Oct. 93- July 96 : Ph.D. in Image Processing area (High HONORS) at polytechnic school of engineering. The subject of my thesis is :  Filtering and Unsupervised Segmentation of Polarimetric Satellites Ultrasonic Radar Images. Polytechnics school of Engineering University of Nantes, France.

Sept. 92-July 93: Masters in Electronics and informatics systems , Specialty (Electronic Systems and Digital Signal Processing). Project entitled: Segmentation of Polarimetric Ultrasonic  Radar Image, Polytechnics school of Engineering, University of Nantes, France.

Sept. 1989-Sept. 1990: Masters in Digital Image Processing (Computer Graphics , Processing, Analysis and compression, all courses for static and sequence images) at IFSIC (Institute of Computer Sciences and Communication).  University of Rennes, France.

1985- 1989: BS in Electrical Engineering : Electronic and computer Systems, specialty: Electronic Instrumentation. University of Saint-Etienne, Academy of Lyon, France.

Aug. 2000-present : Assistant Professor at King Saud University, College of Applied Medical Sciences, Dept. of Biomedical Technology.

Teaching  :    

“       Image processing (wavelets, pattern recognition, compression, analysis, (Master students at the computer sciences department at KSU)

       CT-Scan, Ultrasound and X-ray imaging systems

       Signal processing

“       Microprocessors (8086, 8088)

“       Computer language C++.

“       Biomedical laboratory instrumentation.

“       Electronics systems, integrated circuits.

“       Circuit Analysis

 Academic :               

“     Preparation of the contents of biomedical instrumentation diploma

“       Responsible of training program for graduation,

“        Several times jury member in master thesis defense.

“       General Supervisor for final Exams in the department,

“       Supervisor for graduation projects,

“       Academic advisor for students,

“       Responsible of following up the master and PhD students studying outside the kingdom.

“       Member of the committee of program upgrade and planning for the department.

Oct. 1996 - July 2000: Research Associate at National Center for Macromolecular Imaging Baylor college of Medicine Houston, TX, USA.

·         Development of a new method for automatic detection and selection of biological specimen using multi-resolution scheme for filtering and particle selection. (published in IEEE Int. Conf. on Image Processing 1998 Chicago USA)

·         Development of new techniques for data processing and filtering to improve the quality of  3-dimensional

reconstruction of virus structure. Development of tools for 3D visualization purpose.

·         Development of new method for orientation determination of very low contrast electron microscopic images using weighted-wavelet projection matching and filtering in wavelet space. The software was developed in C/C++ using Unix system published at IEEE ICASSP2000 Istanbul, Turkey.

Awards

Marquis who’s who in Medicine and Healthcare, 2005.

Cambridge Blue Book 2006.

American Biographical institute (Man of the year 2006).

Marquis who’s who  in the World 2006.

                                         Skills

·         7 years experience with Unix system.

·         10 years C programming and 5 years  C++  experience.

·         Some experience with: Java, Html, SQL, Pascal, Basic and 6502, 6800, 68000, 80X86 assembly languages.

·         Good experience with several software for images processing and 3D visualization (Khoros, Matlab, Labview, Iris Explorer, Vis5D, Adoculos, PCDSP...).

·         Good Experience with software for 3D reconstruction of single particles (Imagic, EMAN)

·         Microsoft office XP professional. Good experience with Adobe Photoshop, illustrator.

·         Good experience with X-windows (development of  graphical user interface for particle selection).

·         Some experience with parallel processing.

·         Some experience with several platforms: Unix (Linux/X-windows), Windows, Mac, Dos.

Languages

Arabic   - mother tongue

English  - fluent

French   - fluent

Publications in Journals

  1.   Ali Saad, “Multiresolution Speckle Reduction: Wavelet versus Contrast Enhancement for Ultrasound Images “, Submitted to Journal of Digital Imaging.

2.  Ali Saad, “Speckle Reduction of Ultrasound Images Using Wavelets Analysis” , Submitted to IEEE on biomedical TeMarch 2006. 

3.    Ali S. Saad: Orientation determination by wavelets matching for 3D reconstruction

of very noisy electron microscopic virus images, BMC Structural Biology 2005, 5:9.

please see the complete list of publication at the about page