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Electrical and Computer Engineering Department

Overview

The department of Electrical and Computer Engineering envisages to be a leader in shaping intellectual and human capital in electrical, computer, communication, and biomedical engineering. The department seeks to produce experienced graduates in all fields of electrical, computer, communication, and biomedical engineering who are application oriented. Our graduates are trained so as to enrich Lebanon, the Middle East and the world in general technologically, economically, and socially.

DEPARTMENT FACULTY

Full-Time Faculty
Mohamad O. Diab Professor and Chairperson diabmo@rhu.edu.lb Ext.: 502	Maher Sabbah Associate Professor sabbahmm@rhu.edu.lb Ext.: 512	Milana Kasab Lecturer kasabmw@rhu.edu.lb Ext.: 519	Toufic Hijazi Professor hijazitm@rhu.edu.lb Ext.: 500	Mohamad Taha Professor and Dean of College of Engineering tahamh@rhu.edu.lb Ext.: 611
Rached Zantout Professor zantoutrn@rhu.edu.lb Ext.: 511	Amal Arid Lecturer aridaa@rhu.edu.lb Ext.: 556	Oussama Mustafa Associate Professor mustafaoa@rhu.edu.lb Ext.: 508

DEPARTMENT PUBLICATIONS

Book Chapters

Nassereddine, M., Nassreddine, G., El Arid, A., & Samad, M. (2024). Artificial Intelligence Applications in Renewable Power Systems. In Industrial Applications of Big Data, AI, and Blockchain (pp. 26-57). IGI Global.
Kaddoura, S., El Arid, A., & Al-Dulaimy, A. (2023). Supervised machine learning techniques to protect IoT healthcare environment against cyberattacks. In Intelligent Edge Computing for Cyber Physical Applications (pp. 17-34). Academic Press.
Nasserddine, G., & El Arid, A. (2023). Decision-Making Systems. In Encyclopedia of Data Science and Machine Learning (pp. 1391-1407). IGI Global.
Abdulmajeed, I., Nassreddine, G., El Arid, A., & Younis, J. (2023). Machine Learning Approach in Human Resources Department. In Handbook of Research on AI Methods and Applications in Computer Engineering (pp. 271-294). IGI Global.
Nasserddine, G., & El Arid, A. (2023). Artificial Intelligence in Navigation Systems. In Handbook of Research on AI Methods and Applications in Computer Engineering (pp. 86-107). IGI Global.
Nasserddine, G., Nassereddine, M., & El Arid, A. A. (2023). Internet of Things Integration in Renewable Energy Systems. In Handbook of Research on Applications of AI, Digital Twin, and Internet of Things for Sustainable Development (pp. 159-185). IGI Global.
Diab, M.O., Seif, A., Sabbah, M., El-Abed, M., Aloulou, N. (2020). A Review on ECG-Based Biometric Authentication Systems. In: Nait-ali, A. (eds) Hidden Biometrics. Series in BioEngineering. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-0956-4_2
Sabbah M.M., Salami H.K., Kozaily J.S, AlKhatib R.H., "3D Model of Blood Flow for Magnetohydrodynamics Study ", Springer LNCVB Series ( ISSN: 2212-9391 ), 15 pages, in-press March 2019.
AlKhatib R.H., Sabbah M.M., Diab M.O., Taha M.H., Salloum K.J, "Bioinspired Approach to Inverse Kinematic Problem ", Springer LNCVB Series ( ISSN: 2212-9391 ), 10 pages, in-press March 2019.
M H Taha- Power Electronics for More Electric Aircraft – book: Aircraft Technology ISBN 9799533076354- 2012
Hamandi, Lama, AlMustafa, Khaled, Zantout, Rached, Obeid, Hasan, Automatic Recognition and Localization of Saudi License Plates, a Book Chapter in book Multidisciplinary Computational Intelligence Techniques: Applications in Business, Engineering, and Medicine, Ali, Shawkat, Abbadeni, Noureddine, Batouche, Mohamed (Editors), IGI Global. 2012

Journal Articles

Nassreddine, G., & El Arid, A. (2024). Data Fusion Technique for E-Learning Evaluation Based on Evidence Theory. Journal of Computational and Cognitive Engineering, 3(1), 67-76.
M Sabbah, Y Abou Adla, S El-Kadri, J Baalbaki, M El-Zein, R Zantout, and M Diab. Atherosclerosis Detection using Autoencoders Applied to MR Images. Medical Research Archives, [S.l.], v. 11, n. 9, sep. 2023. ISSN 2375-1924. Available at: <https://esmed.org/MRA/mra/article/view/4350>. Date accessed: 14 nov. 2023. doi: https://doi.org/10.18103/mra.v11i9.4350.
12 Pulse High power Active Rectifier for Electric Vehicle Charging Mohamad Taha, Ali Almaktoof , MTE Khan Transportation Research Procedia 70 (2023) 299–306. Science Direct, Available online at www.sciencedirect.com
Adla, Y. , Soubra, R. , Kasab, M. , Diab, M. , Chkeir, A.. "Automatic Classification of the Stand-to-Sit Phase in the TUG Test Using Machine Learning". World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology, Open Science Index 179, International Journal of Computer and Information Engineering, (2021), 15(11), 586 - 590.
Damaj, I., Serhal, D., Hamandi, L., and Zantout, R., and Mouftah, H., “Connected and Autonomous Electric Vehicles: Quality of Experience Survey and Taxonomy”, Vehicular Communications, vol. 28, April 2021.
Abu Salem, I. Damaj, L. Hamandi, and R. Zantout, “Effective Assessment of Computer Science Capstone Projects and Student Outcomes,” in International Journal of Engineering Pedagogy, I 2, V 10, P 72 – 93, 2020. https://doi.org/10.3991/ijep.v10i2.11855.
Diab M.O., Seif A., El-Abed M.A., Sabbah M.S, "Individual Identification Using ECG Signals", Journal of Computer and Communications, 6, 1(2018): 74-80.
Samira Klaylat, Rached Zantout, Lama Hamandi, Ziad Osman, “Arabic Natural Audio Dataset”, Mendeley Data, V1, doi: 10.17632/xm232yxf7t.1, 2018.
Auday Al-Dulaimy, Wassim Itani, Rached Zantout, Ahmed Zekri “Type-Aware Virtual Machine Management for Energy Efficient Cloud Data Centers”, Sustainable Computing: informatics and Systems Journal, Volume 19, September 2018, pp. 185-203.
Arkadan, A. A., Hijazi, T. M., and El Masri, B., “Design Evaluation of Conventional and Toothless Stator Wind Power Axial - Flux PM Generator”, IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, Vol. 53, No. 6, June 2017.
Al-Awar, N., Hijazi, T. M., and Arkadan, A. A., “Particle Swarm Optimization of Coupled Electromechanical Systems,” IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, Vol. 47, No. 5, pp. 1314-1317, 2011
Rami Alkhatib, Chritophe Corbier, Mohamad El Badoui, Mohamad O. Diab. ‘Prediction of Human Gait - Vertical Ground Reaction Force’, Vol: 1; Issue: 1; IJARESM, pp; 5-14; 2015.
Mohamad O. Diab, Sahera Saleh, Mustapha Dichari, Nijez Aloulou, Omar Hamoui, Firas Chehade. 'Reduction of Physician's Radiation Dose during Cardiac Catheterization Procedures Using Lead-Free Sterile Radiation Shields'.WASET, Vol. 13, No. 3, pp. 1396-1399, 2015.
Atieh M., Diab M., Moubayed N., Mustapha O., Al Awar N., Tahini H., Zibara A., Abou Marak R., and Eljammal S., “Modeling and Utilization of an IPMC Muscle’’, IJNCAA Journal, 2015
Sharafeddine, S., & Arid, A. E. (2012). An empirical energy model for secure Web browsing over mobile devices. Security and Communication Networks, 5(9), 1037-1048.

Conference Papers

Nassreddine, G., El Arid, A., & Nasseredine, M. (2023). Solar PV Power Prediction System Based on Machine Learning Approach. In the 2023 IEEE International Conference on Energy Technologies for Future Grids (ETFG), Wollongong, Australia, pp. 1-7.
H. Shaaban; M. M. Antar, M. O. Al-Yaman, N.I. Mousharafieh, M. M. Sabbah, M Hassan, and M.O. Diab. "From EEG signal to classification in Alzheimer disease: A mini review," 2023 Seventh International Conference on Advances in Biomedical Engineering (ICABME), Beirut, Lebanon, 2023, pp. 111-114, doi: 10.1109/ICABME59496.2023.10293112.
JM Baalbaki, SS El Kadri, KA Awad, CH Al Aridy, MS Aridi, MA El Zein, MO Diab, MM Sabbah, RN Zantout, YA Abu Adla. “An End-To-End Deep Learning Approach for Atherosclerosis Detection using Autoencoders”. BioSMART, 2023, Pages 1570902357.
M El Zein, W El Laz, M Laza, T Wazzan, I Kaakour, YA Adla, J Baalbaki, M Diab, M Sabbah and R Zantout. “A Deep Learning Framework for Denoising MRI Images using Autoencoders”. BioSMART, 2023, Pages 1570902421.
DELAY COMPENSATION IN MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL FOR MULTILEVEL INVERTERS Ahmad M. Hulayhel, Mohamad Taha. AIUE Proceedings of the 3 rd Energy and Human Habitat Conference (28&29 November 2022) Cape Town
Sabbah, Y. Abou Adla, M. Kasab, M. Al-Ghourabi, M. O. Diab, N.Aloulou, “Murine Atherosclerosis Detection Using Machine Learning Under Magnetic Resonance Imaging”, 2020 IEEE-EMBS Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Sciences (IECBES) - IECBES 2020, Langkawi, Malaysia.
Elkabani, I., Hamandi, L., Al Masri, B., and Zantout, R., “Experimental Evaluation of an Interactive Workspace for Helping the Visually Impaired Learning Linear Algebra”, accepted for publication, in the AHFE International Conference on Human Factors and Assistive Technology, San Diego, California, July 16-20, 2020.
Islam Elkabani, Layal Abu Daher, Rached Zantout, “Use of FP-Growth Algorithm in Identifying Influential Users on Twitter Hashtags” International Conference on Compute and Data Analysis (ICCDA 2020), Silicon Valley, San Jose, CA, USA, March 9-12, 2020.
Islam ElKabani, Lama Hamandi, Rached Zantout, “Evaluation of a Multilingual Workspace to Practice Math for Visually Impaired Students" The 10th International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics (AHFE 2019), Washington, D.C., USA, July 24-28, 2019.
Khaldoun Hatoum; Rami Alkhatib; Nael Jaber; Maher Sabbah; Mohammad O.Diab; Windmill Climbing Robot, IEEE International Conference on Computer and Applications (ICCA), 394-398, 2018, Beirut, Lebanon, 1109/COMAPP.2018.8460435
Modelling and analysis of a grid-connected multi-phase power conditioning system for high megawatt fuel cell stacks. Khlid Ben Hamad, Mohamad H Taha Ali Almaktoof, and Mohamed TE Kahn- Conference: the 27th Domestic use of Energy Conference March 2019At: CP Van Der Merwe Hall, Cape Peninsula University of Technology; Wellington Campus, South Africa, pp. 209–217, 25-27 March 2021
Maher Sabbah, Rami Alkhatib, Yehya Jebbawi , Ramzi Halabi, Mohamad O. Diab, Rached Zantout: ‘Robotic Interface Controller for Minimally Invasive Surgery’. Proceeding of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Applications & Information Security, ICCAIS’2018, pp. 1-4, April 5-7, 2018, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. 1109/CAIS.2018.8442048
Alkhatib, M.O.Diab, I. Omar, C. Chamaa, M.Sabbah” Usage of VGRF in Biometrics: Application on Healthy and Parkinson Gaits”, International conference on Computer Applications & Information Security, ICCAIS. IEEE, pp. 1-4, April 4-7, 2018 Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. 10.1109/CAIS.2018.8442048
Kaddoura, S., Arid, A. E., & Moukhtar, M. (2022). Evaluation of supervised machine learning algorithms for multi-class intrusion detection systems. In Proceedings of the Future Technologies Conference (FTC) 2021, Volume 3 (pp. 1-16). Springer International Publishing.
Farah Yassine, Fatima Deeb, Jamal Haidar, Oussama Mustapha, Automated University Grades System, Engineering Education and Science Research Conference: Importance of Scientific Research and Development in the Quality of Engineering Education, Beirut, 7 - 8 September, 2018.
Hijazi, T. M., El Masri, B., and Arkadan, A. A., “Design Evaluation of Conventional and Toothless Stator Wind Power Axial - Flux PM Generator”, IEEE Conference on Electromagnetic Field Computation (IEEE-CEFC), Miami, FL, USA, Nov. 13-16, 2016.
Hijazi, T. M., El Masri, B., El Awar, N., and Arkadan, A. A., “Wind Power Axial-Flux PM Generator Loss Computation using Quasi-3D FEA” with B. El Masri, N. Al Awar and A. A. Arkadan, Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society Conference, ACES 2016, Honolulu, Hawaii, 13-17 March 2016.
Abou Marak, M. O. Diab, N. F. Al Awar, M. Atieh, M. Salloum, O. Mustapha, N. Moubayed, Modeling and Characterization of Ionic Metal Composite (IPMC) Artificial Muscle, 21th LAAS International Science Conference (LAAS’15), Beirut, 2015.
Racha Soubra, Mohamad Diab, Bassam Moslem. Identification of Parkinson's disease by using multichannel Vertical Ground Reaction Force signals, Proceeding of the IEEE International Conference on Bio-engineering for Smart Technologies (BioSMART 2016), Dec. 4th-7th, 2016, Dubai, UAE.
Rami Alkhatib, Christophe Corbier, Mohamed El Badaoui, Bassam Moslem, Mohamad Diab. ‘Sensors’ Ground Reaction Force Behavior for Booth Normal and Parkinson Subjects – A Qualitative Study’, Proceedings of the 37^th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, pp. Milano, Italy Aug. 25-29, 2015.
Diab, M., Saleh, S., Dichari, M., Aloulou, N., Hamoui, O., Chehade, F. 'Reduction of Physician's Radiation Dose during Cardiac Catheterization Procedures Using Lead-Free Sterile Radiation Shields'. Proceedings of the 17^th International Conference on Computational Physics, 241-244, Madrid, Spain March 26 - 27, 2015.

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