KHALIL MUSTAFA KHALIL AHMAD YOUSEF

Khalil Mustafa Khalil Ahmad Yousef	Associate Professor
Computer Vision and Digital Image Processing	Computer Engineering
Faculty of Engineering	Department of Computer Engineering
Khalil@hu.edu.jo	http://staff.hu.edu.jo/kyousef
ORCID ID : 207374107
Office No. : E3053	EXT : 4523

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Ph.D.	Purdue University	The United States of America,2013
Master	Jordan University of Science and Technology	Jordan,2007
Bachelor	The Hashemite University	Jordan,2005

- Place Recognition and Mobile Robot Self-Localization:
Developing algorithms to allow an indoor mobile robot to self-localize itself under different conditions in the interior space. 
- Loop Closure Issues in Robot Navigation:
Doing research on how to facilitate easier loop closure detection by solving the drifting and localization problem in SLAM.
-Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM): 
Developing a system to build a 3D model of interior space using hierarchical sensor fusion architecture based on range and images data and with the help of robotics platform.
- Multi-sensor Calibration (Stereo Cameras and Range: Finder Sensor):
Calibrating a robotics platform that includes different sensors: stereo cameras, range finder sensor and robot wheel encoder sensor.
- Uncertainty Modeling:
Modeling the uncertainty parameters associated with robot motion (translational and rotational)

-Khalil M. Ahmad Yousef, Bassam J. Mohd, Yusra Al-Khalaileh, Ahlam Al-Hmeadat, Bushra El-Ziq, “Automatic License Plate Detection and Recognition for Jordanian Vehicles”, Advances in Science, Technology and Engineering Systems Journal, vol. 5, no. 6, pp. 699-709, November 2020. DOI:10.25046/aj050684

- Rami Alazrai, Khalil M. Ahmad Yousef, Mohammad I. Daoud, “Emotion Recognition Based on Decoupling the Spatial Context from the Temporal Dynamics of Facial Expressions“, The 2019 International Symposium on Networks, Computers and Communications (ISNCC), 18-20 June 2019, Istanbul, Turkey. DOI: 10.1109/ISNCC.2019.8909141

- Khalil M. Ahmad Yousef, Bassam J. Mohd, Malak AL-Omari, “Kinect-Based Virtual Try-on System: A Case Study“, 2019 IEEE Jordan International Joint Conference on Electrical Engineering and Information Technology (JEEIT), 9-11 April 2019, Amman, Jordan. DOI: 10.1109/JEEIT.2019.8717498

- Bassam J. Mohd, Khalil M. Ahmad Yousef, Anas AlMajali, Thaier Hayajneh, “Power-Aware Adaptive Encryption“, 2019 IEEE Jordan International Joint Conference on Electrical Engineering and Information Technology (JEEIT), 9-11 April 2019, Amman, Jordan. DOI: 10.1109/JEEIT.2019.8717426

- Anas AlMajali, Khalil M. Ahmad Yousef, Bassam J. Mohd, Waleed Dweik, Salah Abu Ghalyon, Roa'a Hasan, “Semi-Quantitative Security Risk Assessment of Robotic Systems“, Jordanian Journal of Computers and Information Technology, December 2018. DOI: 10.5455/jjcit.71-1535447790

- Rami Alazrai, Faisal Alqasem, Saqr Alaarag, Khalil M. Ahmad Yousef, Mohammad I. Daoud, A Bispectrum-based Approach for Detecting Deception using EEG Signals, 2018 IEEE 20th International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services (IEEE Healthcom 2018), 17-20 September 2018, Ostrava, Czech Republic. DOI: 10.1109/HealthCom.2018.8531183

- Khalil M. Ahmad Yousef, Ali Shatnawi, Mohammad Latayfeh, “Intelligent Traffic Light Scheduling Technique Using Calendar-Based History Information", Journal of Future Generation Computer Systems, August 2018.  
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.future.2018.08.037

- Khalil M. Ahmad Yousef, Anas AlMajali, Salah Abu Ghalyon, Waleed Dweik, Bassam Mohd", Analyzing Cyber-physical Threats on Robotic Platforms, Volume 18(5), May 21, 2018. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/s18051643 

- Khalil M. Ahmad Yousef, Anas AlMajali, Roa’a Hasan, Waleed Dweik, Bassam Mohd", Security Risk Assessment of the PeopleBot Mobile Robot Research Platform", The International Conference on Electrical and Computing Technologies and Applications, 2017 (ICECTA’2017), November 21 - 23, 2017, RAK, UAE.  DOI: 10.1109/ICECTA.2017.8251984

- Khalil M. Ahmad Yousef, Bassam J. Mohd, Khalid Al-Widyan. Thaier Hayajneh", Extrinsic Calibration of Camera and 2D Laser Sensors without Overlap", Sensors, Volume 17(10), October 14, 2017. https://doi.org/10.3390/s17102346

- Amy Tabb, Khalil M. Ahmad Yousef", Solving the robot-world hand-eye(s) calibration problem with iterative methods", Journal of Machine Vision and Applications, May 02, 2017. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00138-017-0841-7

- Bassam Jamil Mohd, Thaier Hayajneh, Khalil M. Ahmad Yousef, Zaid Abu Khalaf, Md Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan, " Hardware Design and Modeling of Lightweight Block Ciphers For Secure Communications", Journal of Future Generation Computer Systems, April 2017. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.future.2017.03.025

- Bassam Jamil Mohd, Thaier Hayajneh, Zaid Abu Khalaf, Khalil M. Ahmad Yousef, " Modeling and optimization of the lightweight HIGHT block cipher design with FPGA implementation", Journal of Security and Communication Networks, March 2016. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/sec.1479

- Amy Tabb, Khalil M. Ahmad Yousef, " Parameterizations for Reducing Camera Reprojection Error for Robot-World Hand-Eye Calibration", The 2015 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2015), Hamburg, Germany, September 28 - October 02, 2015. 
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/IROS.2015.7353795

- Khalil M. Ahmad Yousef, M Al-Tabanjah, E Hudaib, M Ikrai, " SIFT Based Automatic Number Plate Recognition", The 6th International Conference on Information and Communication Systems  (ICICS 2015), Amman, Jordan, 7-9 April 2015. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/IACS.2015.7103214

- Khalil M. Ahmad Yousef, Johnny Park, Avinash C. Kak," Place Recognition and Self-Localization in Interior Hallways by Indoor Mobile Robots: A Signature-Based Cascaded Filtering Framework ", The 2014 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2014), Chicago, Illinois, USA, September 14–18, 2014. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/IROS.2014.6943271

- Khalil M. Ahmad Yousef, Johnny Park, Avinash C. Kak, “An Approach-Path Independent Framework for Place Recognition and Mobile Robot Localization in Interior Hallways”, 2013 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Karlsruhe, May 6-10, 2013. 
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICRA.2013.6630944

- Hyukseong Kwon, Khalil M. Ahmad Yousef, and Avinash C. Kak, “Building 3D Visual Maps of Interior Space with a New Hierarchical Sensor-Fusion Architecture”, Journal of Robotics and Autonomous Systems, , Volume 61, Issue 8, Pages 749-767, August 2013. 
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.robot.2013.04.016

- Khalil M. Ahmad Yousef, Jamal N. Al-Karaki and Ali M. Shatnawi, “Intelligent Traffic Light Flow Control System Using Wireless Sensors Networks”, Journal of Information Science and Engineering, Vol. 26 No. 3, pp. 753-768 (May 2010).

- Khalil M. Yousef & Jamal N. Al-Karaki, "A Practical Study on Building a Wireless Sensor Network”, International Conference on data and computer applications DCCA2007, Amman, Jordan, 2007

- Khalil M. Yousef & Jamal N. Al-Karaki, “The Hashemite University Students Directions Toward E-Learning”, The 8th International Conference on Arab students Innovation Field, Sana’a, Yemen, 2005

- Co-Advisor for a Master thesis: Mohammad Latayfeh, An Intelligent Traffic Light Scheduling Technique Using Calender-Based History Information, Jordan University of Science and Technology,  MSc Thesis, 2016 – 2018. 

- External examiner for a Master thesis: Enas Abu Lebdeh, Target Localization In Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM), Jordan University of Science and Technology, MSc Thesis, Jan 2016.

-	Associate Professor at the Computer Engineering department - The Hashemite University - Jordan, May 2019 – Present.  
-	Visiting Assistant Professor at the Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) department – American University of Sharjah (AUS), Sharjah, UAE. I taught the following courses Programming I - 20731 - CMP 120, Digital Systems- 20769 - COE 221, Microcontrollers: Programming and Interfacing - 20773 - COE 241, Design-Analysis of Algorithms - 20757 - CMP 340, Jan 2020 – June 2020.
-	Assistant Professor at the Computer Engineering department, The Hashemite University - Jordan.  I have been teaching the following courses (Undergraduate level): Algorithms, Digital Logic, Assembly Language & Microprocessor Systems, Computer Design and Organization, Fundamentals of Computer Architecture, Computer Vision, Digital Image Processing, Computer Security, Ethics & Communication Skills, Computer Maintenance Lab, and Microprocessors Lab, May 2019 – May 2019.
-	Instructor for MATLAB Course (Undergraduate level) - Minority Engineering Program at Purdue University - USA, Summer 2013.
?	Lab Instructor for ECE 308 Systems Simulation and Control lab (Undergraduate level) at Purdue University - USA, Spring 2011, 2012, 2013, Fall 2010, 2011, 2012. 
-	Teacher Assistant for the course ECE 404 Introduction to Computer Security (undergraduate level) at Purdue University - USA, Spring 2010.
-	Teacher Assistant for the course ECE 608 Computational Models and Methods (graduate level) at Purdue University - USA, Fall 2008. 
?	Worked as senior systems engineer at General Computer and Electronics Co. (One of the leading IT companies in Jordan) – Jordan, Aug 2005- Dec 2007.
-	Trainee at General Computer and Electronics Co. (GCE) - Jordan in the Maintenance and Network Departments, July 2004 -  Sep 2004.

- Algorithms, Digital Logic, Assembly Language & Microprocessor Systems, Computer Design and Organization, Fundamentals of Computer Architecture, Computer Vision, Digital Image Processing, Computer Security, Ethics & Communication Skills, Computer Maintenance Lab, and Microprocessors Lab - Undergraduate Level courses - at the Hashemite University
- CPE 110408300 Algorithms (Undergraduate Level) at the Hashemite University.
-CPE 110408343 Fundamentals of Computer Architecture (Undergraduate Level) at the Hashemite University.
- ECE 608 Computational Models and Methods (graduate level) at Purdue University 
- ECE 404 Introduction to Computer Security (undergraduate level) at Purdue University
- ECE 308 Systems Simulation and Control lab (Undergraduate level) at Purdue University. 
- MATLAB Course (Undergraduate level) - Minority Engineering Program at Purdue University.

-	Associate Professor at the Computer Engineering department - The Hashemite University - Jordan, May 2019 – Present.  
-	Visiting Assistant Professor at the Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) department – American University of Sharjah (AUS), Sharjah, UAE. I taught the following courses Programming I - 20731 - CMP 120, Digital Systems- 20769 - COE 221, Microcontrollers: Programming and Interfacing - 20773 - COE 241, Design-Analysis of Algorithms - 20757 - CMP 340, Jan 2020 – June 2020.
-	Assistant Professor at the Computer Engineering department, The Hashemite University - Jordan.  I have been teaching the following courses (Undergraduate level): Algorithms, Digital Logic, Assembly Language & Microprocessor Systems, Computer Design and Organization, Fundamentals of Computer Architecture, Computer Vision, Digital Image Processing, Computer Security, Ethics & Communication Skills, Computer Maintenance Lab, and Microprocessors Lab, May 2019 – May 2019.
-	Instructor for MATLAB Course (Undergraduate level) - Minority Engineering Program at Purdue University - USA, Summer 2013.
?	Lab Instructor for ECE 308 Systems Simulation and Control lab (Undergraduate level) at Purdue University - USA, Spring 2011, 2012, 2013, Fall 2010, 2011, 2012. 
-	Teacher Assistant for the course ECE 404 Introduction to Computer Security (undergraduate level) at Purdue University - USA, Spring 2010.
-	Teacher Assistant for the course ECE 608 Computational Models and Methods (graduate level) at Purdue University - USA, Fall 2008.

- Professional Engineer (JPE) in Computer Engineering, Jordan Higher Council for Professional Qualifications and Accreditation (JCPQA), Jordan Engineers Association (JEA), Amman, Jordan. Membership No. 418634. Dated 27/3/2016
- IEEE Senior Member, December 2016. Membership No. 41534178.
- Arab Robotics Association, Member, 9/3/2019. Membership No. 201920771.
-	Google Scholar Profile:
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=MV7RZ8gAAAAJ&hl=en 
-	ORCID Profile: ORCID 0000-0002-0737-4107
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0737-4107
-	Research Gate Profile:
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Khalil_Ahmad_Yousef
-	arXiv Profile:
http://arxiv.org/a/ahmadyousef_k_1
-	Web of Science ResearcherID: AAZ-8421-2020
https://publons.com/researcher/AAZ-8421-2020/

-     Reviewer at several prestigious conferences and journals. Examples: Robotica,  Pattern Recognition, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 	IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems,  IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (ICRA),  IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Computer Vision and Image Understanding Programming .
 

-	Organizing committee member and technical session chair at the 5th IEEE Middle East and Africa Conference on Biomedical Engineering MECBME, Amman-Jordan, 27-29 October 2020.

-	Keynote Speaker, “Robotic Platforms: Applications and Security Risk Assessment”, at the 2019 Saudi Robotics Conference & Expo – Jubail Industrial City, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, 25-27 March 2019. 

-	External Examiner for a Master thesis: Rasha Ali Rasheed Alhmoud, EEG Signal Analysis for Human Emotion Recognition, German Jordanian University, MSc Thesis. Main Advisor: Dr. Rami Alazrai.

-	Main organizer of the IEEE Grand Tech 2018 Event, Amman, Jordan (21/4/2018).

-	Judge at the FIRST LEGO League (FLL 2017) HYDRO DYNAMICS, Jubilee Center for Excellence in Education, Amman, Jordan. (10-11/3/2018)

-	Judge at the 10th National Technology Parade, German Jordanian University, Amman, Jordan. (4/5/2017)

-	Technical session chair, The International Conference on Information and Communication Systems (ICICS 2017), Irbid, Jordan (4/4/2017).

-	Program committee (PC) member of Mobile Networks, Protocols and Applications, The 8th International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies (ANT 2017), May 16-19, 2017, Madeira, Portugal

-	Co-Advisor for a Master thesis: Mohammad Latayfeh, An Intelligent Traffic Light Scheduling Technique Using Calender-Based History Information, Jordan University of Science and Technology,  MSc Thesis. 

-	External examiner for a Master thesis: Enas Abu Lebdeh, Target Localization In Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM), Jordan University of Science and Technology, MSc Thesis, Jan 2016. 

-	Program committee (PC) member of Mobile Networks, Protocols and Applications, The 7th International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies (ANT 2016), May 23-26, 2016, Madrid, Spain

-	Supervised many under-graduation projects.

-	Proctor for IEEEXtreme 24-Hour Programming Competition 9, 10, 11 & 12.

-	Organizer at 2016 IEEE Grand Tech Mega Event, ZINC.

-	Founder and organizer at 2015 IEEE Grand Tech Mega Event, ZINC.

-	Counselor of the IEEE Computer Chapter at The Hashemite University

-	Organizer at the “Annual Scientific Week of the Engineering Faculty” at the Hashemite University -Jordan

-	Organizer at “Information & Communication Technology Job Fair”, Amman-Jordan

-  Advisor of IEEE Branch at The Hashemite University

-  Chairman of IEEE Branch at The Hashemite University

KHALIL MUSTAFA KHALIL AHMAD YOUSEF

KHALIL MUSTAFA KHALIL AHMAD YOUSEF

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