Faculty

Dr. Jalal Karam
Vice Dean and Associate Professor of Mathematics
College of Science and General Studies
Alfaisal University
Riyadh, KSA

Email: jkaram@alfaisal.edu
Tel : +(966-1) 215-7737 office

Education:
Ph.D.	2000	Technical University of Nova Scotia, Canada, Engineering
MSC	1995	Dalhousie University, Canada, Complex Analysis
Adv. Major	1993	Dalhousie University, Canada, Number Theory
BSC	1992	Dalhousie University, Canada, Mathematics

Research Interests:

Mathematical Modeling, Wavelets Theory and Applications, Complex Analysis, Ring Theory, Digital Signal Processing, Fuzzy Logic, Speech Compression and Recognition.

Editorial Services and Activities:

Editor – in – Chief (2007 - ): "International Journal of Computational Sciences and Mathematics", International Research Publication-House: http://www.internationaljournals.info/math/math5.htm
Reviewer 53696 (2007 - ): “Mathematical Reviews”, American Mathematical Society. Ann Arbor, USA.
Task Force Chair (2007 - ): World Academy of Science - Middle East and Near Far East Region.
Editor (2008 - ): World Academy of Sciences, Engineering and Technology, Scientific and Technical Committee on Natural and Applied Sciences.
Editor (63584) (2007 - ): International Association of Engineers. http://www.iaeng.org
• Reviewer (2008 - ): International Quality Education Foundation (IQEF) http://www.iqef.org/form.php
Editor (2008 - ): International Journal of Computer sciences www.iaeng.org/IJCS
Editor (2008 - ): Engineering Letters www.engineeringletters.com

Grants & Awards:

Alfaisal University Research Fund, ($30,000) (2009 - 2011).
KACST External Research Project, Abdallah Shami, Mohamed A. Ali, Jalal Karam, Integrated Broadband Access Networks, 1,531,000 SR equivalent to $410,000 US. Submitted March 31st 2010.
KACST External Research Project, Abdallah Shami, Jalal Karam, Khaled Al Mustafa, Integrated Broadband Access Networks, 1,179,000 SR equivalent to $315,000 US, Approved.
KACST External Research Project, Jalal Karam, Abdallah Shami, Ali Khraibi, A Theoretical and Experimental investigation of Speech Production and Hearing via Wavelets, 1,976,000 SR equivalent to $527,000 US. Submitted March 31st 2010.
KACST External Research Project, Yogi Alangra, Jalal Karam, Multilevel iterative method applications for unsteady incompressible flows and seismic imaging, 1,500,000 SR equivalent to $400,000 US. Submitted March 31st 2010.
The Achievement Award of the 2007 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing. Las Vegas, Nevada, June 25th 2007.

Current projects:

Wavelet Based Speaker Identification Model by Pitch Detection
Expending the Theory of Nil - Semiclean Rings
Identifying hearing wavelet

Publications: (Last five years )

Books- Associate Editor:

Proceedings of the Int. Conf. on Wireless Networks, USA: ICWN'08 Volume I - ISBN # 1-60132-074-4.
Proceedings of the Int. Conf. on Wireless Networks, USA: ICWN'08 Volume II - ISBN # 1-60132-080-9.
Proceedings of the Int. Conf. on Information and Knowledge Engineering, USA: IKE'08 ISBN # 1-60132-075-2.
Proceedings of the Int. Conf. on Software Engineering Research and Practice, USA: Volume I - ISBN # 1-60132-086-8
Proceedings of the Int. Conf. on Software Engineering Research and Practice, USA: Volume II - ISBN # 1-60132-087-6
Proceedings of the Int. Conf. on Frontiers in Education: Comp. Sc. and Comp. Eng., USA: ISBN # 1-60132-046-9

Other Publications

Radial Basis Functions With Wavelet Packets For Recognizing Arabic Speech, the 9th WSEAS International Conference on CIRCUITS, SYSTEMS, ELECTRONICS, CONTROL & SIGNAL PROCESSING, Athens, Greece December 29-31, 2010. (Accepted)
On the Distribution of Zeros for Daubechies Orthogonal Wavelets and Associated Polynomials, The 15th WSEAS International Conference on applied Mathematics, Athens, Greece, December 29-31, 2010. (Accepted)
On Some Applications of Fuzzy Sets, The 12th WSEAS International Conference on Fuzzy System, University of Brasov, Romania, April 11 – 13, 2011 (With I. AbdelWahed).
On the Roots of Wavelets Related Polynomials, IEEE International Conference on communications and Information Technology, Jordan University Aqaba, March 29-31, 2011. (Accepted)
Locating Zeros of Polynomials Associated With Daubechies Orthogonal Wavelets, WSEAS, Transaction on Mathematics, Submitted October, 20th 2010. (Transactions ID Number: 52-462)
On Commutative and Nil - Semiclean Rings, American Conference on Applied Mathematics, University of Harvard, Cambridge, USA, January 27-29, 2010
A Comprehensive Approach for Speech Related Multimedia Applications, WSEAS, Transaction on Signal Processing, Volume 6 , Issue 1, Pages: 12-21 2010.
Various Speech Processing Techniques for Multimedia Applications, 9th WSEAS Int. Conf. on Signal Processing, Robotics and Automation (ISPRA '10), Cambridge University, UK, February 20-22, 2010.
Extended Results on Commutative and Nil - Semiclean Rings, International Journal of Arts and Science, Submitted November 15th 2010. (With O. Mallah)
Theory of Nil - Semiclean Rings, International Journal of WSET, Vol. 57, pp: 1005 – 1010, 2009. (With O. Mallah and I. AbdelWahed)
A new approach in wavelet based speech compression, Proceedings of the 10th WSEAS international conference on Mathematical methods, computational techniques and intelligent systems, p.228-233, October 26-28, 2008, Corfu, Greece.
End Point Detection for Wavelet Based Speech Compression, International Journal of Biomedical and Medical Sciences, IJBMS, Vol. 11, No. 3, pp: 167 – 170, 2008.
Various Processing Techniques in Speech Recognition and Compression, International Conference on Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, Bangkok, Thailand, pp: 704 – 708, December 14-16, 2007.
Automatic Segmentation and Recognition of Arabic Speech, International Conference on Frontiers in Education: Computer Science and Computer Engineering, Las Vegas, pp: 321 – 325, June 25 - 28, 2007. (et- al)
Analytical Formulation of a new Cochlear Model for Speech Perception. International Journal of Applied Mathematics IJAM, Vol. 20, No. 8, pp: 1027 – 1034, 2007. (With William Phillips and Bill Robertson)
On the Roots of Daubechies Polynomials, International Journal of Applied Mathematics, IJAM, Vol. 20, No. 8, pp: 1069 – 1076, 2007.
The Effect of Different Compression Schemes on Speech Signals, International Journal of Biomedical Sciences, IJBS, Vol. 1, No. 4, pp: 230 – 234, 2006. (With Raed Saad)
Various Methods to Resolve a Generalized Convolution Function. International Journal of Applied Mathematics, IJAM, vol. 19, No 4, pp: 471 – 476, 2006.
A Level Dependent Threshold for Speaker Independent Speech recognition, Proceedings of the IEEE, Canadian Conference on Electrical & Computer Engineering, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, pp: 1190-1193, May 1-4, 2005.
Deriving a New Orthogonal Wavelet from Perfect Reconstruction Filter Bank, International Conference on Machine Learning Models Technologies and Applications, Las Vegas, pp: 173 – 176, June 26-29, 2005.
Reconstruction of Hypermedia Elements via Filter Banks. International Journal of Computational and Numerical Analysis and Applications, IJCNAA, vol. 5, No. 1, pp: 51-57, 2004. (With Marcel Karam)
The linear phase orthogonal low pass and high pass filters. International Journal of Computational and Numerical Analysis and Applications, IJCNAA, Vol. 2, No. 1, pp: 125-130, 2004.
Standards in Speech Technologies and Recognition with Fourier and Wavelet Transforms, International Conference on Machine Learning Models Technologies and Applications, Las Vegas, pp: 177, 183, June 26-29, 2005.
A Global Threshold Wavelet-Based Scheme for Speech Recognition, Third International conference on Computer Science, Software Engineering Information Technology, E-Business and Applications, Cairo, Egypt, Dec. 27-29 2004.
A Biorthogonal Wavelet for the Continuous Wavelet Transform Scale of Speech Recognition. International Multi-Conference in Computer Science & Computer Engineering CISST, Las Vegas, pp: 387-390, June 23-26, 2004.
Deriving a Wavelet Based Scale From The Localized Response of The Human Cochlea. IEEE, 6th Nordic Signal Processing Symposium, Espoo, Finland, pp: 188-191, June 9-11, 2004.
Wavelet Based Modeling for Automatic Recognition of Spoken Words. . Proceedings of the IEEE, 11th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation, Rhodes, Greece, June 17-20 2003.
A Faster Recognition of Single Spoken Words, Proceedings of the IEEE, 11th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation, Rhodes, Greece, June 17-20 2003.
Automatic Recognition of Spoken Words via Wavelets Coding. International Multi-Conference in Computer Science & Computer Engineering, CISST, Las Vegas, pp: 49-52, June 23-26, 2003.
Recognizing Similar Acoustic Sounds Using Wavelet Packets. International Multi-Conference in Computer Science & Computer Engineering, CISST Las Vegas, pp: 53-56, June 23-26, 2003.
New Wavelet Packet Model for Automatic Speech Recognition System. Proceedings of the IEEE, Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, Toronto, pp: 511- 514, May 13 – 16, 2001. (With William Phillips, Bill Robertson, Maen Artimy)
New Low-Rate Wavelet Based Models for Single Word Speech Recognition. Proceedings of the IEEE, Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, Halifax, pp: 331-334, May 2000. (With William Phillips, William Robertson)
Optimal Feature Vectors for Single Spoken Words. Proceedings of the IEEE, Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, Halifax, pp: 327-330, May 2000. (With William Phillips, Bill Robertson)

Teaching:

Alfaisal University: (2009 – Present)

Calculus II
Elementary Linear Algebra
Differential Equations
Introduction to Quantitative Methods (MBA)

Gulf University for Sciences and Technology (GUST, Kuwait, 2006-2009)

Calculus I, II
Linear Algebra
Differential Equations
Basic Calculus
Statistical Analysis (MBA)
Quantitative Methods (MBA)
Intermediate and College Algebra

Lebanese American University (LAU, Byblos, 2006)

Noise in Digital Communications
Wavelets and Filter Banks

American University of Beirut (AUB, Beirut, 2001-2002)

Calculus III
Linear Algebra
Differential Equations

Alfaisal University
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