex Company Faculty of Engineering, Assiut University Cloud-based Smart Home and Energy Management System, 2016. 6

4) Act as An arbitrator for the Following Research Projects

1) Seven projects supported by the Egyptian Information Technology Authority ITEDA, The Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, Egypt since January 2010.

2) Two projects supported by the Science and Technology Development Fund (STDF), Egyptian Ministry for Scientific Research, Egypt since April 2011.

 

Non Impacted Journal

National Journals

1) Bulletin of Faculty of Engineering, University of Assiut, Egypt.
2) Journal of Engineering Science, Assiut University.
3) Journal of Engineering Science, Ain-Shams University.
4) Menoufia J. of Electronic Engineering Research (MJEER).

 

Papers Published in National Journals

1) N. Hamdy, A. I. Abdel-Fattah and M. Abo-Zahhad, "Adaptive Phase Compensation in Gyrators" Bulletin of Faculty of Engineering, University of Assiut, Egypt, vol.3, pp.133-143, Jan. 1984.
2) M. F. Fahmy, A. El-Wardaney, G. Abdel-Raheem, M. Abo-Zahhad and F. A. Fattah, "Insensitive SC Implementations of Reactance Zero Producing Sections" Bulletin of Faculty of Engineering, University of Assiut, Egypt, vol. 19, NO. 1 , pp. 113-118, Jan. 1991.
3) M. Abo-Zahhad and M.A.A. Rahman, “Design and Realization of Orthogonal Digital Filters with Arbitrary Amplitude Characteristics” Bulletin of Faculty of Engineering, University of Assiut, Egypt, vol. 24, NO. 1 , pp. 149-157, Jan. 1996.
4) M. Z. El-Sadek, M. Abo-Zahhad, A. Ahmed, H. E. Zidan," Comprehensive Newton-Raphson Model for Incorporating Unified Power Flow Controller in Load Flow Studies", Journal of Engineering Science, Assiut University, Vol. 35, No. 1, pp.185-202, 2007.
5) M. Z. El-Sadek, M. Abo-Zahhad, A. Ahmed, H. E. Zidan," Injection Power UPFC Model for Incorporation of Unified Power Flow Controller In Load Flow Studies", Journal of Engineering Science, Assiut University, Vol. 35, No. 1, pp.203-219, Journal 2007.
6) M. Z. El-Sadek, M. Abo-Zahhad, A. Ahmed, H. E. Zidan," PV/PQ UPFC Model for Incorporation of Unified Power Flow Controller In Load Flow Studies", Journal of Engineering Science, Ain-Shams University, 2007.
7) M. Z. El-Sadek, M. Abo-Zahhad, A. Ahmed, H. E. Zidan," Optimal Placement of UPFC Using Sensitivity Analysis", Journal of Engineering Science, Ain-Shams University, 2007.
8) M. Abo-Zahhad, Sabah M. Ahmed and M. Mourad, “Map Based Intra-Cell Method for Location Prediction Over UMTS Network Platform”, Journal of Engineering Science, Assiut University, Vol. 39, No. 5, pp.1-26, Sept. 2011.
9) M. Abo-Zahhad, Sabah M. A. and A. Zakaria, "A New ECG Compression Algorithm Based on Wavelet Foveation and Huffman Coding Techniques, “Journal of Engineering Science, Assiut University, Nov. 2013.

10) M. Abo-Zahhad, Sabah M. Ahmed, Mohammed Farrag, and Khaled Ali BaAli, "Detection of Primary User in Wide-band Cognitive Radio Networks over Fading Channel using Compressed Sensing," Menoufia J. of Electronic Engineering Research (MJEER), Egypt, July 2019.

 

National Conference

National Conferences

1) Al-Azhar Second International Conference AEC'91, Cairo, Egypt, 1991.
2) The 3rd IASTED International Conf. in Computer Applications in Industry, pp. 76 -79, Cairo, Egypt, Dec. 1994.
3) The Second International Conference on Engineering Research, Port-Said, Egypt, 1995.
4) Al-Azhar Fourth International Engineering Conference, AEIC'95, Cairo, Egypt, 1995.
5) The 13th National Radio Science Conference, Cairo, Egypt, 1996.
6) The 4th IEEE conf. on Electronics, Circuits, and Systems, ICECS’97, Cairo, Egypt, 1997.
7) The 15th National Radio Science Conference, Cairo, Egypt, 1998.
8) The 1st Minia International Conf. for Advanced Trends in Engineering, Minia, Egypt, 1999.
9) MEPCON 2006, El-Minia, 2006.
10) The 1st Conf. on Higher Education between reality challenges and visions of development, The Centre for Development of Higher Education at Assiut University, 2009.
11) The 28th National Radio Science Conference NRSC 2011, National Telecommunication Institute, Cairo, Egypt. 2011.
12) The 30th National Radio Science Conference, NRSC, Cairo, Egypt, 2013.
13) The IEEE 7th Cairo Int. Biomedical Engineering Conf. (CIBEC), Giza, Egypt, 2014.
14) IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits, and Systems, ICECS 2015, Cairo, Egypt, 2015.
15) The 32nd National Radio Science Conference, IEEE, Cairo, Egypt, 2015.
16) National Radio Science Conference (NRSC 2015), Cairo, Egypt, 2015.
17) The 5th Annual International Conference on Energy Aware Computing Systems and Applications (ICEAC), Cairo, Egypt, 2015.
18) The 10th IEEE International Conference on Computer Engineering and Systems, (ICCES), Cairo, Egypt, 2015.111) The 33rd National Radio Science Conference, (NRSC 2016), 2016, Aswan, Egypt.
19) The 34th National Radio Science Conference (NRSC), IEEE Explore, 2017.
20) The 6th Japan-Africa Conference on Electronics, Communications and Computers (JAC-ECC), IEEE Explore, 2018.

 

Papers Published in National Conferences

1) M. Abo-Zahhad, T.Henk and M.F. Fahmy, ""Design of FIR Digital Filters With Arbitrary Amplitude and Phase Characteristics" Al-Azhar Second International Conference AEC'91, Cairo, Egypt, pp. 76-96, Dec. 1991.
2) M. Abo-Zahhad, T. Henk and M.F. F, "Design of Digital, Sampled-Data and Non-reciprocal Lumped Lowpass Filters With Constant Amplitude and Linear Phase Characteristics" Al-Azhar Second International Conference AEC'91, Cairo, Egypt, pp.121-132, Dec. 1991.
3) M. Abo-Zahhad and T. Henk, "Simultaneous Amplitude and Phase Approximation For Sampled-Data Low-pass Filters" Al-Azhar Second International Conference AEC'91, Cairo, Egypt, pp.109-120, Dec. 1991.
4) M. Abo-Zahhad and Sabah M. A., "Design of Lattice Wave Digital Filters Through Phase Equalization" 3rd IASTED International Conf. in Computer Applications in Industry, pp. 76 -79, Cairo, Egypt, Dec. 1994.
5) M. A. A. Rahman and M. Abo-Zahhad, "Design and Realization of IIR Filters Suitable for VLSI Technology" 3rd IASTED International Conf. in Computer Applications in Industry, pp. 9 -12, Cairo, Egypt, Dec. 1994.
137) M. Abo-Zahhad, Sabah M. A., and M. Yaseen, "Interactive Software Development for the Design and Synthesis of Lattice and Bireciprocal Wave-Digital Filters", Proc. of the Second International Conference on Engineering Research, pp. 199-216, Port-Said, Egypt, Dec. 1995.
6) M. Abo-Zahhad, Sabah M.A., and M. F. Fahmy, "Selective Bandpass Digital Filters With Maximally Flat Amplitude and Group Delay" Proc. of the Second International Conference on Engineering Research, ICER-95, pp. 268-278, Port-Said, Egypt, Dec.1995.
7) M. Abo-Zahhad, "Optimal Design for Selective Linear Phase Bandpass Sampled-data and Digital Filters" Proc. of Al-Azhar Fourth International Engineering Conference, AEIC'95, pp. 112-122, Cairo, Egypt, Dec. 1995.
8) M. Abo-Zahhad, Sabah M. A., “Filter Designer: A Complete Design and Synthesis Package for Lumped, Wave-Digital, FIR and IIR Filters” Proc. of the 13th National Radio Science Conference, Cairo, Egypt, March 1996.
9) M. Abo-Zahhad, “FIR Half-Band Filters Exhibiting Approximately Linear Passband Phase and Arbitrary Stopband Selectivity” 4th IEEE conf. on Electronics, Circuits, and Systems, ICECS’97, Cairo, Egypt, pp. 1432-1436, Dec. 1997.
10) M. Abo-Zahhad, “Theory and Design of Two-Channel, Perfect Reconstruction, IIR Quadrature Mirror Filter Banks" Proc. of the 15th National Radio Science Conference, Cairo, Egypt, C17, pp. 1-8, Feb. 1998.
11) M. Bataineh, and M. Abo-Zahhad, "A Synthesis Algorithm for Reflectance Curve of Non-Absorbing Multilayer Dielectric Films"The First Minia International Conference for Advanced Trends In Engineering, Minia, Egypt, pp. 228-233, March 1999.
12) M. Z. El-Sadek, M. Abo-Zahhad, A. Ahmed, H. E. Zidan," Effect of Load Representation on UPFC Performance and Optimal Placement", MEPCON 2006, El-Minia, pp.213-220, December 19-21, 2006.
13) M. Abo-Zahhad, "Developing the Information and Communication Technology Sector in Higher Education Institutions," 1st Conf. on Higher Education between reality challenges and visions of development, The Centre for Development of Higher Education at Assiut University, Dec. 2009.
14) M. Abo-Zahhad, S. M. Ahmed, N. Sabor and A. F. Al-Ajlouni, "Design of Immune Algorithm Based Two-Dimensional Recursive Digital Filters Using Multi-Level
Orthogonal Arrays", 28th National Radio Science Conference NRSC 2011, April 26-28, 2011, National Telecommunication Institute, Cairo, Egypt. 2011.
15) M. Abo-Zahhad, Sabah M. Ahmed and Shimaa A. Abd-Elrahman, “A New Numerical Mapping Technique for the Recognition of Exons and Introns in DNA Sequences," The 30th National Radio Science Conference, NRSC, Cairo, Egypt, pp. 573-580, April 2013.
16) M. Abo-Zahhad, Sabah M. Ahmed, and Sherif N. Abbas, “A New Biometric Modality for Human Authentication Using Eye Blinking,” in Proc. IEEE 7th Cairo Int. Biomedical Engineering Conf. (CIBEC), Giza, Egypt, pp. 174-177, 2014.
17) M. Abo-Zahhad, Mohammed Farrag and Abdelhay Ali, “Modeling and Minimization of Energy Consumption in Wireless Sensor Networks”, IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits, and Systems, ICECS 2015, pp. 697-700, Cairo, Egypt, December 06-09, 2015.
18) M. Abo-Zahhad, Sabah M. Ahmed, and Sherif N. Abbas, “A New Biometric Authentication System Using Heart Sounds Based on Wavelet Packet Features,” IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits, and Systems, ICECS 2015, Cairo, Egypt, December 06-09, 2015.
19) M. Abo-Zahhad, S. M. Ahmed, N. Sabor and S. Sasaki, "Immune Node Deployment Algorithm for Mobile Wireless Sensor Networks with Limited Mobility based on Probabilistic Sensing Model", 32nd National Radio Science Conference, IEEE, Cairo, Egypt, pp. 259 – 267, March 2015.
20) M. Abo-Zahhad, Mohammed Farrag, Abdelhay Ali and Osama Amin, “Energy Consumption and Lifetime Analysis for Wireless Sensor Networks”, Proc. of National Radio Science Conference (NRSC 2015), Cairo, Egypt, pp. 268-276, March 2015.
21) M. Abo-Zahhad, Osama Amin, Mohammed Farrag and Abdelhay Ali, “An Energy Consumption Model for Wireless Sensor Networks”, 5th Annual International Conference on Energy Aware Computing Systems and Applications (ICEAC), pp. 1-4, Cairo, Egypt, March 2015.
22) M. Abo-Zahhad, Mohammed Farrag and Abdelhay Ali, “Modeling and Optimization of Energy Consumption in Wireless Sensor Networks”, 10th IEEE International Conference on Computer Engineering and Systems, (ICCES), pp. 295-300, Cairo, Egypt, December 23-24, 2015.
23) M. Abo-Zahhad, Sabah M Ahmed, Mohammed Farrag, Mohammed F. A. and Abdelhay Ali, “Design and Implementation of Building Energy Monitoring and Management System
based on Wireless Sensor Network”, 10th IEEE International Conference on Computer Engineering and Systems, (ICCES), pp. 230-233, Cairo, Egypt, December 23-24, 2015.
24) M. Abo-Zahhad, Mohammed Farrag and Abdelhay Ali,” A Fast Accurate Method for Calculating Symbol Error Probabilities for AWGN and Rayleigh Fading Channels," 33rd National Radio Science Conference, (NRSC 2016), pp. 241-248, Feb 22‐25, 2016, Aswan, Egypt.
25) M. Abo-Zahhad, Sabah M Ahmed, Mohammed Farrag, Khaled Ali BaAli. “Detection of primary user signal in wideband cognitive radio networks exploiting DCT as sensing matrix,” Radio Science Conference (NRSC), IEEE Explore, 2017 34th National, pp. 152-159, March 2017.
26) M. Abo-Zahhad, Sabah M. Ahmed, Mohammed Farrag, and Khaled Ali BaAli., "Primary User Detection in Cognitive Radio Networks over Fading Channel using Compressed Sensing," In 2018 Japan-Africa Conference on Electronics, Communications and Computers (JAC-ECC), IEEE Explore, 16-18 Dec. 2018.

Courses Teaching

Undergraduate Courses Taught

1. Electrical Circuits I and II.
2. Electronic Systems.
3. Semiconductor devices.
4. Electronic devices and Circuits.
5. Electronic Circuits I and II.
6. Electronic Instruments and Instrumentation.
7. Industrial Electronics and Their Applications.
8. Digital Signal Processing.
9. Theory and Principles of Communication Systems.
10. Digital and Analog Communication Systems.
11. Wireless Communication.
12. Network Analysis and Synthesis.
13. Analysis and Design of Communication Network.
14. Filter Design (lumped, sampled-data and digital).
15. Advanced Engineering Mathematics.
16. Numerical Analysis and Programming.
17. Operating Systems Design.
18. Computer Languages (Visual Basic, Fortran, Pascal, C++, Delphi and MatLab).

 

Graduate Courses Taught

1. Computer Aided Network Design.
2. Advanced Analog and Digital Filters Design.
3. Switched-Capacitor Circuits and their Implementations.
4. Computational Methods and Numerical Analysis
5. Numerical Techniques and Programming.
6. Database Management, Design and Implementations
7. Digital Speech Processing.
8. Medical Signal Processing.
9. Genetic Algorithm.
10. Genomic Signal Processing
11. Wireless Sensor Networks.

 

Projects Supervision for Final Year B.Sc. Students

1. Computer Aided Design of Wave-Digital Filters, 1993.
2. Filter Designer: A Software Package for the Design of Analog and Digital Filters, 1994.
3. A Wavelet Package for QRS Detection, 1995.
4. EPROM Programmer: Software Design and Hardware Implementation, 1996.
5. Storage Oscilloscope, 1997.
6. Micro-Controller Based Solar Energy Generating System, 1998.
7. Universal Remote Controller, 1998.
8. Home Automation: Security and Energy Saving, 1999.
9. Micro-controller Based AM Radio Receiver, 1999.
10. Micro-controller Based Digital Talking Multimeter, 2000.
11. Speech Analysis and Synthesis Matlab Toolbox, 2000.
12. Image Compression using Wavelet Transform, 2001.
13. Fractal Image Compression, 2002.
14. PC Based Data Scope Central Monitor, 2002.
15. Portable Heart Rate Meter, 2003.
16. Wireless Palm System: Interactive Feedback System, 2003.
17. Process Control for Industrial Applications, 2004.
18. Universal Digital Talking Multi-meter, 2005.
19. Emergency Biomedical Telecommunication System, 2006. (This project was awarded the best student Egyptian project in electronics and communication engineering area. The competition was organized by the Made in Egypt authority and the IEEE).
20. Cellular Phone Jammer, 2009.
21. System for Blind: Braille Printer and Scanner, 2011. (This project was awarded the best student project in Egyptian universities in Computer Engineering area. The competition was organized by the Made in Egypt authority and the IEEE).
22. Building Smart Private Mobile, Network financially supported by NTRA, 2013.
23. Smart Home Automation Control Unit, financially supported by NTRA, 2014.
24. Applications of Wireless Sensor Networks in Energy Management, financially supported by NTRA, 2015.

25. Cloud-based Smart Home and Energy Management System, financially supported by Itida (Developing IT in Egypt), NTRA and Cemex Company, 2016.

Other Technical Publications

<h3><u><strong> Papers Submitted to Journals and Conferences</strong></u></h3> <p>1) M. Abo-Zahhad, Sabah M. Ahmed and O. Elnahas,, &acirc;&euro;&oelig;A Remote Patient Monitoring: Survey of Current State" Submitted to the International Journal of Communication, 2019.<br />2) N. Sabor, M. Abo-Zahhad, S. Sasaki, and S. M. Ahmed, " An Adjustable Range Based Multi-hop Immune Clustering Protocol for Mobile Wireless Sensor Networks," Submitted to Journal of network and computer applications, 2019.<br />3) M. Abo-Zahhad, Mohammed Farrag and Abdelhay Ali,&acirc;&euro; Approximate Probability Of Symbol Error Rate For AWGN And Fast Fading Channels&acirc;&euro;, Submitted to IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, 2019.<br />4) K. F. Hussain, G. S. Moussa, M. Abo-Zahhad and Emad Saleh, "Finer Vehicle classification Based on Bag of Visual Words," To be Submitted to the International Journal of Computer Vision, 2019.<br />5) N. Sabor, M. Abo-Zahhad, S. Sasaki, and S. M. Ahmed, "A Survey on Classical and Optimized Hierarchical Protocols for WSNs," To be Submitted to Journal of Network and Computer Applications, 2019.<br />6) N. Sabor, S. Sasaki, M. Abo-Zahhad and S. M. Ahmed, " A Graphical-based Educational Simulation Tool for Wireless Sensor Networks," To be Submitted to the Journal of Soft Computing, Springer Journals, 2019.<br />7) Ahmed Gomaa, Moataz Abdelwahab, and M. Abo-Zahhad, &acirc;&euro;&oelig;Robust Vehicle Detection and Tracking Algorithm in Aerial Videos,&acirc;&euro; Submitted to the IEEE Access, March 2019.<br />8) Maha R. Abdel-Haleem, Tamer Abou-elnaga, Sabah M. Ahmed, M. Abo-Zahhad, &acirc;&euro;&oelig;Non-invasive Microwave Hyperthermia Scheme Using Dielectric Matching Layer and Convex Lenses,&acirc;&euro; Submitted to IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, 1 March 2019.</p>

Papers Submitted to Journals and Conferences

1) M. Abo-Zahhad, Sabah M. Ahmed and O. Elnahas,, “A Remote Patient Monitoring: Survey of Current State" Submitted to the International Journal of Communication, 2019.
2) N. Sabor, M. Abo-Zahhad, S. Sasaki, and S. M. Ahmed, " An Adjustable Range Based Multi-hop Immune Clustering Protocol for Mobile Wireless Sensor Networks," Submitted to Journal of network and computer applications, 2019.
3) M. Abo-Zahhad, Mohammed Farrag and Abdelhay Ali,” Approximate Probability Of Symbol Error Rate For AWGN And Fast Fading Channels”, Submitted to IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, 2019.
4) K. F. Hussain, G. S. Moussa, M. Abo-Zahhad and Emad Saleh, "Finer Vehicle classification Based on Bag of Visual Words," To be Submitted to the International Journal of Computer Vision, 2019.
5) N. Sabor, M. Abo-Zahhad, S. Sasaki, and S. M. Ahmed, "A Survey on Classical and Optimized Hierarchical Protocols for WSNs," To be Submitted to Journal of Network and Computer Applications, 2019.
6) N. Sabor, S. Sasaki, M. Abo-Zahhad and S. M. Ahmed, " A Graphical-based Educational Simulation Tool for Wireless Sensor Networks," To be Submitted to the Journal of Soft Computing, Springer Journals, 2019.
7) Ahmed Gomaa, Moataz Abdelwahab, and M. Abo-Zahhad, “Robust Vehicle Detection and Tracking Algorithm in Aerial Videos,” Submitted to the IEEE Access, March 2019.
8) Maha R. Abdel-Haleem, Tamer Abou-elnaga, Sabah M. Ahmed, M. Abo-Zahhad, “Non-invasive Microwave Hyperthermia Scheme Using Dielectric Matching Layer and Convex Lenses,” Submitted to IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, 1 March 2019.