EDUCATION:

PhD. Electronics University of Wales Cardiff, Great Britain, 1998

BSC. Electronic Communications and Electrophysics
Alexandria University, Egypt, 1992.

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

Analog and Digital Circuits Design, Artificial Intelligence, Evolutionary Algorithms.

PhD THESIS TITLE : "Evolutionary Methods for Designing Electronic Circuits and Systems"

My research focuses on developing new Artificial Intelligence techniques as optimization tools for analogue and mixed analogue/digital circuits design. The techniques used deal with multi level and multi constraints optimization problems. A technique involving Genetic Algorithms in the process of a low cost feasible region approximation was also developed to maximize manufacturing yield and increase robustness of the designs. Genetic Algorithms are search algorithms which depend on the evolutionary improvement in populations based on selection and reproduction based on fitness that is found in nature.

ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS:

Journal Publications

Khalifa, Y.M.A., Khan, B., Begovic, J., Wisdom, A., Wheeler. A.M.: “Evolutionary Music Composer integrating Formal Grammar”, International Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Vol. 7, Issue 1, June 2007, pp 33-39.

Khalifa, Y.M.A., Foster, R.: “A Two-Stage Evolutionary Autonomous Music Composer”, Lecture Notes on Computer Science, Vol. 1, No. 3907, 2006, pp 717-721.

Khalifa, Y.M.A, Okoene, E., and Al-Mourad, M.B.: “Autonomous Intelligent Agent-Based Tracking Systems, Recent Developments”, International Journal of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering, Vol. 7, Issue 1, May 2007, pp 21-31.

Fan. Y, and Khalifa, Y.M.A: "Neural Network Hardware Implementation:, International Journal of Computational Intelligence: Theory and Practice, Vol. 2, No. 1, June 2007, pp 67-87.

Khalifa, Y.M.A.: “Multi-Objective Optimization Tool for a Free Structire Analog Circuits Design Using Genetic Algorithms and Incorporating Parasitics”, International Journal Programmable Devices, Circuits and Systems, Vol. 7, Issue 1, May 2007, pp 15-22.

Mohamed, R. and Al-Mourad B. and Agami Khalifa, Y. M.: “Super-peer P2P Systems Utilizing Mediated Knowledge-based and User Defined Views”, International Journal of Internet Research, Vol. 1., No. 1, July 2007, pp 1-8.

Shahin, A., Salem, O. and Khalifa, Y.M.A.: “An Evolutionary Approach for the Reduction of Construction Waste”, Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering. (To appear in the December 2007 issue)

Khalifa, Y. and Horrocks, D.H.: "Analogue Circuits Design Automation tool using Genetic Algorithms", MIIU Journal of Engineering, Vol. 1, No. 1, 2000, pp 22-30.

Conference Publications

Khalifa, Y.M.A., Khan, B., Begovic, J., Wisdom, A., Wheeler. A.M.: “Evolutionary Music Composer integrating Formal Grammar”, Proceedings of late breaking papers, Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference GECCO’07, London, July 2007.
Khalifa, Y., Khan, B., Begovic, J., Wisdom, A., Wheeler. A.M.: “Evolutionary Music Composer Integrating Formal Grammar Rules”, Poster presentation awarded Best Paper Award at the 15^th Annual Statewide C-STEP Conference held in Bolton Landing, New York, April 2007.
Khalifa, Y.M.A., Foster, R.: “A Two-Stage Evolutionary Autonomous Music Composer”, presented at the Fourth European Workshop of Evolutionary Computation, EvoMUSART 2006, Budapest, April 2006.
Khalifa, Y., Shi, H., Abreu, G., Bonny, S., and Ziender, J.: “Autonomous Evolutionary Music Composer”, demonstration session at the EvoMUSART workshop 2005, Lausanne, March 2005.
Khalifa, Y., Shi, H. and Aabreu, G.: “Evolutionary Music Composer”, Proceedings of Late Breaking Papers at the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference GECCO’04, Seattle, June 2004.
Khalifa, Y., Costa, M. and Ziedner, J. : “Evolutionary Music Composer”, Proceedings of Late Breaking Papers at the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference GECCO’02, Chicago, July 2003.
Khalifa, Y., Costa, M., Ziedner, J., Ransom, R, Hirani, M, and Albani, S.: “Evolutionary Music Composer”, Poster presentation awarded Best Paper Award at the 11^th Annual Statewide C-STEP Conference held in Bolton Landing, New York, April 2003.

Khalifa, Y.M.A., Khan, B., Taha, F.: “Evolutionary Music Composer integrating Formal Grammar”, Proceedings of late breaking papers, Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference GECCO’07, London, July 2007.

Khalifa, Y. and Okoene, E.: "A Comparison between Centerlized and Distributed agent-based Evolutionary Target Tracking System", Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Signals, Circuits and Systems, December 2006.

Khalifa, Y. and Okoene, E.: "A Centerlized Evolutionary Target Tracking System", Proceedings of the American Association of Engineering Education ASEE, Boston, MA, March 17 - 18, 2006.
Khalifa, Y. and Fan, Y. J.: "Evolutionary Neural Network Chips: A Review", Proceedings of the 2005 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Washington, DC, June 2005.

Khalifa, Y. and Okoene, E.: "A Distributed Agent-Based Surveillance System", Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Signals, Circuits and Systems, Iasi, Romania, July 2005.

Khalifa, Y. and Okoene, E.: "Evolutionary Autonomous Agent-Based Target Tracking System", Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Signals, Circuits and Systems, Iasi, Romania, July 2005.

Okoene, E. and Khalifa, Y.:”An Autonomous Agent-Based Surveillance System“, Proceedings of Late Breaking Papers at the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference GECCO’04, Seattle, June 2004.

Mohamed, R. and Al-Mourad B. and Khalifa, Y.: "Towards Constructing Multiple Data Views in Peer Data Integration Systems", Proceedings of the PhD Forum in British National Conference on Database, July 17, 2006, Belfast, Northern Ireland.

Mohamed, R. and Al-Mourad B. and Khalifa, Y.: "A Vision to Construct Multiple Data Views in Peer Data", Information Systems Technology and its Applications, 5th International Conference ISTA'2006, May 30-31, 2006, Klagenfurt, Austria. Also published as an extended abstract at the Notes on Informatics, Vol. 84 GI 2006, ISBN 3-88579-178-1.
Khalifa, Y., Salem, O. and Shahin, A.: "Cutting Stock Waste Reduction Using Genetic Algorithms”, ACM Proceedings of the Genetics and Evolutionary Computational Conference GECCO 2006, July 8th 2006. ISBN 1-59593-186-4.

Khalifa, Y. and Al-Murad: "Evolutionary Music Composer", ACM Proceedings of the Genetics and Evolutionary Computational Conference GECCO 2006, Seattle, July 8th 2006. ISBN 1-59593-186-4.

Mohamed, R. and Al-Mourad B. and Khalifa, Y.: “Towards Multiple Views in Peer Data Management Systems”, The Fourth International Conference on Computer Application, January, 2006.

Khalifa, Y.: “Isomorphism elimination to Enhanced Design Centering of Analog Circuits Using GA and the Regionalization Method”, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems ICECS’2003, UAE, December 2003.

Shahin, A., Salem, O. and Khalifa, Y.: “An Evolutionary Approach for the

Khalifa, Y. and Fan, Y. J.: "Evolutionary Neural Network Chips: A Review", Proceedings of the 2005 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Washington, DC, June 2005.

Khalifa, Y.: “Analog Circuits Design Centering Using a Hybrid GA Technique”, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems ICECS’2003, Dubrovnik, September, December 2002.

Khalifa, Y.: "Hybrid GA for Design Centering in Analog Circuits Design”, Proceedings of Late Breaking Papers at the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference GECCO’00, San Francisco, July 2001.

Khalifa, Y.: "Design Centering for Analog Components’ Values Using Parallel Genetic Algorithms”, The IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems ICECS’2000, Beirut, December 2000.

Khalifa, Y. and Horrocks, D.H.: "Isomorphism Elimination for the Enhancement of Genetically Generated Analog Circuits", Proc. of The IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems ISCAS’99, Orlando, May 1999.

Horrocks, D.H. and Khalifa, Y.: "Rapid Feasible Region Estimation for Enhanced Performance of Genetically Derived Circuit Design Technique", Proceedings of The Fourth IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems, Cairo, Dec. 1997.

Horrocks, D.H. and Khalifa, Y.: "Evolutionary Design of Analogue Electronic Circuits; Current Status", IEE Colloquium on Analogue Signal Processing, Oxford, UK, Nov. 1996, pp 7/1-7/8.

Horrocks, D.H. and Khalifa, Y.: "Genetic Algorithm Design of Electronic Analogue Circuits Including Parasitic Effects", Proc. First On-line Workshop on Soft Computing (WSC1), Nagoya University, Japan, Aug. 1996, pp 71-78.
Horrocks, D.H. and Khalifa, Y.: "Genetically Evolved FDNR and Leap-Frog Filters using Preferred Components Values", Proc. European Conference on Circuit Theory and Design, Istanbul, Turkey, Aug. 1995, pp 359-362.
Horrocks, D.H. and Khalifa, Y.: "Genetically Derived Filters Circuits using Preferred Value Components", Proc. IEE Colloquium on Analogue Signal Processing, Oxford, UK, Oct. 1994, pp 4/1-4/5.

Journal and Conference Refereeings

Technical Committee Chair, International Conference on Systems, Computing Sciences and Software Engineering, USA, 2007.
Editor-in-chief International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering, to start publishing in 2008 by Serial Publishers.
Associate Editor of the International Journal on Systems, Computing Sciences and Software Engineering to start publishing in 2008.
Technical Committee Chair, International Conference on Systems, Computing Sciences and Software Engineering, USA, 2006.
Technical Committee Member, International Conference on Control, Modeling and Diagnostics, Algeria, 2006.
Technical Journals/conferences papers reviewer

IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation
Journal of Information Sciences.
Journal of Computers & Electrical Engineering.
2007 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks
August 12-17, 2007, Orlando, Florida, USA
International Conference on Computer Engineering & Systems (ICCES'07), Egypt, 2007.
IEEE 2006 International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration, Hawaii, USA, 2006.
International Conference on Computer Engineering & Systems (ICCES'06), Egypt, 2006.
American Association of Engineering education ASEE 2006, MA, USA 2006.
IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuit and, Systems. Tunisia, 2005.
Enstien Expo, City College, New York, USA, 2005.
IEEE Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference MELECON 2004. Croatia, 2004.
International Conference on Information and Computer Science. Saudi Arabia, 2004.
IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuit and, Systems. United Arab Emirates, 2003.
11^th, 12^th, and 13^th Annual Statewide C-STEP Conference held in Bolton Landing, New York, 2003, 2004, and 2005.
IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuit and, Systems. Dubrovnik, Croatia, 2002.
2001 North Midwest Section Annual Conference, American Society for Engineering Education. Grand Forks, North Dakota, 2001.
IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuit and, Systems. Malta, 2001.
Sixth International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature PPSN VI. Paris, France, 2000.
Artificial Neural Networks In Engineering ANNIE’99: Smart Engineering System Design; Neural Networks, Fuzzy Logic, Evolutionary Programming, Complex Systems and Data Mining. Missouri, USA, 1999.

Technical Books reviewer

Stallings, W.: Computer Organization and Architecture, Prentice-Hall, 2002.
Hamacher V., Vranesic Z. and Zaky S.: Computer Organization, McGraw-Hill, 2001.
Ball S.R.: Embedded Microprocessor Systems, Real World Design, Newnes, Boston, 2000.