User:Ambadawi

Dr. Ahmed Badawi received his BSC, MSC, PhD in 1990, 1993, and 1996 respectively from Department of Systems & Biomedical Engineering, Cairo University. He was an assistant professor, associate professor, and full professor in 1996, 2001, and 2007 respectively at Systems & Biomedical Engineering Cairo University. He was a visiting professor at University of Tennessee, Biomedical Engineering Department from 2005-2007. He is currently a professor on leave of Systems & Biomedical Engineering, Cairo University. His research interests are in Medical Imaging, 3D/4D Image Reconstruction, Visualization, and Measurements, Surgical Navigation, Image Processing, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition in Medicine, Neural Networks, Fuzzy Systems, Medical Classification, Biometrics, Intelligent Medical Systems, Medical Software Workstations Design. He is a senior member, IEEE, a member in IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology society. He published over 100 papers in journals and peer reviewed conferences. His BSC degree was Distinction with Honor Degree for the five years of BSC with GPA of 3.94/4 and his MSC GPA of 4/4 keeping the highest record at his department for graduate level. He had several awards, among them are the state award from the Academy of Scientific Research and Technology, Egypt for the year 2001 and Cairo University award for Engineering Research for the year 2002. He is a reviewer of several international journals, scientific program committee and chairman of several international conferences, sessions, and tracks. After graduation in 1990 and in his early career, he was a senior design engineer at IBM from 1991-1992, head of IT department at El-Emara office from 1993-1998. Among his extensive industrial experiences, he was an R&D director of Imaging Solutions Department at ibetech.com from 1998-2005, where he lead the R&D team who developed the first Egyptian 3D ultrasound system and add-on solutions in year 2000. He had several designed products currently in the market, 3D Ultrasound of IBETECH was one of these products. He had over 20 years experience in Systems & Biomedical Engineering teaching and research. He supervised over 20 MSC and PhD students. He examined several MSC and PhD theses worldwide. He supervised tens of senior design projects at various universities in Egypt and USA. He gave several invited talks and presentations worldwide in the fields of Medical Imaging and Biometrics. He developed several curricula at Biomedical Engineering for undergraduate/graduate levels at Cairo University in year 2003 and at University of Tennessee, Knoxville in year 2006. Among his courses taught for undergraduate students are Pattern Recognition, Intelligent Systems in Medicine, Random Signal and Information Theory, Biostatistics, and Medical Instrumentation. Among his courses taught for graduate students at several universities in Egypt and USA, are Pattern Recognition in Medicine, Multidimensional Medical Image Analysis, Medical Imaging Physics, Digital Image Processing, and Biometrics. His biography was selected to appear in Marquis Who’s Who in the World in 2005-2006.