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Prof. Dr. Magdy Tawfik Hanna
Contact Information
Phone Number: 084 6337580 / 084 6337588                          
  Fax Number: 084 6334031
  E-mail Address: mth00@fayoum.edu.eg
  Office: Fayoum University - Second Floor - Fayoum University Administration Building
  Postal Address: Fayoum University - Second Floor - Fayoum University Administration Building P.O. Box : 63514
Academic Qualifications
B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt, June 1975, (with honor).
D. Sc. in Planning Techniques, the Institute of National Planning, Cairo, Egypt, November 1977 (with distinction). Research Project Title: Advanced Mathematical Treatment of the Least Squares in Economic Applications.
M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt, June 1980. Thesis Title: Control, Modeling and Optimization of the National Economy.
M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, April 1983.
D. Sc. in Philosophy of Electrical Engineering - University of Pittsburgh, USA – 1985
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, April 1985. Dissertation Title: Multichannel and Two-Dimensional Signal Processing for Sensor Arrays.
Academic Positions
Demonstrator: 1976 – 1980: The Institute of National Planning – Cairo – Egypt
Assistant Lecturer: 1981- 1985: Department of Electrical Engineering – University of Pittsburg
Visiting Assistant Professor: 1985 – 1987: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering – The University of Iowa, USA
Assistant Professor: 1988-1992: Department of Engineering Mathematics and Physics – Faculty of Engineering – Cairo University – Fayoum Campus
Assistant Professor: 1992-1996: Department of Electrical Engineering – University of Bahrain
Associate Professor: 1996 – 2004
Professor: 2004 until Now
Administrative Positions
Vice President for Graduate Studies and Research, Fayoum University, Fayoum, Egypt since September 18, 2010.
Associate Dean for Graduate Studies and Research, Faculty of Engineering, Fayoum University, Fayoum, Egypt from March 8, 2010 to September 17, 2010.
Chairman of the Department of Engineering Mathematics and Physics, Fayoum University, Fayoum, Egypt from September 2004 to March 7, 2010 and Acting Chairman from March 8, 2010 to August 30, 2010.
Acting chairman of the Department of Engineering Mathematics and Physics, Fayoum University, Fayoum, Egypt from September 1998 to June 2003.
Research Interests
Areas of Interest in Research
* Discrete Fractional Fourier Transform, Wavelet Transform and Filter Banks, Digital Signal Processing and its applications, Sensor Array Signal Processing, Two-Dimensional Digital Filters, Neural Networks, Optimization Techniques.
Work Experience
(Professor since August 2004, Associate Professor from September 1996 to July 2004), Department of Engineering Mathematics and Physics, Fayoum University, Fayoum, Egypt. (Before August 2005 the Fayoum University was the Fayoum Branch of Cairo University).
Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Bahrain, Isa Town, Bahrain.
Assistant Professor, Department of Engineering Mathematics and Physics, Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University/Fayoum Branch, Fayoum, Egypt.
I taught courses in linear programming and FORTRAN programming on part-time basis at the Institute of National Planning, Cairo, Egypt.
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, the University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA.
Teaching Fellow, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
Research Assistant, the National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Very Large Array Telescope, Socorro, New Mexico, USA.
Research Assistant, Planning Techniques Center, the Institute of National Planning, Cairo, Egypt.
Administrative Positions
Chairman of the Department of Engineering Mathematics and Physics, Fayoum University, Fayoum, Egypt since September 2004.
Acting chairman of the Department of Engineering Mathematics and Physics, Fayoum University, Fayoum, Egypt from September 1998 to June 2003.
Awards and Fellowships
Fayoum University Scientific Publication Award for the year 2009.
The Distinction Award in graduate studies (supervision of a Ph.D. dissertation) for the year 2006 from the Center for Advancement of Postgraduate Studies and Research in Engineering Sciences, Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University,Cairo, Egypt. This award was offered to the supervisors of thebest Ph.D. dissertation passed by the Department of Engineering Mathematics and Physics, Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University during 2004-2006.
Recognition by the University of Pittsburgh on its annual Honors Day Convocation in 1985 for superior performance in the graduate program.
The Atlantic Richfield's Academic Excellence Award from the Atlantic Richfield Company in March 1981.
A Peace Fellowship from the US AID (Agency for International Development) for doing a graduate study in the United States for 10 months starting from September 1980.
The Distinction Award from the Institute of National Planning, Cairo, Egypt in November 1977.
7. Alexandria University undergraduate scholarship for the years 1970-1975.
Society Membership
Senior Member of the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) since 1990 (Member since 1985 and Student Member since 1981).
Member of Eta Kappa Nu (The Electrical Engineering Honor Society) since 1985.
Member of SIGMA XI (The Scientific Research Society of North America) from 1986 to June 2004 (Associate Member during 1985).
Associate member of the SEG (Society of Exploration Geophysicists) from 1986 to 1987 (Student Member from 1984 to 1985).
MS Thesis Supervision
Rick Culver Oltman, Array Filters for Seismic Signal Processing, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA, May 1987.
Ph.D. Dissertation Supervision
Waleed Abd El Maguid Ahmed, The Discrete Fractional Fourier Transform Based on the Orthonormal Hermite-Gaussian-Like Eigenvectors of the Discrete Fourier Transform Matrix, Department of Engineering Mathematics and Physics, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt, October 2005.
University Services
Member of the University Committee for Graduate Studies and Research, Fayoum University, Fayoum, Egypt since March 2010.
Member of the Department Council, Department of Engineering Mathematics and Physics, Fayoum University, Fayoum, Egypt from September 1996 to present.
Member of the College Council, Faculty of Engineering, Fayoum University, Fayoum, Egypt from October 1998 to June 2004 and from September 2004 to present.
Member of the College Undergraduate Committee, Faculty of Engineering, Fayoum University, Fayoum, Egypt from September 2001 to July 2003 and from September 2004 to July 2005 and from September 2004 to present.
Member of the College Graduate Committee, Faculty of Engineering, Fayoum University, Fayoum, Egypt from September 2001 to July 2003 and from September 2004 to present and Chairman of the committee since March 2010.
Member of the College Library Committee, Faculty of Engineering, Fayoum University, Fayoum, Egypt from September 2005 to present.
Supervisor of the College Computer Laboratory, Faculty of Engineering, Fayoum University, Fayoum, Egypt from September 1997 to September 2001.
Member of the Department Undergraduate Committee, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, the University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA from August 1985 to May 1987.
Member of the College Placement Committee, College of Engineering, the University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA from August 1985 to May 1987.
Society Membership
Reviewer for the Engineering Mathematics and Physics Promotion Committee of the Supreme Council of Egyptian Universities for the tenth cycle (2008-2011)
Reviewer for the 2009 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Taipei, Taiwan, May 24-27, 2009.
Reviewer for the IET Signal Processing in 2008.
Reviewer for the International Journal of Circuit Theory and Applications in 2008.
Reviewer for the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems, Part II: Express Briefs in 2007.
Reviewer for the 2007 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, May 27-30, 2007.
Reviewer for the IEEE Signal Processing Letters in 2006 and 2008.
Reviewer for the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing in 1993, 1995, 1999, 2001 and 2005.
Reviewer for the IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks in 2000.
Reviewer for the 2000 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems.
Reviewer for the Journal on Circuits, Systems and Signal Processing in1994.
Reviewer for the IEEE Transactions on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing in 1986-1987.
Reviewer for the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems in 1986, 1992, 1993 and 1998.
Reviewer for the Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications in 1988.
Reviewer for the IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing in 1987, 2005 and 2007.
Reviewer for GEOPHYSICS in 1985.
Reviewer for the IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics in 1981.
Committee member of University of Pittsburgh Conference on Modeling and Simulation (1981-1985).
Service as a Reviewer for Journals
Reviewer for the Journal of Engineering and Applied Science, Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt in 2010.
Reviewer for Elsevier Optics and Lasers in Engineering in 2009.
Reviewer for the IET Signal Processing in 2008 and 2009.
Reviewer for the International Journal of Circuit Theory and Applications in 2008.
Reviewer for the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems, Part II: Express Briefs in 2007.
Reviewer for the IEEE Signal Processing Letters in 2006 and 2008.
Reviewer for the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing in 1993, 1995, 1999, 2001, 2005 and 2009.
Reviewer for the IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks in 2000.
Reviewer for the Journal on Circuits, Systems and Signal Processing in1994.
Reviewer for the IEEE Transactions on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing in 1986-1987.
Reviewer for the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems in 1986, 1992, 1993 and 1998.
Reviewer for the Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications in 1988.
Reviewer for the IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing in 1987, 2005, 2007 and 2010.
Reviewer for GEOPHYSICS in 1985.
Reviewer for the IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics in 1981.
Service as a Reviewer for Conferences
Reviewer for the 2009 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Taipei, Taiwan, May 24-27, 2009.
Reviewer for the 2007 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, May 27-30, 2007.
Reviewer for the 2000 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems.
Service as a Reviewer for Promotion Committees
Reviewer for the Engineering Mathematics and Physics Promotion Committee of the Supreme Council of Egyptian Universities for the tenth cycle (2008-2011)
Service as a Conference Committee Member
Committee member of University of Pittsburgh Conference on Modeling and Simulation (1981-1985).
Publications

Magdy Tawfik Hanna, Nabila Philip Attalla Seif and Waleed Abd El Maguid Ahmed,"Discrete Fractional Fourier Transform Based on the Eigenvectors of Tridiagonal and Nearly Tridiagonal Matrices," Digital Signal Processing, Vol. 18, No. 5, pp. 709-727,September 2008.   

Magdy Tawfik Hanna, "Direct Batch Evaluation of Optimal Orthonormal Eigenvectors of the DFT Matrix," IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Vol. 56, No. 5, pp. 2138- 2143, May 2008.   

Magdy Tawfik Hanna, Nabila Philip Attalla Seif and Waleed Abd El Maguid Ahmed, "Hermite-Gaussian-Like Eigenvectors of the Discrete Fourier Transform Matrix Based on the Direct Utilization of the Orthogonal Projection Matrices on its Eigenspaces," IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Vol. 54, No. 7, pp. 2815-2819, July 2006.   

Magdy Tawfik Hanna, Nabila Philip Attalla Seif and Waleed Abd El Maguid Ahmed,"Hermite-Gaussian-Like Eigenvectors of the Discrete Fourier Transform Matrix Based on the Singular Value Decomposition of its Orthogonal Projection Matrices," IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems, Part I: Regular papers, Vol. 51, No. 11, pp. 2245-2254, November 2004.   

Magdy Tawfik Hanna, "A Discrete Fractional Fourier Transform Based on Orthonormalized McClellan-Parks Eigenvectors," Journal of Engineering and Applied Science, Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University, Vol. 51, No. 1, pp. 11-30, February 2004.

Magdy Tawfik Hanna and Sana Ahmed Mansoori, "A Centrosymmetric Matrix Based Technique for the Interpolation of a Hermitian Signal," Numerical Linear Algebra with Applications, John Wiley & Sons, Vol. 10, Issue 8, pp. 701-720, December 2003.   

Magdy Tawfik Hanna, "Formulae for the Coefficients of Daubechies Product Filter,"Journal of Engineering and Applied Science, Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University, Vol. 50, No. 6, pp. 1019-1036, December 2003.

Magdy Tawfik Hanna, "Bases for the Whole Sample Symmetric Filter Banks Using aComplex Allpass Filter," Journal of Engineering and Applied Science, Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University, Vol. 50, No. 4, pp. 653-669, August 2003.

Magdy T. Hanna, "Multiple Signal Extraction by Multiple Interference Attenuation in the Presence of Random Noise in Seismic Array Data," IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Vol. 51, No. 7, pp. 1683-1694, July 2003.   

Magdy Tawfik Hanna, "Design Of Two-Dimensional FIR Filters With Arbitrary Magnitude And Phase Responses," Journal of Engineering and Applied Science, Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University, Vol. 50, No. 2, pp. 223-242, April 2003.

Magdy Tawfik Hanna and Sana Ahmed Mansoori, “The Discrete Time Wavelet Transform: Its Discrete Time Fourier Transform and Filter Bank Implementation,” IEEE 6Transactions on Circuits and Systems, Part II: Analog and Digital Signal Processing, vol. 48, no. 2, pp.180-183, February 2001.   

Magdy T. Hanna, “On the Stability of a Tank and Hopfield Type Neural Network in the General Case of Complex Eigenvalues,” IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 48, no. 1, pp. 289-293, January 2000.   

Magdy T. Hanna, “On The Generalized Eigenvectors of a Class of Moment Matrices,”IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 46, no. 8, pp. 2236-2238, August 1998.   

Magdy T. Hanna, “A Singular Value Decomposition Derivation in the Discrete Frequency Domain of Optimal Noncentro-Symmetric 2-D FIR Filters,” IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 46, no. 5, pp. 1397-1402, May 1998.   

Magdy T. Hanna, "Weighted Least Squares Design of Two-dimensional Zero-Phase FIR Filters in the Continuous Frequency Domain," IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems, Part II : Analog and Digital Signal Processing, vol. 43, no. 7, pp. 534-537, July 1996.   

Magdy T. Hanna, "Design of Circularly Symmetric Two-Dimensional Linear-Phase Low-pass FIR Filters using Closed-Form Expressions," IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems, Part II : Analog and Digital Signal Processing, vol. 43, no. 7, pp. 537-540, July 1996.   

Magdy T. Hanna, "Design of Linear Phase FIR Filters with a Maximally Flat Passband," IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems, Part II : Analog and Digital Signal Processing, vol. 43, no. 2, pp. 142-147, February 1996.   

Magdy T. Hanna, "Windows with Rapidly Decaying Sidelobes and Steerable Sidelobe Dips," IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 42, no. 8, pp. 2037-2044, August 1994.

M.T. Hanna, A. Kia and J.P. Robinson, "Digital Filters for Attenuating InterferenceArriving from a Wide Range of Angles," IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. SP-40, no. 6, pp. 1499-1507, June 1992.

M.T. Hanna, "Velocity Filters for Multiple Interference Attenuation in Geophysical Array Data," IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. GE-26, no. 6, pp. 741-748, November 1988.

M.T. Hanna, "Array Filters for Attenuating Multiple coherent Interference," IEEE Transactions on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, vol. ASSP-36, no. 6, pp. 844- 853, June 1988.

M.T. Hanna and M. Simaan, "A Least Sensitive Multichannel Optimum Filter for SensorArrays," IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering, vol. OE-13, no. 2, pp. 64-69, April 1988.

M.T. Hanna and M. Simaan, "Design and Implementation of Velocity Filters Using Multichannel Array Processing Techniques," IEEE Transactions on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, vol. ASSP- 35, no. 6, pp. 864-877, June 1987.

M. Simaan, A. Hussain and M.T. Hanna, "Nondestructive Detection of Flaws in Material Using Transducer Arrays," Journal of Nondestructive Evaluation, vol. 6, no .1, pp. 47- 55, March 1987.

M.T. Hanna and M. Simaan, "Array Filters for Attenuating Coherent Interference in the Presence of Random Noise, " IEEE Transactions on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, vol. ASSP-34, no. 4, pp. 661-668, August 1986.

M.T. Hanna and M. Simaan,"Absolutely Optimum Array Filters for Sensor Arrays,"IEEE Transactions on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, vol. ASSP-33, no. 6, pp. 1380-1386, December 1985.

M.T. Hanna and M. Simaan, "A Closed Form Solution to a Quadratic Optimization Problem in Complex Variables," Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, vol. 47, no. 4, pp. 437-450, December 1985.

M.T. Hanna and M. Simaan, "Array Filters for Sidelobe Elimination,"IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering, Special Issue on Beamforming, vol. OE-10, no. 3, pp. 248-254, July 1985 (invited paper).

M.S. Mahmoud and M.T. Hanna, "Linear Optimal Control of National EconometricModels," International Journal of Systems Sciences, vol. 13, no. 10, pp. 1061-1081, October, 1982.

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