RESUME
Contact Information:
Department of Mathematical Sciences
DePaul University
2320 N. Kenmore Ave.
Chicago, IL 60614-3250
Office Telephone: (773) 325-7808
Fax (773) 325-7807
E-mail azayed@math.depaul.edu
EDUCATION:
Ph.D. Mathematics, University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 1979;
M.S. Applied Mathematics, Cairo
University; 1974;
B.S. Pure and Applied Mathematics, (Distinction with First
Class Honors) Cairo University, 1970.
Academic Experience:
Current Position: Chair and
Professor, Department of Mathematical Sciences, DePaul University, Chicago.
1) Chair and Professor, DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois (2001- present)
2) Assistant Chair for Graduate Studies (Graduate Coordinator), University of
Central Florida, Orlando, Florida (1999-2001)
3) Visiting Professor, University of Carlos III, Madrid, Spain (2002)
4) Joint appointment Professorship at the School of Electrical and Computer
Engineering, University of Central Florida (1997-2001)
5) Professor, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida (1990-2001)
6) Visiting Professor, University of Carlos III, Madrid, Spain (Summer 1996)
7) Professor, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, California
(1989-1992)
8) Associate Professor, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo,
California (1984-1988)
9) Assistant Professor, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo,
California (1980-1984)
10) Visiting Associate Professor, The American University in Cairo (1988-1989)
11) Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee (Winter,
1983)
12) Visiting Assistant Professor, University of California-Berkeley (Summer,
1981).
Editorial
Boards:
1. Managing Editor: Journal of Sampling Theory in Image and Signal Processing
(1999- 2005)
2. Associate Editor: The journal of Sampling Theory in Image and Signal Processing
(2005- present))
3. Assistant Editor: The International Journal of Mathematics and Computer Science,
4. Associate Editor: Journal of Multidimensional Systems and Signal Processing,
5. Associate Editor: Journal of Computational Analysis and Applications,
6. Assistant Editor: The International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical
Sciences,
7. Associate Editor: the International Journal of Fractional Calculus and Applied
Analysis,
8. Associate Editor: Journal of Generalized Functions,
9. Member of the Editorial Board of Journal of Mathematics and Statistics,
10. Member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Applied Mathematics.
Honors
and Memberships:
1. The Spirit of Inquiry Awards, DePaul University, September 2007
2. Research Incentive Award, University of Central Florida, 2001.
3. College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Researcher Award (2000), University
of Central Florida .
4. Teaching Incentive Program Award (1997), University of Central Florida.
5. Meritorious Performance and Professional Promise Award (1988), California
Polytechnic State University.
6. Exceptional Merit Service Award (1984), California Polytechnic State University.
7. Fellowship from the International Center for Theoretical Physics, Trieste,
Italy, 1973.
8. Scholarship from Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy, 1971.
9. Member of the American Mathematical Society (AMS), Institute of Electrical
and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
(SIAM), the Mathematical Association of America (MAA).
Professional Services:
National
Committees of the Mathematical Association of America:
1. Committee on Minority Participation in Mathematics, 1998-2003.
2. The Mathematical Association of America Sub-Committee on Service Courses.
3. Committee on the Teaching of Undergraduate Mathematics (CTUM),1992-1998,
2001-2003.
Conference
Organization:
1. Special Session on “Applied Harmonic Analysis,” Central Section
Meeting of the American Mathematical Society, DePaul University, October 5-6,
2007.
2. American Mathematical Society and Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
(AMS-SIAM) Special Session on “ Frames and Operator Theory in Analysis
and Signal Processing,” at the joint meeting of the American Mathematical
Society and the Mathematical Association of America, San Antonio, TX, January
11-15, 2006.
3. Mathematical Association of America Special Session on “Strategies
to Encourage Persistence in Mathematics,” at the joint meeting of the
American Mathematical Society and the Mathematical Association of America, San
Antonio, TX, January 11-15, 2006.
4. International Conference on Harmonic Analysis and Ergodic Theory, DePaul
University, December 2-4, 2005. (Partially supported by a grant from the National
Science Foundation)
5. Special Session on "Learning to Prove: Strategies to improve students’
proof writing skills," the Annual Joint Meeting of the Amer. Math. Soc.
and the Math. Assoc. of Amer., Atlanta, Georgia, January 2005.
6. Special Session on “Special Functions and Orthogonal Polynomials,”
American Mathematical Society Sectional Meeting, Northwestern University, October
2004.
7. SampTA 2001, an International Conference on Sampling Theory and its Applications,
Orlando, Florida, May 2001.
8. Special Session on "Putting the Service Back into Service Courses,"
the Annual Joint Meeting of the Amer. Math. Soc. and the Math. Assoc. of Amer.,
New Orleans, January 2001.
9. Special Session in honor of Professor Gilbert Walter at the International
Association for Mathematics and Computers in Simulation (IMACS), Milwaukee,
Wisconsin, May 2000.
10. Member of the Organizing Committee of the International Conferences on Sampling
Theory and its Applications, SampTA,
11. Special Session on “Sampling, Interpolation and their Applications,"
SampTa 99, Loen, Norway.
12. Member of the local organizing committee of the NSF-CBMS regional conference
on "Wavelet Analysis as a Tool for Computational and Harmonic Analysis,"
University of Central Florida, May 1998.
13. Special Session on "Analysis with Wavelets," Amer. Math. Soc.,
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, October 1997.
14. Member of the Technical Organizing Committee of the International Conference
on Sampling Theory and Applications, Aveiro, Portugal, June 1997.
15. Special Session on "New trends in sampling theory" at the International
Conference on Sampling Theory and applications, Aveiro, Portugal, June 1997.
16. Special Session on "Assessment for Better Learning: Assessing Teaching
and Learning in a Climate of Change," the Annual Joint Meeting of the Amer.
Math. Soc. and Math. Assoc. of Amer., San Diego, California, January 1997.
17. Member of the Organizing Committee of "The Mathematics Today and Tomorrow
Conference", University of Central Florida, March 1996.
18. Special Session on "Mathematical Analysis" during The Mathematics
Today and Tomorrow Conference, University of Central Florida, March 1996.
19. Member of the Local Organizing Committee for the joint Annual Meeting of
the Amer. Math. Soc. and the Math. Assoc. of Amer., Orlando, Florida, January
1996.
20. Special Session on "Sampling Theory, Wavelets, and Signal Processing,"
Southeastern Section meeting of the Amer. Math. Soc., Orlando Florida, March
1995.
21. Member of the Technical Organizing Committee of the International Conference
on Sampling Theory and its Applications, Jurmala, Latvia, September 1995.
22. Organizer of an International Conference on "Mathematical Analysis
and Signal Processing" at Cairo University, Egypt, January 1994 (partially
funded by a grant from the NSF),
23. Mini-symposium on "New directions for the Shannon sampling theorem,"
at the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics annual meeting, Minneapolis,
July 1988.
24. Special Session on "Partial differential equations, theory and applications,"
joint meeting of the Amer. Math. Soc. and the Math. Assoc. of Amer., San Luis
Obispo, California, November 1983.
Other Professional
Services:
1. Served as a Panelist for the Division of Mathematical Sciences, National
Science Foundation, 2008.
2. Reviewed grant proposals for the National Academy of Science, the National
Research Council, the National Science Foundation, the Fullbright Program, and
other federal and state funding agencies.
3. Reviewer for the Mathematical Review and Zentralblatt für Mathematik.
4. Reviewer of advanced text books and research monographs for the Mathematical
Reviews, Cambridge University Press, Taylor and Francis, CRC Press, Prentice
Hall, Houghton Mifflin.
5. External Reviewer for tenure and promotion to Full and Associate professorship
cases, 8 cases in the last three years.
6. Referee for a number of Mathematics, Physics, and Engineering Journals, including
the Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General, the IEEE Transactions on
Signal Processing, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, IEEE Transactions
on Image Processing, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, IEEE Transactions on Pattern
Recognition, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems, Journal of Signal Processing,
Journal of Multidimensional Systems and Signal Processing, Archive for Electronics
and Communications (AEÜ), Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision, Mathematical
and Computer Modeling, Digital Signal Processing, Proceedings of the American
Mathematical society, Contemporary Mathematics of the American Mathematical
Society, American Mathematical Monthly, the Journal of Fourier Analysis and
Applications, the Journals of Approximation Theory, Constructive Approximations,
The Journal of Integral Equations and Applications, Applicable Analysis, Mathematical
Analysis of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, SIAM Journal
for Scientific Computing, Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Royal
Irish Academy, the Journal of Complex Variable: Theory and Applications, the
Australian Journal of Mathematics, the Journal of Mathematical Analysis and
Applications, Rocky Mountain Journal of Mathematics, the International Journal
of Mathematics and Mathematical Science, Journal of Computational and Applied
Mathematics, Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations, Mathematische
Nachrichten, Applied Mathematics Letters, Fractional Calculus and Applied Analysis,
Tamkang journal of Mathematics, Journal of Integer Sequences, Mathematical Inequalities
and Applications, International Journal of Computer Mathematics, The Journal
of the Egyptian Mathematical Society, Kuwait Journal of Science and Engineering,
the Arabian Journal For Science and Engineering (Saudi Arabia), Collectanea
Mathematica, Acta Mathematica Sinica,Boletim da Sociedade Paranaense de Matematica;
Journal Mathematics of Computation; Mathematics and Computer Science and several
conference proceedings, Journal of Applied Mathematics and Stochastic Analysis.