BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH


- Rachid Manseur was born in Algiers, Algeria, on February 17, 1954. He received a licence-es-sciences in mathematics from the University of Algiers on July, 1976.

 In August 1977, he entered a graduate program in

electrical engineering at the University of Houston where he obtained a Master of Science degree in May, 1980.

 From July 1980 to October 1983, Rachid Manseur worked as a research engineer for the Algerian National Oil Company and taught computer engineering courses at the ENITA Algerian School for Engineers.

 In Fall of 1984, He was admitted to the Electrical Engineering Department of the University of Florida, where he has been a teaching assistant in the Mathematics Department and in the Electrical Engineering Department while actively conducting research at the Machine Intelligence Laboratory.

 Rachid Manseur is married and has two children. He intends to join the faculty of the Electrical Engineering Department of the University of Florida in Fall of 1988.


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