ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING PROGRAM

Faculty & Staff

• PhD, Computer Engineering, University of Technology of Compiegne (France), 1995
• MSc, Biomedical Engineering, University of Technology of Compiegne (France), 1991
• B.Eng, Electronics Department, University of Constantine (Algeria), 1985

Dr. Mahmoud Meribout has several years of industrial experience where he has been involved in several state of the art Research and Development projects related to embedded systems design while working with NTT cooperation (Atsugi, Japan) and NEC cooperation (Tokyo, Japan) respectively. He is now holding an academic position, where he has been actively involved in several successful oil-related research projects funded by local oil companies. Several International patents, Refereed international journals, and industrial prototypes were generated out of his research activity. He has in his record a long teaching experience at both undergraduate and graduate level.

HONORS and AWARDS

2004-2005 Sultane Qaboos University’s (SQU) focal point in smart fields-related research.

1997 NEC’s Best Annual Award of Original Research in the field of Hardware and Software co-design Applied to Next Generation Networking Platforms (NEC Corporation, Japan).

1989 Government scholarship to pursue PhD studies in France: Ranked second in the Eastern region of Algeria.

CURRENT/MAJOR PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

• IEEE, Member 1998.
• Regular Reviewer of several publications such as IEEE Trans. On Instrumentation and Measurement and IEEE Trans. On VLSI.

• Embedded systems design  
• Real-time pattern recognition and signal processing
• Embedded instrumentation design.

1. Online Remote Monitoring System for PDO oil Tank, January 2006. PDO contract#: CTR 2005-73.
2. Survey on Different Techniques for Multiphase Metering, February 2003. PDO contract#: 2002-48.
3. Multi-Phase Flow Measurement: Approaches and Directions, April 2003. PDO contract#: 2002-48.
4. Development of an Intelligent Multi-Sensor Multi-Phase Flow Meter, April 2003. PDO contract#: 2002-48.
5. Development of an Oil-Water Level Measurement Device, April 2003. PDO contract#: CTR 50.
6. Development of a BS&W Measuring Device, Progress Report Submitted to PDO on April 2003. PDO contract#: CTR 53.

REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS

Patents:

1. A. Al-Naamany and M. Meribout, Emulsion Layer Detection Apparatus and Method using  High  Frequency Ultrasonic-based Technique , GCC Patent No. GCC/P/2005/5205.
2. M. Meribout, Advanced Hardware Compiler Targeting Reconfigurable Computing.
   American Patent, February 2001. Patent Reference: 20020162097. Serial Number: 976286.
   Kind Code: Al. Application Number: 2000-313818.
3. M. Meribout, Method for Compiling High Level Programs into Hardware. Japanese Patent,
   February 2000. Patent Publication Number: JP,2002-123563,A
4. M. Meribout and M. Nakanishi, A Method for Real-time Object Recognition. American
   Patent, April 1999.

International Journals:

1. Ahmed Al-Naamani, M. Meribout and K. Al-Busaidi Design and Implementation of a new Radioactive-Based Machine for Detecting Oil-Water Interfaces in Oil Tanks, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement Volume 56, Number 4, 2007.
2. M. Meribout, M. Nakanishi A New Real-time Object Segmentation and Tracking Algorithm and its Parallel Hardware Architecture, Journal of VLSI Signal Processing (Springer Verlag) Volume 39, Number 3, 2005.
3. M. Meribout, A Combined Approach to High-level Synthesis for Dynamically Reconfigurable Systems, IEEE Transactions on Computers, pp. 1508-1522, Vol. 53, No. 12, December 2004.
4. M. Meribout and M. Motomura, A Hierarchical Cost Estimation Technique for High Level Synthesis,IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals (Elsevier Science), Vol. E86-A, No. 2, in February 2003.
5. M. Meribout and M. Motomura, Efficient Metrics and High Level Synthesis for Dynamically reconfigurable Logic, IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integrated Circuits, April 2004.
6. L. Khriji, M. Meribout, and M. Gabbouj, Detection and Removal of Video Defects using Rational-Based Techniques, Elsevier Science, International Journal on Advances in Engineering Software, 36 (2005) 487–495. 
7. M. Meribout, T. Ogura, and M. Nakanishi, On using the CAM concept for Parametric Curve Extraction, IEEE Transactions Journal on Image Processing, Vol. 09, No 12, pp. 2126, December 2000.
8. M. Meribout, Lazher Khriji, and M. Nakanishi A Robust Hardware Algorithm for Real-time Object Tracking in Video Sequences, International Journal of Real-time Imaging (Elsevier Science), pp. 145-159, Vol. 10, 2004.
9. M. Meribout and M. Motomura, New Design Methodology with Efficient Prediction of Quality Metrics for Logic Level Design Towards Dynamic Reconfigurable Logic, International Journal for Systems Architecture (JSA), (Elsevier Science Ltd),Vol. 48/8-10, pp. 285 – 310, 2003.
10. M. Habli, M. Meribout, A-AlNaamany, and K. Al-Busaidi, Inexpensive and Accurate Measuring Device for Water Constitute in Oil, The Journal of Engineering Research, Volume 3, No 1, (ISSN: 1726-6009), January 2006.
11. L. Kheriji, M. Meribout, M. Gaboudj, and A. Al-Naamany, Fuzzy-based Filtering of Multichannel Images, International Journal of Computational Cognition, Vol. 3, No 1, Pages 115-139, December 2004, (Electronic publication on the Web: August 12, 2003).
12. M. Meribout, A New Scalable and Reconfigurable Architecture, IEEE Journal on Potentials, Vol. 22, No 3, pp. 26- 32, August 2003.