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Steve Chiu
Ph.D. - Professor and Chair
Website: https://www2.cose.isu.edu/~chiustev/
Ahmed F. Ashour
Ph.D. - Assistant Professor
Office: Lillibridge Engineering Building Room 214
Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Healthcare, Signal and Image Processing, Internet of Things (IoT), RFID, Wireless and Mobile Networks, Communications electronics.
Affiliations
Electrical and Computer Engineering
College of Science and Engineering
Computer Science
Teaching Course:
- ECE 4412 / 5518: Communication Systems
- ECE/CS 4499 / 5599: Applied IoT Systems
- ECE 4470/5575 : Digital Signal Processing
Education
- Ph.D (2) Idaho State University (ISU), Electrical & Computer Engineering, USA, Exp. 2026.
- Ph.D (1) Minia University (MU), Electrical Engineering, Egypt, 2023.
- M.Sc. Arab Academy for Science, Technology, and Maritime Transport (AASTMT), Electronics and Communications Engineering, Egypt, 2017.
- B.Sc. Higher Technological Institute (HTI), Electrical & Computer Engineering, Egypt, 2009.
Bio
Ahmed F. Ashour joined Idaho State University (ISU) in December 2024 as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He has over 15 publications in international journals and conferences. His research interests include machine learning, wireless communication (5G/6G), IoT, signal processing, RFID, healthcare and others. He contributed to an NSF proposal on federated learning optimization. He is a reviewer for IEEE Access, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (TVT), Globecom, and several Elsevier journals. He is a Senior Member of the Egyptian Syndicate of Engineers and an active IEEE member.
Dr. Ashour previously held multiple academic positions, including Senior Teaching Assistant at ISU (USA), Senior Teaching Engineer at The American University in Cairo (Egypt), and an Instructor at AUC Robotics Association. He also worked as an Electronics Instructor for multiple technical institutions in Egypt, where he delivered courses in analog and digital electronics, PCB design, and embedded systems. Additionally, he served as an Assistant Lecturer and Teaching Assistant at AASTMT and HTI (Egypt) from 2011 to 2017.
In addition to his academic roles, Dr. Ashour worked as a Senior R&D Electronics Engineer at Falcon Electronics & Electrical Industry (Egypt), where he developed LED products, solar energy solutions, and power supplies. He was the CEO of Fast Fix Company for Construction and Maintenance in Egypt from 2014 to 2017.
Awards
- Best Oral Presentation Award, 7th International Conference on Electronics Technology (ICET), Chengdu, China, 2024
- Best Paper Award, IEEE ICCoSITE 2023, Jakarta, Indonesia, 2023
- PhD Scholarship Award, Idaho State University, USA, 2022
- Training Scholarship Award, Institute of Electrical Engineering Physics, Saarland University, Germany, 2008
- 1st Place Distinction Award, Higher Technological Institute, Egypt, 2006–2009
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Mikle Ellis
Ph.D. - Associate Professor
Dr. Ellis received his Ph.D. from Virginia Polytechnic and State University in 1994. His areas of research include Electrical Power Systems and Engineering Education.
Mostafa Fouda
Ph.D. - Graduate Program Director
Website: https://www.mostafafouda.com/
Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity, Healthcare, Image Processing,
Signal Processing, Internet of Things (IoT), Wireless and Mobile Networks
Affiliations
Electrical and Computer Engineering
College of Science and Engineering
Computer Science
Education
Ph.D. Tohoku University, Information Sciences, Japan, 2011
M.S. Benha University, Electrical Engineering, Egypt, 2007
B.S. Benha University, Electrical Engineering, Egypt, 2002
Bio
Mostafa M. Fouda joined ISU in the Fall of 2020 as an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He received his Ph.D. degree in Information Sciences from Tohoku University, Japan in 2011. He has more than 60 publications in international conferences, journal papers, and book chapters. His research interests include cyber-security, machine learning, Internet of Things (IoT), 6G networks, and healthcare applications. He has served on the technical committees of several IEEE conferences. He is also a Reviewer in several IEEE Transactions and Magazines. He is an Editor of IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (TVT) and an Associate Editor of IEEE Access. He is a Senior Member of IEEE.
Dr. Fouda previously held multiple academic positions such as an Associate Professor at Benha University (Egypt), an Assistant Professor at Tohoku University (Japan), and a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Tennessee Tech University (USA).
Cindy Hu
Ph.D - Assistant Professor
Website: https://cindyhuisu.github.io/
Yaodan "Cindy" Hu is an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Idaho State University. She received her B.S. degree in Applied Physics from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), China, in 2015 and her Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Florida, USA, in 2022. Her research interests include security and privacy in cyber-physical systems, vehicular networks, and power systems. She has served as a TPC member of several IEEE conferences and a reviewer of several journals and transactions. She is also a member of IEEE.
Vitit Kantabutra
Ph.D. - Associate Professor
Dr. Kantabutra received a Bachelor of Engineering in Honours Electrical Engineering degree from McGill University in 1979, and a Master of Engineering and a Ph.D., both in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, from The Johns Hopkins University in 1982 and 1985, respectively. Dr. Kantabutra has a wide variety of research interests in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He invented a new type of database system called Intentionally-Linked Entities (ILE) which improves over the Relational database system in several different ways by using more modern, linked data structures instead of tables. Dr. Kantabutra also published his innovations in the fields of computer algorithms, computational geometry, theoretical robotics, artificial neural networks, computer arithmetic hardware (Very Large Scale Integration), GIS, and was named the sole or first inventor in 5 U.S. patents, all in computer hardware. He was supported by a major NSF research grant for his work in databases, Temporal Geographic Information Systems, and the Digital Humanities.
Gene Stuffle
Ph.D. - Professor Emeritus
Dr. Stuffle received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University in 1979. His research interests include simulation, signal processing, microprocessors, high-voltage impulse testing, computer-aided analysis and design, PC applications. He is a Licensed Professional Engineer.
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