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Mohammad M. Mansour, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
American University of Beirut
Education
Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2003
M.S., Mathematics, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2002
M.E., Computer and Communications Eng'g, American University of Beirut, 1998
B.E., Computer and Communications Eng'g, American University of Beirut, 1996
Research Interests
- VLSI for embedded systems with applications to signal processing and wireless communications
- – Algorithms:
- » Baseband processor and receiver design-space exploration
- » Kernel operation extraction
- » Algorithmic optimizations for space-time complexity
- – Architectures: System and block-level architectural optimizations
- – Implementations:
- » ASIP, DSP, FPGA prototyping
- » ASIC chip implementation
- » Multi-standard compliant baseband processor ASIC cores
- – Applications: PHY-layer modem design and implementation for
- » 3G wireless cellular networks: W-CDMA, CDMA2000, 1xEV-DO, HSPA, LTE, UMB
- » Wireless local area networks: IEEE 802.11n (Wi-Fi)
- » Wireless metropolitan area networks: IEEE 802.16e (WiMax)
- » Peer-to-peer wireless ad-hoc networks
- – Algorithms:
- Error correcting codes
- – Architecture-aware code design
- – High-speed bit-error rate simulation platforms
- – Codec algorithms and architectures: design and optimizations
- – Multi-standard compliant codec cores
- – Applications:
- » Turbo codes
- » Turbo-like (repeat-accumulate) codes
- » LDPC codes
- » Fountain codes
- Integrated circuits (IC) chip implementation for signal processing and wireless applications.
- – Software-programmable, hardware-configurable IP blocks
- Applied mathematics including group theory, ring theory, and matrix theory to communications problems.
Vita
Mohammad M. Mansour received his B.E. degree with distinction in 1996 and his M.E.
degree in 1998 both in computer and communications engineering
from the American University of Beirut (AUB), Beirut, Lebanon. In August 2002, Mohammad
received his M.S. degree in mathematics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
(UIUC), Urbana, Illinois, USA. Mohammad received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering in
May 2003 from UIUC.
He is currently an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering with the
ECE department at AUB, Beirut, Lebanon. From December 2006 to
August 2008, he was on research leave with QUALCOMM Flarion Technologies in
Bridgewater, New Jersey, USA, where he worked on modem design and implementation for 3GPP-LTE, 3GPP-UMB, and peer-to-peer wireless
networking PHY layer standards. From 1998 to 2003, he was a research assistant at the Coordinated Science Laboratory
(CSL) at UIUC. During the summer of 2000, he worked at National Semiconductor Corp., San Francisco, CA, with
the wireless research group. In 1997 he was a research assistant at the ECE department at AUB, and in 1996 he was a teaching assistant
at the same department. His research interests are VLSI design and implementation for embedded signal processing and wireless
communications systems, coding theory and its applications, digital signal processing systems and general purpose computing systems.
Prof. Mansour is a member of the
Design and Implementation of
Signal Processing Systems Technical Committee of the
IEEE Signal Processing Society, and a Senior Member of the
IEEE. He is currently serving as an Associate Editor for
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II (TCAS-II). He is the recipient of the
PHI Kappa PHI Honor Society Award twice in 2000 and 2001, and the recipient of the Hewlett Foundation Fellowship Award in March
2006. He joined the faculty at AUB in fall 2003.