RAZAN TAJEDDINE 3301 S. Dearborn Street Siegel Hall, Room 307A
Chicago, Illinois, 60616, USA [email protected]
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EDUCATION
PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering Sept. 2014 – Present Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL, USA - Advisor: Dr. Salim El Rouayheb
• Information-theoretic security for distributed storage networks (DSN)
• Erasure codes for data reliability in DSN
M.E. in Electrical and Computer Engineering Sept. 2012 – Aug 2014
American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon GPA 86.75/100 Thesis title: Energy Management System of a Smart Microgrid
B.E. in Electrical and Computer Engineering Sept. 2008 – Jun. 2012
Notre Dame University, Zouk Mosbeh, Lebanon GPA 3.8/4.0
PUBLICATIONS AND PAPERS
A Comparative Analysis of Various Equivalent Circuits For Performance Evaluation of PV cells Sept. 2013
R. Chedid, R. Ghajar, F. Chaaban, R. Tajeddine, R. Awwad
In 8th conference on sustainable development of energy, water and environment systems, Dubrovnik, Croatia.
Modeling and Simulation of PV Arrays under Varying Conditions April 2013
R. Chedid, R. Tajeddine, F. Chaaban, R. Ghajar
In the 17th IEEE Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference, Beirut, Lebanon.
AWARDS
Full Grant covering the attendence of the two-week SP Coding Theory school, Brazil
Oct. 2014
RAZAN TAJEDDINE 3301 S. Dearborn Street Siegel Hall, Room 307A
Chicago, Illinois, 60616, USA [email protected]
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Research Assistantship, Illinois Institute of Technology June 2015 – Present
Teaching Assistantship, Illinois Institute of Technology Sept. 2014 – May 2015
Graduate Assistantship, American University of Beirut Sept. 2012 – June 2014
Dean’s Honor List, Notre Dame University Jan. 2009 – June 2012
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Teaching Assistant Sept. 2014 – Present Electric Circuits Lab instructor and grader of the Electric Circuits course assignments Illinois Institute of Technology
Graduate Assistant as an Assistant Lab Instructor Sept. 2012 – June 2014 Electric Machines Lab Instructor American University of Beirut
• Taught and supervised lab experiments
• Graded the reports and performance of students
EXPERIENCE
Electrical Engineer Intern Midmac Contracting Company, Doha, Qatar
July – Sept. 2011
New Doha International Airport • Quality Assurance/ Quality Control (QA/QC):
- Ensure compliance to specifications and project requirements
- Coordinate with client, contractors, and consultants • Planning:
- Planning resources and cost loading • Site Engineer:
- Installation of ducts and electric cables - Grounding and lightening protection installations
RELEVANT COURSES AND PROJECTS
• Courses: o Information Theory
RAZAN TAJEDDINE 3301 S. Dearborn Street Siegel Hall, Room 307A
Chicago, Illinois, 60616, USA [email protected]
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o Coding Theory o Data Mining o Antenna Theory and Design
• Research and Simulation Projects:
o Smart Grids: Traffic and Security o Optimization of an Energy Management System of a Microgrid o Emotion Recognition from Text o PV cell modeling
LANGUAGES
Arabic - Native English – Speak, Read, and Write Fluently
SKILLS
Computer Skills: Matlab, Java, Pspice, C++, Mutisim, Network Simulator (NS2)