Curriculum Vitae

Name:           Saeed A. A. Aldosari

Address:       Electrical Engineering Dept 
                      King Saud University
                      P. O. Box 800
                      Riyadh, 11412
                      Saudi Arabia

Tel (office):  +966-1-4678982

Fax:               +966-1-4676757

e-mail:       dosari <at>  ksu.edu.sa

 

Education

22 / 12 / 2005   PhD, ECE, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

19 / 7 /  2000    Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. (GPA: 5.00 / 5.00)

14 / 7 /  1994    Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. (GPA: 4.95 / 5.00)

Honors and Awards

2005      Nominated for the student paper contest of the Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Pacific Groove, CA, October 30 - November 2, 2005.

2005     Winner of the student paper contest of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP’05), Philadelphia, March 18-23, 2005.

1994     Graduated from the College of Engineering at King Saud University with first degree honor. I have been ranked 1^st among 80 graduates of the Electrical Engineering Department and 2^nd out of 2415 graduates of King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

1994     College of Engineering Student of the Year Award. King Saud University.

1994     Department of Electrical Engineering Student of the Year Award. King Saud University.

1993     Department of Electrical Engineering Student of the Year Award. King Saud University.

Research Interests

-   Sensor networks, Distributed signal processing

-   Multi-input multi-output wireless communication systems, space-time codes

-   Signal processing for communications.

 

Professional Activities

·         Society Membership:

-          IEEE, member

·         Journal Referee:

-          IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

-          ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks

-          IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

-          IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine

-          IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

-          EURASIP Journal on Advances on Signal Processing

·         Conference Referee:

-          IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP’04, and ICASSP’05)

-          IEEE International Telecommunications Symposium (ITS’2002)

-          IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC’2004)

-          IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC’2005)

-          IEEE/ACM Symposium on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN'2004)

Publications

• Soummya Kar, Saeed Aldosari, and José M. F. Moura, "Topology for Distributed Inference on Graphs," IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, accepted , 2008
• S. Aldosari, J. Moura, “Detection in sensor networks: The saddlepoint approximation,” IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 55, no. 1, pp. 327-340, January 2007. (pdf)
• S. Aldosari, J. Moura, "Topology of Sensor Networks in Distributed Detection," in Proc. The IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP'06), Toulouse, France, May 14-19, 2006 (Invited). (pdf)
• S. A. Aldosari, “Detection in Sensor Networks,” Ph.D. thesis, ECE Dept., Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, Dec. 2005. (pdf)
• S. Aldosari, J. Moura, "Distributed Detection in Sensor Networks: Connectivity Graph and Small World Networks," in Proc. The Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Pacific Groove, CA, October 30 - November 2, 2005 (Selected among the 10 finalists of the Student Paper Contest). (pdf)
• S. Aldosari, J. Moura, " Saddlepoint approximation for sensor network optimization," in Proc. The IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP'05), Philadelphia, PA, March 18-23, 2005. (Winner of the Student Paper Contest). (pdf)
• S. Aldosari, J. Moura, "Fusion in Sensor Networks", Frontiers in Optics, Rochester, NY Oct. 12-13, 2004.  (Invited)
• S. Aldosari, J. Moura, " Detection in Decentralized Sensor Networks," in Proc. The IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP'04), Montreal, Canada, May 17-21, 2004. (Rated among the best in its category) (pdf)
• S. Aldosari, J. Moura, " Fusion in Sensor Networks with Communication Constraints," in Proc. IEEE/ACM Symposium on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN'04), Berkley, CA, April 26-27, 2004. (pdf)
• S. A. Aldosari, S. A. Alshebeili and A. M. Al-Sanie, “Combined linear-decision feedback sequence estimation: An improved system design,” in Proc. The IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), Sydney, Australia, May 2001. (pdf)
• S. A. Aldosari, S. A. Alshebeili and A. M. Al-Sanie, “Chernoff bound on the probability of error for combined linear-decision feedback sequence estimation,” in Proc. The IEEE International Conference on Communication, Computer and Power (ICCCP), Muscat, Oman, February 2001. (pdf)
• S. A. Aldosari, S. A. Alshebeili and A. M. Al-Sanie, “Effective MSE criterion for combined linear-Viterbi equalization,” in Proc. The IEEE International Conference in Communication Systems (ICCS), Singapore, Singapore, November 2000. (pdf)
• S. A. Aldosari, S. A. Alshebeili and A. M. Al-Sanie, “A new MSE approach for combined linear-Viterbi equalizers,” in Proc. The IEEE Semiannual Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC), Tokyo, Japan, May 2000. (pdf)
• S. A. Aldosari, “Reduced complexity maximum likelihood sequence estimation (MLSE) for channels with intersymbol interference,” M.S. thesis, EE Dept., King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, May 2000. (ps)