Country: 
Lebanon
Organizations: 
Educational Institution
Professions: 
Chairperson
Educator
Field(s) of expertise: 
Information and Communication Technology (ICT)
Areas of Impact: 
Quality Education

Personal information

Sawsan Sadek
Associate Professor

Contact information (Work)

Lebanese University – University Institute of Technology (Saida)
+961 7 750190

Education

Education: 
  • Doctorate degree, Electronics - Microelectronics, 1996, University of Lille, France.
  • Master's degree, Research, 1992, University of Lille, France.

Work history

Previous Professions: 
  • Chair of the Computer Communications Networks Engineering department, 2008 - 2011, Lebanese University (Saida).
  • Associate professor, 1998 - present, Lebanese University (Saida).
  • Research engineer, 1997, Ballofet Group - France.

Major Achievements

Publications (Books, Articles, Reports, etc.): 
  • Sadek, S., & Katbay, Z. (2010, June). UWB cedar patch antenna. International Journal of Research and Reviews in Computer Science , 1 (2), 38 - 41.
  • Obeid, D., Sadek, S., Zaharia, G., & El-Zein, G. (2010, January). Multitunable microwave system for touchless heartbeat detection and heart rate variability extraction. Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, 52 (1), 192 - 198.
  • Obeid, D., Sadek, S., Zaharia, G., & El-Zein, G. (2010, September). Touch-less heartbeat detection and measurement - based cardiopulmonary modeling. In Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), 2010 Annual International Conference of the IEEE (pp. 658 - 661). New York: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
  • Obeid, D., Sadek, S., Zaharia, G., & El-Zein, G. (2009, March). Non contact heartbeat detection at 2.4, 5.8 and 60 GHz: A comparative study. Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, 51 (3), 666 - 669.
Exhibitions, lectures & performances: 
  •  “A Wireless Microwave Sensor for Remote Monitoring of Heart and Respiration Activity”, a presentation by Sawsan Sadek, Lama Ghattas and Lama Fawaz, 10th Microwave Mediterranean Symposium, IEEE, 25 - 27 August 2010, Northern Cyprus Campus, Middle East Technology University, Turkey.
  • "Ultra Wideband CPW Bow-Tie Antena", a presentation by Sawsan Sadek & Zahra Katbay, IEEE - International conference on Electromagnetics in Advanced Applications (ICEAA09), 14-18 September 2009, Torino, Italy.
  • "Wideband Antenna for WLAN Applications", a presentation by Sawsan Sadek & Zahra Katbay, First IEEE International Conference on Advanced Computational Tools for Engineering Applications, ACTEA 2009, 15-17 July, 2009, Beirut, Lebanon.

Competences & Skills

Field(s) of Expertise: 
  • Communications
  • Microwaves Antennas and Circuits
  • Microwave Sensors
  • Biomedical Sensors
Languages: 
  • Arabic
  • French
  • English