Employment History

SEP 2003 -- PRESENT

The University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA

Assistant Professor of Geographic Information Science and Associated Director, Center of Spatial Analysis

JAN 2003 -- AUG 2003

The University of Redlands, Redland, CA, USA

Visiting Assistant Professor of Geographic Information Science, and Technical Coordinator of the International Masters Program in GIS

SEP 1998 -- AUG 2003

San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, USA

 Teaching/Research Associate, Department of Geography

AUG 1995 -- AUG 1997

Quality Standards Information Technologies -- ESRI Sole Distributor in Egypt

Senior GIS Specialist

MAY 1994 -- JUL 1995

Information and Decision Support Center, Egypt

GIS Specialist

DEC 2005 -- APR 2006

Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation (ODWC), Oklahoma, USA

 GIS/ArcIMS Consultant 

MAY 2005 -- DEC 2005

Afghanistan Information Management Service, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Afghanistan

Remote Sensing Expert and Consultant to the Disaster Information Management System (DIMS) project

DEC 2002 -- JUN 2003

Colorado River Basin Regional Water Quality Control Board Region7, Palm Springs, USA

 Consultant to the GIS Watershed Initiative (performed through Redlands Institute)

JUL 1997 -- Aug 1997

Department of Forestry, Kumasi, Ghana

GIS Consultant and Trainer for a UNEP funded project (performed through GISL Ltd.)

• Chair, Session on Road Extraction Techniques/Traffic Applications., The 4th International Symposium on Remote Sensing of Urban Areas, Regensburg, Germany from 27-29 June 2003.

  ·   Congressional Briefing, John Weeks and Tarek Rashed - February 2003, “Measuring the Ecological Context of Urban Vulnerability to Earthquake Hazards Through an Integrative Remote Sensing and GIS Approach,” presented at a Congressional Briefing organized by the University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS), Washington, DC, (presented by John Weeks).

  ·  Panelist for the NSF (2004, 2005, 2007): Information Technology Research (ITR); Science and Engineering Information Integration and Informatics (SEIII); Global Scientists & Engineers Programs, Decision, Risk and Management Sciences (DRMS)

  ·   Review Panelist for UCGIS Young Scholar Awards (October 2004)

  ·  Review Panelist for Early Career Award, Remote Sensing  Specialty Group of the AAG (March 2004)

  ·   Member, Scientific Committee of the 5th International Symposium on Remote Sensing of Urban Areas, Tempe, Arizona (March 2005).

  ·   Elected member, Board of Directors, ASPRS Central Region (2005-2008).

  ·   Elected Chair, Young Scholar Committee, UCGIS (2005-2006).

  ·   Judge, Student Competition organized by the Remote Sensing Specialty Group of the AAG (April 2005)

  · Member, Scientific Committee of the 1^st workshop on urban remote sensing organized by the European Association of Remote Sensing Laboratories (EARSeL) in Berlin 2006.

  ·  Panelist in the Interdisciplinary Colloquia organized by the College of Atmospheric and Geographic Sciences  (September 2005, January 2006)

  · Chair, GIS paper session.  Annual meeting of the Southwestern division of the Association of American Geographers (SWAAG), Norman, Oklahoma October 2006

  ·   State Delegate at the National States of Geographic Information Council Meeting, Little Rock, AR October 2006

  ·   Member, Scientific Committee of the 6th International Symposium on Remote Sensing of Urban Areas, Paris, France (March 2007).

  ·   Judge, Student Competition organized by the Geographic Information Science Specialty Group of the AAG (April 2007)

  ·   External Reviewer for the Undergraduate Research Program at Qatar National Research Foundation (2007, 2008)

  ·   Secretary, UCGIS Board (2007-2009)

• Peer-review articles for: Journal of Computers, Environment, and Urban Systems, the International Journal of Information Fusion, Journal of Geography in Higher Education., Natural Hazards Journal, Professional Geographer, International Journal of Remote Sensing, Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, Landscape Ecology, Environmental and Planning B, Journal of Public Administration, and Remote Sensing of Environment., in addition to several book chapters

• Honorary and Appreciation: College of Engineering, University of Mansoura, Egypt (2005)

• Gilbert White Award for the best hazards dissertation/thesis from the Hazards Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers (AAG) (2004)

• UCGIS (University Consortium of Geographic Information Science, USA): Young Scholar Award (2004)

• Geography Department, San Diego State University (USA): McFarland award for doctoral students (2000)

• URISA (Urban and Regional Information Systems Association, Southern California Chapter, USA): GIS Award (1999)

• Geography Department, San Diego State University (USA): Human geography award (1999)

Winning Competitions

• GISSG (GIS Specialty Group of the AAG, USA): Student Paper Competition, Second Place Award (2002)

• RSSG (Remote Sensing Specialty Group of the AAG, USA): Student Paper Competition, Second Place Award (2001)

• Phi Beta Delta Scholarship competition (USA): First Place Award (2000)

• UCGIS (University Consortium of Geographic Information Science, USA): Excellent Poster Award (2000)

Travel Awards

• CSISS (Center of Spatially Integrated Social Science, USA): Travel Award (2001)

• NASA EPSCoR Travel Grant to visit a NASA center of excellence (2005)

Affiliations

• Association of Egyptian Engineers -- since 1993

• The Association of American Geographers (AAG) -- since 1998

• The Urban and Regional Information Systems Association (URISA) -- since 1998

• The American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPR) -- since 1999

• Sigma-Xi Scientific Research Society -- since 2000

• Phi-Beta-Delta International Scholars Society -- since 2000

• The Academic Council of United Nations System (ACUNS) -- since 2001