IEEE CASS Seasonal School on Domain Specific Accelerator Architectures

Dr. Vinod Pangracious would be the lead contact for this effort. Dr. Pangracious is a Member of IEEE and ACM. He is the chair of IEEE CAS, SSCS and PELS UAE chapters. He maintains strong connections with the semiconductor and software industry in the UAE and the Middle East. He is a member of the advisory panel and core committee of the AUD Entrepreneurship and Innovation Center (AEIC).

Abdallah Kassem received his B.S in Microelectronics from University of Quebec in Montreal in 1992, his M.Sc and Ph.D in microelectronic from Ecole polytechnique de Montreal in 1996 and 2004 respectively. From 1996 to 2000, he taught computer architecture, microprocessors and digital electronic courses and laboratories at AUB, LAU in Lebanon. Prof. Kassem joined Notre Dame University-Louaize in 2005 in the Electrical and Computer Engineering department. Prof. Kassem published more than 80 papers in reviewed journals, book Chapters and international conference proceedings. He is an Associate Editor in IEEE Access and a Guest Editor Elsevier. His research interests include microelectronics design and testing, VLSI, microprocessors, engineering education/management, ultrasonic applications, hardware/software embedded system, healthcare applications, e-Health and m-Health. Prof. Kassem is a Professional Engineer in Lebanon (Ordre des Ingénieurs du Liban). He in an Organizer and TPC member of many IEEE International conferences.

Ahmed H. Madian (Senior Member, IEEE) received the B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees in electronics and communications from Cairo University, Giza, Egypt, in 1997, 2001, and 2007, respectively. Since 2014, he has been serving as the Director of Microelectronics Systems Design Master Program and the Nano-Electronics Integrated Systems Center (NISC), Nile University. He is currently an Associate Professor with the Micro-Electronics Design Center, Department of Radiation Engineering, Egyptian Atomic Energy Authority, Cairo, Egypt. His research interests are in circuit theory, low-voltage analog CMOS circuit design, current-mode analog signal processing, memristor, fractional systems, VLSI, encryption systems, and mixed/digital applications on field-programmable gate arrays. Also, he has been a member of the National Radio Science Committee (NRSC) since 2018. He has been also the IEEE Egypt Section Secretary since January and the Chair of Egypt Technical Chapter Circuits and Systems (CASS) since February. He also served on many technical and organizing committees of many international conferences. He is a Co-Founder of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Egypt Chapter, and a Co-Chair of an award and a membership of the RAS Chapter.

IEEE (M’08, SM’12) was born in Cali, Colombia, in 1976. He obtained an electronic engineer’s degree from the Autonomous University of West (UAO) in 1999. In 2003, he obtained the Advanced Diploma of Electronic Technology degree (DEA) (Masters in Electronics Technology) thanks to the Spanish government’s support. He received the title of the Ph.D. degree in Electronic Engineering from URV in 2006. Actually, he is a Full Professor at the UAO university in Cali, Colombia, where he founded the advanced materials for micro and nanotechnology group (IMAMNT) in 2007. Its scope is photonic materials, optoelectronic devices, and electronic developments used in bioengineering applications at the micro and nanoscale. He is the author of a book title “Solar Energy Photovoltaic” and 6 book chapters on the national and international publishers. Author and co-author of more than 35 reviewed scientific publications in journals and conferences. He obtains the national prize for the inventor in the research modality by the industry and commerce superintendence and the national government of Colombia in the year 2020.

Currently, he’s the chair of the IEEE Circuits & Systems Society Colombian chapter 2019-2020; he was treasurer of the IEEE Electron Devices Society Colombian chapter in 2017 and 2018; member of region 9 and Suroccidente Subsection; active member of the Electron Devices Society (EDS) since 2008, and Circuits and Systems Society (CAS) since 2011; and he was a General Chair of IEEE Andean Conference ANDESCON in 2018, and Chair of the IEEE BioCAS Colombian Workshop 2019 and 2020.