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Adnan Albaba
PhD candidate at VUB & IMEC (Engineering Sciences).
Former research intern at IMEC in Leuven, Belgium.
Former international scholar at KU Leuven in Leuven, Belgium.
Holder of a Master's degree in Embedded Systems from Uppsala University in Uppsala, Sweden.
Holder of a Bachelor's degree in Biomedical Engineering from Jordan University of Science and Technology in Irbid, Jordan.
Invited Paper Presentation
Mar 21-25, 2022
I am going to present my paper "Forward-Looking MIMO-SAR for Enhanced Angular Resolution" at the IEEE RADAR Conference 2022. [Link]
Bio
I was born in KSA, raised in Kuwait, studied B.Sc. in Jordan and M.Sc. in Sweden. I did a research internship at IMEC in Leuven, Belgium. I am currently a PhD candidate at VUB and conducting my research at IMEC. By the way, I am Syrian :)
In 2012, I left my family and moved to Irbid, Jordan to study Biomedical Engineering at Jordan University of Science and Technology. The focus of my study was on electrical circuits and electronics, signals and systems, and medical imaging systems. I received the Bachelor's degree (with ABET/USA accreditation) in Oct. 2016.
After that, I worked in Kuwait for Warba Medical Supplies Co as an application and sales engineer from Nov. 2016 until Sep. 2017.
Then, I moved to Uppsala, Sweden in Sep. 2017 to study Embedded Systems at the prestigious Uppsala University.
I finished working on my master thesis in Sep. 2019, and flew to Belgium to start working on the research project at IMEC.
In Oct. 2020, I got admitted to the doctoral school at VUB. I will be working on "Signal Processing and Machine Learning for Millimeter-wave 3D Radar Imaging". My doctoral research will be conducted at IMEC.
I love watching movies and my favorite is The Shawshank Redemption.
I also love music -especially film score-. Hans Zimmer is definitely my favorite composer, yet my favorite -until the moment- soundtrack is Mulan's Decision by Jerry Goldsmith.
On top of the previous, I like to spend my time playing around with electronics and reading. I also like to play football (soccer) -I am a Madridista!- and some times tennis.
Model-Based ECG Analysis
Ongoing Projects
IMEC Leuven
Signal Processing and Machine Learning for Millimeter-wave 3D Radar Imaging
Oct 2020 - Ongoing
PULSE2.0
Finished Projects
Imec Leuven
Sep 2019 - Sep 2020
Design and Evaluation of Novel Algorithms for Automated Signal Quality Indicators of Contact and Non-Contact Physiological Signals. [Link]
Uppsala University
Patient-Specific Electrocardiogram Monitoring by Model-Based Stochastic Anomaly Detection.
Mar 2019 - Sep 2019
Uppsala University
Online Model-Based Beat-by-beat Heart Rate Estimation.
Mar 2019 - Sep 2019
Uppsala University
Nov 2018 - Feb 2019
PULSE2.0: Wearable system for ECG monitoring. [Link]
Supervised by Prof. Alexander Medvedev and Fredrik Olsson
For weekly reports "Group 1" [Link]
Uppsala University
Oct 2018 – Dec 2018
PULSE2.0 PCB Design. [Link]
Project for the course “PC-Board Construction with ECAD Tools”
Uppsala Vancomycin Sensor (UVS)
Oct 2017 – Sep 2018
Uppsala University
Mar 2018 – May 2018
Deep Learning: Convolutional Layers of a CNN. [Link]
This project was done by a group of four as part of the "Accelerating Systems with Programmable Logic Components" course.
The project was done using Verilog HDL and Xilinx Vivado SDK.
Uppsala University
Mar 2018 – Apr 2018
FPGA based temperature logger with LCD display. [Link]
This project was part of the "Digital Electronic Design using VHDL" course.
This project was done using VHDL and Quartus SDK.
Uppsala University
Jan 2018 – Mar 2018
3D touchless position tracker. [Link]
using atmega328p microcontroller and AVR programming workspace
JUST
Jun 2015 – Jun 2016
PULSE1.0: A Wearable Intelligent System for Predicting the Incidence of the Sudden Death. [Link] [Link]
BSc. thesis supervised by Prof. Mashhour Bani Amer
JUST
Temperature Sensor Design. [Link]
2014
JUST
Function Generator. [Link]
2013
Publications
Conference Publications:
2022, Adnan Albaba, et al., “Forward-Looking MIMO-SAR for Enhanced Angular Resolution”, IEEE RADAR Conference, New York, USA, Mar 2022. [Link]
2020, Adnan Albaba and Alexander V. Medvedev, “Online Model-Based Beat-By-Beat Heart Rate Estimation”, American Control Conference, Denver, Colorado, July 2020. [Link]
2020, Adnan Albaba and Alexander V. Medvedev, “Patient-Specific Electrocardiogram Monitoring by Model-Based Stochastic Anomaly Detection”, European Control Conference, Saint Petersburg, Russia, May, 2020. [Link]
Journal Publications:
2021, Adnan Albaba, Ivan Castro, et al., “Automatic quality assessment of capacitively-coupled bioimpedance signals for respiratory activity monitoring”, Elsevier, Biomedical Signal Processing and Control, Jul, 2021. [Link]
2021, Adnan Albaba, Neide Simões-Capela, et al., “Assessing the signal quality of electrocardiograms from varied acquisition sources: A generic machine learning pipeline for model generation”, Elsevier, Computers in Biology and Medicine, Mar, 2021. [Link]