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Aug 2006 -Present: Graduate Research Assistant

Multimedia Research Lab, CECS, University of Louisville,KY,USA.
Extensive experience with

- Spectral and kernel clustering
- Hyperspectral image analysis
- Local distance measure learning
- Local distance measure learning
- Semi-supervised learning
- Data sets: Landmine data set, Geological hyperspectral dataset, Corel image data set ...

September 2002-February 2006: Co-Design Engineer.

STMicroelectronics, Ariana, Tunisia

Co-Design Engineer involved in the high level design of STMicroelectronics IPs and interconnects such as the STBus and the ST220 co-processor using systemC and VHDL. I was leading the co-design Tunisian team and was in charge of the coordination between the Tunisian and the French and Italian tean. Besides, I was responsible for training the new recruits in the co-design team. Software Engineer Intern.

Feb 2002-June 2002: Graduation Engineer Intern

Medical image processing Laboratory of the medical university of Monastir.

Graduation Project on Medical image processing. It consists of developing a software using Visual C++ that allows displaying DiCOM type medical images, pre-processing these images than applying dedicated linear and non linear filters to extract useful information for the diagnostic of the patient. Presidential award.

july 2001-August 2001: Microelectronic Engineer Intern

Audiovisual company, THOMSON, Sousse, Tunisia.
Technician in the After sale service.

july 2000-August 2000 Electric Engineer Intern

Airline company, NOUVELAIR, Monastir, Tunsia.
Technician in the airplane maintenance service.

Teaching Experience

University of Louisville, CECS Department, Multimedia Research Lab Seminar

    Fall 2009: lecturing on distance measure learning.

    Spring 2008: Multimedia Research Lab Seminar: lecturing on Kernel and spectral clustering.

    Spring 2007 Content Based Image Retrieval: lecturing weekly on a technical paper.

ST Microelectronics Tunisia

2003-2006, Lecturing on

    STMicroelectronics IPS (STBus and ST220)

    Programming languages (C, C++)

    High Level design (SystemC)

    Co-design approaches (integrating VHDL in SyestemC framework)

Medical image processing Laboratory of the medical university of Monastir,Tunisia

    Summer 2002 Supervision of Engineering internship on medical image processing.

"Jeune et science de Tunis" Club, Tunisa

    Summer 1997 and summer 1998 Lecturing software languages (Pascal, C, C++) and supervising computer science projects.