Adib Akl is an associate professor in the Department of Electrical, Telecommunications and Computer Engineering at the School of Engineering. Having joined USEK in 2012 as a Research and Teaching Assistant, he currently serves as the Head of the Telecommunications Engineering Program and the Head of the Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things (IoT) and Dynamic Data Analysis Research Unit at the Higher Center for Research.

His research interests encompass the analysis and synthesis of orientation and tensor-valued spatial processes and their applications to textures and volumes. A significant part of his work has focused on enhancing image and video quality, analyzing textured images and volumes for seismic data processing and interpretation, image inpainting, 3D reconstruction from multiple angled camera views, optimizing drone positioning for automatic target tracking, restoring and digitizing old manuscripts, analyzing and designing virtual materials such as PyroCarbon materials. In addition, he has made numerous contributions to beehives tracking using Artificial Intelligence and IoT.

Adib is the author of over 35 papers on signal and image processing. His research in this field has also culminated in a book.

In 2016 and 2017, he was awarded research grants from AUF. He is a member of the review committee in several international journals, including IEEE transaction on cybernetics. He is also a member of the review committee for several international conferences such as the International Conference on Image Processing, Theory, Tools and Applications.

EDUCATION

• PhD in Signal and Image Processing, University of Bordeaux – France/li>
• BE in Computer and Communications, Holy Spirit University of Kaslik (USEK) – Lebanon