Samy A. Mahmoud Ph.D., (Carleton), P.Eng., SMIEEE  Professor Emeritus Faculty of Engineering and Design Dean Emeritus, FED (1998-2006) President (Pro-tempore) 2006-2008 Carleton University

Email:Mahmoud@sce.carleton.ca Tel:+1 613 520-5696  Fax:+1 613 520-7481  Office: Mackenzie Building, Room 4362

Research Interests:

• Wireless Sensor Networks
• Integrated Sensors Platforms
• Optoelectronic, IR and Photonic Sensors
• Mobile and personal Radio Communication Systems and Networks
• Speech processing for telecommunication systems and applications

Biography

List of Publications

Biography

Professor Samy Mahmoud served as President and Vice Chancellor (Pro Temp) of Carleton University during the period 2006-2008, and Chancellor of the University of Sharjah, UAE, during the period 2008-2014. He obtained the Masters and Doctoral Degrees in Electrical Engineering from Carleton University in 1971 and 1975 respectively. He held several senior academic and administrative positions at Carleton University, including, Chair of the Department of Systems and Computer Engineering (1986-1998), Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and Design (1998-2006), Vice President Academic and Provost (Acting) in 2006.

Professor Mahmoud won several international awards in recognition of his original research and for innovations that led to technology transfer to industry. He has published over 200 archival and conference papers in telecommunications, Electronics and Optoelectronics in recent years and supervised 40 doctoral and 85 Masters graduate students to completion over the past 35 years. He is the co-author of a major textbook on “Communication Systems Analysis and Design”, published in 2004 by Pearson-Prentice Hall.

Professor Mahmoud is well known to the high tech community locally and across Canada and is the founder or co-founder of a number of provincial and national research and development networks of excellence in teaching and research that involved close collaboration with government and industry, including the Center for Information and Technology of Ontario (CITO), CANARIE, VITESSE, the National Center for Information and Telecommunications (NCIT) research and the Canadian Photonics Fabrication Research Center. He has led in the development of major research facilities at Carleton University that today house major research programs for a large number of graduate students and faculty members. He served as a senior consultant to major international regulatory and industrial organizations in the telecommunications field.

MAJOR RESEARCH INITIATIVES

• The Canadian Photonics Fabrication Center (CPFC) and the Center for Photonics Fabrication Research (CPFR) – 2004 - 2009. Founder and Principal Investigator, also served as Chair of the Research Program Committee - $ 9 Million in total funding.
• Founding Member and Group Leader, the National Center of Information and Telecommunications (NCIT) – 1998-2008, A Federal Center of Network of Excellence for Research, including 12 universities across Canada - $40 Million over 10 years.
• Communications and Information Technology Centre of Ontario (CITO/TRIO) -1988 to1998. Co-founder and Leader of the wireless and satellite research thrust - $ 25 Million.

MAJOR PROFESSIONAL AND INDUSTRIAL EXPERIENCE

• Served as a Senior Advisor to the European Commission for Research (1997-2011),
• Consultant to the ITU (International Telecommunication Union) on frequency spectrum allocations and new radio communications applications (1993-2004),
• Senior consultant in the frequency spectrum management field to ITU and to the telecommunications regulatory authorities of the Governments of Germany, Austria, Kuwait, Canada, Saudi Arabia and Hong Kong
• Senior Consultant for major telecommunication companies (Nortel, 1998-2000; ATT/Bell Laboratories 2001-2003; and Siemens 2004-2005).
• Co-founder and member of the founding Board of Directors of CANARIE, a major organization that is responsible for providing Canadian Universities with advanced internet and broadband networking infrastructure capabilities.

HONOURS

· Recipient of the National Capital Technology Association Leadership Award for the Year 2002. The award is given annually to a leader in the technology field who made significant contributions to technological innovations and research and development. Specifically, the award was made in recognition for the leadership role in the establishment of the National Capital Institute of Telecommunications (NCIT), an advanced research and development facility in the field of telecommunications

· Co-recipient of the 1993 Stentor National award in Telecommunications for best research leading to technology transfer (speech compression)

· Co-recipient of the IEEE 1993 and 1996 Vehicular Technology best paper awards for research work on optimum baseband combining for wide-band TDMA indoor wireless channels

· Recipient of two TRIO feedback awards for successful technology transfer to industry: In October 1990 for "Low Complexity Speech Coder at 8 kb/s Transmission Rate", and in October 1994 for "The Development of a Robust 4.8 kb/s Speech Coder."

· University Research Achievement Award (1996-1997)

· Senior Editor, IEEE JSAC Transactions (1991-1994)

· Two University Research Merit Awards (1984-85 and 1982-93)

· Guest Editor, two JSAC/IEEE special issues on wireless communications

Served on the Founding Executive Board of CANARIE, Canada’s organization for the national broadband research network infrastructure, as representative of the academic user community.

Graduate Supervision:

Career Life Time

Completed: 85 Masters and 40 Ph.D. Students

Over Past 10 Years

Completed: 15 Masters, 8 Ph.D. Students

Main research Interests:

My research in the area of integrated sensors platforms is motivated by applications in which this advancing technology is employed to improve the quality of life of humans and to make our living space and environment safe and friendly. New micro-scale sensors continue to be developed at an impressive pace supported by the discovery and fabrication of new materials that enable the detection of physical, chemical and biological properties that in the past required setting up elaborate and complex mechanisms to detect. In conjunction with this effort, research and development of ways and means to collect, process and analyze the output signals and data from these sensors continue to make progress, leading to very low power micro controller circuits and wireless transceivers and networks to interconnect large numbers of diverse sensors.

This new class of inter-connected small form, non-intrusive and environmentally safe sensors are bound to be deployed in new applications in many spheres of our day-today living. Three examples can illustrate vividly this trend and its implications. In the biomedicine field, wearable sensor devices with wireless communications capability are deployed to monitor the cardio-vascular daily activity of patients following heart operations and certain surgical procedures. The output signals are then analyzed to determine the needs of the individual patients for drug therapy as well as for determining the optimum course of physio therapy. In the environmental field, wireless chemical and bio sensors networks are being deployed over large geographic areas and in water reservoirs with the objective of detecting pollutants, harmful biological agents and other cacogenics. In the transportation field, sensors have been traditionally placed on road sides and overhead camera to enforce traffic laws. However, the emergence of wireless sensors with sophisticated networking capability will enable vehicle to vehicle data exchanges that promise to provide solutions to many nagging problems such as mapping out the boundaries of areas with low visibility conditions and providing early warning signals to motorists entering such zones, thereby preventing large catastrophic accidents.

The above are few examples that will hopefully motivate future research into the application of these exciting new technologies to improve the quality of life and to make our living environment safer and healthier.

List of Publications

Books co-authored

1. Ziad El-Khatib, Leonard MacEachern and Samy Mahmoud, “Distributed CMOS Bidirectional Amplifiers,” Springer, 2012.

2. Omar M. Sheikh and Samy A. Mahmoud. Cross-Layer Design for Smart Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks, Wireless Sensor Networks - Technology and Protocols, Publisher: InTech, 2012, ISBN: 978-953-51-0735-4.

3. Harold Stern and Samy A. Mahmoud, "Communication Systems Analysis and Design", Prentice-Hall, New Jersey, 2004

Papers Published in refereed Journals in recent years

1. Ziad El-Khatib, Leonard MacEachern and Samy Mahmoud, Highly Linear CMOS cross-coupled compensator transducer with enhanced tenability, Electronic letters, 46(24), pp1597-1598, 2010

2. S. Ghoniemy, Leonard MacEachern and Samy Mahmoud, “Implications of laser nonlinearity on the performance of integrated analog wireless/optical networks: modeling, simulation and measurements”, Kluwer Academic, Publishers of the Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing International Journal, 2006.

3. S. Ghoniemy, L. MacEachern, and S. Mahmoud, “Analytical Expressions, Modeling and Simulations of intensity and frequency fluctuations in directly modulated semiconductor lasers,” Journal of Optical Engineering 43(01), pp. 224-233, January 2004.

4. S. Ghoniemy, L. MacEachern, and S. Mahmoud, “Analytical Expressions, Modeling and Simulations of intensity and frequency fluctuations in directly modulated semiconductor lasers,” Journal of Optical Engineering 43(01), pp. 224-233, January 2004.

5. Mohamed Ahmed and Samy Mahmoud, “QoS-based Admission Control Algorithm for Integrated Services Voice/Data in Wideband DS-CDMA with Switched-Beam Antennas”, Wireless Personal Communication Journal, 11-29, 2003, Kluwer Academic Publishers.

6. Mohamed Ahmed and Samy Mahmoud, “Soft Capacity Analysis of TDMA Systems with Frequency Hopping and Smart Antennas,” IEEE Transaction on Vehicular Technology, Vol. 51, No.4, pp. 636-647, July 2002.

Most Recent Papers in Refereed Conference Proceedings

1. Ziad El-Khatib, Leonard MacEachern and Samy Mahmoud, “A Fully Integrated Linearized CMOS Distributed Amplifier based on Multi-Tanh Principle for Radio over Fiber and Ultra-Wideband Application,” IEEE Radio Wireless Symposium 33, pp. 188-189, 2009.

2. Ziad El-Khatib, Leonard MacEachern and Samy Mahmoud, “Fully Integrated multi-band tunable linearized CMOS sctive analog phase shifter with active loss compensation for wireless home network multiple antenna transceiver applications,” IEEE proceedings of the 2009 International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Piscataway, NY.

3. Mohamed Abou El Saoud, Thomas Kunz, and Samy Mahmoud, "BENCHManet: An evaluation framework for service discovery protocols in MANET", Proceedings of the 3rd Annual IEEE Communications Society Conference on Sensor and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (SECON 2006), Volume 3, pages 860-865, June 2006.

4. Mohamed Abou El Saoud, Thomas Kunz, and Samy Mahmoud, "BENCHManet: An evaluation framework for service discovery protocols in MANET", Proceedings of the 3rd Annual IEEE Communications Society Conference on Sensor and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (SECON 2006), Volume 3, pages 860-865, June 2006.

5. Mohamed Abou El Saoud, Thomas Kunz, and Samy Mahmoud, "BENCHManet: An evaluation framework for service discovery protocols in MANET", Proceedings of the 3rd Annual IEEE Communications Society Conference on Sensor and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (SECON 2006), Volume 3, pages 860-865, June 2006.

6. Mohamed Abou El Saoud, Thomas Kunz, and Samy Mahmoud, "SLPManet: Service location protocol for MANET", Proceedings of the 2006 International Conference on Communications and Mobile Computing, Vancouver, Canada, pages 701-706, July 2006.

7. Karim Abdelhalim, Leonard MacEachern and Samy Mahmoud, “A Nanowatt Successive Approximation ADC with a Calibrated Capacitor Array for Biomedical Applications”, Proceedings of the 51st IEEE Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Montreal, QC, August 5-8, 2007.

8. Ayman Mokhtar, Leonard MacEachern, Samy Mahmoud, “Isolator-Free DFB Laser Diode Operating in Feedback Regime V”, Optics East 2006, [4 pages], October 1-4, 2006.

9. Karim Abdelhalim, Leonard MacEachern, and Samy Mahmoud, “A Nano-Watt ADC for Ultra-Low-Power Applications”, IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, May 20-25, 2006.

10. Ayman Mokhtar, Leonard MacEachern, Samy Mahmoud, “Semiconductor Laser Diode Model Implementation Including Optical Back-Reflection”, IEEE CCECE 2006, pp. 2146-2149, May 7-10, 2006.

Patents

1.	Sinisa Milicevic, Leonard MacEachern, and Samy Mahmoud, "Enhanced Figure of Merit CMOS Ring Oscillators"
2.	Fiona Shearer, Leonard MacEachern, and Samy Mahmoud, "High Frequency Cubing Circuits in CMOS"
3.	Zhan Xu, Samy Ghoniemy, Leonard MacEachern, and Samy Mahmoud, "Laser Predistortion with Reduced Laser Noise"
4.	Leonard MacEachern, Daniel Olszewski, and Samy Mahmoud, "Radio Frequency Power Detector”
5.	Karim Abdelhalim, Scott Miller, and Samy Mahmoud, "Low Power CMOS Analog-to-Digital Converter and Bandgap"
6.	W. Leblond and Samy Mahmoud, “Adaptive Detection and Compensation for Speech Compression in Varying Non-white Background Noise Environments”