Newcastle University

School of Engineering

Prof. Said Boussakta

National/International Involvements

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· Appointed as a Visiting Professor, Communications Centre, Southwest Jiaotong University, China, the title of Visiting Professor is an honour awarded to outstanding international scholars.

· Chair of Signal Processing for Communications Symposium, IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC06), 11-15 June 2006, Istanbul, Turkey.

· Chair of Signal Processing for Communications Symposium, IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC07), 2007, Glasgow, UK.

· Elected to the EPSRC Peer Review Colleges for the period Jan.2006-2009.

· Invited to act as part of the EPSRC Communications Prioritisation Panel ( 24 February 2006)

· Fellow of the Institution of Electrical Engineers (FIET).

· Senior Member of the Institute of Electronic and Electrical Engineers (SMIEEE).

· Member of the IEEE ComSoc Signal Processing and Communications Electronics Technical

Committee.

· Invitation to act as Guest Associate Editor, International Journal of High Performance Computing and Networking.

· Invitation to give a one day tutorial at the 11th International CSICC2006 Conference.

· Invitation to act as Chair of computer vision, image processing and graphics at the 11 International CSI Computer Conference, CSICC2006, 24-26 January 2006.

· Invitation to be a Member of the IASTED Technical Committee on Signal Processing, 2003-2008.

· Invited chapter in Advances in Imaging and Electron Physics, Academic Press, Volume 111, 1999.

· Referee of EPSRC Grants.

· Member of the Organising and Programme Committee of the International Symposium on Broadband Communications (ISBC’04), Harrogate, UK, December 2004.

· Invitation to act as a Member of the Technical Programme Committees (TPCs) of the following International Conferences:

- TPC Member of the IEEE Globecom, 2004 and 2005

- TPC Member of the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Paris, France, 2004, South Korea, 2005, Turkey, 2006, Glasgow, 2007.

- TPC Member of the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006.

- Member of the Technical Programme Committee, PDCAT, Chengdu, China, 2003

- Member of the Technical Committee of the SHARC International Conference, 2000, Boston, USA.

· Invitation to chair sessions at major International Conferences: These include:

- IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Paris, France, 2004, and Seoul, South Korea, 2005.

- IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Spain, 2003.

- IEEE International Conference on Circuits and Systems (ICECS), Lebanon, 2000 and UAE, 2004.

· Regular referee of high quality International/National Journal research papers for more than 16 years. These include:

- IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing (USA), IEEE Transactions on Image Processing(USA)

- IEEE Signal Processing Letters, USA.; Eusipco Signal Processing; Europe.

- IEE Proceedings Vis-Image and Signal Processing, UK; IEEE Transaction on Circuits and Systems Part II, USA.

- IEE Proceedings on Communications, UK; IEE Proceedings on Radar, UK, IEE Electronic Letters, UK;

- IEEE Transactions on Communications, USA. ; IEICE, Japan.