Keynote Speaker

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Abstract: Bio-impedance non-invasive measurement techniques usage is rapidly increasing in the agriculture industry. These measured impedance variations reflect tacit biochemical and biophysical changes of living and non-living tissues. Bio-impedance circuit modeling is an effective solution used in biology and medicine to fit the measured impedance. 

Bio-impedance measurements are used in the diagnosis of plants behavior to certain conditions such as fruit maturity, fruit ripening, analyzing the effect of heating and freezing conditions on fruits, measuring of root growth, and determining the water content and characteristic analysis of the root zone. Also, it is used to provide information about environmental change effect on fruits. There are other contributions in using bio-impedance measurements for different applications such as blood glucose measurement, monitoring insulin availability for personalized diabetes therapy, characterizing red blood cell micro-circulatory parameters, and tactile sensing bio-hybrid soft E-skin in soft robotics. 

This talk demonstrates the different bio-impedance plant electrical models, measurement methodology and optimization technique suitable for solutions. Extract the best circuit parameters circuit for the model that fit the experimental results via different optimization techniques from mathematical point of view to choose the best performance versus the complexity of the used algorithms 

BIO:   

Ahmed Madian (SM'12) is currently Professor and director for Electronics and computer Engineering Program, Faculty of Engineering and applied science, NILE University, Giza, Egypt on leave from Egyptian Atomic Energy Authority. He is the former director of Microelectronics System Design Master Program since 2015 -2020. Also, He is the former director of Nanoelectronics Integrated System Design Research center (NISC) since 2016-2022. He has published more than 200 papers in international conferences and journals with H-index 29. Also, he served in the many technical and organizing committee of many international conferences. He received many research grants as Principal Investigator (PI), CO-PI, or Consultant from different national/international organizations. He won the best researcher award (Dr. Hazem Ezzat award 2017) for his outstanding research profile and winner of ElShrouk Academy Award for Scientific and Technological Creativity 2020. Also, he is member of the national radio of science committee (NRSC), ASRT since 2018. He is member of the information technology and communication council, ASRT since 2021.

Dr. Madian is senior member IEEE and currently he is the IEEE Egypt Section chair and served as the IEEE Egypt section secretary/conference coordinator and member of the ExCom from 2020 – 2023. He is a co-founder for the IEEE Robotics and Automation Egypt chapter which won chapter of the year award region 8 for 2012. He also the founder of IEEE CASS technical chapter Egypt section won chapter of the year award region 8 for 2023. He served as technical program co-chair of many IEEE international conferences and organizing committee of many IEEE events and student’s competition. He is member in the steering committee of many IEEE conferences. He won IEEE-CASS outreach for many years. He organized many awareness sessions for proposal writing and fund raising for different IEEE units. He organized the Agri-hackathon as outreach activity from IEEE CASS. Also, he prepared the file for outstanding section and won best outstanding section over region 8 and best outstanding young professional affinity group on region 8. He served in the higher council of Communication and Information Technology, Egyptian academy for science, research, and technology (ASRT). He has been elected to voting member of IEEE CASS Standards Activities subdivision.

• IEEE Robotics and Automation co-founder (2012 – 2016)      outstanding chapter 2013
• IEEE Circuits and system Egypt technical chapter      founder (2020 – 2023) outstanding chapter 2023
• IEEE Conference coordinator Egypt Section (2020-      2023)
• IEEE Egypt Section Chair (2024 -2025)
• Voting member of IEEE CASS Standards Activities      subdivision
• IEEE African Council Treasurer (2024-2025)
• IEEE DLP CASS (2024-2025)
   

Recognitions:

· 2024-2025 Distinguished Lecturer.