My Philosophy: 

Signal Processing and Information Technologies are challenging disciplines in which to teach. Both fields are under constant and rapid development; arguably faster and more-so than any other discipline. It is thus essential that academic staff teaching in the discipline both keep up to date with current technological advances and are able to prepare and to present new, essential and quality teaching materials based on these advances. Students studying in this field have high expectations during their studies. Therefore, I sincerely believe that it is important to emphasize to students that much of Signal Processing centers around many recurring themes and that its strong theoretical basis and history continue to drive new research and development. I like the job as a teacher as I believe I can share with my students my knowledge, ways-of-thinking and help them learn a particular subject in a way that I learned it the best. I think in teaching especially, “how to learn” has the highest priority and usually the toughest part of the job. To do so, I do my best to make them participate and “do the stuff” by any means possible e.g., by accomplishing real-life projects, lab exercises, and frequent Q&A sessions.

Currently teaching (2017 Fall): 

• ELEC-555 Statistical Signal Processing
• GENG-200 Probability and Statistics for Engineers

Prior Engagements:

Qatar University: (Electrical Engineering)

• ELEC-201 Electric Circuits
• ELEC-555 Statistical Signal Processing (Created)
• GENG-607 – Optimization Methods (Created)
• CENG 561 – Advanced Digital Signal Processing (Created)

 Tampere University of Technology, Finland: (Signal Processing)

•    SGN-4227  Digital Audio Processing and Analysis  (Created)
•    SGN-3016  Digital Image Processing
•    SGN-5508  Multimedia Analysis and Retrieval (Created)
•    SGN-5858  Multimedia Graduate Seminar
•    SGN-5707  Multimedia Innovations Project Course
•    SGN-9206  Signal Processing Graduate Seminar II
•    SGN-24006  Analysis of Audio, Speech and Music Signals
•    SGN-14006  Audio and Speech Processing (Signal Processing)
•    SGN-12006  Basic Course in Image and Video Processing (Created)
•    SGN-31006  Image and Video Processing Techniques (Created)
•    SGN-12000  Kuvan- ja videonkäsittelyn perusteet
•    SGN-33006  Video Compression

American University of Sharjah, UAE: (Electrical Engineering)

•    ELE-225 Electrical Circuits and Systems
•    ELE-323 Signal Processing
•    ELE-324 Digital Signal Processing
•    ELE-643 Computer Vision and Image Processing