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Dr. Hasan Al-Nashash

College / Department

College of Engineering
Department of Electrical Engineering

Teaching areas

Analog Microelectronics, Biomedical Instrumentation, Signal and Image Processing

Research areas

Biomedical electronics, Digital signal and image processing and applications in biomedicine and industry.

Education

Ph.D. in Electronic Engineering, University of Kent, UK, 1988.
B.Sc. (Hons.) in Electronic Engineering with Medical Electronics, University of Kent, UK, 1984.

Professional experience

Professor (May 2004 – to date), Associate Professor (Sept. 1998 – May 2004), and Department Chair (Sept. 2001– Sept. 2006), Department of Electrical Engineering, AUS, UAE.
Research Scientist (August 2013 – February 2014), National University of Singapore and Visiting Research Scientist (June 2001-August 2001), BME Department, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, USA.
Head of Engineering Department, (Sept. 1996-Aug. 1998), Ministry of Works, Oman.
Assistant Professor (Sept. 1990– Sept. 1996), Head of the Electronic Engineering Department, (Sept. 1993 – Sept. 1996), Associate Professor (Feb 1996 – Sept. 1996), Yarmouk University (YU), Jordan.
Lecturer (Dec. 1988 – Sept. 1990), Department of Electrical Engineering, Mu'tah University, Jordan.

Memberships

Middle East and Africa former Representative in the IEEE EMBS Administrative Committee. Senior Member of the IEEE, Member of the Jordan Engineering Association.

Contact

hnashash@aus.edu
+971 6 515 2935

Dr. Hasan Al-Nashash

Professor and Director of the Biomedical Engineering Graduate Program
PhD in Electronic Engineering, Kent University, UK

Hasan Al-Nashash is chair of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers’ Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (IEEE EMBS) UAE chapter. He has participated in establishing several electrical engineering departments in Jordan, Oman and the UAE. He has established the biomedical engineering specialization at Yarmouk University and at AUS. He worked closely with Johns Hopkins University and the American and Medcare Hospitals in Dubai. His research themes are in neuroengineering and analog microelectronics. He is the author of 90 papers and a book chapter, and has two US patents.

Publications

R. Momin, H. Mir and H. Al-Nashash, “Cortical Source Localization and Signal Estimation Without Exact Knowledge of the Lead field Matrix”, IEEE Sensors Journal, Vol. 17, Issue 2, pp. 450 - 458, January 2017.
A. Olenko, K. Wong, H. Mir, and H. Al-Nashash, “A Method for Spinal Cord Injury Assessment Based on Morphological Similarity of SEP Signals," IET Electronic Letters,Vol. 52, Issue 22,pp. 1832 – 1834, October 2016.
I Bodala, Junhua Li, Nitish Thakor and Hasan Al-Nashash, “EEG and Eye Tracking Demonstrate Vigilance Enhancement with Challenge Integration”, Frontiers Hum Neuroscience, 10: 273, June 2016.
H. Al-Nashash and C. Gunn, “Group projects in foundation electrical engineering courses: Do they help, harm or make no difference to the students’ learning experience?”, International Journal of Electrical Engineering Education, SAGE, DOI: 10.1177/0020720916630323, Feb. 2016
E. Väyrynen, K. Noponen, A Vipin, X Thow, H. Al-Nashash, J. Kortelainen, A. All, “Automatic parameterization of somatosensory evoked potentials with chirp modeling”, IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, DOI 10.1109/TNSRE.2016.2525829, Feb. 2016
K Yu, I Prasad, H Mir, N Thakor, Hasan Al-Nashash, “Cognitive Workload Modulation Through Degraded Visual Stimuli: a Single-Trial EEG Study” Journal of Neural Engineering, Vol 12, 9pp, June 2015.
J Kortelainen, Hasan Al-Nashash, Ashwati Vipin, Xin Yuan Thow and Angelo All, “The Eeffect of Anesthesia on Somatosensory Evoked Potential Measurement in a Rat Model”,Laboratory Animals, doi:10.1177/0023677215589514, June 2015.
V Ashwati, J Kortelainen, Hasan Al-Nashash, S Min, X Thow, J Manivannan, A Rusly, N Thakor, C Kerr, A All, “Prolonged Local Hypothermia Has No Long-Term Adverse Effect On The Spinal Cord”, Therapeutic Hypothermia and Temperature Management, Vol. 5, No. 3,June 2015.
T. Zarghami, T., H. Mir, H. Al-Nashash, “Transfer-Function-Based Calibration of Sparse EEG Systems for Brain Source Localization”, IEEE Sensors Journal, Vol. 15, No. 3, pp. 1504-1514, March 2015.
K Yu, H AI-Nashash, N Thakor1, and X Li, “The Analytic Bilinear Discrimination of Single-Trial EEG Signals in Rapid Image Triage”, PLoS ONE, Volume 9, Issue 6, e100097, doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0100097, June 16, 2014.
M.R. Narayanan, Hasan Al-Nashash, Dipankar Pal, Mahesh Chandra, “Thermal model of MOSFET with SELBOX structure”, Journal of Computational Electronics, Volume 12, Issue 4 , pp 803-811, 2013.
H. Al Nashash and C. Gunn, “Lecture Capture in Engineering Classes Bridges the Gap and Enhances the Learning Process”, Journal of Educational Technology and Society, 16 (1), pp. 69–78, 2013.
H. Al-Nashash1, H. Mir, S. Al-Marzouqi, S. Al-Kendi and K. Khalaf, “Intensity Histogram of B-Mode Ultrasound for the Quantification of Bone Healing Process”, Journal of Medical Imaging and Health Informatics (JMIHI), Volume 2, Number 2, pp. 139-146(8), June 2012.
H. Al-Nashash, N. Fatoo, N. Mirza, R. Ahmed, G. Agrawala, N. Thakor and A. All, “Spinal Cord Injury Detection and Monitoring Using Spectral Coherence”, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, Vol. 56, No. 8, pp. 1971-1979, August, 2009.
T. M. Le, J. Paul, H. Al Nashash, A. Tan, A. Luft, F. Sheu, S. Ong, “New Insights into Image Processing of Cortical Blood Flow Monitors Using Laser Speckle Imaging”, IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, Vol. 26, NO. 6, pp. 833-842,2007.
J. Paul, H. Al Nashash, A. Luft, T. Le, “Statistical Mapping of Speckle Autocorrelation for Visualization ofHyperemic responses to Cortical stimulation”, Annals of Biomedical Engineering, Vol. 34, No. 7, pp. 1107–1118, July 2007.
H. Al-Nashash and N. V. Thakor, “Monitoring of Global Cerebral Ischemia Using Wavelet Entropy Rate of Change", IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering), VOL. 52, NO. 12, pp. 2019-2022, DECEMBER 2005.
K. Assaleh and H. Al-Nashash, “A Novel Technique for the Extraction of Fetal ECG Using Polynomial Networks”, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, Volume: 52Issue: 6, pp 1148-1151, June2005.
H. Al-Nashash, Y. Al-Assaf, J. Paul, N. Thakor, “EEG signal Modeling Using Adaptive Markov Process Amplitude”, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, VOL. 51, NO. 5, 2004.
J. Paul, C. Patel, H. Al-Nashash, N. Zhang, W. Ziai, M. Mirski, D. Sherman, "Prediction of PTZ-Induced Seizures Using Wavelet-Based Residual Entropy of Cortical and Subcortical Field Potentials," IEEE Transactions On Biomedical Engineering, VOL. 50, NO. 5, pp. 640-648, 2003.
H. Al-Nashash, J. Paul, W. Ziai, D. Hanley and N. Thakor, "Wavelet Entropy For Subband Segmentation Of EEG During Injury And Recovery," Annals of Biomedical Engineering, Vol. 31, pp. 1-6, 2003.

Conference Presentations

Dana Younis, Narayanan M., Hasan Al Nashash ?Modeling and Simulation of Static Power Dissipation in CMOS with SELBOX Structure?, 7th International Conference on Modeling, Simulation and Applied Optimization, UAE, April 26-28, 2017.
Rabiya Momin, Hasan Mir and Hasan Al-Nashash, Estimation of Cortical Source Location and Signal with Uncertain EEG Leadfield Matrix, Proceedings of the 5th International Work-Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering (IWBBIO 2017), Granada, Spain, April 26-28, 2017.
Amani Al-Othman, Sami El-Sadek, Christian Momah, M. Naryanan, H. Al-Nashash, ?Synthesis and Characterization of Flexible Implantable Electrodes Using Conductive Polymers?, Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Composite Science and Technology, AUS,UAE, April, 2017.
Narayanan , Hasan Al Nashash, ?Minimization of self-heating in SOI MOSFET devices with SELBOX structure?, Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Advanced Semiconductor Devices & Microsystems (ASDAM) Conference, DOI: 10.1109/ASDAM.2016.7805895 Nov. 2016.
Junhua Li, Indu Prasad, Nitish Thakor, and Hasan AI-Nashash, "Workload investigation on degradation of visual stimuli", International Conference on Brain & Health Informatics (BIH'15), London, August 2015.
Indu Bodala, Sunil Kukreja, Nitish Thakor, Hasan Al-Nashash, ?Eye tracking and EEG synchronization to analyze microsaccades during a workload task? Proceedings of the 37th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society (EMBC 15), Milan, Italy, September 2015.
H. Mir, H. Al-Nashash, D. Kerr, N. Thakor and A. All, ?Histogram Based Quantification of Spinal Cord Injury Level Using Somatosensory Evoked Potentials?, Accepted to the 32ndAnnual International IEEE EMBS Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society in Argentina, 2010.
M. Narayanan , H. Al-Nashash, B. Mazhari, D. Pal, ?Kink Reduction Using Selective Back Oxide Structure?,Proceedings of the 21st IEEE-ICM, International Conference on Microelectronics, pp. 358 - 361 Morocco, 2009.
M. Ayat, K. Assaleh, and H. Nashash, ?A novel methodology for fetal hear rate extraction from the abdominal electrocardiogram? 4th Cairo International Biomedical Engineering Conference 2008 (CIBEC'08), Cairo, December 18-20,2008

Awards and Honors

Recipient of the Al Jalila Foundation Research Grant, 2017
Winner of the College of Engineering Teaching Excellence Award, 2016
Winner of the AUS Research Award (First Prize), UAE, 2003
Recipient of AED200,000 from the Emirates Foundation, 2009.
Recipient of $50,000 and AED100,000 from the Arab Science and Technology Foundation (ASTF) to support the FECG project, UAE, 2005 and 2008.

Other creative/research

United States Patent 2: 7,474,915, “Separating mixed signals containing a distorted signal”, 2009.
United States Patent 1: 7,299,088,”Apparatus and methods for brain rhythm analysis”, 2007.

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