Sherif Rashad received the B.Sc.(with honors) and M.Sc. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Zagazig University, Egypt. He received his Ph.D. from the CECS department, University of Louisville. He is a member of the Data Mining Lab and the Mobile Information Networks and Distributed Systems (MINDS) Lab at the University of Louisville. He is a student member of the IEEE, IEEE Communication Society, IEEE Computer Society, and the ACM. 

• Call Admission Control and Resource Reservation in 3G and 4G Mobile Networks.
• Mobility Management in 3G and 4G Mobile Networks.
• Mobil Data Mining and Sequence Mining with application in Mobile Networks.

• Predictive Admission Control for Wireless Heterogeneous Networks.

1. Sherif Rashad, Mehmed Kantardzic, and Anup Kumar, “User Mobility Oriented Predictive Call Admission Control and Resource Reservation for Next-Generation Mobile Networks”, submitted.
2. Sherif Rashad, Mehmed Kantardzic, and Anup Kumar, “Time Component Analysis of Enhanced Predictive Call Admission Control in Wireless Cellular Networks”,  GESTS Int'l Transaction on Computer Science and Engineering, Vol.7, No.1, pp.75-86, May 2005.
3. H. A. Baraka, A. E. Abdel Naiem, M. M. Fouad, S. S. Rashad, “A Novel Location Management Technique for Cellular Mobile Communication Networks”, The Egyptian Computer Journal, , ISSR, Cairo University, Vol. 29, No.2 , pp. 84-98, December  2001.

Book Chapters

4. Pedram Sadeghian, Mehmed Kantardzic, Sherif Rashad, “Knowledgeable Navigation in Virtual Environments”, in “Encyclopedia of Human Computer Interaction”, Claude Ghaoui (Editor), Idea Group Reference  (to appear in August 2005)
5. Sherif Rashad, Mehmed Kantardzic, Anup Kumar, “A Data Mining Approach for Call Admission Control and Resource Reservation in Wireless Mobile Networks”, in “Advances in Data Mining -Applications in Image Mining, Medicine and Biotechnology, Management and Environmental Control, and Telecommunications”, Petra Perner (Editor), Springer Verlag, LNAI 3275, pp. 134-143, Nov. 2004.

Conference Papers

6. Sherif Rashad, Mehmed Kantardzic, Anup Kumar, “Mobile Data Mining for Radio Resource Management in Wireless Mobile Networks”, Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE and ACM International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA'04), pp.85-92, Louisville, Kentucky, 16-18 December 2004.
7. Sherif Rashad, Mehmed Kantardzic, Anup Kumar, “PCAC-RR: A Predictive Call Admission Control and Resource Reservation for Wireless Mobile Networks”, Proceedings of the First IEEE and IFIP International Conference on Wireless and Optical Communications Networks (WOCN2004), pp. 295-298, Muscat, Oman, 7-9 June 2004
8. Kantardzic, M., Rashad, S., Sadeghian, P., “Spatial Navigation Assistance System for Large Virtual Environments: Data Mining Approach”, Proceeding of the Mathematical Methods for Learning Conference (MML2004),pp. 44- 46 , Villa Geno, Como, Italy, 21-24 June 2004.
9. A.H. Eid, S.S. Rashad,  and A.A. Farag, “A General Purpose Platform for 3D Reconstruction from Sequence of Images”, Proceeding of the 5th International Conference on Information Fusion (ICIF 2002), vol. 1, pp. 425-431, Annapolis, MD, 8-11 July 2002.
10. A.H. Eid, S.S. Rashad,  and A.A. Farag, “Validation of 3D Reconstruction from Sequence of Images”. Proceeding of the IASTED International Conference on Signal Processing, Pattern Recognition, and Applications (SPPRA 2002), pp. 375-380, Crete, Greece, 25-28 June 2002.