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Mohammed Sayed - Ph.D. Candidate

Research Interests:

• Embedded memories.
• System-On-Chip.
• Digital video processing.
• Digital VLSI design.

Education:

• Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, University of Calgary, Canada (September 2003 - present)
• M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, University of Calgary, Canada August 2003
• Diploma in VLSI design, Information Technology Institute, Egypt September 1998
• B.Sc. in Electronics & Communication Engineering, Zagazig University, Egypt May 1997

Scholarships and Awards:

• Dean’s Special Doctoral Scholarship (September 2005 – April 2006).
• Alberta Informatics Circle of Research Excellence (iCORE) scholarship (September 2003 - August 2005).
• Strategic Microelectronics Council (SMC) Industrial Collaboration Award for the project entitled "Motion Estimation Architecture for MPEG-4 Part 9: Reference Hardware Description" TEXPO, June 18, 2003.
• Micronet Annual Workshop Best Paper Award for the paper entitled "An Embedded Memory Architecture for the next Generation of IP-based Multimedia Platforms with Mobile Applications" April, 2002.
• The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Calgary assistantship (September 2001 - Now).
• The Cabinet/Information and Decision Support Center (IDSC) scholarship to join the VLSI design diploma in the Information Technology Institute (ITI) (October 1997 - September 1998).
• Zagazig University/Faculty of Engineering distinction award because of my rank in my class (ranked 3rd) June, 1997.

Selected Publications:

• Mohammed Sayed and Wael Badawy, "An Affine Based Algorithm and SIMD Architecture for Video Compression with Low Bit-rate Applications," accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology.
• Mohammed Sayed and Wael Badawy, "A Computational Memory Architecture for MPEG-4 Applications with Mobile Devices," accepted for publication in the Journal of VLSI Signal Processing Systems for Signal, Image and Video Technology - Special Issue on Digital and Computational video.
• Mohammed Sayed and Wael Badawy, "A Computational RAM (C-RAM) Architecture for Real-Time Mesh-Based Video Motion Tracking: Part I Motion Estimation," Journal of Circuits, Systems and Computers JCSC, Vol. 13, No. 6, December 2004, pp. 1203-1215.
• Mohammed Sayed and Wael Badawy, "A Computational RAM (C-RAM) Architecture for Real-Time Mesh-Based Video Motion Tracking: Part II Motion Compensation," Journal of Circuits, Systems and Computers JCSC, Vol. 13, No. 6, December 2004, pp. 1217-1231.
• Mohammed Sayed and Wael Badawy, "A Novel Low Power Embedded Memory Architecture for MPEG-4 Applications with Mobile Devices," IEEE Canadian Journal on Electrical and Computer Engineering, Vol. 27, No. 4, October 2002, pp. 171-175.
• Ihab Amer, Choudhury A. Rahman, Tamer Mohamed, Mohammed Sayed, and Wael Badawy, "A Hardware-Accelerated Framework with IP-Blocks for Application in MPEG-4," in Proc. The 5th IEEE International Workshop on System-on-Chip for Real-Time Applications, Banff, Alberta, Canada, July 20-24, 2005.
• Mohammed Sayed and Wael Badawy, "A Novel Memory Architecture for Real-Time Mesh-based Video Motion Compensation," in Proc. The 4th IEEE International Workshop on System-on-Chip for Real-Time Applications, Banff, Alberta, Canada, July 19-21, 2004.
• Mohammed Sayed and Wael Badawy, "A Novel Embedded Memory Architecture For Real- Time Mesh-Based Motion Estimation," in Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems ISCAS, vol. 2, Vancouver, Canada, May 23-26, 2004, pp. II-237 - II-240.
• Mohammed Sayed and Wael Badawy, "A Novel Motion Estimation Method For Mesh- Based Video Motion Tracking," in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing ICASSP, vol. 3, Montreal, Canada, May 17-21, 2004, pp. III-337 - III-340.