Ahmed H. Tewfik

E. F. Johnson Professor of Electronic Communications

Ahmed Tewfik received his B.Sc. degree from Cairo University, Cairo Egypt, in 1982 and his M.Sc., E.E. and Sc.D. degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, in 1984, 1985 and 1987 respectively. Dr. Tewfik has worked at Alphatech, Inc., Burlington, MA in 1987. He is the E. F. Johnson professor of Electronic Communications with the department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Minnesota. He served as a consultant to MTS Systems, Inc., Eden Prairie, MN and Rosemount, Inc., Eden Prairie, MN and worked with Texas Instruments and Computing Devices International. From August 1997 to August 2001, he was the President and CEO of Cognicity, Inc., an entertainment marketing software tools publisher that he co-founded, on partial leave of absence from the University of Minnesota.

Prof. Tewfik is a Fellow of the IEEE. He was a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Signal Processing Society in 1997 - 1999. He received the IEEE third Millennium award in 2000.

Contact Address

University of Minnesota
Department of Electrical Engineering
4-174 EE/CSCI Building
200 Union St. SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455
Tel: (612) 625-6024, Fax: (612) 625-4583
Email: tewfik@ee.umn.edu

Current Research Interests

Genomics and bioinformatics; Brain Computer Interfaces, Analysis and Classification of EEG/MEG with adaptive time frequency bases, Wearable Medical Sensors; food inspection; programmable wireless networks and ultrawideband communications for wireless personal area and multimedia/server/storage networks; sparse signal representations and data centric computing.

 

Past research interests include low power multimedia communications, adaptive search and data acquisition strategies for world wide web applications, radar and dental/medical imaging, monitoring of machinery via acoustic emissions, industrial measurements, wavelet signal processing and fractals.

Honors and Awards

  • Plenary Speaker, 10th IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems (ICECS 2003), Sharjah, U.A.E.
  • Plenary Speaker, Transmitting, Processing And Watermarking Multimedia Contents, 4th Cost 276 Workshop, Information and Knowledge Management for Integrated Media Communication

2003

 

 

2003

 
  • Plenary Speaker, SSGRR2002w International Conference on Advances in Infrastructure for Electronic Business, Science, and Education on the Internet

2002
  • Plenary Speaker, 2001 IEEE Int. Symp. On Signal Proc. And Info. Theory, Cairo, Egypt

2001
  • IEEE Third Millennium Award

2000
  • Plenary Speaker, 1999 IEEE-EURASIP Workshop on Nonlinear Signal and Image Processing, Antalya, Turkey,

1999
  • Plenary Speaker, 1999 SIU’99, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey,

1999
  • Principal Lecturer, 1998 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Chicago, IL

 1998

  • Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Signal Processing Society,

1997
  • Fellow, IEEE,

1996,
  • Principal Lecturer, 1995 IEEE/EMBS Summer School on Biomedical Signal Processing, Siena, Italy

 1995

  • Plenary Speaker, 1994 IEEE Int. Conf. Acoust., Speech and Signal Proc., Adelaide, Australia,

 1994

  • E. F. Johnson Professorship in Electronic Communications

 1993

  • George Taylor Faculty Development award

 1992

  • NSF Research Initiation award

 1990

Professional Society Service

·        Elected to the Board of Governors of the IEEE Signal Processing Society, 2005.

·        Founding Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, 1993 – 1999

·        Associate Editor and Guest Editor, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 1989 – 1991, 1992- 1993, 1997 – 1998, 2001- 2002,

·        Guest Editor, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 2001- 2002..

·        Member of IEEE Signal Processing Technical Committee 1992- 1999 and IEEE Multimedia Signal Processing Technical Committee 1999 – 2002.

·       Member of organizing committees of several IEEE Conferences and Workshops.

Selected Recent Publications

  1. “Classification Of Closed- And Open-Shell Pistachio Nuts Using Voice-Recognition Technology,” A. Enis Cetin, Tom C. Pearson and Ahmed H. Tewfik, Trans. Of Am. Soc. Of Ag. Eng., vol. 47, no. 2, pp. 659-664, March/April 2004.

  2. “Data Embedding in Audio using Time-Scale Modification,” M. Mansour and A. H. Tewfik, IEEE Trans. on Speech and Audio Processing, vol. 13, no. 3, pp. 432-440, May 2005.           

  3. "Gradual Transition Detection of Video Sequence using B-Splines Polynomial Interpolation,” J. Nam and A. H. Tewfik, IEEE Transaction  on Multimedia, vol. 7, no. 4, pp. 667-679, August 2005.                    

  4.  “High Capacity Data Embedding and its application in fraud detection,” T.H. Lan and A. Tewfik, to appear in IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 2006.

  5. “Progressive Quantized Projection Approach to Data Hiding,” M. Alghoniemy and A. H. Tewfik, to appear in IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 2006.

  6. “Blind Adaptive Modulation Systems for Wireless Channels with Binary Feedback,” Y. Al Harthi, A. H. Tewfik and M. S. Alouini, to appear in Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, 2006.              

  7.  “Multiuser Diversity with Quantized Feedback,” Y. Al Harthi, A. H. Tewfik and M. S. Alouini, to appear in IEEE Trans. Wireless Comm., 2006.           
  8. “Pulsed OFDM modulation for Ultra wideband Communications,” E. Saberinia, A. Tewfik, J. Tang and K. Parhi, invited paper, in 2004 IEEE Int. Symp. On Circuits and Systems (ISCAS’04), Vancouver, B.C., Canada, May 2004.  

  9. “System aspects of multi-band UWB-OFDM: status and optimal design rules,” A. Tewfik and E. Saberinia, invited paper, in IEEE 2004 Radio and Wireless Conference (RAWCON), UWB Technology Components, Systems, and Architectures Workshop, Atlanta, GA, September 2004.              

  10. “Reduced Complexity Bounded Error Subset Selection,” M. Alghoniemy and A. H Tewfik, invited paper, in Proc. 2005 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing,, Philadelphia, PA, March 2005.       

 

  1. “Biclustering of DNA Microarray Data with Early Pruning” Ahmed H Tewfik and A. Tchagang, invited paper, in Proc. 2005 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Philadelphia, PA, March 2005.

 

  1. “Enhanced Position Location With UWB In Obstructed Los And NLOS Multipath Environments,” Syed F. A. Shah and Ahmed H. Tewfik, invited paper, in Proc. XIII European Signal Proc. Conf. (EUSIPCO2005), Antalya, Turkey, September 2005.

 

  1. “Classification of movement EEG with Local Discriminant Bases,” F. N. Ince, A. H. Tewfik, S. Arica and S. Yagcioglu, in Proc. 2005 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Philadelphia, PA, March 2005.

  2. “Analysis and Visualization of Movement related EEG activities using Local Discriminant Bases,” F. N. Ince, A. H. Tewfik, S. Arica and S. Yagcioglu, in Proc. 2nd International IEEE EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering, Washington D.C., USA 2005.