RR Resume

Reda R. Gharieb, Ph.D.

Professor of Electronics & Communications and Bioelectronics Engineering

ORCID ID: 0000-0003-1501-1987

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Citations https://scholar.google.com.eg/citations?user=-5Eq5ssAAAAJ&hl=en

Current Position Head of the Electrical Engineering Department

The Egyptian Academy of Engineering and Advanced Technology

(EAEAT), Affiliated to the Ministry of Military Production.

e-mail. r.gharieb@eaeat-academy.edu.eg

Research Interests

(not limited to)

Signal/image Processing, sound source localization, signal processing for

distance measurement, statistical inference and machine learning,

Photoacoustic imaging, Prosthetic/robotic devices, embedded systems and

instrumentation.

International

Research and

Industrial

Experiences

Postdoctoral fellow (6/1999-1/2000), Toyama University, JAPAN.

Research Scientist (1/2000-8/2002), RIKEN Brain Science Institute,

JAPAN.

Research Scientist (8/2004-6/2006), Infinite Biomedical Technology,

Baltimore, Maryland, USA.

Research Scientist (11/2006-5/2008), Fairway Medical Technologies

Houston, Texas, USA.

Visiting Research Scientist (1/2011-1/2012), Worcester Polytechnic

Institute, MA, USA.

Academic

Experiences

B. Sc. 1985, Assiut University.

M.Sc. 1993, Assiut University.

Ph. D. 1997, Assiut University.

Assistant Professor, 2002, Assiut University.

Full professor 2009, Assiut University.

Awards and

Recognitions

The State Encouragement Prize in 2002.

Senior Member, IEEE.

Three best or recognized papers.

Classified in 2005 as an alien of extraordinary ability in USA.

Listed as a national reviewer with the promotion committee founded by

the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research.

Serving as a reviewer for several international journals.

Serving as a reviewer for STDF.

Patents/Copyright

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[1] Gharieb, Reda R., et al. "Multi-parametric quantitative analysis of

bioelectrical signals." U.S. Patent No. 8,190,249. 29 May 2012..

[2] Platform independent UI Multi-sensor CT and CAD (MS-CTCAD)

software, Copyright© 2009, TXu 1-596-212, USA, Reda Gharieb.

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Books/Book

Chapters

[1] Gharieb, Reda. R. (2017), Data Science: Scientific and Statistical

Computing, Noor Publishing, ISBN 978-3-330-97256-8.

[2] Gharieb, Reda. R. (2019), A course in Digital Signal Processing with

Examples, ISBN 978-3-330-97256-8.

[3] Reda R. Gharieb (August 1st 2018). Incorporating Local Data and KL

Membership Divergence into Hard C-Means Clustering for Fuzzy and

Noise-Robust Data Segmentation, Recent Applications in Data

Clustering, Harun Pirim, IntechOpen, DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.74514.

[4] Gharieb, R. R., and N. V. Thakor. "Neurological EEG monitors: A

review." Encyclopedia of Medical Devices and Instrumentation (2006).

Publications Journal Papers [1] Gharieb, R. R., G. Gendy, and H. Selim. "A Hard C-Means Clustering Algorithm

Incorporating Membership KL Divergence and Local Data Information for Noisy Image Segmentation." International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence 32.04 (2018): 1850012.

[2] Gharieb, R. R., Gendy, G., Abdelfattah, A., & Selim, H. (2017). Adaptive local data and membership based KL divergence incorporating C-means algorithm for fuzzy image segmentation. Applied Soft Computing, 59, 143-152.

[3] Gharieb, R. R., G. Gendy, and A. Abdelfattah. "C-means clustering fuzzified by two membership relative entropy functions approach incorporating local data information for noisy image segmentation." Signal, Image and Video Processing 11.3 (2017): 541-548.

[4] R. R Gharieb, G. Gendy, "Fuzzy C-Means With a Local Membership KL Distance for Image Segmentation," Journal of Pattern Recognition Research, vol 10, no 1, pp. 53-60, 2015.

[5] M.Abo–Zahhad, R.R. Gharieb, Sabah M.Ahmed, Mahmoud Khaled,“ Brain Image Compression Techniques,” International Journal of Engineering Trends and Technology (IJETT) – Volume 19 Number 2– pp. 92-105-Jan 2015

[6] Mohamed Abo-Zahhad, R. R. Gharieb, Sabah M. Ahmed, A. A. Donkol, “Enhancement of Gabor Directional Wavelet Edge Detection Method,” International Journal of Engineering Innovation & Research. Volume 3, Issue 6, pp. 839-849, ISSN: 2277 – 5668, 2014.

[7] Mohamed Abo-Zahhad, R. R. Gharieb, Sabah M. Ahmed, Mahmoud Khaled Abd-Ellah, “Huffman Image Compression Incorporating DPCM and DWT,” Journal of Signal and Information Processing, 2015, 6, 123-135

[8] Abo-Zahhad, M., Gharieb, R.R., Ahmed, S.M. and Donkol, A.A., “Edge Detection with a Preprocessing Approach” Journal of Signal and Information Processing, 5, 123-134, 2014.

[9] R. R. Gharieb and N. V. Thakor, “Neurological EEG Monitors- A Review,” Encyclopedia of Medical Devices and Instrumentation, Second Edition, edited by John G. Webster Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

[10] R. R. Gharieb, “Self and mutual information of the electroencephalogram for the diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease,”, Journal of Engineering Science (JES), Assiut University, Vol. 33, No.3, pp.887-896, May 2005

[11] R. R. Gharieb, “Efficient extraction of evoked potentials from a small number of sweeps using combination of the ensemble averaging and correlation based blind source separation,” Journal of Engineering Sciences (JES), Assiut University, vol., 32, no. 2, pp. 679-686, April 2004.

[12] R. R. Gharieb and A Cichocki, “Second-order statistics based blind signal separation using a bank of subband filters,” Digital Signal Processing, Academic Press, pp. 252-274, April 2003.

[13] R. R. Gharieb and A. Cichocki, “Noise reduction in Brain evoked potentials based on third-order correlations,” IEEE Trans. Biomedical Engineering vol. 48, pp.501-512, May 2001.

[14] R. R. Gharieb and A. Cichocki, "Segmentation and tracking of the electro-encephalogram signal using an adaptive recursive bandpass filter," Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing, vol. 39, pp. 237-248, 2001.

[15] R. R. Gharieb, Y. Horita and T. Murai, “Enhancement and tracking of a single sinusoid in noise using cumulant-based IIR adaptive notch filter,” IEICE Trans. Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences (Japan), vol. E84-A, no. 2, pp. 568-576, Feb. 2001.

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[16] R. R. Gharieb, “New results on employing cumulants for retrieving sinusoids in colored non-Gaussian noise,’’ IEEE Trans. Signal Processing, vol. 48, pp. 2164-2168, July 2000.

[17] R. R. Gharieb, “Higher order statistics based IIR notch filtering scheme for the enhancement of sinusoids in colored noise,’’ IEE Proc. Vision, Image and Signal Processing, vol. 147, pp. 115-121, Apr. 2000.

[18] R. R. Gharieb, “On employing cumulants for retrieving sinusoids in colored non-Gaussian noise,’’ Bulletin of the faculty of Engineering, Assiut University, Egypt, vol. 27, no. 2, pp. 231-240, Jan. 1999.

[19] R. R. Gharieb, "A cumulant-based IIR notch filtering approach for the enhancement of sinusoids in Gaussian noise,’’ Bulletin of the faculty of Engineering, Assiut University, Egypt, vol. 27, no. 1, pp. 159-167, Jan. 1999.

[20] H. M. Ibrahim, R. R. Gharieb and M. M. Hassan, “A higher order statistics based adaptive algorithm for line enhancement,” IEEE Trans. Signal Processing, vol. 47, no. 2, pp. 527-532, Feb. 1999.

[21] H. M. Ibrahim and R. R. Gharieb, “Estimating two-dimensional frequencies by a cumulant-based FBLP method,’’ IEEE Trans. Signal Processing, vol. 47, no. 1, pp. 262-266, Jan. 1999.

[22] H. M. Ibrahim and R. R. Gharieb, “Two-dimensional cumulant-based adaptive enhancer,’’ IEEE Trans. Signal Processing, vol. 47, no. 2, pp. 593-596, Feb. 1999.

[23] R. R. Gharieb, “Cumulant-based LP method for two-dimensional spectral estimation,’’ IEE Proc. Vision, Image and Signal Processing, vol. 146, pp. 307-312, Dec. 1999.

[24] R. R. Gharieb, T. I. Haweel and H. M. Ibrahim, “A two-dimensional adaptive lattice (TDAL) structure for noise cancelling,” Int. J. Electronics, vol. 70, no. 3, pp. 483-492, 1995.

[25] T. I. Haweel, R. R. Gharieb and H. M. Ibrahim, “Median least mean squares lattice (MLMSL) adaptive filters,” Int. J. Electronics, vol. 78, no. 1, pp. 101-111, 1995.

[26] M. F. Fahmy, T. I. Haweel, G M. Elrahemm and R. R. Gharieb, “System identification using discrete orthogonal functions,’’ Int. J. Circuit. Theory, Application, pp. 317-329, 1993.

[27] R. R. Gharieb, G. M. Elraheem and A. El-wardany, “IIR adaptive filters using discrete orthogonal functions,’’ Bulletin of the faculty of Engineering, Assiut University, Egypt, vol. 19, pp. 119-123, Jan. 1991.

[28] R. R. Gharieb, “IIR notch filtering scheme based on higher order statistics,’’ Bulletin of the Faculty of Engineering, Assiut University, Egypt, vol. 26, no. 2, pp. 199-204, July, 1998.

[29] R. Geocadin, T. Hartmann, S. Venkatesha, M. Torbey, N. Crone, R. Gharieb,” Early quantitative EEG and functional outcome after resuscitation from cardiac arrest,” CIRCULATION 112 (17), U382-U382.

[30] RR Gharieb, “Monitoring brain injury based on the poles of the time-varying autoregressive EEG signal model,” Journal of Engineering Sciences; Assiut University, vol. 32, no.4, 1672-1682, Sept. 2004.

[31] RR Gharieb, “Efficient segmentation and tracking of EEG signal using an adaptive lattice predictor,” Journal of Engineering Sciences; Assiut University, vol. 32, no. 1, 427-445, Jan. 2004.

Peer-reviewed Conferences & Workshops [32] R.R. Gharieb, G. Gendy and H. Selim, “"Fuzzy C-Means Algorithm Incorporating Local

Data and Membership Information for Noisy Medical Image Segmentation," ICECS2015, Dec.6-9,2015.Cairo, Egypt.

[33] R.R. Gharieb and G. Gendy, “Fuzzy C-Means with a Local Membership KL Distance for Medical Image segmentation,” IEEE Int. Biomedical Engineering Conference (CIBEC), Cairo, Egypt, pp. 47-50, Dec. 2014.

[34] R.R. Gharieb, M. Hathi and N. Thakor, “Subband Spectral Complexity Distance for Cortical Health Evaluation and Monitoring in Ischemic Brain Injury,” Proc. of the 2010 5th Cairo International Biomedical Engineering Conference, Cairo, Egypt, December 16-18, 2010, pp. 167-170.

[35] Matthew P. Fronheiser, Alan Stein, Don Herzog, Scott Thompson, Anton Liopo, Mohammad Eghtedari, Massoud Motamedi, Sergey Ermilov, Andre Conjusteau, Reda Gharieb, Ron Lacewell, Tom Miller, Ketan Mehta, Alexander A. Oraevsky, “Optoacoustic system functional and molecular imaging in nude mice,” Proc. of SPIE Vol. 6856, 68560R, (2008), San Jose, CA, USA.

[36] SA Ermilov, R Gharieb, A Conjusteau, T Miller, K Mehta, AA Oraevsky, “Data processing

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and quasi-3D optoacoustic imaging of tumors in the breast using a linear arc-shaped array of ultrasonic transducers,” Proc. of SPIE Vol. 6856, 68560R, (2008), San Jose, CA, USA.

[37] Mohammad A. Yaseen, H. Peter-F. Brechtb, Sergey A. Ermilov, Reda R. Gharieb, André Conjusteau, and Alexander A. Oraevsky,” Hybrid optoacoustic and ultrasonic imaging system for detection of prostate malignancies,” Proc. of SPIE Vol. 6856 68560T-2, (2008), San Jose, CA.

[38] Sergey Ermilov, Alan Stein, Andre Conjusteau, Reda Gharieb, Ron Lacewell, Tom Miller, Scott Thompson, Pamela Otto, Barbara McCorvey, Tuenchit Khamapirad, Morton Leonard, and Alexander Oraevsky, “Detection and noninvasive diagnostic of breast cancer with 2-color optoacoustic laser system,” Proc. of SPIE Vol. 6437 643703, (2007) San Jose, CA.

[39] Gharieb, R.R and Hasan, Y.M.Y., “On-line classification and segmentation of the electro-encephalogram signal using an adaptive lattice predictor,” Int. Proc., Symposium Signal Processing and Information Technologies, ISSPIT-2003, Dec. 2003, Page(s): 814 - 817

[40] R. R. Gharieb and A. Cichocki, “On-line EEG classification and sleep spindles detection using an adaptive recursive bandpass filter," IEEE Int. Conf. Acoust., Speech, Signal Processing, )ICASSP-2001(, May 7-11, 2001, Utah, USA, vol. 2, pp. 1061-1064.

[41] N. Mourad, R.R. Gharieb, and A Cichocki “Extended Flexible Independent Component Analysis,” Proc. of the 1st IEEE Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology (ISSPIT), pp. 305-310, Dec. 28-30, 2001, Cairo, Egypt.

[42] H. M. Ibrahim, R.R. Gharieb and Aboulnasr H. Ibrahim, “Nonlinear cumulant based adaptive filter for simultaneous removal of Gaussian and impulsive noises in images,” IEEE Int. Conf. Acoust., Speech, Signal Processing, ICASSP-2001, May 7-11, 2001, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, pp. 1877-1880.

[43] A. Cichocki, R. R. Gharieb and N. Mourad, "Extraction of superimposed evoked potentials by combination of independent component analysis and cumulant-based matched filtering," Proc. of the 11th IEEE Workshop on Statistical Signal Processing, pp. 237-240, Singapore, Aug. 2001.

[44] A. Cichocki, R. R. Gharieb and T. Hoya, "Efficient extraction of evoked potentials by combination of Wiener filtering and subspace methods," IEEE Int. Conf. Acoust., Speech, Signal Processing, ICASSP-2001, May 7-11, 2001, Utah, USA, vol. 5, pp. 3117-3120.

[45] R. R. Gharieb, A. Cichocki, and S. F. Filipowicz, “Adaptive detection and extraction of sparse signals embedded in colored Gaussian noise using higher-order statistics,” Proc. of the 10th IEEE Workshop on Statistical Signal and Array Processing, pp. 631-634, Pennsylvania, USA, Aug. 2000.

[46] R. R. Gharieb, Y. Horita and T. Murai, “Retrieving sinusoids in colored Raleigh noise by a cumulant-based FBLP approach,’’ IEEE Int. Conf. Acoust., Speech, Signal Processing, ICASSP2000, June 5-9, 2000, Istanbul, Turkey, pp. 741-744.

[47] R. R. Gharieb, Y. Horita, T. Murai and A. Cichocki, “Unity-gain cumulant-based adaptive line enhancer,’’ Proc. of the 10th IEEE Workshop on Statistical Signal and Array Processing, pp. 626-630, Pennsylvania, USA, Aug. 2000.

[48] Y. Horita, T. Nakase, R.R. Gharieb, and T. Murai, “Quality Oriented JPEG Coding for Color Still Picture,” X European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO) 2000 (Tampere, Finland) (Sep., 2000)

[49] R. R. Gharieb, “A cumulant-based LP method for two-dimensional spectral estimation,’’ Proc. Int. Conf. Artificial Intelligence Applications (ICAI’98), pp. 150-156, Feb., 1998, Cairo, Egypt.

[50] H. M. Ibrahim and R. R. Gharieb, “Adaptive FIR system identification using higher order cumulants alone,’’ Proc. Int. Conf. Artificial Intelligence Applications (ICAI’96), pp. 273-283, Jan. 1996, Cairo, Egypt, 1996.

[51] H. M. Ibrahim and R. R. Gharieb, “Two-dimensional cumulant-based adaptive enhancer,’’ Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Image processing (ICIP’96), pp. 789-792, Lausanne, Switzerland, 1996.

[52] M. F. Fahmy, G. M. Elraheem and R. R. Gharieb, “IIR adaptive filters using discrete orthogonal functions,’’ Proc. IEEE Symp. Circuits and Systems, San Diego, CA, May 1992, pp. 2902-2905.

[53] HM Ibrahim, RR Gharieb, AH Ibrahim, “Edge preserving filtering by combining CBAE and median filter for image enhancement,” Proc. of Radio Science Conference, 2001. NRSC 2001.