Professor Mohammad Reza Asharif
Office Hours: Tuesday 15:00 to 17:00 and Friday 15:00 to
17:00
University of the Ryukyus
Department of Information and Computer Engineering
1-Senbaru, Nishihara, Okinawa 903-0213 Japan
Tel: +81-98-895-8681
Fax:+81-98-895-8727
E-mail:asharif@ie.u-ryukyu.ac.jp
Biography-{Mohammad Reza Asharif}
IEEE(S'78-M'81-SM'98)was born in Tehran, Iran,
on December 15, 1951. He received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degree in
electrical engineering from the university of Tehran, Tehran,
1973, 1974, respectively and the Ph.D. degree in electrical
engineering from the university of Tokyo, Tokyo in 1981. He was
Head of Technical Department of IIRB college, Iran from 1981 to
1985. Then, he was a
senior researcher at Fujitsu Labs. Co.
Kawasaki, Japan from 1985 to 1992. Then, he was an assistant
professor in Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran from 1992 to 1997.
From 1997, Dr. Asharif is a full professor at Department of
Information Engineering, University of the Ryukyus, Okinawa,
Japan. He has developed an algorithm and implemented its hardware
for real time T.V. Ghost cancelling. He introduced a new
algorithm for Acoustic Echo Canceler and he released it on VSP
chips. He has contributed many publications to journals and
conference proceedings. His research topics of interest are in
the field of Echo Canceling, Active Noise Control, Adaptive
Digital Filtering, Image and Speech Processing.
<>Professor
Mohammad Reza Asharif
University
of the Ryukyus
Department
of Information and Computer Engineering
1-Senbaru,
Nishihara,
Tel:
+81-98-895-8681
Fax:+81-98-895-8727
E-mail:asharif@ie.u-ryukyu.ac.jp
Date of
Birth :
Education
: Ph.D. in Electrical
Engineering, 1981,
M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering,
1974,
B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, 1973,
Training
:
Fujitsu
Laboratories Limited,
Fujitsu Laboratories Limited,
Received training, facilities,
and guidance necessary for the completion of doctor thesis while attending
National Iranian Radio
& TV (NIRT),
Post, Telephone and Telegraph
(PTT),
Course on Telephone Communication
Systems.
Positions Held
: Full Professor, University of the
Ryukyus, Dept. of Information Engineering. April 1997 to present.
Teaching
Digital Signal Processing, Simulation Engineering, Digital Circuit
(Undergraduate level); Digital Image Processing (Master’s Level), Technical
Reading & Writing (in English for Master’s level Japanese students),
Acoustic Signal Processing (Doctoral levels).
Head of Graduate Courses at Department of Information Engineering.
Member of Professors' Committee, Member of Research Council of the Faculty of
Engineering.
Supervising several theses at Master’s and Doctoral levels. Examiner on several
theses at Master’s and Ph.D. levels. Making the academic exchange
agreement between Faculties of Engineering, University of the Ryukyus and
Assistant Professor,
Teaching Digital Image Processing, Digital Processing of Speech Signal and
Digital Signal Processing at post-graduate levels. Supervising several Master’s
theses. Head of the Research Member of Research Council of the Faculty of
Engineering. Member of Research Council of the Faculty of Engineering. Member
of Editorial Board of the Journal of Engineering, Engineering Faculty,
Senior Researcher, Fujitsu Laboratories Limited Co., Communications
Processing Technology Laboratory,
Assistant Professor & Head The Faculty of Voice & Vision, National Iranian
Radio & TV (NIRT), Tehran, Iran, 1981 to 1985. of Dept. of Technical
Education. Instructing various courses in the Communications field and Radio
& T.V. technologies such as Communications theory, Antenna and Wave
Propagation, etc. and administration of the technical education department.
Chief Engineer for Maintenance and Repair, National
Iranian Radio & TV (NIRT).
Language
Proficiencies :
English: fluent in speaking, reading and writing
Japanese: fluent in speaking,
reading and writing
Farsi (Persian): fluent in
speaking, reading and writing
French : some fluency
Memberships:
Institute
of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (IEEE) of U.S.A, since 1978. Senior
Member since 1998
Institute
of Electronics and Communication Engineers of
Awards Received:
1-
Best Researcher Professor Award received (Yen 100,000) from the Faculty of Engineering,
University of the Ryukyus for papers & Conferences contributions in
academic year 2008.
2-
Best Presenting Award received from APIS 2009,
3-
Best Presenting Award received from APIS 2009,
Papers Reviewer,
Conferences TPC &
International Advisor,
Conferences Chairman:
Due
to my long career in the filed of Digital Signal Processing, Echo and
Noise Canceling, Speech and Image Processing, Communications and Robotics
Engineering, I am recognized as an international reviewer for various
International Journal Transactions papers evaluation and International
Conferences Proceedings papers evaluation or I was assigned as a Technical
Program Committee (TPC) and/or International Advisor of International
Conferences. In the following the list of the name of some of these
societies such as Journals, Transactions and International Conferences
are given. It is necessary to be mentioned here that each year I am assigned to
some more than ten papers to review:
1-
IEEE (
2-
IEE (
3-
ICC’05 (Korea), Technical Program Committee (TPC)and Reviewer (
more than 7 papers)
4-
ASME(USA)Journals, Journal of Manufacturing
Science and Engineering (JMSE). (each year 1 to 2 papers).
5-
ISA Transactions ( since 2002, each year 1 to 2 papers).
6-
International Workshop on Acoustic Echo and Noise Control IWAENC’03-
IWAENC’01 ( some 6 papers)
7-
EUSIPCO’04 ( some 2 papers)
8-
International Symposium on Telecommunications, IST’03, IST’05 the only
International advisor from
9-
Iranian Journal of Electrical and Computer
Engineering(IJECE)
(each
year one to two papers)
10-
Scientica Iranica (each
year one to two papers).
11-IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Signal Processing and
Communication Systems (ISPACS 2002)
12-The 11th
World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics: WMSCI 2007 (each year 3 papers).
13-IEICE Journal of Special Issue
in SIP (Reviewer).
14- Session’s Chair ICCIT, 2007
15- Committee Program Chair APIS
2009,
16- Session’s Chair (2 sessions)
APIS 2009,
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17- Session’s Chair ITC-CSCC, 2009 Jeju-Korea.
Scholarships:
DAAD
Scholarship, T.H. Darmstadt, Institute of Communication Technology,
Association
for Overseas Technical Scholarship (AOTS), Fujitsu Laboratories Limited
Co. Kawasaki, Japan, post Doctoral research, April to July 1981.
Monbusho Scholarships, Courtesy of the Ministry of Education of