IEEE UAE Section

Co-sponsored by: OpenUAE OpenUAE Research & Development Group invites you to technical talk on Open Source AI. The momentum on open source platforms, data sets and community development has grown to a point, where an individual organization will struggle to match the speed of open source AI development. Mainstream AI research and development is gradually moving towards open technology community development. This talk explores how open source projects are transforming machine learning and AI. Speaker(s): Dr. Kaoutar El Maghraoui, Location: Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

Co-sponsored by: Rochester Institute of Technology, Dubai Dear Members,   The IEEE WIE UAE Section  is organising a seminar  on Women in Engineering by the distinguished speaker member of board of governers IEEE SSIT,  Dr Ramalatha Marimuthu. This event is mainly focusing on UAE WIE Volunteers and is open  for all interested women in the engineering field. The event will take place on 21st April 2018 in UAE Dubai Silicon Oasis, RIT Dubai Campus, Conference Hall. RIT Dubai Location   The event will start at 10:30 AM and will end at 1:30 PM   We look forward to meet you   Regards, IEEE WIE UAE Section Speaker(s): Eng. Balqees, Dr. Ramalatha Agenda: Registration 10:30 AM – 11:00 AM Introducing IEEE WIE UAE   By IEEE WIE UAE Chair  11:00 AM – 11:15 AM Women in Engineering and Women Safety  By Dr. Ramalatha Marimuth   11:15 AM – 01:00 PM Questions and Answer Session  01:00 PM – 01:30 PM Location: Rochester Institute of Technology Dubai Silicon Oasis Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Co-sponsored by: American University in the emirates To provide a fun day for everyone no matter their discipline or background. Participants will learn by demonstration in AUE labs how to ethically hack mobile phones, networks and attend a guest lecture on how Artificial Intelligence (A.I) can be leveraged to address organisational challenges in Cyber Security.Our guest lecturer and demonstrator is Dr. Syed Naqvi, SMIEEE.   Speaker(s): Dr. Syed Naqvi, Agenda: Session 1: Digital Forensics and Information Security @ 8.30 am – 10.30 am (Service personnel and security cleared practitioners) Session 2: Artificial Intelligence in Cyber Security @ 11.00 am – 2.00 pm (For everyone) Session 3: Digital Forensics and Information Security @ 3.30 pm – 5.30 pm (Students, faculty and researchers from industry and academia) Location: American University in the emirates Dubai, United Arab Emirates

The emerging technology of hyperspectral imaging is currently having a major effect on the field of digital imaging. Whereas standard digital camera technology captures a single brightness or colour value at each pixel, hyperspectral cameras capture a complete region of the electromagnetic spectrum. This means that they are able to detect changes in temperature, moisture and fat content and some aspects of the chemical composition of objects in the field of view.The research and commercial potential of this technology is enormous, offering a wide range of applications, from measuring the degree of absorption of creams on the skin and assessment of burns, to modelling the progress of drug migration through the human body. Other uses include industrial inspection, defence applications as well as detecting counterfeit manufactured goods such as spirits, perfumes and tablets. Hyperspectral imaging is providing new solutions to industrial problems and avoiding expensive, time consuming destructive analysis techniques.Until quite recently the use of hyperspectral imaging was limited to military and remote sensing applications due largely to the size and cost of the equipment required. These reductions have led to a rapid growth in the use of HSI technology in many applications in lab based environments including inspection in manufacturing, food and drink, agritech, forensics and pharmaceuticals.HSI requires a hyperspectral camera which typically operates in either the visible, near infra-red or short wave infra-red region. A hyperspectral image therefore takes the form of a cube of data with two spatial dimensions and one wavelength. By their nature HSI data sets are very large occupying hundreds of Gigabytes, though the information content of the data sets can be concentrated in localized areas with the rest of the dataset being sparse. HSI therefore presents new signal processing challenges in terms of data reduction, feature extraction, classification and regression algorithms for interpreting the data. The emergence of deep learning approaches is also beginning to impact on this field with more automated decision making.The seminar will provide an introduction and overview of hyperspectral imaging followed by some examples of new signal processing advances in this area as well as a series of industrial applications from a range of market sectors. Speaker(s): Prof. Stephen Marshall, Location: College of Engineering and IT Lecture Theatre 102 University of Dubai Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Co-sponsored by: SOE-UAE, Khalifa Uni, ATIC-SRC This workshop will focus on IoT Systems-on-Chip (SoCs)  platforms developed as part of the UAE SRC (Semiconductor Research Corporation) Center of Excellence on Energy Efficient Electronic Systems (aka ACE4S  (http://www.src.org/program/grc/ace4s/) involving 5 UAE Universities and lead by researchers from Khalifa University and Masdar Institute.  The team has developed  new technologies aiming at innovative self-powered wireless sensing and monitoring IoT SoC platforms. The material will be introduced at an introductory level. New comers to the field and those who are curious to learn will get the opportunity to learn about the basic components of an IoT device including sensors, energy harvesting and power management, digital processors, machine learning and wireless radios. It will then present two system demos of IoT devices developed for mobile health, especially for detecting and /or predicting heart attacks. Agenda: Program 6:00-6:30pm      Introduction to IoT Hardware : Ibrahim Elfadel Mohammed Ismail 6:30-7:00pm      Energy harvesting and power management : Baker Mohammad 7:00-7:30pm     Artificial intelligence, System on Chip and Machine learning :Hani Saleh  7:30-8:00pm      Wireless Radio Transceivers for IoT Devices, Mihai Sanduleano  8:00-8:30pm      Break 8:30-9:00pm      IoT platform for predicting heart attacks : M. Ismail and M. Alhawari 9:00-9:30pm      IoT platform for Detecting Congestive Heart Failure: I.Elfadel   Mohammed Ismail received the B.S. and M.S. degrees from Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Manitoba, Manitoba, BC, Canada, in 1983, all in electrical engineering. He is a prolific author and entrepreneur in the field of chip design and test, spent over 25 years in academia and industry in the U.S. and Europe. He is currently the chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering in Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA. Ibrahim M. Elfadel received the Ph.D. degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA, in 1993. He is a Professor and the Head of microsystems engineering at the Masdar Institute of Science and Technology, Abu Dhabi, UAE. He has 15 years of industrial experience with IBM in the research, development, and deployment of advanced computer-aided design tools and methodologies for deep-submicron, high performance digital designs. Hani Saleh received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Jordan, the M.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Texas at San Antonio, and the Ph.D. degree in computer engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. He is an Associate Professor of electronic engineering at Khalifa University Baker Mohammad received the B.S. degree from the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, the M.S. degree from Arizona State University, Tempe, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Texas at Austin in 2008, all in electrical and computer engineering. He is an Associate Professor of electronic engineering at Khalifa University Dr. Mihai Sanduleanu received his MSc, MEE and PhD degrees from the Technical University of Iasi, Romania; Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands; and the University of Twente, The Netherlands; in 1990, 1993 and 1999, respectively. Dr. Sanduleanu is currently Associate Professor at the Masdar Institute of Science and Technology. Mohammad Alhawari received the B.S. degree in electronic engineering from Yarmouk University, Jordan, in 2008, the M.S.  in microsystems engineering from Masdar Institute, Abu Dhabi, in 2012, and the Ph.D. degree in ECE from Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, in 2016. He is currently a postdoctoral Research Fellow at Khalifa University, For registration, contact events@soeuae.com or call 042399555 ext 314 Location: Society of Engineers – UAE Mamzar Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Co-sponsored by: Amity University, ICT K&C, openUAE Abstract: The presentation shows how “Digital Innovation” remains Human civilization’s ultimate ambition to measure and exploit its analog Universe knowledge sources. It illustrates how the pioneering academic work in the fields of Electrical / Computer Engineering R&D labs and economics theorists proposing innovation for the first time as an alternative model gave birth to Digital Innovation. The academic R&D work was mainly centered around the “DATA” theoretical foundation found in the end famous “ Data-information- Knowledge “pyramid. With the invention of the 1st Integrated Circuit microprocessor, Intel’s famous 8088 made it practically possible to convert the universe’ s analog Knowledge resources to the digital “ Data”. For the first time, Digital Innovation migrated outside academia’s premises to initiate a whole new and promising industry and economy, the digital economy. Today, after 40+ years of extensive continuing work on both the Data and Information layers by the Communications and Information technology ( ICT) equipments’ vendors and services providers, the different end users recognized the strategic competitive capabilities and values ICT can bring to their day to day business and corporate survival in a digital economy the least described; dynamic, highly paced innovative where many startups grew to disrupt the legacy companies and organization, Some Examples of those disruptive startups during this 40 years time period, there impacts and Important contribution to today’s National Domestic products and global economy will be given Finally, end uses enterprises recognized and adopted Digital Innovation also termed “ Digital Transformation “ as a strategic means to support them in aligning their corporate objectives e.g. increasing market share or corporate profit with its capabilities to survive the digital economy’s severe competition Digital Innovation turned into an organized and controlled process joined with lifecycle and milestones, measured by KPIs, governed and controlled by organizational committees and capabilities while working in close support with other practices like Portfolio Management especially in big sized organizations The presentation will highlight some of those Digital Innovation approaches and examples from today’s digital economy, and capabilities control during the Innovation Roadmap, utilizing groupware tools like the Innosurvey ( TM) and the Wheel of Innovation technique. Technically, new promising technologies , driven by either software like AI and Machine Learning or new systems like IoT, 5G, Robotics, or challenging Moore’s law will resume to enhance the ultimate objective the measurement and exploitation of our Analog Universe’s Knowledge sources this time however in a joint and collaborative approach between, end users , ICT vendors and service providers and academia.   Bio: Ahmed is a senior telecommunications expert with more than 20 years of experience in the field of IT and Project Management. After several years of experience in the IT and telecommunications sector having senior managerial roles for global companies such as Vodafone and national government entities, Ahmed started working as a Consultant to help organizations to increase their performance and become more innovative. Prior experience includes successful completion and operation of the PMO corporate role and functions for UAE Armed Forces ICT Center of Excellence and was appointed as Project Management Subject Matter Expert. Ahmed is since 2017 the founder of ICT Knowledge& Consultancy ( ICT K&C ) which aims to  serve the local and regional need in the Middle East for the Knowledge and Consultancy  especially with the new promising technologies like AI, Big Data, IoT, 5G by and the ambitious national Digital Transformation Programs like the e-Government in Dubai. Location: Amity University Dubai Academic City Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Co-sponsored by: Canadian university of Dubai Given the increased availability of large amount of data (big data), Data Science has emerged as an important scientific domain synthesizing different well established disciplines such as Statistics, Mathematics and Computer Science.This workshop is aimed to bring together researchers from Academia and practitioners from Industry to discuss theoretical aspects and practical applications in Data Science.Submissions of contributed talks are welcome (Deadline: April 10th)For registration and information write to datascience@cud.ac.aeLocal organizers: Dr. Giulia De Masi and Dr. Firuz Kamalov Speaker(s): Dr.Giulia De Masi , Agenda: Preliminary program 9:15-9:45: Registration 9:45 – 10:00: Opening 10:00 – 10:30: “From Data Science to AI”, Aoun Lutfi, IBM, Dubai, UAE 10:30 – 11:00: “Intelligent Healthcare”, Dr. Mohammad Mehedy Masud, UAE University, Al Ain, UAE 11:00 – 11:30: Coffee Break 11:30 – 12:00: “TBA”, Mr. Atif Ahmad Altafuddin, Emirates NBD, Dubai, UAE 12:00 – 12:30: “Pitfalls of feature selection using the Chi^2 statistic”, Dr.Firuz Kamalov, Canadian University in Dubai, Dubai, UAE 12:30 – 01:00: Lunch 01:00 – 01:30: “Clustering techniques for mixed categorical and numerical datasets”, Dr. Amir Ahmad, UAE University, Al Ain, UAE 01:30 – 02:00: “Machine learning methods in Engineering: application to corrosion assessment”, Dr. Giulia De Masi, Canadian University in Dubai, Dubai, UAE 02:00 -03:00: Additional Contributions Location: Bldg: Department of Engineering Canadian University of Dubai Dubai, United Arab Emirates 14143

Co-sponsored by: droidcon GCC Region’s Largest Android Developer Conference!   droidcon Dubai 2018 will gather over 200 passionate Android developers and tech corporations and their leaders supporting the world’s largest community driven OS, designers and entrepreneurs with the world’s top Android experts and technology innovators. For further information & Lineup/Agenda www.droidcon.ae   IEEE registraton requires: Name, Phone, email to   mtalib@sharjah.ac.ae Location: In5 tech Dubai Knowledge Village Dubai, United Arab Emirates 14143

Every year, hundreds of thousands of people are killed in car accidents. For example, over 1.2 million people were killed in road traffic accidents around the world in 2003 according to a report published by the World Health Organization and the World Bank, another 50 million may be left injured by crashes annually. These numbers are expected to increase by about 60% in the next few years unless a drastic change in the design of the highway is performed. This talk addresses the latest trends to improve the highways’ infrastructure by incorporating the information and communications technologies (ICT). The talk will also highlight the major challenges and obstacles that should be abolished to enable the adoption of ICT based technologies. Speaker(s): Dr. Arafat Al-Dweik, Location: Room: Training Room Hall 1 Society of Engineers – Headquarters Al Mamzar Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Co-sponsored by: openUAE Short Bio: Dr. Muhammad Odeh is an accomplished and strategically-oriented professional, with over 25 years’ global IT management experience. Skilled in applying business intelligence, commercial acumen and turnaround management. Strong collaborative approach to problem solving, Demonstrated experience of the full project lifecycle and innovative PMO setup and management utilizing Big Data analytics and The Internet of Things use cases. His qualifications include 25+ years’ experience, Management Consultant, HP, EMC and Dell. Doctor of Engineering in Engineering Management – George Washington University, USA MSc and BSc in Computer Science –Missouri State University, USA Stanford University Advanced Project Management (SAPM), Stanford University, USA Business Leadership Certificate, Ashridge Business University, UK Sustaining High Performance Certificate, IMD, Switzerland Managing multifunctional teams and people in Cross Cultures, EMC University, Belgium Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC), ISACA, USA Certified Information Security Manager (CISM), ISACA, USA Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) Certified Business Continuity Professional (CBCP), DRI, USA Project Management Professional (PMP), PMI, USA Master Certificate in Project Management. George Washington University, USA Computer Systems Security Professional (CSSP) – Senior Grade, IACSS, USA IEEE Senior Member, member of DRI, PMI and ISACA A published author of articles and methodologies Abstract A methodology in its simplest from is a structured practice of methods and principles for doing something. A Project Management Office (PMO) is an organizational structure focused on enabling effective implementation of organizational strategy through portfolios, programs, and projects. Traditionally, PMOs have been tasked with developing methodologies for standardization, to ensure alignment with organizational strategies, help implement projects effectively and efficiently and smooth the cultural differences across departments, functions and time zones. The necessity of a PMO has often been coined with the need to minimize projects failure and enhance project chances of meeting their objectives, deliver on time, budget and scope. However, the future PMO will need to be innovative. Balancing projects constraints is more of an art than a structured approach, the emerging concept of the Internet of Things enabled by Big Data and analytics can help create use cases so that PMO’s mythologies are far beyond the traditional balance of project constraints, to that of innovation and ultimately to that of value.   Location: University of Dubai Dubai, United Arab Emirates