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2004 - 2005 Visiting Scholar Directory
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Abdelmalek, Fethi
Associate Professor, Department of Physical Engineering and Technology, National Institute of Applied Sciences and Technology, Tunis, Tunisia
Lecturing: Ultrafast and Ultrahigh Capacity for Optical Communications and Networking
University of Arizona, Optical Sciences Center, Tucson, AZ, c/o Dr. Nasser Peyghambarian
March 2005 - September 2005

Aguilar, Glenn
Professor, College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences, Institute of Marine Fisheries and Oceanology, University of the Philippines in the Visayas, Iloilo City, Philippines
Research: Knowledge Management Systems That can be Deployed for Decision Making and Planning for Philippine Fisheries
Oregon State University, Bioengineering Department, Corvallis, OR, c/o Dr. John P. Bolte
September 2004 - March 2005

Ahmad, Akhlaq
Associate Professor, Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore, Pakistan
Research: Environmental Uses of Titanium Dioxide Semiconducting Nanoparticles
University of Delaware, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Newark, DE, c/o Dr. S. Ismat Shah
February 2005 - November 2005

Al-Karaghouli, Ali
Director, Energy Research Center, University of Bahrain, Manama, Bahrain
Research: Photovoltaic Design and Application
National Renewable Energy Research Laboratory, National Center for Photovoltaics, Golden, CO, c/o Dr. Larry Kazmerski
University of Wyoming, College of Engineering, Laramie, WY, c/o Dr. Ovid Augustus Plumb
July 2004 - September 2005

AlAraj, Simon
Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Birzeit University, Birzeit, West Bank
Research: Measuring Polymer Melt Density and Viscosity in Real-Time During Foam Extrusion Processes Using Ultrasound Sensors Fusion
University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee, Department of Materials Engineering, Milwaukee, WI, c/o Dr. Nidal Abu-Zahra
September 2004 - June 2005

Almubarak, Abdulaziz
Assistant Professor, College of Technological Studies, Department of Chemical Engineering, The Public Authority for Applied Education and Training, Safat, Kuwait
Lecturing and Research: Mechanisms of Single Droplet Drying
University of Wyoming, College of Engineering, Laramie, WY, c/o Dr. Ovid Augustus Plumb
September 2004 - May 2005

Alsubaei, Fada
Captain Engineer, Department of Study and Design, Ministry of Interior, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Research: A Comparison of Effectiveness of Popular Finite Element Software Packages for Modeling Concrete Structures
University of Nebraska--Lincoln, Department of Civil Engineering, Lincoln, NE, c/o Dr. Andrzej Nowak
June 2006 - May 2007

Baron, Jorge
Director, Department of Engineering, Computer-Assisted Engineering Institute (CEDIAC), National University of Cuyo, Mendoza, Argentina
Research: Probabilistic Risk Assessment Applications to Seismic Models
University of Hawaii--Manoa, Pacific Global Positioning System Facility, Honolulu, HI, c/o Dr. Benjamin Brooks
December 2004 - March 2005

Belay, Abebe
Dean, Faculty of Technology, Department of Civil Engineering, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Research: A Study of High Strength Concrete Production Using Locally Available Lightweight Aggregates
University of Maryland--College Park, Department of Civil Engineering, College Park, MD, c/o Dr. Amde M. Amde
August 2005 - June 2006

Belhaq, Mohamed
Professor, Faculty of Sciences Ain Chock, Department of Mechanics, Hassan II University, Mohammadia, Morocco
Research: Analytical and Experimental Techniques for Controlling Structural Vibrations
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics, Blacksburg, VA, c/o Dr. Ali H. Nayfeh
August 2005 - November 2005

Bhatt, Amit
Associate Professor, Dhirubhai Ambani Institute for Information and Communication Technology, Gandhinagar, India
Research: Very Large Scale Integration Design Issues
University of Illinois--Urbana-Champaign, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Champaign, IL, c/o Dr. Naresh Shanbhag
May 2004 - July 2004

Cassanello Fernandez, Miryan
Adjunct Researcher and Instructor, Department of Industry, Center for Research in Alternative Energy Fuel (PINMATE), University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Research: Monitoring the Dynamics of Multiphase Reactors by the Combined Response of Multi-Sensor Arrays
Washington University, Chemical Reaction Engineering Laboratory, Department of Chemical Engineering, St. Louis, MO, c/o Prof. Milorad Dudukovic
January 2005 - April 2005

Cohen Hyams, Tzipi
Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Materials Engineering, TECHNION--Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
Research: The Development of Novel Divalent Cathode Materials for High Energy Density Batteries
University of California--Berkeley, Department of Materials Sciences and Engineering, Berkeley, CA, c/o Prof. Thomas M. Devine
January 2005 - December 2005

Dief, Hesham
Lecturer, Faculty of Engineering, Structural Engineering Department, Zagazig University, Zagazig, Egypt
Research: The Influence of Non-Plastic Fine Content on the Liquefaction Resistance of Silty Sands
Case Western Reserve University, Case School of Engineering, Civil Engineering Department, Cleveland, OH, c/o Dr. Adel Saada
June 2005 - December 2005

Elvassore, Nicola
Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Padua, Padua, Italy
Research: Development of Biomimetic Scaffold-Bioreactor Integrated Systems for Tissue Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Cambridge, MA, c/o Dr. Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic
January 2005 - July 2005

Fall, Meissa
Associate Professor, Faculty of Sciences and Techniques, Earth Sciences Institute (IST), Cheikh Anta Diop University, Dakar, Senegal
Research: The Development of Technical Specifications Through Norms and Standards for Better Road Design
University of Wisconsin--Madison, College of Engineering, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Madison, WI, c/o Dr. Craig Benson
August 2004 - May 2005

Farid El Sayed Oreby, Mohamed
Assistant Professor, Institute of Environmental Studies and Research, Department of Environmental Engineering, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt
Research: Environmental Management as a Tool for Achieving Sustainable Water Supply: An Integrated Approach for Groundwater Protection
Arizona State University, Fulton School of Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Tempe, AZ, c/o Dr. Peter Fox
March 2005 - August 2005

Gavrilova, Tatiana
Professor, Department of Intelligent Computer Technologies, St. Petersburg State Electrical Engineering/Technical University, St. Petersburg, Russia
Lecturing: Knowledge Engineering for Non-Engineers
University of Pittsburgh, School of Information Sciences, Department of Information Science and Telecommunications, Pittsburgh, PA, c/o Dr. Martin Weiss
August 2004 - February 2005

Hafidi Alaoui, Adil
Professor, Faculty of Science and Technology of Tangier, Adbelmalek Essaidi University, Tangier, Morocco
Research: Rehabilitation of the Tangier Medina
Princeton University, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Department of Civil Engineering and Operations Research, Princeton, NJ, c/o Prof. George W. Scherer
June 2005 - September 2005

Haick, Hossam
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Materials and Interfaces, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovoth, Israel
Research: Externally Controllable, Switchable and Durable Molecule-Based Memory Devices
California Institute of Technology, Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Pasadena, CA, c/o Prof. Nathan S. Lewis
September 2004 - August 2005

Halasa, Ghassan
Associate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan
Lecturing and Research: Detection of Electromagnetic Emissions Due to Electron Transition in Gaps
Murray State University, College of Science, Engineering and Technology, Department of Physics and Engineering, Murray, KY, c/o Dr. Stephen Cobb
August 2004 - May 2005

Hassan, Maguid
Associate Professor, Faculty of Engineering, Civil Engineering Department, Higher Technological Institute, Tenth of Ramadan City, Egypt
Lecturing: Reliability of Smart Structural Systems
University of Maryland--College Park, College of Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering, College Park, MD, c/o Dr. Ali Haghani
August 2004 - June 2005

Husain, Majeed
Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Bahrain, Manama, Bahrain
Research: Monoethanolamine Promoted by Piperazine--An Improved Solvent for CO2 Capture From Flue Gas
University of Texas--Austin, Department of Chemical Engineering, Austin, TX, c/o Dr. Gary T. Rochelle
September 2004 - August 2005

Jawish, Ibrahim
Professor, Faculty of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Department of Electrical Energy Engineering, University of Damascus, Damascus, Syria
Research: Transfer and Domesticity of Modern Control Technology for Syrian Industry--A Methodological Approach
University of Arizona, College of Engineering and Mines, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Tucson, AZ, c/o Dr. Salim Hariri
September 2004 - May 2005

Labbett, Simon
Police Inspector, Department of Road Policing, Sussex Police, Lewes, United Kingdom
Research: Road Homicide Investigation Management and Collision Reconstruction in the United States and the United Kingdom
Northwestern University, Center for Public Safety, Evanston, IL, c/o Mr. Roy Lucke
February 2005 - July 2005

Lashari, Bakhshal
Professor, Institute of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering, Mehran University of Engineering and Technology, Jamshoro, Pakistan
Research: Interdisciplinary and Integrated Approach of Agriculture Drainage in Pakistan
Colorado State University, Department of Civil Engineering, Fort Collins, CO, c/o Dr. Ramchand Oad
October 2004 - June 2005

O'Keeffe, Derek
Lecturer, Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland
Research: A Novel Hip-Worn Multi-Axis Gyroscope
Harvard Medical School, Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, Motion Analysis Laboratory, Boston, MA, c/o Dr. Paolo Bonato
June 2004 - September 2004

Pereda Cubian, David
Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Electronics Technology, Systems and Automation Engineering, University of Cantabria, Santander, Spain
Research: Using Optical Fiber-Based Mueller Coherence Tomography to Characterize Biological Tissues
Texas A&M University, Optical Imaging Laboratory, College Station, TX, c/o Dr. Lihong Wang
September 2004 - February 2006

Pina da Fonseca, Luis
Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, Technical University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
Research: Development of Microfluidic Platform Systems to Perform Combinatorial Biocatalysis at Microscale
University of California--Berkeley, Department of Chemical Engineering, Berkeley, CA, c/o Dr. Douglas S. Clark
September 2004 - September 2005

Reif, Bjorn
Senior Scientist, Division for Protection and Material, Norwegian Defense Research Institute, Kjeller, Norway
Research: Computational Modeling of Near-Wall Turbulence
NASA - Langley Research Center, Computational Modeling and Simulation Branch, Hampton, VA, c/o Dr. Thomas Gatski
August 2004 - July 2005

Reilly, Richard
Lecturer, Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
Research: Modelling Multisensory Interactions Involved in the Human Attention System
Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research, Cognitive Neurophysiology Laboratory, Orangeburg, NY, c/o Dr. John J. Foxe
September 2004 - January 2005

Risteiu, Mircea
Associate Professor, Computer Science and Mathematics Department, Alba Iulia University, Alba Iulia, Romania
Research: Lignite Mine and Coal-Fired Thermal Power Plant Consortium
University of Idaho, College of Mines and Earth Resources, Department of Metallurgical and Mining Engineering, Moscow, ID, c/o Dr. John Sturgul
September 2004 - March 2005

Romero Chacon, Jorge
Professor and Computer Network Administrator, School of Electrical Engineering, University of Costa Rica, San Jose, Costa Rica
Research: Fitting a Pole-Zero Filter Model With Real Coefficients to Nonuniformly Spaced Frequency Response Samples
SUNY--Stony Brook University, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Stony Brook, NY, c/o Dr. Petar Djuric
August 2005 - December 2005

Shebl Ibraheem, Khaled
Lecturer, Faculty of Engineering, Department of Mechanical Power Engineering, Helwan University, Cairo, Egypt
Research: An Investigation of Oxidation Mechanisms for Controlling Emissions of Particulate Soot From Combustion Processes
University of Michigan--Ann Arbor, College of Engineering, Department of Aerospace Engineering, Ann Arbor, MI, c/o Dr. G.M. Faeth
August 2004 - August 2005

Standaert, Francois-Xavier
Research Assistant, Department of Electrical Engineering, Catholic University of Louvain, Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium
Research: Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems
Columbia University, School of Engineering and Applied Science, Department of Computer Science, New York, NY, c/o Dr. Moti Yung
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Center for Bits and Atoms, MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, MA, c/o Dr. Neil Gershenfeld
September 2004 - June 2005

Torres Perez, Alfredo
Director, Castilla and Leon Regional Road Division, Laboratory of Materials, Ministry of Public Works, Valladolid, Spain
Research: Aging on Asphalt Bitumen by Electromagnetic Radiation
University of Wyoming, Western Research Institute, Department of Transportation, Materials and Refining, Laramie, WY, c/o Dr. Raymond E. Robertson
September 2004 - August 2005

Visoly-Fisher, Iris
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Materials and Interfaces, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovoth, Israel
Research: Towards Optoelectronic Measurements of Biocomplexes and Single Biomolecules
Arizona State University, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Tempe, AZ, c/o Dr. Stuart Lindsay
August 2004 - August 2005

Waclawiak, Krzysztof
Professor, Department of Process Energy, Silesian University, Katowice, Poland
Research: Studies of Slagging and Fouling During Combustion of Pulverized Coal Blended With Biomass
Brigham Young University, Department of Chemical Engineering, Provo, UT, c/o Dr. Larry L. Baxter
February 2005 - June 2005

Zimparov, Ventseslav
Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Technical University of Gabrovo, Gabrovo, Bulgaria
Research: Constructing Flow Architecture Designs for Heat Transfer Enhancement
Duke University, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Material Sciences, Durham, NC, c/o Prof. Adrian Bejan
January 2005 - June 2005

Zussman, Gil
Doctoral Candidate, Department of Electrical Engineering, TECHNION--Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
Research: Management and Control of Wireless Networks
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics and the Laboratory for Information an, Cambridge, MA, c/o Dr. Eytan Modiano
September 2004 - August 2005

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