The 16th IASTED International Conference on
Robotics and Applications
RA 2011

June 1 – 3, 2011
Vancouver, BC, Canada

PUBLICATIONS CHAIR

Prof. Mohammad A. Karim
Vice President for Research
Old Dominion University, USA

Biography of the Publications Chair

Publications Chair Portrait

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Mohammad A. Karim is Vice-President for Research of ODU. He is North American Editor of Optics and Laser Technology, an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Education, and a member of the Editorial Boards of Microwave and Optical Technology Letters and World Journal of Modeling and Simulation. Dr. Karim chairs the program committees of the International Conference on Computers and Information Technology (ICCIT) and the International Conference on Industrial Electronics, Technology & Automation (IETA).
Dr. Karim is an elected fellow of the Optical Society of America (OSA), the Society of Photo-Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE), the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the Institute of Physics (InstP), the Institution of Engineering & Technology (IET), and the Bangladesh Academy of Sciences. He is author of 15 books, over 335 research papers, and 6 book chapters and has served as guest editor of 22 journal special issues. The list of his research sponsors include Office of Naval Research, National Science Foundation, US Air Force, Naval Research Laboratory, US Army, NASA, US Department of Education, Ohio Aerospace Institute, US Department of Defense, and Avionics Laboratory of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. He served as research mentor of over 55 MS/PhD students during his career.
Prior to joining ODU in July 2004, Mohammad Karim served as Dean of Engineering at the City College of New York of the City University of New York. He received his BS Honors degree in physics from the University of Dacca, Bangladesh, in 1976, and MS in physics, MS in electrical engineering, and Ph.D. in electrical engineering degrees from the University of Alabama respectively in 1978, 1979, and 1981.