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mahmoud-bennaser

Academic

Dr.

Mahmoud A. Ben Naser

Assistant Professor

Office Location:
S02E1164
mahmoud.bennaser@ku.edu.kw

Education

Degree Discipline Institution Year
Ph.D Computer Engineering University of Massachusetts 2008
M.S. Computer Engineering Brown University 2002
B.S. Computer Engineering Kuwait University 1999

 

Research Interests

Computer Architecture, VLSI, and Nano Technology

Selected Publications

  • a. Reem Jaffal, Sa’ed Abed, Imtiaz Ahmad, and Mahmoud Bennaser, " Approximate Population Count Using the Harley-Seal Method for Error-Tolerant Applications", International Journal of Computing and Digital Systems, July 2020, Vol. 9. 
  • Khaled Hadi and Mahmoud Bennaser, "Improving Node Positions in the Presence of Location Errors in Geographic Routing Protocol", Journal of High-Speed Networks, issue Pre-press, May 2020, Vol. 26, pp. 1-10, 10.3233/JHS-200626. 
  • Mahmoud Bennaser and Ahmad Bennakhi, "Applying Power Gating on D Flip-Flops", 3rd International Conference on Computational and Experimental Science and Engineering, (ICCESEN 2016), Antalya, Turkey, October 2016.
  • Yao Guo, Pritish Narayanan, Mahmoud Bennaser, Saurabh Chheda, and Csaba Andras Moritz, "Energy-Efficient Hardware Data Prefetching", IEEE transactions on VLSI, Jan. 2011, Vol. 19, NO.2
  • Mahmoud Bennaser , Yao Guo, and Csaba Andras Moritz, "Designing Memory Subsystems Resilient to Process Variation", IEEE transactions on VLSI, Volume 16 (12), pp. 1631-1638, Dec. 2008.
  • Power and Performance Tradeoffs with Process Variation Resilient Adaptive Cache Architectures, 21st Symposium on Integrated Circuits and Systems Design, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Gramado, Brazil, 2008.

  • Csaba Andras Moritz, Teng Wang, Pritish Narayanan, Michael Leuchtenburg, Yao Guo, Catherine Dezan, and Mahmoud Bennaser, "Fault-Tolerant Nanoscale Processors on Semiconductor Nanowire Grids,", In IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I, Volume 54 (11), pp. 2422-2437, Nov. 2007.

     

Work Experience

Academic Experience
Institution Designation Year/Period
Brown University Research Assistant Sep. 2000 – May. 2002
University of Massachusetts Research Assistant Sep. 2003 – Feb. 2008
Kuwait University Assistant Professor Feb. 2008 – Present

 

Industry Experience
Organization Designation Year/Period
Zain (formerly MTC) is the pioneer of mobile telecommunications in the Middle East & now a major player on the African continent. Computer Engineer 1999 - 2000 
Institute National Polytechnique (INPG), Grenoble, France Experience with creating web site for RECUPTL SA Company own by INPG in France. 1998 - 1998

 

Community Service

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Society., USA, Kuwait, IEEE is the world’s largest professional association advancing innovation and technological excellence for the benefit of humanity. IEEE and its members inspire a global community to innovate for a better tomorrow through its highly-cited publications, conferences, technology standards, and professional and educational activities. IEEE is the trusted ‘voice’ for engineering, computing and technology information around the globe. It has the most members of any technical professional organization in the world, with more than 365,000 members in around 150 countries., 2005 - 2012. 

Other

Honors and Awards

  • Dean Award, Best Electronic Course at the College of Engineering and Petroleum (1 st place)., 2012. 
  • Certification, Fundamentals of Solaris, 2012.  
  • certification, - Volume Manager with Sun StorEdge, 2012.  
  • certification, Sun Enterprise Cluster, 2012.  
  • Academic Excellence Award, Honored by the National Union of Kuwaiti Students, 1995.  
  • Certifications, - Solaris System Administration I and II, 2012 - 2012.  
  • Certification, TCP/IP Network Administration, 2012 - 2012.  
  • Kuwait University Scholarship, Was awarded a full scholarship to attain MSc and PhD degree in Computer Engineering from United States of America., 2000 - 2008.  
  • Certificate of Academic Distinction, Society of Engineering and Petroleum., 1996 - 1997.  
  • Honor List, College of Engineering & Petroleum – Kuwait University, 1994 – 1999.

Service Activities

  • Ministry of Justice, Investigation Committee, 2024. 
  • Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Head of Investigation Committee, 2022. 
  • Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences (KFAS), Head of Project Evaluation Committee for Information Systems Department, 2021.  
  • Kuwait University, Investigation Committee, 2018. 
  • College of Graduate Studies, Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archiving Team, 2016. 
  • National Bureau for Academic Accreditation and Education Quality Assurance (NBAQ), Information Technology System Committee member and vice chair, 2015.  
  • College of Engineering and Petroleum, Preparing Computer Engineer Examination for Kuwait Gulf Oil Company (KGOC). 2014  
  • Ministry of Justice, Served as a primary investigator for the lawsuit between the Ministry of Communication and KEMS Co., 2010.  
  • Kuwait University Computer Information Systems-Kuwait University, Proposal evaluation for an RFP related to HP Alpha Servers Migration and Implementation Services, 2009.  
  • Technical Reviewer, for IEEE Transactions on Very Large-Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems journal, 2008 - Present.  
  • OCCD, College of Engineering and Petroleum, 2008 - Present. 

Recent Professional Development Activities

  • “IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI” Conference, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA, 2012.  
  • “International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis” Conference, Seattle, Washington, USA, 2011. 
  • “IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design” Conference, San Jose, California, USA, 2010.  

  • “International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems” Conference, Washington, D. C., USA, 2009.