Publications

Scientific Books

  1. Z. Wang, M.C.E. Yagoub, Computer Manipulation and Stock Price Trend Analysis, Heilongjiang Education Press, Harbin, China, 2005. 220 pages.

  2. M.C.E. Yagoub, H. Baudrand, Conception de Circuits Micro-Ondes Linéaires et Non Linéaires, (Linear and Non Linear microwave circuit design), Cépaduès Ed., Toulouse, FRANCE, 2000. 229 pages.

Chapters in Books

  1. N. Irfan, M.C.E. Yagoub, K. Hettak, Redundant reader elimination approaches for RFID networks, in Lecture Notes in Computer Science Book Series (M. Kamel et al. Ed.), Vol. 6752, pp. 396-405, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, Berlin, Germany, 2011.

  2. C. Boularak, M.L. Tounsi, A. Khodja, R. Touhami, M.C.E. Yagoub, Analysis of anisotropic microwave circuits with several metalized interfaces, in Ultra-Wideband, Short-Pulse Electromagnetics Book Series (F. Sabath et al. Ed.), Vol. 9, pp. 139-149, Springer-Verlag, New York, USA, 2010.

Publications in journals

  1. S. Asadi, M.C.E. Yagoub, “Advanced CAD tool for noise modeling of RF/microwave field effect transistors with large gate widths,” Springer Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing J., Vol. 67, Number 3, pp. 353-363, June 2011.

  2. Z. Hamaizia, N. Sengouga, M. Missous, M.C.E. Yagoub, “A 0.4 dB noise figure wideband low noise amplifier using a novel InGaAs/InAlAs/InP pseudomorphic high electron mobility transistor,” Elsevier Int. J. Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing, Vol. 14, Issue 2, pp. 89-93, June 2011.

  3. M.L. Tounsi, M.C.E. Yagoub, “Efficient characterization of multilayered microwave wireless circuits on gyrotropic dielectric media including magnetized ferrites,” Wiley Microwave and Optical Technology Lett., Vol. 53, Issue 5, pp. 978-982, May 2011.

  4. A.M. Habib, A. Bostani, A. Djaiz, M. Nedil, M.C.E. Yagoub, T.A. Denidni, “Ultra wideband CPW-fed aperture antenna with WLAN band rejection,” PIER Progress In Electromagnetics Research J., Vol. 106, pp. 17-31, July 2010.

  5. N. Irfan, M. Bolic, M.C.E. Yagoub, V. Narashiman, “Neural-based approach for localization of sensors in indoor environment," Springer Telecommunication Systems J. (Special issue on Wireless Ad Hoc, Sensor and Mesh Networks), Vol. 44, No 1-2, pp. 149-158, June 2010.

  6. S. Gaoua, S. Asadi, M.C.E. Yagoub, F.A. Mohammadi, “CAD tools for efficient RF/microwave transistor modeling and circuit design,” Springer Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing J., Vol. 63, No 1, pp. 59-70, April 2010.

  7. A. Amrouche, M. Debyeche, A. Taleb-Ahmed, J.M. Rouvaen, M.C.E. Yagoub, “An efficient speech recognition system in adverse conditions using the nonparametric regression,” Elsevier Int. J., Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 23, No 1, pp. 85-94, Feb. 2010.

  8. C. Chen, D. Saraswat, R. Achar, E. Gad, M. Nakhla, M.C.E. Yagoub, “Passivity compensation algorithm for method-of-characteristics based multiconductor transmission line interconnect macromodels,” IEEE Trans. Very Large Scale Integr. (VLSI) Syst., Vol. 17, No 8, pp. 1061-1072, Aug. 2009.

  9. S. Gaoua, L. Ji, Z. Cheng, F.A. Mohammadi, M.C.E. Yagoub, “Fuzzy neural-based approaches for efficient RF/microwave transistor modeling,” Wiley & Sons Int. J. RF and Microwave CAE, Vol. 19, No 1, pp. 128-139, Jan. 2009.

  10. C. Chen, D. Saraswat, R. Achar, E. Gad, M. Nakhla, M.C.E. Yagoub, “A robust algorithm for passive reduced-order macromodeling of MTLs with FD-PUL parameters using integrated congruence transform,”

  11. IEEE Trans. Comput.-Aided Design Integr. Circuits Syst., Vol. 27, No 3, pp. 574-578, March 2008. F.A. Mohammadi, M.C.E. Yagoub, “Electromagnetic model for microwave components of integrated circuits,” Progress In Electromagnetics Research B J., Vol. 1, pp. 81-94, 2008.

  12. M.L. Tounsi, R. Touhami, M.C.E. Yagoub, “Generic spectral immittance approach for fast design of multilayered bilateral structures including anisotropic media,” IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Lett., Vol. 17, No 6, pp. 409-411, June 2007.

  13. R. Touhami, M.C.E. Yagoub, H. Baudrand, “Comparison of nonlinear MESFET and HEMT models for circuit simulation,” Int. J. of Numer. Model., Vol. 20, pp. 149-161, March 2007.

  14. M.L. Tounsi, R. Touhami, M.C.E. Yagoub, “Analyse en mode hybride des coupleurs coplanaires anisotropes à deux niveaux de métallisation en configuration multicouche,” IEEE Can. J. Elect. Comput. Eng., Vol. 32, No. 2, pp. 103-111, Spring 2007.

  15. M.L. Tounsi, R. Touhami, M.C.E. Yagoub, “Dynamic analysis of multilayered anisotropic finline and microstrip resonators,” Int. J. of Microwaves and Optoelectronics, Vol. 5, No 2, pp. 88-100, Dec. 2006.

  16. S.S. Attar, M.C.E. Yagoub, F.A. Mohammadi, “Simulation of electro-thermal effects in device and circuit,” WSEAS Trans. on Circuits and Systems, Vol. 5, No 7, pp. 926-930, July 2006

  17. R.W.Y. Habash, C. Suurtamm, M.C.E. Yagoub, K. Kara, G. Ibrahim, “Online learning resource for smooth transition from high school to engineering education,” Turkish J. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, special issue on Electrical and Computer Engineering Education in the 21st Century: Issues, Perspectives and Challenges, Vol. 14, No1, pp. 101-112, March 2006

  18. M.L. Tounsi, R. Touhami, A. Khodja, M.C.E. Yagoub, “Analysis of the mixed coupling in bilateral microwave circuits including anisotropy for MICs and MMICs applications,” Progress In Electromagnetic Research. J. (PIER), Vol. 62, pp. 281-315, 2006.

  19. T. Ahmed, E. Gad, M.C.E. Yagoub, “An adjoint-based approach to computing time-domain sensitivity of multiport systems described by reduced-order models,” IEEE Trans. Microwave Theory Tech., Vol. 53, No 11, pp. 3538-3547, Nov. 2005.

  20. S. Gaoua, L. Ji, Z. Cheng, F.A. Mohammadi, M.C.E. Yagoub, “Fuzzy-neural CAD tools for efficient modeling and design of RF/microwave communication systems,” WSEAS Trans. on Communications, Vol. 4, No 10, pp. 1028-1039, Oct. 2005

  21. L. Zhang, J. Xu, M.C.E. Yagoub, R. Ding, Q.J. Zhang, “Efficient analytical formulation and sensitivity analysis of neuro-space mapping for nonlinear microwave device modeling,” IEEE Trans. Microwave Theory Tech., Vol. 53, No9, pp. 2752-2767, Sept. 2005.

  22. D. McPhee, M.C.E. Yagoub, “A generic procedure for exact high frequency device characterization using post-processing data,” Int. J. of Pure and Applied Mathematics, Vol. 20, No4, pp. 553-573, 2005.

  23. F.A. Mohammadi, K. Meres, M.C.E. Yagoub, “Thermal analysis of the interconnect metals in integrated circuits,” WSEAS Trans. on Systems, Vol. 4, No 2, pp. 155-160, Feb. 2005.

Resent Papers in refereed conference proceedings

  1. N. Irfan, M.C.E. Yagoub, K. Hettak, “Genetic Algorithm Based Efficient Tag Detection in RFID Reader Networks,” IEEE Int. Conf. on Computational Intelligence for Measurement Systems and Applications (CIMSA 2011), Ottawa, ON, Canada, Sept. 19-21, 2011, pp. 1-4.

  2. M. Ounas, S. Chitroub, R. Touhami, M.C.E. Yagoub, “Evaluation performance of anti collision circuit based BSS method for RFID system,” 7th Int. Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conf. (IWCMC 2011), Istanbul, Turkey, July 5-8, 2011.

  3. N. Irfan, M.C.E. Yagoub, K. Hettak, “Redundant reader elimination approaches for RFID networks,” AIMI Int. Conf. on Autonomous and Intelligent Systems (AIS 2011), Burnaby, BC, Canada, June 22-24, 2011, pp. 1-10.

  4. N. Irfan, M.C.E. Yagoub, K. Hettak, “An inset fed microstrip patch antenna for RFID applications,” IEEE Int. Conf. on Computer Science and Information Technology (ICCSIT 2011), Chengdu, China, June 10-12, 2011, pp. 1-4.

  5. M. Abdeen, A. Elsehemy, T. Nazmy, M.C.E. Yagoub, “Classifying the arabic web – a pilot study,” IEEE 24th Canadian Conf. on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE 2011), Niagara Falls, ON, Canada, May 8-11, 2011, pp. 1-4.

  6. S. Asadi, M.C.E. Yagoub, “Efficient time-domain modeling of wave propagation effects in mm-wave packaged FETs,” 12th IEEE Electronics Packaging Technology Conf. (EPTC 2010), Singapore, Singapore, Dec. 8-10, 2010, pp. 120-123.

  7. S. Asadi, M.C.E. Yagoub, “Robust mm-wave large-signal time-domain FET model,” Asia-Pacific Microwave Conf. (APMC 2010), Yokohama, Japan, Dec. 7-10, 2010, pp. 2303-2306.

  8. A. Khodja, R. Touhami, M.C.E. Yagoub, H. Baudrand, “Modal domain analysis of asymmetric coupled planar structures: the quasi symmetric model,” 11th Int. Workshop on Symbolic and Numerical Methods, Modeling and Applications to Circuit Design (SM2ACD 2010), Gammarth, Tunisia, Oct. 5-6, 2010, pp. 1-6.

  9. M.L. Tounsi, C. Boularak, M.C.E. Yagoub, “Enhanced fullwave approach for accurate parameter computation of multilayer microwave couplers including anisotropic substrates,” 11th Int. Workshop on Symbolic and Numerical Methods, Modeling and Applications to Circuit Design (SM2ACD 2010), Gammarth, Tunisia, Oct. 5-6, 2010, pp. 1-4.

  10. Z. Hamaizia, N. Sengouga, M.C.E. Yagoub, “Design of a wideband low noise amplifier for radio-astronomy applications,” 11th Int. Workshop on Symbolic and Numerical Methods, Modeling and Applications to Circuit Design (SM2ACD 2010), Gammarth, Tunisia, Oct. 5-6, 2010, pp. 1-4.

  11. H. Halheit, A. Vander Vorst, T.P. Vuong, M.C.E. Yagoub, “A simple compact PIFA for wireless communication applications”, 3rd Int. Conf. on Communications and Electronics (ICCE 2010), Nha Trang, Vietnam, Aug. 11-13, 2010, pp. 299-302.

  12. A.M. Habib, M.N. Jazi, A. Djaiz, M. Nedil, M.C.E. Yagoub, T.A. Denidni, “On IP3 Performance investigation in reconfigurable active EBG antenna,” IEEE Int. Symp. Antennas and Propagation (APS 2010), Toronto, ON, Canada, July 11-17, 2010, pp. 1-4.

  13. R.A.R. Ibrahim, M.C.E. Yagoub, “Practical novel design component of microstrip patch slot antenna MSPSA for RFID applications” IEEE 23rd Canadian Conf. on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE 2010), Calgary, AB, Canada May 2-5, 2010, pp. 1-5.

  14. K.T. Ansari, C. Plett, M.C.E. Yagoub, “A low-power 0.4-22GHz CMOS cascode distributed amplifier for optical communication systems," 16th IEEE Int. Conf. on Electronics, Circuits and Systems (ICECS’ 09), Hammamet, Tunisia, Dec. 13-16, 2009, pp. 387-390.

  15. H. Chaoui, W. Gueaieb, M.C.E. Yagoub, “ANN-based adaptive motion and posture control of an inverted pendulum with unknown dynamics,” IEEE Int. Conf. on Signals, Circuits and Systems (SCS’09), Jerba, Tunisia, Nov. 6-8, 2009, pp. 1-6.

  16. P.K. Mishra, M. Bolic, M.C.E. Yagoub, “Explosion protection: Davy's safety lamp to wireless,” Int. Seminar and Exhibition for Explosive Atmospheres on Recent Trends in Design, Development, Testing & Certification of Ex-Equipment (DTEX 2009), Dhanbad, India, Oct. 29-31, 2009, pp. 199-206.

  17. H. Chaoui, W. Gueaieb, M.C.E. Yagoub, “Neural network based speed observer for interior permanent magnet synchronous motor drives,” IEEE Int. Electrical Power and Energy Conf. (EPEC 2009), Montreal, QC, Canada, Oct. 22-23, 2009, pp. 1-6.

  18. M. Abdeen, R. El-Sahan, A. Ismaeil, S. El-Harouny, M. Shalaby, M.C.E. Yagoub, “Direct automatic generation of mind maps from text with M2Gen,” IEEE TIC-STH Symposium on Human Factors and Ergonomics, Toronto, ON, Canada, Sept. 27-29, 2009, pp. 95-99.

  19. F.A. Mohammadi, F. Farrokhi, M.C.E. Yagoub, “Advanced thermal imaging and measurement techniques: application to a printed circuit board,” Int. Conf. on Design, Analysis and Tools for Integrated Circuits and Systems (DATICS-ICMS'09), Istanbul, Turkey, August 4-10, 2009, pp. 1-4.

  20. S. Asadi, M.C.E. Yagoub, “Design of an E-band high power amplifier for wireless high data rate communications,” IEEE Canadian Conf. on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE 2009), St. John’s, NL, Canada, May 3-6, 2009, pp. 63-66.

  21. A. Khodja, H. Baudrand, M.C.E. Yagoub, R. Touhami, “Étude des lignes coplanaires asymétriques en mode dispersif: cas particulier des lignes quasi-symétriques,” IEEE Canadian Conf. on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE 2009), St. John’s, NL, Canada, May 3-6, 2009, pp. 520-523.

  22. R.A.R. Ibrahim, M.C.E. Yagoub, R.W.Y. Habash, “Microstrip patch antenna for RFID applications,” IEEE Canadian Conf. on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE 2009), St. John’s, NL, Canada, May 3-6, 2009, pp. 940-943.

  23. M.C.E. Yagoub, “Active device modeling tools for efficient RF/microwave system-level CAD,” 25th Int. Review of Progress in Applied Computational Electromagnetics (ACES 2009), Monterey, CA, USA, March 8-12, 2009, pp. 155-160.

  24. A. Khodja, C. Boularak, M.C.E. Yagoub, R. Touhami, H. Baudrand, “Appropriate Choice of Trial Functions for Efficient Modeling of Asymmetric Coplanar Structures,” 25th Int. Review of Progress in Applied Computational Electromagnetics (ACES 2009), Monterey, CA, USA, March 8-12, 2009, pp. 144-149.

  25. M. Ounas, S. Gaoua, S. Chitroub, R. Touhami, M.C.E. Yagoub, “Digital circuit design for FPGA based implementation of ICA for real time blind signal separation,” Int. Conf. on Microelectronics (ICM'08), Sharjah, UAE, Dec. 14-17, 2008, pp. 38-41.

  26. F.N. Khan, F.A. Mohammadi, M.C.E. Yagoub, “A GaN HEMT class-F amplifier for UMTS/WCDMA applications,” RF and Microwave Conf. (RFM 08), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Dec. 2-4, 2008, pp. 478-482.

  27. M. Ounas, S. Chitroub, R. Touhami, M.C.E. Yagoub, “Digital circuit design of ICA based implementation of FPGA for real time blind signal separation,” IEEE Int. Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing (MLSP 2008), Cancun, Mexico, Oct. 16-19, 2008, pp. 181-186.

  28. C. Boularak, A. Khodja, R. Touhami, M.C.E. Yagoub, “High frequency characterization of multilayered anisotropic planar circuits with several metallized interfaces,” 15th IEEE Int. Conf. on Electronics, Circuits and Systems (ICECS 2008), St. Julian, Malta, Aug. 31-Sept. 3, 2008, pp. 946-949.

  29. M. Abdeen, R. Medhat, M. Fayez, A. Hamad, M.C.E. Yagoub, “An extensible software framework for portable devices – An e-book reader case study,” 2nd IEEE Int. Interdisciplinary Conf. on Portable Information Devices (Portable 2008), Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, Aug. 17-20, 2008, pp. 1-5.

  30. . Boularak, M.L. Tounsi, A. Khodja, R. Touhami, M.C.E. Yagoub, “Analysis of anisotropic microwave circuits with several metallized interfaces,” European Electromagnetics Symp. (EUROEM 2008), Lausanne, Switzerland, July 21-25, 2008, pp. 1-4.

  31. CA. Khodja, M.L. Tounsi, R. Touhami, M.C.E. Yagoub, H. Baudrand, “Rigorous full-wave analysis of shielding effect in assymmetric unilateral structures for MMICs applications,” European Electromagnetics Symp. (EUROEM 2008), Lausanne, Switzerland, July 21-25, 2008, pp. 1-4.

  32. A. Khodja, R. Touhami, M.C.E. Yagoub, H. Baudrand, "Adequate choice of trial functions used in integral method for modeling asymmetric coupled microstrip structures", IEEE Canadian Conf. on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE 2008), Niagara Falls, ON, Canada, May 4-7, 2008, pp. 239-244.

  33. S. Tedjini, R. Touhami, M.C.E. Yagoub, “Calibration automatique de la porteuse résiduelle,” IEEE Canadian Conf. on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE 2008), Niagara Falls, ON, Canada, May 4-7, 2008, pp. 1273-1278.

  34. M. Abdeen, H. Mohammad, M.C.E. Yagoub, “An architecture for multi-lingual hands-free desktop control system for PC windows,” IEEE Canadian Conf. on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE 2008), Niagara Falls, ON, Canada, May 4-7, 2008, pp. 1747-1750.

  35. N. Arbabi, V. Devabhaktuni, M.C.E. Yagoub, “Application of EM coupling CAD model to nonlinear integrated circuit simulation,” Asia-Pacific Microwave Conf. (APMC2007), Bangkok, Thailand, Dec. 11-14, 2007, pp. 1-4.

  36. H. Chaoui, W. Gueaieb, M.C.E. Yagoub, “Artificial neural network control of a flexible-joint manipulator under unstructured dynamic uncertainties,” IEEE Int. Workshop on Robotic and Sensors Environments (ROSE 2007), Ottawa, ON, Canada, Oct. 12-13, 2007, pp. 1-6.

  37. M. Ounas, R. Touhami, M.C.E. Yagoub, “Low cost architecture of digital circuit for FPGA implementation based ICA training algorithm of blind signal separation,” URSI-Int. Symp. on Signals, Systems, and Electronics (ISSSE 2007), Montréal, Canada, July 30-August 2, 2007, pp. 135-138.

  38. C. Chen, D. Saraswat, E. Gad, M. Nakhla, R. Achar, M.C.E. Yagoub, “Passivity enforcement for method of characteristics-based macromodels,” URSI-Int. Symp. on Signals, Systems, and Electronics (ISSSE 2007), Montréal, Canada, July 30-August 2, 2007, pp. 25-28.

  39. A. Tran, M.C.E. Yagoub, “Dual-polarized log periodic dipole antenna for 0.8 to 2.1 GHz operation,” 1st URSI North American Radio Science Meeting (URSI 2007), Ottawa, ON, Canada, July 22-26, 2007, pp. 1-4.

  40. A. Ghiotto, T.P. Vuong, M.C.E. Yagoub, S. Tedjini, “On the design and miniaturization of passive UHF RFID transponder antenna,” 1st URSI North American Radio Science Meeting (URSI 2007), Ottawa, ON, Canada, July 22-26, 2007, pp. 1-4.

  41. R.W.Y. Habash, M.C.E. Yagoub, M. Munro, C. Suurtaam, G. Touma, “Across disciplines: Engineering summer school,” Canadian Design Engineering Network and the Canadian Congress on Engineering Education (CDEN/CCEE 2007), Winnipeg, MB, Canada, July 22-24, 2007, pp. 1-4.

  42. M.C.E. Yagoub, M.L. Tounsi, T.P. Vuong, “EM methods for full-wave characterization of microwave integrated circuits,” IEEE Canadian Conf. on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE 2007), Vancouver, BC, Canada, April 22-26, 2007, pp. 1675-1678.

  43. N. Arbabi, M. Najmabadi, V. Devabhaktuni, M.C.E. Yagoub, “A new SQP based space-mapping algorithm for on-chip spiral inductor optimization,” IEEE Canadian Conf. on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE 2007), Vancouver, BC, Canada, April 22-26, 2007, pp. 99-102.

  44. M. Abdeen, M.C.E. Yagoub, “Nonlinear and isothermal neural-based modeling of the dual gate MESFET,” IEEE Canadian Conf. on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE 2007), Vancouver, BC, Canada, April 22-26, 2007, pp. 103-106.

  45. M.C.E. Yagoub, T.P. Vuong, F.A. Mohammadi, “Advanced neural-based CAD tools for communication system modeling and design,” IEEE Canadian Conf. on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE 2007), Vancouver, BC, Canada, April 22-26, 2007, pp. 651-654.

  46. A. Khodja, R. Touhami, H. Baudrand, M.C.E. Yagoub, “A rigorous numerical method applied to study electromagnetic coupling effect in asymmetric coupled microstrip lines for microwave circuits,” 2nd IEEE Information and Communication Technologies Int. Symp. (ICTIS’07), Fez, Morocco, April 3-5, 2007, pp. 562-565.

  47. S. Gaoua, F.A. Mohammadi, M.C.E. Yagoub, “Fuzzy-neural CAD tools for advanced communication system design,” 2nd IEEE Information and Communication Technologies Int. Symp. (ICTIS’07), Fez, Morocco, April 3-5, 2007, pp. 297-300.

  48. M. Ounas, R. Touhami, S. Chitroub, M.C.E. Yagoub, “Design methodology of hardware implementation based ICA training algorithm for blind signal separation,” Int. Conf. on Signal Processing (SIP’07), Dallas, TX, USA, March 22-24, 2007, pp. 1-4.