Iyad Hatem

Ph.D. in Biological Engineering

(Image Analysis and Pattern Classification )

Department of Mechatronics  University of Tishreen  Latakia, Syria

http://iyadhatem.com  iyad.hatem@gmail.com

Education University of Missouri - USA 1996-2003

Columbia, Missouri
Ph.D. in Biological Engineering 2003
Major: Pattern classification and image analysis
M.S. in Biological Engineering 1998
Major: Tissue image analysis

Honors and Fulbright Scholarship (United States Information Agency) 1996 - 1998
Scholarships Alpha Epsilon Honors Society 1999 - present
Vice-President 1997 – 1998
 Graduate Superior Award ( University of Missouri) 2001

Publications
And Conferences
Lectures  Hatem, I. and J. Tan, 2010. "Image Analysis", Encyclopedia of Agricultural ,
Food and Biological Engineering, 2Ed. Marcel Dekker, Inc., New York. 19
October 2010: 847- 853
 Hatem, I. and J. Tan,2002. Determination of Animal Skeletal Maturity by
Image Processing. Journal of Meat Science. Vol.65( 3), November 2003. pp.
999-1004(6).
 Hatem, I. and J. Tan, 2003. "Image Analysis", Encyclopedia of Agricultural ,
Food and Biological Engineering. Marcel Dekker, Inc., New York. August
2003: 517 – 523.
 Hatem, I. and J. Tan, 2003. Cartilage Segmentation in Vertebra Images.
Transaction of the ASAE. Vol. 46(5), 2003. pp. 1429–1434.
 Liu, X., J. Tan, B. Smith, and I. Hatem, 2003. Image Processing of Perl's
Prussian Blue Stained Tissue for Pathological Evaluation. Toxicology
Mechanisms and Methods. Vol. 13( 3), Jul-Sept 2003. pp.213 – 220. Taylor &
Francis.
 Kupongsak, S., J. Tan, I. Hatem, W. Lu, B. Gutherie, M. Tanoff, 2003.
Set Point Determination from Sensory Data for Food Process Control.
Journal of Food Process Engineering. Vol.27( 2), June 2004. Food and
Nutrition Press, Inc., CT.

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  Liu, X., J. Tan, B. Smith, and I. Hatem, 2004. Image Processing of
Hematoxylin and Eosin-Stained Tissues for Pathological Evaluation.
Toxicology Mechanisms and Methods. Vol. 14( 5), 2004. pp.301 – 307. Taylor &
Francis.
 Hatem, I. and S. Astour,2005. Science and Technology for Human
Development and the Role of Arabic Woman. A paper submitted and lectured
at the Conference of Arabic Woman and Science and Technology. Cairo, Egypt,
2005.
 Hatem, I. R. Ghanem, and S. Zakzak. National Machineries and ICT in
Syria. The workshop on “Strengthening the Capacity of National Machineries through
the Effective Use of ICTs”, Beirut,Lebanon 2005.

Master Graduates  Amena Rustom

With Theses  Nadeem Akkad
 Munira
 Ahmad Saqr
 Hiba Hliwah


Memberships Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES)

American Society of Agricultural & Biological Engineers (ASAE)
Syrian Computer Society (SCS)
Secretary of Administrative Committee , Latakia branch

Experience Reviewer 2004 - present

Journal of Sensing and Instrumentation for Food Quality and Safety
Springer New York
Responsibilities: Reviewing papers with subjects related to image analysis
and pattern classification.

Instructor & Research Advisor 2004-present

Department of Mechatronics, University of Tishreen, Lattakia, Syria
Responsibilities: Advising image processing projects and teaching
programming courses.

Instructor 2005-present
Computer Engineering Department, Arab Academy For Science and
Technology, Lattakia, Syria

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 Responsibilities: teaching computer science courses.

Instructor 2004-2008
Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Aleppo, Aleppo,
Syria
Responsibilities: teaching programming courses.

ICT Expert 2004–2006

Syrian Commission for Family Affairs

Research Associate 2001-2004

Machine Vision Laboratory, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri
Responsibilities: Developing image processing algorithms and classification
techniques and performing statistical data analysis.

Research Assistant 1998-2001

Machine Vision Laboratory, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri
Responsibilities: Setting up a near-infrared imaging system and designed
software to communicate with the near-infrared filter.

Teaching Assistant 1993-1996

Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Aleppo, Syria
Responsibilities: Teaching courses in Statics, Strength of Materials, Machine
Design, and Geometrical Drawing.

Design Engineer 1989-1992

Administration of Technical Services, Lattakia, Syria
Responsibilities: Designing pumping systems and heating and air
conditioning systems.

Computer Skills Proficient in DOS, Windows, UNIX systems and various

softwares, including:
Image processing : MATLAB, Aphelion, Halcon,
OpenCV, ImgeJ.
Statistical Data Analysis: SAS, SPSS.
GIS: GeoForce.
Other softwares: Adobe Photoshop, Word, Excel,
Access.
Teaching experience and working knowledge of C, VC++,C#,
VBasic, Java

Languages Fluent in English and Arabic

Good knowledge of French

Teaching  Image Processing

Experience  Data Structure and algorithms
(Courses)

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 Computer Graphics
 C++ Programming
 Programming Applications by Matlab
 Signal Processing
 Fuzzy Logic and Neural Networks
 Computer Networking
 Numerical Analysis
 Discrete Mathematics
 Object Oriented Programming ( by java & C#)

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