RAMI ALKHATIB

Nationality: Lebanese

Email: adlwju@r.postjobfree.com LinkedIn Profile

Phone: +961-**-******

AREAS OF EXPERTISE AND INTEREST

Diversified experience in research in the field of Mechatronics Engineering including robotics and artificial intelligence.

EDUCATION

Ph.D. in Engineering Sciences: Image, Vision, Signal 2013 – 2016

University of Lyon - Roanne, France

●University of Lyon, F-42023 Saint Etienne

●Jean Monnet Saint Etienne university, F-42000 Saint-Etienne

●Laboratoire d'Analyse des Signaux et Processus Industriels, LASPI, F-42334 IUT de Roanne, France

●Rafik Hariri University, Mechref, Lebanon

Masters of Science: Mechatronics Engineering 2010 – 2012

Hariri Canadian University - Mechref, Lebanon

Bachelor of Science: Mechatronics Engineering 2007 – 2010

Hariri Canadian University - Mechref, Lebanon

●Distinguished Honor list, 2008 – 2010

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE:

Rafik Hariri University

Mechref- Lebanon

Assistant Professor of Mechatronics Engineering September 01, 2016 – Present

Engineering Lab Manager, Full Time October 01, 2018 – 2019

* Labs were cited as a point of pride in all the engineering reports during the ABET-Accreditation visit

Lecturer - Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering September01, 2015 – 2016

Instructor - Electrical and Computer Engineering September 01, 2012 – 2015

Hariri Canadian University 2010 – 2012

Mechref- Lebanon

Lab Instructor, part time

NON-ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE:

The Lebanese Organization for Studies and Training, Women’s Platform to Lead (LEAD, GIZ – Germany) November 01, 2019 – November 30, 2019

Saghbine Municipality, West Bekaa - Lebanon

Installing Electrical Power Devices, Consultant

Advantage Systems International-Paradox March 15, 2011 – July 20, 2012

Zahle- Lebanon

Technical Manager and Supervisor, Full Time

Saudi Oger Summer II- 2010

Jeddah – Saudi Arabia

Site Mechanical and Electrical Internship, Pass with Honor

Daher’s International Food Company Summer I- 2010

Mansoura – Lebanon

Maintenance department, Mechanical and Electrical Internship, Pass with Honor

SKILLS

Computer

●C++ Matlab Python

●ROS

●Autodesk Inventor SolidWorks AutoCAD

●VisualCAM

●Microsoft Project Excel

●Labview

●Pico soft

●Siemens, TIA portal

●Mikroc

●VHDL

●Multisim

●Proteuse

●Ultium Designer

●Arduino

Language

●Arabic: native speaker / fluent

●English: excellent command / highly proficient in spoken and written English

COURSES TAUGHT

●Robotics

●Artificial Intelligence

●CAD/CAM/ CAE

●Control, Mechanical Measurements, Embedded systems

●Dynamics System Modeling

●Engineering Graphics and CAD

●Industrial and Manufacturing Control – PLC

●Material Science

●Labs: Electric Circuit Lab, Logic Design Lab, Electronics Lab

●Manufacturing Processes

●Measurements & Instrumentation (including Lab)

●Mechanical Engineering Design

●Mechatronics systems

●Advanced Dynamics

SEMINARS

●Delivering a seminar: “Self Driving Car”, Lebanese University, Faculty of Technology, February 12, 2019.

●Delivering a seminar: “Artificial Intelligence”, Lebanese American University, ASME Chapter, and Engineering Day April 13, 2018.

●Roundtable Discussion: “Robots and Our Future Life” in the presence of Prof.Hiroshi Ishiguro “Japanese visionary who made a copy of himself”. NDU-Lebanon, Oct. 27, 2017

●Delivering a seminar: “Mechanics of Gait Biometric Recognition”, Lebanese University, Doctoral School of Sciences and Technology (DSST), Faculty of Engineering and Faculty of Public Health in collaboration with IEEE EMBS Chapter, Scientific Day “Neuromusculoskeletal System and Medical Robotics”, March 04,2017.

●Presentation on “Humanoid” at American University of Beirut during ASME competition for the student professional development conference (SPDC), 2014

●Faculty development workshops delivered by AUB faculty - RHU, Oct. 14 2016.

●Workshop on the process of applying ABET (Criteria 1-8) and the preparation of programs Self Study Reports, AUB, RHU September 27 & 29, 2016.

●Attending the First AUB Biomedical Engineering Winter School- February 19-20, 2015

●Attending the 1st Lebanese Biomedical Engineering Workshop 2015 (IEEE EMBS): Neuroengineering Workshop recent advances in neural engineering, USEK.

SAMPLE OF TEACHING ACTIVITIES

●Hult Prize Competition: Harnessing the power of energy to transform the lives of 10 million people: Technical advisor of startup company “HEATEHCS”, winning the Hult Prize national competition with the largest startup award to date worth $250,000 from BLOM BANK.

●Senior Project Co-Supervision: Rough-Terrain Robot: first place in the ASME Student Design Contest 2015 in the Middle East and North Africa region and was qualified to participate in the International Finals of 2015 ASME Student Design Competition in Houston, Texas, on November 2015.

PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS

●Nassim Khaled and Rami Alkhatib. “Novel Formulation for Line of Sight Guidance and Obstacle Avoidance for Under-actuated Ships”. WSEAS Transactions on Circuits and Systems, 20, 1-9, 2021. DOI: 10.37394/23201.2021.20.1

●Nassim Khaled, Rami Alkhatib, Anas Al-Shaghouri and Saja Khatib. “Design of mechanism for reducing support structures in material extrusion additive manufacturing.” 2020 PMU International Conference on Industrial Revolution 4.0 in Computing, Mobility, and Manufacturing, CMM 2020 Proceedings as a special issue of WSEAS Transactions on Applied and Theoretical Mechanics 15, 157-164, Khobar, Saudi Arabia, 08-10 December 2020.

●Alkhatib, Rami and Razan Lebdy. "Digital Manufacturing and the Fifth Industrial Revolution." Analyzing Future Applications of AI, Sensors, and Robotics in Society, edited by Thomas Heinrich Musiolik and Adrian David Cheok, IGI Global, 2021, pp. 69-86. http://doi:10.4018/978-1-7998-3499-1.ch005

●R. Alkhatib, T. El Bobo, Afif Swaidan, Jad Al Soussi, Mohamad O.Diab and Nassim Khaled, “DESIGN OF ROBOTIC MANIPULATOR TO HOLLOW OUT ZUCCHINI”, In Proceedings of ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (IMECE2020-23013), November 16-19, 2020, Virtual Conference, Online.

●R. Alkhatib, M. O. Diab, C. Corbier and M. E. Badaoui, “Artificial Neural Network based on Ensemble empirical mode decomposition features for Human Gait Diagnosis and classification”, In Proceedings of ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (IMECE2020-22611), November 16-19, 2020, Virtual Conference, Online.

●R. Alkhatib, M. O. Diab, C. Corbier and M. E. Badaoui, "Machine Learning Algorithm for Gait Analysis and Classification on Early Detection of Parkinson," in IEEE Sensors Letters, vol. 4, no. 6, pp. 1-4, June 2020, Art no. 6000604, doi: 10.1109/LSENS.2020.2994938.

●R. Alkhatib, W. Mechlawi and R. Kawtharani, "Quality Assessment of Robotic Grasping Using Regularized Logistic Regression," in IEEE Sensors Letters, vol. 4, no. 6, pp. 1-4, June 2020, Art no. 5500904, doi: 10.1109/LSENS.2020.2994166.

●M.Diab, R.Alkhatib, J.Nassereddine, “ Adequate Learning Rate in Gradient Descent for Applied Machine Learning”, International Conference on Decision Aid Sciences and Applications (TDAS’19) and the 4th International Conference of the Tunisian Operational Research Society (TORS’19), Zarzis, Yunisia, July 8th –July 10th, 2019.

●R.Alkhatib, M.AbouMorad, M.Diab, C.Corbier, M.El Badawi, “Human Locomotion in Multiway Analysis”, International Conference on Bio-engineering for Smart Technologies (BioSMART 2019), IEEE, ESME Sudria Paris Montparnasse, France, Aug.24th –April.26th, 2019.

●R.Alkhatib, A.Suidan, J. Marzouk, M. Sabbah, M.Diab, “Smart Autonomous Wheelchair”, International Conference on Bio-engineering for Smart Technologies (BioSMART 2019), IEEE, ESME Sudria Paris Montparnasse, France, Aug.24th –April.26th, 2019.

●M. Sabbah, R. Alkhatib, Y. Jebbawi, H. Daoud, M.O.Diab, R.Zantout, “Haptic Feedback in Surgical Robotic Interface Controller”, International Conference on Bio-engineering for Smart Technologies (BioSMART 2019), IEEE, ESME Sudria Paris Montparnasse, France, Aug.24th –April.26th, 2019.

●Jawad Haidar, Rami Alkhatib, Rabab Kawtharani, Nagham Ismail, Adam Choufi, Rawan Glayni, “Advanced material technology for warm winters and cool summers” Lebanese Patent # 11520, Ministry of Economy and Trade, September 13, 2018.

●Maher Sabbah, Houssam Salami, Jad Kozaily, Rami Al-Khatib, “3D Model of Blood Flow for Magnetohydodynamics Study”, Biomedical Engineering and Computational Intelligence (BIOCOM2018) proceedings, Springer Lecture Notes in Computational Vision and Biomechanics (ISSN: 2212-9391), 30-31 October, 2018, London, United Kingdom (Accepted Article).

●Rami Al-Khatib, Maher Sabbah, Mohamad O. Diab, Mohammad Taha, Khalid Salloum, “Bioinspired Approach to Inverse Kinematic Problem”, Biomedical Engineering and Computational Intelligence (BIOCOM2018) proceedings, Springer Lecture Notes in Computational Vision and Biomechanics (ISSN: 2212-9391), 30-31 October, 2018, London, United Kingdom (Accepted Article).

●K.Hatoum, R.Alkhatib, N.Jaber, M.Sabbah,” Windmill Climbing Robot”, 2018 International Conference on Computer and Applications (ICCA-2018), IEEE, July 25-26, 2018, Beirut, Lebanon.

●Nagham Ismail, Rami Alkhatib, Rabab Kawtharani, Jawad Haidar, Adam Choufi, Rawan Glayni, “ Building an Autonomous Heating System in Airplanes” Lebanese Patent # 11428, Ministry of Economy and Trade, May 16, 2018.

●R.Alkhatib, M.Diab, M.El Badawi, C.Corbier,”Biometric Legged Locomotion”, Book Chapter on Biometric under Biomedical Considerations, Publisher: Springer, Series title: Series in BioEngineering, May 16, 2018.

●M.O.Diab, R.Alkhatib, R. Halabi, Omar Itani,”Parkinson Gait Detection using VGRF”, 12th International Society of Physics and Rehabilation Medicine World Congress, ISPRM 2018, July 8-12, 2018, Paris, France.

● R.Halabi, M.O.Diab, R.Alkhatib, M.El Badawi, F.Guilet,” FATIGUE ASSESSMENT IN ULTRA-MARATHON RUNNERS VIA VERTICAL GROUND REACTION FORCE ANALYSIS”, 12th International Society of Physics and Rehabilation Medicine World Congress, ISPRM 2018, July 8-12, 2018, Paris, France.

●Maher Sabbah, Rami Al-Khatib, Mohamad O. Diab, Rached Zantout, Ramzi Halabi; Yahya Jebaoui, “Robotic Interface Controller for Minimally Invasive Surgery”, International conference on Computer Applications & Information Security, ICCAIS. IEEE, 04-06 April, 2018 Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

●R.Alkhatib, M.O.Diab, I. Omar, C. Chamaa, M.Sabbah” Usage of VGRF in Biometrics: Application on Healthy and Parkinson Gaits”, International conference on Computer Applications & Information Security, ICCAIS. IEEE, 04-06 April, 2018 Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

●R.Alkhatib, M.O.Diab, M.El Badaoui, C.Corbier,” Task-specific Gait Analysis: Faller Versus Non-faller Comparative Study”, The Int'l Conf. on Wireless Communication, Signal and Image Processing (WCSIP 2018, Jan.5-7). Paper ID: WCSIP_10002, Scientific Research Publishing (SRP), "Journal of Computer and Communications" (ISSN:2327-5219), California (US)

●R.Alkhatib, M.Diab, C.Corbier, M.El Badaoui "Prediction of Human Gait - Vertical Ground Reaction Force ", International Journal of Enhanced Research in Science Technology & Engineering, Vol. 5 Issue 2, Pp. 206-216, ISSN: 2319-7463, February-2016.

●R.Alkhatib, M.Diab, B.Moslem, M.El Badawi, C.Corbier,” gait - ground reaction force sensors selection based on roc curve evaluation”, The 4th Int'l Conf. on Signal and Image Processing (CSIP 2015Mar.). Paper ID: CSIP2015Mar_80008, Scientific Research Publishing (SRP), "Journal of Computer and Communications" (ISSN:2327-5219), California (US), article acceptance: 2014-12-28, V 3, 13-19, 2015.

●R.Alkhatib, M.Diab, C.Corbier, M.El Badawi, “A Modified Filtering Model of VGRF Gait Signals”, International Conference on Bio-engineering for Smart Technologies (BioSMART 2017), IEEE, Centre de Conferences Capital, Paris, France, Aug.30th–Sep.1st, 2017.

●A.Hajjar, R.Alkhatib, “Agile Locomotion in Quadruped Robots”, International Conference on Bio-engineering for Smart Technologies (BioSMART 2016), IEEE, Dubai (UAE), Dec. 4th-7th, 2016.

●M.Diab, R.Alkhatib, B.Moslem,C.Corbier, M.El Badawi, “Synchrosqueezing Characterize Non-Stationary Signals: Application on Gait-Vertical Ground Reaction Force”, Global Summit on Computer and Information Technology (GSCIT’2016), IEEE. Sousse, TUNISIA, 16-18, July, 2016.

●K.Hiba, M.Diab, B.Moslem,R.Alkhatib, C.Corbier, M.El Badawi, “Frequency Content Analysis of Gait - Vertical Ground Reaction Force”, Third International Conference On Advances In Biomedical Engineering (ICABME15), IEEE. EMB, Doctoral School of Sciences and Technology (EDST) and the Faculty of Engineering Lebanese University (LU), Hadat-Beirut, Lebanon, September 16-18, 2015.

●R.Alkhatib, C.Corbier, M.El Badawi, B.Moslem, M.Diab,”Sensor’s Ground Reaction Force Behaviour for Both Normal and Parkinson Subjects- a Qualitative Study”, 37th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Societ. Mico-Milan Conference Center – Milan, Italy, August 25-29 2015.

●S. Berjaoui, R. Alkhatib, A. Elshiekh,M. Diab, M.Morad,” Free Flowing Robot for Automatic Pipeline Leak Detection Using Piezoelectric Film Sensors”, Medideterranean Gas and Oil International Conference (MEDGO2015),Crown Plaza Hotel, April 16-18, IEEE Xplore Digital Library.

●R. Alkhatib, M. El Badawi, C. Corbier, B. Moslem, M. Diab, “Gait-Ground Reaction Force Signals-Balancing Parameters”, 21st LAAS International Science Conference, pp. 95, Beirut, Lebanon, April 2015.

●Rami Alkhatib, Mohamad Diab, Bassam Moslem, Christophe Corbier, Mohamed El Badaoui. “Classification of Ground Reaction Forces Based on Non Stationary Analysis”, Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Vision and Image Analysis, IEEE ICCVIA 2015, pp. 1-4, Soussa, Tunisia, Jan. 2015.

●R.Alkhatib, M.Diab, B.Moslem, M.El Badawi, C.Corbier, “Non Stationary Analysis of Gait-Ground Reaction Force Signals”, LAAS20, March 2014, accepted article.

●M. Sabbah, R. Khatib, S. Saad, S. Sandid, M. Diab. “Feasibility Study for Magneto Hydrodynamics Hardware Model”, ICABME Tripoli, Lebanon September 11-13, 2013.

●N. Al-Aawar; R. Al-Khatib; and A.A. Arkadan, “EM-FL-PSO Design Optimization of WAD,” COMPUMAG 2013, Budapest, Hungary.

CERTIFICATION OR PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

●DAAD DIES Proposal Writing Courses for Research Grants, Seminar 1 (May 1st-5th, 2019), E-Learning, Seminar 1 (December 1st-7th, 2019), Beirut, Lebanon. (Scholarship)

●Robot Operating System (ROS) summer school 2017 at the FH Aachen University of Applied Sciences, Germany, August 14-25, 2017. Topics Covered: Introduction to Mobile Robotics, ROS File System, ROS Communication, Hardware and Sensors, ROS serial and Teleportation, AR-Tag Detection, GAZEBO Simulation, Localization and Navigation, Introduction to SLAM Algorithms. (Scholarship)

●Professional Activities Coordinator at the IEEE section of Robotics & Automation/ Instrumentation & Measurements/Control Systems Chapter, Lebanon

●Member in the Order of Engineers – Beirut, 2012- Currently

●National Instruments training: Multisim: Teaching, Research, & Circuit Design Software, Teaching Controls, Robotics & Mechatronics with NI myRIO and Qube, LabVIEW Developer, May 11- May15, 2015, Lebanon-Beirut

●IEEE and ASME, Certificates of excellence in teaching the first Matlab Workshop, Rafik Hariri University, April and December, 2014

●LabVIEW Core 1, 2, 3 and LabVIEW Connectivity training courses – National Instruments– April 2014 and Dec 17-23, 2014, Lebanon- Beirut

●Friedrich Nauman foundation for Liberty- Introduction to Liberalism-March 2012 Moevenpick Hotel-Lebanon, March 2013, Chtaura Park hotel-Lebanon

●UNIDO-EDIP Training Program, fall 2010 chamber of commerce Industry & Agriculture of Zahle and Bekaa Lebanon

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