Alaa Halawani

Alaa Halawani

Associate professor, College of Information Technology and Computer Engineering

Experience

  • Palestine Polytechnic University– Hebron, Palestine                   2021 – Now
    College of I nformation Technology and Computer Engineering
    Associate Professor
    Teaching several graduate and undergraduate courses including Signals and Sysytems, Information Retrieval, Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing.
  • Palestine Polytechnic University– Hebron, Palestine                   2018 – 2021
    College of I nformation Technology and Computer Engineering
    Assistant Professor
  • Fingerprint Cards AB– Göteborg, Sweden                                         2017 – 2018
    Algorithm Development Engineer
    Design, analysis, and development of efficient fingerprint recognition algorithms including liveness detection and finger qualification.
  • Umeå University– Umeå, Sweden                                                         2011 – 2016
    Dept. of Applied Physics and Electronics
    Assistant Professor (Forskarassistent)
    100% research position. Main responsibilities were design and analysis of algorithms for object detection and localization in noisy images, literature study, guidance of several PhD students through their studies, organizing a weekly-meeting event, result documentation & publication, participating in international conferences, and research grant applications. I occasionally acted as an examination committee member for local and international masters and licentiate theses.
  • Umeå University– Umeå, Sweden                                                        2009 – 2011
    Dept. of Applied Physics and Electronics
    Postdoc researcher
    I dealt with the design and analysis of algorithms for human motion estimation, literature study, experiment design for potential applications, result analysis and documentation (publication), presentation and communication, and research grant applications.
  • Palestine Polytechnic University– Hebron, Palestine                    2007 – 2009
    Electrical and Computer Eng. Dept.
    Assistant Professor
    I taught several graduate and undergraduate courses and Labs for computer systems engineering & computer science students, supervised several students in their graduation projects, and acted as an examination committee chairperson/member for several student projects and theses.
  • University of Freiburg, Freiburg– Germany                                     2002 – 2006
    Chair of Pattern Recognition and Image Processing
    Research associate and PhD student
  • Palestine Polytechnic University– Hebron, Palestine                   2000 – 2001
    Electrical and Computer Eng. Dept.
    Lecturer
  • Palestine Polytechnic University– Hebron, Palestine                  1996 – 1997
    Electrical and Computer Eng. Dept.
    Teaching Assistant