Short CV Dr. Lazhar Khriji
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Short CV Dr. Lazhar Khriji Associate Professor Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering College of Engineering Sultan Qaboos University, P.O.Box 33 Al‐Khod 123 – Muscat, SULTANATE OF OMAN Tel.: (968) 24141329 [email protected] Homepage http://www.squ.edu.om/electrical/tabid/2673/language/en-US/Default.aspx Google Scholar http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=bcjs1AsAAAAJ&hl=en Research Gate https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Lazhar_Khriji/contributions Specialty: Digital Signal and Image Processing EDUCATION 2005 HDR in Electronics (Digital Signal & Image Processing), University of Sfax, Ecole Nationale d’Ingénieurs, Tunisia 2002 Doctor of Technology (Image Processing), Institute of Signal Processing, Tampere University of Technology, TUT, Finland. 1999 PhD (Electrical Eng.), Cooperation between the College of Science, University of Tunis El‐Manar, and Tampere University of Technology, TUT, Finland. 1992 Master of Science (Automation & Control), ESSTT, "Higher School of Sciences and Techniques of Tunis", University of Tunis, Tunisia. 1990 Bachelor of Science (Electronics), College of Science, University of Tunis El‐Manar. EMPLOYMENT May 2008 to Present : Associate Professor, Sultan Qaboos University (SQU), Oman. Jan. 2002 ‐ May 2008 : Assistant Professor, Sultan Qaboos University (SQU), Oman. July 2000 – Jan. 2002 : Assistant Professor, ENIM, University of Monastir, Tunisia. Feb. 1997‐ Sept. 2000 : Researcher, Institute of Signal Processing, Tampere University of Technology TUT, Tampere, Finland. On leave from National Engineering school of Monastir (ENIM), Tunisia. http://www.cs.tut.fi Sept.1993 ‐ July 2000 : Lecturer, ENIM, University of Monastir, Tunisia http://www.enim.rnu.tn AWARDS & RECOGNITION Personal Awards 2014: National Research Awards in the research area Environmental and Biological Resources, Article entitled “Detecting Surface Cracks on Dates Using Color Imaging Technique “. December 2014. 2014: Awarded a letter of appreciation and encouragement from SQU for contributing in attaining a remarkable milestone for SQU research on the platform of the Research Analytics Website ‐ ResearchGate to mount SQU among the top three Universities in the GCC. April 2014. 2010 : Awarded a certificate of appreciation from Sultan Qaboos University for being part of successful achievements of College of Engineering ABET accreditation for ECE and MCTE Programs. In Spring 2010, both programs were assessed and substantially accredited by ABET. 2007 : Awarded a certificate of appreciation from Sultan Qaboos University for the contribution in the organization of the successful international conference ICCCP’07, SQU, Feb.19‐21, 2007. 2005 : Awarded a certificate of appreciation from Sultan Qaboos University for the contribution in the organization of the successful international conference ICCCP’05, SQU, Feb.14‐16, 2005. 2003 : Awarded a certificate of recognition from Sultan Qaboos University for the contribution in the organization of the international conference Net‐Con'2003, SQU, Oct. 11–15, 2003. 2000 : Best paper award, in the Int. Conf. on Artificial and Computational Intelligence for Decision, Control and Automation in Eng. and Industrial Applications ACIDCA2000, Monastir, Tunisia, March 22‐24 2000. The extended paper has been selected and published in a special issue of the Int. Journal on Fuzzy Sets and Systems FSS, Vol. 128 (1) (2002) pp.35‐46. 1997 : Awarded a 3‐year scholarship for higher studies leading to Doctor of Technology by Tampere University of Technology, Finland. 1990 : Awarded a scholarship for 2 years for higher studies leading to M.Sc. by the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research, Tunisia. Student Competition Awards 2011: Second Place in the 1st National Symposium for Engineering Final Year Project (1ST NSEFYP). College of Engineering and Architecture, University of Nizwa, Sultanate of Oman. This award was given to the SQU student team from Mechatronics program, which I supervised. Title of the project was: “Date Grading System” 2003: First prize, Best FYP project. Department of Information Engineering, SQU. This prize was given to the FYP student team (Dawood AL_Badaai and Khamis AL_Barhi), which I supervised. Title of the project was: “Face detection based on Eigen Faces and Neural networks”. TEACHING Taught different courses since 2002 at Sultan Qaboos University for both undergraduate and graduate students. Undergraduate Courses Course Number Course Name ECCE5142 Image and Video Processing ECCE3142 Signals & Systems ECCE5143 Advanced Digital Signal Processing ECCE4142 Digital Signal Processing ECCE4455 Sensors and Actuators MCTE3110 Electronics ECCE4122 Principle of Analogue and Digital Communications ENGR2216 Fortran Programming ECCE4125 Communications Lab. I ECCE2016 Circuits I IENG3011 Computer Control ECCE5009 Final Year Project 1 ECCE5099 Final Year Project 2 ECCE3206 Digital Logic Design ECCE3152 Electronics 1 Postgraduate Courses Course Number Course Name ECCE6275 Neural Networks and Intelligent systems ECCE6122 Digital Signal Processing ECCE 6132 Linear System Theory ELEC6320 Selected Topics in Computers (Image Processing) STUDENTS SUPERVISION Undergraduate Students Supervision (Final Year Projects) 2017‐2018: Design and implementation of a Gas, oil and water flow meter based on Electrical Capacitance Tomography (ECT) (Student IDs: 107459,107821, 98565) 2016‐2017: Electrical Submersible Pump Cable Damage Detector system (Student IDs: 102147, 97235, 97112) 2015‐2016: Design and Implementation of an Indoor Air quality monitoring system (Student IDs: 96992, 96003) 2014‐2015: Design and Implementation of an Intelligent Sensory System for Unmanned Ground Vehicle (Student IDs: 93009, 93569, 94945, 94691) 2014‐2015: Noninvasive Glucose Level Testing in Diabetic Patients (Student IDs: 94538, 94646, 92164, 93714) Curriculum Vitae, Lazhar Khriji 2 2014‐2015: Omni Wheel Control Using Wireless Systems (Student IDs: 89551,88952,86134,92436) 2013‐2014: Design and Implementation of Water Quality Monitoring System (Student IDs: 90610, 88865) 2012‐2013: Design and development of a Digital Hearing Aid (Student IDs: 82139,69861,82222) 2011‐2012:Design of Air‐pollution Monitoring System using ZigBee Wireless Sensor Network (Student IDs: 82323, 82360, 82325) 2011‐2012:Date Grading System (Student IDs: 82309,69803,82294,82140) 2010‐2011: Design and Implementation of a smart Omani License Plate Recognition for Barrier‐Gate system (Student IDs: 65442,55716,55890,55943) 2010‐2011: Design and Implementation of Communication Laboratory using DSP Platform TMS320C6713 DSK (Student IDs: 60132,67231,48452) 2010‐2011: Design of Wireless EEG Acquisition System (Student IDs: 69825,69698,70417) 2009‐2010: Wi‐Fi Technology Based Co‐design Implementation of Wireless Bio‐Telemetry System (Student IDs: 56057, 55311, 68057,54603,54306) 2009‐2010: Design and implementation of Video face Detection technique(Student IDs: 59130,66655) 2008‐2009: Design & Realization of an Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) communication system (Student IDs: 52767,53890,55389,55884) 2007‐2008: Design of Intensive Care Patients Monitoring Systems with Wireless Communication Link Support (Student IDs: 45286,45315,45325) 2007‐2008: Design of an Implantable Medical System for Wireless Transcutaneous Power and Data Transfer with Reverse Telemetry (Student IDs: 44955,45897,46982) 2005‐2006: Audio‐Visual Speech Recognition System (Student IDs: 33917,33029,35529) 2004‐2005: Design of Smart Wireless telemetry system (Student IDs: 26827,25838,30310) 2003‐2004: Design of a General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) Network and creation of a new application (Student IDs: 17409,20892) 2003‐2004: Medical Image Compression (Student IDs: 24344,24340,24082) 2002‐2003: Nonlinear signal and image processing (Student IDs: 17919,17612) 2002‐2003: Design and Implementation of Prototype Parking System (Students: Mahmoud Mohammad Al‐Naabi, Sulaiman Saif Ali Al‐Rashdi) 2002‐2003: Face detection based on Eigen Faces and Neuralnetworks (Students : Dawood AL_Badaai, Khamis AL_Barhi) MSc Students Supervision 1) Muna Tageldin (ID# m088444), (Graduated, January 2018), “Automatic Detection of Fatigue in the Workplace using an EEG Sparse Representation based Technique”, College of Eng. SQU Oman. (Co‐Supervision with Dr. Mostefa Mesbah). 2) Sarah Kassim Al‐Asadi (ID# m091381), (Graduated, September 2017), “Identification of Obstructive Sleep Apnea Using Packet Wavelet Decomposition of ECG Signals and Artificial Neural Networks”, College of Eng. SQU Oman. (Co‐Supervision with Prof. Abdulnaser Hossain) 3) Neeraja Mohanan (ID# m100202), (Graduated, August 2016), Mathematical Morphology in Image processing applications, College of Eng. SQU Oman. (Co‐Supervision with Prof. Afaq Ahmed) 4) Alaa Hamdan Barhoum (ID# m091428), (Graduated, October 2014), “Early Identification Of Pregnant Patient with Preeclampsia in Oman Using Different Digital Signal Processing Algorithms on Heart Rate Variability ”, College of Eng. SQU Oman. (Co‐Supervision with Prof. Abdulnaser Hossain) 5) Marwa Ali Zahir Al Hinai (ID# m070079), (Graduated, October 2014), “Vision‐Based Vehicle Tracking for Traffic Management”, College of Eng. SQU Oman. (Co‐Supervision with Dr. Amer Al‐Habsi) 6) Ganeshmoorthy K. (ID# m091844), (Graduated, January 2013), Non‐destructive measurement of total sugar content in Khalas dates using NIR imaging technique, College of Agricultural and Marine Sciences, SQU, Oman. (Co‐Supervision with Dr. A. Manickavasagan) 7) Nawal Al‐Mezeini(ID# m052935), (Graduated,