Mohamed H. Elmikaty Communications and Signal Processing Research Group, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College London, Exhibition Road, London SW7 2AZ, UK Email: [email protected] Webpage: http://www.commsp.ee.ic.ac.uk/~melmikaty/ I work on Image Processing and Computer Vision with emphasis to Image Representation and Image Analysis techniques with applications to object detection, recognition and tracking with a motto of "Humans can see and recognise, so can Computers". EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS 2012-2016 PhD, DIC, Electrical Engineering Imperial College London, United Kingdom Communications and Signal Processing Research Group Research Topic: Image Analysis (Object Detection and Recognition) Sponsor: BAE SYSTEMS Military Air and Information- UK 2011-2012 MSc, DIC, Communications and Signal Processing Imperial College London, United Kingdom Achieved Distinction. Individual Project: Human Detection and Tracking Designed and implemented a complete system for human tracking that falls within the recently developed "tracking by detection" class of approaches, using the well-known Histogram-ofOriented-Gradient descriptor in a combined fashion with a Shape-Context descriptor to detect humans, when they are placed onto heavily-cluttered complex backgrounds, programmed in C++/OpenCV/MatLab. Sponsor: SELEX Galileo Ltd & University Defence Research Centre (UDRC) 2004-2009 BSc, Electronics and Communications Engineering Mansoura University, Egypt Achieved Excellent with Honours, ranked 2nd out of 250. Final Year Project (Group Work): Eye Mouse Developed a tracking system for eyes and gaze using a webcam to determine location of user’s iris in relation to the rest of the eye, using this location to position a computer cursor, programmed in C++/OpenCV. Sponsor: Intel cooperation -Egypt 2001-2004 Mansoura Experimental Language School (MLS), Egypt General Secondary Certificate (GSC) (Mathematics section) Achieved 100%; ranked 74th in whole of Egypt and 1st in Dakahlia Governorate (Mathematics Section) WORK EXPERIENCE 2013 - 2015 Graduate Teaching Assistant Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering – Imperial College London, United Kingdom Assisted students and evaluated course work for Advanced Communications and Signal Processing Laboratory and Communication Systems modules. 2010 - 2011 2009 - 2011 Image Processing Engineer (Part-Time) Middle East Technology, Cairo, Egypt Participated in the design and implementation of a virtual changing room. Used HD webcam to design user-friendly software to enable customers try on many models with a few hand moves, programmed in C++/OpenCV Teaching Assistant Department of Electronics and Communications Engineering - Manosura University, Egypt Assisted students and evaluated course work for Digital Signal Processing, Signal and Systems, Wireless Communications, Digital Image Processing, and Laboratory modules. PIZES/AWARDS          Industrial CASE EPSRC full PhD studentship award sponsored by BAE systems, UK, 2012. Ivor Tupper Prize for 'Excellence in Signal Processing, Broadcast and Video Technology’, UK, 2012. CCSF full scholarship award for MSc studies, Egypt, 2011. Young Innovators Award (YIA) for engineering final year projects, Egypt, 2010. The prize of the fifth rank in Made In Egypt Competition (MIE), 2009. The prizes of Higher Education Enhancement Project Fund (HEEPF) as the first three candidates at Department of Electronics and Communications Engineering, Mansoura University, 2005, 2006. MFK Foundation full studentship award for undergraduate studies, Egypt 2004. The prize for top 100 candidates in GSC in whole of Egypt, 2004. The prize for the first candidate in GSC in Dakahlia governorate (Mathematics Section), 2004. ACADEMIC/ PROFESSIONAL TRAINING         Machine Learning Summer School, USA, 2014. Industrial Placement – BAE SYSTEMS Military Air and Information, UK, 2014. Graduate Teaching Assistant (GTA) Training Programme, Imperial College London, 2013. ENS/INRIA Visual Recognition and Machine Learning, France, 2013. Summer School Research Skills Development course, Imperial College London, 2013 International Computer Vision Summer School Sicily (ICVSS), Italy, 2012. Time Management Strategies Workshop, Mansoura University, 2010. Class based lectures about the operation of practical equipment (Communications): o o o  Alcatel-Lucent training for undergraduate students, Egypt, 2008. The Egyptian Satellite Co. (NileSat) training for undergraduate students, Egypt, 2008. The Egyptian company for Mobile Services (MobiNil) training for undergraduate students, Egypt, 2007. Participated in the Higher Education Enhancement Project Fund (HEEPF), Mansoura University, 2006. TECHNICAL SKILLS Software: C/C++, OpenCV library, MatLab, LabView, VB.net, Linear/Native Assembly, Electronics workbench, MultiSim, GNU radio, html, Dreamweaver Languages: Arabic (Native), English (Fluent), French (Intermediate) PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY   Referee for EUSIPCO 2013, 2014 IEEE student member, IET student member, BMVA member REFRENCES Available upon request