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Dr. Atef Jawad Al-Najjar

Joined King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals since 1976

B.Sc. Degree:

Electrical Engineering; King Saud University à First Honor, ranked 1st on the school of Engineering

M.Sc. Degree:

Electrical Engineering; King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals à First Honor (4.00 GPA)

Ph.D. Degree:

Computer Engineering; Purdue University à Member, Eta Kappa Nu (HKN) Honor Society

Teaching:

Most undergraduate courses in the Computer Engineering Dept. KFUPM

Project Supervision (B.Sc. & M.S. levels)

Wide range of areas, including (a small subset.)

1. English Character Recognition
2. Arabic Character Recognition
3. Video Compression for E-Learning Applications
4. Arabic Voice Recognition
5. Industrial Acoustics and Non-destructive Testing and Device Monitoring
6. Finger Print Recognition
7. Edge Detection
8. Color Separation
9. Image Enhancement
10. Object Recognition
11. Design and Implementation of a Smart-home Real-time Control System
12. Design and Implementation of a PC-Microcontroller Real-time control system with a simple GUI.
13. Client-server secure remote control system
14. PC and microcontroller based smart system to help the physically challenged use MS Word.
15. Monitoring system to help reduce car accidents due to a sleeping driver
16. An Efficient Neural Network Currency Recognition System
17. A Motion Detection Algorithm
18. A Simple algorithm on Steganography
19. A Client-server system for E-Learning Using MS Windows and ASP Technology
20. A Client-server system for E-Learning Using Linux and JSP Technology
21. Microprocessor Functional Simulator using VB: several RISC models simulating selected CISC systems
22. Design and VHDL Implementation of a Selected Microprocessor System
23. A Bi-lingual Medical Information System Design and Implementation
24. Design of a smart-card based Access-Control System
25. Design and Implementation of a Web-based bi-lingual E-Learning System for Younger Children

Latest Teaching:

• Local Area Networks, Senior Elective
• Multimedia: Graduate Course
• Neural Networks: Graduate Course

Publications & Patents

à    Microwave Antenna Patent ~ 1976 (King Saud University, Riyadh)

à    IEEE Tr. ~Correspondence in the area of PLA logic minimization algorithm ~ 1979

• Atef J. Al-Najjar, Aleem K. Alvi, Syed U. Idrees, Abdul-Rahman M. Al-Manea, “Hiding Encrypted Speech Using Steganography”, MIV’07, WSEAS 2007, Sept. 15-17, Beijing, China.
• The decoy: multi-level digital multimedia steganography model
• Many in progress

Other

• Full attendance/participation in the graduate course on security with Dr. Khalid Salah, ICS Dept., KFUPM (I offered to teach the course, and attended when the course was assigned to Dr. Salah.)
• Al-Khalil Project (Arabic Poetry) & ASR
• Counseling & Advising
• Reviewer for papers in International activities
• Attendance of local and regional professional activities