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Dr. Naima Kaabouch is currently Full Professor, Director of the Artificial Intelligence Research (AIR) Institute, and Lead of Cybersecurity & Data Chain in the Research Institute For Autonomous Systems (RIAS) at the University of North Dakota. Her main research interests include artificial intelligence, wireless communication & networking, cybersecurity, sensing, and autonomous systems. She is the PI/CoPI/CoI of numerous grants funded by federal agencies and state sources, including the National Science Foundation (NSF), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), ND Chamber of Commerce, EPSCoR/NSF, and EPSCoR NASA. She is the author and co-author of over 200 peer-reviewed journal and proceeding papers, 3 pending patents, and the author of 4 research books and handbooks. She is also the recipient of numerous awards in research, education, and service, including the 2016 UND Outstanding Faculty Scholar in Research, Teaching, and Service in 2016; the Presidential Scholars Star Faculty in 2010; and the 2018 Outstanding Reviewer awarded by an international publisher. Dr. Kaabouch has advised numerous graduate and undergraduate students in her projects. These projects have resulted in several local, regional, and national awards. These awards include Several NASA Robotics Competition awards (NASA Joe Kosmo Award of Excellence in 2011, Second Place in 2013, 1st Place in the Outreach Component in 2016, 2d Place in the Presentation & Demonstration Component in 2016, 4th Place in the overall competition in 2016, 4th Place in the Mining Component in 2015), 4 IEEE Contest Awards (2006, 2010, 2011, 2012), 4 “Outstanding Senior Design Prototype Project” Awards (2010, 2011, 2013, college-level award), and Andrew Freeman Award (2012, college-level award).
Google Scholar Profile: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=LiyavFwAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
Dr. Kaabouch's research was highlighted in several national, regional, and local news including:
- http://www.assureuas.org/newsStory.php?d=71
- https://www.uasvision.com/2017/10/26/university-of-north-dakota-uas-counter-measures-research/
- https://generalaviationnews.com/2012/08/20/creating-an-unmanned-aircraft-that-can-sense-and-avoid/
- http://blogs.und.edu/und-today/2017/11/on-the-forefront/
- http://engineering.und.edu/news/2016/08/early-detection-kaabouch.cfm
- http://blogs.und.edu/uletter/2016/05/engineering-students-score-at-nasa-robotics-competition/
- http://und.edu/news/2016/01/kaabouch-fulbright.cfm
- http://blogs.und.edu/uletter/category/honors/page/34/
- http://engineering.und.edu/news/2015/11/joint-wnv-study.cfm
- http://blogs.und.edu/uletter/2011/06/engineering-team-wins-nasa-joe-kosmo-excellence-award-in-lunar-mining-competition/
- http://engineering.und.edu/news/2015/09/robotics-mining-nasa.cfm
- http://blogs.und.edu/uletter/2015/11/und-ndsu-land-funding-for-west-nile-research/
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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.