Bio

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Research Areas:

  • Super-Resolution Imaging
  • Optimization and Mathematical Modeling
  • Machine Learning and Pattern Recognition
  • Digital Image Processing

Languages:    

C/C++, Java, Python, Visual Studio, Assembly

Applications:  

MATLAB, Mathematica, Maple, OpenGL

Tools:         

Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Access, Project)

,

Web design (HTML), GUI design, Adobe

 

EDUCATION

UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA, GAINESVILLE, FL, USA

  • Ph.D.

    , Computer and Information Science & Engineering                                                                                             2013

Dissertation: 'On Learning and Regularization in Super-Resolution Imaging',

Adviser: Dr. Jeffrey C. Ho.

  • M.Sc.

    , Computer and Information Science & Engineering                                                                                                                                                                          2012

 

CAIRO UNIVERSITY, GIZA, EGYPT

  • M.Sc.

    , Biomedical and Systems Engineering                                              2005   

Thesis: 'Speckle Noise Reduction in Medical Ultrasound Images using Weighted Diffusion,

Neural Networks and Fuzzy Logic', Adviser: Dr. Ahmed M. Badawi.

  • B.Sc.

    , Mathematics (Rank: 1/500)                                                                                                                                                                                                                 2003

  • B.Sc.

    , Biomedical and Systems Engineering (Rank: 1/120)                                                                                              2001

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

 

Cairo University

,

Cairo, Egypt                                                                                                                                              

7/2013-Present

Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical and Systems Engineering     

l Teach courses in optimization, database design, computer vision, biomedical signal analysis

l Conduct research in machine learning, image processing, computer vision, biometrics

l Perform other academic activities

 

University of Florida, Gainesville, FL                                               

06/2011-05/2013

Graduate Research and Teaching Assistant, Department of Computer and Information Science & Engineering

l Published papers on image super-resolution, color de-rendering, object tracking, and texture recognition

l Assisted in teaching undergraduate courses in computer organization and discrete mathematics.

 

Sage Software Healthcare Division, Alachua, FL                                     

01/2008-06/2011

Applications Programmer

l Developed, programmed, and installed medical management information systems 

l Developed database and client-server applications

l Supported configuration management operations

 

Hewlett Packard Development Company, Boise, ID                                                                            

05/2007-08/2007 Intern, Color Print Quality Processl Analyzed assessment techniques of the print quality of competitive laser printersl Automated the assessment process through programs in Visual Test, Visual Basic, SQL, and Access  

 

University of Florida Teaching Center, Gainesville, FL                               

01/2007-04/2007

                          

Graduate Tutorl Tutored undergraduate courses in engineering, mathematics, and physicsl Assisted in delivering and improving the Academic Technology TV tutoring program  

 

Hewlett Packard Development Company, Vancouver, WA                                        

06/2006-08/2006 Computer Science/Image Science Internl Conducted research on analyzing and improving the performance of color ink-jet printersl Supported analyses through writing programs in Python, C++, and MATLAB

 

University of Miami Academic Resource Center, Coral Gables, FL                    

01/2007-04/2007

             

Graduate Tutorl Tutored undergraduate and graduate courses in engineering, mathematics, physics and managementl Fulfilled requirements for a CRLA Regular Tutoring Certificate

 

University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL                                               

01/2005-05/2006

                        

Graduate Research Assistant, Computer Vision and Image Processing Lab, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineeringl Developed computer systems in MATLAB and C++ for biometric identification and computer vision

l Assisted in teaching two undergraduate courses in digital signal processing and engineering probability using MATLAB

 

Egyptian Organization for Standardization and Quality Control, Cairo, Egypt

          03/2004-12/2004           

Technical Standard Developer and Reviewer

l Developed and reviewed new standards for medical X-ray equipment

l Participated in technical committee meetings on medical equipment standards

 

Cairo University, Giza, Egypt

                                                       07/2002-01/2005

Graduate Research and Teaching Assistant, Department of Biomedical and Systems Engineering,l Developed a computer system in MATLAB for noise reduction in medical ultrasound imaging

l Published one research paper on ultrasound image enhancement

l Taught tutorial sessions on control systems, electromagnetic fields, circuit theory, database systems, and medical equipment

 

Cairo University, Giza, Egypt

                                                       10/2000-07/2001

Undergraduate Research Assistant, Department of Biomedical and Systems Engineeringl Assisted in collecting bioelectric signals of the brain (EEG), muscles (EMG) and eyes (EOG) captured during sleep from human subjectsl Developed a computer system in MATLAB for neural-network classification of sleep patterns based on the spectral analysis of bioelectric signals

 

GRANTS AND AWARDS

 

Information Technology Academia Collaboration (ITAC) Grant,

Information Technology Industry Development Agency (ITIDA), Ministry Of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT), Egypt, 2014 ($143,000)

IEEE Signal Processing Society Travel Grant,

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers,

2013 ($1,000)

CISE Travel Grant,

Department of Computer and Information Science and Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, 2012 ($500)

GSC Travel Grant,

Graduate Student Council, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, 2012 ($250)

Achievement Award for New Engineering Graduate Students,

College of Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, 2006

Graduate Research and Teaching Assistantship,

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida, 2005

Outstanding Academic Achievement Award

, Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research, Egypt, (Top Student of the Faculty of Science, Cairo University)

Undergraduate Academic Achievement Award

, Cairo University Graduation Day, Egypt, (Top Student of the Department of Biomedical and Systems Engineering, Cairo University)

 

PUBICATIONS

 

[8] Mohsen Ali,

Muhammad Rushdi

, Jeffrey Ho: Deconstructing Support Vector Machines. ECML 2014.

[7] Yu-Tseh Chi, Mohsen Ali,

Muhammad Rushdi

, Jeffrey Ho: Affine-Constrained Group Sparse Coding and Its Application to Image-Based Classifications. ICCV 2013: 681-688

[6]

Muhammad Rushdi

, Mohsen Ali and Jeffrey Ho, "Color De-Rendering using Coupled Dictionary Learning," Image Processing (ICIP), 2013 20th International Conference on, 15-18 Sep. 2013

[5] S.M. Shahed Nejhum,

Muhammad Rushdi

and Jeffrey Ho, "Visual Tracking using Structured Superpixels," Vision Systems (ICVS), 2013 9th International Conference on, 12-15 Jul. 2013

[4]

Muhammad Rushdi

and Jeffrey Ho, "Augmented Coupled Dictionary Learning for Image Super-Resolution," 2012 Eleventh International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA 2012), 12-15 December 2012.

[3]

Muhammad Rushdi

and Jeffrey Ho, “Large-Scale-Invariant Texture Recognition”, in Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Application (VISAPP 2011), Vilamoura, Portugal, March 2011.
[2]

Muhammad Rushdi

and Jeffrey Ho, “Texture Classification using Sparse K-SVD Texton Dictionaries”, in Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Application (VISAPP 2011), Vilamoura, Portugal, March 2011.

[1] Ahmed Badawi and

Muhammad Rushdi

, “Speckle Reduction in Medical Ultrasound: A Novel Scatterer Density Weighted Nonlinear Diffusion Algorithm Implemented as a Neural-Network Filter”, in Proceedings of the 28th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC 2006), pp. 2776-2782, New York, USA, August 2006. 

 

PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATES

 

Engineering Entrepreneurship Certificate,

University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida                                    2012

College Tutoring Certificate,

College Reading and Learning Association                                                                           2006

Tourism