Circuits and Systems for Communications

Magdy Bayoumi University of Louisiana at Lafayette P.O. Box 44330 Lafayette, LA 70504 U.S.A. Tel: +1 337 482 6147 Fax: +1 337 482 5791 Email: mab@cacs.louisiana.edu

Magdy A. Bayoumi is Director of The Center for Advanced Computer Studies (CACS) and Department Head of the Computer Science Department at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette (UL Lafayette). He is also the Edmiston Professor of Computer Engineering and Lamson Professor of Computer Science. Dr. Bayoumi has been a faculty member in CACS since 1985. He received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Cairo University, Egypt; M.Sc. degree in Computer Engineering from Washington University, St. Louis; and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Windsor, Canada. Dr. Bayoumi’s research interests include VLSI Design Methods and Architectures, Low Power Circuits and Systems, Digital Signal Processing Architectures, Parallel Algorithm Design, Computer Arithmetic, Image and Video Signal Processing, Neural Networks and Wideband Network Architectures. Dr. Bayoumi is leading a research group of 15 Ph.D. and 10 M.Sc. students in these research areas. He has graduated 15 Ph.D. and about 100 M.Sc. students. He has published over 200 papers in related journals and conferences. He edited co-edited and coauthored 5 books in his research interest. He was the guest editor of three special issues in VLSI Signal Processing and co-guest editor of a special issue on “Learning on Silicon”. Dr. Bayoumi has one patent on “On-Chip Learning.” He has given numerous invited lectures and talks nationally and internationally. He has consulted in industry. Dr. Bayoumi was the vice president for technical activities of the IEEE Circuits and Systems (CAS) Society, where he has served in many editorial, administrative, and leadership capacities. He was elected to the BoG (1996). He is one of the founding members of the VLSI Systems and Applications (VSA) Technical Committee (TC) and was the past chair. He was one of the founding members of the Neural Network TC. He is a member of the Multimedia TC. He has been on the technical program committee for ISCAS for several years (as track chair and co-chair). He has organized several special sessions and workshops at this conference. He was a co-organizer and co-chair of a forum on MEMS in ISCAS’95. He was the publication chair of ISCAS’99 and he is the special session co-chair of ISCAS’02. He is a member of the steering committee of the Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS). He was the general chair of MWSCAS’94, and the special session chair of MWSCAS’93. He has organized many special sessions and has been on the technical program committee of the symposium for several years. He was on a panel on VLSI Education in MWSCAS’95 and a judge for the first student paper contest in MWSCAS’97. He was an associate editor of the Circuits and Devices Magazine, Transaction on VLSI Systems, Transaction on Neural Networks, and Transaction on Circuits and Systems II. He was the general chair of the 1998 Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI. He was the general chair of the VLSI Signal Processing Workshop 2000. He is on the steering committee of the International Conference on Electronics, Circuits, and Systems (ICECS). He represented the CAS Society on the IEEE National Committee on Engineering R&D policy, 1994, the IEEE National Committee on Communication and Information Policy, 1994, and the IEEE National Committee on Energy Policy, 1997. Dr. Bayoumi serves on the ASSP Technical Committee on VLSI Signal Processing. He was one of the founders of the CS TC on VLSI. He has been a member of the Technical Program of the IEEE VLSI Signal Processing Workshop, the International Conference on Application Specific Array Processors and the Computer Arithmetic Symposium. He was the general chair of the Workshop on Computer Architecture for Machine Perception, 1993 and he is a member of the Steering Committee of this workshop. Dr. Bayoumi is an Associate Editor of INTEGRATION, the VLSI Journal and the Journal of VLSI Signal Processing Systems. He was an associate editor of the Journal of Circuits, Systems, and Computers. He is a regional editor for the VLSI Design Journal and on the Advisory Board of the Journal on Microelectronics Systems Integration. Dr. Bayoumi served on the Distinguished Visitors Program for the IEEE Computer Society, 1991-1994. He is the faculty advisor for the IEEE Computer student chapter at UL Lafayette. He won the UL Lafayette 1988 Researcher of the Year award and the 1993 Distinguished Professor award at UL Lafayette. He is a IEEE Fellow. Dr. Bayoumi served on the technology panel and advisory board of the US Department of Education project, “Special Education beyond Year 2010,” 1990-1993. He was the vice president of Acadiana Technology Council. He was on the organizing committee for Acadiana’s 3rd Internet Workshop, 1999. He gave the keynote speech in “Acadiana Y2K Workshop,” 1999. He is a member of Lafayette Chamber of Commerce where he is a member of the Economic Development, Education, and Tourism Committees. Dr. Bayoumi was a technology columnist and writer of the Lafayette newspaper “Daily Advertiser.” He is on the governor’s commission for developing comprehensive energy policy for the State of Louisiana.