Academic Appointments
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Lawrence Technological University
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
College of Engineering
2020 - Present
Distinguished Professor of Engineering Emeritus
University of Bridgeport
2020 - Present
Distinguished Professor of Engineering and computer Science
University of Bridgeport
Named as Distinguished Professor of Engineering and Computer Science in recognition of extensive scholarly achievements and contributions to the fields of robotics, automation, sensing and computer vision, systems engineering, computer science, on-line engineering and engineering education. Unanimously approved by the University of Bridgeport Board of Trustees on February 26, 2010.
2010 - 2020
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering
School of Engineering, University of Bridgeport, by courtesy
Teaching classes and seminars in Robotics, Automation and Sensing. Performing research within the area of web-based virtual robot prototyping and manufacturing.
2001 - 2020
Professor of Computer Science and Computer Engineering
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, School of Engineering, University of Bridgeport
Teaching classes in information technology, operating systems, engineering economics and management of engineering projects, e-commerce project management, robotics, automation, manufacturing and sensing. Research on web-based automation and prototyping, sensing for advanced manufacturing, assembly, scheduling and rapid prototyping of parts and electromechanical systems, and web-based autonomous agents.
2000 - 2020
Associate Professor of Computer Science and Computer Engineering
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, School of Engineering, University of Bridgeport. Tenured in 1998
Establishing a robotics, automation, and sensing track of classes at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Research on tolerance representation and determination for inspection and manufacturing, internet-based tele-control of robotic manipulators, hybrid controllers for robotics and automation, and sensor-based distributed control schemes for mobile robots.
1995 - 2000
Research Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Department of Computer Science, College of Engineering, University of Utah
Research on reverse engineering and inspection, design and real-time control of electromechanical systems, Discrete Event Dynamic Systems, object-oriented prototyping environments, CAD/CAM, robotics, and computation of manufacturing tolerances from sense data.
1992 - 1995
Manager, NSF CISE Infrastructure Award
Department of Computer Science, College of Engineering, University of Utah
Managing and co-coordinating the efforts of the different groups involved within the CISE computer-aided prototyping projects; including the Robot Prototyping Environment Project and the Reverse Engineering Project.
1992 - 1995
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
General Robotics and Active Sensory Perception (GRASP) Laboratory, Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania
Research on uncertainty modeling, representing, controlling, and observing interactive robotic agents in unstructured environments.
1991 - 1992
Research Fellow
GRASP laboratory, Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania
Research in vision and robotics on the recovery of 3-D shape from motion, static and dynamic camera calibration, target tracking with a moving camera and hybrid dynamic systems for observing and guiding moving agents and controlling and observing discrete event systems.
1989 - 1991
Teaching Fellow
Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania
Teaching undergraduate courses in Programming Languages (Fall’88), Computer Architecture and Organization (Spring’89) and two graduate courses in Theory of Computation (Fall’89) and Computer Architecture (Spring’90)
1988 - 1990
Graduate Student
Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania
Research in computer vision on the analysis of time-varying imagery and the determination of the optical flow, research in algorithms for parallel architectures, filtering algorithms for noise reduction in sense data, communication networks, control theory and in adaptive digital signal processing.
1988 - 1991
Mathematics Tutor
Department of Mathematics, University of Pennsylvania
Tutoring undergraduate and graduate courses in Calculus, Modern Algebra, Algebra, Linear Algebra, Advanced Calculus, Probability, Statistics, Numerical Analysis and Differential Equations.
1988 - 1990
Seminar Organizer
School of Engineering, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt
Structured, organized and lectured two seminars on Models for Computational Complexity and Two – Dimensional Signal Processing: Low – Level Image Processing for engineers and engineering students.
1986 - 1987
Research Programmer
Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, College of Engineering, University of Utah
Developing a paper-less document reviewing system by the customization of the GNU EMACS editing environment to contain 2 new modes for commenting and authorizing documents.
1986 - 1987
Research Assistant
Department of Computer Science, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt
Doing numerical analysis for the computation of the singular value decomposition of a matrix with some applications related to linear control systems.
1985
Industrial Positions
Visiting Research Scientist
1990
Philips Corporation, New York
Autonomous Systems Department, Philips Laboratories, North American Philips Corporation, New York. [5/90 – 10/90]
Research in adaptive goal-directed robotic sensing for performing visual recognition and inspection of industrial electronic components.
System Designer
1988
Designing and implementing a system for solving structural frames and trusses for civil engineering applications, (Ref. M. Islander, P.E.), Alexandria, Egypt.