Ph.D. : Communication Theory, 1991, Electrical Engineering Department. Applications of Distance Measures and Probability of Error Bounds to Distributed Detection Systems.
M.Sc. : In Electrical Engineering, 1983, Syracuse University, Sycracuse, N.Y. 13244 .
Sc. : In Electrical Engineering 1981, University of Jordan, Jordan
Previous Professional and Academic Positions
Teaching Assistant and Research
Assistant (1987-1991), at Syracuse University.
Instructor (1983-1987), at
Birzeit University .
Teaching Assistant (1981-1982),
Birzeit University .
Fields of Interest
Information Theory and Coding,
Detection and Estimation
Quantization in Signal Detection,
Error bounds in hypothesis testing problems. Decentralized Detection Systems.
Publications
1. Near Optimum Quantization for Signal Detection, to appear in the IEEE Transactions on Communications, 1996.
2. A Tight Upper Bound on the Bayesian probability of Error, Feb. 1994. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Vol, 6, pp 220-224.
3. Further Results on Distributed Bayesian Signal Detection, Sep 1993.
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 39, No. 5, pp 1660-1661.
4. An Approach to the Design of Distributed Bayesian Detection Structures (September - October 1991). IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Vol. 21, No. 5, pp 1206-1211.