Dr Brahim HAMADICHAREF
BEng MEng PhD (MIEEE MEIT MAES FoI)

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Research Scientist

Research Experience/Interests

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Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA), Hardware Description Language (HDL), High Level Synthesis (HLS), Linux Cluster, Low Density Parity-Check (LDPC), Bit Error Rate (BER), Additive White Gaussian Noise (AWGN), Embedded Linux, Thermal Imaging, TI OMAP3/OMAP4, Raspberry PI, Camera module, Arduino, GCC/toolchain Bitbake, ARM-NEON, Qt-embedded/Qt4.8/Qt5/QML, MATLAB, C/C++, JAVA, mySQL, DSP assembler, OpenCV, OpenGL ES, OpenGL Shading Language (GLSL), BlueTooth, GStreamer, DSP Plugin, Wifi, Ethernet, Giga-Ethernet, IP Video streaming, Wiimote, Nunchuck, Kinect, GPS, I2C, SPI, Infrared LWIR/SWIR, Signal Processing, MIDI, Pro Audio, biomedical, ElectroEncephalography, biomakers, Alzheimer Disease, Brain-Computer Interface (BCI), Machine Learning (ML), Pattern Recognition (PR), Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), stroke rehabilitation, Receiver Operating Characteristics (ROC), Statistical Parametric Mapping (SPM), functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI), Graphics Processing Unit (GPU), Compute Unified Device Architecture (CUDA), Graph Theory (GT), Fractal Dimension (FD), sound analysis, sound synthesis, sound modeling, Perceptual Evaluation of Audio Quality (PEAQ), Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO, Genetic Algorithm (GA), Harmony Search (HS), Near Infrared Spectroscopy (NIRS), etc.

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Employment

October 2014	Scientist II
Present	Data Storage Institute (DSI), Drive Systems and Technologies (DST) Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) 5 Engineering Drive 1, (Off Kent Ridge Crescent, NUS), Singapore 117608
(X months)	Research and Development on Joint Viterbi Detector Decoder (JVDD) for satellite communications, Xilinx Vivado / ISE FPGA / VHDL+Verilog, Large scale MC software simulation Linux servers (R815 64-cores) Additive White Gaussian Noise (AWGN), Low Density Parity-Check (LDPC), Bit Error Rate (BER), etc.
16 April 2012	now Lead Software R&D Engineer Senior Embedded Software R&D Engineer
25 September 2014	MTech Imaging Pte Ltd, 57 Changi North Crescent, Singapore 499629  OEM Company of Miltrade Technologies Group
(2 years 6 months)	Research & Design in Thermal Imaging (LWIR, SWIR) Thermal Camera System (DM3730 Linux Embedded Software, Camera Driver, Qt), Qt apps and GUI, Sensors, Video IP Streaming, Image Processing (NUC, Enhancement, etc) Advanced Radiometry, GPS/NMEA, Motorized Lens Control
August 2011	Research Fellow
March 2012	Marine Mammal Research Laboratory (MMRL), Tropical Marine Science Institute (TMSI) National University of Singapore (NUS), 18 Kent Ridge Road, Singapore 119227
(8 months)	Underwater video processing, underwater ambient noise analysis, marine technologies
July 2010	Research Fellow
July 2011	Brain and Behavior Laboratory (BBL), Department of Psychology Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, 9 Arts Link National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore 117570
(1 year)	Co-PI: 'Brain correlates of behavioral learning in humans' Presentation (Neurobehavioral Systems), MATLAB, R, EEG, MRI/fMRI (Habenula) Head: Associate Professor Annett SCHIRMER
March 2007	Research Fellow
March 2010	Brain Computer Interface Lab, Signal Processing Department, Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R) Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore
(3 years)	Research on signal processing in audio and biomedical, model optimization and performance evaluation Brain-Computer Interface (BCI), EEG/MRI/fMRI analysis, stroke rehabilitation, children ADHD, EEG-video epilepsy Head: Dr Cuntai GUAN
November 2005	Research Fellow / Development of GRID and web services
November 2006	Signal Processing and Multimedia Communications (SPMC) research group School of Computing, Communications & Electronics (SoCCE), University of Plymouth, UK
(1 years)	Early detection of Alzheimer Disease from EEG (Bioprofiling over GRID for eHealthcare) Preoperative diagnosis of ovarian tumors, and ROC-based evaluation of intelligent medical systems, European Network of Excellence BIOPATTERN (FP6-2002-IST-1 N° 508803) Head: Professor Emmanuel C. IFEACHOR
November 2002	Post-Doctoral Research Fellow
November 2005	Signal Processing and Multimedia Communications (SPMC) research group School of Computing, Communications & Electronics (SoCCE), University of Plymouth, UK
(3 years)	Co-PI: Intelligent and perceptual-based techniques for automated design and synthesis of musical instrument sounds EPSRC funded project (Grant No. GR/S00859/01, value: £140,218) Head: Professor Emmanuel C. IFEACHOR

Publications

[32]	Title B. Hamadicharef Journal or conference for 2015
[31]	Intelligent and Perceptual-based Approach to Musical Instruments Sound Design B. Hamadicharef, E. C. Ifeachor Expert Systems with Applications (IF: 1.924), Volume 39, Issue 7, June 2012, pp. 6476–6484 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0957417411017295 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2011.12.058
[30]	Scientometric Study of the IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering 1980-2010 B. Hamadicharef  Proceedings of the 2nd International Congress on Computer Applications and Computational Science (CACS2011), Bali, Indonesia, November 15-17, 2011, pp. 101-106 http://www.springerlink.com/content/rv050r0tm0055500/ DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-28314-7_14
[29]	Bibliometric Analysis of Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (NIRS) Research 1995-2009  B. Hamadicharef  Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Intelligent Computing and Intelligent Systems (ICIS2011), Guangzhou, China, November 18-20, 2011
[28]	International Collaborations in Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) Research  B. Hamadicharef  Proceedings of the 2011 International Conference on Web Information Systems and Mining (WISM’11), Taiyuan, China, September 24-25, 2011, pp. 35-42 Web Information Systems and Mining 2011, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series Volume 6987‏/2011 http://www.springerlink.com/content/c012216250tp6028/  DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23971-7_5
[27]	Bibliometric Analysis of Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) Research 2000-2010 B. Hamadicharef Proceedings of the 2011 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Computational Intelligence (AICI2011), Taiyuan, China, September 24-25, 2011, pp. 404-411 Artificial Intelligence and Computational Intelligence 2011, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series Volume 7004‏/2011  http://www.springerlink.com/content/yk4n1t26g31h3307/   DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23896-3_50
[26]	Scientometric Study of the Journal NeuroImage 1992-2009 B. Hamadicharef Proceedings of the 2010 International Conference on Web Information Systems and Mining (WISM'10), Nanjing, China, October 23-24, 2010, pp. 201-204 http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=5662439 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/WISM.2010.166
[25]	Brain-Computer interface (BCI) based Musical Composition B. Hamadicharef, MuFeng Xu, Sheel Aditya Proceedings of the 2010 International Conference on CYBERWORLDS (CW2010), Singapore, October 20-22, 2010, pp. 282-286 URL: http://www.tech.plymouth.ac.uk/spmc/brahim/BCI-Music/ http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/mostRecentIssue.jsp?punumber=5654666 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/CW.2010.32
[24]	A Plea for AUC Confidence Intervals in Diagnosis Models used in Gynecology B. Hamadicharef Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on BioMedical Engineering and Informatics (BMEI2010), Yantai, China, October 16-18, 2010, Vol. 6, pp. 2471-2474 http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/mostRecentIssue.jsp?punumber=5624551 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/BMEI.2010.5639681
[23]	AUC Confidence Bounds for Performance Evaluation of Brain-Computer Interface   B. Hamadicharef Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on BioMedical Engineering and Informatics (BMEI2010), Yantai, China, October 16-18, 2010, Vol. 5, pp. 1988-1991 http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/mostRecentIssue.jsp?punumber=5624551 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/BMEI.2010.5639671
[22]	Bibliometric Study of the DAFx Proceedings 1998-2009   B. Hamadicharef Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Digital Audio Effects (DAFx2010), Graz, Austria, September 6-10, 2010, pp. 427-430 URL: http://www.tech.plymouth.ac.uk/spmc/brahim/DAFx2010/
[21]	Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) Literature - A Bibliometric Study B. Hamadicharef  Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Information Science, Signal Processing and their applications (ISSPA2010), May 10-13, 2010, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, pp. 626-629 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ISSPA.2010.5605421
[20]	Frequentist versus Bayesian approaches for AUC Confidence Interval Bounds B. Hamadicharef  Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Information Science, Signal Processing and their applications (ISSPA2010), May 10-13, 2010, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, pp. 341-344 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ISSPA.2010.5605530
[19]	Learning EEG-based Spectral-Spatial Patterns for Attention Level Measurement B. Hamadicharef, H.H. Zhang, C.T. Guan, C.C. Wang, K.S. Phua, K.P. Tee, K.K. Ang Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS2009), Taipei, Taiwan, May 24-27, 2009, pp. 1465-1468 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ISCAS.2009.5118043
[18]	Performance Evaluation and Fusion of Methods for Early Detection of Alzheimer Disease B. Hamadicharef, C.T. Guan, E. C. Ifeachor, N. Hudson, S. Wimalaratna Proceedings of the International Conference on BioMedical Engineering and Informatics (BMEI2008), Sanya, Hainan , China, May 27-30, 2008, pp. 347-351 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/BMEI.2008.196
[17]	Online tools and services for early detection and care of Alzheimer's disease B. Hamadicharef, C. Goh, E. C. Ifeachor, C. Bigan, N. Hudson Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Computational Intelligence in Medicine and Healthcare (CIMED2007), Plymouth, U.K., July 25-27, 2007
[16]	Sample Size Determination using ROC Analysis V. Stalbovskaya, B. Hamadicharef, E. C. Ifeachor Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Computational Intelligence in Medicine and Healthcare (CIMED2007), Plymouth, U.K., July 25-27, 2007
[15]	The BIOPATTERN Grid – Implementation and Applications P. Hu, L. Sun, C. Goh, B. Hamadicharef, E. C. Ifeachor, I. Barbounakis, M. Zervakis, N. Nurminen, A. Varri, R. Fontanelli, S. Di Bona, D. Guerri, S. La Manna, K. Cerbioni, E. Palanca and A. Starita Proceedings of the 5th All Hands Meeting 2006 (AHM2006), Nottingham, U.K., September 18-21, 2006
[14]	Bioprofiling over Grid for eHealthcare L. Sun, P. Hu, C. Goh, B. Hamadicharef, E. Ifeachor, I. Barbounakis, M. Zervakis, N. Nurminen, A. Varri, R. Fontanelli, S. Di Bona, D. Guerri, S. La Manna, K. Cerbioni, E. Palanca, A. Starita Proceedings of HealthGRID2006, Valencia, Spain, June 7-9, 2006
[13]	Bioprofiling over Grid for Early Detection of Dementia (Invited Paper) L. Sun, P. Hu, C. Goh, B. Hamadicharef, M. Hess, E. Ifeachor, I. Barbounakis, M. Zervakis, N. Nurminen, A. Varri Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Scalable Information Systems (InfoScale2006), Hong Kong, May 30-June 1, 2006  DOI: http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1146847.1146879
[12]	Fuzzy Audio Signal Processing - Concept and Applications S. Bawa, B. Hamadicharef. E.C. Ifeachor Advances in Network and Communications Engineering 2 (Editors: S. Furnell and P. Dowland, Publisher: University of Plymouth, UK, ISBN: 978-1-84102-140-9), 2005, pp. 141-148
[11]	Independent Component Analysis of Musical Instrument Sound D. Chuckravanen, B. Hamadicharef. E.C. Ifeachor Advances in Network and Communications Engineering 2 (Editors: S. Furnell and P. Dowland, Publisher: University of Plymouth, UK, ISBN: 978-1-84102-140-9), 2005, pp. 149-157
[10]	Perceptual Modeling of Piano Tones Y. Zhang, B. Hamadicharef. E.C. Ifeachor Advances in Network and Communications Engineering (Editors: S. Furnell and P. Dowland, Publisher: University of Plymouth, UK, ISBN: 1-84102-118-0), 2004, pp. 132-140
[9]	Sound Synthesis using Independent Component Analysis J. Grizard, B. Hamadicharef. E.C. Ifeachor Advances in Network and Communications Engineering (Editors: S. Furnell and P. Dowland, Publisher: University of Plymouth, UK, ISBN: 1-84102-118-0), 2004, pp. 123-131
[8]	A Prediction of Audio Quality for Personal Audio Devices C. Marzin, B. Hamadicharef. E.C. Ifeachor Advances in Network and Communications Engineering (Editors: S. Furnell and P. Dowland, Publisher: University of Plymouth, UK, ISBN: 1-84102-118-0), 2004, pp. 113-122
[7]	Perceptual Modeling of Piano Tones B. Hamadicharef and E C. Ifeachor 119th AES Convention, October 7-10, 2005 - New York, NY, USA, (Preprint 6525) http://www.aes.org/e-lib/browse.cfm?elib=13316
[6]	Preoperative Ovarian Cancer Diagnosis using Neuro-Fuzzy Approach  E. O. Madu, V. Stalbovskaya, B. Hamadicharef, E. C. Ifeachor, S. Van Huffel, D. Timmerman  Proceedings of the European Conference on Emergent Aspects on Clinical Data Analysis (EACDA 2005), September 28-30, 2005 - Pisa, Italy
[5]	Comparison of Fractal Dimension Algorithms for the Computation of EEG Biomarkers for Dementia C. Goh, B. Hamadicharef, G. T. Henderson, and E. C. Ifeachor  Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Computational Intelligence in Medicine and Healthcare (CIMED2005), Costa da Caparica, Lisbon, Portugal, June 29- July 1, 2005
[4]	ROC Analysis in the Evaluation of Intelligent Medical Systems E. C. Ifeachor and B. Hamadicharef Proceedings of the 1st European Workshop on the Assessment of Diagnostic Performance (EWADP 2004), Milan, Italy, July 7-9, 2004, pp. 23-32
[3]	Objective Prediction of Sound Synthesis Quality  B. Hamadicharef and E C. Ifeachor 115th AES Convention, New York, NY, USA, October 10-13, 2003 (Preprint 5958) http://www.aes.org/e-lib/browse.cfm?elib=12381
[2]	An Intelligent System Approach to Sound Synthesis Parameter Optimisation   B. Hamadicharef and E. C. Ifeachor 111th AES Convention, New York, NY, USA, November 30 - December 3, 2001 (Preprint 5484) http://www.aes.org/e-lib/browse.cfm?elib=9860
[1]	Artificial Intelligence based Modeling of Musical Instruments   B. Hamadicharef and E. C. Ifeachor Proceedings of the 2nd COST-G6 Workshop on Digital Audio Effects (DAFx'99), Trondheim, Norway, December 9-11, 1999
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