Dr. Ibrahim Kamel got Ph.D. degree in computer science from University of Maryland, College Park, USA in 1994, M.Sc. in Environmental studies in 1988 and B.Sc. in computer science from university of Alexandria, Egypt in 1984. Dr. Kamel was a Lead scientist and a Group leader at Panasonic Information and Networking Technologies laboratories (PINTL), Princeton, NJ, USA managing several research groups in the area of databases and computer networking. Dr. Kamel taught at Polytechnic University in Brooklyn, NY, USA, Rutgers University in New Jersey, USA, and Zayed University, Dubai, UAE. His research interest includes multimedia systems, spatial and temporal indexing, smart appliances, and Internet security.
Dr. Kamel has twenty two patents filed in USA, Europe and Japan in the area of Multimedia databases and smart home appliances. He published more than seventy papers in international conferences and journals. Dr. Kamel chaired several international conferences and workshops like the International Workshop on Multimedia Information Retrieval 2000 and the International workshop on Mining Spatial and Temporal Data 2001. Dr. Kamel is serving as an editor for the Journal of Computers and Applications, the International Journal of Virtual Technology and Multimedia (IJVTM) and the International Journal of Smart Home (IJSH). He served in the Industrial Advisory committee for the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Miami and the Center for Advanced Information Processing (CAIP), Rutgers University. He served as a reviewer and panelist for National Science Foundation, USA. He gave several invited talks and seminars in several universities in USA and Canada, e.g., University of California, San Diego; Polytechnic University, New York; The University of Texas at Arlington, Texas. He also participated in many technical program committees of international conferences in databases and multimedia systems. Dr. Kamel is a senior member of IEEE, the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers in USA.
