• B.S., Electrical Engineering
• Graduated Magna Cum Laude with a GPA of 3.57 out of possible 4.
• Major GPA 3.91 points out of possible 4.
• Senior Project: Balancing the Inverted Pendulum Using Genetically Controlled Neural Networks.

• M.S., Electrical Engineering
• Emphasis on Communications and Signal Processing
• GPA 3.22 points out of possible 4.

• Ph.D., Electronics and Computer Science department
• Information: Signals, Images, Systems.

Publications

• Puzzle book in the Arabic language, "For the Intelligent Only," 1997.
• Qasem M., Du X. and Ahalt S., "Efficient Code Book Search for Vector Quantization: Exploiting Inherent Codebook Structure." Proc. SPIE Vol. 3716, p. 149-154, Visual Information Processing VIII.
• Du Xun, Ma Junshiui, Qasem M. and Ahalt S.C., "Eigen-indexing in Satellite Recognition" Proc. SPIE Vol. 3718, Automatic Target Recognition IX.
• Qasem M. and Prugel-Bennett A., "Complexity of Max-SAT using stochastic algorithms" GECCO '08: Proceedings of the 10th annual conference on Genetic and evolutionary computation. p. 615-616.
• Qasem A. and Prugel-Bennett A., "Improving Performance in Combinatorial Optimisation Using Averaging and Clustering" EvoCOP '09: Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimization. v 5482/2009. p. 180-191.
• Al-Sumait, J., Qasem, M., Sykulski, J. K. and Al-Othman, A. K. (2010) An improved Pattern Search based algorithm to solve the Dynamic Economic Dispatch problem with valve-point effect. Energy Conversion and Management, 51 . pp. 2062-2067.
• Qasem, M., Prugel-Bennett, A.: (2010) Learning the large-scale structure of the max-sat landscape using populations. IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computations, 14 (4). pp. 518-529. Computation.
• Qasem, M. (2010) Clustering Solutions: A Novel Approach to Solving NP-Complete Problems. PhD thesis, University of Southampton.

• Programming with C, C++, Visual BASIC, FORTRAN, Visual Basic .NET, MySQL, MS ACCESS, MS SQL, php, PERL, ASP, ASP .NET, Java, Java Scripting and HTML.

• Operating Systems: UNIX, VAX/VMS, Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7.
• Applications: Microsoft Word, Excel, Power Point and Publisher, Mathcad, Corel Draw, Corel Xara, and others.
• Internet Skills such as Java, Java Scripting, php, ASP, XML, HTML, and business webpage developement.
• Writing programs for UNIX security system.

• Sciware Podcast: A Science and Technology podcast. I Started an Arabic public podcast, discussing topics in science and techonology. It has a large number of listeners from all around the world.

• Reading, Writing, Blogging, Programming, Web Developement
• Personal Webpage: http://www.mqasem.net/
• Sciware on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/sciware

• Member of Tau Beta Pi (engineering honor society), 1995 in The United States of America.
• President of IEEE Student Chapter (Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers), 1994-1995 in The United States of America. Leadership activities included initiating and teaching C language and UNIX seminars.
• Vice President of NSPE Student Chapter(National Society of Professional Engineers), 1993 in The United States of America.

Awards

• World wide gold medal in computer programming obtained in 1987 in the International Science Fair in Quebec Canada.
• First place award in IEEE Southeastern Conference Core War competition in 1994 in The United States of America.
• Third place award in IEEE Southeastern Conference Cybergames competition in 1995 in The United States of America.
• Five certificates of Academic Merit from the Embassy of State of Kuwait for maintaining a semester GPA of 3.5 or above in the years 1993 through 1995.
• Dean's Honor List 1994-1995 at Christian Brothers University.
• Outstanding IEEE Leadership Award 1994-1995 (the first to ever be awarded at Christian Brothers University) in The United States of America.
• Member Tau Beta Pi, 1995 in The United States of America.
• Certificate of Excellence from the ministry of Higher Education.