Department of
ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING

Faculty & Staff

• Ph.D.: Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia, 2000,
• MSc.: University of Colorado, Boulder, U.S.A. 1988,
• Ingenieur d’Etat, Ecole Nationale Polytechnique d’Alger, Algeria, 1985.

Dr. Braham has en extensive research record in fundamental as well as applied signal processing. He had been actively involved in many research projects funded by the industry and other agencies in Australia and Singapore.

HONORS and AWARDS

• Literati Club Award for Excellence 2003 (Emerald, UK). The award is for the joint paper with A/Prof. M.Y.Siyal entitled “A Novel Trust Service Provider for Internet-Based Commerce Applications”. The paper was selected as the most Outstanding Paper in the 2002 Volume of the Internet Research Journal, Emerald, UK.
• QUTPRA Scholarship, 1997, for PhD studies.
• Australian Postgraduate Award, 1996, tuition waiver for PhD studies.
• Government Scholarship, 1985, for Master Studies in the U.S.A.
• Best Student Award, 1980, for highest point average in the Baccalaureate Exam (for University entry).

CURRENT/MAJOR PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

• IEEE, Senior Member 2004.
• Elected Treasurer of the IEEE Signal Processing Society, Singapore Chapter for the year 2005.
• Elected Committee Member of the IEEE Signal Processing Society, Singapore chapter for the years 2002, 2003 and 2004.
• Member of the Institution of Engineers, Australia
• International Technical Program Committee Member of several IEEE International conferences in Signal Processing.
• Regular Reviewer of several publications such as IEEE Trans. On Signal Processing, European Signal Processing Journal and IEEE Signal Processing Letters.

EXPERTISE/INTEREST

• Time-Frequency Signal Analysis
• Statistical Signal Processing
• Signal Processing for Power, Telecommunications, Bio-engineering and Non-destructive testing.

REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS

• F. Sattar and B. Barkat “Multi-resolution Fragile Watermarking Using Complex Chirp Signals for content Authentication”. Pattern Recognition, Elsevier Journal, (submitted in Feb. 2005).
• I. Djurovic, LJ. Stankovic and B. Barkat, “Realization of the Robust Time-Frequency Distributions Based on the Robust Short-Time Fourier Transform”. Annals of Telecommunications, Vol 60, No. 5|6, pp. 681-697, May/June 2005.
• B. Barkat and K. Abed-Meraim, “Algorithms for Blind Components Separation and Extraction from the Time-Frequency Distribution of their Mixture”. EURASIP Journal of Applied Signal Processing, Vol. 2004, No. 13, pp. 2025-2033, October 2004.
• B. Barkat and B. Boashash, “Reply to Comments on ’A High-Resolution Quadratic Time-Frequency Distribution for Multicomponent Signals Analysis’ ”. IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Vol. 52, No.1, Jan. 2004.
• B. Barkat and LJ. Stankovic, “Analysis of Polynomial FM Signals Corrupted by Heavy-Tailed Noise”. Signal Processing, Vol. 84, 2004.
• P. O’Shea and B.Barkat, ”Analysis of Polynomial FM Signals in Additive Noise”, in Time-Frequency Signal Analysis: A comprehensive reference, edited by B. Boashash, Chapter 10.4, pages 447-455, Elsevier, Oxford, UK, 2003.
• B.Barkat and B. Boashash, ”IF Estimation of FM Signals in Multiplicative Noise”, in Time-Frequency Signal Analysis: A comprehensive reference, edited by B. Boashash, chapter 10.5, pages 457-463, Elsevier, Oxford, UK, 2003.
• A.M. Zoubir, I.J. Chant, C.L. Brown, B. Barkat and C. Abeynayake “Signal Processing Techniques for Landmine Detection Using Impulse Ground Penetrating Radar”. IEEE Sensors Journal, Vol. 2, No. 1, February 2002.
• M.Y. Siyal and B. Barkat, “A Novel Trust Service Provider for Internet Based Commerce Applications”. Internet Research: Electronic Networking Applications and Policy, Vol. 12, No. 1, 2002.
• B. Barkat, “Instantaneous Frequency Estimation of Non-linear Frequency Modulated Signals in the Presence of Multiplicative and Additive Noise”. IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Vol. 49, No. 10, October 2001.
• B. Barkat and B. Boashash, “A High-Resolution Quadratic Time-Frequency Distribution for Multicomponent Signals Analysis”. IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Vol. 49, No. 10, October 2001.
• B. Barkat, “Instantaneous Frequency Estimation of Quadratic FM Signals corrupted by Multiplicative and Additive Noise”, Chapter 22, in the book Mathematics in Signal Processing, edited by J.G. McWhirther, Oxford University Press, 2001.
• B. Barkat and B. Boashash, “Instantaneous Frequency Estimation of Polynomial FM Signals Using the Peak of the PWVD: Statistical Performance in the Presence of Additive Gaussian Noise”. IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Vol. 47, No. 9, September 1999.
• B. Barkat and B. Boashash, “Design of Higher-Order PWVD”. IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Vol. 47, No. 9, September 1999.
• B. Boashash and B. Barkat, “Introduction to Time-Frequency Signal Analysis”, Chapter 11 in the book Wavelets, Gabor and Time-Frequency Analysis, edited by L. Debnath, Birkha ¨ user-Verlag, Dec. 1999.