George Zaki
George Zaki received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer engineering from University of Maryland, College Park, in 2012 and 2013 respectively. He has been a member of the DSPCAD research group since August 2008. Starting in January 2010, George was selected as Texas Instruments Scholar in which capacity he conducted research on model based design for DSP systems implemented on multi-processor platforms. Before joining UMD, George got his M.Sc and B.Sc degrees from the department of Electronics and Communications Engineering at Cairo University in 2008 and 2005, respectively. He also worked as a research and teaching assistant at the Electronics department at the American University in Cairo. Currently, George is the Chief Science Officer at IGI Technologies, MD, where he develops state of the art medical image processing tools for cancer patients.
Model based design for DSP systems implemented on multiprocessor heterogeneous platforms, Software Defined Radios (SDR) system implementation, system acceleration using Graphics Processing Units (GPUs), and wireless sensor networks.
Dr. Kawthar Zaki was the First Female Professor Hired Within the College of Engineering at the University of Maryland
Dr. Zaki's research interests are in microwaves, millimeter waves, optical devices, and computer-aided design.
Six ECE Students Named Future Faculty Fellows
Six Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) graduate students will participate in the Clark School's Future Faculty Program (FFP).
Zaki Receives Best Paper Award
George Zaki awarded for best paper at the 2011 IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Systems.
Seven ECE Students Recognized as Distinguished Teaching Assistants
Seven students were awarded certificates by the Center for Teaching Excellence.
Zaki Selected as Texas Instruments Scholar
Ph.D. student George Zaki, an advisee of Prof. Shuvra Bhattacharyya, is named TI Scholar.