Where: Bldg 1 Viz Lab Multipurpose Rm
Description
Ḥajj, is the name given to one of the pilgrimages to Mecca, the Greater pilgrimage, during the Islamic month of Dhūʾl-Ḥijja. It is one of the Five Pillars of Islam incumbent at least once in their life, upon every adult Muslim who is able to perform it. Hajj gathers a huge number of Muslims to perform the same religious acts of worship in the same limited locations causing real challenges in all aspects. In fact, one of the major problems during the Hajj is related to transportation and crowd management and there is a need for innovative information technology techniques to help manage the volume of people who arrive at the different sites. This lecture will give an idea about some of the real problems that exist at the time of the Hajj and present some current IT research activities running to help solve the main challenges. The speaker will give a brief idea of the research activities being carried out in this direction by HajjCoRE, (Center of Research Excellence in Hajj & Omrah) at Umm Al-Qura University, Makkah. The course is expected to inspire thoughts for new innovations and research ideas for solutions to the challenges faced during Hajj.
Adnan Gutub
Prof. Adnan Abdul-Aziz Gutub is currently affiliated with the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques Institute of the Hajj & Omrah Research within Umm Al Qura University (UQU), Makkah Al-Mukarramah, all Muslims religious Holy City located within the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Adnan is ranked as Professor specialized in Computer Engineering within UQU since July 2012. He was an Associate Professor in Computer Engineering previously affiliated with King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM) in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. He received his Ph.D. degree (2002) in Electrical & Computer Engineering from Oregon State University, USA. He had his BS in Electrical Engineering and MS in Computer Engineering both from KFUPM, Saudi Arabia. Adnan's research interests involved optimizing, modeling, simulating, and synthesizing VLSI hardware for crypto and security computer arithmetic operations. He worked on designing efficient integrated circuits for the Montgomery inverse computation in different finite fields. He has some work in modeling architectures for RSA and elliptic curve crypto operations. His interest in computer security also involved steganography such as simple image based steganography and Arabic text steganography. Adnan has been twice awarded the UK visiting internship for 2 months of summer 2005 and summer 2008, both sponsored by the British Council in Saudi Arabia. The 2005 summer research visit was at Brunel University to collaborate with the Bio-Inspired Intelligent System (BIIS) research group in a project to speed-up a scalable modular inversion hardware architecture. The 2008 visit was at University of Southampton with the Pervasive Systems Centre (PSC) for research related to advanced techniques for Arabic text steganography and data security. Adnan’s research interest in computing and information technology have been broaden to also relate to smart crowd management and intelligent transportation engineering systems because of the involvement in Hajj and Omrah Research at UQU - Makkah. Administratively, Adnan Gutub filled many executive and managerial academic positions at KFUPM as well as UQU. At KFUPM - Dhahran, he had the experience of chairing the Computer Engineering department (COE) for five years until moving to Makkah in 2010. Then, at UQU - Makkah, Adnan Chaired the Information Systems Department at the College of Computer & Information Systems followed by his leadership of the Center of Research Excellence in Hajj and Omrah (HajjCoRE) serving as HajjCoRE director until April2013.
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