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Academic

Dr.

Faridah M. Ali

Assistant Professor

Office Location:
S02D1158

Education

Degree Discipline Institution Year
Ph.D Electrical Engineering Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA 1988
M.Sc. Electrical Engineering University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA 1983
B.Sc. Electrical Engineering Kuwait University 1980

 

Research Interests

Computer Architecture, Microprocessor System Design.

Selected Publications

  • F. M. Ali, H.Al-Hamadi, A.Ghoniem and H.D.Sherali, “Hardware-software co-design for reconfigurable field programmable gate arrays using mixed-integer  programming”, Informatica, 36 (2012) 287-295.  
  • I. Ahmad, Faridah Ali and R. UI-Mustafa, “An Integrated State Assigned at Flip-flop Selection Tchnique for FSM Synthesis”, Microprocessors and Microsystems, Jun, 2000, 
  • I. Ahmad, M.K. Dhodhi and Faridah Ali, “TLS: A tabu search based scheduling algorithm for behavioral synthesis of functional pipelines”, Computer Journal, 2000, 
  • Faridah Ali and Imtiaz Ahmad, “RFA: Register File Allocation via Graph Coloring”, Microprocessors and Microsystems, Apr, 1998, 

     

Work Experience

Academic Experience
Institution Designation Year/Period
Kuwait University Assistant Professor Aug, 1988 - Jun, 2010
Kuwait University Director July 1995-July1997
Kuwait University Assistant professor Sep 2013- present

 

Industry Experience
Organization Designation Year/Period
Private Universities Council, Ministry of Higher Education, Kuwait Acting Secretary General Sep2010-Mar2013
Private Universities Council, Ministry of Higher Education Deputy Secretary General Sep2005-Sep2010
Ministry of Higher Education, Kuwait Deputy Secretary General Sep, 2005
Kuwait University Director Jul, 1995 - Jul, 1997
Queensland University of Technology, Australia Visiting Assistant Professor Jul, 1994 - Jul, 1995
Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research, Kuwait Electrical Engineer Aug, 1980 - Aug, 1981
Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research Research Assistant Aug1980-Aug1981

 

Community Service

Service Activities

  • Coordinator of Digital Systems Laboratory (Sep 2021-Present) 
  • Member of Computer Architecture TAG group (Sep 2013 - present)  
  • Member of Computer Engineering Undergraduate Program Committee (Sep 2013 - 2014)  
  • Member of Strategic Planning Committee (Sep 16- June2017)  
  • Coordinator for Embedded Systems Laboratory (Sep 2013 – July 2015)