Dr. Ibrahim Kamel received Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from University of Maryland, College Park, USA in 1994, and B.Sc. in Computer Engineering from University of Alexandria, Egypt in 1984. Currently, Dr. Kamel is an Associate Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Sharjah, UAE. He also holds an adjunct professor position at Concordia University, Canada.
Before that, Dr. Kamel was a Lead Scientist at Panasonic Research Laboratory in Princeton, NJ, USA where he was managing several projects, like multimedia retrieval, smart home, and voice over IP. His research interests include database indexing, information security, multimedia information retrieval, and smart appliances. Dr. Kamel taught also at Polytechnic University in Brooklyn, Rutgers University in New Jersey, USA, and Zayed University, Dubai, UAE.
Dr. Kamel has 21 US patents in information storage and retrieval. He published more than 80 papers in international journals and conferences. He co-chaired several international conferences and workshops in information retrieval and databases. Dr. Kamel is serving as an associate editor for several international journals. He also participated in many technical program committees. He served in several National Science Foundation (NSF) review and panel committees. Dr. Kamel is a Senior Member of the IEEE. He served in the Industrial advisory committee for the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Miami, USA and the Center for Advanced Information Processing (CAIP), Rutgers University, USA.
