بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

   

 

 

 

     
 

Dr. Zeini J. Al-Saati                                                                       

Assistant Professor                                                                            

Electrical Engineering Department

King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals.

Contact Information

Phone (Off)            +966-3-860-2610

Fax                         +966-3-860-3535

E-mail                    zeini@kfupm.edu.sa

Address                 P.O. Box 1785, KFUPM, Dhahran-31261, Saudi Arabia.

Office Location     Building 14, Room 269-2

http://www.kfupm.edu.sa/ee/Faculty/zeini/index.htm

 

    I  PERSONAL DATA

    ----------------

    Name:    Zeini Jamal Al Saati

    Birth:     25/10/1944, Makka, Saudi Arabia

    Marital: Married, 5 children

    Medal:   First class Saudi Medal of Merits, 1985

    Address: KFUPM, Box 1785, Dhahran, 31261, Saudi Arabia

    zeini@kfupm.edu.sa

 

    II WORK HISTORY

    ---------------

    1) Student Trainee , Aramco, 1962.

    2) Research Assistant, University of Montpellier, 1972-1974.

    3) Lecturer Physics, University of Petroleum & Minerals (KFUPM),

       1975-1980.

    4) Associate Research Scientist, Research Institute (RI), KFUPM,

       1980-1988.

    5) Director of Computer Department & Advisor (on loan), Ministry of

       Planning, 1986/87.

    6) Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering, KFUPM, 1988-now.

      

    III EDUCATION

    -------------

    1) High School: Taqief, Taif, 1963/64, (ranked 15th Kingdom-wise).

    2) French language and university entrance preparation, 1964-1966,

       Neuchatel, Switzerland and Lyon, France.

    3) Diplome d'etude universitaire scientifique, 1970.

    4) Maitrise d'electronique, 1972.

    5) Diplome d'etude superieur d'electronique, 1973.

    6) Doctorat s'automatique, 1974.

       3-6 were obtained from the "University Of Montpellier", Montpellier,

       France.

   

    IV PROFESSIONAL TRAINING & CONTACTS

    -----------------------------------

    1) The University of Montreal, Canada, for the Arabization of Computer

       terminals and software, 1980.

    2) Reasearch Institutes Management, University of Chicago, USA, 1981.

    3) Image Processing Laboatory Equipment Deliveray and Delivery,

       TRW, California, 1983.

    4) Arabsat Satellite Launch and Prince Sultan Bin Salman Shuttle Flight,

       Johnson Space Center, Houston, USA, 1985.

    5) Advanced Software Training, Faculty Development Program, Chiyoda

       Corporation, Japan, 1988.

    6) Faculty Development Program, Computer Services Department, ARAMCO,

       Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, 1995.

 

    V  DOCTORAL WORK

    ----------------

    After finishing course requirements, my doctoral work was performed

    in the Laboratory of Automatic at the University of Science and

    Technique, Montpellier, France, under the supervision of Professor

    Durante, then the president of the Laboratory.

    The Laboratory is an advanced french center for computers, robotics,

    and related studies (an equivalent to a computer science department).

    The title of the thesis was "Modelization and Simulation of Systems of

    Deterministic and Probabalisistic Characteristics and Events". Several

    concepts of digital and hybrid computing and related algorithms were

    studied both theortically and simulated experimentally. Fairly original

    modules were designed and integrated into a simulator which was attached

    to a minicomputer. 

  

    VI TEACHING

    -----------

    At EE/KFUPM, I have been teaching mainly digital, computer and

    microprocessor-related courses both at the undergraduate and graduate

    levels. But, I have also taught most of the electronic courses and

    some of other speciality courses as well. I have developed course or

    lab materials for a number of courses (EE-201, 204, 390, 445, 456, 501,

    503, and 545).

      

    Digital and Computer Courses:

    -----------------------------

    EE-200 Digital Logic Design

    EE-390 Digital Systems Engineering

    EE-429 Micrcomputer Organization

    EE-501 Design of Digital Computers

    EE-503 Microprocessor Engineering.

      

    I have been teaching the EE-501 every year since 1993. It has become

    one of the popular graduate courses in the EE department, and always

    well attended by EE students and occasionally even by students from  

    other departments.

 

    Electronic Courses

    ------------------

    EE-203 Electronics I

    EE-303 Electronics II

    EE-445 Industrial Electronics

    EE-456 Communication Electronics

      

   The EE-445 and EE-456 courses were dormant courses when I started teaching

   them. I had to develop materials and lab experiments for them from scratch.

   I taught them for a number of years, and they became very successful and

   well attended courses.

 

   General Courses

   ---------------

   PHYS-101 General Physics I

   PHYS-102 General Physics II

   EE-201 Electric Circuits I

   EE-202 Old Electric Circuits II

   EE-204 Fundamental of Electric Circuits for non EE

   EE-208 Electric Systems For Architectiure

   EE-360 Electric Energy Enginnering

   EE-409 Senior Design Project   

  

   Short Courses

   -------------

   Power Electroincs (EE/KFUPM)

   Applied Cryptography (Jointly EE and CS at KFUPM, I was the course

   initiator and coordinator)

 

   VII PROFESSIONAL CONTRIBUTIONS

   ------------------------------

   A) At the Research Institute (RI/KFUPM)

   --------------------------------------  

     I joined the RI from the start and was involved in the following

     major projects.  

    

     1) Arabization of computer terminals and software, an RI project, 1980.

     2) Contribution to the Standardization of the Arabic Alphabet, an RI

        project, 1980/1981.

     2) Office practice improvement and automation at the Saudi Royal Air

        Force, including the selection of a computer system, (1981-1983).

     3) Establishing and directing the RI information center with links

        to major on-line systems in the USA, (1981-1983).

     4) Consultation and Services provided to the Bureau of Education for

        the Gulf States in establishing specialized educational databases,

        (1982-1983).

     5) Bids evaluation, contractor selection and follow-up of the Metrology

        and Standards Lab at the RI, (1981-1982).

     6) Establishing the Image Processing Laboratory at the RI, (1982-1984).

     7) Ryadh Water Authority, network automation project, (1983).

     8) Hail Emirate Office Practices: Evaluation and Recommendations (1983-

        1984).

     9) Technical information supports in the scientific team that supported

        Prince Sultan Bin Salman space flight, 1985.

    10) Project to evaluate a french electronic vehicle search proposal

        for the Saudi Customs, France, 1986.

    11) Support to the National Saudi Workforce Council, Taif and Ryadh,

        1988.

      

   B) At The Ministry Of Planning

   -------------------------------  

     In 1987/1988, I was on loan from KFUPM with the Minestry of Planning

     as an advisor. I directed the computer department, and contributed

     to some sort of reorganization and modernization (PC's were

     introduced).

     I participated in the Ministry to various joint committees (ministerial

     and sometimes with foreign delegations).

  

   VIII PROFESSIONAL AND EDUCATIONAL COMMITTEES MEMBERSHIPS

   --------------------------------------------------------   

  

   1) Student recruitment and examination (1982-1984)   

   2) Member of the computer utilization committee at KFUPM, representing 

      the RI (1983).

   3) Seminar and public events coordinator at the RI (1982-1983).

   4) Memebr of the university publication review committee (1987-1988).

   5) Representative of the RI director to the Gulf States Universities

      First Meeting, Bagdad, 1983.

   6) Saudi Customs National Team (1986).   

   7) Second Gulf States Universities Second Meeting, KFUPM, 1988.

   8) Library, Computer, Graduate, and Curriculum Committees at the EE/KFUPM.

   9) Master Thesis Committees at EE/KFUPM: Ten times, (1990-Now)

  10) Master Thesis External Examiner, on one occasion, (1994)

  11) Senior Projects/Capstone Projects/Coop advisor, numerous times.   

        

   IX PUBLICATIONS AND SEMINARS

   ---------------------------

   1) "Phenomenes aleatoires", paper presented to the Cybernetic Journal,

       France, 1975.

      

   2) " An educational information system for the Bureau of Education

        for the Gulf States", Paper presented to the First Meeting of

        the Gulf States Universities, Bagdad, Iraq, 1983.

      

   3) " The Commemorative publication of Prince Sultan Bin Salman Space

        Flight", Houston, USA, 1985. 

 

   4) "Cryptography by Lingual Analysis, Pseudo-Random Coding, and

       Integration to Secret and Public Key Encryption Method", paper

       published in the Saudi Computer Conference Proceeding, Ryadh, 1987.

      

   5) " The Automated Fire and Life Safety Subsystem at King Fahd

        International Airport (KFIA)", paper presented to the Symposium

        on Safety in Building and Protection from Fire, King Faisal

        University, Dammam, 1994.

      

   6) "Computer-Based Measures for Energy Conservation at King Fahd

       International Airport", paper pubplished in the KFUPM Energy

       Symposium Proceeding, 1995.

      

   7) "Fast, computer number comparison", Paper submitted to the Workshop

       of the Math Department, KFUPM, 1999.

      

   8) Numerous Technical Reports for internally or client-funded projects,

      RI, KFUPM, (1980-1988).

  

   9) Local Public Seminars:

      

   9a) "Computer Graphics", A workshop on new advances in VLSI technology,

        KFUPM, 1982.  

   9b) "Public Information Display System Suitable for Saudi Arabia" ,

        EE, 1993.

   9c) Overview of Modern Cryptosystems: the DES and the RSA, EE Club,

       1994.

   9d) "Automation Systems of King Fahd International Airport (KFIA)",

        EE, 1996.

   9e) Advance in Cryptography, seminar presented to the Computer

       Service Department, Aramco, Dhahran, 1995.

   9f) "Fast Computer Arithmetics", EE, 1997.

   9g) "Overview of processors", seminar presented in the KFUPM

        Computer Exhibition, 1998.

   9h) Expanding the 80X86 Processor Instruction Set to Handle Mega-

       Operands", EE, 1999.

   9i) "Algorithms in Cryptography and Local Applications"  

        1999, Math Department.

   9j) "Computer Algoritms and Parallel processing", Saudi Computer

        Society, Eastern-Province, 1999.

 

  10) Senior Projects/Capstone Projects: numerous.

 

  11) EE-501, EE-503, and EE-545 graduate students term papers: numerous.

 

  12) Authership of educational materials: numerous.

 

   X AREAS OF INTEREST

   -------------------

   1) Electronics, analog and digital.

   2) Microprocessor and computer architecture, design, and applications.

   3) Computer applications in office, education, and automation.

   4) Fast computer arithmetics and algorithms.

   5) Cryptography.

   6) Random numbers and processes.

   6) Peripherals and software arabization.

   7) Optoelectronics and display technology.

   8) Industrial electronics.

   9) Robotics.

 

 

Number Systems

    - Conventional Number System

         >Properties

         >Binary, Decimal, Hexadecimal

         >Number Base Conversion

    - Unconventional Number System

         >Roman Number System

         >Signed Digit Number System

         >Binary SD Number System

Fast Addition

    - Half and Full Adders

    - Ripple Carry Adder

    - Carry Look-Ahead Adders

Fast Multiplication

    - Carry Save Adders

    - Additive & Non-additive Multiplier

    - Counters