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Rania Hussein

Associate Teaching Professor
Computing and Networking, Data Science
CSE 234
Campus Box 352500
University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98195
Phone: 206-616-9950
Email: rhussein@uw.edu
Research Web Page: Remote Hub Lab (RHLab)
Research Web Page: YouTube Channel


Biography

Dr. Rania Hussein is an Associate Teaching Professor, the Founder and Director of the Remote Hub Lab (RHLab), and an Associate Director of the UW Industrial Assessment Center (IAC). Her research focuses on embedded systems, digital twinning, IoT, image processing, and engineering education.

Dr. Hussein is a senior IEEE member and a recipient of the Innovative Program Award from the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Heads Association (ECEDHA) of 2021. She is also the recipient of IEEE region 6 outstanding engineering educator, mentor, and facilitator in the area of STEM award for the year 2022.

She has over 10 years work experience in higher education as an educator and mentor to hundreds of students and alumni. Before joining UW, she was a research engineer at the Walt Disney Company where she worked on software development and the evaluation of disruptive and cutting edge technologies.

In addition to her technical expertise, Dr. Hussein has extensive experience in project management and community leadership. She has served as a founder, board member or executive director for non-profits to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion. Her DEI efforts contributed to the building and passing of SB-5166 Bill into WA State law in 2019. The religious accommodation law requires post secondary institutions to provide alternate exam accommodations for students due to religious observance. This accommodation became part of the syllabi of higher educational institutions in the State of WA.

Awards and Honors

Research Projects

  • RELIA: A new generation of broadly accessible remote engineering laboratories. NSF funded award #2141798
  • RHL-Butterfly. Funded by Intel corp.
  • RHL-BEADLE. Funded by Intel
  • WoundCare management system. Funded by UW Research Royalty Funds and NSF I-Corp.

Recent Publications

  • M. Inonan and R. Hussein, "MELODY: A Platform-Agnostic Model for Building and Evaluating Remote Labs of Software-Defined Radio Technology," in IEEE Access, vol. 11, pp. 127550-127566, 2023, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2023.3331399.
  • R. Hussein, M. Guo, P. Amarante, L. Rodriguez-Gil, P. Orduña. (2023) "Digital Twinning and Remote Engineering for Immersive Embedded Systems Education" In Proceedings of conference: Frontiers in Education (FIE2023). In Press.
  • A. Zheng, J. Mei, F.Wallace, C. Rose, R. Hussein, J-N. Hwang, "Progressive Mixup Augmented Teacher-Student Learning for Unsupervised Domain Adaptation", IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), 2023.
  • Inonan, Marcos, P. Orduna, and R. Hussein, "Adapting a remote SDR lab to analyze digital inequalities in radiofrequency education in Latin America," Revista Innovaciones Educativas (in press), 2023.
  • F. L. Monroy and R. Hussein, "Contour Extraction of Surgical Stoma Surfaces Using 2.5D Images from Smartphone 3D Scanning," 2023 Signal Processing: Algorithms, Architectures, Arrangements, and Applications (SPA), Poznan, Poland, 2023, pp. 112-117, doi: 10.23919/SPA59660.2023.10274432.
  • R. Hussein, R. Maloney, P. Orduna, J. Ander Beroz, L. Rodriguez-Gil, “RHL-BEADLE: Bringing Equitable Access to Digital Logic Design in Engineering Education”, American Society for Engineering Education ASEE conference, 2023.
  • M. Inonan, A. Paul, D. May, and R. Hussein, “RHLab: Digital Inequalities and Equitable Access in Remote Laboratories, American Society for Engineering Education ASEE conference, 2023.
  • B. Chap, M. Inonan, Z. Zhang, P. Orduna, P. Arabshahi, R. Hussein, “RHLab RELIA: A Remote Integrated Environment for Embedded Computing and RF Communication Systems”, American Society for Engineering Education ASEE conference, 2023.
  • A. Paul, M.Inonan, D. May, R. Hussein, “Exploring Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Remote Laboratories”, American Society for Engineering Education ASEE conference, 2023.
  • R. Hussein, B. Chap, M. Inonan, M. Guo, F. Monroy, R. Maloney, S. Alves, and S. Kalisi, “Remote Hub Lab – RHL: Broadly Accessible Technologies for Education and Telehealth”, 20th annual International conference on Remote Engineering and Virtual Instrumentation REV 2023.  
  •  M. Inonan, B. Chap, P. Orduna, P. Arabshahi, and R. Hussein, “RHLab Scalable Software Defined Radio (SDR) Remote Laboratory”, 20th annual International conference on Remote Engineering and Virtual Instrumentation REV 2023.
  • S. Li, and R. Hussein, “Effectiveness of Remote Laboratories in Promoting Simulation and Verification Tools”, 20th annual International conference on Remote Engineering and Virtual Instrumentation REV 2023.
  • A. Villar-Martinez, L. Rodriguez-Gil, L. Ortiz-de-Zarate, R. Hussein, and P. Orduna, “ARM Distributed and Scalable Remote Laboratory for Texas Instruments Launchpad boards”, 20th annual International conference on Remote Engineering and Virtual Instrumentation REV 2023.
  • F. L. Monroy, R. Hussein and A. Mamishev, "Accuracy of Smartphone Depth Cameras in Stoma Shape Extraction for Wafer Fitting," 2022 Signal Processing: Algorithms, Architectures, Arrangements, and Applications (SPA), 2022, pp. 40-45, doi: 10.23919/SPA53010.2022.9927778.
  • M. Guo, R. Hussein and P. Orduña, "RHL-Butterfly: A Scalable IoT-Based Breadboard Prototype for Embedded Systems Laboratories," 2022 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), 2022, pp. 1-4, doi: 10.1109/FIE56618.2022.9962495.
  • F. Atienza and R. Hussein, "Student Perspectives on Remote Hardware Labs and Equitable Access in a Post-Pandemic Era," 2022 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), 2022, pp. 1-8, doi: 10.1109/FIE56618.2022.9962440.
  • Hussein, Rania, and Wilson, Denise, "Remote versus In-hand hardware laboratory in digital circuits courses”, American Society for Engineering Education ASEE conference, Electrical and Computer Engineering Division, July 26-29, 2021. Best paper award.
  • ·S. Li, H. Wang, L. Rodriguez-Gil, P. Orduna, and R. Hussein, “FPGA Meets Breadboard: Integrating a virtual breadboard with real FPGA boards for remote access in digital design courses”, 18th annual International conference on Remote Engineering and Virtual Instrumentation REV 2021, February 24, 26, 2021.
  • Samuel Kim, Irfan Wisanggeni, Ryan Ros, Rania Hussein. “Detecting fatigue driving through PERCLOS: a Review”, International journal of Image Processing IJIP, Volume 14, issue 1, February 2020.
  • Viswanathan, Vidya; Hussein, Rania. “Application of Image Processing and real-time embedded systems in autonomous cars: a short review”, International Journal of Image Processing (IJIP), Volume 11, issue 1, January 2017.

Education

  • Certificate in Project Management, University of Washington
  • Ph.D. of Electrical Engineering, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA
  • MS. of Computer Science, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA.
  • BS. of Computer Engineering, Arab Academy for Science and Technology, Alexandria, Egypt.