1. technology and computing

Under the patronage of the
Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques
King Salman Bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud
The 3rd Saudi International Electronics,
Communications and Photonics
Conference 2015
27th - 28th April, 2015 / 8th - 9th Rajab 1436H
KACST Headquarters - Conference Hall - Building 36
King Abdullah Road - Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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THEEVENT
The 3rd Saudi International
Electronics, Communications
and Photonics Conference
(SIECPC) 2015
The event is held under the patronage of the
Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques,
King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud...
This event provides a unique
opportunity to discuss novel
approaches and latest findings in
Electronics, Communications and
Photonics...
The Kingdom seeks a sustained, diversified economic
development, and as such has assigned the highest national
priority to advancing science and technology throughout the
nation to be implemented via a multi-billion program..
The 3rd Saudi International Electronics, Communications and
Photonics Conference (SIECPC) will be held from 27 to 28April
2015 in the Conferences Center of King Abdulaziz City for
Science and Technology (KACST) headquarters, Riyadh, Saudi
Arabia. Researchers and practitioners in applications and
design area are welcome to participate.
This conference is one of a series of SIECPC events to be
organized periodically by KACST.
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THETRACKS
The 3rd SIECPC 2015 proceedings are organized
in five main tracks:
The event seeks the participation of the stakeholders and decision makers involved in Electronics, Communications and photonics
in the Kingdom, as well as those involved in applied research, and collaboration between the public and private sectors toward
these aims. The event offers a unique opportunity to network and be updated on the latest developments and sources of financial
support for related applied research.
Track 1
Sensors Devices & Systems
Track 2
Next Generation
Communications System
Track 3
Electronic Circuits & System
Design
Track 4
RF/Antennas
Track 5
Photonics
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Target Attendees...
Participate in strengthening your fields of interest
and help transform them into high growth
knowledge industries.
The conference seeks to further the stakeholders’
collaboration and cooperation toward
advancing the national agenda, empowerment
of knowledge industries and accelerating the
economic growth of vital sectors.
KACST ECP Related Activities and
Scientific Outcomes:
Since starting the implementation of the national
strategic plan (NSTIP) for science and technology, there
has been many activities in the field of Electronics,
Communications & Photonics (ECP). Considering the
main tracks of the total budget spent for all NSTIP main
technologies.
ECP technology covers the following
tracks:
■■ Communication systems and Information Security
■■ Wireless Communications & Sensor Networks
■■ Lasers and Their Applications
■■ MEMS Sensors & Actuators
According to the aims of NSTIP, The scientific outcomes
of ECP has reached a reasonable level by filing patents,
publishing number of papers in different scientific
refereed journals and conferences, and developing
prototypes.
A partial list of the intended participants
includes:
■■ Public officials and policy makers.
■■ Business leaders and company owners.
■■ Universities with private sector collaboration and
support programs.
■■ Heads and ICT centres taking part in the National
Plan for Advancement of Science, Technology and
Innovation.
■■ Suppliers of Information and Communication
Technologies in addition to other ECP
infrastructure.
■■ Developers and technology providers of the new
knowledge cities, technology parks, and R&D
facilities.
■■ Research institutions.
■■ Lab and equipment suppliers for ECP research and
development work.
■■ International and regional agencies and
corporations interested in collaboration toward
advancing the ECP science and technologies.
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DAY 1
Program
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DAY1
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MONDAY
REGISTRATION
08:00 – 09:00
WELCOMING ADDRESS
09:00 – 09:30
Holy Quran
Dr. Hatim Behairy, Scientific Committee, KACST - KSA
H.H. Dr. Turki bin Saud bin Mohammad Al-Saud, President, KACST - KSA
09:00 – 09:10
OPENING SESSION
09:30 – 10:30
Chair: Hatim Behairy, KACST - KSA
Keynote Lecture 1: EDA’s Key to Success: Riding Waves of Innovation
Gregory K. Hinckley, President, Mentor Graphics - USA
09:30 – 10:00
Keynote Lecture 2: The Tactile Internet – IoT, 5G and Cloud on Steroids
Mischa Dohler, King’s Collage - UK
10:00 – 10:30
Coffee Break
10:30 – 11:00
SESSION 1.1 (SENSOR’S DEVICES AND SYSTEMS)
11:00 – 12:30
Chair: Abdulfattah Obeid, KACST - KSA
1.1.1Context Aware Sensing: Challenges and Roadmap
Hazem Hajj, American University of Beirut, Beirut - Lebanon
11:00 – 11:30
1.1.2Technology-aware Interconnect-centric Design
Alberto Garcia Ortiz, U Bremen - Germany
11:30 – 12:00
1.1.3 Translating Technology Innovations into Diabetes Clinics - Opportunities and Challenges
Mohammed Benaissa, Sheffield University - UK
12:00 – 12:30
Prayer and Lunch
12:30 – 13:30
SESSION 1.2 (NEXT GENERATION COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS)
13:30 – 15:30
Chair: Amr Al-Asaad, KACST - KSA
1.2.1 Addressing Spectrum Scarcity through Cognitive Radio and Free Space Optical Communications
Mohamed - Slim Al-Ouni, KAUST - KSA
13:30 – 14:00
1.2.2 Sensing and Computing with the Internet of Things
Ramesh Rao, UCSD - USA
14:00 - 14: 30
1.2.3Next Generation Internet of Things.
Abdulhamid Taha, Al Faisal University - KSA
14:30 – 15:00
1.2.4 Technology Trends and The New Paradigms
Abdulkareem Adinoyi, STC - KSA
15:00 – 15:30
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WELCOME ADDRESS
H.H. Dr. Turki bin Saud bin
Mohammad Al-Saud
President
King Abdulaziz City for Science
and Technology (KACST)
Dr. Turki bin Saud received his PhD in aeronautics and
astronautics from Stanford University, USA. He joined King
Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST) and
soon afterwards became Director of the newly established
Space Research Institute. In 2004, Dr. Turki became the
Vice President for Research Institutes at KACST.
WELCOMING
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He is Chairman of the Supervisory Committee of the
National Science and Technology Plan and Chairman
of the Supervisory Committee of the King Abdullah
Initiative for Solar Water Desalination. He is a member
of the Advisory Council for the School of Engineering at
Stanford University, and is also Chairman of the Board of
The Technology Development and Investments Company
(TAQNIA).
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WELCOME ADDRESS
Dr. Hatim Mohammed Behairy is a research
Associate Professor and the director of
Scientific Committee
the National Electronics, Communications
KACST - KSA
and Photonics Research Center at King
Abdulaziz City for science and Technology
in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He has more than
12 years of experience in both industry
and academia in Saudi Arabia and North
America relating to telecommunications,
software development, and management.
He received his B.Sc from King Saud University in Computer Engineering in 1995, and the Msc degree
from George Mason University in Electrical Engineering in 1997 and the Ph.D. in Information technology
from George Mason University, Virginia, USA in 2002. His research results have been published in leading
journals and conferences such as IEE Electronics Letters, Globecom, and ICC. He is a recipient of a
number of USPTO patents in the field of mobile communication. He worked extensively, and he is still
working, on the design of new error correction coding techniques for next-generation broadband wireless
communication systems, using turbo-coding principles.
Dr. Hatim Behairy
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KEYNOTE LECTURE 1
SESSION CHAIRMAN
Hatim Behairy
King Abdulaziz City for
Science and Technology
(KACST) – KSA
OPENING SESSION
Gregory K. Hinckley
President
Mentor Graphics - USA
Gregory K. Hinckley serves as President of Mentor Graphics
Corporation, a publicly traded provider of electronic
design automation solutions. Prior to Mentor Graphics,
he served as a senior executive for two other publicly
traded companies—VLSI Technology, Inc. and Bio-Rad
Laboratories, Inc. Mr. Hinckley is a director of SI-Bone, Inc.
(a privately held orthopedic device company), an advisory
director of Portland State University Engineering School
and a member of the Board of Trustees for Claremont
McKenna College.
Mr. Hinckley holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in physics from
Claremont McKenna College, a Master of Science degree
in applied physics from University of California, an MBA
degree from Harvard Business School, and was a Fulbright
Scholar in applied mathematics at Nottingham University in
England. He is also a Certified Public Accountant.
EDA’s Key to Success: Riding Waves of Innovation
Abstract:
EDA must continually ride the waves of design innovation,
solving design issues as they emerge. Being the first to
develop a solution for a new problem is a win-win for both
designers and EDA. The customer gets the tools needed
to gain a competitive edge while the EDA Company is
rewarded with a leadership position in an emerging market.
The best way for EDA to identify new design challenges is
to partner with cutting-edge customers: whether they are
large established companies, startups or companies in
promising new markets or global regions.
Greg Hinckley, President of Mentor Graphics, will discuss
Mentor’s successful formula for identifying emerging design
trends and creating world-class products for them. He will
highlight recent product innovations that address such
pressing concerns as IC physical verification and lowering
the cost of IC test while expanding its reach into the cell
level. Then, Mr. Hinckley will look at the biggest challenge
on EDA’s horizon today—verifying the critical interactions
between electronic hardware and the larger system design.
Multifaceted approaches will need to be developed that
encompass software, mechanical, thermal and stress as
well as IC and hardware design.
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Mischa Dohler is full Professor in
Wireless Communications at King’s
Professor
College London, Head of the Centre
King’s Collage - UK
for Telecommunications Research,
co-founder and member of the Board
of Directors of the smart city pioneer
Worldsensing, Fellow and Distinguished
Lecturer of the IEEE, and Editor-inChief of the Transactions on Emerging
Telecommunications Technologies.
He is a frequent keynote, panel and tutorial speaker. He has pioneered several research fields,
contributed to numerous wireless broadband, IoT/M2M and cyber security standards, holds a dozen
patents, organized and chaired numerous conferences, has more than 200 publications, and authored
several books. He has a citation h-index of 39 (top 1%).
He acts as policy, technology and entrepreneurship adviser, examples being Richard Branson’s Carbon
War Room, House of Lords UK, UK Ministry BIS, EPSRC ICT Strategy Advisory Team, European
Commission, ISO Smart City working group, and various start-ups.
He is also an entrepreneur, angel investor, passionate pianist and fluent in 6 languages. He has talked at
TEDx. He had coverage by national and international TV & radio; and his contributions have featured on
BBC News and the Wall Street Journal.
Mischa Dohler
The Tactile Internet – IoT, 5G and Cloud on Steroids
Abstract:
Currently we can see and hear through the Internet, but we cannot touch. We have a vision to create
the Tactical Internet, where we would be able to touch through the median of the internet. This would
transform some very basic but vital tasks, like online shopping where the user might want to touch
and feel the texture of a dress or jacket before buying it, but, most importantly, this has the potential
to transform the way that healthcare, engineering and wealth is delivered globally. We will be able to
convey physical, tactile experiences remotely and thus invoke a fundamental shift from content-delivery
to skillset-delivery networks. This talk will summarize the potentials, building blocks and challenges which
lay ahead for designing the Tactile Internet.
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SESSION 1.1.1
SESSION CHAIRMAN
Abdulfattah Obeid
Hazem Hajj
King Abdulaziz City for
Science and Technology
(KACST) – KSA
Associate Professor
American University of Beirut,
Beirut - Lebanon
Sensor’s Devices
and Systems
SESSION 1.1
Hazem Hajj is an Associate Professor with the American
University of Beirut (AUB). Sine joining AUB, he had led
several initiatives, including the AUB’s Intel Middle East
Energy Efficiency Research (MER) initiative. Before joining
AUB in 2008, Hazem was a principal engineer at Intel
Corporation. At Intel, he led research and development
for Intel’s manufacturing automation, where he received
several patents, and numerous Intel Achievement Awards.
On the academic front, Hazem received his bachelor
degree in Electrical Engineering from AUB in 1987 with
distinction, and his PhD from the University of WisconsinMadison in 1996, where he also received several teaching
awards, including the University Teaching Excellence
Award. Hazem’s research interests include Data Mining,
Energy-Aware Computing, with special interests in Mobile
Sensing, Opinion Mining, and Emotion Recognition.
Context Aware Sensing: Challenges and Roadmap
Abstract:
The evolution of the smartphone/tablet industry has been a major driving force towards ubiquitous intelligent mobile
computing solutions. Commercially available high-end devices include an array of sensors that can provide the user with
sensing and health monitoring capabilities. Moreover, the computational and graphical processing aptitudes of these
devices facilitate the real-time execution of data processing algorithms based on sensor measurements. In tandem with
these developments, wearable devices have been witnessing a complete overhaul in terms of increased miniaturization
in addition to enhanced processing and communications capabilities. Finally, machine learning algorithms have
benefited from advances in computing platforms, enabling more advanced and accurate artificial intelligence such as
the recent emergence of deep learning algorithms. These combined advances have led to the emergence of the field
of context aware sensing, which aims at developing solutions that can automatically recognize a person’s context from
sensors on mobile devices, wearable fabric, or implantable devices. The goal is to use the derived context to infer
recommendations beneficial to the person such as personalized recommendations for favorite and healthy habits, or
the community such as noise pollution reduction strategies, and mobile health systems. While much research progress
has been made in this field, many challenges remain towards achieving ubiquitous availability of context aware sensing
solutions. These challenges are mainly related to limitations with: available energy on mobile devices, performance in
data communication and processing, availability of unobtrusive and attractive personal wearable sensors, accurate
machine learning models in natural settings, available machine to machine (m2m) platforms for smart city sensing,
and the identification of killer applications. In this talk, we present progress made in addressing some of the existing
challenges, and a roadmap for addressing remaining challenges.
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SESSION 1.1.2
Alberto García-Ortiz obtained the diploma
degree in Telecommunication Systems
Co-director, Institute
from the Polytechnic University of Valencia
of Electrodynamics
(Spain) in 1998. After working for two years
and Microelectronics
at Newlogic in Austria, he started the Ph.D.
The University of
at the Institute of Microelectronic Systems,
Bremen - Germany
Darmstadt University of Technology,
Germany. In 2003, he received from the
Department of Electrical Engineering and
Information Technology of the university
the Ph.D. degree with “summa cum laude.” From 2003 to 2005, he worked as a Senior Hardware Design
Engineer at IBM Deutschland Development and Research in Böblingen. After that he joint the start-up
AnaFocus (Spain), where he was responsible for the design and integration of AnaFocus’ next generation
Vision Systems-on-Chip. He is currently full professor for the chair of integrated digital systems at the
university of Bremen and co-director of the Institute of Electrodynamics and Microelectronics.
Alberto García-Ortiz
Dr. Garcia-Ortiz received the “Outstanding dissertation award” in 2004 from the European Design and
Automation Association. In 2005, he received from IBM an Innovation Award for contributions to leakage
estimation. Two patents are issued with that work. In 2012 he was nominated by the U. Bremen for
the Alfried-Krupp price for young professors. He serves as editor of JOLPE and is reviewer of several
conferences, journals, and European projects.
His interests include low-power design and estimation, communication-centric design, nanophotonics,
NoC, SoCs, and variations-aware design.
Technology-aware Interconnect-centric Design
Abstract:
Interconnects are becoming a major bottleneck in the design of modern Systems-on-Chip. Performance,
power consumption, and reliability are some of the key challenges that must be addressed to fully optimize
the interconnect architecture.
On the one hand, the continuous improvement of CMOS technology and the recent irruption of disruptive
technologies as 3D-interconnects and nanophotonic on-chip interconnects are providing an unprecedented
amount of communication resources and architectural possibilities. On the other hand, those technology
improvements come with a set of underlying engineering issues: harder thermal constraints, lower
reliability, increased design complexity... Further on, highly efficient interconnect architectures require that
the design is performed at high-levels of abstraction. This issue is especially relevant and challenging when
communication subsystems with such different transmission characteristics (as for example the electrical
and the nano-photonicl one) work together.
Taking the aforementioned technological scenario as a starting motivation, this talk aims at discussing
recent research results on technology aware interconnect-centric design. An outlook into future research
directions will conclude the talk.
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SESSION 1.1.3
Mohammed Benaissa – received the
Ph.D. degree in VLSI signal processing
Professor
from the University of Newcastle, Upon
Sheffield University Tyne, UK, in 1990. He has been with the
UK
Department of Electronic and Electrical
Engineering, University of Sheffield,
Sheffield, UK, since 1999. His research
interests focus on the design and
implementation of innovative electronic
circuits and systems and their application
to Communications and Healthcare. He has published over 150 papers on contributions to algorithmic,
architectural, and circuit issues in these areas. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE, a College and Panel
member of the EPSRC, and has served on the Technical Program Committees of numerous conferences.
Mohammed Benaissa
Translating Technology Innovations into Diabetes Clinics - Opportunities and
Challenges
Abstract:
The incidence of Diabetes has been increasing at an alarming rate worldwide and causing increasing
levels of morbidity, mortality and healthcare cost. In this talk, I will present the challenges from a clinical
perspective together with the opportunities that advances in electronic and communication technologies
offer to address these challenges. I will also review important existing endeavours for technology
translation and discuss their impact. I will finish by sharing our experiences and results from our on-going
WithCare+ project with the local hospitals for both the Children and Adult patient populations.
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SESSION 1.2.1
SESSION CHAIRMAN
Amr Al-Asaad
King Abdulaziz City for
Science and Technology
(KACST) – KSA
Mohamed - Slim Al-Ouni
Associate Dean, Computer,
Electrical and Mathematical
Science and Engineering
KAUST - KSA
Next Generation
Communications
Systems
SESSION 1.2
Mohamed-Slim Alouini (S’94, M’98, SM’03, F’09) was born
in Tunis, Tunisia. He received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical
Engineering from the California Institute of Technology
(Caltech), Pasadena, CA, USA, in 1998. He served as a
faculty member in the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis,
MN, USA, then in the Texas A&M University at Qatar,
Education City, Doha, Qatar before joining King Abdullah
University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal,
Makkah Province, Saudi Arabia as a Professor of Electrical
Engineering in 2009. His current research interests include
the modeling, design, and performance analysis of wireless
communication systems.
Addressing Spectrum Scarcity through Cognitive Radio and Free Space Optical
Communications
Abstract:
The concept of cognitive networks has emerged as one of the efficient means for utilizing the scarce spectrum by allowing
spectrum sharing between a licensed primary network and a secondary network. In this talk, we briefly present an overview
of various recently proposed types of cognitive networks and then discuss some fundamental capacity results of these
networks. The talk goes then over the potential offered by free space optical communications to relieve spectrum scarcity
and then summarizes some of the challenges that need to be surpassed before such kind of systems can be massively
deployed.
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SESSION 1.2.2
Ramesh Rao
Professor
UCSD - USA
Dr. Ramesh R. Rao has been a faculty
member at UC San Diego since 1984,
and Director of the Qualcomm Institute,
UCSD division of the California Institute
for Telecommunications and Information
Technology (Calit2), since 2001. He
holds the Qualcomm Endowed Chair in
Telecommunications and Information
Technologies in the Jacobs School of
Engineering at UCSD, and is a member of
the school’s Electrical and Computer Engineering department.
Prior to QI (Calit2), Professor Rao served as the Director of UCSD’s Center for Wireless Communications
(CWC). Dr. Rao is involved on a day-to-day basis with a wide variety of research initiatives at QI. He leads
several major interdisciplinary and collaborative projects and has been a PI on dozens of federal-, state-,
foundation- and industry-funded grants. Dr. Rao is an IEEE Fellow and Senior Fellow of the California
Council on Science and Technology. He was named a Member of the UC San Diego Health System
Advisory Board, a Member of the Board of the Academy of Neurosciences for Architecture, a Member of
the Rady Children’s Hospital and Health Center Board IT Task Force; a Member of the Board of Advisors
at CommNexus San Diego (a network of communications companies) and serves as the Vice President of
the San Diego Indian American Society.
Dr. Rao earned his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Maryland, College Park in 1984,
after receiving his M.S. from the same institution in 1982. He earned his Bachelor’s degree in 1980 from the
University of Madras (the National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirapalli). Dr. Rao received the distinguished
alumnus award from the National Institute of Technology in 2010, the ECE Distinguished alumni award from
the University of Maryland in 2012, the Professional Gordon Engineering Leadership Award from UCSD’s
Gordon Engineering Leadership Center in 2010. He also received the 2011 Casa Familiar Abrazo Award
for engagement with underprivileged area of San Diego.
Sensing and Computing with the Internet of Things
Abstract:
The transformative role of Information Technologies has been enabled by large scale data sharing. In
just the last decade, new global scale systems have emerged in retail, travel and entertainment. These
systems, together with emergent new systems to mitigate environmental effects, promote health care and
reconceive education are creating a new demand for data. To meet this new demand, we need to develop
novel forms of data gathering, build highly scalable networks and develop new approaches to data analysis.
In this talk, we will summarize emergent architectures for licensed and unlicensed band regimes. We will
then outline plans for the creation of city scale test beds to prototype new approaches to dynamic network
usage. Finally, we will describe a project we have recently launched to leverage such an architecture to
quantitatively understand the effect of environmental air quality on human health and wellness. The project
leverages current understanding of the human autonomic nervous system, our ability to observe it using
body worn sensors and the use of adaptive learning to quantify the effect on individuals and communities.
We will present this in the context of computable Internet of Things.
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SESSION 1.2.3
Dr. Abd-Elhamid M. Taha is currently
an assistant Professor in Electrical
Assistant Professor
Engineering at Alfaisal University. His
Al Faisal University B.Sc. (Honours) and M.Sc. in Electrical
KSA
Engineering were earned at Kuwait
University in 1999 and 2002, and
his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer
Engineering was earned at Queen’s
University, Canada in 2007. Dr. Taha’s
general research interest is in the area of
computer networks and communications, with a focus on radio resource management in wireless networks.
Recent themes in this direction include the design of resource schedulers with reduced complexity, and
enabling machine-to-machine communications. Other currently active areas of interest include simplified
localization in massive wireless sensing networks, mobile security in the Internet of Things (IoT), and
modeling in networked cyber-physical systems. He has written and lectured extensively on broadband
wireless networks, focusing on radio resource management techniques. He is also the co-author of the
book ‘LTE, LTE-Advanced and WiMAX: Toward IMT-Advanced Networks’ by Wiley & Sons and a presenter
of several tutorials at flagship IEEE communication Society events. His service record includes organizing
and serving on the editorial and technical program committees of many esteemed publication events and
venues, as well as advising on and reviewing activities for funding agencies, technical book publishers
and research journals and conferences. Dr. Taha’s currently a Senior Member of the IEEE and the IEEE
Communications Society.
Abdulhamid Taha
Next Generation Internet of Things
Abstract:
The Internet of Things (IoT) is a concept that emphasizes the reliable connectivity of a multitude of devices
across the globe in order to enable better decision making in many applications. Already numerous
deployments have been made in domains such as freight and shipping, warehousing, weather and pollution
monitoring, grid management, and health observation. As the number and heterogeneity of deployments
increase, however, certain challenges become inevitable. Similarly, the influx of data and signalling on
Internet as well as the need for interoperability between IoTs motivate the need for new technologies
and standards. This talk highlights the major challenges faced in realizing the next generation IoT, and
provides an overview of current efforts addressing these challenges. A specific focus is made on access
management, backhauling and massive localization.
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Dr. Abdulkareem Adinoyi works at the R&D
dept of Saudi Telecoms in Saudi Arabia. He
Assistant Professor
obtained his Ph.D in Electrical Engineering
KSU - KSA
from Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada.
He has published extensively in IEEE
journals and conferences. In the area of
radio resource management for OFDMAbased wireless networks, Dr Adinoyi’s
work has attracted over 500 citations. He
also holds three patents in this area. His
work in multi-antenna cooperative communication schemes has also accumulated over 500 citations. His
current research work and interest are in industry practice, broadband technology evolution and adoption
as they relate to mobile network operation.
Abdulkareem Adinoyi
Technology Trends and The New Paradigms
Abstract:
An incumbent mobile network operator’s dilemma is quickly turning to be capacity (rather than coverage).
This implies that too many mobile devices demanding too much data, and more often than not, in a condensed
time period. The quality of customer experience can degrade severely. The problem will exacerbate
due to proliferation of bandwidth-hungry devices smart (such as tab, smartphone) and always-connected
application and services (such as IoT, M2M, smart-home, connected cars and all the e-everything). Given
that ARPU (average revenue per user) does not grow with capacity demand, how does this operator cope
or react? The talk will be centered around this question.
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Program
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DAY2
APRIL 28
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REGISTRATION
08:00 – 09:00
SESSION 2.1 (ELECTRONIC CIRCUITS AND SYSTEM DESIGN)
09:00 – 11:00
Chair: Mohammed BenSaleh, KACST - KSA
2.1.1 ASIP: Application Specific Instruction-set Processor
Ahmed Shalash, CEO, Wasiela - Egypt 09:00 – 09:30
2.1.2Internet of Things for water and energy conservation
Lei He, UCLA- USA
09:30 – 10:00
2.1.3 Moore’s Law, the Many-Core Shift, and the Dark Silicon Era
Sohaib Majzoub, KSU - KSA
10:00 – 10:30
2.1.4Computing for Data-Intensive Applications: Beyond CMOS and beyond Von- Neumann
Said Hamdioui, TU Delft, The Netherlands - Netherlands
10:30 – 11:00
Coffee Break 11:00 – 11:05
SESSION 2.2 (RF/ANTENNAS)
11:05 – 12:30
Chair: Saleh Al-Shebeili, KSU - KSA
2.2.1Precision localization of multiple passive targets by ultrawideband signals in the presence of severe multipath
Andreas Molisch, USC - USA
11:05 – 11:30
2.2.2 Electrically Small Particles for Energy Harvesting in the Infrared and Microwave Regimes
Mohammed Al-Shareef, KACST - KSA
11:30 – 12:00
2.2.3Inkjet Printed RF Electronics
Atif Shamim, KAUST - KSA
12:00 – 12:30
2.2.4Millimeter-wave Gigabit Transceivers with Digitally-enabled Built-in Self-calibration
and Auto-switching Functions
Tian-Wei Huang , National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
12:30 – 13:00
Prayer and Lunch
SESSION 2.3 (PHOTONICS)
13:00 – 13:30
13:30 – 15:30
Chair: Mohammed Al-Shareef, KACST - KSA
2.3.1Optoelectronics Based on Quasi-Metallic Carbon Nanotubes
Mohamed Amer, KACST - KSA
13:30 – 14:00
2.3.2High Performance Eye-Safe 1500-1650nm InAs/InP-based Quantum Dot/Dash Semiconductor Lasers
Boon S. Ooi, KAUST - KSA
14:00 – 14:30
2.3.3Selected Themes in Next Generation Optical Communications Systems
Habib Fathallah, KSU - KSA
Closing Ceremony
14:30 – 15:00
15:00 – 15:10
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SESSION 2.1.1
SESSION CHAIRMAN
Mohammed BenSaleh
Ahmed Shalash
King Abdulaziz City for
Science and Technology
(KACST) – KSA
CEO, WASIELA
WASIELA - Egypt
Electronic
Circuits and
System Design
SESSION 2.1
Dr. Shalash has more than 21 years of industrial experience
in the semiconductors and communications industry.
He is the founder and CEO of WASIELA, where he led
multiple communication chips projects, such as DVB,
LTE and WiMAX. Prior to founding WASIELA, Dr Shalash
served as the Director of Systems Engineering, Firstpass
Technologies where he led a team working on system
design for wireless RF technologies. Prior to that Dr.
Shalash worked as Principal Engineer and Technical Lead
with Analog Devices Inc, where he led work on numerous
products. During his tenure with ADI, Dr. Shalash also
worked as a standards committee liaison with the ANSI T1
and the ITU, where he helped shape the VDSL and ADSL
standards. Prior to that Dr. Shalash worked as a visiting
scholar with AT&T Bell Labs and as a senior engineer with
Intel. Dr. Shalash has more than 70 international papers.
Dr. Shalash has 7 patents. He is a senior member of the
IEEE.
ASIP: Application Specific Instruction-set
Processor
Abstract:
The ever rising development costs and the ever shrinking
market windows are pushing the need for having reconfigurable designs that can be upgraded and configured
with ease. While traditional programmable DSP cores can
achieve just that, they prove to be expensive in power
consumption. This pushed the need for more agile, low
power configurable designs.
In this talk we will focus on a family of configurable
architectures, namely the Application Specific Instructionset Processors (ASIP). ASIPs offer a very interesting twist
over traditional DSP architectures.
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SESSION 2.1.2
Lei He is a professor and the founding
director of Clean Energy Research Center
Director
at UCLA. He consulted Cadence Design
Clean Energy Research
Systems, Cisco, Hewlett-Package, Intel,
Center at University of
and Synopsys, and was a technical
California - USA
advisory board member to found Apache
Design Solutions (acquired by AnSys)
and Rio Design Automation (acquired by
Magma Design Automation). He is the
chief scientist for Empyrean Soft and Pride
Power Systems, co-founder of Silicon Cloud International (a cloud computing company), and founding
president of Rainest, Inc. (a smart home company).
Lei He
Dr. He obtained Ph.D. degree in computer science from UCLA in 1999. His research interests include
modeling and simulation, hardware and software systems, and cyber physical systems for water and energy
efficiency, clean energy, clean transportation, and wireless health. He has published one book and over 200
technical papers with many best paper nominations and awards, including the 2010 ACM Transactions on
Electronic System Design Automation Best Paper Award for his work on 3D IC and 2011 IEEE Darlington
Award for his work on low power multimedia communication.
Internet of Things for water and energy conservation
Abstract:
Internet of things (IoT) is the third wave of the internet after the computer based internet and the mobile
networking. The talk will first discuss trends of IoT and then present two examples of IoT. The first example
is a WiFi based watering controller, which is able to reduce up to 50% water consumption by leveraging
cloud-based weather prediction and watering expert system. The second example is a smart air conditioner,
which may perform localized cooling around occupants rather than cooling the entire room or building and
leads to tremendous energy reduction for large office and residential space.
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SESSION 2.1.3
Sohaib Majzoub completed his BE
in Electrical Engineering, Computer
Assistant Professor
Section at Beirut Arab University 2000,
KSU - KSA
Beirut Lebanon, and his ME degree from
American University of Beirut, 2003 Beirut
Lebanon. Then he worked for one year
at the Processor Architecture Lab at the
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology,
Lausanne Switzerland. In 2010, he
finished his PhD working at the Systemon-Chip research Lab, University of British Columbia, Canada. He worked for two years as assistant
professor at American University in Dubai, Dubai, UAE. In 2012, he joined King Saud University, Riyadh,
KSA, as a faculty in the electrical engineering department. His research field is delay/power modeling at the
system level. He is an IEEE member.
Sohaib Majzoub
Moore’s Law, the Many-Core Shift, and the Dark Silicon Era
Abstract:
The current trend in computing devices is heading into more convergence towards a single mobile device.
This evolution necessitates two major design requirements: wide functionality and low power consumption.
Moore’s law and technology scaling continued to increase the transistor density in a chip, hence providing
increased functionality and applications. In recent years, this was realized through a major shift in processor
design from large monolithic processors into many-core with hundreds of simple processing elements on
a single chip. With such a large number of cores, it promises a significant throughput advantage that might
continue Moore’s law legacy. However, power consumption is becoming a more dominant problem. It is a
major struggle to supply hundreds of cores sitting on a single chip, consequently, it is foreseen that part
of the chip will always be switched off. This anticipated consequence is referred to as the dark silicon era.
This limitation is expected to hinder the promised many-core high performance advantage, hence the final
and sure end of Moore’s law legacy.
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SESSION 1.2.4
Professor Hamdioui (http://ce.et.tudelft.
nl/~said/) received the MSEE and PhD
Professor at
degrees (both with honors) from the
Computer Engineering
Delft University of Technology (TUDelft),
Laboratory
Delft, The Netherlands. He is currently
co-leading dependable-nano computing
Delft University
research activities within the Computer
of Technology Engineering Laboratory of TUDelft. Prior
Netherlands
to joining TUDelft, Hamdioui worked for
Microprocessor Products Group at Intel
Corporation (CA, USA), for IP and Yield
Group at Philips Semiconductors R&D (France) and for DSP design group at Philips/ NXP Semiconductors
(Nijmegen, The Netherlands). His research interests include Testability and Design-for-Test, Reliability,
Hardware Security and emerging computation paradigms based on memristor technology.
Said Hamdioui
Hamdioui owns one patent and has published one book and over 130 conference and journal papers.
He has consulted for many companies (such as Intel, ST, Altera, Atmel, Renesas, …) in the area of test
technology and reliability. He has collaborated with many industry/research partners in the field of VLSI
Test, Reliability, hardware Security and memristor technology (examples are Intel, IMEC, NXP, Intrinsic
ID, DS2, ST Microelectronics, Politic di Torino, etc). He is strongly involved in the international community
as a member of organizing committees or a member of the technical program committees of the leading
conferences. He delivered dozens of keynote speeches, distinguished lectures, and invited presentations
and tutorial at major international forums/conferences/schools and at leading semiconductor companies.
Hamdioui is a Senior member of the IEEE. He is Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems
(TVLSI) and he serves on the editorial board of IEEE Design & Test, and of the Journal of Electronic
Testing: Theory and Applications (JETTA). He is also a member of AENEAS/ENIAC Scientific Committee
Council (AENEAS =Association for European NanoElectronics Activities).
Computing for Data-Intensive Applications: Beyond CMOS and beyond Von- Neumann
Abstract:
One of the most critical challenges for today’s and future data-intensive and big-data problems (ranging
from economics and business activities to public administration, from national security to many scientific
research areas) is data storage and analysis. The primary goal is to increase the understanding of
processes by extracting highly useful values hidden in the huge volumes of data. The increase of the data
size has already surpassed the capabilities of today’s computation architectures which suffer from the
limited, energy inefficiency and limited scalability (due to CMOS technology).
This talk will first address the CMOS scaling and its impact on different aspects of IC and electronics; the
major limitations the scaling is facing (such as leakage, yield, reliability, etc) will be shown and the need of
a new technology will be motivated. Thereafter, an overview of computing systems, developed since the
introduction of Stored program computers by John von Neumann in the forties, will be given. Shortcomings
of today’s architectures to deal with data-intensive applications will be discussed. It will be shown that the
speed at which data is growing has already surpassed the capabilities of today’s computation architectures
suffering from communication bottleneck and energy inefficiency; hence the need for a new architecture.
Finally, the talk will introduce a new architecture paradigm for big data problems; it is based on the integration
of the storage and computation in the same physical location (using a crossbar topology) and the use of
non-volatile resistive-switching technology, based on memristors, instead of CMOS technology. The huge
potential of such architecture in realizing order of magnitude improvement will be illustrated by comparing
it with the state-of-the art architectures (multi-core, GPUs, FPGAs) for different data-intensive applications.
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SESSION 2.2.1
SESSION CHAIRMAN
Saleh Al-Shebeili
Andreas Molisch
King Saud University
(KSU) – KSA
Director of the
Communication Sciences
Institute
University of Southern
California - USA
RF/Antennas
SESSION 2.2
Precision localization of multiple passive targets
by ultrawideband signals in the presence of severe
multipath
Abstract:
Ultrawideband signalling has the promise of extremely
precise localization in GPS-denied environments such
as indoor. The large signal bandwidth allows a precise
determination of the runtime between wireless nodes,
which can form the basis of good localization. However,
multipath and other UWB propagation effects create
distortions in the arriving signal, and have thus long been
considered as “enemies” of good localization. In this talk,
we will first discuss the fundamentals of UWB propagation,
including multipath, pulse distortion, and antenna effects,
paying particular attention to warehouse environments. We
will then discuss how those effects can negatively impact
localization accuracy if no countermeasures are taken. We
will discuss methods for multi-target localization that work
well even if a considerable part of targets have blocked
line-of-sight connections.
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Andreas F. Molisch received the Dipl. Ing., Ph.D., and
habilitation degrees from the Technical University of Vienna,
Vienna, Austria, in 1990, 1994, and 1999, respectively. He
subsequently was with AT&T (Bell) Laboratories Research
(USA); Lund University, Lund, Sweden, and Mitsubishi
Electric Research Labs (USA). He is now a Professor of
Electrical Engineering and Director of the Communication
Sciences Institute at the University of Southern California,
Los Angeles.
His current research interests are the measurement
and modeling of mobile radio channels, ultra-wideband
communications
and
localization,
cooperative
communications,multiple-input–multiple-output systems,
wireless systems for healthcare, and novel cellular
architectures. He has authored, coauthored, or edited four
books (among them the textbook Wireless Communications,
Wiley-IEEE Press), 16 book chapters, some 170 journal
papers, and numerous conference contributions, as well as
more than 70 patents and 60 standards contributions.
Dr. Molisch has been an Editor of a number of journals
and special issues, General Chair, Technical Program
Committee Chair, or Symposium Chair of multiple
international conferences, as well as Chairman of various
international standardization groups. He is a Fellow of
the IEEE, Fellow of the AAAS, Fellow of the IET, an IEEE
Distinguished Lecturer, and a member of the Austrian
Academy of Sciences. He has received numerous awards,
among them the Donald Fink Prize of the IEEE, and the
Eric Sumner Award of the IEEE.
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SESSION 2.2.2
Mohammed Al-Shareef
Assistant Research
Professor
KACST - KSA
Mohammed R. AlShareef received a
Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical
Engineering in 2004 and a Master’s in
Communication Engineering in 2008,
both from King Saud University in Riyadh,
Saudi Arabia. In 2014, he received the
PhD degree in Electrical and Computer
Engineering from the University of
Waterloo in Canada, specializing in
antenna, microwave and wave optics.
In July 2004, he started working as a Telecommunications Engineer at the biggest operator for Mobile/Fixed
services (Saudi Telecom Company) in Saudi Arabia. He steadily progressed with his career in this company
and was recognized as a project manager within the design engineering team. After accumulating academic
and industrial experience over the years, especially in communication engineering, he joined a researchbased institution, King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST), based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia,
in the summer of 2012. Now, Dr. AlShareef is an assistant research professor at KACST leading and
investigating a number of research projects in antenna and microwave fields. Dr. AlShareef has published
several conference and journal papers and filed two patents. In 2014, he received the best student paper
award at the 16th International Symposium on Antenna Technology & Applied Electromagnetics held in
Canada.
Electrically Small Particles for Energy Harvesting in the Infrared and Microwave
Regimes
Abstract:
Harnessing energy from clean and sustainable resources is of crucial importance to our planet. Several
attempts through different technologies have been pursued to achieve efficient and sustainable energy
production systems. However, having systems with a high energy harvesting efficiency and at the same
time low energy production cost are challenging with the existing technologies. In this research, several
novel structures based on electrically small particles are proposed for harvesting the microwave and
infrared energy efficiently. A proof of concept demonstrates a metamaterial unit cell’s ability to harness the
ambient electromagnetic energy. The work is then extended to operate at the far-infrared regime utilizing
a novel structure based on electrically small resonators and it yields more than 80% harvesting efficiency.
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SESSION 2.2.3
Atif Shamim – received his M.A.Sc. and
Ph.D degrees in electrical engineering at
Assistant Professor
Carleton University, Canada in 2004 and
KAUST - KSA
2009 respectively. He was an NSERC
Alexander Graham Bell Graduate scholar
at Carleton University from 2007 till 2009
and an NSERC postdoctoral Fellow in
2009-2010 at Royal Military College
Canada. In August 2010, he joined
the Electrical Engineering Program at
KAUST, where he is currently an Assistant
Professor and principal investigator of IMPACT Lab. He was an invited researcher at the VTT Micromodules Research Center (Oulu, Finland) in 2006. Dr. Shamim was the recipient of the best paper prize at
the European Microwave Association Conference in 2008. He was given the Ottawa Centre of Research
Innovation (OCRI) Researcher of the Year 2008 Award in Canada. His work on Wireless Dosimeter won the
ITAC SMC Award at Canadian Microelectronics Corporation TEXPO in 2007. He received the best student
paper finalist prize at IEEE APS conference in 2005. He also won numerous business related awards,
including 1st prize in Canada’s national business plan competition and was selected for OCRI Entrepreneur
of the year award in 2010. He is an author/co-author of over 90 international publications and an inventor
on 10 patents. His research interests are in integrated on-chip antennas, low power CMOS RFICs for
system-on-chip (SoC) applications and advanced system-on-package (SoP) designs in multilayer LTCC,
LCP, and paper substrates through screen and inkjet printing techniques. Dr. Shamim is a Senior Member
of IEEE and serves on the editorial board of IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation.
Atif Shamim
Inkjet Printed RF Electronics
Abstract:
This talk introduces inkjet printing as an emerging new technique to realize low cost, flexible and large
area systems in the field of Radio Frequency (RF) electronics. Inkjet printing is being used for printing texts
and graphics since decades, but has recently found application in electronics. Though the major focus of
printed electronics has been in photovoltaic cells and flexible displays, recently applications such as RFIDs,
wireless sensors and wearable electronics have also received a lot of attention. The recent interest in inkjet
printed RF electronics is due to the latest developments in nano-particles based conductive inks which can
achieve conductivities close to that of bulk metals. This has opened doors to print passive components
such as antennas, inductors, transmission lines, etc on low cost and flexible substrates such as plastics and
papers. The talk will present many inkjet printed designs on paper substrate for a variety of applications,
such as wireless sensing and tracking. In addition to conductive inks, this talk will also discuss dielectric and
semiconducting inks to realize all inkjet printed multilayer RF components. The promising results of these
designs indicate that the day when electronics can be printed like newspapers and magazines through rollto-roll and reel-to-reel printing is not far away.
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SESSION 2.2.4
Tian-Wei Huang
Professor
National Taiwan
University, Taipei,
Taiwan
Tian-Wei Huang (S’91–M’98–SM’02)
was born in Taipei, Taiwan, in 1965. He
received the B.S. degree in electrical
engineering from National Cheng Kung
University, Tainan, Taiwan, in 1987, and
the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical
engineering from the University of
California at Los Angeles (UCLA), in 1990
and 1993, respectively.
In December 1993, he joined TRW (now is Northrop Grumman), where he designed millimeter-wave and
microwave GaAs/InP RFICs for satellite applications. From 1998, he was engaged in research on 28-GHz
transmitter design and power amplifier packaging for LMDS systems at Lucent Technologies, San Jose,
USA. From 1999 to 2002, he was with Cisco Systems, where he developed the high-speed cable modem
head-end and Wi-Fi system test.
In August 2002, he joined the faculty of National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan. Prof. Huang was the
recipient of IEEE 2009 Transaction on Advanced Packaging Best Paper Award. Currently, he is the TPC
member of IEEE RFIC symposium. He is also a voting member of IEEE 802.11 Wi-Fi gigabit wireless
standards. His research interests include millimeter-wave RF-CMOS design, and 5G millimeter-wave and
Wi-Fi gigabit links.
Millimeter-wave Gigabit Transceivers with Digitally-enabled Built-in Selfcalibration and Auto-switching Functions
Abstract:
In our daily life, we have smart phones, smart TVs, or even auto-pilot smart cars in the future. In our
engineer career, we have smart antenna, smart baseband chips, but we still need auto-calibration smart
RFICs. Especially for millimeter-wave RFICs with giga-hertz bandwidth, the narrow-band baseband
calibration cannot compensate the broadband AM/AM or AM/PM non-ideal properties.
For future multi-band multi-standard radio, auto-band-switching is an essential function to optimize RF
performance and to simplify the system control interface. A Miller-divider-type frequency sensor can be
used to detect the frequency of input signal and perform auto-band-switching inside RFIC without any
system control bits. For parametric sensitive 3rd-order nonlinearity, we need parametric-insensitive
calibration methods to compensate the non-ideal behavior within RFIC. For millimeter-wave phase array
system, the phase error comes from not only phase shifters but also other functional blocks, like variable
gain amplifier (VGA), during phase shifting and gain compensation. We need a phase-error calibration
method to compensate the phase error from all RFIC blocks.
To optimize system EVM performance, IQ modulator/demodulator are the key components to compensate
IQ mismatch at RF frequency, which is also the enabling technology for gigabit high-QAM wireless links.
For IQ self-calibration at RF frequency, the phase compensation has more design challenges than the
amplitude calibration, so composite right/left-handed transmission line, switching capacitor array, and
phase shifters have been proposed in the IQ phase calibration. All above built-in self-calibration and autoswitching functions are innovated to pave the road to the next-generation millimeter-wave 5G mobile smart
RFIC.
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SESSION CHAIRMAN
Mohammed Al-Shareef
King Abdulaziz City for
Science and Technology
(KACST) – KSA
Optoelectronics Based on Quasi-Metallic
Carbon Nanotubes
Abstract:
In recent years, nanoscale research has focused on
studying new emerging materials and devices for various
communication applications. Carbonaceous materials has
attracted the scientific community due to their extraordinary
device performance. In particular, carbon nanotube devices
have become promising candidates for electronic and
optoelectronic applications due to their ballistic electron
transport, superior mobility, high current density, ideal diode
behavior, infrared nano-emitters, and efficient multiple
electron-hole pair generation. In this talk, new novel
optoelectronics, based on quasi-metallic carbon nanotubes
are studied and investigated for photo detection. Ultra clean,
suspended, quasi-metallic nanotube split gate devices,
which exhibit band gaps ranges between 0-200meV, show
photocurrent at room temperature when biased in a pn
configuration. We study the electron transport of these
devices, which exhibit quantum mechanical tunneling
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Mohamed Amer
Co-Director of UCLA-KACST
Center of Excellence for
Green Nanotechnologies
KACST - KSA
Dr. Amer serves as the Co-Director of UCLA-KACST Center
of Excellence for Green Nanotechnologies. He received his
Ph.D. from the University of Southern California. Dr. Amer
previous research focused on investigating the electronic
transport of carbonaceous devices such as carbon
nanotubes, High frequency devices using nanomaterials,
phonon and thermal heat transport in nanoscale devices,
and nanoelectromechanical resonator (NEMS) structures.
His current research focuses on high frequency (RF)
nao-devices, optoelectronics, and photonic devices
using nano-scale materials for wearable electronics,
telecommunications, and energy generation and detection
applications. Dr. Amer has authored and co-authored many
scientific papers. He is a member of the American Chemical
Society (ACS) and the American Physical Society (APS).
Dr. Amer has won many awards including USC Ming Hiesh
Scholar award, Sigma Xi the scientific research honor
society for outstanding research achievements, IEEE-HKN
eta kappa Nu Electrical Engineering Honor Society, and
Golden Key International Honour Society for outstanding
academic achievement.
(zener) when the nanotube is biased in a pn configuration.
The underlying mechanism of this photocurrent is further
studied. We show that devices with band gaps less 50meV
exhibit photothermoelectric behavior, similar to graphene
photodetectors, while devices with band gaps larger than
50meV show electron-hole pair separation, analogous to
their semiconducting nanotubes. We also investigate the
photothermal mechanical oscillations when these quasimetallic nanotubes are thermally excited in an optical cavity.
We show a slow oscillatory behavior in the current-voltage
characteristics with a very low frequency of oscillation.
This oscillatory behavior is found to be caused by optomechanical action where the nanotube is thermally coupled
to an optical cavity.
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SESSION 2.3.2
Boon S. Ooi
Professor
KAUST - KSA
Boon S. Ooi received the B.Eng. and
Ph.D. degrees in electronics and electrical
engineering from the University of Glasgow
(U.K.) in 1992 and 1994, respectively. He
served as a faculty member in Nanyang
Technological University (Singapore)
and Lehigh University (U.S.A.) before
joining KAUST as a Professor of Electrical
Engineering in 2009. His research
interests include semiconductor lasers
and the development of technology for
semiconductor
photonics
integrated
circuits. He is a Fellow of the SPIE and
the Institute of Physics (U.K.).
High Performance Eye-Safe 1500-1650nm InAs/InP-based Quantum Dot/Dash
Semiconductor Lasers
Abstract:
Self-assembled semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) constitute a class of nanoscale materials that provide
fundamental advantages compared to the dominating 2-D quantum well (QW) structures in photonic
device applications. QD devices based on InAs/GaAs material system operating at emission wavelengths
between 1.0 and 1.3 μm have achieved a relative maturity and many outstanding performances such
as low threshold current, high temperature stability, high gain and differential gain, have already been
demonstrated. For long wavelength operations in the S-C-L communication bands, particularly for the
1.55 µm window, the InAs/InP QD and quantum-dash (Qdash) material systems have been seen as the
most suitable material system. Recent attempts in extending the technology of self- assembled QD on InP
substrate has led to the development of InAs-based Qdashes that give the emission wavelength spans
over several bands of optical telecommunication windows between 1.4 and 2.0 μm. Apart from its superior
characteristics as compared to conventional quantum well structures and bulk materials, self-assembled
QD/Qdash lasers have demonstrated a number of unique features like broad emission spectra which have
been attributed to the carrier localization in non-interacting or spatially isolated dot/dash employing a highly
inhomogeneous QD/Qdash structures. These novel semiconductor light emitters are particularly attractive
for many practical eye-safe biomedical imaging and sensor applications due to their compactness and
relatively low energy requirement in comparison to other state-of-art broad-spectrum light sources.
In this paper, we will discuss the recent development of InP-based QD and Qdash lasers. Improvement of
the Qdash laser characteristics using various active region designs, particularly the effect of the quantum
dash inhomogeneity on laser characteristics will be reviewed. At device level, we will focus our discussion
on the novel broadband lasers, superluminescent diodes (SLDs), mode-locked lasers and comb lasers
fabricated on these material systems.
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SESSION 2.3.2
Habib Fathallah, received his M.Sc. and
PhD from Universite Laval, Canada,
Associate professor
in 1997 and 2001 respectively. He
is Associate professor in Electrical
KSU - KSA
Engineering, King Saud University, Cofounder of KACST-KSU Technology
Innovation Center and Thrust Leader
of Photonics. He founder and CEO
of Access Photonic Networks (20012006). He authored 100 publications, 10
patents, and 2 books. His actual research
interest includes Photonic Communication
Systems and Technologies, Metro and Access Networks, Optical CDMA, Optical SDM, PONs, FTTH, FiWi,
FSO, LiFi, Optical Antennas, and EM Energy Harvesting.
Habib Fathallah
Selected Themes in Next Generation Optical Communications Systems
Abstract:
The seminar will provide an introductory overview for a selection of ongoing research and development
themes/projects on photonics, in KACST-KSU technology Innovation center RFTONICS. This overview will
cover: (1) High spectral efficiency fiber optic terabit per carrier systems; (2) Next generation space division
multiplexing (SDM) optical communication systems; (3) Free space optical communications; (4) Indoor
Visible light communications; and (5) EM energy harvesting using rectenna/nantenna based technology.
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The 3rd Saudi International Electronics,
Communications and Photonics Conference
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THEORGANIZERS
The 3rd Saudi International Electronics, Communications
and Photonics Conference is organized under the
patronage of Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King
Salman Bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud by King Abdulaziz City for
Science and Technology (KACST)...
King Abdulaziz City for Science &
Technology (KACST)...
King Abdulaziz City for Science and
Technology (KACST) is both the Saudi
Arabian national science agency and its
national R&D laboratories. KACST plays
a key role in science and technology policy making, related
data collection, funding of external research, and other
related services such as scientific publishing and managing
the patent office.
Main Responsibilities include:
Proposing a national policy for the development of science
and technology and relevant strategies; Supporting scientific
research and technology development; Conducting applied
research advising government; Fostering national innovation
and technology transfer between research institutes and
the industry; Fostering international cooperation in science
and technology.
For more information and online
registration, please visit the conference
website:
siecpc15.kacst.edu.sa
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