Name: Essam Rashed, Ph.D. Department: Mathematics Faculty: Science Research Field: Medical Imaging Systems and Image Processing Quote:“Research is what I’m doing when I don’t know what I’m doing.” -Wernher von Braun
Biography: Dr. Rashed is Associate Professor (Computer Science) with the Dept. of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, Suez Canal Univ., Egypt. He received Ph.D. (Eng.) from Univ. of Tsukuba, Japan in 2010. He is a winner of the Egyptian National Scholarship (2006), JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship (2010), JAMIT best presentation award (2008 & 2012), and Chairman award, Dept. of Computer Science, Univ. of Tsukuba (2010). Dr. Rashed is director and founder of Image Science Lab., Suez Canal University and PI of several research projects funded from STDF (Egypt), PMU (Egypt), JSPS (Japan) and other funding agencies. Dr. Rashed is a founding member of Young Researchers Committee (Suez Canal University) and currently the General Coordinator Elect (2016-2017).