Esam Abdel-Raheem: received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees from Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt, in 1984 and 1989, respectively, and Ph.D. degree from the University of Victoria, Canada in 1995, all in Electrical Engineering. He joined Ain Shams University in 1997 as an Assistant Professor and since 2003; he has been with the ECE Dept. at the University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada where he has been a full professor since 2014. He was an Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Victoria, BC, Canada from 2003 to 2009. From 1999 to 2001, he was a Senior Design Engineer at AMD in Sunnyvale, California. Dr. Abdel-Raheem’s research fields of interests are in digital signal/image/video processing, signal processing for communications, and VLSI signal processing. He has authored and co-authored more than 80 articles in refereed journal and conference publications, and one published U.S./EU/world patent. He is a senior member of the IEEE and a member of the Association of Professional Engineers of Ontario. He has served as the technical program co-chair for IEEE ISSPIT 2004, 2005 and EIT 2009. He was the general co-chair for IEEE ISSPIT 2007. He served as an Associate Editor for the Canadian Journal of Electrical & Computer Engineering (2006-2010) and for The Journal of Circuits Systems and Signal Processing (2007-2015). He is currently serving as an editorial board member of IET signal processing, and as an Associate Editor for the International Journal of Computing and Digital Systems. He is the guest editor for the special issue on Information Technology and Signal Processing at Computers and Electrical Engineering, Elsevier, and the Technical program chair of IEEE ISSPIT 2015. Dr. Esam Abdel-Raheem is the founder and chair of IEEE Windsor Section

Talk Title: Energy-Efficient Cooperative Spectrum Sensing for Cognitive Radio Networks

Cognitive radio (CR) can dynamically adapt its behavior, through its awareness, to the radio environment and spectrum policy. One of the most critical components of CR technology is spectrum sensing (SS). By sensing and adapting to the environment, a CR is able to fill in spectrum holes and serve secondary users without harmful interference to the primary users (PUs). A compromise between sensing performance and overhead in cluster-based spectrum sensing for cognitive radio networks (CRNs), is still a critical issue. This matter has attracted the attention of many researchers to tackle the trade-off between the performance and overhead. This talk considers energy efficient algorithms to minimize control overhead and provide better detection performance, increase the throughput, and reduce considerably both the overhead and the reporting energy. The talk will also consider algorithms for cooperative SS (CSS) in CRNs to meet PU protection requirements and minimize the total energy consumption. Energy efficient strategies are also considered to minimize the collaborating CRs required for CSS system, increase the energy efficiency and meet the detection requirements.

Professor Winfred Harzer will visit MIU from Nov. 22 to 26, 2015.  Prof. Harzer is Dean of the Faculty of Dentistry and a Professor of Orthodontics at Technical University of Dresden.  He will be giving a two day work shop for our intern students titled “straight wiring technique.”  Furthermore, as a part of enhancing our teaching methodologies and staff development, he will be giving a three hour lecture about problem base learning implementation in dentistry. We look forward to hosting him for the 8th year in a row.

Misr International University is pleased to welcome Dr. Ebtesam Ahmad, Pharm.D, M.S.; Clinical Associate Professor, St. John’s University College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences; Clinical Pharmacist Specialist, MJHS Institute for Innovation in Palliative Care.  Professor Ahmed will be visiting from the 20th of November   to the 4th of December 2015. During this period she will hold a workshop for the clinical pharmacists at National Cancer Institute on “Pain Management and Palliative Care.”  She will be also teaching clinical topics to the graduate and postgraduate students.

Architecture department, Misr International University, has an ongoing agreement with Lucerne University for Applied Sciences. During April the department will receive a visit from Professor Luca Deon who will be reviewing the work of 5^th year students’ graduation design studio. In this studio students are proposing a new development for MIU campus. The challenge is to establish a vibrant educational space that provides both productivity and enjoyment for all students.

Professor Luca will start seeing students from April 15^th till April 20^th. During this period he will have the chance to see the major landmarks and sites of cairo. This is Professor Deon’s fourth visit to the country and to MIU and the department will make sure his stay is as enjoyable as possible.

Misr International University is pleased to welcome Dr. Taher Hegab, PharmD, PhD, BCPS, Assistant Professor of Clinical Sciences, California Health Sciences University, as a visiting professor in the Faculty of Pharmacy from the 13th to the 27th of November, 2015. During this period he will lead a five day professional workshop for the clinical pharmacists at National Cancer Institute with the theme “Pharmaceutical Services in Critical Care Settings” from 15 to 19 November. He will also be teaching senior pharmacy students topics on acute kidney injury and sepsis.

Prof Dr. Ebtesam Ahmed
St John’s University, College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences,
New York, New York, USA
September 27th- October 11th 2019
Prof. Ebtesam Ahmed, Pharm D, will visit the Faculty of Pharmacy, MIU, from September 27th till October 11th 2019. During her visit, Dr. Ebtesam will be lecturing 5th year pharmacy students on the common Bone and Hepatic Diseases as well as Irritable Bowel Disease and their pharmacotherapeutic approaches. She will also lead case discussions with the department and TAs of the Clinical Pharmacy department.