Curriculum Vitae  

Name: Abdulbasit Zaid Ahmed Abid

Birth: April 14, 1971 – Makkah, Saudi Arabia

Nationality: Saudi Arabian

Contact information:

 

            Office: 02 5270000 ext. 3019

            fax: 02 5281217

Email:

abed4062@yahoo.com

azabid@uqu.edu.sa

P.O.Box: 715 Makkah

Address:

Umm Al-Qura University

            College of Computer and Information Systems

            Computer Engineering Department

current Job:

Vice dean of Graduate studies for academic develpment

Umm Al-Qura University, Makkah, Saudi Arabia

Education

 

01/2006 to 02/2008     Doctor of Philosophy in Image Processing

                                    Liverpool John Moores University

Liverpool, UK

10/2003 to 07/2004     Master of Science in Computer and Information Networks

                                    University of Essex

                                    Colchester, Uk

06/2001 to 05/2003     Master of Science in Electrical Engineering

                                    Colorado State University

                                    Fort Collins, Colorado, USA

 

06/1989 to 02/1995     Bachelor in Electrical and Computer Engineering

                                    Umm Al-Qura University

                                    Makkah, KSA

Work Experience

03/2008 – Date                      

Deputy Director

Information Technology Center

Umm Al-Qura University, Makkah, KSA

Duties:

·         Assisting the university units and administrations in the use of computer technology in their work

·         Contribution to the development of computer knowledge in the society

·         Technical supervision of computer activities in the university.

·         Providing certified computer courses for university professors and students

Assistant Professor

Computer Engineering Department

Umm Al-Qura Univeristy, Makkah, KSA

Duties:

·         Teaching courses in computer engineering

·         Supervising graduation projects for bachelor students

·         Directing computer laboratories

01/2000 – 12/2000      Teaching Assistant

                                    Electrical Engineering Department

Umm Al-Qura University, Makka, KSA

Duties:

·         Presents tutorial lectures for undergraduate students

·         Preparing and demonstrating three labs at the undergraduate level

·         Grading Exams and Homework reports

01/1999– 12/1999       Teaching Assistant

                                    Electrical Technology Department

College of Technology, Jeddah, KSA

Duties:

·         Teaching Electrical and Control courses

·         Preparing and demonstrating control labs

01/1998 – 12/1998      Teaching Assistant

                                    Electrical Technology Department

College of Technology, Madinah, KSA

Duties:

·         Teaching Electronic courses

·         Preparing and demonstrating safety and protection labs

01/1996 – 12/1997      Electrical Engineer

                                    Saudi Electronics Company, Jeddah, KSA

Duties:

·         Operating and maintaining furnaces machines which are parts of integrated circuits production

·         Operating and maintaining implanter machine which is part of integrated circuits production

01/1995 – 12/1995      Trainee

                                    Saudi Arabian Airlines, Jeddah, KSA

Duties:

·         Completed a one year maintenance training on 737 Boeing aircrafts

·         Working with real aircraft maintenance problems and fixing them

Skills

           

Computer skills            Work with different operating systems; windows 98, XP, vista, Unix and Linux. Excellent in using Microsoft Office applications (Word, PowerPoint, Excel… etc) and good typing skills. Good programming skills in MATLAB, C and FORTRAN

Languages                    Arabic (native language)

                                    English (fluent in speaking, reading and writing)

                                   

 

Publications

1.      Abid A., Gdeisat M., Burton D., Lalor M and Lilley F., (2007) "Spatial Fringe Pattern Analysis Using The Two-Dimensional Continuous Wavelet Transform Employing A Cost Function," Applied Optics, Vol. 46, No. 24, pp. 6120-26.

2.      H Abdul-Rahman, M Gdeisat, D Burton, M Lalor, F Lilley and A Abid; (2008) "Three-Dimensional Fourier Fringe Analysis", Optics and Lasers in Engineering, Vol: 46, Issue: 6, pp: 446-455.

3.      Abid A., Gdeisat M., Burton D. and Lalor M., (2006) "A comparison between wavelet fringe analysis algorithms,” Presented at the Photon06 Conference, Manchester, UK.

4.      Abid A., Gdeisat M., Burton D. and Lalor M., (2007) "Ridge extraction algorithms for one-dimensional continuous wavelet transform: a comparison," Sensors and their Applications XIV, IOP Publishing, Liverpool John Moores University, UK.

5.      A. Z. Abid, M. A. Gdeisat, D. R. Burton and M. J. Lalor, “Spatial fringe pattern analysis using the modified Morlet wavelet transform,” Proceedings of the SPIE, Vol. 7000, Strasbourg, France 2008.