Mohamed S. Kamel

MOHAMED S. KAMEL received the B.Sc. (Hons) EE (Alexandria University), M.A.Sc (McMaster University), Ph.D (University of Toronto). He joined the University of Waterloo, Canada in 1985 where he is at present Professor and Director of the Center for Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and holds a University Research Chair. Professor Kamel held Canada Research Chair in Cooperative Intelligent Systems from 2001 to 2008. Dr. Kamel's research interests are in Computational Intelligence, Pattern Recognition, Machine Learning and Cooperative Intelligent Systems. He has authored and co-authored over 450 papers in journals and conference proceedings, 17 edited volumes, 19 chapters in books, 2 patents and numerous technical and industrial project reports. Under his supervision, 91 Ph.D and M.A.SC students have completed their degrees. He is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Robotics and Automation, Associate Editor of Computational Intelligence Journal, Pattern Recognition Journal and Pattern Recognition Letters. He served as Associate Editor of IEEE SMC, part A, Associate Editor of Simulation, the Journal of The Society for Computer Simulation and Cognitive Neurodynamics journal. Based on his work at the NCR, he received the NCR Inventor Award. He is also a recipient of the Systems Research Foundation Award for outstanding presentation in 1985 and the ISRAM best paper award in 1992. In 1994 he has been awarded the IEEE Computer Society Press outstanding referee award. He was also a coauthor of the best paper in the 2000 IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, best paper runner up in Pattern Recognition journal in 2009, IEEE ICDM 2013, IEEE Fusion 2013 and best paper in Pattern Recognition in 2011. Dr. Kamel is recipient of the University of Waterloo outstanding performance award three times, the faculty of engineering distinguished performance award and the University of Waterloo Award of Excellence in Graduate Supervision. Dr. Kamel is member of ACM, PEO, Fellow of IEEE, Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada (EIC), Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering (CAE) and Fellow of the International Association of Pattern Recognition (IAPR). He is recipient of IEEE Canada Computer medal award for Outstanding Contributions to Pattern Recognition and Intelligent Systems. He served as consultant for General Motors, NCR, IBM, Northern Telecom and Spar Aerospace. He is co-founder of Virtek Vision Inc. of Waterloo (now part of Gerber Technology Co). He served as member of the board from 1992-2008 and VP research and development from 1987 to 1992.