Faisal Ibne Bashir

Academia:

Semester I (Fall 2001) : Aug. 20, 2001 - Dec. 7, 2001.

bullet ECE-430: Communication and Signal Processing.
bullet ECE-415: Image Analysis and Machine Vision I.
bullet CS-401: Computer Algorithms.

Semester II (Spring 2002) : Jan 7, 2002 - May 4, 2002.

bullet ECE-530: Random Signal Analysis.
bullet ECE-515: Image Analysis and Machine Vision II.
bullet ECE-517: Image Processing.

Semester III (Fall 2002): Aug. 26, 2003 - Dec. 14, 2002.

bullet ECE-532: Advanced Digital Communications.
bullet ECE-516: Optimal and Adaptive Filtering.

Semester IV (Spring 2003): Jan. 13, 2003 - May 11, 2003.

bullet ECE-418: Digital Signal Processing II.
bulletMATH-425: Linear Algebra II.

Semester V (Fall 2003): Aug. 25, 2003 - Dec. 12, 2003.

bulletCS-580: Query Processing in Database Systems.
bulletSTAT-522: Multivariate Statistical Analysis (Audit).

Semester VI (Spring 2004): Jan. 13, 2004 - May 11, 2004.

bulletECE-491: Object-oriented programming for computer engineers.
bulletSTAT-411: Statistical Theory (Audit).

Semester VII (Fall 2004): Aug. 25, 2004 - Dec. 12, 2004.

bulletSTAT-511: Advanced Statistical Theory I.

 

Semester I (Fall 2001):

Aug. 20th - Dec. 7th.

ECE-430: Communication and Signal Processing.

Instructor: Dr. Rashid Ansari. (Home Page )
Text:  R.D. Yates, D.J. Goodman. "Probability and Stochastic Processes: A friendly introduction for Electrical and Computer Engineers",           (First Edition)John Wiley & Sons, 1999.
Course Description:
bulletProbability, basic notions.
bulletDiscrete & Continuous random variables.
bulletMultiple random variables.
bulletTransformation of random variables.
bulletExpected values, moment generating functions.
bulletRandom Processes.
bulletAutocorrelation, stationarity, power spectral density.
bulletNoise, NMSE filtering.
bulletApplications.

ECE-415: Image Analysis and Machine Vision I.

Instructor: Dr. Jezekiel Ben-Arie ( Home Page )
Text:  R.C. Gonzalez, R.E. Woods. "Digital Image Processing".

CS-401: Computer Algorithms.

Instructor: Dr. Bhaskar DasGupta. ( Home Page )
Text:  Thomas H. Corman, Charles E. Leiserson, Ronald L. Rivest, Clifford Stein. "Introduction to Algorithms"                                                  McGraw-Hill, ISBN 0-07-013151-1
Course Description:
bulletAmortized Analysis (Chapter 17)
bulletGreedy algorithms
bulletGraphs: Minimum Spanning Trees (Chapter 23)
bulletScheduling (Chapter 16.5)
bulletDivide-and-Conquer
bulletQuick sorting (Chapter 7)
bulletMerge sort (Chapter 2.3.1)
bulletBinary search
bulletFinding the median (Chapter 9)
bulletDynamic Programming
bulletThe Knapsack problem (Chapter 16.2)
bulletChained matrix multiplication (Chapter 15.2)
bulletGraph problems:
bulletBasic definitions and representations of graphs (Chapter 22)
bulletTraversing trees (Chapter 12.1)
bulletDepth-first search for directed and undirected graphs with applications (Chapters 22.3 22.4 22.5)
bulletMinimum spanning tree algorithms: Kruskal and Prim's algorithm (Chapter 23)
bulletBreadth-first search (Chapter 22.2)
bulletShortest paths (Chapter 24)
bulletComputational Complexity
bulletThe complexity of sorting
bulletIntroduction to NP-completeness theory (Chapter 34)



Semester II (Spring 2002):

Jan 7, 2002 - May 4, 2002.

ECE-530: Random Signal Analysis.

Instructor: Dr. Rashid Ansari. ( Home Page )
Text:  "Probability, Random Variables and Stochastic Processes", A. Papoulis, S.U. Pillai, Fourth Edition.
Course Outline:
bulletReview of Probability.
bulletRandom Processes.
bulletAutocorrelation, Stationarity.
bulletPower Spectral Density.
bulletSpecial Processes.
bulletProcessing with Linear Systems.
bulletProcessing with Non Linear Systems.
bulletBasics of Detection and Estimation. bulletMinimum mean squared error processing. bulletSelected Topics.

ECE-515: Image Analysis and Machine Vision II.

Instructor: Dr. Jezekiel Ben-Arie ( Home Page )
Text:  R.C. Gonzalez, R.E. Woods. "Digital Image Processing".

ECE-517: Image Processing.

Instructor: Dr. Dan Schonfeld.  ( Home Page )
Text:  R.C. Gonzalez and R.E. Woods, Digital Image Processing, Prentice-Hall, 2002.
Course Description:
bulletIntroduction
bulletImage Transforms
bulletImage Restoration
bulletImage Reconstruction
bulletImage Compression
bulletTemplate Matching
bulletMotion Estimation
bulletVideo Compressio
 

 

Semester III (Fall 2002):

Aug. 26th - Dec. 14th.

ECE-532: Advanced Digital Communications.

Instructor: Dr. Rashid Ansari. (Home Page )
Text:  Digital Communications, 2/e, by John Proakis, McGraw Hill, 1995.
Course Description:

bulletReview of random processes; source coding; channel coding
bulletDigital modulation and demodulation 
bulletSynchronization and carrier recovery 
bulletIntersymbol interference - Viterbi algorithm
bulletFading multipath channels 
bulletSpread spectrum communications 

ECE-516: Optimal and Adaptive Filtering.

Instructor: Dr. Derong Liu ( Home Page )

Text:  "Statistical Digital Signal Processing and Modeling" by Monson H. Hayes (New York: John Wiley, 1996)
ISBN: 0-471-59431-8

 Course Description:

bulletDiscrete time random signals and properties
bulletSignal modeling and forward and backward prediction
bulletWiener filter and properties
bulletLinear Prediction and algorithms
bulletKalman filter and it extensions
bulletSmoothing filters
bulletAdaptive filters including LMS and RLS algorithms
bulletAdaptive filter applications such as to: channel equalizing, echo canceling, etc
bulletAdaptive filter convergence properties.
 

Semester IV (Spring 2003):

Jan. 13, 2003 - May 11, 2003.

ECE-418: Digital Signal Processing II.

Instructor: Daniel Graupe. (Home Page )
Text:  .
Course Description:

MATH-425: Linear Algebra II.

Instructor: Richard G. Larson ( Home Page )

Text:  D. E. Radford, Linear Algebra, (partial book draft).

 Course Description:

bulletInner Product Spaces
bulletLeast Squares Approximation
bulletEigenvalues and Eigenvectors
bulletPowers of Diagonizable Matrices, Fibonacci Sequence
bulletTransition Matrices
bulletGeometric Transformations
bulletSymmetric Matrices
bulletMaps of Inner Product Spaces
bulletTriangulizable Matrices, Cayley-Hamilton Theorem
bulletGeneralized Eigenspaces
bulletNilpotent Matrices
bulletJordan Canonical Form
bulletMinimal Polynomial
 



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