Personal Details
Education
Professional Experience
Research
Awards
Teaching Activities
Training
Languages

Personal Details
Name: Charles YAACOUB (Edward)
Date of birth: November 16, 1982
Address:

Engineering Dept.
Faculty of Sciences and Engineering
Holy-Spirit University of Kaslik
P.O.Box 446 Jounieh, Lebanon

Tel: [Request by email]
Fax: [Request by email]
Mobile: +961 (3) 110046
E-Mail: charlesyaacoub [at] usek.edu.lb
Personal Website: http://www.yaacoub.net
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Education
July 2009: Ph.D. in Signal and Image Processing from TELECOM ParisTech, ENST (Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications), Paris, France.
July 2005: Dipl. Eng. in Computer and Communications from the
Holy-Spirit University of Kaslik. Ranked first.
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Professional Experience
September 2009 - Present:

Assistant Professor: Engineering department, Faculty of Sciences and Computer Engineering, Holy-Spirit University of Kaslik.

October 2006 -
August 2009:

Lecturer: Engineering department, Faculty of Sciences and Computer Engineering, Holy-Spirit University of Kaslik.

October 2005 -
September 2006:

Lab. and Research Assistant: Engineering department, Faculty of Sciences and Computer Engineering, Holy-Spirit University of Kaslik.

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Research
Topics:

Distributed Video Coding (Wyner-Ziv).
Joint Source-Channel Coding.
Cross-Layer Optimization.

Publications:

Click here to download the list of my publications.

Committees:

Member of the review committee in the IEEE 2007 International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, ICME'07, July 2007, Beijing, China.

Member of the review committee in the 7th IEEE International Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology, ISSPIT‘07, December 2007, Cairo, Egypt.

Member of the review committee in the IEEE 2008 International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, ICME'08, June 2008, Hannover, Germany.

Member of the review committee in the IEEE 2009 International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, ICME'09, June 2009, New York City, USA.

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Awards
Grant:

Winner of an IEEE ICIP 2009 author participation grant from the IEEE Signal Processing Society.

Best Paper:

Winner of a Best Paper award in Network Analysis and Management at ICENCO 2006.

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Teaching Activities
Courses: Digital Image Processing
and Video Compression.
Computer Systems Architecture.
Since October 2007.

Since September 2009.
Labs: Digital Image Processing.
Computer Vision.
Telecommunications.
Microprocessors.
Instrumentation.
Since October 2006.
Since October 2006.
Since October 2006.
Since February 2006.
Since October 2005.
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Training
August 2004: Training at OGERO TELECOM consisted mainly of theoretical and practical sessions (synchronization, switching, transmission, management, traffic, quality and control) and a research project about ultra-wideband technology.
August 2003: Training in the technical department of CBM (Computer Business Machines) consisted mainly of maintenance, repair, and configuration of PCs, Laptops, Printers, and Monitors.
August 1999: Training in the technical department of CAP (Computer Age Products) consisted mainly of workshop activities such as computer systems assembly and software package installations.
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Languages
English French Arabic
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Updated on September 22, 2009