Curriculum Vitae de Mr BEKARA Maiza

Dr. Maiza BEKARA was born in Tenes, Algeria, in October 1975.

Address:
Institute of Geophysics and Tectonic
Earth Sciences Department
Leeds University, LS2 9JT UK

Tel : +44 (0)113 343 7012
Fax : +44 (0)113 343 5259
Email : bekara@earth.leeds.ac.uk

Education

2004 PhD in Electrical Engineering, Université de Paris XI, France
2001 MSci in Electrical Engineering, Université de Paris XI, France
2000 Master of Business Administration , Ajou University, Suwon, South Korea
1998 Eng. degree in Electronics , Institut National d'Electricite et d'Electronique, Boumerdes, Algeria

Honor and Awards

French Government Research Grant MNERT, 2001.
Dean's award of academic excellence, Ajou University, South Korea, 2000.
Daewoo Corp. Scholarship Grant, 1998.

Employment

06/05-Now Postdoctoral Research Fellow , Institute of Geophysics and Tectonics, University of Leeds, UK
Research topic : Blind identification of seismic signals
11/04-04/05 Visiting Scholar, with the group Heudiasyc , Universite Technologique de Compiegne, France
Research topic : Nonparametric spectral estimation
09/01-10/04 Research Assistant, Services des Mesures, SUPELEC , France
PhD thesis : " Optimization of model selection criteria for small data sets"
Supervisor : Prof. Gilles Fleury
09/02-10/04 Teacher Assistant, Ecole Supérieur d'Ingénieurs en Informatique et en Télécommunications, France
Supervise Laboratory session for undergraduate students in Electrical Engineering
- Digital Signal Processing (72 hours)
- Telecommunication (45 hours)
- Electronics (24 hours)
- Introduction to Matlab (12 hours)
04/01-08/01 Research Trainee , R&D center of Schlumberger Oil Field Services, Clamart, France
Research topic : Model selection and inversion techniques applied to permanent resistivity array tool
04/00-09/00 Technical Supervisor , Daweoo Corp. Algeria, Algiers, Algeria

Computer Skills

Operating System Microsoft, Linux
Programming Matlab, Simulink, C, C++
Text Processing MS Office, Latex

Visiting research:

IMEC-INTEC, University of Gent, belgium (6/2003-8/2003).
research topic : Model selection approch to signal denoising
Collaboration with Prof . Luc Knockaert.

SPG , Technical University of Darmstadt, germany(11/2003-12/2003).
research topic :Detection of the number of signal s in array processing with non uniform noise and small samples of data.
Collaboration with Prof .A.K.Zoubir.

Languages :
English : fluent (Language of studies in the engineering cycle and MBA)
French : fluent
Arabic: mother language
Korean : beginner

For more information (publications , research...) visit :

Web site : http://earth.leeds.ac.uk/%7Ebekara/index.htm