Sameh Rehan's CV

Personal DataCurriculum VitaeSameh E. Rehan, Ph.D.SMIEEELanguages: Fluent (reading, writing, and conversation)in both English and ArabicDate of Birth: December 9 th , 1961Place of Birth:Marital Status:Mansoura, EgyptMarried to Dr. Iman F. Shehab El-Din (medical doctor) withtwo sons [Omar (Feb. 12 th , 1997) and Ahmad (Nov. 7 th , 1998)].Work Address: Communications and Electronics Engineering Dept., Faculty ofEngineering, Mansoura University (MU), Mansoura, Egypt 35516Home Address: 28 Almadinah Almonawarah, 6-October district, Mansoura,EgyptTel.:+2 (012) 737-9457 (c)+2 (050) 226-2204 (h)Emails: srehan@mans.edu.eg sameh_rehan@ieee.orgsamehrehan@msn.com samehrehan@gmail.comEducationPh.D.Thesis:Courses:M.Sc.Thesis:Courses:University of Waterloo (UW), Department of Electrical Engineering,VLSI group, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, May 1995.A Mixed-Mode Analog/Digital VLSI Implementation of Artificial NeuralNetworks (ANNs) for Character Recognition.Advanced Digital Signal Processing (DSP), Computer Aided CircuitAnalysis and Design, Topics in Artificial Intelligence: computationallinguistics, Design of VLSI MOS Integrated Circuits (ICs), Analog VLSISystems, and ANNs.Mansoura University (MU), Communications and Electronics Engineering(C&EE) Dept., Mansoura, Egypt, Dec. 1987.Design Considerations for Switched-Resistor (SR) Active Filters.CAD, Computer Applications, Digital & Pulse Circuits, Active Filters,and Seminars (Switched-Capacitor Filters).B.Sc. Mansoura University (MU), C&EE Dept., Mansoura, Egypt, May 1983.Grade: Excellent with Honor Degree. Ranked: Second (over 150 students in theC&EE Dept.).Project: Design of FIR Digital Filters using the 6800 Microprocessor.High School Al-Malik Al-Kamel High School, Mansoura, Egypt, May 1978.Grade: 97%. Ranked: Sixth (over more than 250,000 students in the generalEgyptian Secondary School Examination).CV of Dr. Sameh Rehan 8/2/2007 page 1 of 8

Awards• MU Top Incentive Award for the academic year 2006/2007.• Senior Member IEEE (SMIEEE) starting January 2007.• Excellence Award, Gennum Corp., Burlington, Ontario, Canada, 1994-96, and 2000-01.• Faculty of Engineering Scholarship, UW, winter 1992 and fall 1991.• International Student Fee Waiver, UW, winter 1993, spring 1992, and spring 1991.• MU Undergraduate Award (monthly monetary award), 1979-1983.• Ministry of Education Undergraduate Award (fully covered trip for two weeks to WestGermany), Egypt, 1982.• Ministry of Education Secondary-School Award (fully covered trip for a month to Greece,Austria, West Germany, France, and Italy), EGYPT, 1978.Training Programs (Technical and Personal Skills)• Regular Trainer for one day of a three-day Training on Teaching with Technology offered(once every couple of months, on average) to university staff members (all levels up to AssociateProf.) at MU through FLDP, Mansoura, Egypt, starting Aug. 2005.• Attended a three-day The Economics of Funding and Marketing of Scientific Researchoffered at MU, Mansoura, Egypt, June 17-19, 2007.• Attended a three-day Work Pressure and Time Management offered at MU, Mansoura,Egypt, June 3-5, 2007.• Successfully completed the course titled “e-Learning Content Development” offered online asan e-course by AUC for 6 weeks during Nov./Dec. 2005.• Attended a five-day workshop Introduction to Online Teaching and Learning offered andsponsored by UNESCO Cairo office at Notre Dame University in Beirut, Lebanon, Sept. 5-9,2005.• Attended a three-day Teaching with Technology Training Of Trainers (TOT) offered atAlexandria University for potential trainers from all over Egyptian universities, Alexandria,Egypt, July 26-28, 2005.• Attended a four-day Training Of Trainers (TOT) offered at MU, Mansoura, Egypt, May 21-24, 2005.• Attended a two-day Training Of Trainers (TOT) in Total Quality Management (Part 1:Awareness Campaign) offered by the Quality Assurance and Accreditation Projects (QAAP) atAin Shams University, Cairo, Egypt, February 14-15, 2005.• Performed an invited presentation about social styles during the three-day “ResearchMethodology” program offered by Faculty and Leadership Development Project (FLDP), MU,Mansoura, Egypt, January 1-3, 2005.• Performed an invited presentation about social styles during the attended three-day “ResearchMethodology” program offered by Faculty and Leadership Development Project (FLDP), MU,Mansoura, Egypt, December 18-20, 2004.• Attended a three-day “Skills for Effective Presentation” program offered by FLDP, MU,Mansoura, Egypt, December 7-9, 2004.• Attended a one-day “Building A High Performance Team” program by On PurposeLeadership Inc., Burlington, Ontario, Canada, January 19, 2003.• Attended a one-day integrated circuits fabrication scientific gathering “Chartered Tech Forum2002” offered by Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing (CSM), San Jose, CA, USA,September 19, 2002.• Attended a three-day technical training “Using Calibre” offered by Mentor Graphics, San Jose,CA, USA, September 16-18, 2002.CV of Dr. Sameh Rehan 8/2/2007 page 2 of 8

• Attended a four-day technical training “Advanced Silicon Ensemble (SE) Place and Routeversion 5.4” offered by Cadence, San Jose, CA, USA, September 10-13, 2002.• Attended a two-day Wilson Social Styles program, Burlington, Ontario, Canada, April 10-11,1996.Extracurricular ActivitiesI. Engineering• Member, Mansoura University Sustainability Committee (five-member committee selected by MUpresident) to follow up on the HEEPF project (D-042-L0), “Enhance and Coordinate Modern ElectronicsEngineering Courses for the e-Learning Era in Mansoura University,” Mansoura University, Mansoura,Egypt, starting June 2007.• Supervisor, e-Learning labs (75 PCs in three halls), the faculty of engineering at Mansoura University.The e-labs host the Mansoura University’s e-Learning center, the faculty of Engineering’s e-Learningcenter, and the new M.Sc. Engineering Environmental Program (sponsored by TEMPUS), starting Dec.2005.• Manager, faculty of Engineering’s e-Learning center (to promote using e-Learning and help engineeringprofessors to implement their e-courses), starting Dec. 2005. http://elearning.mans.edu.eg• Project Manager, “Enhance and Coordinate Modern Electronics Engineering Courses for the e-Learning Era in Mansoura University,” An $US 95,000 18-month project (D-042-L0) awarded by theHigher Education Enhancement Project Fund (HEEPF), Mansoura University, Mansoura, Egypt, August2005 – February 2007.http://www.mans.edu.eg/projects/heepf/ecmeec• Supervisor, the programming team at Mansoura University to upgrade the printing capabilities of theSIMON (the ONLY nanoelectronics simulator software that is created by Dr. Chris Wasshuberwasshuber@lybrary.com), September 2005 – February 2006.• Chair, Session H (Ewart Hall), The 4 th Conference on e-Learning Applications, The AmericanUniversity in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt, Jan. 3 rd , 2006.• Member, Mansoura University e-Learning Committee (seven-member committee chaired byMansoura University President), Mansoura, Egypt, September 2004 – December 2005.• Member, Mansoura On-Line Exams (MOLEx) development team, CITC, Mansoura University, Egypt,September 2003 – September 2005.• Leader, e-Learning team to build VRML animations for solid state course, Communications andInformation Technology Center (CITC), Mansoura University, Egypt, June – Dec. 2004.II. General• Board Director, Graduate Student Association, University of Waterloo (UW), Waterloo, Ontario,Canada, Sept. 1992 - Aug. 1993.• Member, International Graduate Student Committee, UW, Waterloo, Canada, Sept. 1991 - Aug. 1993.• Media and Science Officer, National Egyptian Student Association, North American Branch, Sept. 1991- Aug. 1993.• President, Egyptian Student Association, UW Chapter, Waterloo, Canada, Sept. 1990 - Aug. 1993.CAD Tools Experience• CADENCE Physical Design tools: SoC 1 st Encounter (FE): Physical Design Planning (PDP): IC floorplanning, Silicon Ensemble (SE): digital placement and routing (P&R), Virtuoso: layout editor, ICED:PC layout editor, and Calibre: design rule check (DRC) and layout versus schematic (LVS).• Synopsys Chip Synthesis tools: Design compiler, HDL Compiler, and Design Analyzer.• Mentor Graphics Design tools: HDL Designer Pro (Renoir): RTL digital design, MTI: ModelSim digitalcircuit simulator.• HSPICE and PSPICE circuit simulators & VHDL and Verilog languages.Device and Process Knowledge• MOSFET, BIPOLAR, and JFET devices.• United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC) 0.18μm CMOS process.• Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing (CSM) 0.25 μm CMOS process.CV of Dr. Sameh Rehan 8/2/2007 page 3 of 8

• Northern Telecom Electronics (NTE) 1.2μm CMOS process.• Gennum 3.0μm BiFET, LSI, and DLI processes.Employment HistoryI. Academic ExperienceSeptember 2003 to present Assistant Prof., C&EE Dept., MU, Mansoura, Egypt• Instructor for the following term courses (on-line courses are @ http://osp.mans.edu.eg/rehan ):1. Artificial Neural Networks: for senior students of the C&EE Dept., Fall 2003.2. Assembly Language (MIPS): For senior students of the C&EE Dept., Winter 2004, for thirdyear students of the C&EE Dept., Winter 2005, and for third year students of the ComputerSciences Dept., Faculty of Information and Computers, MU, Winter 2005.3. Solid State Electronics: for first year students of the C&EE Dept., Fall 2003/04/05/06.• Instructor for the CAD (03/04 & 04/05) and Nano-electronics (05/06 & 06/07) full-year M.Sc. graduatecourses at MU.• Co-supervises graduate students on their research work in the areas of:1. Nano-electronics:• Eng. Lobna (Design of an 8-bit ADC using Single Electron Transistor (SET))• Eng. Iman (Design of a full-adder using Single Electron Transistor (SET)),2. DSP:• Eng. Hossam (Application of registration techniques to biomedical images), and3. e-Learning:• Eng. Mahmoud (Animations for the analysis and design of electronic devices)• Eng. Reham (Animations for the analysis and design of analog electronics)• Eng. M. Samy (Animations for the analysis and design of digital electronics)• Supervises students working on their final full-year graduation projects (6 students in 2004/05 & 10students in both 05/06 and 06/07) in the area of e-Learning (Development of an Electronic Virtual lab).September 1997 to Aug. 1998 Assistant Prof., C&EE Dept., MU, Mansoura, Egypt• Instructor for the following full-year courses:1. Integrated Circuits: for senior students of the Electronics Engineering Dept.2. Acoustics: for senior students of the Architecture Civil Engineering Dept.3. Electronics: for junior students of the Electrical Engineering Dept.• Supervised students working on their final year graduation projects in the general areas of ANNs &VLSI.September 1989 to May 1995 Ph.D. Candidate, Research Associate & TeachingAssistant, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering (E&CE), University ofWaterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada• Researched and gained experience in the following areas: VLSI implementation, ANNs, CMOS ICdesign, CAD tools, DSP, computational linguistics, expert systems, and character recognition systems.• Designed, simulated, laid out, and tested three CMOS chips:1. The first chip had the basic ANN building block circuits,2. The second chip had a mixed-mode ANN circuit that solves the XOR problem, and3. The third chip was a two-character ANN recognition system that encodes the Back-Propagation (BP) learning algorithm of the multi-layer perceptron (MLP) model simulator.The chip was implemented using the NTE 1.2μm CMOS process.• Published several research papers, and attended research conferences as well as technical workshops.• Conducted tutorials and lectures for undergraduate students in the areas of: Switching and DigitalCircuits (E&CE 438), and Electrical Engineering Circuits (E&CE 123).• Demonstrated experiments to undergraduate students; supervised them during laboratory sessions andmarked their reports, projects, and exams.Jan. 1988 to Aug. 1989 Ass. Lecturer, C&EE Department, MU, Mansoura, EgyptCV of Dr. Sameh Rehan 8/2/2007 page 4 of 8

• Conducted tutorials and lectures for undergraduate students in the areas of: Digital Circuits, SwitchedCapacitor Circuits, Active Filters, Analog ICs, Electronics, and Computer Applications.• Demonstrated experiments to undergraduate students; supervised them during laboratory sessions andmarked their reports, projects, and exams.September 1984 to December 1987 M.Sc. Candidate, Research Associate & TeachingAssistant, C&EE Department, MU, Mansoura, Egypt• Researched and gained experience in the following areas: Switched-Resistor (SR) Circuits, ActiveFilters, Digital Circuit Design, PCB design, and CAD tools.• Designed, implemented, and tested sampled-data active filters & oscillators and an accurate (6 bitresolution) digital clock with varying duty-cycle using PCBs.• Supervised undergraduate students during Electronics laboratory sessions and graduation projects.II. Industrial ExperienceSeptember 2003 to December 2004 Physical IC Design Consultant, Wireless andAudio R&D Division, Gennum Corporation, Burlington, Ontario, Canada• Conducted the physical design activities (floor-planning, P&R, layout, DRC, LVS, and tape out) of twoDSP HIP products using UMC 0.18μm CMOS process. This work was done (using Gennum’s designtools) remotely from Egypt through high-speed Internet connection.December 2000 to August 2003 Physical IC Design Team Leader, HearingInstrument Products (HIP) R&D Division, Gennum Corporation, Burlington,Ontario, Canada• Managed the activities of the physical design team of the HIP R&D division to achieve the tape out of:1. 7 chips for 5 hearing aid systems using CSM 0.25μm / UMC 0.18μm CMOS processes and2. 6 test chips for future products using UMC 0.18μm CMOS process.• Supervised the physical design activities (floor-planning, P&R, layout, DRC, and LVS) and approved thesign-off of all DSP HIP products and test chips using CSM and UMC CMOS processes.• Supervised and trained new hires to do physical design using PDP, SE, Virtuoso, and Calibre CAD tools.• Supervised & approved of product physical design documentation for 2 hearing aid chips and 5 testchips.December 1999 to November 2000 IC Design Engineer, Digital Signal Processing(DSP) Group, Hearing Instrument Products (HIP) R&D Division, GennumCorporation, Burlington, Ontario, Canada• Designed, simulated, generated test-benches, and verified several digital modules including: the clockgenerator module, the FIFO RAM module, the system word module, and the debounce circuits for the firstDSP HIP product at Gennum Corporation.• Conducted the physical design activities (floor-planning, P&R, layout, DRC, and LVS) of the DSP HIPchip using CSM 0.25μm CMOS process.• Prepared product physical design documentation for the DSP HIP hearing aid chip.September 1998 to November 1999 IC Design Engineer, HIP Analog IC DesignGroup, R&D Division, Gennum Corporation, Burlington, Ontario, Canada• Designed, simulated, laid out, and verified one full-custom BiFET AGCO class B analog signal processorfor hearing aid applications.• Laid out and verified one full-custom BiFET analog signal processor chip for one of Gennum’s biggestcustomers (Phonak of Switzerland) that is now being used for hearing aid applications.• Prepared specs, test plan, and product design documentation for a class B hearing aid amplifier product.March 1994 to August 1998 Product Development Engineer, HIP Analog IC DesignGroup, R&D Division, Gennum Corporation, Burlington, Ontario, Canada• Designed, simulated, laid out, and verified several full-custom BiFET amplifier chips for hearing aidapplications (including class D, class H, and class B amplifiers).• Resolved a low-yield problem in one full-custom class B BiFET amplifier chip.CV of Dr. Sameh Rehan 8/2/2007 page 5 of 8

• Resolved a 2-year-old high-current problem in a full-custom class B BiFET amp. chip in 2 months.• Prepared specs., test plan, and product design documentation for several hearing aid amplifier products.May 1992 to December 1992 Circuit Design Engineer, Contract between Universityof Waterloo & Canadian Microelectronics Corp. (CMC)/Micronet, Waterloo,Ontario, Canada.• Designed, characterized, and laid out: 10 ECL and 4 BiCMOS digital logic and interface cells withdifferent Edge representations (e.g., layout, symbol, lvs, verilog, and VHDL).• Prepared a report describing the design procedure of the cells, their schematics, and their characteristics.Publications• Theses:[1] S.E. Rehan, “A Mixed-Mode VLSI Implementation of Artificial Neural Networks forCharacter Recognition”, Ph.D. Thesis, Electrical Engineering Dept., University ofWaterloo, Canada, May 1995.[2] S.E. Rehan, “Design Considerations for Switched-Resistor Active Filters”, M.Sc.Thesis, C&EE Dept., MU, Egypt, Dec. 1987.• Chapters in Books:[3] S.E. Rehan, M.I. Elmasry, “A Sampled-Data CMOS VLSI Implementation of a Multi-Character ANN Recognition System”, VLSI Artificial Neural Networks Engineering, M.I. Elmasry, Editor, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Chapter 2, pp.33-89, 1994.• Journal Papers:[4] H. Moustafa, S. Rehan, "CT and MR Medical Image Registration Based onMaximization of Mutual Information", Mansoura Engineering Journal (MEJ), Vol. 32,No. 3, June 2007, pp. E.49-E.57.[5] Eman Almetwaly, S. Rehan, "An 8-Bit Full-Adder Implementation Using SingleElectron Tunneling (SET)", Mansoura Engineering Journal (MEJ), Vol. 32, No. 3, June2007, pp. E.79-E.85.[6] Sameh E. Rehan, "A Novel XOR Gate Using Single Electron Tunneling (SET)Technology", Mansoura Engineering Journal (MEJ), Vol. 31, No. 4, December 2006, pp.E.1-E.8.[7] Sameh E. Rehan, Lobna Abdel-Aziz "An 8-Bit DAC Implementation Using SingleElectron Tunneling (SET) Technology", Mansoura Engineering Journal (MEJ), Vol. 31,No. 4, December 2006, pp. E.18-E.24.[8] Sameh E. Rehan, "A Novel 4-Neuron Hopfield ANN Using Single Electron Tunneling(SET) Technology", Mansoura Engineering Journal (MEJ), Vol. 31, No. 4, December2006, pp. E.46-E.52.[9] H. Moustafa, S. Rehan, "Applying Image Fusion Techniques for The Detection ofAcute Intra-Cerebral Hemorrhage", Mansoura Engineering Journal, Vol. 31, No. 3,September 2006, pp. E.34-E.44.[10] S.E. Rehan, M.I. Elmasry, "Modular SR ANN Chip for Character Recognition UsingNovel Parallel VLSI Architecture", Neural, Parallel & Scientific Computations Journal,Vol. 1, pp.241-262, 1993.[11] S.E. Rehan, M.I. Elmasry, "Novel CMOS Sampled-Data VLSI Implementation ofANNs", Electronics Letters, Vol. 28, No. 13, pp.1216-1218, June 1992.CV of Dr. Sameh Rehan 8/2/2007 page 6 of 8

• Conference Papers:[12] Sameh E. Rehan, "A Novel Half-Adder Using Single Electron Tunneling (SET)Technology", Poster in the 2 nd Annual IEEE Intl. Conf. On Nano/Micro Engineered andMolecular Systems (IEEE-NEMS 2007), Bangkok, Thailand, Jan. 16-19, 2007.[13] Sameh E. Rehan, “Using MOODLE for Teaching The Solid State Engineering(SSE) Course in Mansoura University (MU)”, The 5 th Conference on e-LearningApplications, The American University in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt, Jan. 14 th -15 th , 2007.[14] H. Moustafa, S. Rehan, "Applying Image Fusion Techniques for The Detection ofHepatic Lesions and Acute Intra-Cerebral Hemorrhage", The Proceedings of the ITI 4 thIntl. Conf. On Information & Communications Technology (ICICT 2006), Cairo, Egypt,Dec. 10-12, 2006.[15] Sameh E. Rehan, “Evaluating an e-Learning Experiment to teach an EngineeringCourse to Students @ Mansoura University”, The 4 th Conference on e-LearningApplications, The American University in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt, Jan. 3 rd -4 th , 2006.[16] M. Samy, S. Rehan, "Designing An Interactive Animation Of The Solar SystemUsing VRML", The Fourth International Internet Education Conference (ICT-Learn2005), Cairo, Egypt, September 6-8, 2005.[17] S. Rehan, M. Annaggar, M. Abdul-Razzak, "Using e-Learning to teach EngineeringStudents the Solid State Course @ Mansoura University", The 3 rd Conference on e-Learning Applications, The American University in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt, Jan. 15-16,2005.[18] M. Abdul-Razzak, M. Abd Al-Aziz, S. Rehan, "Using MOLEx e-Learning On-LineExams tool to evaluate Engineering Students @ Mansoura University", The ThirdInternational Internet Education Conference (ICT-Learn 2004), Cairo, Egypt, October11-13, 2004.[19] J.A. Barby, S.E. Rehan, M.I. Elmasry, "AHDL Modeling to Support Top-DownDesign of Mixed-Signal ASICs", Proceedings of the 7 th Annual IEEE International ASICConference and Exhibit, Rochester, NY, pp.166-169, Sept. 19-23, 1994.[20] J.A. Barby, S.E. Rehan, M.M.A. Salama, "AHDL Approach to Solving Simulationand Modeling Problems: 2 Case Studies", ASSURE’94, Stevenson, WA, pp.43-52,March 1994.[21] S.E. Rehan, M.I. Elmasry, "VLSI Zip-Code Recognition System Using ArtificialNeural Network", The Fifth International Conference on Microelectronics (ICM’93),Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, pp.294-297, December 14-16, 1993).[22] S.E. Rehan, M.I. Elmasry, "VLSI Implementation of A Modular ANN Chip forCharacter Recognition", Proceedings of the 36 th Midwest Symposium on Circuits andSystems, Windsor, Vol. 2, pp.1279-1283, August 16-18, 1993.[23] S.E. Rehan, M.I. Elmasry, "VLSI Implementation of a Prototype MLP Using NovelProgrammable Switched-Resistor CMOS ANN Chip", The 1993 World Congress onNeural Networks (WCNN’93), Portland, Oregon, pp.96-99, July 1993.[24] A.I. Abd-Elfattah, M.A. Abo-Elsoud, S.E. Rehan, "A Switched Resistor HighQuality Simulated Inductor and Some Applications", Proceedings of the 31 st MidwestSymposium on Circuits and Systems, St. Louis, Missouri, USA, pp.10-13, August 9-12,1988.CV of Dr. Sameh Rehan 8/2/2007 page 7 of 8

[25] M.A. Abo-Elsoud, A.I. Abd-Elfattah, S.E. Rehan, “Finite Amplifier-Gain Effects inSR State Variable Filters”, The Fifth National Radio Science Conference, Cairo, Egypt,Feb. 1988.[26] M.A. Abo-Elsoud, A.I. Abd-Elfattah, S.E. Rehan, "A Novel Switched-ResistorOscillator", Armed Forces Scientific Research Journal, Cairo, Egypt, Vol. XVII No. 40,pp.27-30, December 1986.ReferencesUniversity of WaterlooWaterloo, Ont. N2L 3G1• Dr. M. Kamel, ProfessorDept. of Electrical & Computer Engineeringe-mail: mkamel@pami.uwaterloo.caPhone: (519) 888-4567 ext. 5761• Dr. C. DiMarco, ProfessorDept. of Computer science,e-mail: cdimarco@uwaterloo.caPhone: (519) 888-4567 ext. 4443Michael G. DeGroote School of Business,McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada• Dr. K. Hassanein, Associate ProfessorInformation Systems Department,e-mail: hassank@mcmaster.caPhone: (905) 525-9140 ext. 23956Mansoura University, Mansoura, Egypt• Dr. A. I. Abdel-Fattah, ProfessorCommunications and Electronics Engineering Department,e-mail: abd-fattah@yahoo.comPhone: +20 (50) 224-4105 ext. 1345CV of Dr. Sameh Rehan 8/2/2007 page 8 of 8