An
International Workshop
Creating the Information Commons for e-Science:
Toward Institutional Policies and Guidelines for Action
UNESCO
Headquarters, Paris, France
1-2 September 2005
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Mohamed Najim -
Biography
Mohamed Najim , born on june 8, 1945 , Ain Sbit, Morroco. He received the Engineering degree from the ENSEIRB, Bordeaux , 1967 and the Dr.Sci. degree from the University of Toulouse , Toulouse , France , in 1972 ( Doctorat d’Etat ès Sciences Physiques)
In 1972, he joined the University of Rabat, Morocco, where he became a Professor in 1974. He founded and was the first director of the ENSIAS, Ecole Natioanle Supérieure d’Informatique et d’Analyse des Systèmes within the University Mohamed V , Rabat , Morocco . Since 1988, he has been Professor with the ENSEIRB/University of Bordeaux , France , where he founded the Signal and Image Processing Laboratory. He has worked in various fields, including microwaves, modelling and identification, adaptive filtering and control. His research interests are presently modelling and identification in multidimensional signal and image processing with applications in speech, seismic, biomedical, radar signal processing, textures, and image enhancement. He supervised more than 50 Ph. D. theses and published over 220 scientific papers and co-authored several books, including “Parametric Modelling in Image Processing” (Paris, France: Masson, 1994).
He is author of the book “Modelling and Identification in Signal Processing” (Paris, France:Masson, 1988). He lectured in various universities all over the world: Princeton, Technion, Peking University, Max Planck Institute, EPFL, Bologna, Xian, Shanghai, Budapest, Stanford, Madrid, Havana, Al Quds, Caracas...etc… He set up the “CAD Software Library” group within the GDR-CNRS TdSI, which is a French research program on signal and image processing. M. Najim has organized 15 international conferences on Control, Signal Processing, and Friendly Exchange through the Internet. He is the Co-chairman of the IEEE Statistical Signal Processing Conference05 to be held in Bordeaux , July 2005. He was the Editor of numerous symposia proceedings. From 1981 to 1990, he was a member of the IFAC Technical Board. He is currently a member of the Technical Committee on Digital Signal Processing of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society. Since 1999, he has been an elected Associate Member of the Third World Academy of Sciences. He has managed various projects with industrial partners (including Texas Instruments, Digital Equipment, ST Microelectronics, OCP the Morrocan Phosphate Authorithy…). He is currently the head of the LASIS a joint TOTAL /CNRS laboratory ( CNRS : the French NSF). Professor Najim has been the Vice –President of the UNESCO IIP ( Intergovernmental Informatics Programm).
For more information, visit http://www.tsi.u-bordeaux1.fr.