Dr. Mageda Sharafeddin
Interim-Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences
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Education
PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering, American University of Beirut, 2013
Master of Engineering in Electrical and Computer Engineering, The Ohio State University, 1995
Bachelor of Engineering in Computer and Communications Engineering, American University of Beirut, 1993.
- Post-doctoral Fellow working on cloud solutions providing high performance computing nodes, American University of Beirut, 2015.
- Thirteen Years of Industrial Experience with IBM as Senior Software Engineer in the Electronic Design Automation Organization, Micro Electronics Group.
- Authored/co-authored over 16 articles in peer reviewed journals and conferences including IEEE transactions and ACM transactions.
- Research interests include Distributed High-Performance Computing and Natural Language Processing.
- Created innovative and inter-disciplinary undergraduate curricula in Data Science and graduate curricula in Management Information Systems and in Digital Media.
- Designed an innovative course in programming for business.
- Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, IEEE.
- U.S. Patent, “Out-of-Order Microprocessor that Eliminates Physical Registers and the Reorder Buffer Using Virtual Register Renaming, Checkpoints, and Simultaneous Multithreading Register Contexts”, H. Akkary and M. Sharafeddine.