PERSONAL DETAILS:
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FIRST NAME:
FAMILY NAME
SEX
MARITAL STATUS |
Mohamed
El Brawany
Male
Married. |
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DATE OF BIRTH: |
1 January 1967 |
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NATIONALITY |
Egyptian |
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HOME ADDRESS: |
1 El-Korany Street,
Sers Ellayan, PO Box 32861,
Menoufia, Egypt |
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WORK ADDRESS: |
Community College in Huraimla
King Saud University
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia |
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TELEPHONE:
E-MAIL: |
Mobile:
Work : 00966 15260282 Extension: 214
mbrawany@gmail.com |
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POSITION : |
Assistant Prof. |
QUALIFICATIONS:
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Degree |
Address |
Subjects |
Dates |
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B.Sc. |
Faculty of Electronic Engineering,
Menoufia University, Egypt. |
Majored in: automatic control, computer engineering, industrial electronics, chemistry, mathematics, signal processing |
August 1989
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M.Sc.
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Faculty of Electronic Engineering.
Menoufia University, Egypt. |
Systems and control Engineering. |
August 1991
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M.Sc. Project |
Faculty of Electronic Engineering.
Menoufia University, Egypt. |
Adaptive control of glucose-insulin regulatory system. |
December 1993 |
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Ph.D. |
Dept of Medical Physics & Bioengineering
St. George's Hospital Medical school,
London University,
London SW17 0QT, UK |
Microemboli detection and characterisation using ultrasound
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October 2000 |
TRAINING COURSES:
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Course |
Address |
Subjects |
Dates |
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Life science course |
Dept. of Physics
University of Surrey
Guildford, UK. |
Physiology, Anatomy, Cell Biology, Chemistry, ionising and non-ionising radiation. |
September – October 1996 |
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Artificial Neural Networks Course |
Scientific Computers Ltd
Crawley, Sussex,
UK. |
Neural Networks structure, function, training and testing.
With emphasis on MLP, RBFN, SOM, MNN and PNN networks |
October 1998 |
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Medical Applications of Signal Processing. |
Institute of Electrical Engineering (IEE) (now IET)
Savoy Place, London,
UK. |
Application of signal processing to EEG, Doppler ultrasound, digital mammography, retina imaging, foetal heart rate, epileptic seizures. |
October 1999
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Small Group Teaching Workshop |
Education Unit,
St. George's Hospital Medical School,
London University,
London SW17 0RE, UK. |
Small group teaching |
November 1999 |
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Signal Processing in 2000. |
Institute of Electrical Engineering (IEE)
Savoy Place, London, UK. |
Signal processing and communication. DSP systems-on-silicon applications. Higher order statistics, Blind signal separation. |
December 1999
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Course Design |
Menoufia University, Egypt. |
Introduction to teaching course building. Teaching requirements. Course goals, subjects, and achievements. Effect of teaching methods on course building. |
FLDP program 2003 - 2007 |
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Quality Assurance |
Menoufia University, Egypt. |
Basics and rules of building internal system for quality assurance. |
FLDP program 2003 - 2007 |
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Managing scientific research |
Menoufia University, Egypt. |
Resources for scientific research (Personal, financial, and services). Writing proposals for scientific research. Preparing project budget. |
FLDP program 2003 - 2007 |
EMPLOYMENT RECORD:
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Position |
Address |
Field/Duties |
Dates |
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Assistant Professor |
Community College, King Saud University
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia |
· Teaching
· Research |
Sept 2007 - Present |
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Lecturer
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Faculty of Electronic Engineering.
Menoufia University, Egypt.
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· Teaching
· Research
· Supervision of research students and final year B.Sc. projects |
May 2005 – Sept 2007 |
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Post Doc |
Department of Medical Physics & Bioengineering
St. George’s Hospital Medical School, London University,
Blackshaw Road London SW17 OQT |
· Thermal test object
· RF signal acquisition from ultrasound scanners
· Writing reports and peer-reviewed papers |
October 2004-May 2005 |
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Lecturer
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Faculty of Electronic Engineering,
Menoufia University, Egypt.
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· Teaching
· Research
· Supervision of research students and final year B.Sc. projects |
April 2002 – October 2004
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Clinical Scientist |
Department of Medical Physics & Bioengineering
St. George’s Hospital Medical School,
London University,
Blackshaw Road
London SW17 OQT |
· Experimental study of in-vivo heating from diagnostic ultrasound
· Measurements of acoustic field parameters and acoustic and thermal characteristics of biological tissues
· Development of in-vivo and ex-vivo temperature measurement techniques to exposure to diagnostic ultrasound,
· Writing report and papers, presentation of results |
August 2000 – April 2002 |
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Ph.D. Student |
Department of Medical Physics & Bioengineering
St. George’s Hospital Medical School,
London University,
Blackshaw Road
London SW17 OQT |
· Microemboli detection and characterisation using ultrasound.
· Ultrasound signal processing
· Measurements of acoustic field parameters of various ultrasound transducers.
· Development of tissue mimicking material |
September 1996 - October 2000 |
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Assistant Lecturer |
Faculty of Electronic Engineering.
Menoufia University, Egypt. |
· Teaching BSc students.
· Design and development of laboratory experiments for B.Sc. students.
· Computer programming and data analysis. |
December 1993 - March 1996 |
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Demonstrator |
Faculty of Electronic Engineering,
Menoufia University, Egypt. |
· Design and development of laboratory experiments for B.Sc. students. |
September 1990 - December 1993 |
HONORARY APPOINTMENT
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Visiting Researcher |
Joint Section of Physics
Institute of Cancer Research
Royal Marsden NHS Trust,
Sutton, Surrey SM5 2NG London, UK. |
Experimental study of in-vivo heating from focused ultrasound surgery devices
Development of computer-controlled temperature measurement techniques for in-vivo use. |
January 2001 – April 2002 |
COMPUTER EXPERIENCE
· Building computer programs using the graphical programming language LabVIEW, National Instruments Corporation.
· I have experience of PC computer hardware and am a skilful user of computer applications under Windows operating systems.
OTHER ACTIVITIES AND ATTAINMENTS
· Gaining practical training in an automatic control factory in Egypt.
· Developing a software package for the analysis of different parallel processing algorithms
· Building an analogue computer model of the human Glucose-Insulin control system t to study the effect of different injection mechanisms of insulin for diabetic subjects.
· Building software programs (in C) to establish on-line computer data acquisition, parameters estimation and control of systems like motors, heaters, and electrical circuits.
· Developing a software package, based on my MSc project, for different control algorithms such as Minimum Variance, Generalised Minimum Variance, Self-Tuning Pole Placement and Generalised Predictive controllers.
· I have been involved in many practical aspects of ultrasound which were related to my PhD project. I have also been involved in teaching MSc students and trainees at the department of Medical Physics, St. George’s Hospital Medical School, London, UK
· Research activities and practical aspects of studying the heat effect of diagnostic ultrasound.
· Taking part in the preparation of the BSc Syllabus for both the department of Industrial Electronics and Control Engineering and the Medical Electronics Branch.
· Building basic foundation experiments for the medical electronics laboratory in the Faculty of Electronic Engineering, Menoufia University.
· Selected as a member of a steering committee to put the syllabus of the Medical Engineering department, at the faculty of Electronic Engineering, Menoufia University.
AWARDS AND PRIZES
· Awarded the Cardiovascular Research Group’s (CRG) prize for the best paper in March 2001 at St. George’s Hospital Medical School, university of London.
· Awarded the John Perry prize for endeavour at the department of Medical Physics and Bioengineering, St. George’s Hospital Medical School, University of London in March 2000.
· Awarded Dr. Dawood's prize for the first student in BSc in the Faculty of Electronic Engineering
MEMBERSHIPS
· The Institute of Electrical Engineering (IEE), (Now IET) London, UK.
· The Egyptian Syndicate of Electrical Engineering.
PUBLICATIONS:
INTERESTS:
· Research:
Medical ultrasound, Medical signal processing, Modelling and control of physiological systems, Drugs infusion systems and Neural networks.
· General
Reading, fishing and football.