Birzeit University Electrical Engineering Department

Hanna Bullata

Sex:	Male
Age:	30 years old
Nationality:	Palestinian
Marital Status:	Single
Professional address:	Birzeit University Electrical Engineering Department P.O.Box 14 - Birzeit West Bank - Palestine
Tel:	(972) 2 298 2962
Fax:	(972) 2 298 2984
email:	hanna@eng.birzeit.edu
http:	www.birzeit.edu/ee/hanna/hanna.html

Professional Competences

Robotics, computer vision, perception, incremental world modeling,
multisensory data fusion, robot localization.

Academic Background

PhD thesis in robotics from Paul Sabatier University
Modeling of structured environments and landmark localization for
the navigation of an autonomous mobile robot. Toulouse - France, May 1996.

Advanced Graduate Degree in Automatic Control and Industrial Computing from Paul Sabatier University. Toulouse - France, June 1992.

Bachelor of science in Electronics Electrotechnics Automatic Control from Paul Sabatier University. Toulouse - France, June 1991.

Professional Experience

Sep. 96 - present Assistant professor at the Electrical Engineering Department - Birzeit University.
Major teached courses : Modern Control Engineering, Digital Control, Probability & Statistics, Electromagnetic Waves and Electrical Machines.

June 98 - present Project Manager at CAPITOLINIA Consultancy Group Ltd. based in Jerusalem. Main conducted projects are data management systems and access control systems.

Jan 99 - present Project Manager at IDS Data Systems based in Ramallah. Iam currently conducting research work related to data mining using neural networks.

Nov. 92 - May 96 Preparation of the PhD in RIA team (Robotics and Artificial Intelligence) at LAAS laboratory (Systems Analysis and Architecture Laboratory).
This work concerns, in priority, structured environments modeling problems, robot
localization - navigation and multisensory data fusion.

Dec. 93 - June 95 Collaboration on MARTHA project.
Mobile Autonomous Robots for Transportation and Handling Applications.
European project whose objectives are to study and to develop systems necessary for planning and executing tasks for a fleet of cargo transport robots.
My work was the realization and integration of a localization module using real time system VxWorks.

Nov. 92 - May 96 Teaching activities in different establishments :

assistant professor at National Institute of Applied Sciences (INSA), Mathematics Department. Toulouse-France.

The use of softwares for formal calculus (Mathematica, Maple)

assistant professor at the Institute of Technology (IUT) - Mechanical Engineering and Aeronautic Constructions department. Toulouse-France.

Use of manipulators in industry

assistant professor at the Institute of Technology - Computer science department. Toulouse-France.

Initiation to databases.

Experience in Computer Science

Languages:	C, C++, Java, Pascal, Assembler, HTML.
Systems:	Real time system VxWorks, Unix, Windows, MsDos.
Softwares:	Motif and Xview (graphics interfaces), formal calculus softwares (matlab, maple, mathematica, ...), word processor softwares (tex, framemaker, word), MS ACCESS.