Abdelgawad, Ahmed
Professor
Biography
Dr. Ahmed Abdelgawad received his M.S. and a Ph.D. degree in Computer Engineering from University of Louisiana at Lafayette in 2007 and 2011 and subsequently joined IBM as a Design Aids & Automation Engineering Professional at Semiconductor Research and Development Center. In Fall 2012 he joined Central Michigan University as a Computer Engineering Assistant Professor. In Fall 2022, Dr. Abdelgawad was promoted to the rank of Professor. He is a senior member of IEEE. His area of expertise is Internet of Things (IoT), distributed computing for Wireless Sensor Network (WSN), Structural Health Monitoring (SHM), data fusion techniques for WSN, low power embedded system, digital signal processing, Robotics, RFID, Localization, VLSI, and FPGA design. He has published two books and more than 100 articles in related journals and conferences. Dr. Abdelgawad served as a reviewer for several journals and conferences, including IEEE IoT Journal, IEEE Communications Magazine, IEEE Transactions on VLSI, and IEEE Transactions on I&M, Springer, Elsevier, IEEE WF-IoT, IEEE ISCAS, IEEE SAS, and IEEE MWSCAS. He severed in the organizing committees of IEEE WF-IoT, IEEE ISCAS, IEEE ICIP, IEEE SiPS, IEEE MWSCAS, and GIoTS. In addition, he taught many short IoT courses in different countries. He was the keynote speakers for many international conferences and conducted many webinars. He is currently the IEEE Northeast Michigan section chair and IEEE SPS Internet of Things (IoT) SIG Member. In addition, Dr. Abdelgawad served as a PI and Co-PI for several funded grants from NSF.
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Publications & Presentations
- Elarabi, T.; Abdelgawad, A.; Bayoumi, M "Real-Time Heterogeneous Video Transcoding for Low-Power Applications" Springer, ISBN: 978-3-319-06070-5, 2014.
- Abdelgawad, A.; Bayoumi, M "Resource-Aware Data Fusion Algorithms for Wireless Sensor Networks" Springer, ISBN 978-1-4614-1349-3, 2012.
Journals
- Alnaeli, S.; Sarnowski, M.; Aman, S.; Abdelgawad, A.; Yelamarthi,K., "Source Code Vulnerabilities in IoT Software Systems," Advances in Science, Technology and Engineering Systems Journal, vol. 2, pp. 1502-1507, 2017.
- Yelamarthi, K.; Aman, S.; Abdelgawad, A.; Kattab, A., "An Application-Driven Modular IoT Architecture," Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, vol. 2017, Article ID 1350929, 16 pages, 2017. doi:10.1155/2017/1350929. Impact factor 0.922.
- Abdelgawad, A.; Yelamarthi, K., "Internet of Things (IoT) Platform for Structure Health Monitoring," Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, vol. 2017, Article ID 6560797, 10 pages, 2017. doi:10.1155/2017/6560797. Impact factor 0.922.
- Abdelgawad, A.; Mahmud, A.; Yelamarthi, K., "Butterworth Filter Application for Structural Health Monitoring," International Journal of Handheld Computing Research (IJHCR)vol. 7 no. 4, Oct-Dec 2016.
- Ismail, Y.; Balbis, L.; Abdelgawad, A.; Mansour, H.; Fareed, F.; Mohsen, J.,"6-DOF Robotic Arm Using Haptic Feedback Wired and Wireless Platforms" International Journal of Computing and Network Technology , vol. 4 no. 2, 2016.
- Abdelgawad, A.," Distributed Kalman Filter with Fast Consensus for Wireless Sensor Networks," Journal of Wireless Information Networks, Springer, DOI 10.1007/s10776-016-0294-3, 2016. Impact factor 2.191.
- Ismail, Y.; Abdelgawad, A.; El-Etriby, S.," High Speed On-Chip Multiple Cosine Transform Generator," Journal of Real-Time Image Processing, Springer, DOI 10.1007/s11554-015-0528-0, 2015. Impact factor 2.020.
- Abdelgawad, A., "Auto-Localization System for Indoor Mobile Robot Using RFID Fusion" Robotica Cambridge Journal, doi:10.1017/S0263574714001106, 2014. Impact factor 0.939.
- Ismail, Y.; Abdelgawad, A.; El-Medany, W.; Al-Junaid, H.," High Performance Architecture for Real-Time HDTV Broadcasting," Journal of Real-Time Image Processing, Springer, doi:10.1007/s11554-014-0430-1, 2014. Impact factor 2.020.
- Abdelgawad, A., "Distributed Sand Monitoring Framework Using Wireless Sensor Networks" Journal of Communications Engineering and Networks,vol. 1 no. 1, pp. 1-10, Oct 2013
- Abdelgawad, A.; Bayoumi, M " Low Power Distributed Kalman Filter for Wireless Sensor Networks," Accepted for publication in EURASIP Journal on Embedded Systems, 2011.
- Abdelgawad, A.; Bayoumi, M " Remote Measuring for Sand in Pipelines Using Wireless Sensor Network," Accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, 2011.
- Abdelgawad, A.; Ashour, I.; Abouelsoud. M., "Low Cost Single Chip Interface for ATE", Al- Azhar University, faculty of engineering journal, April 2003.
- Abdelgawad, A.; Ashour, I.; Abouelsoud. M., "Automatic Testing Equipment (ATE) On One Chip", Mansoura University, faculty of engineering journal, March 2003.
Other Significant Publications
- Yelamarthi, K.; DeJong, B.; Kaya, T.; Abdelgawad, A.; Shabib, I., "Research Experiences for School Teachers and Community College Instructors in Smart-Vehicles: Initial Implementation and Assessment" The 2016 American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE) Conference, Columbus, Ohio, June 25, 2017.
- Mahmud, A.; Abdelgawad, A.; Yelamarthi, K., "Signal Processing Techniques for IoT-based Structural Health Monitoring" IEEE International Conference on Electro Information Technology (EIT 2017), Lincoln, Nebraska, U.S.A., 14-17 May, 2017.
- Weis, A.; Strandskov, M.; Yelamarthi, K.; Aman, S.; Abdelgawad, A., "Rapid Deployment of IoT Enabled System for Automobile Fuel Range and Gas Price Location" IEEE International Conference on Electro Information Technology (EIT 2017), Lincoln, Nebraska, U.S.A., 14-17 May, 2017.
- Lake, M.; Wernette, J.; Khan, T.; A. Abdelgawad, "Design of a Structural Health Monitoring and Notification System," IEEE International Conference on Electro Information Technology (EIT 2017), Lincoln, Nebraska, U.S.A., 14-17 May, 2017.
- Aman, S.; Quint, C.; Yelamarthi, K.; Abdelgawad, A., " Sensing and Classifying Indoor Environments: An IoT Based Portable Tour Guide System," IEEE Sensors Applications Symposium, SAS 2017.
- Mahmud, A.; Abdelgawad, A.; Yelamarthi, K., "Low Power RPL for Internet of Things (IoT)," The 42nd IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2017, 5-9 Mar 2017.
- Aman, S.; Yelamarthi, K.; Abdelgawad, A., "Implementation of a Modular IoT Framework with Scalability and Efficient Routing," The 42nd IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2017, 5-9 Mar 2017.
- Yelamarthi, K.; Abdelgawad, A.; Khattab, A., "An Architectural Framework for Low-Power IoT Applications," 27th IEEE International Conference on Microelectronics,ICM 2016, 17-20 December, 2016.
- Khattab, A.; Abdelgawad, A.; Yelamarthi, K., "Design and Implementation of a Cloud-based IoT Scheme for Precision Agriculture," 27th IEEE International Conference on Microelectronics,ICM 2016, 17-20 December, 2016.
- Aman, S.; Yelamarthi, K.; Abdelgawad, A.; Alnaeli, S., "Parallelization in Software Systems for WSN and IoT," IEEE World Forum on Internet of Things, WF-IoT 2016, 2-14 December 2016.
- Alnaeli, S.; Sarnowski, M.; Aman, S.; Abdelgawad, A.; Yelamarthi, K., "Vulnerable C/C++ Code Usage in IoT Software Systems," IEEE World Forum on Internet of Things, WF-IoT 2016, 2-14 December 2016.
- Trent, M.; Abdelgawad, A.; Yelamarthi, K., "A Smart Wearable Navigation System for Visually Impaired," 2nd EAI International Conference on Smart Objects and Technologies for Social Good, 30 November-1 December, 2016.
- Abdelgawad, A.; Khattab, A.; Yelamarthi, K., "IoT-Based Health Monitoring system for Active and Assisted Living," 2nd EAI International Conference on Smart Objects and Technologies for Social Good, 30 November- 1 December, 2016.
- Aman, S.; Jiang, H.; Quint, C.; Yelamarthi, K.; Abdelgawad, A., "Reliability Evaluation of iBeacon for Micro-Localization," The 7th IEEE Annual Ubiquitous Computing, Electronics & Mobile Communication Conference, 20 - 22 October 2016.
- Alnaeli, S.; Sarnowski, M.; Aman, S.; Abdelgawad, A.; Yelamarthi, K., "On the Evolution of Mobile Computing Software Systems and C/C++ Vulnerable Code," The 7th IEEE Annual Ubiquitous Computing, Electronics & Mobile Communication Conference, 20 - 22 October 2016.
- Abdelgawad, A.; Yelamarthi, K., " Structural Health Monitoring: Internet of Things Application," 59th IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, MWSCAS 2016, 16-19 October 2016.
- Darwich, M.; Abdelgawad, A.; Bayoumi, M., " A Survey on the Power and Robustness of FinFET SRAM," 59th IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, MWSCAS 2016, 16-19 October 2016.
- Morelli, T.; Coggins, E.; Andrew, K.; Yelamarthi, K.; Abdelgawad, A., " Virtual Reality Navigation Simulation for Users who are Blind," 59th IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, MWSCAS 2016, 16-19 October 2016.
- Laubhan, K.; Talaat, K.; Riehl, S.; Morelli, T.; Abdelgawad, A.; Yelamarthi, K., " A Four-Layer Wireless Sensor Network Framework for IoT Applications," 59th IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, MWSCAS 2016, 16-19 October 2016.
- Trent, M.; Abdelgawad, A.; Yelamarthi, K., " An Internet of Things Enabled Wearable Navigation System for Blind," 59th IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, MWSCAS 2016, 16-19 October 2016.
- Myers, A.; Mahmud, A.; Abdelgawad, A.; Yelamarthi, K., "Toward Integrating Structural Health Monitoring with Internet of Things," IEEE International Conference on Electro/Information Technology, 19-21 May, 2016.
- Aman, S.; Jiang, H.; Mahmud, A.; Abdelgawad, A.; Yelamarthi, K., "A Sensor Fusion Methodology for Dynamic Obstacle Avoidance Robot," IEEE International Conference on Electro/Information Technology, 19-21 May, 2016.
- Laubhan, K.; Talaat, K.; Riehl, R.; Aman, S.; Abdelgawad, A.; Yelamarthi, K., "A Low-Power IoT Framework: From Sensors to the Cloud," IEEE International Conference on Electro/Information Technology, 19-21 May, 2016.
- Trent, M.; Laubhan, K.; Abdelgawad, A.; Yelamarthi, "Low-Cost Ultrasonic Obstacle-Avoidance System using FPGA" The 2016 American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE) Conference, March 18-19, 2016.
- Wernette, J.; Myers, A.; Schrauben, N.; Yang, T.; and Abdelgawad, A., "Structure Damage Localization by a Reliable Guided Waves Damage Detection Technique" The 2016 American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE) Conference, March 18-19, 2016.
- Qatu, K.; Abdelgawad, A.; Yelamarthi, K., "Structure Damage Localization Using a Reliable Wave Damage Detection Technique," The International Conference on Electrical, Electronics, and Optimization Techniques (ICEEOT 2016), 3-5 March 2016.
- Trent, M.; Laubhan, K.; Abdelgawad, A.; Yelamarthi, K., "An FPGA-based Portable Real-time Obstacle Detection and Notification System," The International Conference on Electrical, Electronics, and Optimization Techniques (ICEEOT 2016), 3-5 March 2016.
- Laubhan, K.; Trent, M.; Root, B.; Abdelgawad, A.; Yelamarthi, K., "A Wearable Portable Electronic Travel Aid for Blind," The International Conference on Electrical, Electronics, and Optimization Techniques (ICEEOT 2016), 3-5 March 2016.
- Mahmud, A.; Aman, S.; Abdelgawad, A.; Yelamarthi, K., "Kalman Filter based Indoor Mobile Robot Navigation," The International Conference on Electrical, Electronics, and Optimization Techniques (ICEEOT 2016), 3-5 March 2016.
- Abdelgawad, A.; Ismail, Y.; Yelamarthi, K., " Moving Target Tracking Using a Mobile Robot," IEEE National Aerospace & Electronics Conference & Ohio Innovation Summit (NAECON-OIS), 16-19 June 2015.
- Qatu, K.; Abdelgawad, A., " Structure Damage Localization by a Reliable Guided Waves Damage Detection Technique," International Conference on Recent Advances in Rehabilitation and Sustainability of Structures Rehab Structures, 1-2 June 2015.
- Ghelichi, A.; Abdelgawad, A., " A Study on RFID-Based Kanban System in Inventory Management," IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management, IEEM 2014, 09-12 December 2014.
- Abdelgawad, A., " Localization System for Indoor Robot Using RFID," IEEE Symposium on Industrial Electronics and Applications, ISIEA 2014, 28 September-1 October 2014.
- Elarabi, T.; Sammoud, A.; Abdelgawad, A.; Li, X.; Bayoumi, M., "Hybrid Wavelet-DCT Intra Prediction for H.264/AVC Interactive Encoder" IEEE China Summit and International Conference on Signal and Information Processing, ChinaSIP 2014, 9-13 July, 2014.
- Abdelgawad, A., " Sand Rate Measurement in Oil Pipelines Using Wireless Sensor Network," IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, ISCAS 2014, 1-5 Jun 2014.
- Ghelichi , A.; Abdelgawad, A., " RFID Applications in Inventory Management Based on Kanban System," International Conference on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, EEE 2014, 26-27 April. 2014.
- Abdelgawad, A.," Distributed Data Fusion Algorithm for Wireless Sensor Network," 11th IEEE International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control, ICNSC 2014, 7-9 April. 2014.
- Ismail, Y.; Abdelgawad, A.; El-Medany,W.; Al-Junaid, H.," Fast Co-Processor For Real Time Video Transmission," IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits, and Systems, ICECS 2013, 8-11 Dec. 2013.
- Ghelichi, A.; Yelamarthi, K.; Abdelgawad, A., " Target Localization in Wireless Sensor Network based on Time Difference Of Arrival," 56th IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, MWSCAS 2013, 4-7 Aug. 2013.
- Abdelgawad, A., " Low Power Multiply Accumulate Unit (MAC) for Future Wireless Sensor Networks," IEEE Sensors Applications Symposium, SAS 2013, 19-21 Feb. 2013.
- Abdelgawad, A.; Bayoumi M., " Distributed Kalman Filter Using Fast Polynomial Filter," IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, ISCAS 2011, 15-18 May 2011.
- Abdelgawad, A.; Bayoumi, M., "Sand Monitoring in Pipelines Using Distributed Data Fusion Algorithm," IEEE Sensors Applications Symposium, SAS 2011, pp. 22-24 Feb. 2011.
- Abdelhak, S.; Abdelgawad, A.; Ghosh, S.; Bayoumi, M., " A Complete Scheme for Distributed LU Decomposition on Wireless Sensor Networks," 53rd IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, MWSCAS 2010, 1-4 Aug. 2010.
- Abdelgawad, A.; Abdelhak, S.; Ghosh, S.; Bayoumi, M., "A low-power multiplication algorithm for signal processing in wireless sensor networks," 52nd IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, MWSCAS 2009, pp.695-698, 2-5 Aug. 2009.
- Abdelgawad, A.; Merhi, Z.; Elgamel, M.; Bayoumi, M.; Zaki, A., "Data fusion framework for sand detection in pipelines," IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, ISCAS 2009, pp.2173-2176, 24-27 May 2009.
- Abdelgawad, A.; Merhi, Z.; Elgamel, M.; Bayoumi, M., "Multisensor data fusion methods for petroleum engineering applications," IEEE Sensors Applications Symposium, SAS 2009, pp.265-268, 17-19 Feb. 2009.
- Lewis, A.; Abdelgawad, A.; Tzeng, N.-F., "Wireless Sensor Data Acquisition Design for Engineering Applications," 4th IEEE International Conference on Circuits and Systems for Communications, ICCSC 2008, pp.544-549, 26-28 May 2008.
- Abdelgawad, A.; Bayoumi, M., "High Speed and Area-Efficient Multiply Accumulate (MAC) Unit for Digital Signal Processing Applications," IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, ISCAS 2007, pp.3199-3202, 27-30 May 2007.
- Abdelgawad, A.; Lewis, A.; Elgamel, M.; Issa, F.; Tzeng, N.-F.; Bayoumi, M., "Remote Measuring of Flow Meters for Petroleum Engineering and Other Industrial Applications," International Workshop on Computer Architecture for Machine Perception and Sensing, CAMP 2006, vol., no., pp.99-103, 18-20 Aug. 2006.
- Ashour, I.; Abdelgawad, A., "Data Acquisition and Signal Processing PC-Based Harmonic Power Analyzer System" National Radio Science Conference (NRSC) 2004.
- University Service
- Multicultural and Diversity Education Council, 2015-present.
- CSE Representative at Faculty Association (FA), 2016-present.
- College Service
- CSE Web Update Committee, three years, 2014-present.
- School Service
- MSE committee member.
- Search committee to hire a new tenure track faculty in computer engineering, 2014, 2015,and 2016.
- Michigan Engineering Colleges-Community Colleges Association (MEC-CCA) meeting for 2 years, 2012, 2104, 2015 and 2016.
- I have participated in the CMU and You Day last 2 years, 2013 and 2014.
- I have participated in the Advising Night on Wednesday, October 23rd, 2013 from 4:30 to 7:30.
- I have attended the Advising Workbench Demo on October 25th, 2013.
- I have attended the Advisory Board Meeting on Friday November 8th, 2013.
- Proposal Review Panel:
- NSF review panel, March 18-19, 2013.
- NSF review panel, January 25-28, 2016.
- Journal Reviewer:
- IEEE IoT Journal
- IEEE Communications Magazine.
- IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement.
- IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration Systems.
- IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems.
- International Journal of Embedded Systems and Applications (IJESA).
- Conference Reviewer:
- ISCAS: IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems.
- ICASSP: IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing.
- WF-IoT: IEEE World Forum on Internet of Things.
- SAS: IEEE Sensors Applications Symposium.
- ICCSCE: IEEE International Conference on Control System, Computing and Engineering.
- ASEE: American Society for Engineering Education.
- ISCI: IEEE Symposium on Computers & Informatics.
- ICECS: IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits, and Systems.
- MWSCAS: IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems.
- Conference Organizer
- Technical Program Chair: IEEE MWSCAS 2018, Windsor, Canada.
- Publicity Co-Chair North: IEEE WF-IoT 2018, Singapore.
- TPC Co– Chair: IoT International Innovation Conference 2017 (I3C'17), Saidia, Morocco.
- TPC Co– Chair: Global Internet of Things Summit (GIoTS 2017), Geneva, Switzerland.
- Finance chair and the M.Sc/PhD Forum chair: IEEE ICASSP 2017, New Orleans, LA, USA.
- Publicity Co-Chair North America: IEEE WF-IoT 2016, Reston, VA, USA.
- Chair: Special Session on Signal Processing for Internet-of-Things: IEEE WF-IoT 2016,Reston, VA, USA.
- Organizing Committee for IEEE ICECS 2015, Cairo, Egypt.
- Organizing Committee for IEEE ICECS 2013, Abu Dhabi, UAE.
- Organizing Committee for IEEE ICIP2009, Cairo, Egypt.
- Organizing Committee for IEEE ISCAS 2008, Seattle, Washington, USA.
- Organizing Committee for IEEE ISCAS 2007, New Orleans, LA, USA.
- Professional Leadership Roles
- Chair: IEEE Northeastern Michigan Section, 2016 - Present.
- Young Professional Chair: IEEE Northeastern Michigan Section, 2016 - Present.
- IEEE SPS IoT SIG member, 2015 – Present.
- Technical Activities Chair: IEEE Northeastern Michigan Section, 2013-2015.
- Treasurer/ Vice president of IEEE-CS chapter at Univ. of Louisiana at Lafayette, 2006-2011.
- Invited Talk
- "Internet of Things (IoT): Vision, Challenges, Applications, and Demonstration" The IEEE International Conference on Microelectronics (ICM), 10-13 December, 2017, Lebanon.
- "A Modular Internet of Things (IoT) Framework: From Sensors to Cloud", November 5th, 2016, Wayne State University, MI, USA.
- "Internet of Things (IoT): Foundation to Applications", Nexteer company, September 13, 2016.
- "Internet of Things (IoT): Foundations to Applications", Oakland University, April 9, 2016.
- "IoT Fundamentals" American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Conference, March 18-19, 2016, MI, USA.
- "Cognitive Wireless Sensor Network: Its Applications in Health Monitoring for Historical Sites", International Conference on Energy Aware Computing (ICEAC 2015), March 24-26, 2015, Cairo, Egypt.
- "Data Fusion Algorithms for Constrained Systems", March 13, 2014, University of Bahrain, Bahrain.
- PhD Students
- Mahmoud Darwich
- Ahmed Samoud
- M.Sc. Students
- Ali Ghelichi
- Khalil Qatu
- Anam Mahmoud
- Aman Sayedul
- Arif Shehraj
- Collaborators & Other Affiliations
- Magdy Bayoum, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA.
- Patty Williamson, Central Michigan University, USA.
- Tony Morelli, Central Michigan University, USA.
- Saleh Alnaeli, University of Wisconsin-Fox Valley.
- Jason McNeely, University of Alaska Fairbanks, USA.
- Tarek Elarabi, California State University Fresno, USA.
- Kumar Yelamarthi, Central Michigan University, USA.
- Ahmed Khattab, Cairo University, Egypt.
- Yasser Ismail, Bahrain University, Bahrain.
Credentials, Certifications & Awards
Appointments
- Associate Professor, Central Michigan University, 2017 – Present
- Assistant Professor, Central Michigan University, 2012 – 2017
- Design Aids & Automation Engineering Professional at Semiconductor Research and Development Center, IBM, 2011 – 2012
- Research Assistant, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA 2005 – 2011
Awarded Grant
- FRCE: "Structural Health Monitoring: A Reliable Damage Detection Technique." (Awarded January 2016 – August 2017)
- NSF: "US-Bahrain Cooperative Research: Intelligent Video Surveillance Systems for Hajj" (Awarded 2013-2014)
- NSF: Design and Implementation of Experimental High Resolution Imaging Payload System for Nano Satellites, (Awarded 2011-12)
- NSF: Ubiquitous Computing: Sensors and Wireless Sensor Networks. (Awarded 2009-11)
Education
- Ph.D., University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Computer Engineering, 2011
- M.S., University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Computer Engineering, 2007
- M.S., Mansoura University, Electrical Engineering, 2003
- B.S., Mansoura University, Electrical Engineering, 1997