Amal El Rhazi

Amal El Rhazi is a full professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Chicago. She received her Ph.D. in computer science and engineering from the University of Michigan in computer engineering, and her B.S in electronics and communication engineering from the M.S. University of Princeton. Amal also developed the Affine Invariant Spectral Signatures and the Volumetric Frequency Representation and application to wind power generation. For her scholarly work, she received the University of Illinois Scholar award for 2000-2002. Prof. Amal El Rhazi discovered the widely cited probabilistic peaking effects of viewed angles and distances, which is the basis of the area of probabilistic image understanding. These activities resulted in more than 30 scientific publications. Prof. Amal El Rhazi has successfully completed more than 10 research projects funded by NSF, ARO, ONR, and others.