Abdou Youssef

Audio/Image/Video Processing; Data Compression; Multimedia Databases and Digital Libraries; Watermarking; Interconnection Networks; Parallel Processing and Computer Architecture; Parallel and Sequential Algorithms; Fault Tolerance

Ph.D., 1988, Computer Science, Princeton University

M.S., 1985, Computer Science, Princeton University

B.S., 1981, Mathematics, The Lebanese University, Lebanon

Data Compression; Error Resiliency in Image/Video Storage and Transmission; Content-Based Indexing of Multimedia Databases; Video Processing; Watermarking; Progressive Transmission; Visual-Data Modeling; Parallel Algorithms for Image/Video Processing; The Banyan-Hypercube; Cartesian Product Networks; Routing; Fault Tolerance; Embedding; Network Partitioning; Properties of Multistage Networks; Parallel Algorithms; Parallel Architectures with Parallel Primitives; Heterogeneous Processing

Selected Publications

1. I. Scherson and A. Youssef, Editors, Interconnection Networks for High-Performance Parallel Computers , IEEE Computer Society Press, September 1994.



2. A. Youssef, Pipewiring: an Intra-link Pipelining Technique for Faster Clocks and Communication in Parallel Systems , accepted to appear in a special issue of JOURNAL of Mathematical Modelling and Scientific Computing.



3. M. Bhatia and A. Youssef, Performance Analysis and Fault Tolerance of Randomized Routing on Clos Networks , accepted to appear in Telecommunication Systems Journal.



4. A. Youssef and Hoda El-Sayed, Optimization of Randomized Routing on Benes Networks , accepted to appear in a special issue of JOURNAL of Mathematical Modelling and Scientific Computing.



5. A. Bellaachia and A. Youssef, Broadcasting in Banyan-Hypercubes and Cross-Cubes , International Journal of Computers and their Applications, Vol. II, No. 1, pp. 12--18, April 1995.



6. A. Youssef, Off-line Permutation Routing on Circuit-Switched Fixed Routing Networks , Special Issue of NETWORKS Journal, Vol. 23, pp. 441--448, 1993.



7. A. Youssef, Randomized Self-Routing Algorithms for Clos Networks , Computers and Electrical Engineering, Vol. 19, No. 6, pp. 419--429, 1993.



8. T. El-Ghazawi and A. Youssef, A General Framework for Developing Adaptive Fault-Tolerant Routing Algorithms , IEEE Transactions on Reliability, Vol. 42, No. 2, pp. 250--258, June 1993.



9. A. Youssef, A Parallel Algorithm for Random Walk Construction with Application to the Monte Carlo Solution of Partial Differential Equations , IEEE Trans. on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Vol. 4, No. 3, pp. 355--360, Mar. 1993.