Naima Kaabouch

Computer Hardware Organization - EE 451

Embedded Systems - EE 452/EE590

Advanced Embedded System Design - EE 552

Computer Networks Communications - EE 540

Secure Protocols - EE640

Robotics Fundamentals - EE428

Digital Image Processing - EE 456

Bioinformatics - EE 490/590

Linear Electric Circuits II - EE 313

Linear Electric Circuits II Laboratory - EE 307

Nanoscience and Nanoengineering - EE490/590

Sensing the Radio Spectrum - EE490/590

Artificial Intelligence

Wireless Communications & Networking

Autonomous

Cybersecurity

Sensing

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=LiyavFwAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao

Books: 4

• Energy-Aware Systems and Networking for Sustainable Initiatives 
  Editors: Naima Kaabouch and Wen Chen Hu, IGI Publisher, Hershey, PA, USA, 2012.
  ISBN13: 9781466618428, ISBN10: 1466618426, EISBN13: 9781466618435
• Sustainable ICTs and Management Systems for Green Computing 
  Edited by Wen Chen Hu and Naima Kaabouch, IGI Publisher, Hershey, PA, USA, 2012
  ISBN13: 9781466618398, ISBN10: 1466618396, EISBN13: 9781466618404
• Big Data Management, Technologies, and Applications 
  Editors: Wen Chen Hu and Naima Kaabouch, IGI Publisher, Hershey, PA, USA, 2013.
  DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-4699-5, ISBN13: 9781466646995, ISBN10: 1466646993, EISBN13: 9781466647008
• Handbook of Research on Software-Defined and Cognitive Radio Technologies for Dynamic Spectrum Management 
  IGI Global, 2 Volumes,by Naima Kaabouch and Wen Chen Hu, October 2014.
  ISBN-13: 978-1466665712; ISBN-10: 1466665718

Patents: 2

Peer-reviewed Journal, Proceedings, and Book Papers: Over 200

Awards

• UND Outstanding Faculty Scholar (Research, Teaching, and Service) Award, 2016 
• UND Faculty Star, 2010
• Outstanding Reviewer, 2018
• Several Best Paper awards
• 1st Place in the Outreach Component, NASA Robotics Mining Competition, May 2016
• 2d Place in the Presentation & Demonstration Component, NASA Robotics Mining Competition, May 2016
• 4th Place in the overall in the NASA Robotics Mining Competition, May 2016
• 4th Place in the Mining Component, NASA Robotics Mining Competition, May 2015
• 2d Place in the NASA Lunabotics Mining Competition, May 2013
• 1st Place in Andrew Freeman Competition, Project “Dynamic Thresholds for an Airborne Sense and Avoid System,” May 2012
• NASA Joe Kosmo Award of Excellence, NASA Lunabotics Mining Competition, May 2011 (international competition)
• 2d Place in the Mining Competition (international competition), NASA Lunabotics Mining Competition, May 2011
• 5 IEEE Regional Contest Awards, Undergraduate Senior Design projects, 2015, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2006, (Competition Between Selected Projects from NDSU and UND
• 4 “Outstanding Senior Design Prototype Project” Awards, CEM Design Expo
• 2 Best Papers Awards
• Featured in numerous national and regional news and articles
• Women’s Institute in Summer Enrichment (WISE) Fellow, 2010
• Included in Who’s Who in America
• 2 Acknowledgements for the Advancement of Intellectual Property Commercialization and Economic Development,” UND Division of Research, University of North Dakota, March 11, 2008 and 2014.

• New Project "Smart UAS Inspection of Ancillary Structures in North Dakota"; Sattar Dorafshan and Naima Kaabouch; $202,370; June 2021 through November 2023.
  • Funding Source: NDoT

• New Project "Collaborative Research: SaTC: CORE: Small: UAV-NetSAFE.COM: UAV Network Security Assessment and Fidelity Enhancement through Cyber-Attack-Ready Optimized Machine-Learning Platforms"; Naima Kaabouch (UND Lead), Khair A Al Shamaileh (Purdue University), and Vijaya Kumar Devabhaktuni (Purdue University); $$399,478; October 2020 through September 2023
  • Funding Source: National Science Foundation

• New Project "CyberSecurity and Safety Literature Review"; Joe Vacek (PI), Paul Snyder (CoPI), and Naima Kaabouch; $288,476; October 2020 to 
  • Funding Source: Federal Aviation Administration and UND

• Project "The BVLOS PortAble NodE (B-PANE)"; Mark Askelson and Naima Kaabouch; $633,000; 2020 through 2021
• Funding Source: North Dakota Department of Commerce & Harris Inc.

• Project "Support for Academically Talented STEM Scholars at the University of North Dakota"; Feng Xiao (PI), Naima Kaabouch, Xiaodong Zhang, Julia Xiaojun Zhao, and Deborah Worley; $649,791; 2019 through 2024
  • Funding Source: National Science Foundation

• Project "sUAS DAA Separation and Testing", Mark Askelson (PI), Naima Kaabouch, and others; $350,000; 2018 through 2020
  • Funding Source: Federal Aviation Administration

•  Project "Topology Aware Resource Optimization and Uncertainty Quantification Energy Models for the Power Grid"; Prakash Ranganathan and Naima Kaabouch; $325,620; 2015 through 2020
  • Funding Source: National Science Foundation                                                                 

• Project "A Multidisciplinary MARC U-STAR Program at UND"; Glenda Lindseth (PI), and others including Naima Kaabouch; $1,183,947; 2017 through 2021
  • Funding Source: National Institute of Health (NIH) 

• Project "Enhancement of Spectrum Decision through Probabilistic Graphical Models"; Naima Kaabouch; $291,599; 2014 through 2018
  • Funding Source: National Science Foundation 

• Project "Development of Digital Thermosonde Instrument for Quantification of Relative Cn2 Estimation Error between NWP Analysis and Thermosonde Measurements"; James Casler and Naima Kaabouch; $184,347; 2016 through 2019
  • Funding Source: NASA

• Project "HubNet: Enabling UAS Operations through a UAS Network Infrastructure"; Chris Theisen (PI), Mark Askelson, Naima Kaabouch; $1,002,956; 2017 through 2018
• Funding Source: North Dakota Department of Commerce & Harris Inc.

• Project  "Securing Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast for Air Traffic Control"; Naima Kaabouch and Mohsen Manesh; $60,366; 2017 through 2019
  • Funding Source: EPSCoR/NSF

• Project "Investigating The Efficiency of Image Processing Techniques in Detecting Breast Cancer Tumors ";  2017 through 2018
  • Funding Source: US Fulbright Program  

• Project "Exposing UND students to Nanoscience and nanotechnology"; Naima Kaabouch (PI), Julia Zhao, Matt Cavalli, Brian Tande, Kanishka Marasinghe, David Pierce, Deborah Worley, and Nuri Oncel; $200,000; 2014 through 2017
  • Funding Source: National Science Foundation
  • Project Website: https://engineering.und.edu/research/nanoscience-and-nanotechnology/

• Project "Cooperative Airspace Techniques and Visualization (CATV) Testing for Enabling UAS Operations"; Chris Theisen (PI), Mark Askelson, Naima Kaabouch; $600,000; 2015 through June 2017
  • Funding Source: North Dakota Department of Commerce & Harris Inc.

• Project "Far-field Wireless Charging of UAS Swarms", $21,772; August 2018 to August 2019
  • Funding Sources: NSF/EPSCoR
• Project " Far-field Wireless Charging of UAS Swarms", Naima Kaabouch, Surojit Gupta, and Chris Theisen, $10,000; May 2018 to May 2019
  • Funding Sources: UND UAS Challenge                                                                

• Project "Small UAS Detect and Avoid Requirements Necessary for Limited Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) Operations"; Mark Askelson (PI), Naima Kaabouch, Mark Theisen, and William Semke; $399,992; 2015 through 2017
  • Funding Source: Federal Aviation Administration

• Project "Breast Cancer: Detection of Microcalcifications"; 2018 through 2019
• Funding Source: UAS Fulbright Program

• Project "Unmanned Aerial Systems: Sense and Avoid and Health Monitoring, Intelligent Communication Payloads"; Naima Kaabouch (PI); 2018 
  • Funding Sources: EPSCoR/NSF 

• Project: "Nano- and microsatellites Payloads and Algorithms"; Naima Kaabouch (PI); $30,000; 
  • Funding Sources: ND NASA EPSCoR; EPSCoR/NSF AURA program

• Project: "Early Detection of Breast Cancer: Microcalcifications Detection"; Naima Kaabouch 
  • Funding Source: UND                                                                                                                                                                             

• Project "LunaBot"; Jeremiah Neubert and Naima Kaabouch
  • Funding Sources: NASA; ND Space Consortium; UND; CEM; EE Department; several private companies 
  • Website: http://und.edu/org/lunabotics/html/team_members.2010_2011.html                                       

• Project "Calculate Project: Increasing Retention in Engineering Programs"; Jeremiah Neubert (PI), Naima Kaabouch, Deborah Worley, and Mohammad Khavanin, $200,000, 2010 to 2013.
  • Funding Source: National Science Foundation
  • Project Website: http://engineering.und.edu/calculate/

• Project "MRI: Acquisition of Antenna Design and Measurement Laboratory"; Sima Noghanian (PI), Reza Fazel, Naima Kaabouch, Saleh Faruque, and William Semke
  • Funding Source: National Science Foundation                                                                 

• Project "Compressive Sensing for Cognitive Radio";  Naima Kaabouch; 2016 through 2017
• Funding Source: US Fulbright Program 

• Project "Compressive Sensing for Cognitive Radio"; 2015 through 2016
• Funding Source: US Fulbright Program 

• Project "Cancer Detection Using Terahertz Radiation"; Naima Kaabouch (PI)
• Funding Source: UND Seed Money Grant

• Project "Robotics and Materials for Aerospace Vehicles"; Naima Kaabouch (PI), $160,000; 2006 to 2008. 
• Funding Sources: EPSCoR/NSF; UND

• Project "Remote Sense-and Avoid Avionics Payload for Unmanned Aerial Systems"; Naima Kaabouch (PI), $25,000.
• Funding Source: Rockwell Collins 

• Project "Improving the University of North Dakota Electrical & Systems Engineering Laboratory Infrastructure in Embedded Systems and telecommunications"; Naima Kaabouch (PI), $30,000.
  • Funding Source: Rockwell Collins 

• Project "Remote Sense-and Avoid Avionics Payload for Unmanned Aerial Systems"; Naima Kaabouch (PI), 
  • Funding Source: EPSCoR/NSF

• Project "Improving the University of North Dakota Electrical & Systems Engineering Laboratory"; Naima Kaabouch (PI), $30,000.
• Funding Source: Rockwell Collins

• Project "High-Resolution Imaging Payloads and Algorithms for Nanosatellites"; Naima Kaabouch (PI) and Ronald Fevig, $30,000.
  • Funding Source: NASA EPSCoR 

Over 150 national and international presentations.