1-  Staff Brigadier Major General Kamel Al Wazir, 
Head of Engineering Authority for the Armed Forces Touring the Projects of Suez Canal Tunnels 
                    and Sharq El Tafriaa Port in Port Said
Title:
                     The Role of the Egyptian Armed Forces in National 
                  Development Projects as Part of the Overall Development 
                 Plan and its Role the Suez Canal Zone Development Project
                                        By
                   Staff Brigadier Major General Kamel Al Wazir
Head of Engineering Authority for the Armed Forces Touring the Projects of Suez Canal Tunnels 
                      and Sharq El Tafriaa Port in Port Said

Invited Talk Agenda:
                    
  
 
    
Short Biographies of Keynote Speaker and the Project of Suez Canal Tunnels:
    
   
    
  
Major General Kamel Al Wazir - Head of Engineering Authorityfor the Armed Forces.
Major General Kamel Al Wazir praised the work progress and stated that Suez Canal Tunnels is the mega engineering project in Egypt currently 
for its capabilities and state of the art technology. He added that the Egyptian engineers, technicians and workers proved that they have a 
highly standard qualification in the installation of the tunnel boring machine and astonishing the foreign experts with their positive reactions 
towards these hi-tech.  This tour started with the visit of Suez Canal Tunnels in Port Said which is part of the national plan for the development 
of Suez Canal Region launched by President Abdel Fattah El Sisi to magnify the role of the region and turning into an international distinguished 
center in the industrial and logistic services, integrated economically and environmental and territorial balanced.
The project includes the construction of two tunnels for cars and another tunnel for the railway to link East and West of Suez Canal. 
These tunnels are the mega huge ones in the region. The inner diameter for each tunnel reached 11.4m, the external reached 12.6m and 30m depth 
under Suez Canal. The cars tunnels one of them from Port Said to Sinai and vice versa separated by 20m length. The length for each tunnel is 2.7km 
and the railway is 6.7km.
Then Major General Kamel Al Wazir, toured the work progress in the quarries for East Port Said project under the supervision of the Engineering 
Authorityfor the Armed Forces.  
The Project Manager pointed out that the AC is constructing the quarries 1000ml divided into Zone 4 & Zone 5(500ml for each). 
The project is about quarries for the berthage, the draft of the ship is 20m for ships with a capacity reached 170 thousand tons for containers 
and general goods. 



2- Prof.Said E. El-Khamy ,Prof. Emeritus, Alexandria University  Life Fellow IEEE
Dept. of Electrical Engineering,
Faculty of Engineering, 
Alexandria University, 
Alexandria 21544,
Email: elkhamy@ieee.org

Title:
             Recent Research Trends in Wireless Multimedia Communications
                                        By
                              Prof.Said E. El-Khamy

                        Prof. Emeritus, Alexandria University

                               elkhamy@ieee.org

Abstracts and Short Biographies of Keynote Speaker:
 

Abstract-- Recent advances in wireless multimedia communication technologies have witnessed immense growing and evolving research activities
in recent years. Unlike traditional communication systems, a fundamental challenge for next generation wireless networks is the ability to 
transport wideband multimedia content over a variety of networks at different channel conditions and bandwidth capacities.  In this talk, 
we discuss some of the key enabling technologies based on recent research activities by the author and his research team.

Some of the main areas and techniques to be presented are Smart Antennas and Massive MIMO, Design of thinned arrays, OFDMA new techniques, 
Image transmission, Cognitive radio and new approaches for spectrum sensing, image and audio encryption and watermarking. The main adopted 
approach is to apply modern signal processing techniques including compressive sensing, fractals, chaos and fuzzy techniques, evolutionary 
algorithms, optimization techniques, Wavelets, cyclo-stationary features and higher order statics. 


 

Prof. El-Khamy graduated from the Faculty of Engineering, Alexandria University 1965, obtained his M.Sc. Degree from the same 
University in 1967, and obtained his Ph.D. Degree from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, U.S.A. in  1971. 
He joined the faculty of the Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Alexandria University as an Assistant Prof. in 1972, and he is now 
Prof. Emeritus since 2004. He acted as the Chairman of the Dept. of Elect. Eng. From Sept. 2000 to Sept. 2003.  

Prof. El-Khamy has published about 400 papers in International and Local Scientific Journals and conferences. His published papers 
covered many aspects in the field of Wireless Communication Systems and Signal Processing. His recent research activities are in 
the areas of 4G and 5G systems including Cognitive Radio, Channel Estimation, Multimedia security, Compressive Sensing, and Massive 
MIMO. He supervised more than one hundred M.Sc. and Ph.D. theses. Many of his students hold prestigious positions at Academic and 
research institutes. He is the co-author of an international reference book on Image Processing published by CRC Press/Taylor and 
Francis, titled: Image Super-Resolution and Applications. 

Prof. El-Khamy acted as a member of the Editorial Committees of some International Journal including International Journal of Information 
Acquisition (IJIA), published by SCIENCE DIRECT and he is an Associate Editor for Communications and Signal Processing for the Radio 
Science Bulletin, which is the formal scientific magazine of the International Union of Radio Science (URSI). He took part in the 
organization of many international conferences including IEEE-ISCC’95, IEEE-ISCC’97, IEEE-ISSPIT’2001, IEEE-MELECON’2002, URSI 
XXVIIth-GA’2002, IEEE-MWSCAS'03, and URSI- EMT’04. He also represented Egypt in many of the General Assemblies of the International 
Union of Radio Science (URSI). As for local conferences, Prof. El-Khamy was a member of the organizing committee of the past 32 URSI-NRSC 
conferences and most recently he was the chairman of NRSC2016 held in February this year.. 

Prof. El-Khamy was awarded many international, regional, national and academic awards, including The, R.W.P. King IEEE A&P Best Paper in 
1980, A.H. Shoman Jordanian Regional Award in 1982, IEEE Region 8 Volunteer Award in 2010, Egypt’s State Appreciation Award in 2004, the 
State Scientific Excellence Award in 2002 and the State Incentive Award for two times in 1980 and 1989. Also, he obtained the Alexandria 
University Appreciation Award in 2004, the University Incentive Award in 1979, and the University Service Gold medal and Certificate on 
the occasion of being an emeritus professor in 2004. He was selected by the Egyptian Society of Communication Engineers as the first Egyptian 
Personality in Communications for 2000. He was elected as a Fellow of the IEEE Since Jan. 1999, IEEE Life Fellow since 2010 and was also elected 
as a Fellow of the Electromagnetic International Society.

Prof. El-Khamy was the founder and past chairman of IEEE Alexandria/Egypt Subsection. He is the president of Egypt’s National Radio Science 
(URSI) Committee.  


3- Prof. Yahia M. M. Antar, Fellow IEEE
Vice President of the International Union of Radio Science,

Professor, Military Technical College, Ontario, Canada.


Title:
                  Overview of Some Future Trends in Antenna  Research
                                        By
                                Yahia M. M. Antar
                           

Abstracts and Short Biographies of Keynote Speaker:

The growing of wireless communications  has been an important additional driving force for the advancement of antenna technology. Antennas are
the ”eyes” and “ears” of communications systems, radars, satellites and other sensors. They are used in wide range of applications from terminal 
devices (such as mobile phones), to advanced communication systems on aircrafts, ships, vehicles, medical applications, remote sensing, global 
navigation satellite systems(GNSS), and so on. Strong demands like small physical size, low weight, low cost, wideband and multiband, 
reconfigurable capabilities, medical or even aesthetic considerations are increasingly required as essential for modern antenna designs. 

Furthermore, the promise of 5G will expand the possibilities of what mobile networks can do and will drive the future evolution of the internet 
itself.  All of these aspects will put more demands for new innovations in antennas.
It is evident that future successful antenna designs will be highly dependent on developing new design methodologies, 
new fundamentals, and more physical understanding of the operation of antennas, especially in modern complex environments.  On the other hand, 
an ideal antenna methodology should also allow one to achieve optimal antenna performance in a systematic synthesis approach with very clear 
physical understandings of the involved phenomena. This talk will address new fundamental aspects for electromagnetic fields of antennas beyond 
the conventional approach. New theory of electromagnetic near fields, new considerations for electromagnetic energy, antenna –to –antenna 
interaction, and spatial and spectral descriptions of the fields will be highlighted. Applications to designing small antennas, conformal and 
super directive arrays, new MIMO systems, near field focusing configurations, and a thorough approach for mutual coupling will be discussed. 

A new approach to antenna current -engineering, which provides means for designing new antennas with specified current distributions, using new 
materials and new fabrication techniques will be described.


  
    
Yahia M. M. Antar (S’73–M’76–SM’85–LF’00) received the B.Sc. (Hons.) degree in 1966 from Alexandria 
University, Alexandria, Egypt, and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Manitoba, MB,
Canada, in 1971 and 1975, respectively, all in electrical engineering. In 1977, he held a Government 
of Canada Visiting Fellowship at the Communications Research Centre in Ottawa, ON, where he worked 
with the Space Technology Directorate on communications antennas for satellite systems. In May 1979, 
he joined the Division of Electrical Engineering, National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, where 
he worked on polarization radar applications in remote sensing of precipitation, radio wave propagation, 
electromagnetic scattering, and radar cross section investigations. In November 1987, he joined the 
staff of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Royal Military College of Canada, Kingston, 
ON, where he has held the position of professor since 1990 and is presently Vice Dean for defence and security research. 
    
He has authored or coauthored close to 200 journal papers, many chapters in books, about 400 refereed 
conference papers, holds several patents, has chaired several national and international conferences, 
and has given plenary talks at many conferences . He has supervised and cosupervised over 85 Ph.D. and M.Sc. 
theses at the Royal Military College and at Queen’s University, of which several have received the Governor General of 
Canada Gold Medal, the outstanding Ph.D. thesis of the Division of Applied Science, as well as many best paper awards 
in major international symposia. He served as the Chairman of the Canadian National Commission for Radio Science 
(CNC, URSI, 1999–2008), Commission B National Chair (1993–1999), held adjunct appointment at the University of Manitoba, 
and has a cross appointment at Queen’s University in Kingston. 

Dr. Antar is a Life Fellow of the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers), a Fellow of the Engineering 
Institute of Canada (FEIC), a Fellow of the Electromagnetic Academy, serves as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Antennas 
and Propagation Magazine, served as Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, the IEEE 
Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, IET, and was a member of the Editorial Board of the RFMiCAE Journal. He served 
on NSERC grants selection and strategic grants committees, Ontario Early Research Awards (ERA) panels, and on review 
panels for the National Science Foundation in the U.S. In May 2002, he was awarded a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in 
Electromagnetic Engineering which has been renewed in 2016. In 2003, he was awarded the Royal Military College of Canada 
“Excellence in Research” Prize, and the RMCC Class of 1965 Teaching Excellence award in 2012. He was elected by the Council
of the International Union of Radio Science (URSI) to the Board as Vice President in August 2008 and in 2014, and to the 
IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society Administration Committee in December 2009. On January 31, 2011, he was appointed 
Member of the Canadian Defence Science Advisory Board (DSAB). He served as an  IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society 
Distinguished Lecturer . In October 2012, he received the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal from the Governor General of 
Canada in recognition for his contribution to Canada. He is the recipient of two national awards: the 2014 IEEE Canada 
RA Fessenden Silver Medal, and the 2015 IEEE Canada J. M. Ham outstanding Engineering Education Award. In May 2015, 
he received the RMC Cowan Prize for excellence in research.