MAHA AMIN HASSANEIN

Passionate Professor in mathematics for engineering students empowering lectures with insightful teaching methods. Proponent of goal-oriented curriculums focused on project-based learning. Adept at using diverse multimedia strategies to accommodate different learning styles and improve information retention. Teaching mathematics bringing 20-year background instructing engineering students. Expertise in classroom oversight, course planning and behavior management. Successful at collaborating with teachers, administrative leaders and support specialists to meet individual student needs. Committed to encouraging higher-order thinking to increase student performance. With interest for quality of education, attended a variety of workshops for the quality assurance and accreditation being a member of the quality assurance and accreditation unit and vice president of the unit. Earned an ABET certificate in program assessment in 2019.

Department of Engineering Mathematics and Physics, Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University, Egypt.

• N.P. Seif, M. A. Hassanein and A. S. Deif, Inverse Interval Eigenvalue Problem, Journal of Eng. and Applied Science, Fac. of Eng., Cairo Univ., Vol. 46, No. 2, pp. 203-215, April, 1999.
• N.P. Seif, M. A. Hassanein and A. S. Deif, Inverse Problem of the Interval Linear System of Equations, Computing, Vol. 63, pp. 185-200, 1999.
• N.P. Seif, M. A. Hassanein, A. S. Deif, L-Stability of Symmetric Interval Matrices, Journal of Eng. and Applied Science, Fac. of Eng., Cairo Univ., Vol. 48, No. 1, pp. 1-10, Feb, 2001.
• N.P. Seif, A. S. Deif, M. A. Hassanein, Interval Bounds for Eigenvalue Problem, Journal of Eng. and Applied Science, Fac. of Eng., Cairo Univ., Vol. 52, No. 2, pp. 197-210, April, 2005.
• M. A. Hassanein, Interval Bounds for Multiple Eigenvalues, Journal of Eng. and Applied Science, Fac. of Eng., Cairo Univ., Vol. 53, No. 1, pp. 21-28, Feb., 2006.
• M. A. Hassanein, Wavelet-Based Preconditioners for Dense Linear Systems, Scientific Bulletin, Fac. of Eng., Ain Shams Univ., Vol. 42, No. 4, pp. 1071-1089, Dec., 2007.
• M. A. Hassanein, Implicit and Level-by-level Wavelet-based Preconditioners for Linear Systems, Scientific Bulletin, Fac. of Eng., Ain Shams Univ., Vol. 43, No. 1, pp. 815-829, March, 2008.
• M. A. Hassanein , M. Hesham, A Comparison Study on Wavelet Sparsification for Solving Acoustic Scattering Problems over a Wide Frequency Range, International Journal for Computational Methods in Eng. Science and Mechanics,Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 91-101, Jan., 2009.
• M. A. Hassanein, A Minimum Radius of Perturbed Multiple Eigenvalues of an Interval Matrix, Journal of Eng. and Applied Science, Fac. of Eng., Cairo Univ., Vol. 56, No. 3, June, 2009.
• M. Hesham and M. A. Hassanein, "On the Use of Discrete Wavelet Transform for Solving Integral Equations of Acoustic Scattering", Acoustical Physics, vol. 56, no. 4, pp.560-567, 2010.
• Maha A. Hassanein, Menna T. M. M. Elbarawy, Nabila Philip Attalla Seif and Magdy Tawfik Hanna, “Trimmed Thresholding with SURE for Denoising Signals,” Proceedings of the 55th IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS 2012), Boise, Idaho, USA, August 5-8, 2012, pp. 1024-1027.
• Islam R Kamel and Maha A. Hassanein, “Solving multidimensional nonlinear perturbed problems using interval Newton methods”, AIP Conference Proceeding 1648, 760003 (2015); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4912970
• Hassanein, Maha A., "Block Gauss–Huard algorithm with column pivoting on a hybrid CPU–GPU architecture." Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Vol. 29, Issue 4, 25 February 2017.
• Maha A. Hassanein and Magdy Tawfik Hanna , Performance Study of the SURE Trimmed Denoising Method for One Dimensional Signals, Proceedings of the 60th IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS 2017), Boston, USA, August 6-9, 2017.
• Maha A. Hassanein, Magdy Tawfik Hanna, Nabila Philip Attalla Seif, Menna T. M. M. Elbarawy, Signal Denoising Using Optimized Trimmed Thresholding, Circuits Systems and Signal Processing, doi 10.1007/s00034-017-0665-8, 2017.
• Mahmoud Ayyad, Amr Guaily, Maha A. Hassanein, Stabilized Variational Formulation of an Oldroyd-B Fluid Flow Equations on a Graphic Processing Unit (GPU) architecture, Computer Physics Communications, Vol. 258, ISSN0010-4655, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpc.2020.107495, January 2021.

• Workshop at the Institute for the Development of Excellence in Assessment Leadership (Ideal) for Program Assessment Development, ABET, Dallas, Texas, January 7-10, 2019.
• 60th conference IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS 2017), Boston, USA, August 6-9, 2017.
• International Conference of Numerical Analysis and Applied Mathematics 2014 (ICNAAM 2014), Athens.
• Workshops at the Quality Assurance and Accreditation Unit at Cairo University during 2013-2014 : Self-study standards and the annual report of the educational institution; Program and Course Description; Community participation; The strategic plan of the educational institution; Preparing an electronic course; Use of technology in teaching; Curriculum Design; Preparing research writing and publishing it internationally.
• 55th IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS 2012), Boise, Idaho, USA, August 5-8, 2012
• Workshop 2011 at the International Scientific Computing (ISC) at Hamburg
• Invited Talk 2010 in Engineering Mathematics and Physics Dept, Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University

Full-time Researcher, Cairo University

Managed and organized a research project on accelerated computing for large linear systems of equations on Graphical processing unit.

Academic Partnership with NVIDIA in 2014.

Introduced parallel processing at the department using NVIDIA Tesla C2070 GPU and Kepler 20X GPU.

Research Interests in Numerical Linear Algebra

- Accelerated methods for solving large dense linear system of equations

- Using Interval methods for linear systems and eigenvalue problem

- Finding optimal preconditioners for linear systems using discrete Wavelets transforms

- Parallel Processing using Graphical Processing Units (GPUs)

Main Superivsor for a number of Master of science and PhD students :

• 2011 MSc. of Eng. Menna A. El Barrawy ; Wavelet Denoising Methods in Speech Signals
• 2011 PhD. of Eng. Ahmed Abdel El Nabi; Semi-Definite Programming in Design Centering
• 2013 MSc. of Eng. Islam R.; Solving Multidimensional Nonlinear Perturbed problems using
• interval arithmetic
• 2017 MSc. of Eng. Mahmoud M. Ayyad; Galerkin-Least-Squares FEM on a GPU Architecture for
• Viscoelastic Fluids
• 2021 MSc. Eng. Yasien Essam; Critical Study of Higher Order Discontinuous Finite Element.
• Currently MSc. of Eng. Hisham El Zayady. Topic: Accelerated solution of Dense linear system of equations.

Undergraduate level courses covering a variety of mathematics courses for engineering students :

• Calculus I, II, and III : including Differentiation, Integration, Vector Functions, multivariable calculus.
• Introduction to probability and Statistics
• Functions of Complex variables; analysis and applications.
• Introduction ot Linear Algebra
• Introduction to partial differential equations; analytical and numerical solution.

Graduate level courses covering topics in linear algebra:

• Advanced Linear Algebra
• Numerical Linear Algebra
• Interval Analysis
• CUDA Programming for dense linear systems

• 2014 - present: Main Supervisor of the Graduate Computer lab at Engineering Mathematics and Physics Department for graduate students.

• 2018 - Author of "Guidelines for Quality Assurance Booklet", Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University web site.

• 2013- Author of "BASIC PHARMACEUTICAL MATHEMATICS" for first year pharmaceutical students.

• 2012-2014: Member of the Environment committee at Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University