Resume

Organizations and Professional Activities

• Member IEEE
• Member Sigma Xi
• Member ASEE
• Technical Reviewer for
  • IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II
  • International Journal of Neurocomputing
  • Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems
  • IEEE Mediterranean Symposium on Control and Automation
  • IEEE Symposium on Circuits and Systems
  • American Society for Engineering Education Conference
  • Wiley Encyclopedia of Electrical and Electronics Engineering
  • IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing
• Mentor for the Women in Engineering program

Research Interests

Research Topics under Present Activity

• DSP models of the inner ear from Kemp echos for diagnostics
• Circuits for hair-cell models
• Theory and VLSI realization of ear-type systems
• Lattice filter synthesis
• Functional neural networks and their realizations
• Artificial neural networks for speech recognition and image processing
• Semistate theory for synthesis
• Image steganography

Some Recent Journal Publications

• R. W. Newcomb and L. Sellami, "Multivibrator Circuits," The Wiley Encyclopedia of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, John Wiley and Sons, Inc., Editor: John G. Webster, Vol.14, pp. 62-71, New York, 1999.

• L. Sellami, S. K. Singh, R. W. Newcomb, A. Rasmussen, and M. E. Zaghloul, ``VLSI Floationg Resistors for Neural Type Cell Arrays,'' the International Journal of Circuits, Systems, and Computers, Vol. 8, Nos. 5&6, pp. 559-569, 1999.

• L. Sellami and R. W. Newcomb, ``An Inverse Hollis-Paulos Artificial Neural Network,'' IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, Vol. 9, No. 5, pp. 979- 986, September 1998.

More Publications

Affiliated Laboratories and Joint Research

• Microsystems Lab, UMD

  Cochlea modeling and DSP for ear-type circuits and systems, joint research with Professor Robert W. Newcomb

• UPM - Facultad de Informatica, Spain

  Noninvasive cochlea characterization, joint research with Professors Pedro Gomez, Victoria Rodellar, and Robert W. Newcomb

• Laboratorio de Communicacion Oral - UPM

  Hair-cell models and their VLSI implementations, joint research with Professors Pedro Gomez, Victoria Rodellar, and Robert W. Newcomb

• Institute of Audiology, the Netherlands

  Noninvasive cochleagraphy through the use of Kemp echoes, joint research with Dr. H. P. Wit, Dr. P. Van Dick, and Professor Robert W. Newcomb

• UC Irvine - Machine Intelligence & Neural & Soft Computing Lab

  Functional artificial neural networks and applications, joint research with Professors Rui J. P de Figueiredo and Robert W. Newcomb

• Békésy Laboratory of Neurobiology, U. Hawaii

  Semi-State equations and circuits for SYNETSIM neural driver modules, joint research with Professors D. K. Hartline and Robert W. Newcomb

• VLSI Lab - GWU

  Neural-Type Circuits (NTC) for coding and decoding, joint research with Professors Mona E. Zaghloul and Robert W. Newcomb

• Communications and Signal Processing Laboratory - USNA

  Speech processing and phoneme recognition, joint research with Professor Currie E. Wooten and Mr. Brett St. George

• Naval Research Laboratory , Radar Division , Computer Vision and Image Processing Lab.

  Reaction-Diffusion Equations for Image Segmentation, joint research with Dr. Abraham Schultz and Dr. Victor Chen.

Projects

Courses

Special Links

• Professional Links

• Links to Amazigh (Berber) Culture

• Other Links

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