Egypt, El-Mansoura
                                                                                    3 El-Estad St.
                                                                                    Phone (home): +20 (50) 2266426
                                                                                    E-mail: h_Arafat_ali@mans.eun.edu, k_hesham71@yahoo.com

                                    Hesham Arafat A. Khalifa, Ph.D.

 

 

Education     Research Interests     Professional Development    Awards and Scholarships    

Technical Experience & Skills       Memberships       Teaching     Theses     Publication

 

 

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Education

· Ph.D. in Computer Engineering Mansoura University, Egypt (April 1997)Thesis title: "Processes  Scheduling and Task  Allocation for Distributed Systems"

· M.Sc. in Automatic Control Engineering ( Rank: 1st, Grade: V. Good )Mansoura University, Egypt (Mar 1991)Thesis title: "Handwritten Arabic Characters Recognition"

· B.Sc. in Electronics Engineering ( Grade: V. Good  )Mansoura University, Egypt (July 1986)

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Research Interests

· Image Processing and Pattern Recognition

· Distributed Databases

· Mobile Agents

· Information Technology and data security

· Internetworking and Grid Computation

· Data Networking and Communications

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Awards and Scholarships

· Highly Commended Award From Emerald Literati Club, 2002.

· The Mansoura University prize for Best Doctoral Thesis (1999/2000).

· Engineering College Student Union awards for scientific distinction and sportive activities.

· Distinguished Graduate Award, Egyptian Engineers Syndicate, 1986.

· Distinction Award, Faculty of Engineering, Mansoura University, Egypt, five times (1981-1986).

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Technical Experience & Skills

Mansoura University, Egypt. 1988 - 1991

· Teaching Assistant for: Computer architecture and design Digital design (I,II) Operating systems (I, II), C/C++, Fundamentals of Computer Networks, Computer Language Concepts. faculty of engineering – Mansoura Univ.

· Supervising the microprocessor, computer, and networks labs in the faculty of engineering, Mansoura University.

·  Teaching different scientific, electronic and digital courses in the labs of the faculty of engineering, Mansoura University.

 

Mansoura University Computer Center, Egypt. July 1994 - July 1997

· Supervising the Building of Many Lan Networks (Computer Center, Mansoura University Hospital)

· Participating in Building many automation systems (Computer Center, Mansoura University Hospital

· Administered and maintained the network of the center.

· Installed and configured several Local Area Networks.

· Participated in establishing the Internet and intranet in the Mansoura University.

· Consultant in many automation systems (Semad factory, University Library System)

 

Mansoura University, Egypt. September 1997 - December 1999

Supervising the final Year Project

· 1997 - 1998 Intelligent Tutoring System for Teaching Logic Design

· 1998 - 1999 Intelligent / Expert System for Recognition and translation Arabic & English Text

· 1999 - 2000 Geographic Information System for El-Mansoura University

 

Faculty of Computer Science and Information System, Mansoura University, Egypt. 1997 - 2000 Teaching the following courses: First Course in Database, Second Course in the Database, Distributed Databases, Computer Graphics. Geographic Information Systems, Computer Networks.

Spt 2000 - Dec 2000

System administrator at CSRA (UCONN): administrator for up to 100 NT workstations at Computer Survey and Research Center, University of Connecticut.

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Memberships

· Student member of ACM and ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communications (SIGCOMM).

· Student member of IEEE and IEEE Computer Society.

· Member of the Graduate Student Board, Computer Science Department, Purdue University.

· Member of the Egyptian Students Association in North America.

 

Computer Skills

· Computer Languages: C#, C++, MS Visual C++, Sun Java, MS Visual Basic.NET, Fortran, Cobol, Pascal, HTML, ASP, PHP , XML

· Operating Systems: Windows (NT, 98,2000,XP), VMS, UNIX, and Solaris

· Networking: Windows (NetBEUI and TCP/IP), NOVELL, and UNIX (TCP/IP)

· Others: Software Analysis & Design, OO Concepts, Database Systems, Web Pages Design and Development, using various computer applications, and maintenance of personal computers, networks, and mainframe terminals.

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Teaching

· Distributed Systems Course

· Internetworking and Web Programming Course

· FPGA-Based Digital System Design Course

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Theses Co-Supervised

· "Agent-Based  Exploitation For Computer Teaching System", Amal Abd-Hay Abd El-Gwad

· "Intelligent/Expert System for Articulate English Text Machine Reader", Mohammed Mahfouz Mohammed El-Mogy

· "Encryption & Firewall technique for Internet Application", Wael Mohamed Ahmed

· "Intelligent Expert System forArticulate Arabic Text Machine Reader", Mohamed Fathi Hamed ALRahmawy

· "Realization of Information Retrieval By using Intelligent Agent", Ahmed Ibrahim Saleh

· "Information Retrieval in Distributed Database", Amr Mohamed Thabet

· "Using Mobile Agent for Monitoring, Changing, Finding and Analysis of Electronic Information", Yehia Mohamed Ibrahim

· "New Technique for Hiding Information On the Internet", Magdy Mohamed Fadel

· "Information Retrieval Within the Web", Ayamn Saad El-Sherbiny

· "Object-Oriented Design Techniques for Distributed Computation", Shaban El Sayed (Ph.D.)

· "Developing a novel data mining  algorithm for information retrieving information", Ahemd Saleh  (Ph.D.)

· "Restructuring Distributed Object Oriented Database", Mohamed Fatehy Elrahamawey (Ph.D.)

· "A New Strategy for Intelligent - Adaptive Focused Crawler", Ahmed Ibrahim Saleh

· "Improving Active Memory Systems for uni/multi Processors Architecture", Mohamed Abd El-Hamid Abbas

· "Power management in System on Chip", Marwa Fayez Fahmy

· "Distributed Virtual Environment (DVE) Systems", Tarek Hassan

· "Solving Deadlock  Detection in Distributed Database Systems", Mahmoud Salah

· "Building Scalable Grid Resource Management Systems Based on the Peer-to-Peer Paradigm", Ahmed Abdul-Aziz Hamza

· "A New Framework  for  Query Optimization  in  Multidatabase Environment", Amira Rezk

· "Knowledge Extraction from Transformed Warehousing web data using XML", Ibrahim Abdel Moniem Ibrahim

· "Packet Scheduling in Wireless Computer Network",