WASFI KAFRI

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR

Ph.D. : System Theory, 1975, Institute of Electrical Engineering Systems, Faculty of Electrical Eng., Technical University, Dresden Application of Nonlinear Chebychev Approximation and Optimization to Phase and Delay Problems.

M.Sc. : Communication Theory and Systems, 1967, at the Institute of High Frequency and Electronics, Faculty of Elec. Eng., Technical University, Dresden, Germany, (GDR). Wiener Optimal Filter and Measure of Power Spectra

Previous Professional and Academic Experience

Fulbright Scholarship at University of Maryland, (1993/1994), College Park, USA.

Chairman of Dept. of Physics - Al-Quds University at Abu-Dies 1979-1981

Acting Dean of the Faculty of Engineering, (80/81) Al-Najah National University.

Assistant Professors, Dept. of Physics and mathematics (1977 - 1979), University of Jordanian, Amman, Jordan.

Head of Technical Office of the Engineering Association, (1978-1979), Amman.

Engineer at main frame Computer Industry, (1968-1970), Radeberg, Germany.

Engineer at Color TV Industry, (1967-1968), Radeberg, Germany.

Field of Interests

Information and Coding Theory

Dynamical Systems and Chaos

Electromagnetic Theory, Microwave and Fiber Opitcs

Publications

W. Kafri, 1993. N-D digital filter, Characterizability of Frequency Response Approximation

in L

Norm, proceedings of the First Annual Conference of Palestinian Society of Mathematical Sciences, Birzeit .

W. Kafri, 1992. One-and Multidimensional Digital Filters, ICSPAT, pp 1224, Boston, USA, (phase approximation).

W. Kafri and E. Abed Stability Analysis of Discrete-time Singularly perturbed, to appear in IEEE Circuit and Systems.

W. Kafri Phase and Delay approximation for 1-D IIR Digital Filter in L

Norm to appear in Signal Processing(EURASIP).